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Paper is the new privacy measure. (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] 110 points 9 months ago (16 children)

There are still WWII veterans alive that fought the Nazis in Germany just to watch it repeat itself in their own fucking country.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    Think any of those vets are the same people trying to get these folks deported?

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    They're all 90+. Do you think someone that old is doing anything besides watching soap operas?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm inclined to agree. I lost my grandfathers years ago, but I've gone through this thought exercise a lot since this all kicked off:

    Assuming they don't already know: would I shelter a 90+ year old veteran from home-grown horrors that they'll never live to see resolved, or let them shuffle off this mortal coil blissfully ignorant?

    Honestly, this is a situation where the truth simply won't do any good. I'd probably just not tell them and keep those soaps and old movies on repeat.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    To have been active at any point in the war, someone would have to be 99. (2026-1945+ 18yrs to be draft age at the end of the war)

    Even if there are maga ww2 vets, I doubt many of them are active enough for this.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    Well damn, guess that's why the Nazis are back in full-force: the generation that defeated them last time is nearly gone. Now 1/3 this country is welcoming Nazis with open arms.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There were definitely people under 18 fighting in both world wars.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but even if we drop the age all the way to 13, theyre still 93 years old, and that would be people who only saw combat at the very end.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Yeah I mean not a statistically significant difference, I just think the assumption set should be as broad as possible as a matter of conservative estimation. We're trying to show that the living memory footprint is low, which I thought better served by getting the absolute maximum number that could be alive, and it's still very small.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Probably.

    Social media has warped the old and the young alike, as it was designed to do. The people who use these corporate, algorithmically-driven feeds probably aren't even aware that they themselves are supporting Nazism under a different name.

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