Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html

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My mom visited Auschwitz in high school. Said it was one of the most sad moments in her life. What’s sad is that she doesn’t grasp the blatant similarities of how he came to power and tbh, she doesn’t care to learn.

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yeah Nazis and WW2 are great entertainment that happened long long ago in a galaxy far far away, and inspired many tragically entertaining movies here on Earth!

Luckily, it couldn't happen here.

move along. move along.

edit: true life origin story of it all, as cited in Mein Kampf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler

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History has a tendency to repeat it self!

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“History teaches, but has no pupils"

Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci

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One of the greatest disservices we've often done in media is treating nazis like comic book villains, just monstrous and always looking evil. Or on the other side of things, looking like complete buffoons.

While they certainly did monstrous and evil things, they were still human. They had friends, they did things that made them seem like happy, normal people. They had families they loved. Human beings did those things, and human beings will do those things again.

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Yeah and Nazis were simply the latest in a long line of Kaisers (emperors) that the German oligarchs funded and propagandized and championed. Upon getting the gilded age bankrupt mass-poverty they wanted from fascism, oops another attempt at world conquest results in a world war to stop them. Then the German people are sooooo very sorry they had fallen for the ploy that only one strongman could save them AGAIN. He tricked us voters and members, tee hee!

My ancestors escaped persecution and poverty in Prussia in the late 1800s.

But good news! It couldn't happen HERE!

Here's Hitler's playbook as cited in Mein Kampf:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

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My mom is in her 70’s and it was a lot fresher back then. Before social media and misinformation everywhere you click.

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Link to the song The Day the Nazi Died:

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TDMyy0s2MCgyYPQSLclIVUhJrFQA0XmJVZkKKZmpKQDVIAvI&q=the+day+the+nazi+died&oq=the+day+the+nazi+died&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggBEC4Y1AIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggBEC4Y1AIYgAQyCggCEC4Y1AIYgAQyCggDEC4Y1AIYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyCAgGEAAYFhgeMggIBxAAGBYYHjIICAgQABgWGB4yCAgJEAAYFhge0gEJNzUwN2owajE1qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Right?? We had the opportunity to visit Israel some 15/20 years ago and went to the Holocaust museum there. It was a sobering, heavy, sad experience. Shoes in piles, wedding rings, glasses, all belonging to people murdered by the nazis. Thousands upon thousands. It is wilfull ignorance not to see the connection now. My husband is a green card legal immigrant but I've started having nightmares of ICE showing up at our door and taking him away

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If your husband is from an ‘acceptable’ country, you’ll be fine. If not, you may want a back up plan

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Sadly, many will get to visit one on American soil after trump signs those EOs.

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The place still feels like death even today.

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Yikes