• amniote@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Where I live we have square kilometers of american GI’s that liberated europe. As a first in human history victors did not loot or rape. Instead they scrambled to be home by christmas. Europe is forever indebted to these men and the people that led them.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeh and 99.5% of them have since passed away, all that’s left is grift riding on the coat tails of stolen valor.

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      10 hours ago

      I’m a German guy from Berlin, next year I’ll be 50. My dad was born in 1944 and it’s pretty safe to say he survived being cut off from food supplies by the Soviets only because Americans pulled off the Berlin Airlift. These brave pilots helped save the lives of people they had considered enemies not much earlier.

      So I would not be alive were it not for Americans. Am I indebted to America? Fuck yes, of course I am.

      Having said all that, it’s so painful to see America turn to fascism - the very thing those GIs you mention fought against. A country I love, people I love, losing their minds and their hearts. Literally turning evil, led by a criminal lunatic who so obviously follows the demagogue playbook…

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        10 hours ago

        If you’re German, then your government aided and abetted the genocide in Palestine just like America did. I’m not sure what Germany’s current state of involvement is, but I doubt they’ve entirely severed support for the fake state. It’s not just us being run by criminal lunatics.