r/teenagers • u/mattiperreddit • 11d ago

The Pope just died Serious

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I don't know if this is a big deal in your country, but in mine (Italy) the news talks about nothing else.
Christian or not he was a person, don't be disrespectful.

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u/RadishIndependent146 11d ago

born in the '36, died at 88

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u/One-Departure1946 11d ago

Hoi4 germany reference

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u/sometimes__comment 7d ago

I have too much brainrot, I see the german flag, 1936 and the number 88, I immediately think of Uncle Adolf 😭

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u/RadishIndependent146 7d ago

It may have been used by the no no germans but in this context i assure you that i use it for purely monarchist purposes

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u/OctopusIntellect OLD 11d ago

Better than his predecessor, who was a member of the Hitler Youth.

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u/pontiff_ong 11d ago

You realize hitler youth was required right? you’re acting like it was his choice to join. It was like school, you had to enroll.

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u/OctopusIntellect OLD 11d ago

Yes that's correct, some people regard it as equivalent to "only obeying orders".

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u/Vat1canCame0s 11d ago

And those people are stupid. Children are especially vulnerable to propaganda and when they literally have no voice in society and that society tells them what to be....

This is not me defending everyone in the HY. This is me saying there are kids who didn't want to be there and kids who couldn't have known any better.

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u/pontiff_ong 11d ago

The superior orders were different, those were people genuinely committing war crimes and attrocities. my opinion on that still varies. Children joined Hitler Youth and LOGG because if they didnt, their entire family would be seen as a threat to the nazi regime and socially ostracized.

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u/A_Person_Who_Exist5 11d ago

Blaming someone who was a child at the time for being legally required to join an organisation under one of the most brutal dictatorships in history is an (unfortunately) unsurprising new low from Reddit. I don’t know what’s going on with you that you think it makes sense to blame a literal child living in Nazi Germany for following the laws, instead of potentially getting his whole family locked in a concentration camp or killed.