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What's really interesting is watching the rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler in real time. Before, him & the Nazis were the worst thing ever, everyone agreed. Now, they're not that bad and never were. Baby steps, but first steps always are.
2023-09-26





It used to be that Hitler was the worst human to ever live, ever, and there was no doubt or discussion about it. Now...well, as we're seeing in Canada, he's getting pushed down to #2 in favor of Putin.

It's a long process to being rehabilitated, but this is the first step. Heck, Nixon was rehabilitated, and it only took 20 years or so. Liberals like George W. Bush now even though they used to call him Hitler.

It won't happen tomorrow, it will take a long time. Decades. But the ball has been started rolling.
Posted by:Harcourt Tholuse6841

#26  A View of the Nazis as seen
From Dean Street or Clerkenwell Green:
A towering Churchill,
Then Thatcher, and perched
On her shoulder, Bill Shakespeare...



Berlin.
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813   2023-09-26 23:42  

#25  The downfall of racist old Roma?
Said Ibram, "A case of low chroma:
Few people of color!
Too white! They got duller,
But somehow still got a diploma."
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813   2023-09-26 23:12  

#24  Commies got that deep bench, but after Hynkel -- granting the politically scientific spectral scheme -- the right's got nobody. Chiang, maybe? Not even CCP buys that. Gotta be Rome. All roads and all that. White marble, law, temples, patriarchy, genocide galore... and then the big switcheroo, just like the Pubs. Latin masses? QED.
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813   2023-09-26 23:06  

#23  No, you know who they will replace Hitler with, they've already started. Lincoln. The Democrats have never forgiven him for freeing their slaves. Just like baby murder, pedophilia, cannibalism, and now Nazi's, they will come back to talk about the wonders of their new slave class imported from points south.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2023-09-26 22:53  

#22  Hitler was truly evil, as were his followers. Stalin was just as evil — ditto his followers — but he had longer to do his evil work and a bigger starting population... not to mention that he was building on the evil done by Lenin, et al. Mao was possibly even more evil, and had an even greater population to impose his evil on, plus the accumulated learnings from the two totalitarians who went before him.

Certain people prefer to think of Hitler as The Worst Evah! because they think of socialists and communists as uniquely well-intentioned, as if that doesn’t make it worse, and as if the national socialists were somehow not the socialists they and everyone else then believed themselves to be. Also, of course, Hitler was a racist, as if that particular prejudice against one definition of traits as innate and in need of eradication is worse than a definition of the traits of various economic classes as innate and in need of eradication.

There was never an everyone who agreed that Hitler was the worst thing ever. That was a lie propagated by the Communists to make themselves look less bad, just like the claim that the Nazis are right wing.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-09-26 20:49  

#21  And here I thought Elynskyy giving a speech at the UN with Elynskyy in the audience couldn't be topped.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-09-26 16:14  

#20  If Hitler had gotten the bonb, it would have been game over without using it. He never would have let anyone else get it, unlike the US.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-09-26 12:36  

#19  What I want to know is who replaces H as everyone's go to bad guy?

I suspect Franco or Pinochet. Franco was a reactionary to the socialist and wanted to reinstall the old order. Even Hitler finally figured that one out. Both 'departed' their countries in far better shape than when they got them. And for the bonus - went full Mongol on the commies.
Franco used the rabid fascists in his counter revolution but got them out of country and his hair by encouraging them to volunteer for the Spanish Blue division on the Eastern Front.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-09-26 12:31  

#18  Yeah, Mao makes them all look like naught little boys.

Well, Stalin got the bomb and never used it. Putin has had the bomb for some time now and never used it. Hell, even Mao got the bomb and never used it.

But if Hitler had gotten the bomb, London and maybe even New York would have been glassed over.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-09-26 12:22  

#17  "Jimmy Carter. History's greatest monster" - Homer Simpson
Posted by: Frank G   2023-09-26 11:27  

#16  Epstein, with a serving of Clinton.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-09-26 11:23  

#15  ^ Trump
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-09-26 10:58  

#14  #12 Putin
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-09-26 10:55  

#13  ^^ Stalin? Mao?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-09-26 10:51  

#12  What I want to know is who replaces H as everyone's go to bad guy?
Posted by: Angstrom   2023-09-26 10:41  

#11  Take, for example, Judge M.B. Gerry's famous quote that was supposedly uttered while handing down the sentence in Packer's first trial:
... Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' in reducin' th' Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-09-26 09:31  

#10  After his story was called into question, Packer escaped jail and hid from justice for nine years. He was eventually tried, convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death. Packer won a retrial, and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison on five counts of voluntary manslaughter.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-09-26 09:18  

#9  A number of years ago, at a new Dept of Interior building, they had a contest to name the dining facility. Suggestions were asked for, one chosen, and on the grand day the lunchroom was named for 'Alferd J Packer, an important figure in 19th century Colorado'.
Alferd J Packer was the only person in US history executed for cannibalism. (true story)
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-09-26 09:06  

#8  The US congress passes an enormous number of meaningless "Recognition of" measures in the course of shoving the country down the toilet. To prove how absurd it all is, some congressman cues up an "In recognition of" Albert DeSalvo, and congress handily passed it. Then they were informed that he was the Boston Strangler.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-09-26 08:58  

#7  The Canadians have embarrassed themselves with the Hunka incident.

Back in the day, this would have been fodder for a week of jokes on Carson about Trudeau.

"... and today, Pierre Trudeau had Parliament honor Jack the Ripper for highlighting the value of women's lives."
Posted by: lord garth    2023-09-26 08:46  

#6  ^ Neither, Mao, Stalin nor can be the "worst" because that's a blot on communism (yeah, I know). If not for Hitler, they'd point at someone else as "worst" and it wouldn't be a communist.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-09-26 07:58  

#5  What's the big deal about it. Mao was the greatest killer in the 20th Century followed by Stalin. Academia obviously succeeded in burying their dirty laundry and making 'commies be good' acceptable. Their old canard that the Nazis were 'right' wing is getting embarrassing when its absolutely clear by the record they were socialist. Orwell wins again.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-09-26 07:33  

#4  Pay no attention to that little man with the big mustache behind the iron curtain!

"Hey, Herb, du disturbing Herr Ha-Ha
Who doubles as Putin's chihuahua,
Which tsar of your land
Was der F-----'s left hand
Und Johannes der Täufer?"
"Blah blah blah..."
Posted by: Huputer de Medici7670   2023-09-26 07:20  

#3  
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841   2023-09-26 03:47  

#2  Canadian Parliament and online.

The word is that Big H is OUT at #1 and he's been knocked down a notch. This is a big, big move. It's a sea change. For him to be removed out of the top spot of humanity's worst evil is the first step on the road to rehabilitation. Putin is just that bad, and it's OK if this happens. After all, we must defeat the greater evil.

Watching people come to conclusions like this and say them publicly is astonishing. Used to be, you were a Holocaust denier if you questioned Hitler's #1 status as the worst that humanity ever produced. It was grounds to be banned to say, "Well, he was bad but he wasn't #1" even if you changed him with Stalin. That's changing. And what's that that the Chinese say? A journey of a thousand li begins with a single step?
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841   2023-09-26 03:46  

#1  Who is pushing for H and the gang to not be basement monsters? Who is saying these things? I'm interested in knowing who to watch out for.
Posted by: Joluque Whomomble9237   2023-09-26 00:37  

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