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Something I think about a lot lately is how much Nazi support there actually was in the US and if things had gone slightly differently we would not have been calling ourselves the good guys of WWII
Posting this screenshot from the NYT archives for no particular reason
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This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.
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What is it they say about Americans always doing the right thing?
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That we do it when we've run out of opportunities to do the wrong thing?
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Right. Or after exhausting every other possibility. People, even US politicians, love to attribute a quote along those lines to Churchill who never said anything like it.