Similar much?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAY over the top!

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[xladymissiex.livejournal.com]

Wow... that second one is a bit harsh. I know Republicans are assholes but they're not nazis. o_o

First one is good though.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

What? Work makes freedom, right?

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Work brings freedom

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

감사합니다

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Korean?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Anyone can play.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know my computer had that character set.

[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

No, you're both wrong "Arbeit Macht Frei" Literally translates as "work makes free". There is no "dir" there, but I think it's assumed that it's a you statement. "Work brings freedom" would be "Arbeit bringt Freiheit", same with the other guy, freedom is "Freiheit" not just "Frei". There is also a whole slew of uses of the word "frei" because that is the way German behaves, because it is a nasty, evil little language, but I'm assuming it's meant simply as free.

Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a person who didn't speak German just using google translate for the sake of depicting Republicans as Nazis.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

मेरा जर्मन भाषा कौशल का सबसे अच्छा नहीं हैं. हिन्दी या चेक में बेहतर है. बेशक, वहाँ वेब पर अनुवादक हैं.

http://translate.google.com is your one stop shop for these things. What does Latvian even sound like?

[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

Moonspeak?

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Kinda like Lithuanian.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Or Estonian, I'd bet.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

You are right on the literally translation.

The slogan has a history of its own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei

[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

I realized that after I looked it up. My specialty is American History, I haven't done a lot about German history yet.

HURR DURR DERP DERP!

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Work makes free. Or a better English translation, "work makes you free."

[dwer.livejournal.com]

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I don't like the Nazi analogy BUT I do not for a second doubt that a significant number of Conservatives would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see debtors' prisons brought back and anyone whose family isn't moneyed thrown in and made to work for free indefinitely.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

It's not only over the top but also incorrect. Auschwitz II - Birkenau gate does not have that slogan above it's gates. Auschwitz I does.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I love it when you pretend that facts matter. It happens so rarely.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

wanna cookie?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Really not the point very much. But thanks for pointing it out.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Where does it say which concentration camp it is? Or are you critiquing the placement of the chimneys?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Because Auschwitz I doesn't have brick facing, and Auschwitz II: Electric Boogaloo doesn't say Arbeit Macht Frei.

http://images.google.com/images?q=auschwitz+i

http://images.google.com/images?q=auschwitz+ii

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

mmkay, I LOLd at the "Electric Boogaloo" part. See you in Hell, I guess. =\

[merig00.livejournal.com]

It's a cliche picture of the train entrance into the Auschwitz II - Birkenau extermination camp.



I've walked on that railorad

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Ah. Now that you mention it I see you're architecturally right. The setting of "Arbeit Macht Frei" is a lopsided gate to a miserable place, but without a singular building.

Isn't this a cheaper shot than "This looks shopped"?

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I think they put the iconic phrase there not because it's historically correct, but because it's 1) iconic - everyone knows what that means even if they don't know what Auschwitz II looks like 2) encapsulates what the cartoonist thinks Republicans believe about healthcare and work. Honestly, it's for artistic and ideological purposes.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

auschwitz i is the dems healthcare plan.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

*hee-haw banjo*

[merig00.livejournal.com]

not very funny

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

you're right. it needs more hitler.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

what's your plan? unoriginality?

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

Meh on the first one as people who published it don't really understand what united church and state really is.

Second one is not harsh, its simply moronic.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

Whats to know? It's just a bad idea.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Meh on the first one as people who published it don't really understand what united church and state really is.

Really, now. Perhaps you can explain it then?

[theomni.livejournal.com]

In that case, I also don't understand what a united church and state really is. Is there anything you could tell me about it?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

So what is it.

[i.livejournal.com]

third one to ask. crickets still chirping.

church & hate

[schnoozles.livejournal.com]

1st one: right on the nose. love it.

[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

Love the first one.

Second one, Godwin says you lose. Actually, you admitted it was over the top, so I am guessing you don't stand by it, but yeah, repubs aren't that bad, just like Obama isn't that bad (how about that, apparently both sides are just like the nazis *eyeroll*)

[dwer.livejournal.com]

That second one was the first comic I've seen in a while that made me go "woah, over the line." That's why I posted it.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

The Nazi talk will always be "over the line"

...unless of course, one side or the other manages land the Olympics despite oppressing(and later eterminating) several million of thier own people.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

In the last two centuries the Americans, Chinese, and the Russians did that, easy. If you count Colonies then the British and the French were respnsible too. Usually through famine, but that's a pretty bad way to go, especially for millions.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

One could argue over wether the Plains Nations constituted "Our own people" but I'll concede you your point over the Chinese.

Even so, the modern American political parties have showed themselves to be rather inept when it comes to genocide(or international politics for that matter) so the Nazi talk is still over the line.

The more words like "Nazism", "Communism", or "Racism" are invoked in political debates the more diluted they become.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Maybe not a million, but the Trail of Tears was certainly an east coast tribe. I'm sure the Germans did not consider the jewry "their own people" either. Even the Chinese and Russian famines were a split between central bureaucratic inflexibility and the farmers who actually grew the food. Stalin killed maybe a few hundred thousand by direct political purges. The other tens of millions was all agricultural incompetence.

Rwanda, Cambodia and Turkey while we're at it, though they're in no danger of hosting an Olympics soon.

And yes, the arms race of rhetoric has thoroughly polluted the sting of many words.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Godwin wouldn't say he lost. Godwin just said that as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

The rest of the Internet would, though.