[conspire] Something hilarious happened in Internet Security???

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> Ahh, I meant to also link this excellent piece, which is an analysis
> of Trump's speech right before the riot.
> 
> https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html
> 
> See particularly around tweet 31, and around 170.
> 
> He goes into a rather fascinating tactic of Trump's saying things as
> A->X->B, and most of us would hear X as a de-escalation or tangent and
> B as a non-sequitur of X. But what his target audience hears is that B
> follows from A.
> 
> I think Seth argues quite well that the riot was, in fact, Trump's
> idea, and that understanding from the insurrectionist was common among
> those who were there.

Concur.  I would be interested, also, in an analysis by historians who
studied the rhetorical forms used in the 1923-38 Nuremberg Rallies
("Reichsparteitag" = national party days), to compare and contrast the
methods of persuasion.  Fewer uniforms and precision marching, to be
sure, and about an order of magnitude fewer warm bodies, but about as
much shouting and malign propaganda.

What a pity Leni Riefenstahl died.  She could have done another
documentary film.  Triumph of the Billy-Bobs, or something like that.

I'm adding that link to the 'quislings' collection of links on the front
page of linuxmafia.com, for future reference.

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