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Originally Posted by FullWroth
I approve of anything that further reduces the remaining psychological power of a psychotic mass murderer. Many people use humor to cope, and laughing at someone like Hitler is empowering. Under his control, free thought was carefully monitored and anything unflattering was destroyed. Now look at him - we can deface his image all we want, and there's not a damn thing he or his former co-conspirators can do about it.
As someone who grew up in eastern Europe during the Soviet Union, I'd say that's a pretty damn good thing.
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I was actually going to post something along the lines of that. I'll even use my own personal situation. My family came from Vietnam. Many people died and suffered from the war. It was chaos from what I've learned. People who were used to living nicely ended up being dirt poor due to all their money being taken away. There was a relative who intentionally chopped off his own foot to avoid military combat since he believed he would have died otherwise. There were often piles of dead soldiers of the opposing side left on display for villagers to see.
My mom's been in the jail because she was caught trying to escape along with loads of other people. Many people including my family were willing to risk their lives to venture through the ocean in a little tiny beat up boat. It would have been better than living under the communist regime. My mother's had close friends of her die, unsuccessfully passing through the ocean. My dad's father was an American soldier that was lost from the war. My mom's young brother (who I think was about 10-12 at the time) and aunt made it on the little boat, was picked up by Australia, and he later established his life in order to sponsor the rest of his family over there as well.
As for my mom, she ended up marrying my dad and they left thanks to the Amerasian Homecoming Act.
Everyone I've seen who have escaped overseas love the ridicule of the government they left behind. My parents, who are the ones that actually have a strong connection with the events that have taken place, love it when people poke fun at the communist regime, people affiliated with it, and Ho Chi Minh (man many people overseas hate because they consider him a murderer for starting the war). Now that they have the right to laugh at them and poke of them without being afraid of any consequences, they'll do it any chance they get.
My father found a youtube video of someone (most likely not living in Vietnam) doing a prank call to a communist police. He loved it and sometimes when he gets bored, he watches it again. I personally don't find it funny because I've heard better prank calls. When I first saw the photo of Hitler with makeup on, I thought, that's a clever prank. So I went on my computer, found a picture of Ho Chi Minh, dolled him up pretty poorly due to my lack of graphic skills, and sent it to my father. He found it funny. I showed my mother and at first she was worried and wanted to know if I made it. I said yes. Then she wanted to know if I posted it on the internet. I said no, why? She tells me to be careful and not post it on the web. I ask her, "Are they going to hunt me down and kill me?". She says, "No, but they might keep tabs on you and if you ever visit their country, they might nab you right away". "That extreme?", I say. "You never know what the communists are capable of..." Whenever people who have escaped from Vietnam come back for leisure vacation, business, etc. they have to keep mum while on their soil.
In this case, the fear still exists somewhat. But it sure isn't going to prevent us from laughing here because at least we're ALLOWED to. My family doesn't dread on it. What good would that do.
As for change, well, I'm not going do it. My cousin's a polisci majar for that reason. To try to reform Vietnam. I'll leave that to her.
