• JohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Exactly. Hitler never killed anyone himself, but his rhetoric is directly responsible for the murder of tens of millions.

    If you take a gas tanker and spray down the lawn and outside of the white house, and something else causes a spark that turns the entire place into an inferno, you didn’t start the fire. That doesn’t mean the fire would have still happened without your actions.