Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.

Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.

Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.

None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

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@theropologist when it became useful to claim our opponents were Nazis (to steal the universal condemnation) we stopped emphasizing the loserdom.

But actual neo-nazis are still losers

@WomanCorn @theropologist While I don’t deny the period in history wherein the large majority of self-professed “Nazis” were social rejects, this is no longer the case by virtue of sheer statistics.
yeah but the NSDAP were chads and based and the good guys.

@Xenophon @theropologist @WomanCorn anyone fighting for their race is a winner, and all race traitors are losers

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