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(Slate) Amusing Slate plays "six degrees of Adolf Hitler" with the presidential candidates. Godwinner, at two degrees: Hitlary   (slate.com) divider line 218
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Majick Thise [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 06:40:42 PM  
As much as Hillary's downward spiral amuses me, this info does not impress me much. I was born 22 years after Der Fuhrer died and I have never lived outside of central Indiana yet there are only three people (possibly 4) between me and Hitler.

 
strangeguitar 2008-04-19 07:59:19 PM  
The movie "Downfall" was about Hitler
It starred Christian Berkel who is in the upcoming movie Valkyrie with Tom Cruise who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
Less than 6.
I win

 
OregonVet [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 08:10:15 PM  
Majick Thise: have never lived outside of central Indiana yet there are only three people (possibly 4) between me and Hitler.

That's funny. I have only been within three or possibly four people of those that killed a bunch of Nazis and I live in Ohio.

 
Majick Thise [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 08:25:06 PM  
ok here is the list

Hitler wants rockets so....
Wernher Von Braun is Hitlers rocket scientist. After the war Werner works for USA heading NASA until 1972. Dies in 1977. Wernher knows..
John Glenn astronaut and later US Senator who was on the short list for Vice President to...
Jimmy Carter in 1976. During the Presidential election before he became President, Jimmy Carter shook hands with...
My sister.
Me

During my exhaustive research (I spent whole minutes on this) I have not been able to determine if Jimmy Carter actually met Wernher. If he did I can remove John Glenn from the list

OregonVet: I have only been within three or possibly four people of those that killed a bunch of Nazis and I live in Ohio

Details?

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 08:29:49 PM  
The interesting thing about this is that anyone who has ever met John Glenn is three degrees from Hitler. If you've ever met anyone who has worked for NASA, you probably aren't more than five degrees from Hitler.

/just saying

 
OregonVet [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 08:59:21 PM  
Majick Thise: Details?

I come from a long line of warriors tracable (thanks to my cousin the anthropologist) to the Scott's and through 'till now. Details are not all that interesting tho.

 
Tabatha Static 2008-04-19 10:06:38 PM  
i27.photobucket.com

/My brain is hangin' upside down

 
Saborlas [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 10:22:25 PM  
George W. Bush's grandfather (Prescott Bush) financed Hitler's rise to power.

Just getting that in and over with. Continue.

 
Procedural Texture [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-04-19 10:28:09 PM  
Saborlas: George W. Bush's grandfather (Prescott Bush) financed Hitler's rise to power.
Just getting that in and over with. Continue.


QFT.

 
Jubeebee 2008-04-19 10:38:17 PM  
My grandfather led a Stuka bomber squadron. How many degrees of separation is that?

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 10:55:18 PM  
Saborlas: George W. Bush's grandfather (Prescott Bush) financed Hitler's rise to power.
Just getting that in and over with. Continue.


Slightly outside the scope, but so did IBM. Hitler got his ideas how to deal with his political enemies, and later the Jews, by watching the people who worked on our Eugenics programs.

/just FYI

 
MacEnvy [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 11:03:41 PM  
GAT_00: Slightly outside the scope, but so did IBM. Hitler got his ideas how to deal with his political enemies, and later the Jews, by watching the people who worked on our Eugenics programs.

/just FYI


The difference being, the head of IBM's (at the time) grandson didn't later run for and win the US Presidency. If he did, I've have some questions about that as well.

What was your point again?

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 11:17:56 PM  
MacEnvy: The difference being, the head of IBM's (at the time) grandson didn't later run for and win the US Presidency. If he did, I've have some questions about that as well.

What was your point again?


I said it was outside the scope of the thread and it was just FYI. I'm also pointing out that you can point to Hitler everywhere in American politics.

 
Jubeebee 2008-04-19 11:30:26 PM  
alexanderplatz: Jubeebee My grandfather led a Stuka bomber squadron. How many degrees of separation is that?


Was this his plane?


Oh, close. Make it 50 times bigger and exploding over Romania, and you'll be dead on.

 
Skeptos 2008-04-19 11:38:45 PM  
My father once shook hands with George Bush Senior, so I guess that would be four degrees of separation between me and Hitler?

 
video man 2008-04-19 11:39:30 PM  
This is stupid!;
LOLOLOLOLOL SHE KNEW A GIRL WHO KNEW HITLER LOLOLOLOLOL, SECRET NAZI!!!!111ONE!1!

How about more on her policy against Obama's; that's what matters!

 
skinink 2008-04-19 11:40:06 PM  
Seeing how Jews do not eat bacon, I'm not sure how Hitler would feel about the whole six degrees from Kevin Bacon.

 
Fabric_Man 2008-04-19 11:42:00 PM  
video man: This is stupid!;
LOLOLOLOLOL SHE KNEW A GIRL WHO KNEW HITLER LOLOLOLOLOL, SECRET NAZI!!!!111ONE!1!

How about more on her policy against Obama's; that's what matters!


Now, now. We don't want to confuse the stupid people, now do we? Let's just stick with who had the best zinger today and no one will feel inadequate.

 
alacy52 2008-04-19 11:44:41 PM  
video man: This is stupid!;
LOLOLOLOLOL SHE KNEW A GIRL WHO KNEW HITLER LOLOLOLOLOL, SECRET NAZI!!!!111ONE!1!

How about more on her policy against Obama's; that's what matters!


That would be a short thread since there's no difference in their policies.

 
Funk Brothers 2008-04-19 11:45:34 PM  
Obama has a lot in common with Hitler.

 
macdaddy357 2008-04-19 11:46:12 PM  
Guten Morge, Herr Hitler.
Autobahn!
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Wienerschnitzel!

 
wildcardjack 2008-04-19 11:47:59 PM  
Since this isn't up already

www.dare2sayit.com

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." - Hillary Clinton

And surprise surprise, someone already had a Hitlery (p) website

 
Dr MacGregor's Monkey 2008-04-19 11:48:17 PM  
You know who used to also have a similarity to Hitler?



/Hitler?

 
JewZeppy 2008-04-19 11:49:00 PM  
You know who else knew who else?

 
JewZeppy 2008-04-19 11:49:43 PM  
You're lucky I was rolling, Doc.

 
El_Swino 2008-04-19 11:49:51 PM  
Hitler's Luftwaffe dropped bombs on my Dad's housing estate during the London blitz, and one of Hitler's submarines torpedoed my Dad's evacuation ship. I feel like I practically know the guy!

 
GoRedSoxGo 2008-04-19 11:49:54 PM  
video man: This is stupid!;
LOLOLOLOLOL SHE KNEW A GIRL WHO KNEW HITLER LOLOLOLOLOL, SECRET NAZI!!!!111ONE!1!

How about more on her policy against Obama's; that's what matters!


I read this not as a "gotcha, you're a Nazi" article, but as an illustration of exactly how stupid things get when we try to stretch guilt by association like a good chunk of the mass media has been trying to do this entire campaign. Meh. Just me.

 
4th Yorkshireman of the Apocalypse 2008-04-19 11:51:11 PM  
I guided his spirit to his reward in the Heavens, and....

..wait a minute....

**rushes away to fix a "small mistake"**

 
simpsonfan 2008-04-19 11:51:51 PM  
I once met Moe of the Three Stooges. He played Hitler in one of the shorts. The one where they were on a ship, it got toropedoed, and they ended up on a German ship. Moe pretended to be Hitler at one point. Stupid german officers never wondered why Der Fuhrer was on one of their ships in the middle of the ocean. Moe's 'personality' fell off when he sneezed.

 
LukeA 2008-04-19 11:52:51 PM  
Saw Hillary at the Capitol once. Decided not to approach her to meet her. About 15 feet away.

Is that 3 degrees or am I safe?

 
Aarontology [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 11:54:21 PM  
LukeA: Saw Hillary at the Capitol once. Decided not to approach her to meet her. About 15 feet away.

Is that 3 degrees or am I safe?


It depends. Was eye contact made?

 
Metaluna Mutant 2008-04-19 11:54:27 PM  
strangeguitar: The movie "Downfall" was about Hitler
It starred Christian Berkel who is in the upcoming movie Valkyrie with Tom Cruise who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
Less than 6.
I win


"Downfall" is based (in part) on the autobiography of Hitler's Secretary Traudl Junge who knew H hisself. So it's a real link, not just by the subject.

BTW My uncle was an MP at the Nuremberg Trials (drafted in late '45) after the war. He saw 'em all - Goering, Speer, Hess etc. Guess that makes me 4 steps from Hitler. Jeez, that's farkin' creepy, now that I think about it.

 
jbc [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 11:54:51 PM  
At least she's not a frakkin' Cylon.

farm3.static.flickr.com

 
Funk Brothers 2008-04-19 11:58:30 PM  
jbc

At least Obama isn't the third Antichrist. Oh wait, he is.

 
krelborne 2008-04-20 12:02:45 AM  
Majick Thise: I have never lived outside of central Indiana yet there are only three people (possibly 4) between me and Hitler.

I hate IllinoisIndiana nazis.

 
Superjoe 2008-04-20 12:03:34 AM  
George W. Bush's grandfather (Prescott Bush) financed Hitler's rise to power.


I thought Bush was Hitler. What is that, 0 degrees?

I'm just kidding, neocons, he's obviously very different from Hitler. He doesn't even have a mustache.

 
wydok 2008-04-20 12:05:29 AM  
My wife was once hit on by Wil Wheaton
Who was in Stand By Me with Kiefer Sutherland
Who was in a Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon

But I'm not sure how that has to do with Hitler

 
bmb_789 2008-04-20 12:06:34 AM  
I'm three degrees from Hitler. I'm not really sure if I should be proud of this or not.

/I'm dating a jewish girl
//Means she is only 4 degrees from der fuhrer
///Probably shouldn't tell her

 
GBmanNC 2008-04-20 12:09:30 AM  
My uncle is a secret service agent who has been on guard detail or met practically any leader you can think of. I have pictures of him with: Hillary and Bill, Gore, Arafat, and Bush Sr off the top of my head. I never really thought about it but I guess that makes me 6 degrees from practically anyone of importance. Apparently that includes Hitler. Yay!!!

 
geekybroad 2008-04-20 12:10:24 AM  
I'm waiting for:

"I knew Hitler"

and

"I am Hitler".

 
TMBGfreak 2008-04-20 12:11:22 AM  
wydok: My wife was once hit on by Wil Wheaton
Who was in Stand By Me with Kiefer Sutherland
Who was in a Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon

But I'm not sure how that has to do with Hitler


My childhood babysitter was Katie Holmes' cousin
She's married to Crazy Cruise
Few Good men with Kevin Bacon

/because Kevin Bacon is better
//is this just for the birthday?

 
wal9000 2008-04-20 12:11:49 AM  
All claim to be Christians

Clinton, Obama, McCain -> Jesus -> Hitler

 
Atillathepun [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 12:12:56 AM  
alacy52: video man: This is stupid!;
LOLOLOLOLOL SHE KNEW A GIRL WHO KNEW HITLER LOLOLOLOLOL, SECRET NAZI!!!!111ONE!1!

How about more on her policy against Obama's; that's what matters!

That would be a short thread since there's no difference in their policies.


Why do people wave their ignorance so proudly on the internet? Or did you think saying something that 536,472 people have said before would make you seem original and clever? Hillary and Barack's website are simply a click away AND YOU HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO READ THEM have you? And yet you expect someone to give a crap about your "sage" words here? What a joke.

There are several policy differences even the most OBTUSE drooling idiot should know by now, such as their POLICY about meeting with leaders of countries we are unfriendly with or their POLICY about mandating Healthcare or not. Even their policies regarding how to deal with the housing crisis differ significantly.

I get so TIRED of people repeating BULLshiat. STFU. I find it pathetic and tragic.

/hope I didn't hurt the precious little drone's feelings.

 
GBmanNC 2008-04-20 12:14:09 AM  
geekybroad: I'm waiting for:

"I knew Hitler"

and

"I am Hitler".


Pfft. I KILLED Hitler!

 
TMBGfreak 2008-04-20 12:14:13 AM  
GBmanNC: My uncle is a secret service agent who has been on guard detail or met practically any leader you can think of. I have pictures of him with: Hillary and Bill, Gore, Arafat, and Bush Sr off the top of my head. I never really thought about it but I guess that makes me 6 degrees from practically anyone of importance. Apparently that includes Hitler. Yay!!!

Hey, he probably knows my dad. He was on Nancy Reagan's detail and a little bit of Bush Sr's. He did a bunch of others during campaigns and UN assemblies and the like.

/We have a random rug from Hamid Karzai
//3 degrees from YOU!

 
Magic_Button 2008-04-20 12:17:24 AM  
+I was born in "Berlin" Ontario
+I am a failed artist
+I like beer
+I have been to Oktoberfest
+I fixed a person of Jewish faith's furnace .

= I am Hitler , and I am...... never mind

 
GBmanNC 2008-04-20 12:17:54 AM  
TMBGfreak: GBmanNC: My uncle is a secret service agent who has been on guard detail or met practically any leader you can think of. I have pictures of him with: Hillary and Bill, Gore, Arafat, and Bush Sr off the top of my head. I never really thought about it but I guess that makes me 6 degrees from practically anyone of importance. Apparently that includes Hitler. Yay!!!

Hey, he probably knows my dad. He was on Nancy Reagan's detail and a little bit of Bush Sr's. He did a bunch of others during campaigns and UN assemblies and the like.

/We have a random rug from Hamid Karzai
//3 degrees from YOU!


Also, my brother's best friend's cousin is also Katie Holmes!(Seriously)
Weird...

 
technicolor-misfit 2008-04-20 12:18:25 AM  
I'm not sure how the degrees are calculated so I don't know how many degrees it is, but I'm one person away from Hitler. (as in, I know someone who knew Hitler)

I live in Huntsville, AL., and have met a couple of members of Von Braun's team... one of whom I know for a fact knew Hitler...

There are probably dozens more connections when you put two or three or more people between... I know lots of guys who worked directly with Von Braun or members of his team.

 
Anagrammer 2008-04-20 12:19:07 AM  
i275.photobucket.com

 
HitlerWasConservative 2008-04-20 12:19:32 AM  
Me.

FTW.

 
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