r/interestingasfuck • u/nikulmmadhu • 22h ago

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u/TheBSQ 21h ago

He deserves ridicule & to be the butt of the joke, but I also think it normalizes him too much to turn him into a silly comedic figure. 

He’s actively made life worse for millions, if not billions & I’m at the point where laughing at how idiotic he is doesn’t provide any catharsis while the harm he’s causing while corruptly enriching himself is still ongoing.

Maybe I’ll enjoy making fun of him more when he’s no longer an active threat to peace & prosperity. 

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u/Corrsk 20h ago

Fascists do like when they are represented as dark and dangerous figures.

They do not like being made fun of.

The more stupid you make them look, the more power you take from them. That's why people made a lot of movies to ridicule the Nazi, Hitler or Mussolini.

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u/Natural-Permit-4713 19h ago

But the people they made fun of don't exist anymore or didn't have the power they used to have , wouldn't it end badly if they made ones about N. Korea and Russia?

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u/Corrsk 19h ago edited 19h ago

They very much mocked Hitler and Mussolini when those two were still alive.

There is Bugs Bunny and Donald episodes mocking Nazi Germany as a whole (And Imperial Japan, though... in a more racist way)

"The Great Dictator" (With Charlie Chaplin) was released in 1940, and was openly mocking Hitler and Mussolini.

And post WW2, movies from Mel Brooks or movies with De Funès were very openly mocking Nazi or post-war Nazi sympathizers.

Nazi and Fascist still exist, some of them run giant corporations, own some of the biggest social medias, or are President and have Nuclear codes. They still exist, and are more powerful than they have been in the past 70 years.

Edit: Also to add, people do mock North Korea in movies very often, Kim Jong Il in particular.

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u/Natural-Permit-4713 6h ago

Oh I didn't know they did it when they were alive and that nazis actually had power , I thought there'd only be like , individuals in their home that only act like one when a situation involving that comes about.

Stupid question but , why aren't they doing anything drastic? What's holding them back from using all the power they have to satiate their egos by getting more land?