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2023-09-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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.
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Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#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||   2023-09-26 00:37|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-09-26 03:47||   2023-09-26 03:47|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 07:20|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 07:33|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 07:58|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 08:46|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 08:58|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 09:06|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 09:18|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 09:31|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 10:41|| Front Page Top

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

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

#15 ^ Trump
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-09-26 10:58||   2023-09-26 10:58|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2023-09-26 12:22|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 12:31|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 12:36|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 16:14|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 20:49|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 22:53|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 23:06|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 23:12|| Front Page Top

#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||   2023-09-26 23:42|| Front Page Top

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