House of Eratosthenes

While we’re waiting to see what blogger pal Gerard has planned for August, he still has lots of good stuff scrolling up every day on Ka-Ching! Like, for example, this — and I know you can relate to it, don’t pretend otherwise.

Freakin’ awesome.

If it were mine, I’d add on a few things. For most of these, I can envision a corresponding “li’l Hitler” who works by making his opposition look like that “li’l Hitler.” I’m thinking here specifically of column 1 row 2, column 4 row 2, column 2 row 3, column 2 row 4 and column 1 row 5.

Remember right after the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act got passed we had all these liberals who were suddenly fond of Benjamin Franklin? Sacrificing liberty, temporary safety, deserve neither, blah blah blah…et cetera. Seems like a distant memory now, doesn’t it?

I gotta wonder what our first Postmaster General would have thought of it. The man was plenty sharp enough to spot a fair-weather friend from a mile off.

Another little-Hitler: The “pleasant dinner” little-Hitler. You know — “Oh, let’s keep things pleasant! There’s cheesecake!”

How familiar is the following exchange:

McGovern-voting Granduncle: Let the immigrants in! We’re a nation of immigrants! You fucking bigot!

You: Actually I’m not concerned about race, I’m concerned about why someone would choose to circumvent our immigration laws. How come I have to follow laws while we’re defining a whole class of people who don’t have to, and we don’t even know who they are?

Hostess: Oh, stop fighting you two! Here we are having a lovely dinner and you have to bring politics into it. Just let him call you a reprehensible, cross-burning scum-sucking douchebag asshole xenophobe and then let’s move on! There’s cheesecake!

And then there’s the “whoever’s fun must be right” little Hitlers. They get their news out of the Daily Show, and they’re fond of bragging about it, but if you’re the one who points that out they’ll say you’re just making things up because you’re a liar.

Right now they’re telling us if we have a shred of decency we’ll support the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. They just have to. She’s really funny.

Oh, now, that’s wonderful!

But check out this version I saw awhile back about “Libertarians”. I had thought of redoing it like this, but that project got lost in the shuffle.

I wonder which was the original?

As I say at my place,

Amusing and dead on, some of them — except the best ones aren’t actually libertarians at all, just authoritarians looking for an excuse to misbehave while ordering other people around.

The actual libertarian summary, “no first use of force”, aka “Oh noes! The libertarians are in power, and they refuse to tell us what to do!” doesn’t make an appearance.

Meanwhile, the socialist version is dead on, simple straight up stuff we’ve all heard a thousand times.
- djmoore | 07/13/2010 @ 09:27
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- House of Eratosthenes | 07/14/2010 @ 19:17
This chart is stupid. Row 2, columns 1, 2, and 4 actually aren’t that far-off from my thinking. Except for the “brown people” part…I couldn’t care less what color illegals are. I want ALL of them thrown out.
- cylarz | 07/15/2010 @ 00:05
Well, OK…maybe the others aren’t that bad I guess.
- cylarz | 07/15/2010 @ 00:06
[…] Based on my comments over here. […]
- Cassy Fiano » I Made a New Word XXXVIII | 07/15/2010 @ 19:26
Column 1 Row 4 is brilliant.

Yeah, some of these are unfair. But the ones that are unfair seem to be unfair either by adding the hypocrite label to people who may or may not be and thus using a blanket accusation … or it’s people who may believe something but they don’t tend to try to use the coercive power of the government to enforce their beliefs on all.

Someone telling you they think you’re wrong, even in inappropriately rude terms is completely different than somebody working to use the coercive power of the government to make you toe their line.

One may be unwelcome advice. The other is tyranny.
- philmon | 07/16/2010 @ 20:48
All that being said, most of them are dead on.
- philmon | 07/16/2010 @ 20:49
[…] Sherrod, according to her own words, was a Little Hitler. Check that chart; third column, fourth row, the Petty […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 07/22/2010 @ 07:02

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