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Commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
I don't know why this is shocking. THe propaganda posters made between WW1 and WW2 in Germany look great. Very impactful. We still borrow form the graphic artists at the time for inspiration. Neue Grotesk is the basis for Helvetica...
Commented on Godaddy: Don't Buy dot-TV Domains, The Island is Sinking.
Wouldn't this be a reason to buy a .tv domain? Once the island is underwater they will stop issuing domains. They will be rare....
Commented on Heart-shaped pizza - reality vs. advertisment
Looks more like Pacman than a heart....
Commented on Man electrocutes pickle to demonstrate power of Christianity
The guy is not proving Christianity by electrocuting the pickle. He is using it as an analogy. A better, and more accurate title would have been "Christians are like electrocuted pickles"...
Commented on Trailer for new Hunter Thompson documentary
I saw it at Sundance. Just when you start tearing up and think it is going all soft he leaps out of his grave (figuratively) and slaps you back to his cynical arrogance that I learned to love. It is...
Commented on PETA offers $1 million prize for vat-grown meat
I am curious what will happen to cattle, a human-bred creature that has poor survival skills, once we no longer need them for beef....

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TallDave commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
Hayek's book has it exactly right: Hitler was the socialists' Man Who Could Get Things Done. This was also around the time Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for reporting on what a great utopia Stalin was building, while millions of Ukrainians were being systematically starved to death by the Soviet regime. raised much excitement, made many changes. So... Hitler promised Hope and Change....
TallDave commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
Coroallry to Dogwin's Law: "In any discussion of Nazis or Hitler, the probability of a comparison to Barack Obama being preceded by a comparison to George W. Bush is exceedingly high, which the odds of this being noticed by people complaining about the Obama comparison is exceedingly now."...
Daemon commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
Wow. I'm shocked... just shocked! You'd almost think that people in the 30's didn't know hitler was going to start a war and kill a few million people just because they happened to be gay, mentally ill, romany, jewish or whatnot....
Antinous / Moderator commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
Most people were shocked at the end of the war by what they found in German-occupied territories. The Third Reich didn't exactly advertise what they were doing in the concentration camps....
Jake0748 commented on Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler
First of all, I don't know, for the life of me, how or why or how, for fucks sake, anyone can compare either G.W. Bush or Obama to Hitler. Its just bullshit. Second of all (I'm not a history or political scholar), it seems to me, whether you're talking about socialism, fascism, communism, or whatever ism you'd like - its easy to to tell who the bad guys are. They are the ones who, in even the slightest way, take into account the race of people as a factor in the world's problems. Its evil and stupid....

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