Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

[Olaf]

Found in the "Berliner Bank- und Handels-Zeitung" from September 1856.

If you're suggesting that I'm an immortal or some kind of supernatural creature like a demon sent to prey on human beings, you're … you're … you're, like, way, way off!

I wasn't completely sure, but thanks for the confirmation.

"Ronove, I've got a possession job for you. You free? Marvelous. I owe you, bud. It's in Bavaria … and it involves racoons."

This suddenly feels all too real...

[Dr. Medulla]

Found in the "Berliner Bank- und Handels-Zeitung" from September 1856.

If you're suggesting that I'm an immortal or some kind of supernatural creature like a demon sent to prey on human beings, you're … you're … you're, like, way, way off!

I wasn't completely sure, but thanks for the confirmation.

"Ronove, I've got a possession job for you. You free? Marvelous. I owe you, bud. It's in Bavaria … and it involves racoons."

This suddenly feels all too real...

[Olaf]

If you're suggesting that I'm an immortal or some kind of supernatural creature like a demon sent to prey on human beings, you're … you're … you're, like, way, way off!

I wasn't completely sure, but thanks for the confirmation.

"Ronove, I've got a possession job for you. You free? Marvelous. I owe you, bud. It's in Bavaria … and it involves racoons."

This suddenly feels all too real...

[JennyB]

"Filmmaker."

[JennyB]

"Filmmaker."

[Flex]

"Filmmaker."

I saw that on twitter yesterday, insane.

[revbob]

"Filmmaker."

I hope someone corrected it with Hitler's fucking nazi propagandist or similar.

[Dr. Medulla]

"Filmmaker."

Throw in Bowie's flippant comments about Nazis and English punks' easy use of the swastika, the 70s music scene had some … curious … tolerance.

[Marky Dread]

"Filmmaker."

Throw in Bowie's flippant comments about Nazis and English punks' easy use of the swastika, the 70s music scene had some … curious … tolerance.

"English punks" let's not forget The Stooges, New York Dolls and the Dead Boys use of the swastika.

As for Leni she was the very definition of a walking abortion.

[Dr. Medulla]

"Filmmaker."

Throw in Bowie's flippant comments about Nazis and English punks' easy use of the swastika, the 70s music scene had some … curious … tolerance.

"English punks" let's not forget The Stooges, New York Dolls and the Dead Boys use of the swastika.

As for Leni she was the very definition of a walking abortion.

Yup, you're right—the Stooges led the way there.

[Sparky]

"Filmmaker."

Throw in Bowie's flippant comments about Nazis and English punks' easy use of the swastika, the 70s music scene had some … curious … tolerance.

"English punks" let's not forget The Stooges, New York Dolls and the Dead Boys use of the swastika.

As for Leni she was the very definition of a walking abortion.

Siouxsie and the Banshees as well for "shock value".

[Marky Dread]

"Filmmaker."

Throw in Bowie's flippant comments about Nazis and English punks' easy use of the swastika, the 70s music scene had some … curious … tolerance.

"English punks" let's not forget The Stooges, New York Dolls and the Dead Boys use of the swastika.

As for Leni she was the very definition of a walking abortion.

Siouxsie and the Banshees as well for "shock value".

There's an argument albeit a very poor one that the idea of demystifying the symbolism was where punk was coming from. The shock tactic though was a failed example of things not really being thought through.

The only other point I want to make is how tv, film and other media makes you desensitized to the evil reality and the pain that others feel towards the symbol. But no excuses are acceptable.

[Dr. Medulla]

There's an argument albeit a very poor one that the idea of demystifying the symbolism was where punk was coming from. The shock tactic though was a failed example of things not really being thought through.

Very much agreed. Apart from seemingly advocating for Nazism (especially awful when there were NF assholes who didn't see that ironically or some kind of intellectual exercise), that kind of demystifying risks being stupidly nihilistic, where nothing means anything, good or bad. It's just dumb reactionary behaviour.

The only other point I want to make is how tv, film and other media makes you desensitized to the evil reality and the pain that others feel towards the symbol. But no excuses are acceptable.

Yeah, you look at movies and tv in the 60s and 70s and the stripping away of profound evil in Nazism is galling. Hogan's Heroes, for example, makes Nazis a bunch of bumbling imbeciles. Sure, it's a sitcom, but maybe that's just wrong?

[Marky Dread]

There's an argument albeit a very poor one that the idea of demystifying the symbolism was where punk was coming from. The shock tactic though was a failed example of things not really being thought through.

Very much agreed. Apart from seemingly advocating for Nazism (especially awful when there were NF assholes who didn't see that ironically or some kind of intellectual exercise), that kind of demystifying risks being stupidly nihilistic, where nothing means anything, good or bad. It's just dumb reactionary behaviour.

The only other point I want to make is how tv, film and other media makes you desensitized to the evil reality and the pain that others feel towards the symbol. But no excuses are acceptable.

Yeah, you look at movies and tv in the 60s and 70s and the stripping away of profound evil in Nazism is galling. Hogan's Heroes, for example, makes Nazis a bunch of bumbling imbeciles. Sure, it's a sitcom, but maybe that's just wrong?

We had comedy such as this to contend with.

[Dr. Medulla]

We had comedy such as this to contend with.

Yeesh. I know Mel Brooks has argued that making fun of Hitler is to deny his power after his death, and I can appreciate the intent, but it only works if you properly understand the reality first. When you have successive generations, born after the war, growing up with a steady diet of bumbling Nazis, it becomes not demystifying via mockery but the superficial replacing the reality. When, say, anti-vaxxers blithely compare themselves to Jews in the 30s and 40s, I can't believe they make the comparison from a serious understanding of the Holocaust; it comes from superficiality.