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Originally Posted by Heel n Toe
It's The Greatest Generation because of how much they sacrificed to stop Nazi Germany and Japan from taking over the world.
How do you not understand that?
Or are you just trolling?
Idiot.
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Ask yourself this... What would the world look like today if "Nazi" Germany and Japan had "taken over the world"?
What's the worst case? We'd be driving even better cars than we are now? What do you think - we'd all be wearing Charlie Chaplin moustaches and kimonos today?
Oh wait - Porsche, Mercedes, BWM, (not to mention about a dozen or so other industrial power-houses) all existed pre-WW2.
What if Genghis Khan had taken over the world - or Attila the Hun? Or the Romans? Or the Greeks or the Egyptians. Oh wait - they did and yet somehow humanity survived and evolved and continues on it's endless, ridiculous path.
Do you think for a minute that it matters an iota today whether Peter the Great prevailed over King Charles the 12th of Sweden at the battle of Poltava circa 1709?
That's about how much the outcome of WW2 means today. It's history = just sad, horrible history.
Stupid, ridiculous ideas like fascism, imperialism and trumpism are unsustainable long term and will always end in their own undoing.
Look, I'm not saying that it's wrong to remember the victims of war (and that includes pretty much every person in every nation and of every stripe that lived and died through it), but I do think that it is reductive to romanticize and memorialize war.
You obviously disagree and prefer an ad-hominem approach. You'd prefer to "go to battle" and attack over this issue.
There we are.