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Newly hired Grand Valley State football assistant suspended after praising Hitler in interview
Yahoo Sports ^ | Jan 27, 2020 | Sam Cooper

Posted on 01/27/2020 3:28:09 PM PST by The people have spoken

KV: So you graduated from Drury with a degree in History, you’re a history guy. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead, who would they be? And I’m ruling out football figures.

MB: This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
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To: SteelCowboy

My mom has an extensive library. It is essential to “know your enemy”.


21 posted on 01/27/2020 3:39:27 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: FatherofFive
I always liked their leather coats.

None of this standing around waiting on a train.

22 posted on 01/27/2020 3:39:57 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: The people have spoken

Back in the day, I always had an interest in Kadafy (choose your spelling)(and assuming I got a translator in the deal). Doesn’t mean I like him, but interested in what makes a guy like that tick. I think it would be way more interesting than meeting some random US Senator.


23 posted on 01/27/2020 3:40:13 PM PST by Pappy Smear
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To: SunkenCiv

RTFA!


24 posted on 01/27/2020 3:40:36 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: The people have spoken

You should put advising comm3nts on this thread.


25 posted on 01/27/2020 3:41:15 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: windcliff

LOL


26 posted on 01/27/2020 3:41:44 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: SteelCowboy
It is the will of Landru.
27 posted on 01/27/2020 3:44:11 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: The people have spoken
JFK and Columbus were his other two choices? why not:

Mussolini -- How'd you get the trains to run on time?

Castro -- I understand you had a pretty good curve ball back in the day. Why'd you give up baseball for politics?

28 posted on 01/27/2020 3:44:12 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: The people have spoken

Jim Jones got a lot of people to follow him also....


29 posted on 01/27/2020 3:44:22 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: The people have spoken
It sounds like this guy watched Star Trek as a kid and believed their premise of the episode, "Patterns of Force", in which The Enterprise crew finds Nazis in charge attempting to exterminate people from a sister planet.
...McCoy confirms Gill (one of Captain Kirk's history professors at Starfleet Academy) is heavily drugged. He administers a counteractive stimulant while Spock uses a Vulcan mind meld on Gill, which confirms that Melakon was responsible for Gill's condition.   Barely coherent, Gill explains that he initially imposed a form of Nazism/Fascism upon the lawless Ekosians because he believed it to be the most efficient system of government ever devised. The system worked on Ekos until Melakon gained control and twisted it into a tool to wipe out Zeon.
Fools are fools and dupes are dupes.
30 posted on 01/27/2020 3:44:25 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: The people have spoken

Wow. This guy is even TOO DUMB to be an “assistant football coach”.


31 posted on 01/27/2020 3:47:00 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: MotorCityBuck

It’s impressive to me that I wasn’t the only one who thought of Star Trek.


32 posted on 01/27/2020 3:50:49 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"If I could see into the minds of major political leaders of the past, Hitler would be one of them."

During WWII the OSS commissioned a psychological profile of Hitler by Walter Langer. It was later declassified and published in 1972 as, "The Mind of Adolf Hitler." It does make for some interesting reading if you can find a copy.

33 posted on 01/27/2020 3:51:15 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: higgmeister

Or that particular episode also.


34 posted on 01/27/2020 3:53:40 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: The people have spoken

35 posted on 01/27/2020 3:55:35 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: nuconvert

“There’s just no good way to put a positive spin on Hitler.”

Actually Star Trek (TOS) did. When they beamed down to a planet inspired by Nazis Germany, I think it was Spock (maybe Kirk), that spoke with some admiration on the accomplishments of Nazis Germany. Obviously not about the atrocities, but the industrial advancements.


36 posted on 01/27/2020 3:55:48 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: windcliff

“Who wants to have dinner with a vegetarian?”

LOL

I love to start fights with my in-laws about this Monster-

1. he became a vegetarian
2.A painter
3. not a Christian
4. loved animals -but hated certain “humans”
5. was a Socialist and a Nationalist
6. book author

BUT the Reason he was a Great guy - he murdered ONLY about
12million—

Stalin 35 million
Mao- 50 million

All tongue in cheek to my inlaws (some are rabid socialist/communists)

In-laws just fume.... I wonder out loud ... would Bernie pick him as a running mate ??

But Sarcasm to them is wasted....liberals do not get it?


37 posted on 01/27/2020 3:55:54 PM PST by mj1234
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To: The people have spoken

Yeah - facts are still facts.
Hitler turned Germany from a practically third world destitute nation into a first world economic powerhouse in just over a decade (basically the opposite of Hugo Chavez)

Of course America used to be a bastion of open thought and free speech too. (Which was why Patterns of Force could be made)

Before the cancel culture and the woke. Before the dark times. (Of course I’ll point out that these cancel culture tactics are Hiterlian as well...)


38 posted on 01/27/2020 3:58:20 PM PST by Skywise
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To: SteelCowboy

I read Mein Kampf for historical purposes and have a copy as well. Its not in a prominent position in my study though. I also have a copy of the Communist Manifesto. I wouldn’t dare been seen in public with it because it would draw so many new democrat friends.


39 posted on 01/27/2020 4:02:19 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: SteelCowboy

I read Mein Kampf for historical purposes and have a copy as well. Its not in a prominent position in my study though. I also have a copy of the Communist Manifesto. I wouldn’t dare been seen in public with it because it would draw so many new democrat friends.


40 posted on 01/27/2020 4:02:31 PM PST by hardspunned
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