Commentary.

Some people will tell you not to read the comments, but me, I am all about, Oh GOD READ THE COMMENTS BECAUSE LULZ and also not funny anymore.

Nothing is very much fun, anymore.

(Okay, I also kind of love these titles, from the article above:)

New York Times: In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue — "How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a 'half-insane rascal,' a 'pathetic dunderhead,' a 'nowhere fool,' a 'big mouth' — rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? What persuaded millions of ordinary Germans to embrace him and his doctrine of hatred? How did this 'most unlikely pretender to high state office' achieve absolute power in a once democratic country and set it on a course of monstrous horror?"

The Wall Street Journal: So Many Hitlers — "Hitler, of course, never went away in the first place. Since the immediate postwar period there has been a steady stream of biographical studies of the highest quality. Their successive struggles to make sense of a figure who was as personally inscrutable as he was politically destructive bear witness to the continuing fascination exerted by one of history’s most notorious men."

But really, this is where shit stops being funny.

So there's this thing here, which Politifact rightly calls a war crime.

So, you know who else had pants thought the families of enemies of the state should be held liable for their actions?

Yep, you guessed it.

So, this is the moment when you're like... but wait, that isn't absurd. This is a real example of a paranoid and increasingly unstable authoritarian dictator implementing a brutal and internationally condemned policy, and doing the same thing ACTUALLY DOES REFLECT POORLY ON YOU.

This isn't like wearing the same pants AT ALL!

No, no it isn't.

Fuck.

I miss Ernst Rhoem.