🤔If I told you that in 1944, Adolf Hitler ran the most sophisticated and successful space rocket program on earth, would that change your opinion of him? Should it?

Would that make you think Adolf was a rocket scientist? Or do you know that Wernher von Braun was the rocket scientist?

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We see from this real example, that post world War II, after the Nazis were defeated, that Wernher von Braun kept making rockets, at the same pace.

It appears that the magic sauce, was "the world's best rocket scientists, with sufficient resources," not "fascist philosophy."

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(Werner von Braun was a nazi. A rocket nazi is still a nazi. A nazi living in the country that helped defeat the nazis, is still a nazi. A nazi with a US government job, is still a nazi.)

When Hitler was being defeated, some people said, "Good! Hitler is bad for the world!"

Other people said, "Noooo! Now we won't walk on the moon! I have long dreamed of being interplanetary! Let Hitler keep building rockets!"

If you lived in 1944, which camp would you be in?

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@mekkaokereke

I would probably be one part of the team attempting to kill the hell out of Hitler.

@locksmithprime @mekkaokereke If I were myself, with my current past experiences, I’d be totally in the “kill the hell out of Hitler” camp, and I’d like to think I would have the same values if I lived in 1944, but since we’re ultimately the products of our upbringing within the society around us, I really don’t know, and that’s scary.

@ramsey @mekkaokereke

If we do have principles and integrity as core values, I do not believe the worst of upbringing will destroy them. It will make our lives hell, but not transform us into bad.

Half of this country is into "f*** your feelings", cruelty, "send them back from where they came from". The other half has not been swayed into this. What baffles and frustrates me is the, what, 10% of undecided. Undecided about what? What is it to be decided?