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• #72427
Examine your motives.
Thanks for the hint. I thought I was making a simplistic point, but on reflection it turns out that I have at least half a dozen reasons to conclude that mockery is an appropriate response to this tacky erection. That has nothing to do with my attitude to the Jews or genocide, and everything to do with the way in which memorialisation of the holocaust has been Disneyfied.
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• #72428
a tourist stands by the sign and smiles and their mate takes a photo.
If you organise tours, people will behave like tourists.
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• #72429
I see it more as a society scale problem now (people don't learn about respect / dignity)
Maybe it's a time scale problem. Is it reasonable to expect children whose great grandparents were born after the Great War to have much of an emotional reaction to the memorials of that conflict?
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• #72430
Is it reasonable to expect children whose great grandparents were born after the Great War to have much of an emotional reaction to the memorials of that conflict?
Yes, perfectly.
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• #72431
Memeorial.
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• #72432
Your a tacky erection
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• #72433
Anyway it's Friday so here's the best meme ever. If you don't agree repost a better one thanks bye.
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• #72434
Underrated post.
moar memez pl0x.
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• #72435
Beautiful...
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• #72436
Just gonna dive into that whole mess up there about the memorials (kids today, shakey fist old man action)
From their point of view they live in a world where their parents and grandparents were closer to these atrocities, yet are sleepwalking/following the same footsteps: It's hyper-real to these kids that the world they're growing up in is dominated by a growing faction of right-wing isolationist loons. Nothing has changed by being forced to go to these memorials.
Because remember, when you're that young, you don't yet have the capacity/luxury of zooming out from your own short timeline and seeing a bigger picture. From their viewpoint, our parents failed to learn from these mistakes, and everything's still shit. On top of that, we've fucked the earth up so much they probably can't fix it. What's the point? May as well enjoy the selfies.
When they're a bit older they might be able to reflect on the fact that we're actually enjoying a massive period of peace and liberalism and democratisation of rights for all, but it's hard to see that when your life is delivered to you through a constant stream of social-media notifications.
TLDR: Kids are fucking idiots, we all were too.
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• #72439
Lol
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• #72440
Fantastic!
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• #72443
^ :)
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• #72445
Truth is stranger than fiction
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• #72446
Another one from that thair march
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• #72448
you gotta be kidding
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• #72449
Yes... Not real unfortunately. Still, the fact that it's even slightly believable is worrying.
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• #72450
But what is truth?
It's when we get the dankest memes.
Or sutin.