I just have to vent this here, and see if anyone else comes across this type of thing.
The other day I was walking with my family in our neighborhood, which is most inhabited by socially relaxed, liberal leaning folk. But every now and then we have to hurry past Mormons trying to tell us the GOOD NEWS, which I wont get into here, and people brandishing signs with pictures of Obama with a Hitler mustache. I can't even be bothered to remember exactly what their position is, because I refuse to let pass the positively ham-fisted attempt at making a political statement.
A part of me wanted to just fuck with them: Walk up to them and go, "So wait, is what you're trying to say that, Barack Obama, is literally Adolf Hitler? Like, in a disguise?" And they'd say something dumb and politically over-simplistic, and I'd say, "Ok. So. You, are saying YOU, have found legitimate reason to believe, as here clearly advertised, that Adolf Hitler, actually survived World War II, had is body physically augmented by south american plastic surgeons to look like a black man, then gradually worked his way into politics to become president of the country that defeated him, and transform it into a Nazi Germany that is disguised to completely resemble a free democracy?"
That might have been more fun than simply pointing out that comparing Obama to Hitler is absurd and trivializes the actions of Hitler, while essentially saying that anyone you disagree with is genocidally evil.
The other day I was walking with my family in our neighborhood, which is most inhabited by socially relaxed, liberal leaning folk. But every now and then we have to hurry past Mormons trying to tell us the GOOD NEWS, which I wont get into here, and people brandishing signs with pictures of Obama with a Hitler mustache. I can't even be bothered to remember exactly what their position is, because I refuse to let pass the positively ham-fisted attempt at making a political statement.
A part of me wanted to just fuck with them: Walk up to them and go, "So wait, is what you're trying to say that, Barack Obama, is literally Adolf Hitler? Like, in a disguise?" And they'd say something dumb and politically over-simplistic, and I'd say, "Ok. So. You, are saying YOU, have found legitimate reason to believe, as here clearly advertised, that Adolf Hitler, actually survived World War II, had is body physically augmented by south american plastic surgeons to look like a black man, then gradually worked his way into politics to become president of the country that defeated him, and transform it into a Nazi Germany that is disguised to completely resemble a free democracy?"
That might have been more fun than simply pointing out that comparing Obama to Hitler is absurd and trivializes the actions of Hitler, while essentially saying that anyone you disagree with is genocidally evil.
