Take my Brown Shirt, please!

I saw Inglourious Basterds this weekend... (0.00 / 0)

My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I need me eight soldiers. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. We're gonna be doing one thing and one thing only... killing Nazis. Members of nationalist socialist party conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimation, and terror. And that's exactly what we're gonna do to them. We will be cruel to the Germans and through our cruelty they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, disfigured bodies their brothers we leave behind us and the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, at our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sicken by us, the Germans will talk about us and the Germans will fear us. Nazis ain't got no humanity! They need to be destroyed. Each and every man under my command owns me one hundred Nazi scalps... and I want my scalps!

Weird, eh?

Awesome flick, BTW.  Highly recommended.

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 02:47:29 AM UTC

totally weird! (0.00 / 0)

Uh, I don't follow. Unless you're pointing out "murder, torture, intimation [sic] and terror" were the policies of the Bush administration...tho' they were so good at the intimation thing.

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by: Jay Stevens @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 12:02:47 PM UTC

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you don't follow (0.00 / 0)

because you choose not to

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 13:13:05 PM UTC

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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (0.00 / 1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

* waves *

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 13:23:35 PM UTC

Look... (0.00 / 0)

...you're embarrassing yourself and only proving my point. You are apparently comparing Obama's administration with Nazism? Really?

They're exactly the same...except for, you know, the soaring nationalistic rhetoric, institutionalized racism, anti-democratic bully tactics, authoritarianism, pro-corporate capitalism, pre-emptive invasions, torture, political prisoners, and death camps.

A nationalized health care system is not a characteristic of fascism. (Nazis had children: by your logic, families are a characteristic of fascism, too.)

If you stoop to hyperbole (note to Rusty: that's a fancy way of saying you're lying) to incite a crowd against a democratic process you actually are, you know, using Brown Shirt tactics, like, you know, going to public meetings and disrupting them by shouting down speakers and starting scuffles in the crowd...of course, the SA never brought assault rifles to meetings, so that's a new one.

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by: Jay Stevens @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 13:39:57 PM UTC

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Look... (0.00 / 1)

And compares health care reform to both socialism and Nazism! Like, because socialists and fascists are exactly the same thing!

=)

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by: Rusty Shackleford @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 13:43:53 PM UTC

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like i said... (0.00 / 0)

...you're only embarrassing yourself. Hitler abandoned the socialist platform of his party early on when he made a deal with the corporate industries of Germany, clearing his path to the chancellorship. Meanwhile, Germany actively fought socialism on the continent (the Spanish Republic?)

...and while you all love to cite Chamberlain's Munich agreement ("appeasement") as a reason for "aggressive" foreign policy, you should probably know that conservative financial institutions and Western corporate industry pushed the British government to it, thinking Hitler would be a great buffer against gasp socialism!

So, you know. Keep it up.

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by: Jay Stevens @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 13:50:03 PM UTC

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But but but ... Jay? (0.00 / 0)

The word was in the name!  Can't you see THAT!?!

Don't bother arguing history with a troll.  I tell you this as a friend.

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by: Rob Kailey @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 21:32:21 PM UTC

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