Re: Counterfactual

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I know I should never read the comments, but I love that the very first comment below the article was "But Trotsky was worse!"


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:27 AM
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Apparently Hitler was kind of an ugly baby with kind of an ugly haircut.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:32 AM
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SEE KYLE!


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:33 AM
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3 is right.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:34 AM
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Nietzche is always a punishment.


Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:38 AM
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I really like reading Nietzsche. (stares at feet. kicks rock.)


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:43 AM
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I really like the very last sentence.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:45 AM
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Spelling Nietzsche is always a punishment.

Also, pronouncing around German-speakers.

Ambivalent about reading.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 8:55 AM
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8 has too many syllables for a traditional haiku, but otherwise it works.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:00 AM
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Liebensraum means "habitat" (which is an english word) not "living space" (which is a made up english phrase that doesn't mean anything). /rant


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:07 AM
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It is a really well-done execution of the idea. Could have just been a onion headline, but the article keeps delivering.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:10 AM
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Liebensraum means "habitat"

And who is obsessed with his "Liebensraum for Humanity" project? Jimmy Carter, that's who! See! Liberal Fascism!


Posted by: Opinionated Jonah Goldberg | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:11 AM
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11: Agreed.

Reminded me of Peggy Sue Got Married.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:12 AM
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12 sounds like authentic Jonah Goldberg reasoning.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:14 AM
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Liebensraum was what the sexier Nazis were into, possibly decorated with a sex grotto.


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:21 AM
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15: One time when I was moving into a rental house, my friend and I found a stack of 1970s-era Hustler magazines in the basement, and one of them had a Nazi-themed photo spread. Sort of pre-Internet Rule 34, I guess.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:34 AM
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16 made me wonder if some rogue animator has done a Frozen/Nazi-porn mashup called "Elsa: She-Wolf of the SS."


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 9:39 AM
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Uh, wouldn't Liebensraum be a sex grotto?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 10:35 AM
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Whoops, misread 15. But, just to be clear, Hitler was into Lebensraum; Rohm was into Liebensraum.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 10:36 AM
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I think The Night of the Long Knives was sex grotto adjacent.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 10:48 AM
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Night of Long Peens


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 10:50 AM
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I thought this was going to be about the game Double Hitler, the videogame where you play Hitler, or rather, you play the two little boys standing on each others shoulders who were Hitler.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 11:18 AM
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Also, pronouncing around German-speakers.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't tietzsche 'bout the raising of the wrist,


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 11:22 AM
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17: No, only stills:
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/659761151459225600


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 1:02 PM
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24 was me.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 1:03 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WmzF7v0qA


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 1:07 PM
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13:co-sign!


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 11-11-15 2:43 PM
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Not to be such an uptight Lorax, it was actually Beethoven who was German, not Mozart.

Also, some of Nietzsche is really funny, like the bits on diet in Ecce Homo.


Posted by: Buttercup | Link to this comment | 11-12-15 9:21 AM
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28.1: And you know who else was Austrian?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11-12-15 9:45 AM
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Paul Hogan.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-12-15 9:57 AM
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Is that why the Nazis locked him up in Stalag 13?


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-12-15 10:02 AM
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30: I'll put another Käsekrainer on the barbie for ya.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11-12-15 10:03 AM
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