• Jaderick@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Many of the republicans I’ve interacted with “love” WW2 history and it’s sadly funny to me that they should know the events leading up to the war and the policy of appeasement failing to achieve its goals, but they continue to regurgitate Fox News appeasement talking points at me.

    It highlights the problem of cognitive dissonance lmao

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      11 months ago

      They love the glorification and romanticization of WW2, not the history leading up to it. They are warhawks who want to pad their pockets with military industrial complex money at every turn.

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        11 months ago

        Which is also funny to me because I’d argue WW2 was one of the more moral wars to ever be fought considering the ideologies of Germany, Italy, and Japan at the time.

        They probably don’t like talking about the events leading up to the war because they sympathize with the America First movement and, by extension, the Nazis.