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      My grandpa should be rolling in his recliner. Instead he’s got fox news on all day.

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      The sad thing is that your grandfathers were sent to fight and die in Europe only when it hurt America’s economic interests.

      This isn’t a knock on your grandfather’s legacy.

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        Why is this man being downvoted? He’s correct. That is the historical reason America got involved.

        There were tens of millions of Americans that supported the Germans/Nazi party, and the rest basically didn’t want to get involved on the world stage again.

        The real evils of the Nazi regime weren’t realized until the last year or so of the war when we pushed in through the incursion areas and saw the camps and horrid treatment/deaths of the “undesirables”. Then it became a true moral outrage that brokered no dissension. Until then, it was because we had 4billion+ in loans to Germany they were repaying us after our costs for WW1, among other financial incentives.

        Claiming otherwise is whitewashing history.

        America has never been a particularly great country. Don’t let the school propaganda fool you. We’ve done things nearly as bad, and in some cases worse, than the Nazi party in our past. But nobody started a world war about it because we kept it within our borders (e.g. the Native American genocide, slavery, etc.).

        I think the individual people who went to war from America in WW2 were doing the right thing, and believed in it for the right reasons. But the people at the top pulling the strings? Financial justifications all the way down.

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          Hitler literally modelled his policies after the American ones, but it’s easier to talk about an absolute evil that sprouted out of nowhere.

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          Is this the new Russian taking point?

          We’re going to ignore Pearl Harbor?

          We’re going to say we’re worse than the Nazis exterminating millions of people and performing live medical experiments on people?

          How do you feel about NATO?

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            Black Americans were experimented on till 1972, for god’s sake. Get off your white horse and realize that America’s been wading oceans of blood.

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    I hope we collectively realize, to a point of action, that this is Hitler but also the richest person in the world with fans everywhere for multiple reasons before we instead have to document further atrocities.

    Edit: And him and his presidential bitch are juvenile with at least one with intelligence to match.

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      resting heart rate can increase during times of extreme stress in a fight or flight scenario. the increased blood pressure will force blood into your extremities to increase chances of survival.

      in this picture you can see his ears and nose are red, this may indicate his body is attempting to identify threats to himself using scent and auditory sensory. what may not be easily identified is the way his eyes are wide open, scanning for threats to his safety. I bet his hands and feet are also clammy.

      the guy is absolutely terrified of what is going on to him, and is likely watching it take place like a 3rd party view. unable to stop or control himself because he’s far too deep into the Putin cesspool.

      If I was a profiling type, Elon needs approval from his base. since he’s surrounded himself with the type of followers that would easily abandon him for the slightest sign of weakness, he’s doubling down on whatever bullshit just so they continue to feed into his narcissism.

      things will only get worse for him from here onwards as he slowly loses grip on his public image and his support falters. he will become desperate and dangerous. anyone around him should probably distance themselves now or face consequences later.

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    I’m exhausted from all of this and it’s not even January. How have we reached a point where Nazism is back in vogue?

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      The story of the 21st century has been the repeated and ongoing failure of the western political class.

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        Early 20th century we had the influenza pandemic where a certain part of the population refused to wash hands and wear masks. It also saw the rise of Nazis.

        Early 21th century we had a covid pandemic where a certain part of the population refused to wash hands and wear masks. It also saw the rise of Nazis.

        History sure loves to repeat itself.

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    I’m not optimistic enough to count on it, but upcoming events might just show a lot of white rural voters that across the board the leaders of these racist movements mostly aren’t even really racist, it’s mostly a grift for profit/power and they’re just exploiting the poor’s ignorance

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      I’d love to have your optimism.

      There have been multiple investigations into finances and employees of high ranking party officials linking them to foreign influence. Changes in popularity? Niet.

      It’s the same as with Trump: “Yes, he us a crook, but he is MY crook”!

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      Look, if you’re “not racist” but are willing to allow or use racism as a means to an end, you’re actually pretty frickin’ racist.

      All the same harm is done.

      “But I don’t believe it in my heart!”

      Wonderful. Do something that mitigates all the harm you’re causing if not improve the lives of the people who are being harmed.

      Can’t do that because it would undermine your process? Time to accept it. You’re a racist.

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    This article is still about the recent Welt op-ed. Just so nobody gets the impression, that Elon did something else yesterday.

    Not that any of this excuses the opinions he shared with the world already.

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    I won’t be happy until every article headline written about space Karen refers to him as Adrian Dittmann.

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    The free world is being torn to peices by the Russian Mafia and its American Oligarch allies.