Belly_Beanis [he/him]

Professional troll and stay-at-home son.

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  • He vaguely knows they’ve done plenty of bad things, but doesn’t see them as fundamentally a force of evil.

    There’s a relevant quote for this:

    Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn’t able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn’t personally to blame and that I hadn’t known about those things. I wasn’t aware of the extent.

    But one day, I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl…, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment, I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young and that it would have been possible to find things out.

    -Traudl Junge, Hitler’s secretary

    There is an active genocide going on and the US is one of its perpetrators. There’s no excuses. It’s already volunteering to be a war criminal, given the illegal invasion of Iraq and the existence of places like Abu Ghraib. Joining the military today makes you even more complicit. Your brother is willing to take money and improve his social life so he can be one of the people in these photos: