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    4 days ago

    Honestly I think that what happened during WW2 set us up for about 80 years of relative peace and social progress. If you were lucky enough to live in a wealthy country at least.

    Now that the people who learned those lessons are gone, we are back to having to relearn them. It’s back to authoritarianism, fighting over borders and going after marginalized groups.

    I think if it wasn’t him, it likely would have been someone else. It’s not a failure of the person but a failure of our societal values that allows something like that to happen at a major scale.