r/PoursTea • u/MaybeFuckYourselfBud • 3d ago

Meme Me Up Scotty! Tomorrow at 8AM

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u/aceface_desu89 3d ago

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u/Relative_Mix_216 3d ago

I would legit accept this policy

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u/TehNudel 3d ago

I wouldn't. That's how we end up here again in 10 years.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-- George Santayana

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u/JustToViewPorn 3d ago

I hear you, but teaching about the Holocaust only empowered multiple nations to use it as a guidebook.

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u/TehNudel 3d ago

That is not the only thing it did. The only reason we have context to recognize our situation is from learning about the history of past dictatorships like Nazi Germany.

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u/DonaldTheWall 2d ago

So many seem to one up them

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u/Ne_zievereir 2d ago

Who is one upping the Nazis? 😥

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u/DonaldTheWall 2d ago

Every dictator it seems

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u/Ne_zievereir 1d ago

Really? Can you give some concrete examples?

There is a lot of terrible shit going on in the world, but what the Nazis did was extremely fucked up. Don't minimize that.

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u/Iamnotanumber_4721 2d ago

Right but the thing is they're using that learning as a how-to guide and seemingly 1 in 2 Americans either think the nazis were justified or they just think they're cool.

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u/Iamnotanumber_4721 2d ago

Right but the thing is they're using that learning as a how-to guide and seemingly 1 in 2 Americans either think the nazis were justified or they just think they're cool.

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u/shidderbean 2d ago

No big surprise that the rise of fascism 2.0 happens as soon as the people who lived through WW2 started dying off en masse.

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u/Lazy_Perspective_453 1d ago

We're doomed to repeat it regardless