Well it clearly should have killed even more cuz most survivors immediately became freikorps and then nazis.

"Ooh the youth of yurop was extinguished in the mud in a senseless infight"

Sadly not all of it, and I don't want to even think what would have looked like had they pointed their armies only outward, 100 vietnams but 50 years early

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    I understand people tend to focus on tragedies closer to them, but this is really only true up to a point. And that point to me is how much you can empathize or even just educate yourself on the suffering of others.

    This struck me earlier this week as I was watching "Handmaid's Tale" (not really by choice). The entire show is just CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS WOULD HAPPEN IN THE US?! PEOPLE ARE GETTING IMPRISONED FOR NOTHING AND LIVE IN FEAR! Meanwhile at the same time I've been reading up (coincidentally relevant to you, RNAi) on the military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina in the 70s/80s... all that horrific stuff happened and a lot worse. And the US fully supported it! None of this happened in the mists of time centuries ago, but nearly within the lifetime of millenials today. Try bringing up US support for these dictators to US Americans, and 98% will have no idea what you're talking about. And the remainder who aren't leftists will think it's cool that the US supported fascist governments that murdered and tortured tens of thousands. Explain to US Americans what happened and they'll either tune you out or get angry and defensive. Anyways death to America, as always.