UNOhwen
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She had a car accident. Not only does she then 'lose' the keys, she LOCKS HER DOOR as she gets out (?!?!) then 'tells her mother she'll be right back' (HER words!), BUT, she immediately runs to her mother's side to (WYF?!?!) get her out, only this dummy finds the door locked.
Instead of telling her mom to lean back and cover her eyes so she can see the glass, Sheila trots off to flag down a car! Then, when this dope sees smoke, rather than BREAKING the glass, she goes down the embankment, as the guy she flags off ...RUNS TO FIND A PHONE!!!
But, wait; this dummy ISN'T finished. She tells an entirely different story @ her trial!
Do I think she purposely set a fire? Absolutely NO.
BUT I think this woman's a frightening example of STUPIDITY. If I lived anywhere near her (thank goodness, I don't. Not a fan of the southern states of the States), I'd IMMEDIATELY get far away and sell the property.
She's a danger to everyone BECAUSE of her stupidity.
Instead of telling her mom to lean back and cover her eyes so she can see the glass, Sheila trots off to flag down a car! Then, when this dope sees smoke, rather than BREAKING the glass, she goes down the embankment, as the guy she flags off ...RUNS TO FIND A PHONE!!!
But, wait; this dummy ISN'T finished. She tells an entirely different story @ her trial!
Do I think she purposely set a fire? Absolutely NO.
BUT I think this woman's a frightening example of STUPIDITY. If I lived anywhere near her (thank goodness, I don't. Not a fan of the southern states of the States), I'd IMMEDIATELY get far away and sell the property.
She's a danger to everyone BECAUSE of her stupidity.
I'm always (sadly) amazed at how most people don't fully understand how the Nazis came to power.
They think Hitler's magnesian, or or was simply propogada, or other things, but they don't look at what was happing HISTORICALLY IN GERMANY at this time.
Now, whilst propganda was brilliantly utilised but the Nazis (and it was only first fully described but Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud's, several years earlier), it was only a means of holding onto the nation, and pounding into the German mindset the Nazi party's points.
It wasn't through violence; Hitler himself learned this from the failure of the 'beer hall putsch'. It was because of this that he believed the ONLY way was through the election process.
But that's only part of the story. Up 'til the early 30s, the Nazis were still a fringe group (and a rather small one at that), getting less than 2.55% of the Reichstag vote.
It was through a perfect storm.
One of the most important things to remember is that people 'don't care' about issues facing the lower classes. They only care when they're seriously injured themselves.
I'm not going to give a history lesson; that's something we should each learn for ourselves, either in school or through books, etc.
After the first blow of WWI's defeat and the heavy-handed treatment they received with the Versailles Treaty, Germans began to feel ostracised.
But that wasn't enough.
After the Weimar Republic helped overcome monstrous inflation (e.g.; 1BILLIONRm for a piece of BREAD! 4BILLIONRm for a bread with sausage!
For a while, things started to look better.
However, it faced setbacks as the German federal government was seen as too weak for legitimacy by many (especially former WWI veterans), who helped fan the flames of right-wing extremism, supported by the power of the (legal!) non-governmental Freikorps ('free corps'-paramilitary groups supporting primarily right-wing causes). Many First World War veterans joined the (various) Freikorps (it wasn't a single group, but many!) when they were first created, and one of these nascent groups led to the formation of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP, or Nazi Party.
But this was still not enough to give Hitler and the Nazis the added momentum.
Soon, the market's of the world were beginning to spiral out of control, and those same loans (from the States) were called back.
It was all during this time that the Nazis party was building itself - literally creating it self from 'detritus', such as incorporating what was the relatively benign group, the Wandervogel ('wandering bird'), a non-political group which promoted a back to a simpler (and older, i.e., more rightist) way, via camping cookouts, singing around fires, comprised of younger adults and many teens which when it became under the auspices of the Nazis became Hitler jugend; Hitler youth, which kept all the Wandervogel pastimes and added a more militaristic bent. It was this group which helped to give the Nazis some of their most diehard radical leaders.
The collapse of Germany continued unabated, as the double-whammy of the crash and the loan payback States to destroy the extremely fragile German state, quick was the worst-hit economically by the crash.
First hit most severely were the lower classes.
That was soon followed by the collapse of five major German banks and over 20,000 businesses going bust in 1931.
This blow hit hard; it caused suffering not only among the lower classes but now the middle class-the 'engine' of democracy was being destroyed.
After this massive wave of disasters, there was finally enough fuel to ignite the fire which would strengthen the Nazi Party.
It wasn't necessarily that those who voted for the Nazis party believed in the party's ideology; it was that they felt change was desperately needed.
Although this event was very important in boosting the Nazi Party's political clout, it still wasn't enough.
This was exploited by some foolhardy major German financial backers, who believed that by bringing the Nazis into the coalition, it would be enough to control the Reichstag.
They wrongly thought that, although Hitler was initially excluded from the ruling coalition, they could 'control' the 'little corporal'.
And Hitler himself alluded to this.
He did at first.
But once he got his foot in the door, it quickly led to total power, with all political parties being outlawed.
This clear and concise documentary explains (and beautifully supports) in ways both simple and powerful, just how this 'tsunami' was formed and, once in control, became nearly impossible to stop.
As the saying goes, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it (I also live by the similar phrase, 'all of this has happened before, and will happen again', borrowed from the brilliant reimagined Battlestar Galactica).
One brought 'mechanised death'. The other? Mechanised death.
All of this has happened before.
It's important to (as is said at the Yad Vashem memorial) NEVER forget.
They think Hitler's magnesian, or or was simply propogada, or other things, but they don't look at what was happing HISTORICALLY IN GERMANY at this time.
Now, whilst propganda was brilliantly utilised but the Nazis (and it was only first fully described but Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud's, several years earlier), it was only a means of holding onto the nation, and pounding into the German mindset the Nazi party's points.
It wasn't through violence; Hitler himself learned this from the failure of the 'beer hall putsch'. It was because of this that he believed the ONLY way was through the election process.
But that's only part of the story. Up 'til the early 30s, the Nazis were still a fringe group (and a rather small one at that), getting less than 2.55% of the Reichstag vote.
It was through a perfect storm.
One of the most important things to remember is that people 'don't care' about issues facing the lower classes. They only care when they're seriously injured themselves.
I'm not going to give a history lesson; that's something we should each learn for ourselves, either in school or through books, etc.
After the first blow of WWI's defeat and the heavy-handed treatment they received with the Versailles Treaty, Germans began to feel ostracised.
But that wasn't enough.
After the Weimar Republic helped overcome monstrous inflation (e.g.; 1BILLIONRm for a piece of BREAD! 4BILLIONRm for a bread with sausage!
For a while, things started to look better.
However, it faced setbacks as the German federal government was seen as too weak for legitimacy by many (especially former WWI veterans), who helped fan the flames of right-wing extremism, supported by the power of the (legal!) non-governmental Freikorps ('free corps'-paramilitary groups supporting primarily right-wing causes). Many First World War veterans joined the (various) Freikorps (it wasn't a single group, but many!) when they were first created, and one of these nascent groups led to the formation of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP, or Nazi Party.
But this was still not enough to give Hitler and the Nazis the added momentum.
Soon, the market's of the world were beginning to spiral out of control, and those same loans (from the States) were called back.
It was all during this time that the Nazis party was building itself - literally creating it self from 'detritus', such as incorporating what was the relatively benign group, the Wandervogel ('wandering bird'), a non-political group which promoted a back to a simpler (and older, i.e., more rightist) way, via camping cookouts, singing around fires, comprised of younger adults and many teens which when it became under the auspices of the Nazis became Hitler jugend; Hitler youth, which kept all the Wandervogel pastimes and added a more militaristic bent. It was this group which helped to give the Nazis some of their most diehard radical leaders.
The collapse of Germany continued unabated, as the double-whammy of the crash and the loan payback States to destroy the extremely fragile German state, quick was the worst-hit economically by the crash.
First hit most severely were the lower classes.
That was soon followed by the collapse of five major German banks and over 20,000 businesses going bust in 1931.
This blow hit hard; it caused suffering not only among the lower classes but now the middle class-the 'engine' of democracy was being destroyed.
After this massive wave of disasters, there was finally enough fuel to ignite the fire which would strengthen the Nazi Party.
It wasn't necessarily that those who voted for the Nazis party believed in the party's ideology; it was that they felt change was desperately needed.
Although this event was very important in boosting the Nazi Party's political clout, it still wasn't enough.
This was exploited by some foolhardy major German financial backers, who believed that by bringing the Nazis into the coalition, it would be enough to control the Reichstag.
They wrongly thought that, although Hitler was initially excluded from the ruling coalition, they could 'control' the 'little corporal'.
And Hitler himself alluded to this.
He did at first.
But once he got his foot in the door, it quickly led to total power, with all political parties being outlawed.
This clear and concise documentary explains (and beautifully supports) in ways both simple and powerful, just how this 'tsunami' was formed and, once in control, became nearly impossible to stop.
As the saying goes, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it (I also live by the similar phrase, 'all of this has happened before, and will happen again', borrowed from the brilliant reimagined Battlestar Galactica).
One brought 'mechanised death'. The other? Mechanised death.
All of this has happened before.
It's important to (as is said at the Yad Vashem memorial) NEVER forget.
First, what's with the terribly obvious wigs of the two main characters?
If the production doesn't even bother to look for or buy cheesy-looking long hair for men, it's not a big leap to think they cheapened everything else. If I watched just ONE more 'hair', erm, WIG-flip, I would've gone through the 'picture tube'-hey, I'm being retro-and KILLED the makers of this GARBAGE.
It's far too easy to criticise the lack of talent of these two male leads, particularly their one-note Ted and Bill schtick, and their inability to do anything else. It's as pathetic a job of acting as if the only way anyone can tell they are portraying different characters is by them loudly announcing, 'ok, now I'm...'
For this one-dimensional rubbish-fest, who do you blame?
At the top, the creators of it, as it's from their narrow view of the '80s (and it's in parentheses because this is one messed-up take on the '80s), which all the rest of the rubbish flows from (ugh!).
There have been many examples of shows, films, etc., where creators hired talented people across all aspects to produce outstanding parodies of bygone eras.
Not here.
If you don't want to waste your time, don't support rubbish like this: AVOID it, and, if you like, watch ANYTHING BUT this! Hot Tub Time Machine offers a perfect 80s throwback. There are many other options. The only thing you'll get after wasting your time with this will be OLDER-and DUMBER.
If the production doesn't even bother to look for or buy cheesy-looking long hair for men, it's not a big leap to think they cheapened everything else. If I watched just ONE more 'hair', erm, WIG-flip, I would've gone through the 'picture tube'-hey, I'm being retro-and KILLED the makers of this GARBAGE.
It's far too easy to criticise the lack of talent of these two male leads, particularly their one-note Ted and Bill schtick, and their inability to do anything else. It's as pathetic a job of acting as if the only way anyone can tell they are portraying different characters is by them loudly announcing, 'ok, now I'm...'
For this one-dimensional rubbish-fest, who do you blame?
At the top, the creators of it, as it's from their narrow view of the '80s (and it's in parentheses because this is one messed-up take on the '80s), which all the rest of the rubbish flows from (ugh!).
There have been many examples of shows, films, etc., where creators hired talented people across all aspects to produce outstanding parodies of bygone eras.
Not here.
If you don't want to waste your time, don't support rubbish like this: AVOID it, and, if you like, watch ANYTHING BUT this! Hot Tub Time Machine offers a perfect 80s throwback. There are many other options. The only thing you'll get after wasting your time with this will be OLDER-and DUMBER.