• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Einstein was a socialist and very against the third reich. Don’t know where you got the idea that he was a nazi

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      18 hours ago

      Einstein and many other Jewish scientists famously fled Germany in droves to escape the Nazis. Seems a little gross to suggest that refugees will bring whatever tyrannies they’re fleeing from along with them…

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      18 hours ago

      Oh I agree I was just trying to provide a contrast angle, to emphasize the point. Of course there were good, but clearly too many leaked through, and while the blanket answer is ‘corrupt power strives for power,’ I believe in a more nuanced kind of way.

      Obviously having Einstein was a boon, but what if he’d been the kinda shit we deal with today? White-Christian-nationalist Einstein sounds like a worst-case scenario.

      We got off lucky and that’s putting it nicely.

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      18 hours ago

      Don’t know where you got the idea that he was a nazi

      He was just an example of how the US was scooping up German scientists like Einstein.

      Learn your shit before you call others out.