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canetoad

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Reply to RainCaster (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:22 AM

8 hrs ago

(Great article, btw)

...Hannah Arendt, who observed in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists”.

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