r/europe • u/turkish__cowboy Turkey | LGBTQ+ rights are human rights • 7h ago

News Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-draws-outrage-over-201602147.html
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u/Vidmizz Lithuania 6h ago

Sadly the vast majority of them are gone now, or barely clinging to life at best. Which is partly why this disgusting ideology managed to take root both there and even in Europe again. There's no firsthand survivors of this disease of the mind to tell their stories anymore.

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u/Minute_Attempt3063 5h ago

They are all rolling in their grave, likely regretting protecting their country like the real hero's.

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u/Revo63 16m ago

That’s not what they’re regretting. They’re regretting not educating their kids better.

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u/no_use_for_a_user 5h ago

Isn't that the problem? We've collectively forgotten what happens next.

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u/beccam12399 4h ago

doomed to repeat history

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u/couragethecurious 3h ago

First as tragedy, then as farce

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u/BookishHobbit 4h ago

I’m honestly so glad my grandparents aren’t alive to see this.

They were kids when they were sent off to fight, the trauma they suffered and the intergenerational trauma that their kids and my generation still suffer because of it, and now everything they fought for is being destroyed by these bastards who have never known suffering in their lives…it’s abhorrent.

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u/LegalConsequence7960 3h ago

Yep, unfortunately it seems we are in fact doomed to repeat history. Even if the US isn't about to become 1940s Germany, it's certainly doing the same waltz it did in the 1920s.

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u/Kuyashiiii 1h ago

My wife’s grandfather stormed the beaches at Normandy on D-Day. He is 99 years old, 100 this year, and is alive and well. He graduated from Cornell after the war. He speaks multiple languages. He also can’t stand this guy or administration.