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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 82973" data-attributes="member: 73">History professor, Timothy Snyder of Yale University, has specialized on 20th century tyranny -- and his message is something that everyone around the world should be extremely aware of. I chose this clip, even though Bill Maher is driving me bananas with his silly interruptions. [MEDIA=youtube]YOqVW4etYo0[/MEDIA]In short:Under no circumstances let a leader remove any of your civil rights. A tyrant will blame &quot;the others&quot;, then claim he/she was right when horror strikes, and use this ammo to restrict some human right. A tyrant will twist the truth or outright lie, but blame others for lying.Protect the democratic institutions - always uphold them.There is a truth. Not believing anything to be true is dangerous. When the political climate slowly changes, never change with it without taking a step back and think for yourself. Don&#039;t adjust! Don&#039;t follow what everyone else is doing. Think. And don&#039;t ever think for a moment that Hitler or Stalin were super-villains of the kind that the world will never experience again. These tyrants were elected in times of uncertainty, and people adjusted to their politics and rhetorics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 82973, member: 73"] History professor, Timothy Snyder of Yale University, has specialized on 20th century tyranny -- and his message is something that everyone around the world should be extremely aware of. I chose this clip, even though Bill Maher is driving me bananas with his silly interruptions. [MEDIA=youtube]YOqVW4etYo0[/MEDIA] In short: Under no circumstances let a leader remove any of your civil rights. A tyrant will blame "the others", then claim he/she was right when horror strikes, and use this ammo to restrict some human right. A tyrant will twist the truth or outright lie, but blame others for lying. Protect the democratic institutions - always uphold them. There [I]is[/I] a truth. Not believing anything to be true is dangerous. When the political climate slowly changes, never change with it without taking a step back and think for yourself. Don't adjust! Don't follow what everyone else is doing. Think. And don't ever think for a moment that Hitler or Stalin were super-villains of the kind that the world will never experience again. These tyrants were elected in times of uncertainty, and people adjusted to their politics and rhetorics. [/QUOTE]

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