All we have to go on are grainy out of focus pictures and shaky videos.
You know who else dropped links? Hitler!
Are we ready for another “Downfall” satire subtitles?
Krebs! Jodl!
Steiner!!!! (you do realize that that name as used in Downfall parodies is going to eventually mean every word in the English language…)
Threads done on account of Godwin’s.
I suspect this is the article Rand is referring to.
Thanks for the link. 🙂
It doesn’t take much effort to anticipate the left’s attack strategy.
“Mitt Romney’s ministry of arts and culture, the Reichskulturkammer, will force us to listen to the Osmonds and all iPods will be subject to purity checks and confiscation. Oh, and he’ll burn black churches and grind the elderly into Soylent Green.”
In the red-sun Bizarro Universe that State-cultists inhabit, in any political contest, the candidate who is less in favor of increasing the power of the State is, obviously, the “fascist.” This is the same Bizarro Universe in which the laws of economics, as we know them on Earth-One, do not apply.
It’s the same with ‘them’ regardless of who the candidate is from the Right. Everybody who is not enlightened, meaning on their side, is a Nazi. The natural outgrowth of that is that the leaders of ANY Nazis, must be ‘Hitler’.
The odd thing is that when you compare what Hitler wanted and how he wanted to control the people for their own good, compared to the Democrats, they loo awfully similar. By throwing out ‘Godwin’s Law’ they can do precisely as Hitler did, stifle ANY discussion that might lead someone to THINK for them self.
The Borg ain’t the only ones with a Hive Mind Collectivist Attitude, and Godwin is their programmer!
“In the mid-1990s, as some of Germany’s best-known corporations began cutting jobs by the thousands, and chancellor Helmut Kohl’s government was coming under increasing criticism for the poor state of the economy, he felt moved to tell his fellow Germans that they could not continue to live in “a collective amusement park.” He berated his constituents for being “soft” and urged them to get to work and renew the “Standort Deutschland” — roughly, “Germany as a place to do business.”
So the Tea Party/Libertarian/Right Blogosphere political movement indeed has a German antecedant.
Seriously? America had no work ethic or business sense before the 1990’s?
Rather than continue on with that line of thought, I’m going to teach the Borg to Riverdance!
Correct me, I beg of you if I am wrong, but a good part of the Two-Thousand-Teens Tea Party Movement is that the work ethic in America is eroding as evidenced by the large number of persons receiving government payments in one form or another, and that business sense is eroding inasmuch that business is angling for influence and government subsidy dollars and yes, bailouts.
With respect to the word antecedant (sic), properly spelled antecedent, meaning “Preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting”, I guess I should not be using 50-dollar words in these parts, where folks are critical of the Edmucashun Establushmunt, and I guess I should learn to spell if I am going to be such a snob around youse guyss.
So yes, Helmut Kohl was using “Germany as a place to do business” some years before Scott Walker starting annoying the folks on the Minnesota border with “Open for business” on the Welcome to Wisconsin sign (the people coming up here from Chicago are merely amused by those signs whereas the Iowans and Yoopers are simply confused by it).
Paul,
I’m not doubting what you say and I’d heartily agree that many Americans are in it for the free ride. But you are, I think, agreeing with me.
We didn’t need to learn from the Germans in the past. What we’re missing NOW, is what we once had in abundance. In fact, using Germany as an example, it was our work ethic (or our parents & grandparents work ethic anyway) that defeated the Germans in WWII. Our manufacturing capability meant zero, zip, nada unless the workers were willing to put in WAY more than just 40 productive hours each week.
I think there are plenty of us who are more than willing to teach work ethic, IF the hand-wringers and whiners will allow schools, clubs, teams and employers to ‘FIRE’ kids who won’t work! I learned long ago, that work ethic meant I got to keep my job, when my work mate who came in late, took a long lunch and left early was less likely to keep his.
But as a qualifier, that was long ago, and before the hand-wringers and lawyers got involved with trying to make things ‘fair’ by forcing employers to keep people who refused to work!
I’ll go so far as to say we have the ‘capability’ to be WWII productive again. But not until we decide that anyone capable who won’t work, won’t eat! But in all honesty, I think we’ll see SHTF and plenty of people going hungry regardless of willingness to work. After that, I think we’ll see LOT’S more work ethic from anyone left.
But I’m a little pessimistic over our future given the candidates.
Data: (looking at a Borg display terminal while a line of borg with locked arms stamps ominously towards the away team) Captain, by overriding the jitter modulation of unimatrix zero five I think we could interfere with the collective’s phase lock and throw their tap line into a state of asynchronicity.
What is it with white people? Can’t dance outside a line or square…
Our genetic propensity for formation dancing was crucial to our victory over the Neanderthals.
Is it just me or am I not the only one depressed that there are no YouTube clips of riverdancing Borg? I mean, c’mon people… I now Trekkies Got Talent.
“riverdancing Borg”
There is already something animatronic the way those people move, so wouldn’t that be redundant?
As someone who has read The Road To Serfdom (the full book, not the admittedly fantastic Reader’s Digest comic version) I find that the vast majority of Hitler and Nazi analogies are just so juvenile and misguided that I’m often quite thankful for Godwin’s Law. Why? Because merely pointing out that someone’s analogy is stupid and demonstrates that they don’t have a clue about the Nazi regime implies that you do and in their tiny little minds that means you must be a Nazi! It’s so much nicer to be able to say “Godwin! I don’t have to talk to you anymore, idiot!”
And that goes for left/right/marxist/capitalist/anarchist, you name it. Everyone seems to have this overt belief that only skinheads should actually know anything more about Nazis than appeared in Indiana Jones movies.
I never considered the ‘ONLY a Nazi can know about Nazis’ side of this idiot argument. But that makes me go two ways on this.
First, if the Left knows enough to ‘know one when they hear one’, doesn’t that mean they are Nazis too?
Second, have the Lefties not read Sun Tzu? “…if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”
As with much of what the Left says, does, or effects, they tie themselves up in ribbons of illogical thought and outright STOOP-idity on Nazi name calling also.
Makes me glad I’m a mind numbed, lock step, full tilt believing, Right-Wing Nazi.
OK, the poster reads “Adolf Romney.” Really? Adolf Romney? Apparently the members of the peoples autonomous committee that produced it lacked two brain cells to rub together for a spark inspiration. Even the lowest of wits could have come up with Adolf Mittler.
Don’t give.them any ideas…
I think . . . you . . . just . . . did . . .
I’m a bit offended that you imply the left has any standards.
Can someoneone tell me the point about Milenkovic’s posts about Germans and the Tea Party? Kohl’s statement underscores some no doubt insightful point about the Tea Party–how?
Shorter Milenkovic: “You know who else believed in a strong economy? Hitler!”
Thanks for the translation, Titus. I thought the point he seemed to be making was something stupid like that; nice to have confirmation.
Supposed to be a link????
Missing link?
abc
All we have to go on are grainy out of focus pictures and shaky videos.
You know who else dropped links? Hitler!
Are we ready for another “Downfall” satire subtitles?
Krebs! Jodl!
Steiner!!!! (you do realize that that name as used in Downfall parodies is going to eventually mean every word in the English language…)
Threads done on account of Godwin’s.
I suspect this is the article Rand is referring to.
Thanks for the link. 🙂
It doesn’t take much effort to anticipate the left’s attack strategy.
“Mitt Romney’s ministry of arts and culture, the Reichskulturkammer, will force us to listen to the Osmonds and all iPods will be subject to purity checks and confiscation. Oh, and he’ll burn black churches and grind the elderly into Soylent Green.”
In the red-sun Bizarro Universe that State-cultists inhabit, in any political contest, the candidate who is less in favor of increasing the power of the State is, obviously, the “fascist.” This is the same Bizarro Universe in which the laws of economics, as we know them on Earth-One, do not apply.
It’s the same with ‘them’ regardless of who the candidate is from the Right. Everybody who is not enlightened, meaning on their side, is a Nazi. The natural outgrowth of that is that the leaders of ANY Nazis, must be ‘Hitler’.
The odd thing is that when you compare what Hitler wanted and how he wanted to control the people for their own good, compared to the Democrats, they loo awfully similar. By throwing out ‘Godwin’s Law’ they can do precisely as Hitler did, stifle ANY discussion that might lead someone to THINK for them self.
The Borg ain’t the only ones with a Hive Mind Collectivist Attitude, and Godwin is their programmer!
http://www.german-way.com/biz.html
“In the mid-1990s, as some of Germany’s best-known corporations began cutting jobs by the thousands, and chancellor Helmut Kohl’s government was coming under increasing criticism for the poor state of the economy, he felt moved to tell his fellow Germans that they could not continue to live in “a collective amusement park.” He berated his constituents for being “soft” and urged them to get to work and renew the “Standort Deutschland” — roughly, “Germany as a place to do business.”
So the Tea Party/Libertarian/Right Blogosphere political movement indeed has a German antecedant.
Seriously? America had no work ethic or business sense before the 1990’s?
Rather than continue on with that line of thought, I’m going to teach the Borg to Riverdance!
Correct me, I beg of you if I am wrong, but a good part of the Two-Thousand-Teens Tea Party Movement is that the work ethic in America is eroding as evidenced by the large number of persons receiving government payments in one form or another, and that business sense is eroding inasmuch that business is angling for influence and government subsidy dollars and yes, bailouts.
With respect to the word antecedant (sic), properly spelled antecedent, meaning “Preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting”, I guess I should not be using 50-dollar words in these parts, where folks are critical of the Edmucashun Establushmunt, and I guess I should learn to spell if I am going to be such a snob around youse guyss.
So yes, Helmut Kohl was using “Germany as a place to do business” some years before Scott Walker starting annoying the folks on the Minnesota border with “Open for business” on the Welcome to Wisconsin sign (the people coming up here from Chicago are merely amused by those signs whereas the Iowans and Yoopers are simply confused by it).
Paul,
I’m not doubting what you say and I’d heartily agree that many Americans are in it for the free ride. But you are, I think, agreeing with me.
We didn’t need to learn from the Germans in the past. What we’re missing NOW, is what we once had in abundance. In fact, using Germany as an example, it was our work ethic (or our parents & grandparents work ethic anyway) that defeated the Germans in WWII. Our manufacturing capability meant zero, zip, nada unless the workers were willing to put in WAY more than just 40 productive hours each week.
I think there are plenty of us who are more than willing to teach work ethic, IF the hand-wringers and whiners will allow schools, clubs, teams and employers to ‘FIRE’ kids who won’t work! I learned long ago, that work ethic meant I got to keep my job, when my work mate who came in late, took a long lunch and left early was less likely to keep his.
But as a qualifier, that was long ago, and before the hand-wringers and lawyers got involved with trying to make things ‘fair’ by forcing employers to keep people who refused to work!
I’ll go so far as to say we have the ‘capability’ to be WWII productive again. But not until we decide that anyone capable who won’t work, won’t eat! But in all honesty, I think we’ll see SHTF and plenty of people going hungry regardless of willingness to work. After that, I think we’ll see LOT’S more work ethic from anyone left.
But I’m a little pessimistic over our future given the candidates.
Data: (looking at a Borg display terminal while a line of borg with locked arms stamps ominously towards the away team) Captain, by overriding the jitter modulation of unimatrix zero five I think we could interfere with the collective’s phase lock and throw their tap line into a state of asynchronicity.
What is it with white people? Can’t dance outside a line or square…
Our genetic propensity for formation dancing was crucial to our victory over the Neanderthals.
Is it just me or am I not the only one depressed that there are no YouTube clips of riverdancing Borg? I mean, c’mon people… I now Trekkies Got Talent.
“riverdancing Borg”
There is already something animatronic the way those people move, so wouldn’t that be redundant?
As someone who has read The Road To Serfdom (the full book, not the admittedly fantastic Reader’s Digest comic version) I find that the vast majority of Hitler and Nazi analogies are just so juvenile and misguided that I’m often quite thankful for Godwin’s Law. Why? Because merely pointing out that someone’s analogy is stupid and demonstrates that they don’t have a clue about the Nazi regime implies that you do and in their tiny little minds that means you must be a Nazi! It’s so much nicer to be able to say “Godwin! I don’t have to talk to you anymore, idiot!”
And that goes for left/right/marxist/capitalist/anarchist, you name it. Everyone seems to have this overt belief that only skinheads should actually know anything more about Nazis than appeared in Indiana Jones movies.
I never considered the ‘ONLY a Nazi can know about Nazis’ side of this idiot argument. But that makes me go two ways on this.
First, if the Left knows enough to ‘know one when they hear one’, doesn’t that mean they are Nazis too?
Second, have the Lefties not read Sun Tzu? “…if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”
As with much of what the Left says, does, or effects, they tie themselves up in ribbons of illogical thought and outright STOOP-idity on Nazi name calling also.
Makes me glad I’m a mind numbed, lock step, full tilt believing, Right-Wing Nazi.
OK, the poster reads “Adolf Romney.” Really? Adolf Romney? Apparently the members of the peoples autonomous committee that produced it lacked two brain cells to rub together for a spark inspiration. Even the lowest of wits could have come up with Adolf Mittler.
Don’t give.them any ideas…
I think . . . you . . . just . . . did . . .
I’m a bit offended that you imply the left has any standards.
Can someoneone tell me the point about Milenkovic’s posts about Germans and the Tea Party? Kohl’s statement underscores some no doubt insightful point about the Tea Party–how?
Shorter Milenkovic: “You know who else believed in a strong economy? Hitler!”
Thanks for the translation, Titus. I thought the point he seemed to be making was something stupid like that; nice to have confirmation.