It's time for a good, foamy rant!
Ok, I've about had it.
There comes a point in time when one must admit that if you can't beat them, join them. Forest Gump always summed this up as, "stupid is and stupid does," which I feel more accurately reflects the reality of things. While perusing an entry in xianjaguar 's livejournal today, I finally decided it was time to admit defeat and join the throngs of idiots.
What particular bit of stupidity do I refer to? Specifically, comparing anyone you're trying to vilify to Hitler. She mentioned someone who had compared our illustrious president to the Third Reich himself. It seems to be a common practice on the internet, especially in political discourse. I mean, how do you trump calling someone Hitler? As far as most people know he was the naughtiest man ever to live. Never mind that other dictators like Stalin and Pol Pot had body counts to rival Hitler on his best days, that would require a little understanding of history. Never mind that most of the comparisons are really just thoughtless jabs by people who are unable to properly articulate their frustrations. If Hitler is going to be our new universal standard for evil, I dare say that we embrace it.
In fact, I would like to suggest that we make Hitler a unit of measure.
That's right people! We'll finally be able to give numerical values to evil. Before moving on I'll suggest we make Hitler metric (he was European, after all). This will make comparing degrees of evil much easier, since we won't have to resort to scientific notation.
For example:
Cheating on a test: 1.6 PicoHitlers
Kicking a puppy: 3 MicroHitlers
Clubbing a baby seal: 70 MicroHitlers
... just to hear it squeel: 75 MicroHitlers
Starting a nuclear war: 5 KiloHitlers
See! Wasn't that easy? Now instead of saying something completely asinine, like "Gorge Bush is teh worst presidnet since Hitler," you can say something productive! Something more like, "In my opinion the sum of George Bush's evil acts as president comes to approximately 2.93 DecaHitlers. This is roughly equivelent to kicking one million puppies."
There comes a point in time when one must admit that if you can't beat them, join them. Forest Gump always summed this up as, "stupid is and stupid does," which I feel more accurately reflects the reality of things. While perusing an entry in xianjaguar 's livejournal today, I finally decided it was time to admit defeat and join the throngs of idiots.
What particular bit of stupidity do I refer to? Specifically, comparing anyone you're trying to vilify to Hitler. She mentioned someone who had compared our illustrious president to the Third Reich himself. It seems to be a common practice on the internet, especially in political discourse. I mean, how do you trump calling someone Hitler? As far as most people know he was the naughtiest man ever to live. Never mind that other dictators like Stalin and Pol Pot had body counts to rival Hitler on his best days, that would require a little understanding of history. Never mind that most of the comparisons are really just thoughtless jabs by people who are unable to properly articulate their frustrations. If Hitler is going to be our new universal standard for evil, I dare say that we embrace it.
In fact, I would like to suggest that we make Hitler a unit of measure.
That's right people! We'll finally be able to give numerical values to evil. Before moving on I'll suggest we make Hitler metric (he was European, after all). This will make comparing degrees of evil much easier, since we won't have to resort to scientific notation.
For example:
Cheating on a test: 1.6 PicoHitlers
Kicking a puppy: 3 MicroHitlers
Clubbing a baby seal: 70 MicroHitlers
... just to hear it squeel: 75 MicroHitlers
Starting a nuclear war: 5 KiloHitlers
See! Wasn't that easy? Now instead of saying something completely asinine, like "Gorge Bush is teh worst presidnet since Hitler," you can say something productive! Something more like, "In my opinion the sum of George Bush's evil acts as president comes to approximately 2.93 DecaHitlers. This is roughly equivelent to kicking one million puppies."