r/BeAmazed • u/Low_Weekend6131 • Oct 30 '25

History The words of a true soldier

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

Nothing in human history could've prepared us for what the internet is doing to us. The internet is being wielded as a weapon and there's no defense effective enough to stop all of the negative effects of it.

I mean, I agree that it's mind boggling that so many people could know of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and yet decide to share in those Nazi ideologies. However, I think a major contributing factor is that people are succumbing to echo chambers of propaganda and misinformation that warp their mind into seeing the world through a fake lens. Plato's allegory of the cave very much applies here.

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u/Spongi Oct 30 '25

You'd be surprised at how many people really have no clue what WW2 was about, what happened or why it happened.

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u/SilchasRuin Oct 31 '25

It's also useful. When things are getting too expensive, when wages aren't keeping up, it's much easier to blame your neighbor for being Jewish/gay/lesbian/trans/Mexican/Venezuelan ...

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u/SilchasRuin Oct 31 '25

It's divide and conquer. Here in the US there is no principled anti-trans or anti-gay feelings, or we'd be all in on going after Caitlyn Jenner and Peter Thiel.

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u/VerilyShelly Oct 31 '25

Ask them to explain it then come back and tell reddit because I'm confused about it too.