this entire administration is irredeemable scum.
Article is a good read about Miller.
The choice of USS Doris Miller marked the first time an aircraft carrier would honor an enlisted sailor, and the first aircraft carrier to be named for an African American. Asked about his decision to name the carrier after Miller, Modly told CNN that it was recommended to him by a group of retired Black admirals, and that he believes “one of our most powerful warships should bear the name of a sailor like Miller to bring greater attention to what makes our Navy so unique — and great.”
Stalin got his start in the bolshevik party as a fundraiser. He robbed banks. Not with a stick up, not with safe cracking. He would roll up with a team, throw some grenades into the building, run in as the dust settled, grab the cash, then throw grenades around dthr Street the cover the getaway.
Stalin was a crazy dumbass willing to kill dozens of innocents for money.
Hitler was an Incel. His college roommate told the world about how he obsessed over a young woman for months, said they were fated to be together, but never got the courage to speak to her.
He carried a horsehip everywhere and hit people that passed him off.
He made people call him “Herr wulf” (Mr wolf) as a badass nickname. This is why his bunker in Berlin was called the wolf’s lair.
They were absolutely fucking stupid.
Source: early episodes of Behind the Bastards podcast.
I don’t know about the wolf part, but the term Herr was/is super common when referring to somebody male. Not only does it mean Mr or sir, its part of German etiquette to use that term. Like how Japanese add San to a persons name to show respect. Hitler would not need to insist people call him Herr, its just how he would be referred to.
My understanding is Herr is an honorific, totally normal. Herr wulf is the equivalent of a 22 year old me saying “Call me Mr Blade.”
It’s cringe so hard it should be lethal.
That’s how people interpret it now, after the fact, but it is much more likely he was referencing his own first name which is based on old German name Athalwolf.
As well as influence of Wolfgang being a very popular German name. (I had some german friends choose Wolfgang as their nicknmame, instead of their boring anglicised names).
We are trying to look at Herr Wolf through English terms, and I’m not sure it is totally accurate. As Athalwolf carries the meaning of nobility, and less about wolves.
Please don’t take this as me defending Hitler, he was a fragile ego man, who did horrible things and wanted to be omnipotent.
I am just skeptical when later analysis might try to fit a certain narrative.
I appreciate the context.
Don’t forget how Hitler was obsessed with the equivalent of Harry Potter at the time. He completely believed the self-insert author actually possessed wonder weapons from the books. Hitler even insisted on using military strategies from the books in some offensives depite the author having no military background.
Ha ha ha, I will have to check it out thanks.
Still though, our guy is dumber, but maybe just because he’s a decrepit old dotard.
Side note as to the horsewhipping on the street, reminds me of Ivan the Terrible, Russia’s old Tsar. He used to go on the streets in plainclothes and cut peoples’ beards off just for the lulz. Forget what year he was.
The young woman Hitler stallked didn’t know he existed. She found out about the crush decades later. He thought she was secretly communicating her love for him via qanon esqe codes like the color of her scarf or where she stopped to eat a pastry.
He was a complete incel buffoon, (obviously not later with Eva Braun, but as a young man) and part of reason he was declared chancellor was they thought he couldn’t do much harm.