• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Don’t forget this either:

    We weren’t some benevolent force for good in WW2. People love pointing it out as if we proactively fought for good.

    The Axis thankfully committed the greatest strategic blunder of the 20th century hands down and sunk our Naval fleet. They brought the fight to us. The US was quite fond of eugenics and practiced it in asylum before and after WW2.

    We fought back. That isn’t being a hero, that isn’t coming to save the day. That’s self-preservation.

    The closest we’ve ever been to the good guys was at our founding, and even that was complicated.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah the US joined late. I’m just saying that since then, the US hasn’t even done anything accidentally good.

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      It is far far worse than this. Wealthy people in the US bankrolled the Nazi party. We created the problem. When the Nazi approached the nations of the world to take in the Jews before the final solution these same people lobbied to make sure no one would take them.

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        3 days ago

        The German aristocracy bankrolled Hitler as well. It sorta sounded like you were implying that didn’t happen.

        Hitler disbanded the trade unions at the behest of heads of industries. Industry showed its gratitude with the ‘Adolph Hitler Fund’, to which the companies paid a % of turnover.

        From 1933 onward 100 million reichsmarks were paid to Hitler every year, which would have made him a billionaire by today’s standards.