Posted on 01/27/2020 3:28:09 PM PST by The people have spoken
Have you read Mein Kampf? I am guessing not. What I think most people (who have actually read his writings) find so frightening about him, more so than Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or any of the other tyrants of history, is how close to the truth he was. All other philosophies and systems of government (our own American republican form included) rely on an in intellectual ideal, that people must bend themselves to. For example American liberty: it is not instinctive for people to grant freedom to your enemy, you must be taught the merit of it. Hitler had the idea that rather than mold man to the government, it would be better to mold government around the nature of man. That’s all there is to it, and that’s why even though colleges will require study into every abstract branch of communist thought, they’ve made people so programmed to revile anything related to Hitler, that nobody will bother to read it, and learn for themselves.
Strange since the History Channel spent many years showing everyone how “cool” the nazis were.
There was a cool show that Steve Allen did called “Meeting of Minds” where he brought in actors playing different historical figures sitting around a table. The episodes are on YouTube.
I can see a “Hitler Finds out the Grand Valley State football assistant was suspended” Downfall Parody.
Yep, it’s another Mr. Potato Head Nazi boy.
This was the first comment by someone on Yahoo....
“Newly fired Grand Valley State football assistant praises Joseph Stalin and gets rehired as School Chancellor”.
And yet he did NOT unite the Muslims nor establish them as a first world power did he?
That’s the difference.
Takei? Oh...different man.
Takeo Ischi - New Bibi Hendl (Chicken Yodeling) 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7MWuJ7zLA
He wouldn’t have been suspended if he had picked “Stalin”. Bernie & his supporters would approve. and just a side note Stalin was as bad if not worse than Hitler.
The reaction would have been similar if he had said that he wanted to have dinner with Trump. /s
I think there is a definitional problem here in defining “a great leader”. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Mussolini, etc. would all qualify as “great” leaders if you are looking at what they accomplished from scratch. But, and a very important “but” is trying to define how a megalomaniac, psychopathic genocidal murderer is “great” instead of “he was a great psychopath who got other psychopaths and “true believers” to follow him and do whatever he wanted.
Greatness should be defined by peaceful, creative, positive contributions to society, not by a body count and number of cities and towns destroyed.
However, the professor misspoke badly about “interviewing” someone of historical significance. He should have said that he was fascinated by how a psychopath could rise up so successfully and destroy half the world and tens of millions of people in this “modern age”, i.e. the 20th Century, and that he wanted to understand this phenomenon by interviewing the person who did it.
They fired him because Saginaw had some great Nazi trolls set up for their next game.
The players rejected, “Everyone wear a Hitler Moustache...” and they were “no decision” on raising the *salute* during the GVSU fight song.
As Jordan Peterson has astutely pointed out (I wouldn’t try telling this to a German today):
Hitler was merely reflecting and amplifying the message that the German PEOPLE gave him. He drew upon their own desires, fears, and hatreds and simply honed them to a laser-sharp focus. His genius wasn’t that he was a spell-binding orator who led a people down a ‘primrose path’; on the contrary, his genius was in distilling what the German people really wanted and amplifying it.
The responsibility for the rise of Hitler lies 100% with THE GERMAN PEOPLE of his time (which they have denied ever since, concocting fantasies about a small minority taking over a nation, when in fact Hitler was the full expression of what the post-WW1 Germans actually wanted).
Which is why I HATE hearing the German language spoken - it reminds me of all of my own relatives who were killed by the Germans or lived under their brutal Occupation. The Germans destroyed the nation of my birth - TWICE - in the space of three decades - and then, in effect, handed it over to the communists for the next 4+ decades to finish off.
I will dislike them for so long as I am around.
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