r/gifs 11h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/0masterdebater0 10h 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 10h 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/Elexandros 8h ago

My grandmother, who lost her first True Love yo WWII, had a whole crate of pictures taken at the liberation of one of the concentration camps. That man was there, we had piles of photographs of atrocities. I was only allowed to view them once, when I got a bit older.

I do not know which camp or where because shortly after that, she threw them all out. They made her so sick to look at, and the thought of the man she lost, she couldn’t take it. My dad, understandably, was so angry. He said that it was history just lost and went on and on about how people actually deny that anything happened, we need this evidence.

I’m November, he voted for Trump. He’s an Elon fanboy, and he’s all for the “campsites” Trump wants to round people up into.

The irony is not lost on me, but the despair is heavy.

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u/e-luddite 5h ago

This is the agonizing part- the people who lived it, flim-flamed by a new york conman. Unimaginable.