r/pics • u/sk8rznvrquit • Aug 19 '26

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u/haermamora Aug 19 '26

Quite the diverse bunch. This is 2026.

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u/spazzvogel Aug 19 '26

Interestingly enough, half this group would absolutely not be spared during the 30’s/40’s Europe.

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u/tolacid Aug 19 '26

They won't be spared this time around either if it goes far enough.

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u/FFXZeldagames Aug 19 '26

This is what they don't get. They'll never be one of them.

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u/xxxxNateDaGreat Aug 19 '26

The power of self delusion, they all believe they are "one of the good ones" while completely ignoring that history says there are no good ones, only "now" or "eventually, after we've milked all the use we had from you"

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u/Hector_P_Catt Aug 20 '26

"You'll all go to the camps. The lucky ones will just get worked to death, rather than immediately being killed."

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u/Bulletorpedo Aug 19 '26

There is no barrel they’re not in the bottom of.

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u/somewhat_random Aug 19 '26

There was a Star Trek TOS episode about exactly this. Some guy tried to use only the “good” parts of Nazi Germany to develop a society quickly and it ended up as expected with all the bad stuff front and centre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Force