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Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)

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amatecha ◴[17 Nov 24 06:17 UTC] No.42162344[source]▶
The degree of wisdom and truly "evolved" thinking demonstrated in this letter is deeply inspiring. Simultaneously, it conversely seems to support the idea that you can't really reason with fascists because their hunger for power (and destruction) is essentially insatiable and they won't stop because someone spoke some convincing words.
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1. paradox242 ◴[17 Nov 24 18:52 UTC] No.42166055[source]▶
His appeal would likely be mocked as he and Hitler might as well be on two completely different planets, so distant is their world view. At one point Ghandi even basically says "might doesn't make right" to which Hitler could only respond, "lol, lmao".