Reply to: Hurrah for the Blackshirts - favourite Daily Mail stories

[Mich the Tester]

You are part right - fascism was seen by elements of the ruling class as a bulwark against communism, but I think people are more complex than that. It's much easier to self-justify your position if you can believe in it, much as I would like to think that the powerful are all entirely cynical.

Yep, but many of the German upper class absolutely hated Hitler. They fought in the army as was their family tradition, but it's no coincidence that many of the plotters in the various assassination attempts on Hitler were patricians or aristocrats, and some others tried to undermine him politically. Basically they felt he was an oik, a rabble rouser and a dangerous loon who would destroy Germany. Fairly accurate assessment.

[KentPhilip]

My favourite Mail story today is this one:

The toothless loan shark: Market trader who ran illegal lending racket from his fruit and veg stall is spared jail because interest rates were 100 times LOWER than high street firms | Mail Online

Not because of the story, but because of one of the comments. Click the "worst rated" tab, and there near the top is one who comments:

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But unlike CUK the daily mail doesn't wrap the text, so it carries on all the way over to the right, as the horizontal scrollbar testifies


Edit: Well it made me laugh..
Edit2: Yes it is exactly 1000 characters.
Edit3: No it wasn't me.
Edit4: Actually CUK has slightly mangled it - there is no space between each 10 and 00

[Old Greg]

Not according to a reputable source

Rothermere urged Hitler to invade Romania - This Britain - UK - The Independent



People like that do not believe, they manipulate to obtain power.

You are part right - fascism was seen by elements of the ruling class as a bulwark against communism, but I think people are more complex than that. It's much easier to self-justify your position if you can believe in it, much as I would like to think that the powerful are all entirely cynical.

[TheFaQQer]

Favourite Daily Mail stories

"Mail leads the way in banning paparazzi pictures."

Because since 1997, they've never used a single one.

[vetran]

Rothermere wasn't an opportunist. He was infatuated with fascism.

Not according to a reputable source

Rothermere urged Hitler to invade Romania - This Britain - UK - The Independent

said Rothermere had been a "warm supporter of the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement with Germany ... and the restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy in Austria ... He had at various times employed as confidential go-betweens various personages who had the entrée to high political circles in Germany, Austria and Hungary". Mr Butler added: "Some years ago Lord Rothermere, in order to further his international political aims, engaged the Princess Hohenlohe's services [for] £5,000 per annum and continued to pay this sum for a number of years ... the work was done by the Princess to Lord Rothermere's satisfaction."

People like that do not believe, they manipulate to obtain power.

[Old Greg]

The British knew about the planned Final Solution in 1938, but they couldn't do much at the time because the info had been obtained by decrypting Nazi messages, and the survival of the UK depended on keeping this ability secret.

But the British did arrange the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the chief architect of the plans and someone who was tipped as Hitler's successor, and was every bit as bad as him if not worse (in that he was thought to lack Adolf's vulnerability to being wound up into an enraged state where he might do something stupid!)

There is a very nice fountain just down the road, as a memorial to the Czechoslovaks who carried out the assassination.

[Mich the Tester]

Doesn't that cause cancer?

How am I supposed to know that if the Wail don't tell me how much her house was worth?

[Old Greg]

Rumour has it he was shagging a Nazi.

Doesn't that cause cancer?

[Mich the Tester]

Rothermere wasn't an opportunist. He was infatuated with fascism.

Rumour has it he was shagging a Nazi.

[Old Greg]

no they were both just opportunist W1nkers talking Tulip.

Murdoch, Black etc would never do something like that.

Rothermere wasn't an opportunist. He was infatuated with fascism.

[vetran]

I thought that too. Funny old world.

Edit: I guess that means that Rothermere = Galloway x Hitler/Saddam

no they were both just opportunist W1nkers talking Tulip.

Murdoch, Black etc would never do something like that.

[EternalOptimist]

Was it the same article?

no, one had kissed a handsome prince, the other was married to Charles

[Old Greg]

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

I thought that too. Funny old world.

Edit: I guess that means that Rothermere = Galloway x Hitler/Saddam

[vetran]

Exactly!

I salute your Excellency’s star, which rises higher and higher.

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

[Old Greg]

I dont read the papers anyway. Not since that headline about a woman giving birth to a frog.

and all those Diana photos. put me off for life they did

Was it the same article?