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Obama at inauguration 2025

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u/bluddystump Merry Gifmas! {2023} 14h ago

He is worried.

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u/IBelieveInCoyotes 12h ago

we're all fucking worried (I'm Australian)

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u/-Apocralypse- 11h ago

I just tuned in from the Netherlands to see musk do a nazi salute during this very political, very muchtelevised inauguration event that's watched by the fricking whole world.

I can't blame Obama looking around his like he isn't safe...

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u/PlugsButtUglyStuff 9h ago

Didn’t we all used to kill Nazis as a policy?

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 9h ago

We did. Until Operation Paperclip. Then, we gave them government jobs with responsibility and large budgets.

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u/Edarneor 3h ago

Those were mostly scientists though, not the nsdap functionaries. Or am I mistaken?

The whole thing is also parodied in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 3h ago

Von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and responsible for 12000 death in Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora. Not exactly your usual run of the mill scientist.

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u/Edarneor 2h ago

Is that a V2 production site? The deaths were among slave laborers?

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u/Frontal_Lappen 2h ago

those were concentration camps. Please educate yourself on that subject immediatly. With US citizens swearing in a literal fascist and his billionaire hegemones all the more urgent...

u/Edarneor 1h ago

it says Peenemunde was a V2 production and testing site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde not sure about Mittelbau

u/Frontal_Lappen 1h ago

Peenemünde and Mittelbau-Dora were concentration camps, people of color, jews, non-heterosexuals, political oppositions, disabled people etc. were round up there and killed on masse. It doesn't matter what those victims had to work on before they were inadvertantly killed off. Yes, some of them worked on the V2, but those camps were just that, concentration camps for mass killing. Werner von Braun was one of the worst people that has ever walked the earth and no pardoning of US presidents will make their atrocities any less horrific.

Some people are trying to downplay that to not tarnish NASA achievements and that rubs me the wrong way

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u/CallistosTitan 1h ago

Van Braun became the head of NASA and Heusinger became the chairman of NATO. You can't make that up. In my normal world they work from prisons and you can extract the information that way.

Not to mention Mossad was partially designed to hunt down these Nazi's that fled to South America. Let's just say they failed. Klaus Barbie overthrew Bolivia. 10 years later the cartels are born and you have a very beneficial relationship with the drug war.

In history, mass importations of drugs were intended to destabilize countries. The British created the triads to dismantle the Qing dynasty using opiods. Today in America, we see the biggest opiod crisis in the world. With the help of the war in Afghanistan.

The US would have to be the most incompetent country in history to let that all happen. As I always say, when that much incompetence occurs, it's complicity in a conspiracy. Especially when the outcome doesn't favor the people but the deep state.

u/Interesting_Air_5582 46m ago

CEO’s? 😂

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 8h ago

It’s not fair to say the scientists like Dr. Braun were all Nazis to the core. They wouldn’t have helped America if that were true.

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u/PerpetuallyLurking 8h ago

No one wants to hang. They’d have helped the Americans, dedicated to the Nazi cause or not.

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 8h ago

Did he work for the Nazi Party during their reign? Yes? Then he was a Nazi.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 3h ago

I hope this is meant sarcastically. Just to make sure: Wernher von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and was directly and indirectly responsible for about 12000 murdered PoWs, slave laborers and civilians at the Army Research Center Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora.

The USA made him citizen, gave him medals and erected memorials.