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u/MrFunktasticc Jul 28 '26
“I won’t vote Democrat because they were the Southerners supporting slavery.” Because you know, we’re completely incapable of recognizing when things have shifted.
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u/maringue Jul 28 '26
My favorite question: "If Republicans freed the slaves, then why are Republicans so against a holiday celebrating when they freed the slaves?"
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u/BankOnITSurvivor Jul 29 '26
In their defense, aren’t they against any holidays that would benefit the poors?
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u/KeithWorks Jul 29 '26
It's amazing that the rich people convinced the poor people that we shouldn't have more holidays.
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u/Karlinel-my-beloved Jul 29 '26
Fun part is how U.S. Republicans want people EVERYWHERE to be miserable. Like, bitch why don’t you isolate yourself and leave the world alone?
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u/Way2happyguy Jul 30 '26
I like to point out what specific moments in modern history set the parties up as they are today. Two major events. The Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement. The Great Depression established the Republican party as the party that will protect companies and tell people suffering to figure it the eff out. The Civil Rights Movement completed the party shift. That's when all southern voters began supporting Republicans because Republicans opposed it and Democrats supported it so Republican voters started voting Democrat.
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u/sdob66 Jul 31 '26
you may want to go back to school relearn your history! The Civil Rights Act would not have passed without the majority of Republicans voting for it! Democrats actually filibustered the CRA, it was the longest filibuster ever.
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u/Way2happyguy Aug 01 '26
Yes, a minority of politicians opposed the civil rights act. It was unpopular with southerners and the Republican party seized that momentum in the following years. They opposed anti-discrimination bills that followed.The following elections, Republicans courted to their white Southern voting base that they wanted and then white Southern voters stopped voting Democrat and started voting Republican. It wasn't a shift in Democrat and Republican politicians switching parties, it was a shift in the voting base.
As you see how states vote today, like the north east and south, it was the opposite before the civil rights movement. Southern states that voted Democrat now vote Republican but began after the civil rights act passed. North East states that voted Republican now Democrat.
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u/AutisticDadHasDapper Jul 31 '26
It seems like you're the one who's miserable
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u/Karlinel-my-beloved Jul 31 '26
Not at all! But I do have empathy and dislike manchildren trying to make life worse for others just to get an ego boost.
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u/kkdawg22 Jul 29 '26
Ya'll are going to hate to hear my uber republican boss turned Juneteenth into a company paid holiday. Go outside.
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u/Miserable-Miser Jul 28 '26
None of them were Heil Hitlering to a dictator.
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u/SRMPDX Jul 28 '26
Is this really a gotcha though? OK, NACA did import some former Nazi's to work on the space program. Do they have active Nazi's working there in 2026?
iF yOu dOnT LiKe tEsLa wAiT TilL yOu hEaR aBoUt hEnRy FoRd. Ok, is the CEO for ford in 2026 an active Nazi?
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u/Koi_Fish_Mystic Jul 28 '26
Werner Von Braun? Is there a Werner Von Braun here?
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u/iamjohnhenry Jul 28 '26
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u/DiaperDonnieTrump Jul 28 '26
No, but I was with him when he invented going to the moon back in 1943. It was huge. People from all over the place thanked me. I’ve never seen things like that ever before. In fact, I don’t think anybody has ever been thanked as many times as I’ve been thanked. Hold on, I have to poop.
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u/Haipul Jul 28 '26
I'd rather support a public organisation that once hired some dodgy people, that a private company owned by a nazi
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u/ManufacturedOlympus Jul 29 '26
Hired a nazi? SpaceX was founded by a nazi
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u/DBDude Jul 31 '26
Someone you like to call a Nazi vs. an actual SS officer and Nazi party member. Big difference.
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u/the-National-Razor Jul 31 '26
Why do you think they "like to call" him a nazi?
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u/DBDude Jul 31 '26
These days, anyone someone on the left doesn’t like is a Nazi.
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u/the-National-Razor Jul 31 '26
Are you aware of any reasons they call musk a Nazi?
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u/ReverendKaiser Jul 29 '26
Tell me you’ve never heard about Operation: Paperclip, without telling me you haven’t heard about Operation: Paperclip
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u/angrybox1842 Jul 29 '26
There’s a difference between renowned German scientists who happened to be in Germany in the 40s and contemporary white supremacists.
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u/Plastic_Key_4146 Jul 29 '26
Several were confirmed to be former members of the nazi party, including the SS or the SA.
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u/mrkjmsdln_new Jul 31 '26
If you don't believe that, read the transcripts of the interview with slave labor that built V-2 rockets under the ultimate direction of Von Braun at Mittelwerk. Only about 20K of them died in horrible conditions out of the 60K involved so only a 33% chance of death. Those were the good odds with the 'good' Nazis I guess.
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u/maringue Jul 28 '26
"Come on, we haven't employed any Nazis since the 60s. Oh him? He can debug Cobol, don't mind him." -NASA
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u/ExcitingInflation612 Jul 29 '26
lol old nasa aside, spacex and nasa legally have to work together for any space shuttle/ISS launch anyway lol
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u/19XxxbigdaddyxxX80 Jul 29 '26 edited 5d ago
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Copper hunt sparrow hunt fuel lunchroom oil dam wide cautious
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u/rustyiron Jul 29 '26
Jesus pantysniffing Christ. There is a bit of a difference between giving an ex-Nazi an offe Mr he can’t refuse and letting a Nazi run the show and impose Nazi values.
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u/KlutzySherbert260 Jul 29 '26
You’ll be surprised…. The space program exclusively hired them through operation paperclip after ww2…. Best start not liking rockets and medicine for that matter most of your breakthroughs were from experiments during ww2 performed by them
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u/mrkjmsdln_new Jul 31 '26
After the War it was a race to the bottom between the Soviet Union and the US. Get Nazi war scientists and qualify them for entry in nearly every case. When the US and Soviets had early encounters in the Korean War the 'newest breakthrough jets' were remarkably similar. They were Nazi Germany derivative designs. The reality is the whole era reduces to sure he's an SOB but he's our SOB. For those interested one was the F-86 Sabre and the other was the MIG-15. Remarkably similar aircraft designs. Even all the early stealth aircraft were rooted in Nazi designs. All of those scientists got a rubberstamp with Operation Paperclip. They were our SOBs.
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u/KlutzySherbert260 Jul 31 '26
The book Area 51 is a good read, it goes into Roswell and the whole stealth program including scientists obtained out of Germany by Russia and the US
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u/mrkjmsdln_new Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I wholeheartedly agree. I help run a history bookclub. I have now read a number of Annie's books including Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and one other. She is a talented researcher and writer!!! Great recommendation.
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u/DBDude Jul 31 '26
Oh no, SS Sturmbannführer Wernher von Braun (NSDAP registration 5,738,692) willingly worked for the Third Reich to get the resources to develop his rockets.
Of course, “for”? He was an SS officer, so he was himself the Third Reich.
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u/theWiseTiger Jul 29 '26
Oh dear, it's always about democrats vs republicans.
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u/fearmastermmz Jul 29 '26
Literally neither party was mentioned. Elon does nazi shit so hes accused as a nazi.
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u/Flat-Director-7120 Jul 29 '26
Cette dame a raison il ne faut pas supporter la NASA ni SpaceX car ces entreprises ont employé des nazis.
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u/Vanko_Babanko Jul 29 '26
USA is owned by isreal which is openly a nazi state, so you don't have much choice in that matter...
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u/ClearMaximum2361 Jul 29 '26
Soo more government?
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Jul 29 '26
but you love Soros because he is a socialist
this guy is such a fucking nazi he thinks right leaning neoliberal George Soros is a socialist. MAGA is fucking cooked
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u/Pale-Pear-5261 Jul 29 '26
didn't a nazi work
For nasa in the beginning? Hello
The army grabbed every nazi scientist they could
Find at the end of ww2. Brown??
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u/48676886 Jul 29 '26
Sure. And who are the Nazis exactly? I am sure you won’t withhold your support of the National Socialist Workers Party, though right? You know, the actual Nazis.
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u/InevitablePoet5810 Jul 29 '26
"It's in the name, so it must be true!" lmao. No one tell this dude about Buffalo wings
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u/Easy_Drummer_1558 Jul 30 '26
Its like this! If the US didn't move those scientists, the USSR would have scooped them up.
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u/gap1284 Jul 30 '26
You've convinced me to sell my SpaceX stock and buy NASA stock instead. What's their ticker symbol again?
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u/Used_Intention6479 Jul 30 '26
NASA may have been dependent on Nazis 70 years ago, but Spacex is owned by a Nazi today. Big difference.
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u/Impressive-Method919 Jul 30 '26
I dont get it, in space its about survival, clean an simple, i dont want the person i like or even agree with having designed my lifevessel...i want the best one
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u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t Jul 31 '26
Difference between former and roleplayer. Pretty sure the former regretted being part of obligatory system in their country.
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u/funkymunkPDX Jul 31 '26
History is something that people find boring. Like economics, science and literature. It's the boring bits that matter and the lack of interest is exactly why we're in this WWE/reality TV show nightmare.
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u/Rambo_sledge Jul 31 '26
Everybody’s missing the fact that Nasa literally hired spaceX for a ton of its missions ?
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u/naggyman Jul 31 '26
look up Wernher von Braun
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u/Rambo_sledge Jul 31 '26
Yeah so ? I’m not dismissing anything.
I’m just saying calling spaceX nazi in favor of nasa which hires spaceX is dumb, even without looking precisely into the workers
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u/Daxosc Jul 31 '26
All the republicans I know celebrate Juneteenth, y’all need to touch grass and stop living in your own bubble. And yeah NASA hired a bunch of Nazi’s after WW2, Nazi’s brought to Oregon to live thought they had gone to heaven. Some of your relatives might actually be Nazi’s. I know mine aren’t, we killed Nazi’s and got medals for it.
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u/CBusfailsus Jul 31 '26
More leftwing projection after calling GOP Nazis the Democrat Party leadership rallied behind embattled Maine candidate Plantner who is a REAL NAZI. Let that sink in
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u/Any-Technology1493 Aug 01 '26
I'd the Nazis were around today, they would be indistinguishable from Mamdani. He hates Jews too.
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u/colorme1965 Aug 04 '26
Someone doesn’t know their history.
America took in most of the top Nazi scientists, even those that committed atrocities, and set them up for a rich life in ‘Merica.
Just like America was the one that contributed, or in reality, created the banana republics.
Look up United Fruit and Guatemala.
The Secretary of Defense, and CIA chief (Dulles brothers) worked as attorneys for United Fruit for decades, held board positions and huge amounts of stock. They’d set up and helped a democratically elected Guatemalan president get deposed because it was making United Fruit less money and taxing it justly.
Same things happened in Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama.
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u/admin_default Jul 28 '26
The difference is those Nazis working for NASA weren’t allowed to do the Seig Heil in public.