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Originalwookie t1_ir00j8k wrote

Reply to comment by MacRubys in TIL that Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft had no front window due to fuel tank placement. The only forward vision was by a periscope. by p38-lightning

So was Margaret Sanger…

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MacRubys t1_ir027mv wrote

So was the queen's uncle.

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Gigatron_0 t1_ir0dgou wrote

Gene therapies are an ongoing thing, and they got their origin in part from eugenics

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MacRubys t1_ir0dtlr wrote

That was not the Nazi agenda.

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Gigatron_0 t1_ir0dxq5 wrote

I didn't say it was lol but eugenics was a small part of the whole movement

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MacRubys t1_ir0e2db wrote

It was pretty much the whole agenda.

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Gigatron_0 t1_ir0eg2d wrote

"That was not the Nazi agenda"

"That was pretty much the whole agenda"

Wat

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MacRubys t1_ir0fd6z wrote

I've had a few drinks, because, frankly, the world sucks. sue me. Also I thought about it more in that time frame. I think both my statements were true. Because the Nazi's were making shit up as they went, but the blue eyed blond thing was their gig, Lindbergh though so too. There has been talk that the Lindbergh baby wasn't "quite" right. How sad is that. Kid doesn't meet your standards, so you get rid of it?

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Gigatron_0 t1_ir0g3jz wrote

Enjoy your drinks 🍻 words have meaning though lol

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MacRubys t1_ir0kfb4 wrote

Yeah, had family that lived in relevant countries at the time. They downplayed it guess part of me did too. But now I understand why they did. And even now I'm trying to wrap my head around what they went through.

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Gigatron_0 t1_ir0l9dv wrote

I don't think it's something you'll ever be able to fully hold in your hand. We'll only be able to understand parts at a time, never fully as if we ourselves are going through it. But rest assured we'd go through it just the same they did. Would we protest, be loud and proud, or keep our heads down and change what we could in our immediate surroundings? Ride the wave, benefitting where we could? Or be smashed by it?

It's always interesting trying to put yourself in the shoes of the common person during "interesting times". The Russian and Ukrainian people are going through interesting times currently. So are Iranians. Definitely others that my limited scope doesn't know of.

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phdoofus t1_ir18758 wrote

As were a lot of people and countries at the time.

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