Waaaay off topic...

"Dale Franks" (DaleFranks)
03/01/2014 at 03:33 • Filed to: Off Topic

I just got the following image in my Twitter feed.

The thing is, this isn't a picture of Adolf Hitler. In fact, it looks like a photoshop of the second pic, which is an original image of Adolf Hitler.

So, who is this guy that was photoshopped into Hitler? No clue.

I guess the takeaway here is that Hitler wasn't the only guy in history who had a toothbrush mustache. (Although, he was the one guy who could really pull it off. Well, him and Chaplin.) So, if you want to make your little political point with a Hitler quote, be sure that you use the real Hitler.

Don't be taken in by the fake photoshopped Hitler industry, man.

DISCUSSION (21)

M54B30 > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 03:42

Is the quote even legit? I'm too lazy to google it. Even as a republican, I find the Obama-hitler references to be out of line. When Obama orchestrates the mass murder of millions of people, we can revisit the idea but it's not right.

Axial > M54B30
03/01/2014 at 03:47

The Obama-Hitler thing is out of line even if we're just referring to the erosion of freedoms, for two reasons:

1. Nobody ever takes power, they are given power

2. The office of the President is not the one receiving the power, it's the corporations that have a stranglehold on Congress that are receiving it

Edit: It's also scary how many times Obama shows up just by Google-searching "Hitler".

JustWaitingForAMate > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 03:47

Kinja'd!!!

David Cameron the British PM?

Dale Franks > Axial
03/01/2014 at 04:06

Maybe you didn't notice how often a different president came up when you did that search in 2001-2008.

Axial > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 04:09

I can honestly say that I have never run a search for Hitler before tonight.

Dale Franks > M54B30
03/01/2014 at 04:09

As it happens, I see no evidence that the quote is Hitlers. It certainly doesn't appear anywhere I can find in a search of the text of Mein Kampf.

The thing is, you can attribute almost any quote to Mein Kampf. Everyone will believe you, because, no one's actually read it. I mean, nobody even in Nazi Germany read the damned thing, even though it was de riguer to have a copy of it sitting on the coffee table for a decade. It's about the world's most unreadable book.

Dale Franks > JustWaitingForAMate
03/01/2014 at 04:12

Ah ha! Yes! It is David Cameron, and it comes from https://www.facebook.com/KillingBritain

Mystery solved.

PS9 > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 04:14

If everyone is hitler, no one is. So when the next one shows up, no one will give a shit until he's offed another 20 million people. Great.

Dale Franks > Axial
03/01/2014 at 04:21

I can honestly say that I have never run a search for Hitler before tonight.

Seriously? With a BMW roundel as your avi? C'mon. Pull the other one.

Dale Franks > PS9
03/01/2014 at 04:23

But if no one is Hitler, then we're all safe. You've got to follow that logic to it's conclusion, my friend.

JustWaitingForAMate > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 05:14

You ever tried to read Twilight? Or even worse, Atlas Shrugged.

Sun-Tzubaru - With Zoom-Zoom > Axial
03/01/2014 at 08:50

I blame Glenn Beck. So much for him being a free speech supporter eh?

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 11:45

It really is unreadable. My father read a few pages of it, then felt disgusted.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > JustWaitingForAMate
03/01/2014 at 11:46

I'd actually like to read Atlas Shrugged even though it's probably a pile of paternalist-elitist bullshit.

Axial > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 12:42

It's a BMW roundel just because of a conversation I had with somebody else; the real takeaway you should get from it is that it's orange, not that it's BMW (true story: I have never driven a BMW once in my life). My previous avatar was a German WWI naval jack.

But no, I've never run a search on Hitler before. I had plenty of books and television to inform me about Hitler and I haven't ever used his image as part of any internet reply.

M54B30 > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 12:43

I grew up in Germany where copies of the book are banned (possession is a possible prison sentence) and even discussing it is illegal. I found a copy at a library and it was a boring book. I liked it for it's historical significance but never got far into it. Maybe I'll try to re-read a copy somewhere but I doubt I'll rearrange anything on my schedule to get it done.

King Ginger, not writing for Business Insider > Dale Franks
03/01/2014 at 12:56

What would the world have been like if Hitler had been stache-less? The iconography we have associated with it would be forced onto what? Slick, off-right hair-partings...

Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken > M54B30
03/01/2014 at 14:15

I think you will find Bush started it all, Obama inherited a mess. Hitler did say things like that, I'm not sure if the quote is exact. Hitler was a bastard but he knew what he was doing.

M54B30 > Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken
03/01/2014 at 14:31

Comparing any US president to Hitler is stupid and asinine.

Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken > M54B30
03/01/2014 at 14:37

Yes but many leaders of many countries have used this basic principle in varying strength to get what they or a group wants. You are very naive if you think they haven't done it in the USA. The concept of emergency situations to instill fear in a group so they are more likely to allow changes is a very old one.

Dale Franks > King Ginger, not writing for Business Insider
03/01/2014 at 16:05

Well, we certainly wouldn't have the Internet "Kitler" meme.