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17. I'm right there with you.

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 02:04 PM

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I read history and I've seen this story before.

How could the German people go along with the mass deportation and murder of millions of people just because they were Jewish, gay, travelers, or just different from some arbitrary standard? Austria and Germany were the epitome of civilized nations when they let this happen.

How could people who considered themselves to be Christian enslave other people for hundreds of years, torturing, raping, murdering? Why did white European colonists think God gave them the right to murder millions of other people and take their land?

It happens over and over throughout human history.

If we survive this the lesson is that the U.S. is not special. We are not exceptional. We are human beings just like everybody else and many of us have really shitty values and behaviors.

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Monkey see, monkey do. But with lower IQs. Dave Bowman Thursday #2

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You nailed it - KT2000 Thursday #8

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I'm afraid you may be right, OldBaldy1701E. MIButterfly Thursday #14

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I've cried a bit lately, too. MIButterfly Thursday #34

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