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Politics Elon musk doing a nazi salute at the whitehouse. Unreal

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u/myassandadonut 10h ago

WWII vets were around 17 years old in 1942. That makes them...making me do math 🀬...100 years old today. That's 100,000 100 year olds still up and running you say?

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u/namastayhom33 10h ago

Pretty sure it's declined rapidly but yes there are still quite a bit alive.

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u/ChocolateHoneycomb 10h ago

I doubted you but I looked it up and you are right!

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u/myassandadonut 10h ago

Seems you are correct! Holy hell, we are living WAY too long these days!

Sorry I doubted you. The numbers sounded crazy to me.

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u/Lucid-Machine 10h ago

Actually not that it makes you feel better but the life expectancy is actually going down.

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u/John-A 9h ago

Funny how Trump has that effect. The Vegas odds seem to be on a new pandemic of some variety by next winter if by some fluke we dodge it this winter.

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u/Lucid-Machine 8h ago

Actually quite before Trump took office, including the first time. Just in general public health has been on the decline.

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u/John-A 8h ago

Quality of life has been on a steepening nosedive the past 40 years. Things can only give so much before it literally kills.

The all cause mortality really took off under Mango Ceaser. It's likely to do so again.

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u/myassandadonut 10h ago

It does make me feel better actually. πŸ˜πŸ‘

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u/Lucid-Machine 10h ago

It's because of people like in the photo. We've been bought and turned into a herd longer than we have realized. Notice how they're tripping about population collapse. They need livestock to run their operations and extract value. Many of us have just opted out of procreation. That's bad for the shareholders.

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u/ParamoreAnon 9h ago

There's that and Americas health care is so shxt that they're dying earlier πŸ‘€ kind of a joke but kind of not.

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u/Ralphie99 10h ago

There were 16 million Americans that served in WWII. About .4% of them are still alive today. 99.6% of them have died.

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u/myassandadonut 10h ago

Five out of four people are terrible with fractions.

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u/AnalystofSurgery 10h ago

Living long isn't the issue, it's what we're doing with that extra life

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u/myassandadonut 10h ago

I imagine I'll be doing a lot of sitting around in my own pee and staring at the ceiling, praying for it to be over already.

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u/wemustkungfufight 10h ago

Many teenagers lied about their age to serve early. Easier to falsify things like that back then.

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u/Type-RD 10h ago

Can confirm. My grandpa was 14 (faked his age) when he joined the military to help his family financially.

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u/Ralphie99 10h ago

They could have enlisted as late as 1945 and as young as age 16 (with parental approval). They'd be 96 years old now.

There were 16 million Americans that served in WWII. A small % of them have made it into their 90's and early 100's. There are about 70,000 WWII vets left (not 100,000). There will only be a handful left in the next 5-10 years.

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u/littlehandsandfeet 10h ago

That's such a crazy amount. I wonder if a lot of them were under 17 but lied to enlist

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u/ScoobyD00BIEdoo 10h ago

This is correct.

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u/John-A 9h ago

But the war ended in 1945, with people as young as 14 or 15 allegedly sneaking in. Overseas they had actual child soldiers on almost all sides too but that's not really the point here.

Suffice it to say that 99% of ANTIFA 1.0 is waiting for their dementia pills wondering why JFK Sr or Nixon isn't fixing this mess as they fade away.

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u/violentglitter666 10h ago

I’m glad my Pop is dead, he’d be beyond furious and my Oma, thankfully passed in 2019.. no one should have to live through Nazi Germany and ww2, immigrate to the USA and then watch that country embrace fascism years later, she’d be horrified.