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[–] Zink@programming.dev 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

This has extreme “future history students will have trouble thinking people took it seriously” vibes.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 0 points 37 minutes ago

If everything goes back on tracks, they will just learn a distilled down version of the current events like I did about nazism, where nazis were just cartoon villains who did evil for the sake of evil, and never tried to justify their heinous actions. Thus they'll learn that Elon Musk was at worst mixed with way too many good ideas to completely discount him, no mention of the christian fascists, and all the anti-trans thing will either forgotten, or will just told as "was done for the sake of evil".

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

People don't recognize history while they are living through it. Right now we are seeing the consolidation of corporate industry with a government led by a cult of personality. One of the "true and classical" definitions of fascism. Yet, people will argue that it's not actually fascism. No matter how bad it gets, there will always be a large portion of the population who will say its not true fascism because it does not personally affect then in a way they consider fascism. There are plenty of Germans who believed that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong even after having lived through it. That's they one thing history never taught me, the absolute ignorance and denial of the majority of the population, even after things get incredibly bad and millions die.

Edit: Elon Musk did an unequivocal Nazi salute, twice, during his speech at Trumps inauguration. Just watch, somehow this still does not actually make them fascists

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

There is no end to the stupidity of the human race.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

That quote is framed and hanging on the wall of Rupert Murdock's office.

[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago