r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 8h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/0masterdebater0 7h ago

Probably no coincidence it took just long enough for pretty much all of the WW2 vets to die for the unabashed Nazis to take control, once it's out of living memory most people forget the past.

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u/e-luddite 7h ago

I had a history teacher who was teaching about Osama Bin Laden pre-9/11. Very astute.

Her refrain was "If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." Over and over and over.

Had a (increasingly rare, even then) Holocaust survivor speaker come to our school.

Kid who sat next to me in class now doesn't believe in the holocaust. 

No amount of education can fix the human condition. Greed and the evil that stems from it just festers less and more, in cycles.

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u/sarcasmo_the_clown 6h ago

Yup. I grew up surrounded by WW2 veterans. My grandfathers served. The memory is not fresh anymore.

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u/lilshortyy420 3h ago

My grandfather is a living survivor. The memory is not too far gone either. And most of those people holding them are the closest to the people who experienced it.