I Don't Speak German - PREVIEW: Backer Bonus E5 Downfall
Aired: 2021-05-24
Duration: 03:03


=== Hitler's Shadow (03:02) ===

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[00:00:10]  All right then.
[00:00:11]  Oh, apparently they've had some lawyers get involved in this whole thing, apparently.
[00:00:16]  Yeah.
[00:00:18]  Yeah.
[00:00:20]  Probably.
[00:00:22]  I mean, I would say it's never a good sign when lawyers get involved, but we are talking about the tech industry.
[00:00:26]  So yeah, it's probably one of the best.
[00:00:29]  It's kind of like a liver shrugged.
[00:00:33]  It's like, well, I mean, the banks are terrible, but they are dealing with Facebook.
[00:00:39]  And so, yeah, it turns out the multinational banks are the good guys in this situation.
[00:00:44]  They are at least theoretically supposed to have some rules that they stick by, you know.
[00:00:49]  Yeah, well, I mean, or like, you know, when the Red Army is bombing Berlin in 1945.
[00:00:54]  Sort of.
[00:00:55]  Well, yeah.
[00:00:57]  Yeah.
[00:00:58]  Is the Red Army a completely unimpeachable organization?
[00:01:01]  No.
[00:01:03]  Well, I mean, Stalin, Stalin was terrorist.
[00:01:06]  Stalin was one of history's greatest monsters.
[00:01:07]  But Hitler, you know, Hitler.
[00:01:10]  Yeah, that's really I mean, that's just that's just an argument winning move, isn't it?
[00:01:14]  Well, I mean, that that is the Godwin.
[00:01:17]  Right thing, isn't it?
[00:01:18]  But Hitler, you know?
[00:01:19]  Yeah.
[00:01:20]  Because it is the nuke.
[00:01:22]  It's the nuclear option.
[00:01:22]  It just wins the argument immediately.
[00:01:24]  But Hitler was on the other side of that.
[00:01:27]  So, you know, whatever.
[00:01:29]  Yeah.
[00:01:29]  I mean, if you know, if if one side is Hitler, then pretty much by definition, the other side is is at least preferable.
[00:01:37]  You know, if you if you have to pick a side, you know, the side that isn't Hitler is Pretty much always the best option.
[00:01:46]  Yeah, non-Hitler is the one to go for, I would say, generally.
[00:01:52]  It's hard to find a counterexample to that, you know?
[00:01:55]  Yeah.
[00:01:56]  It's like Robert Evans talking about, you know, in one of the episodes of Behind the Bastards, he was talking about like, yeah, then one of Hitler tried to commit suicide and his friend talked him out of it.
[00:02:06]  And usually you think, talking to someone out of suicide, universal good.
[00:02:12]  Maybe if your friend is Hitler, go, yeah, no, that probably would have been fine.
[00:02:17]  Yeah.
[00:02:17]  Yeah.
[00:02:20]  Yeah, First World War, you know, 99 times out of 100, my exhortation to the German and British troops firing at each other would be, lay down your arms and join forces against your mutual class enemy on both sides of the national divide.
[00:02:37]  But in the case where the British soldiers are firing at Hitler, keep firing.
[00:02:46]  Yeah.
[00:02:47]  Aim better.
[00:02:49]  Try just a little bit harder.
[00:02:51]  Hitler, not so good, controversially, he said.
[00:02:56]  Not such a great person.
[00:02:59]  Not such a nice guy.
[00:03:00]  Unless you were his secretary, apparently, and even then.