• cute_noker@feddit.dk
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    16 hours ago

    You should rather pity them. It’s like Platon’s Shadow Cave, they’ve been fed lies, their entire lives, the few of them that actually get out of the USA will know the difference… The sad thing is that if you try to convince the ones that have never left the country, they will die rather than admit defeat.

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      3 hours ago

      I have moved beyond pitying.
      Maybe in 1930 where some people could be misled bcs of lack of information and really believed they did some good by putting on a nazi uniform is somewhat understandable.
      These days everyone has internet and can find out anything if they want to.
      Despite the vast propaganda and media control in the US it is no longer an excuse.
      They are willfully ignorant.
      Even when they get confronted online with unpleasant facts they get back in their trenches as you mentioned.
      So no sympathy here, they can stay in their cave and rot.