Bo JacobsThe "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago
Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷@bojacobs And by Moishe Horowitz even longer ago. You probably know Horowitz by his stage name, Moe Howard, who was the first actor to play Hitler on film in a satire.
@AlgoCompSynth And Vaudeville as a whole. Plus, on film, this was the core of the Little Tramp schtick.
PeteWhat was the Little Tramp schtick? Don't you mean the Great Dictator?
And Chaplin was not Jewish... in Attenborough's film, Chaplin says "I don't have that honour"
@pete @AlgoCompSynth The Little Tramp was Chaplain's silent character back in the teens and twenties. He was always in relationship with much more powerful people than he was who were usually depicted as fools and childish.
Yes, I know about Charlie Chaplin. I didn't understand what you meant by "Plus". Did you mean the part about about Jewish people making the evil look like fools by playing them? I didn't get the connection to Chaplin's Little Tramp who was neither evil, nor Jewish.
@pete @AlgoCompSynth The plus Little Tramp part is not specifically about Jewish humor, but about how Chaplain designed the character, in part, to be a foil for rich and powerful people who acted idiotically.
Marc Trius@alter_kaker @bojacobs Yeah, but not by much.
RejZoR@AlgoCompSynth @bojacobs Wasn't Charlie Chaplin mocking Hitler first with The Great Dictator back when WW2 wasn't in motion yet?
Robin Adams@rejzor @AlgoCompSynth @bojacobs The Three Stooges' You Nazty Spy came out in January 1940.
Chaplin's The Great Dictator was October 1940.
Weyoun 6@bojacobs video essay on this
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FreddyB Aviation Photography@bojacobs The same with Colonel Klink of Hogans Hero's fame was played by Werner Klemperer, who was from a Jewish family, and would only take the role if Klink was basically a fool
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TrèsFluke HAS MOVED@bojacobs "Heil, Myself" sung by a gay Hitler is at once shocking and fucking brilliant (Mel Brooks, The Producers).
Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬@bojacobs a common trait of most populists and autocrats seems to be that they have a hard time laughing about themselves, even in the most harmless circumstances
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Phil Landmeier@KydiaMusic @kwramm @bojacobs Exactly. It's a cluster of neuroses, starting with serious self-esteem problems. And so, societies with self-esteem problems are ripe for fascism to take hold.
Another red-flag for me is a society that loves the concept of revenge, which the USA is. Americans love the idea of getting revenge and this is one of the things that makes Trump so attractive. Trump frequently threatens revenge and this turns his followers on.
All of this stems from a populace that is unhappy and feels put down, which much of the USA also feels. Racists feel put down. The rest feel they can't get ahead because the system is rigged. Which it is, by the wealthy, but they don't understand it. They don't realize that the wealthy people they idolize are the very ones who have rigged the system and destroyed the middle class.
MrMozz@bojacobs I first read your post as Mel GIBSON and was wildly confused.
And yeah, the crimes of the Nazis were terrible but their ideas are objectively ridiculous and deserve all the mockery we can give them.
gmokefrom On Hitler's Mein Kampf by Albrecht Koschorke
The cabaret artist Serdar Somuncu, who performed readings from Mein Kampf in the 1990s, put it this way: “Hitler plus power is gruesome, but Hitler minus power is a comedy.”
Mel Brooks & Somuncu should collaborate. Soon.
I sent the suggestion to Rob Reiner whom I have no connection to so
we'll see.
Claudio Zizza 🦜@bojacobs I got the impression that making fools of them made them look less threatening, now that people, who lived through that time, are nearly gone.
Hippo 🍉@SenseException @bojacobs write your jokes on the surface of reasonably durable sand ✒️
Ben Evans@bojacobs "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of
Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." -- Martin Luther
"The devill . . the prowde spirite . . cannot endure to be
mocked." -- Thomas More
Both quoted at the start of CS Lewis's Screwtape Letters (which was itself dedicated to JRR Tolkien). The tactic continues to be effective after literal centuries.
J$@bojacobs “Springtime for Shitzy, and magaaaaaaaaaaa…”
George@bojacobs As proof, take a look at Trump's face during his roast.
cholling@bojacobs I think Voltaire stumbled upon it even earlier.
kosure@bojacobs It's so true. Think of Xi and Winnie the Pooh or Putin with the makeup pictures. It reveals that as a prerequisite to being a fascist you must be a thin skinned crybaby. That type of brutality is the easiest way to camouflage such massive personal insufficiency.
𝗣𝗠𝗝 ⚫and even longer before by charles chaplin
Eric G.@bojacobs IMO, One of the most important musical performances of the 20th century: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I1583adUqSg
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I think the problem there is that, having seen them portrayed as fools so often, we had stopped being on guard against them. And now they are back in force.
I think the problem there is that, having seen them portrayed as fools so often, we had stopped being on guard against them. And now they are back in force.
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently
Force of Habit@bojacobs Looking back at my bookmarks, I don’t think any other quote will surpass this one for the remainder of 2024.
I can't see to which post this is referring, but must be Trump. Obviously.