Thread by @designmom

Hey MAGA. You laugh because you think you're safe from all of this racism, and death, and destruction. But you're wrong. Trump will come for you too. It's both predictable and inevitable. Know how I know? Because I currently live in Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches.
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My family and I live in a particularly lovely bit of France, and as you can imagine, we get lots of friends and relatives visiting from the U.S., and they often request to visit the D-Day Beaches and WW2 Memorials. So we've been to the D-Day sites many times—over 20 at least.
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And part of these visits is always the American Military Cemetery that overlooks Omaha Beach. In fact, I was just there recently and took the photos in this thread. 3/x

I know you won't come and see this place, because you're terrified of all things French, and you spent your travel budget on a $90,000 truck with less cargo capacity than a mini-van. But I wish you would come, because this place is sobering and sacred and it changes people.
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There are nearly 10,000 US soldiers buried at the Omaha Beach cemetery, and the graves go on and on. It's so big, that if you walk along the cemetery path, you'll think you're reaching the end point, and then suddenly realize you've only come halfway.

It's a lot of graves.
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After we visit the American Cemetery, we offer to take our guests to the nearby German Military Cemetery. It's also a sacred place, but feels different than the US Cemetery. The design is simpler, with soldiers buried two to a grave, and small ground-level markers.
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And while the US Cemetery is the resting place for 10,000 soldiers, this German Cemetery is the resting place for 21,000 soldiers. Well over twice as many soldiers. And this is just one of many German cemeteries from WW2, because 4.3 million German soldiers died in that war.
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Looking at the dates on the graves in the German Cemetery, you'll see that many of these soldiers were just teens, just kids. It's possible some of these kids wanted to be soldiers, but we don't really know, because they didn't have a choice either way.
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Were these German soldiers immigrants? No. Immigrants were sent to work and die in the camps. Were these homosexuals or transgender people? No. They were sent to the camps. Were these political dissidents—people who criticized the government? No. They were sent to the camps.
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Were these Black or brown people? No. They were sent to the camps. Were these Jewish or Muslim people? No. They were sent to the camps.

So who is buried in this German Military Cemetery?

The children of white, Christian, loyalists.
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In America, the white, Christian, loyalists are MAGA. They are the red hats. They are YOU.

In WW2, being loyal to the German government didn't save their kids. And today, being loyal to the Trump regime, won't save yours.
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When Putin intimidates him into starting WW3, it's you, and your kids, who will be the people who die in his army, just like the millions of German soldiers who died in WW2. You won't have a choice.
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You'll be the only ones left to conscript, because the immigrants, the libs, the disabled, the gays, the Muslims, the Jews, the Black people, the brown people, the feminists, and everyone else you hate, will have been sent to the camps.
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You voted to fuck up everyone who is different than you. You're laughing and clapping because you think you're getting your wish. You don't know it, but you also voted to fuck up yourself and everyone like you.

Nobody wins under this regime. Nobody wins. Everybody suffers.
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Trump WILL come for you and your kids. It's already started. While you cheer, he is poisoning the air your children breathe, the water they drink, the soil where their food grows. He is shutting down life-saving medical research and closing hospitals.
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He's made it easier for your kids to be shot or run over, and made it harder for them to receive healthcare. When there's a natural disaster, and you lose your belongings or your home, you and your kids will be on your own. He will not provide aid.
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If they make it to their teen years, assume your kids will be buried in a foreign country, two to a grave, a grave you'll never visit, after your kids die fighting in a war that makes no sense to anyone.
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While you're laughing at concentration camps and ICE raids, you can go ahead and put this cemetery on your vision board, because that's your future.

Nobody wins. Everybody suffers.
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