Hitler reacts to Scott Brown winning Mass

TriRSquared - 2010-01-19 7:42 AM That was fast...and funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5VLeBhzE3Y&feature=player_embedded

The last line was the best...

I'll save the deep, meaningful analysis of this win for another thread...

iruptacopula - 2010-01-20 8:58 AM

When I saw the Subject I thought it was going to be Obama speaking!

zed707 - 2010-01-20 3:41 PM

I guess I'm confused as to why Hitler is being portrayed as being upset at the defeat of a Democrat.

Nazism and fascism reject communism and liberalism. Most proponents of Nazism and fascism generally attract support from the far right. Nazism specifically is definitely a form of far right politics. I guess some people don't know that.

Funny, though, even if it's totally out of context.

zed707 - 2010-01-20 2:41 PM

I guess I'm confused as to why Hitler is being portrayed as being upset at the defeat of a Democrat.

Nazism and fascism reject communism and liberalism. Most proponents of Nazism and fascism generally attract support from the far right. Nazism specifically is definitely a form of far right politics. I guess some people don't know that.

Funny, though, even if it's totally out of context.

zed707 - 2010-01-20 3:41 PM

I guess I'm confused as to why Hitler is being portrayed as being upset at the defeat of a Democrat.

Nazism and fascism reject communism and liberalism. Most proponents of Nazism and fascism generally attract support from the far right. Nazism specifically is definitely a form of far right politics. I guess some people don't know that.

Funny, though, even if it's totally out of context.

newleaf - 2010-01-20 5:13 PM

You're talking this way too seriously.  This video clip has been used hundreds of times with all kinds of different subtitles for all kinds of different topics.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/adolf-hitler-is/

newleaf - 2010-01-20 5:13 PM

You're talking this way too seriously.  This video clip has been used hundreds of times with all kinds of different subtitles for all kinds of different topics.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/adolf-hitler-is/

zed707 - 2010-01-20 2:41 PM

I guess I'm confused as to why Hitler is being portrayed as being upset at the defeat of a Democrat.

Nazism and fascism reject communism and liberalism. Most proponents of Nazism and fascism generally attract support from the far right. Nazism specifically is definitely a form of far right politics. I guess some people don't know that.

Funny, though, even if it's totally out of context.

footer32 - 2010-01-20 9:22 PM Zed,

You could not be more incorrect.  Nazism is the farthest extreme of liberalism.

jmk-brooklyn - 2010-01-20 7:14 PM


Like this classic, for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2Ow_fSt9I 

Jackemy - 2010-01-20 11:09 PM

Not sure about it being the farthest extreme as Nazism stresses socialism/liberalism on the national level while communism stresses expansion on a global level. Nazism embraced western civilization to rebuild nations with a statist/liberal agenda. While communism destroyed western civilization to replace it with a statist/liberal agenda.

Though both systems required blind faith in central control I think people can debate which is more extreme liberalism. To me it just the same thing but just a different way to get there.

Jackemy - 2010-01-20 11:09 PM

Not sure about it being the farthest extreme as Nazism stresses socialism/liberalism on the national level while communism stresses expansion on a global level. Nazism embraced western civilization to rebuild nations with a statist/liberal agenda. While communism destroyed western civilization to replace it with a statist/liberal agenda.

Though both systems required blind faith in central control I think people can debate which is more extreme liberalism. To me it just the same thing but just a different way to get there.

Opus - 2010-01-21 9:29 AM

 

IMHO, Nazism was less about economic systems and more about nationalism and militarism. Nazism rose out of a German economy devastated by a series of economic tsunamis: WWI and the crippling reparations to be paid, hyper-inflation which may or may not have been precipitated by the assassination of Walter Rathenau (a Jewish industrialist and German foreign minister and arguably the single greatest hope that Germany had for a war-free recovery), the great depression and deep-seated insecurity and intolerance for "foreigners".

Nazis are indeed seen as right-wing, but IMHO, more because of their nationalist and militaristic bent and their invocation of some kind of mystical ideal of "the way things were" (even if they were never actually that way).

The first chance the Nazis got, they established a dictatorship, shut down all opposition and cribbed their industrialization strategy from the neighboring Soviets. So, in reality there was very little separating the Nazis and the Communists. This makes sense, as totalitarian states are necessarily very similar.   

Although I may have argued in the past that comparisons of modern Western political leaders to Nazis is fair game, when you really look at how the Nazis grabbed power, and what they did when they got it, it's clear that no such comparison holds water.