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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2008, 11:45:12 am » |
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Hilarious stuff, EFG! Oooh, Hitler thread!  Pre-Godwinned for your viewing and reading pleasure. |
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2008, 05:45:05 pm » |
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We compared them to Hitler over there, so we don't have to compare them to Hitler over here!
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2008, 05:55:55 am » |
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Here's a question: why is Hitler funny? People were making fun of Hitler in 1940 (Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator), and probably before. Since World War II, we've continued to make fun of him. I myself laugh at this stuff. I just don't understand why. Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, etc., were horrific dictators responsible for the deaths of millions. We don't portray them in a humorous manner; if someone tried to do so, it would probably either be considered bad taste or simply fall flat.  |
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« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 04:02:06 pm » |
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I've seen Stalin made fun of on a number of occasions.
"When Stalin instructed his lieutenants to 'pound the peasant', they took it literally."
Chairman Mao was made fun of on Monty Python.
I think it has a lot to do with personality aspects. There's more to make fun of in Hitler's case. Notice that all of these clips revolve around Hitler getting really, really angry, which you can't say for the cool, reserved dictators of the East.
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2008, 05:18:48 pm » |
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Our long sufferage to what victory came makes us mock him still as we realize the threat of existing dictators in our collective subconscience
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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2008, 05:21:48 pm » |
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overthere ... uh, could you make a cartoon of that. It might help me understand. 
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2008, 06:23:14 pm » |
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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2008, 08:11:16 pm » |
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hitlerhop abs..buy now and get "I am the shadow" free
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2008, 08:43:51 pm » |
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Das deutsche Volk!
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Das deutsche Volk!
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Das deutsche Volk!
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