2. This is something Sartre noticed in 1944: Nazis rhetoric often includes absurd jokey flourishes, to better destabilize reality. From Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew":pic.twitter.com/K6eDj2zO5O
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Man I’m happy I have no sense of humor - for once it works in my favor not to find someone’s shitty “jokes” amusing.
Nazis today are no different than the Nazis of yesterday. There’s that “economic anxiety” again...pic.twitter.com/IAsLRMWiOq
@popehat's Rule of Goats in full effect here
It's a very effective shorthand for explaining a concept a lot of people don't grasp intuitively.
I think there's also a strong argument that Hitler's war aims and strategy also reflected this 'jokey, trollish' whimsy. Von Brauschitsch and Von Rundstedt would have been well advised to put a bullet in Hitler's brain sometime around October '39, after Fuhrer Directive #6. 1/
Reprising the Schlieffen plan with a shop-window army was a murderously bad joke. Much of the German General Staff were smart enough to realize how bad it was, but didn't have the courage to act on their convictions. 2/
Saw this on my main, had to reply.
You’re right. I’m the evil Nazi because I can take a feared individual, have a pair of sunglasses put on him, and take the absolute piss out of him, like many PROFESSIONAL ACTORS have done #Downfall #LookWhosBack
Please think before you speak.
Anyone care to share that old WWII-era video about the cure for fascism?
Precisely.
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