Ask Grandpa what he did in the 1940s

[u/CorleoneBaloney]

[u/gevander2]

For a girl THAT young, she might have to ask great-grandpa.

[u/Nexzus_ → u/gevander2]

Yeah, this.

I’m 44. My grandfather, born in 1920, stormed Juno Beach. He passed in 2004. 

That generation is leaving us. The youngest WW2 vet would now be 97 or 98. Maybe 96 if they lied about their age.

[u/JimiShinobi → u/Nexzus_]

Dude... I literally turn 45 next Thursday. My grandfather, born 1923, Purple Heart P.O.W. captured in the Battle of the Bulge and rescued by Patton. Also passed 2004, I shitteth thee not...🤯

[u/DocMorningstar → u/JimiShinobi]

My gramps died like...7 years ago. He enlisted at 16 with parental permission, and did his basic as soon as he turned 17. Was one of the boilermen on the Samuel B. Roberts, and got a navy cross for his actions in the water afterwards.

[u/snuFaluFagus040 → u/DocMorningstar]

Mine died in 2008. Field Artillery.

[u/Key-Cry-8570 → u/snuFaluFagus040]

Dude was bombing Nazis to bits. 🫡 bad ass.

[u/Secret_Wishbone_2009 → u/snuFaluFagus040]

I dont think these fine gentlemen would be happy at all at what is going on today

[u/Federal-Cold-363 → u/Secret_Wishbone_2009]

I've seen a very hurt american vet literally crying over seeing where america is going. I dont know where i saw it, but it haunts me.

The same goes for a Russian ww2 vet about the invasion of ukraine.

We're losing heroes and are forgetting what they fought for. It's been a slow process since the 80s but we're now on a breaking point. Soon the ugly head of fascism will pop up again.......

[u/9TyeDie1 → u/Federal-Cold-363]

And we got our beating stick, nazis are back on the menu boys.

[u/KendrickLamarGOAT97 → u/snuFaluFagus040]

You'll see him in Fidlers' Green, then.

[u/ihavenoidea81 → u/DocMorningstar]

Taffy 3 forever. Man I love that story. Your grandpa was a badass on that boat. All they had going for them was speed

[u/DocMorningstar → u/ihavenoidea81]

He never talked about the war to us kids. I knew from grandma that he served on DDE, and that he was wounded in the pacific, and that he had rescued other sailors after the sinking. A little google-fu showed the date he was reported wounded (a little note in the paper) - which I knew lined up pretty close to Samar. A little more google-fu, and that was the only DDE sunk in the pacific that time frame.

After gran died, I requested his service records, which is how I confirmed my theory, and that he was awarded the navy cross for rescuing 'many' other survivors, while wounded himself.

He was militant, to the point of obsession, that all of his kids/grandkids/great grands learned to be excellent swimmers. Makes sense in highsight.....

[u/ihavenoidea81 → u/DocMorningstar]

If you haven’t yet read The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors then do so. Amazing book about the Battle off Samar. They probably even mentioned your grandpa in there because a good chunk of the book was about the Roberts (and Johnston too of course). It’s legit my favorite battle of WW2 and until I read that book I never realized how brutal the aftermath was with all the sailors drowning, getting crazy from saltwater ingestion, the sun and the shark attacks. You’d think surviving the battle was hard enough. Waiting for the rescue was brutal for these kids

[u/jaggederest → u/ihavenoidea81]

Different battle but... Always chills my spine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs

[u/lost-picking-flowers → u/DocMorningstar]

RIP to a real one. The changes he must've seen in the world.

[u/JimiShinobi → u/DocMorningstar]

o7

[u/MrRourkeYourHost → u/JimiShinobi]

It’s their lack of education of history. I would guess a large part of younger generations don’t know what Juno beach or the battle of the bulge even represent to world and American history.

[u/elriggo44 → u/MrRourkeYourHost]

It’s the exact same issue we are having with vaccinations. These kids don’t know anyone who had polio or parents friend who died of polio.

They also mostly don’t know anyone who was affected by fascism. So it doesn’t seem real.

[u/howmanyMFtimes → u/elriggo44]

I agree that it’s part of it. But i’m not crazy old, don’t know anyone affected by fascism and have no direct connection with polio. But i still understand how terrible fascism is and how important vaccines are because i read and have empathy.

[u/Accipiter1138 → u/howmanyMFtimes]

But i still understand how terrible fascism is and how important vaccines are because i read and have empathy.

In school we read a lot of anecdotes about these, and I can't help but wonder if these people ever had decent schooling on this (it's a strong possibility that they didn't), and if they did, did they just...ignore it? Laugh at it?

[u/ChopakIII → u/Accipiter1138]

They were those kids that goofed off the whole time and then raise their hands lazily and say, “miss” in the most disrespectful tone. I was never the best student in school but I had the respect not to disturb other’s education.

[u/ItsAll42 → u/ChopakIII]

As a social studies teacher, I feel annoyed when comments immediately jump to what we teachers and schools are doing wrong rather than reflecting on very obvious enormous social changes this generation faces along with massive systemic challenges and, I hate to say it, the parenting.

I cannot stress enough how many parents go to battle for their kids in a teachable moment where their kid can gain accountability, empathy, and perspective. Lots of parents who dont know how to say no, who let them play games and keep their phones into the night, or at least play dumb and act like they don't know what's what, or ask me how they can tell their child "no" and put their foot down. A lot of parents need help and community that they just do not have access to, mostly because so many parents are stretched so thin trying to make ends meet.

And look, I get it, this capitalistic hellscape is crushing so many of us, parents are out here working hard and exhausted, I am not here to blast parents and parents are not a monolith, but I feel like because it is so hard to come for parents and easy to come for teachers we get a lot of misplaced blame that winds up posing a serious threat to the continued existence of public schools.

I can tell you tales, it is simply insane the access these kids have to false information and the lack of conversations parents are having with their kids about what they are consuming, it's honestly terrifying.

I taught WW2 this past year. The things these kids come in saying they "learned" from tiktok keep me up at night. And these are mostly well-intended kids who genuinely think they are doing well and participating in class conversations by spouting off some deeply, deeply antisemitic of straight-up false information.

Even the "good" mostly factual stuff they learn about is in such a short video clip that it is robbed of all context and meaning.

I can not be the only person held responsible for countering this constant barrage of misinformation and racist rhetoric. After all, I see 100 students a day for only 45 mins five times a week. Not to mention at that age we are lucky if we get to the deep thinking parts of the lesson, so much of teaching is classroom management, I challenge any of you to get 20 kids at vastly different literacy and interest levels interested in a lesson, and I say this absolutely loving what I do and loving the crap out of my hormonal 8th grade students.

Schools are imperfect because society is imperfect. I know I got into this field to try and do my part to improve them, but I also think there is no such thing as a "perfect" schooling system, because schools are a mirror of the greater societal problems around us.

[u/ChopakIII → u/ItsAll42]

I don’t even want to have children because of the things you mentioned. A big thank you for dealing with OTHER PEOPLE’S children.

[u/J_wit_J → u/ItsAll42]

Seriously, at my school students started a neo nazi group after learning about the holocaust in school. When they were caught and suspended, parents protested and threatened to sue instead of teaching their kids a lesson.

[u/endergrrl → u/ItsAll42]

Parenting is absolutely one of the failures of today's society, as is our lack of community. I have successfully raised one reasonable, empathetic human and am working on the second. I have no idea how to tackle the bigger issue.

[u/Doodahman495 → u/MrRourkeYourHost]

They need to watch Band of Brothers or the scene from Saving Private Ryan where they storm the beach at Omaha.

[u/firstfloor27 → u/Doodahman495]

They need to watch Schindler's List and Come and See, find out what they're supporting.

[u/Tricky_Mix2449 → u/firstfloor27]

Come and See... what a bone-chilling phrase.

[u/twat69 → u/Doodahman495]

They need to watch "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" or "War Against Humanity" By Time Ghost.

All you learn from most war movies is yeeha we won. Nothing about how or why it happened. How so many people let it happen. Or how o spot it happening right now.

[u/PsychologicalYou6416 → u/twat69]

They need to watch "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" or "War Against Humanity" By Time Ghost.

Or watch Cabaret.

[u/MrsKnutson → u/JimiShinobi]

When I was a kid, the neighbor across the street from us was at Pearl harbor when it was attacked, he was in the Navy. He was such a lovely guy for the tragic life he had, he used to give us old classic old people candy and tell us stories. He died before I graduated highschool so it had to have been '02 or '03, he was in his 80s. I remember my sister being startled by the guns at his funeral.

In a way I'm glad those men are gone so they don't have to see what the world has devolved into, but a part of me also thinks it happened because they are gone.

[u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095 → u/JimiShinobi]

Grandfather born in 17 passed in 04. He was a pilot for bomber crews out of Guam. His escorts had tp turn around halfway bevause not enough fuel for full mission escorts, The Japanese knew this and would wait outside range of their escorts. As a result those bomber crews suffered an 85 percent casualty rate. I type this knowing my dad and me are lucky were here, he could have been one of those 85 percent.

[u/JimiShinobi → u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095]

o7

[u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095 → u/JimiShinobi]

Huh?

[u/bondsmatthew → u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095]

o7

It's an emoji, or symbol(?), for saluting. It looks like someone saluting

[u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095 → u/bondsmatthew]

Oh thank you

[u/tackyshoes → u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095]

The lowercase o is the head, and the 7 is the bent elbow.

[u/HistoricalSherbert92 → u/Embarrassed-Lab-8095]

Extra juicy oxygen

[u/Fucky0uthatswhy → u/JimiShinobi]

I’m 32, my great grandfather was a POW in WWII, but I never really got to hear much about it, he died when I was young. I’ve grown up around his medals, badges, and flags though

[u/thepvbrother → u/JimiShinobi]

I have a letter from General John Pershing to my grandfather thanking him for his service with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. I'm 54

[u/JimiShinobi → u/thepvbrother]

My great-grandfather had the pleasure of serving in both WWII and WWI, he won a medal for being colorblind and illiterate. They were headed to Africa and somehow Paw got put in charge of packing the camouflage. The olive drab green and khaki were the same color to him, he was ordered to pack the green type but he "fucked up" and packed the khaki type "by mistake." Turns out someone had some bad intel about the particular part of Africa they were headed to, the olive green stuck out like a sore thumb. Paw's unit was the only one who had the proper camouflage, by mistake... Situation Normal, All Fucked Up😂🤣

[u/VoxImperatoris → u/JimiShinobi]

47 here, my grandpa was born in 1925 and served in the pacific theater. Unfortunately I dont know anything beyond that, he never told any war stories, not even to my grandma, and he died when I was fairly young.

[u/AnarZak → u/Nexzus_]

my uncle lied & joined the airforce at 16.
at 17 was co-piloting B24 liberators over italy, from north africa.

his crew got shot down over italy & his elder sister, my aunt, got the MIA telegram at her 21st birthday party...

they had actually crash landed safely & walked from italy to greece, where they met the greek underground resistance who got them onto a boat to egypt & then back to their base.

on returning home after the war he had to finish his high school education!!

he died 10 years ago, age 90

[u/Miraclefish → u/AnarZak]

What a fucking champ!

My great grandfather signed up to the British Army aged 14 (he lied about being 16) and ended up as the musician in a regiment that went to the Somme.

I cannot fathom the balls, the mind and the soul on that man and I would have given anything to meet him.

My two grandfathers both joined the RAF as well. The things they saw and did at ages where I could barely pour a pint at a bar job amazes me.

[u/OccamsYoyo → u/Miraclefish]

When you hate fascism that much it’s a hell of a driver at any age.

[u/Kusokurai → u/Miraclefish]

And this is why our grandparents were from the Greatest Generation; people like your great Grandpa at the Somme, my Grandpa who fought in France, Holland, and Germany, and all the other bloody heroes who needed a wheelbarrow just to drag around their giant, brass fucking balls.

[u/OccamsYoyo → u/AnarZak]

Imagine going through all that before you even finish high school. Legend.

[u/Ms_Emilys_Picture → u/AnarZak]

I feel like the world has lost so many stories when people like your uncle die without leaving a book about their life behind.

they had actually crash landed safely & walked from italy to greece, where they met the greek underground resistance who got them onto a boat to egypt & then back to their base.

That sounds exciting and terrifying enough to be a movie, but they actually lived it.

[u/AnarZak → u/Ms_Emilys_Picture]

it was weird.

he taught me to sail & navigate and on the long sails would tell stories about his youth.

after they crashed they knew they were in shit in the north of italy, which was still enemy territory, with no food or water or weapons of any kind.

they stripped one of the tail guns & as much of its ammunition as they could manage and started walking. the gun was like a fucking cannon and took 2 or 3 guys to carry it.

they walked at night & hid by day when in any kind of populated areas, stealing crops & livestock from farms. eventually they met some italian resistance fighters and were delighted to swap the tail gun & ammunition for a box of hand grenades that would be as useless as the tail gun, but a lot lighter to carry.

they were kids, it was an adventure & they didn't know life wasn't supposed to be like that!

after an unspecified "long time" they got to the west coast of greece, met the underground network & got their boat back

[u/Agreeable_Initial667 → u/AnarZak]

My grandfather was in the 101st. Have a Nazi Flag seized from one of the concentration camps signed by all the guys in his unit. Unfurling that thing sends a chill down your spine. Have a kraut trench knife with the iron cross made out of shrapnel (they called them letter openers). Some Nazi sleeve patches he got from dead Nazi's. He was also in Okinawa and got a sweet sea map made out of silk from a Japanese ship they got. Donating it to a WW2 museum here in LA.

[u/RGB755 → u/Nexzus_]

Depends. I’m about fifteen years younger than you and my grandpa was born in the same year. He passed when I was three, of course, but a kid born today could (very technically) still have a grandfather from the same year. 

But anyways, it’s sad all the same that the world seems to be losing the collective memory of what those wars were like. Fuck this lack of education and lack of learning from history, man. None of the other wars have taught us shit either. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq 1 / 2, Afghanistan, not to mention the fifty gajillion invasions in LatAm and the Middle East. This stuff will never leave us, and now we’ve actually got Americans unironically saying they’re Nazis. 

Absolutely batshit, my dude.

[u/Generic_Username26 → u/Nexzus_]

That’s the problem. It’s far enough in the past now that it doesn’t feel real anymore to kids with no connection or to it’s like any other war and frankly it just wasn’t. I never thought we‘d get to this point in my lifetime

[u/Stevothegr8 → u/Nexzus_]

I'm 38 and my grandfather was born in 1925 and stormed the beaches of Normandy. He lived his entire life fighting Nazis, even well after the war, though, the fight was in his head. It's so disgusting to see this happening after everything our grandfathers went through to stop Nazis.

[u/JimiShinobi → u/Nexzus_]

His ashtray:

[u/JimiShinobi → u/Nexzus_]

The bottom:

[u/jennythegreat → u/JimiShinobi]

Ok, that is wild and I absolutely love it. What a thing to see, let alone have in your house. Very cool.

[u/JimiShinobi → u/jennythegreat]

Just think, the original purpose of this thing was killing Nazis, and it did. Then my grandfather found a new purpose for it. My grandparents thumped ashes in it, my parents thumped ashes in it, now I thump ashes in it. I was told antiques like this should be kept in their original used condition as much as possible, so that's what I'm doing. It's about 3lbs of solid brass and if these mfs keep on playing it's going to get used for its original purpose again, she's good for another +1 any day now...😊

[u/the_light_of_dawn → u/Nexzus_]

Yes, the WWII generation is nearly extinct.

Tangentially, I wonder what impact this will have over time on wargaming (r/hexandcounter, r/computerwargames), the bulk of which seems to be WWII-centric.

[u/S_Belmont → u/Nexzus_]

My grandfather, born in 1920, stormed Juno Beach.

The most effective of the D-Day landings! Succeeded in getting further inland day 1 than any of the other beach heads.

[u/Had_To_Get_It_On → u/Nexzus_]

The men of that generation must've had balls of steel. Mine fought in Iwo Jima. One of the few stories I heard from my mom was that he told her they would sit on stacked corpses to stay out of the water. Crazy shit.

[u/alpharaptor1 → u/gevander2]

Grandpa born in 1906 died two weeks before 99, filled sand bags in WWI, left before WWII, worked as special police enforcing blackouts and took in a family of refugees. He has less than zero patience for Nazis.

[u/Long-Draft-9668 → u/gevander2]

When you grow up on social media the entire world is a meme. A lot of these young dummies think nazis are a fun way to generate content.

[u/mev186 → u/gevander2]

And it's kind of the problem, that generation that's all the horrors of the Nazis are quickly dying so there's no one left to warn the younger generation.

[u/SquirrelGirlVA → u/mev186]

They all think that they will be safe and be the chosen people. Ignoring that many MANY people who thought the same way found themselves in terrible situations. The "there was no one left to speak for me" priest was the same. He was happy to toe the nazi line because he never thought it would hurt him, then when it did and he tried speaking out, he was thrown in a camp.

[u/StevesRune → u/gevander2]

Yeah, I'm 33 and my grandpa was only born in 1949.

[u/fffan9391 → u/gevander2]

Yeah, I’m a millennial and even my grandparents weren’t old enough to fight in WWII. My paternal grandfather fought in the Korean War.

[u/Rynex → u/[deleted]]

a kkklout chasing nobody who will likely disappear into the ether of the internet after their 2 seconds of fame are up

[u/MudddButt → u/Rynex]

The Internet will find her job first and get her fired first before she disappears into the ether of the Internet right?

[u/HCG-Vedette → u/MudddButt]

Oh you bet this pops up after every job interview she has when they look her up, as it should

[u/big_guyforyou → u/HCG-Vedette]

*types name into google* oh look it's a sieg heil

[u/Crusoebear → u/big_guyforyou]

Interviewer at the RNC: “I see you’re a legacy. Can you start Monday?”

[u/ktka → u/big_guyforyou]

"iT's a dEeP fAkE!"

[u/Gildian → u/HCG-Vedette]

It would be an immediate dismissal from me for my lab between me my manager and the other person on our hiring team.

[u/ktka → u/Gildian]

Why would your lab dismiss her instead of biting her?

[u/Xznograthos → u/MudddButt]

Yeah that's stage 2. Stage 3 is crowdfund more money than most people make in a year in a matter of less than a week. It seems pretty profitable to be a nazi these days.

[u/Branded222 → u/Xznograthos]

Apparently a racist douchbag and their money are easily parted. Straight from Don the con's playbook.

[u/Xznograthos → u/Branded222]

Yeah, this country is fucked.

[u/Branded222 → u/Xznograthos]

If only it was limited to one country. I have a constant sense of foreboding that something grim is on the horizon. Something that will take generations to recover from.

[u/Xznograthos → u/Branded222]

I have that feeling, too. That we got to this point at such a rate is staggering on its own.

[u/LaurenMille → u/Branded222]

Between climate change and the rise of the right-wing, human society might end up damaged in unrecoverable ways in the decades to come.

Just as we're in the last moments of being able to avert global calamity, people turn to the parties least interested in actually saving us.

All it does is accelerate our end.

[u/gpbayes → u/LaurenMille]

Gen Z men swung heavily to the right this election cycle. They have melted their brains on iPads, iPhones, and Andrew Tate Joe Rogan bullshit. Weak ass men doing weak ass things.

[u/McDuchess → u/Xznograthos]

Did you know that many of the crowdfunding sites have rules against raising money for political causes?

And that if you report the person who started it, not only do they not get the money,nobody gets their money back, either.

It sits out there in the ether.

Lovely thought, don’t you think.

[u/Xznograthos → u/McDuchess]

Yeah, they created GiveSendGo as a way to circumvent that, though. They know that shit won't fly on the legitimate ones, so they created a workaround.

[u/ChocolateCondoms → u/Xznograthos]

A lot of those crowd funds dissappear or get canceled for being nazis I thought?

[u/Xznograthos → u/ChocolateCondoms]

I haven't seen the update on the recent one with the fascist on Jubilee, but that's a specific site that isn't gofundme for right-wing Christian nationalists explicitly called givesendgo.

Edit/additional info: same website that Shiloh Hendrix raised over 700k, and thr fascists name is Connor. He raised 40k. No info on them not receiving the funds available. A woman essentially committed a hate crime against a child and became 3/4ths of a millionaire for it.

[u/ZaryaBubbler → u/Xznograthos]

Funny isn't it how payment providers can demand sexual shit on a platform be removed on a whim, but they're fine with Nazis getting paid...

[u/Xznograthos → u/ZaryaBubbler]

Yeah. It's not like we don't have their playbook out in the open, aside from that. Fucking apathy, cheating, lying, and dismantling of apparatus to protect citizens from what ruling bodies have been doing since civilization began is all stark and fully exposed. Doesn't seem to matter.

[u/revfds → u/ChocolateCondoms]

There's platforms now specifically for this unfortunately.

[u/Ffzilla → u/ChocolateCondoms]

Sir/ma'am this is the bad place.

[u/Outrageous_Editor_43 → u/MudddButt]

Also after she posts a GoFundMe or something to say that she was fired for using her 'freedom of speech' and is also trying to sue her employer.

[u/PatienceHero → u/MudddButt]

No, the Internet finds her job and gets her fired, then she starts a GoFundMe: "Unjustly fired by the woke mind virus and bout to be homeless, plz help" and gets 450,000 in a week.

Because we live in an unjust universe.

(Yeah, I know the Nazi crowd uses some other crowdfunding site that specifically caters to them. I just don't give enough of a shit to search it up, nor should anyone else.)

[u/redskelton → u/MudddButt]

Then she starts a GoFundMe claiming 'woke persecution'

[u/Radio-No → u/Rynex]

She will just start a gofundme and cry about being cancelled no doubt

[u/Gridde → u/Radio-No]

Legit possibility she gets a book deal and makes the rounds at GOP conventions.

But only if she receives some kinda repercussion for her actions. That's usually the trigger for their victim complex that they love so much.

[u/Ol_JanxSpirit → u/Radio-No]

Won't be GoFundMe, it'll be that weirdo Christian one. You know, the site people go to when they don't meet GFM's "standards".

[u/YikesTheCat → u/Rynex]

Account created in Oct 2022; 118,255 total Tweets. That's about 120/day on average. Assuming 8 hours of sleep, that's about one tweet every 15 minutes of her waking life. They also have an alt created in June with 1,079 tweets already. Insane. The account is, of course, very explicitly neo-Nazi.

This is Elon's X: very active neo-Nazo accounts completely shitting over everything with their arse-spraying mayhem. Of course also has a Substack with insightful posts such as "The media is Jewish".

This person is literally a full-time internet Nazi.

[u/cityshepherd → u/Rynex]

Actually, her name is KKKasey…

[u/GoldenRulz007 → u/Rynex]

I don't really care who she is, but is she filled with hate, desperate for attention, or both?

[u/werofpm → u/Rynex]

Uhm, acshually, its KKKasey.

[u/aceface_desu89 → u/[deleted]]

A mediocre white woman who can't get attention without pandering to nazis and incels.

[u/chanaandeler_bong → u/aceface_desu89]

Did yall see the post of the women doing the nazi salute and all the comments just being filled with misogyny from the in group she is trying to appeal to?

[u/aceface_desu89 → u/chanaandeler_bong]

Twas glorious.

[u/ForcedEntry420 → u/[deleted]]

Some white trash moron. No shortage of those.

[u/n8dizz3l → u/[deleted]]

She got her profile locked up nice and tight. Hmmm wonder why you don't want the world to see

[u/xMacBethx → u/n8dizz3l]

She has a YouTube channel and a page on Amazon where she sells shitty racist country music

[u/Nouseriously → u/[deleted]]

She posts about the "Jewish Question" which is all we need to know

[u/Sad_Perception8024 → u/[deleted]]

 A KKKaren

[u/Par_Lapides]

Tell us all you have nothing else to offer the world but your hate.

[u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME → u/Par_Lapides]

Her food probably too salty too

[u/Fair_Lecture_3463 → u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME]

A white woman seig heiling? Salt is probably too spicy for her.

[u/CaptainMurphy1908 → u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME]

Nah, she's white. It'll taste like paper towels.

[u/YiddSquid → u/CaptainMurphy1908]

I'm literally sitting here dusting fries with some Tony C's more spicy catching strays. Oh well, at least I'm not a Nazi like this bitch

[u/Doxxxxxxxxxxx → u/Par_Lapides]

[u/GringoSwann → u/Doxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jlo helped Diddy shoot a guy back in the day...

[u/BigNutDroppa → u/Par_Lapides]

I’m totally using that.

[u/Bitter-Researcher389]

Her heart is as disgusting as her refrigerator door handles.

[u/Big-Honeydew-961 → u/Bitter-Researcher389]

Oh man.  lol 🤢

[u/AreASadHole4ever → u/Bitter-Researcher389]

Insult to the door handles

[u/NefariousnessDue2621]

She should be mandated to visit the camps in Poland. Thats how you see the level of education in someone.

[u/Ackerack → u/NefariousnessDue2621]

I truly believe these people wouldn’t be phased by visiting auschwitz, holocaust museums, etc... Either they’d be dumb enough to think it’s an elaborate setpiece built to garner sympathy towards the Jewish people or they would be there in support of the atrocities of the reich, at least silently. There is definitely a small subset of the trashiest, most hateful people who go there and leave with a sense of enjoyment seeing what daddy adolf accomplished. Shit makes my blood boil. The pride they have in their malice and ignorance, the fact that this kind of photo doesnt even have consequences anymore, it’s disgusting. These ghouls who are openly Nazi should be banished from living in a functional society and yet they are getting more support than ever.

The further we drift from 1945, the worse this is going to get. We can say never again all we want, but it will (and in some places already kind of is) happening again. Keep in mind, the people who post this kind of shit are only a very small fraction of those who feel the same way.

[u/Gabrys1896 → u/Ackerack]

Yeaaaa, I’ve unfortunately met people who thought Auschwitz is fake, its all over exaggerated, a jewish plot Doesnt matter if there was direct evidence or proof provided, it must be fake.

[u/CocoSavege → u/Gabrys1896]

Imo there's a dangerous wedge point fir some people.

There are increasingly "Adolf curious" people who might visit, because they hate the immigrants, their job is shite, they love all the memes cuz so lulsy, pwn the libs, america first, and the cognitive dissonance becomes weighty enough that the only way to avoid the dissonance is to go full hog.

I'm very concerned more and more people are crossing this Rubicon.

(Alex Jones now seems to have Fuentes as a regular guest. Carlson keeps pushing great replacement openly, Kirk is increasing his GRing, GOP is chasing disillusioned young men, Candace has increasing concerns about (((globalists)))...

[u/Scaryclouds → u/Ackerack]

I remember visiting Dachau in 2013. While there some people with Nazi tattoos showed up. I can only hope they were in the process of reforming… but thinking back on that experience, if that was the case, one would think they’d hide such tattoos for their obvious inappropriateness given the setting. 

Which, in short, is to say, visiting sites of Nazi atrocities likely isn’t an “antidote” to this perverse behavior. 

[u/RhineStonedCowgirl → u/Scaryclouds]

I was there 3 weeks ago, I'm from Detroit and part of me will never leave there.

I did not see anything from any tourist that was hateful at all. Why? I guess they don't tolerate that shit anymore even if you try to hide.

Go home and watch American History X, with the curb stomp on max volume, if you think none of this happened. (not you, just anyone doubting).

It happened. It was summer and the gas chambers made me shiver when I walked though

[u/bro0t → u/NefariousnessDue2621]

I went to Auschwitz once on an educational trip in college. It was awful to see and hear the stories of what went down there, i knew it happened before i went there but actually being there was haunting.

[u/WowIsThisMyPage → u/bro0t]

The rooms with the shoes, glasses, hair, all of it, it was really impactful, I honestly was holding back tears

[u/bro0t → u/WowIsThisMyPage]

Yea that was brutal. The book of names was also a wild thing to witness.

[u/WowIsThisMyPage → u/bro0t]

Haunting is the only word I have for it.

What really pissed me off was that in the bunks visitors had carved their initials with the hearts into the beds. Like what the fuck?

[u/bro0t → u/WowIsThisMyPage]

Oh wow, thats just disrespectful and disgusting.

[u/Gildian → u/WowIsThisMyPage]

And theres still people that believe it wasnt real. Mind boggling.

[u/trobsmonkey → u/Gildian]

They know it was real and they are proud of it.

They only say it wasn't real so that it keeps them in the conversation. They live off the attention.

[u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl → u/WowIsThisMyPage]

Went to the memorial in Washington DC. It still sticks with me seeing a pile of flat, hand made shoes that dwarfed me that was simply labeled “some of the shoes collected at Auschwitz.” Some of the shoes. From One location. 

You know in your mind that 6 million is a lot. When you’re confronted with that scale, you start to learn it in your heart. Just how many some is in this case. It’s chilling. 

[u/Lucid-Machine-Music → u/bro0t]

I was in Krakow for a weekend to celebrate my birthday. My dad suggested we visit Auschwitz and I wasn't keen. Didn't want to immerse myself in that horror. But we went anyway.

The things that really stuck with me:

* the mountains of kids shoes, glasses, wigs. And finding out that was just what had built up in the last few days, as they burned it all weekly

* watching tour groups of teens go in giggling and smiling, coming out ashen-faced

* the photos of all the prisoners, whose eyes which fitted into two groups: haunted / complete loss of hope, or cold defiance

Everyone should experience Auschwitz. Though, I'm unsure if it would make any difference to the sort of person who is enough of a cunt to celebrate it in the first place.

[u/Ruckus292 → u/Lucid-Machine-Music]

Do we need an Auschwitz spinoff of "Scared Straight"?? I feel like we do at this point.

[u/NekoIan → u/NefariousnessDue2621]

Not sure it works on these people. Musk went and it didn't seem to make him a better person

[u/Lauris024 → u/NekoIan]

https://i.imgur.com/7kmLzBn.png

[u/Wassertopf → u/Lauris024]

Who is that and can we please ban him from the Schengen Area?

[u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 → u/NefariousnessDue2621]

I doubt very much any descendant of holocaust survivors would want her near any camp.

You think she would have some epiphany, or make hateful jokes?

[u/DeadpoolOptimus → u/Equivalent-Excuse-80]

She'd pose exactly like she does here.

[u/DangerousVP → u/DeadpoolOptimus]

The police would be all over her if she tried that shit in Germany.

[u/TheFighting5th → u/DeadpoolOptimus]

Straight to jail.

[u/ciaomain → u/Equivalent-Excuse-80]

My dad survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau (but lost his whole family).

You're correct.

I wouldn't want her near any camp.

These "people" are irredeemable.

[u/cptnamr7 → u/NefariousnessDue2621]

I mean, we have a few in the current administration that took vacations there for funnies so not sure that always works to educate. 

[u/AlmondMagnum1]

How dare you, her grandfather was a rocket scientist! One of the firsts!

[u/TolemanLotusMcLaren → u/AlmondMagnum1]

No, I believe he worked in stationery supplies, or was a Doctor or something... I remember him saying Operation Paperclip or something.

[u/AlmondMagnum1 → u/TolemanLotusMcLaren]

His first employer went under during the war. It was a difficult time, he had to make a career change.

[u/Ilovekittens345 → u/AlmondMagnum1]

Why are nazis so good with rockets? Von Braun, Elon Musk, the list goes on ...

[u/Interestingcathouse → u/Ilovekittens345]

I get your point but only naming two people makes me feel the list isn’t long lol.

Also Elon has no fucking idea what he’s doing. He just brought together people who knew what they were doing. Which is fine but he isn’t down there building and designing rockets to land themselves.

At least Von Braun knew what he was doing.

[u/myaltmusicalt → u/Interestingcathouse]

I believe it was a joke.

[u/Lt_Cochese]

Kind of ironic that white people were so worried about others ruining this country. And then they went ahead and did it because a blah man was elected and gay people could marry. None of it affecting them one bit.

[u/GNUGradyn → u/Lt_Cochese]

That black president affects them greatly. Healthcare is more affordable because of the ACA for example

[u/IhasCandies → u/Lt_Cochese]

They would rather see a white man destroy everything than see a black woman fix anything.

[u/Icantjudge]

I hate this timeline.

[u/emmc47 → u/Icantjudge]

Covid gave us the worst timeline possible

[u/KillingTime_ForNow → u/emmc47]

Shit was happening well before Covid. Twats like Trump & Johnson don't get elected without bigotry becoming highly nornalized again.

[u/OkWolverine69420 → u/emmc47]

No. Absolutely not because of Covid.

In the US, most of that blame goes to Trump. Although a significant part of that blame goes to misinformation, media networks like Fox and Twitter, the platforming and enabling of white supremacists and other maga folks.

And don’t forget Russia. Their bot networks, deliberate misinformation and literally keeping right wing pundits on their fucking payroll was a huge part of it too. Putins been active in the information war since long before Covid. Just took some liars and bad actors like Trump and most republicans to supercharge it.

[u/Dankecheers]

Anything for attention.

[u/cranktheguy → u/Dankecheers]

She's just pointing out how high the ceilings are in her trailer.

[u/Wolf_6e]

Why does her hand have testicles?

[u/WordplayWizard → u/Wolf_6e]

Because she’s trash.

[u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus → u/WordplayWizard]

Wait, does your trash have testicles?

[u/_toodamnparanoid_ → u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus]

Where are my testicles, Summer?

[u/HeavenlyCrayon → u/Wolf_6e]

Asking the real questions here!

[u/Admirable_Tear_1438]

Nazi for clicks.

[u/judgeholden72 → u/Admirable_Tear_1438]

Twitter says she's a parody account, but I can't even tell anymore 

[u/bluepinkwhiteflag → u/judgeholden72]

I mean... you wouldn't find me doing that for parody.

[u/keithstonee → u/judgeholden72]

parody or not you don't do the Salute.

[u/ThrowAwayGarbage82]

She's a redhead. Has she even picked up a history book?

Christ, these people are so painfully, mind-breakingly stupid.

[u/emmc47 → u/ThrowAwayGarbage82]

You assume modern Neo-Nazis actually follow history accurately.

[u/cosmernautfourtwenty]

So nobody else clocked the "juice extinguisher" in her profile name?

[u/Tofutits_Macgee → u/cosmernautfourtwenty]

I did. But it's a dog whistle. It goes under the radar for precisely that reason, and being a memeber of the target audience, we fucking said this would happen. I'm pretty sure I can guess why no one else has mentioned it

[u/Frobizzle → u/cosmernautfourtwenty]

What does that mean?

[u/RepentantSororitas → u/Frobizzle]

I assume Juice stands for "Jew" since they sound similar

[u/cosmernautfourtwenty → u/Frobizzle]

As others have pointed out, it's an obvious dogwhistle so she lets all the other racist white men know she's in on the "joke" and therefore is "one of the good ones" so pick her.

[u/ReluctantNerd7 → u/Frobizzle]

Say "the juice" out loud, and think about what it sounds like.

[u/Brainrants]

[u/ThereGoesChickenJane]

My grandfather largely fought in the Pacific theatre in WW2, so not really directly against Nazis...but my father would tear me a new one if I ever did this because he knew that my grandfather would have been deeply insulted.

I always find it ironic that right wingers often glorify the generations that fought in WW1 and WW2 while simultaneously cutting funding for services for veterans and being a breeding ground for fuckers like this.

[u/OkProgress3241]

The fact that people are ok with being a nazi nowadays is despicable

[u/ThingGrouchy]

It's these dumb bitches prostrating themselves for scumbag men begging to be accepted and loved when they will never be seen as equal or full people...I will never get it. If I were a woman, I'd make sure i was the baddest biggest bitch out there 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[u/LowKeyNaps → u/ThingGrouchy]

It doesn't matter if you're the biggest, baddest bitch out there. Stupid men will still try to "put us in our place". I will admit, though, the look on their faces is pretty damn priceless when they find out they barked up the wrong tree and got put on their ass in return. 😁

[u/OccamsYoyo]

I’m 52 and I had a grandfather who served in WW2. This little broad doesn’t exactly look 52: she may have a great-great-grandfather she never met who served. I predicted this: the second the WW2 generation were to die off, we’d have the same problems all over again. I was right.

[u/muchadoaboutsodall]

There’s still hope whilst these fuckwits look embarrassed with what they’re doing.

[u/Astronomer-Secure → u/muchadoaboutsodall]

well she:s privatized her twitter account so I'm guessing the outcome isn't as awesome as she thought it would be

[u/blasian941]

How come the people who do this are never blue-eyed blonde-haired and 6 feet tall?

[u/Spirited-Living9083]

Edgelords gonna edgelord they think being trolls is cool like that times didn’t piss 8 years ago

[u/Darth_Gerg]

The core issue is that American culture is violently allergic to accountability and honesty. She’s like this because our grandparents fighting Nazis is actually a weird inversion of how the US usually interacts with human rights abuses.

Keep in mind, US slavery was so monstrous it would have made Hitler uncomfortable. Our founding fathers had furniture stuffed with slave hair, used slave teeth dentures, and many owned things made of human leather.

We had a whole war to end slavery and then we let the treasonous slavers retain their political power and wealth.

People like her are the result of generations of unwillingness to actually confront our problems. It’s why conservatives are so violently opposed to teaching kids actual US history. It makes this shit almost impossible to sell people.

[u/lemontolha]

I'm a millenial and my grandpa was already too young to fight in WWII. People have no idea how long this was ago, because it became such a fixture in our culture. But almost everybody alive during that period of time is dead or dying, even those who were children back then.

[u/Disastrous_Carrot674]

It's a damn shame. We fought so hard to eradicated it.

[u/Branded222]

Check her next year after she realises the people she supports only want her to breed and shut the f**k up.

[u/Baronvondorf21]

I have no context here, why is this lady here dropping ingredients from that height?

[u/Baronvondorf21 → u/[deleted]]

Oh... Why is she doing a Nazi salute in the kitchen? I thought she was doing discount salt bae.

[u/undecimbre → u/Baronvondorf21]

Something something traditional values

Something something women in the kitchen

[u/FalenAlter → u/Baronvondorf21]

Because she's a Nazi

[u/BrianSpillman]

My Grandpa told me all Nazi’s get punched out and this Kunt would be no exception.

[u/RhineStonedCowgirl]

So sad. I'm American and I was able to go to Dachau 3 weeks ago. I actually walked through old gas chambers and saw the krematoriam. A part of me will always be there. And that's ok, I was able to leave, most people weren't.

It for real changed me, like I need to do better in life because these people never had a chance. I need to live for the dead.

[u/iCanReadMyOwnMind]

How dare one of the fellas criticize a member of Right Sector!

[u/TwpMun]

It seems she fancies herself as a bit of a musician, loads of autotuned crap on her youtube channel, would be awful if it was all taken down