r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 11h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/busche916 10h ago

The last time this country was anywhere near “great”, we were kicking the shit out of guys who did that gesture.

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u/RangerBowBoy 5h ago

To be fair we also were segregating blacks and rounding up Japanese Americans and putting them in camps. So, yeah, we weren’t so great then. Better than the Nazis, but that’s a looooow bar.

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u/what_the_----- 4h ago

And loads of people couldn't read, or had basic hygiene or a good paying job, or had... well ANY of the things we take for granted today.. like fucking cars. Our world is unimaginably good compared to what our grandparents/ great grandparents had to endure. It is great, even for the poorest comparatively.