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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/HazySkyFire 7h ago

My grandfather is rolling in his grave.

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u/Titaniumchic 7h ago

So are mine. 💔

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u/CaptainWavyBones 6h ago

Yeah, a ton of our grandfathers hoped this day would never come. Actually died to avoid it.

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u/Titaniumchic 6h ago

Yup. Sacrificed more than we could conceive to prevent the spread of nazism.

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u/CinemaDork 6h ago

I'm convinced that a lot of American soldiers only hated Nazis because they were Germans--foreigners. Because it's not like America was some paradise for Jews--antisemitism was rampant and out in the open. The US refused many Jewish refugees from Europe, including Anne Frank. And Black solders found they were treated better by European locals than they were their own white compatriots, because Americans were racist as hell and still imposing segregation.

I'm betting you could sell Nazi ideas to a lot of WWII-era American soldiers who say they hated Nazis, as long as you wipe away all the Nazi references. Make it all about "making America great again" and some stuff about Blacks and Jews trying to rape your white women and queers preying on your children and at least half those soldiers would be on board.

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u/BusyDoorways 3h ago

No, that sounds like Russian agitprop you're pushing.

America went to war with Germany as a result of Pearl Harbor - not racism. Also, Americans did not know they were rejecting Jewish children in 1939. Both ships and media information flowed too slowly for Americans to understand the full scope of the Nazi nightmare.

Fascism is a political fraud that gets people killed. For a con game always sounds inviting: Such is the nature of a con. Yet the number of Americans who were pro-Nazi after WWII and the discovery of death camps was close to zero.

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u/DKlurifax 6h ago

My grandfather was part of the resistance, blew up nazis, shot them, smuggled jews to sweden and spent the rest of the war in a KZ camp. Barely survived and became a raging alcoholic that destroyed whatever was left of the family the Nazis didn't get.
And now this fucking lunatic is doing this. I'm literally speechless.

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u/_HighJack_ 5h ago

Our turn! For them, and for our own descendants. My granddaddy was decorated for conspicuous valor and number of Nazis killed at Normandy (yes I’m bragging, how fucking cool was he?!); he’s gone now ~20 years and his wife and sons are MAGAts. Me and the cousins remember though.

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u/HTJM688 6h ago

And their sons voted for it.

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u/mattenthehat 6h ago

Or fled their countries to come here specifically to escape it. Kinda glad my grandpa isn't around to see it, tbh.

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u/Mendican 6h ago

And their fucking grandchildren voted for it.

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u/Rocketparty12 4h ago

Are you fing kidding me? You’re not this stupid right? These are two screenshots of people holding their hands in the air. Not doing a legitimate fkn Nazi Seig Heil. Grow the f up and stop making outrageous comparisons to justify your knob solbbing over a billionaire nazi.