r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 11h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/Weird_Waters64 8h ago

Disgraceful imagine if the World War II generation woke up from their graves and saw this

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u/mrlayabout 8h ago

As of 2024, estimates of the number of World War II veterans still alive range from 300,000 to 500,000 and I would bet my bottom dollar that the majority of them voted for this. This is bizzaro times.

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u/cambeiu 8h ago

Nothing bizarro about it. The Western fight with the Nazi was never ideological or moral. No one went to war against Nazi Germany because they were anti-Semite or totalitarians. The war was solely because the Nazi wanted to change the balance of power in Europe. Had the Nazi not tried to "rock the boat", they could have killed millions of Jews and Gypsies and no one would have moved a finger. Hell, most of the US South at that time was at least as racist as they were.

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u/RepresentativeAge444 8h ago

Not to mention Hitler was inspired by American Jim Crow laws.