Archived Sometimes you just have to realize how bad things really are. (i.ibb.co)
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Archived Sometimes you just have to realize how bad things really are. (i.ibb.co)
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[–] fluffyunbound 0 points 26 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago
Speaking of movies, I found myself watching the movie Casablanca the other day. Casablanca was made in 1942, so the US was at war with Nazi Germany at the time. So we have a movie made about a wartime enemy, and that enemy happens to also be a regime generally regarded to be among the worst in human history. But you know what? The entire plot of the movie only makes sense if the Nazi government was more honest and more honorable than our own!
The plot of Casablanca is that Peter Lorre gives Humphrey Bogart travel papers that allow anyone to travel anywhere in German-occupied Europe. Bogart is eventually able to use these papers to help a left-wing politician sought by the Nazis to escape to Portugal, along with his wife Ingrid Bergman. But this only works because once the refugees have the papers, both the German Gestapo officer and the Vichy French prefect of police are forced to obey the letter of their own law and let them go. Watching the movie I was suddenly struck by how the US government or UK government in 2020 would simply fucking laugh at the letter of the law if it meant letting someone guilty of wrongthink win. The US or UK government would say, "Yeah those are nice papers but we're arresting you anyway." And I had to laugh at the fact that my default assumption was that my government would behave worse than the Nazi villains of a 1940's film. Even though it's not really funny, when you think about it.
[–] lipids 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
This is why the jews hate history. Can't let us know how good we had it.
[–] lanre ago
Living overseas made me really reconsider "how good we have it." When living in a tyranny felt about the same as America, except you had fast internet, clean roads, no niggers, and everyone worked hard. Really makes you think about America a little harder.