it’s funny to think we used to be taught that western powers didn’t stop the holocaust for so long because “they didn’t know” how bad it was, and not because everyone was a horrible little isolationist dipshit
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One of worst things the USA did was throw 110,000 American citizens into internment camps all because their families were born in the wrong country (Japan) without ANY due process, jury of their peers, innocence until proven guilty etc... they were in good standing with no criminal background btw...
FDR was still focusing on domestic economic policies via the New Deal and pulling his countrymen out of the depths of the Great Depression while families were still grieving over their sons dying in the "Great War" just 15-20 years beforehand and didn't want to send their newest generation to die
To FDR's credit his constituency did NOT want to join what they considered "Europe's War" after the invasion of Poland
Luckily for the victims of the Holocaust and UK Pearl Harbor happened and suddenly there were lines out the door to enlist into the US Armed Forces
On Twitter or X if I had typed to word (id10t) I would have been in jail for a week. Nice to see Elon is still ignoring his community standards for maga hate to thrive. #deleteYourXaccount #JoinTheMassXodus
Doesn't seem likely Mr. Koi is likely to develop a complex internationalist political theory either way. Maybe this is the best he's got. I'm all for the fraternity of man though, so I take your point.
Agreed. Though I will say that I'd believed the latter produced most of the bandwidth on this point, but have been reconsidering that since the election due to alarming realizations about the number of people who have ZERO fucking clue how anything works.
This isolationism also explains why creating Israel was imperative post war. The natural inclination was to agree to “solve” the Jewish “problem”. Nobody wanted the refugees, nobody wanted them to return home. So they just made it the Palestinians’ problem 🤷🏼♂️
Time Ghost's WW2 in real time covers this very well, particularly their War Against Humanity subchannel. Also Revisionist History's recent season on the Berlin Olympics.
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Luckily for the victims of the Holocaust and UK Pearl Harbor happened and suddenly there were lines out the door to enlist into the US Armed Forces
"I'd rather help out here!"
Ok well. What have you done to help your community?
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