The Daily Populous Friday October 17th, 2025 morning edition
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ShadowGLI on October 17th, 2025 at 02:24 UTC »

If those MAGA’s could read they’d be very upset right now…

Responsible_Oil_5811 on October 17th, 2025 at 03:05 UTC »

I visited the Holocaust Museum last summer. Very moving!

abhainn13 on October 17th, 2025 at 03:08 UTC »

I visited Dachau, one of the first and the longest running concentration camps, when I was about 17. Dachau started as a “reeducation and labor camp” for political prisoners. In the beginning, a few prisoners died under mysterious circumstances. The medical examiner who reported on the guards and meticulously documented the abuses was killed shortly after. By the end of the war, Nazis were working people to death and using POWs for target practice. Over 40,000 people were killed at Dachau. They built gas chambers, but never got around to using them. The crematoriums were heavily used.

I’ve been thinking about Dachau a lot, lately, and the meaning of “Never Again.” It’s easier to imagine the Nazis as horrible monsters. But they were people, people with families, jobs, hobbies, normal people who convinced themselves empathy was a sin, people who made cruelty and indifference a normal part of their day, who told themselves they were righteous as they listened to screams of pain and terror.

This is not normal. This should never become normal. This type of hatred, apathy, and violence does not stop on its own. It must be stopped, by ordinary people, normal people, who are brave enough to say, “This is wrong.” People who choose compassion.

The medical examiner who was killed - his records were used in the Nuremberg Trials to convict senior Nazi officials. That’s the thing I don’t think MAGA has realized. This will end. I’m hoping enough of us bore witness and are bearing witness that this ends before the ICE detention centers start building crematoriums.