• volvoxvsmarla
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    1 year ago

    I mean I get the whole post isn’t super serious but for real, I doubt that getting rid of Hitler-Hitler would have stopped the rise of fascism and nazis. There would have just been another leader who might have caused even greater damage.

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        1 year ago

        That’s sadly a very good point. I work in the biomedical sphere and it is an uncomfortable topic that a lot of our knowledge would not exist without the horrible experiments done on people during the second world war.

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        1 year ago

        I think often such things merely accelerate the time line. I’m pretty sure the urge to go look at the big shiny thing in the sky has been with us a looong time. We would have gotten there eventually one way or another.

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          1 year ago

          It would also probably go even faster if we just stopped requiring things to be “”“economical”“” to get research.

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      1 year ago

      Or fascism may become the new trend in democracy because it didn’t get associated with genocide…

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      We would have gotten a communist germany. The first big enemy Hitler and his nazi party had to defeat were the communists who were operating similar death gangs to their gestapo.