But I love the genre that has formed around this...it cracks me up most of the time.

Understanding the German words gets in the way of the subtitles.

This could never be popular in the German speaking countries....and they probably think it weird that we do this.

aka Downfall

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
http://www.downfallthefilm.com/

Not that he wasn't at the start, he was just worse.

He was informed that general Steiner had been cut off and wouldn't be able to relieve Berlin from the russians. At that he blew his top, since he was still under the delusion that he had armies marching all over Europe. He went off on the generals in what he perceived as their incompetence, when in fact, it was his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Steiner

Napolean did the same sort of thing in 1814 when the sixth coalition was aiming for Paris. Of course, Napolean had lost 450,000 ( out of 500,000 ) men on the march on Moscow, which he had planned and executed. If he hadn't lost so many men, he probably would have marched all over Europe for another 20 years.

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Funny? [link:

I saw that and flipped out because it came straight from the authority on fascism.
You sig is cool too since it describes the RW's propaganda on class warfare,i seem to recall a protest sign that i'll paraphrase;"Its only Class Wafare when the Poor fight back."
Peace.

...realizing she lost the nomination to Barack Obama. If you were an Obama supporter here for at least a few months before the convention, the rhetoric got so goddamned nasty from the Clinton camp that some hardcore supporters just started to 'pop' psychologically. It was bad. Huge parts of that whole campaign just...snapped in the head. Then it started to come out they were willing to steal it with super-delegates and this actually looked like it would go down like that. Fucking nightmare world. And then the supers...after a nerve-wracking interval...started to move over to Obama. That's about the time Adomian made his version of the famous scene.

And it's a rough watch, especially if you're politically correct, but it captured the attitude and predicted the extreme ugliness the Clintons dragged the convention into. While there exist hundreds of other versions on different topics, Adomian's version struck its blow perfectly and, like a world-class editorial cartoon, momentarily turned the horrific into the absurd.

PB

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