Four-square Christian and proud Fundi…according to her “Saddam is worse than Hitler”.

…classic.

(Personally I think he’s much more like Mussolini, whose public persona of competent manliness concealed a momma’s boy failure who was the figurehead of a violent and reactionary movement he could never really control.)

My point is though, that the typical reaction to the Nazis was ‘never again,’ and yet every time someone says ‘here we go again’ there is a chorus ready to accuse them of exaggeration and hyperbole. The only people who benefit from the Nazi comparison being out of bounds are those who would emulate them.

Furthermore, there was nothing really exceptional or remarkable about Hitler and the horrors he inflicted, not just against the Jews, but against millions of his neighbors of various races and religions. He was not an inhuman monster, but merely an all too human figure who was allowed to get out of hand.

So I’d much rather have people be too ready to compare a leader to Hitler than to say ‘well, he hasn’t actually killed a million people yet, let’s wait a little while until that total is high enough, then we can say he’s like Hitler.’

Keep in mind also that the loony right benefits from the double standard that they have set up. They are free to refer to the left as Stalinists or Nazis all they want, but as soon as one of us does it to someone on their side, it’s out of bounds and extremist. It’s bullshit, and I don’t buy it.

If you’re gonna do a piece like this, I should think that Hitler kitty would be an appropriate illustration.

I say, if you don’t want to be compared to hitler, don’t do things that make it easy for people to compare you to him.

Also, can I just say that the various commentors here that consistently hand people like RayD their ass in a paper bag are the Furers of mein heart.

Having read the original article in Der Spiegel auf Deutsch, I can’t say that I understand why these folks are getting their panties in a bunch. It’s hardly a hit piece.

…and yet he keeps on coming back time and time again.

OCD?

Maybe he’s Daphne from Pandagon.

Point taken. I’ve seen constructs such as the “mir ist kalt”, but I had always considered it that the subject (es) was left out because it was understood: mir ist es kalt (to me it is cold–although I would probably say something like “ich bin kalt). With the phrase at hand, I figured that the subject was “die Menschen” (since it was in the nominative case), and “ihm” is of course the indirect object (dative).

On the other hand, I recognize that one can’t directly translate from German to English, and vice versa.

Unless, that is, Roy takes “for good” to not mean “forever” as in common parlance, but instead something else, likely of his own coinage. Since the right these days is quite big on realigning the definitions of many common words–freedom, democracy, war, treason, compassion, conservative, to name just a few–to align them with their political objectives, Roy wanted in on this linguistic open season.

But, like a Dick, he shoots, sprays everywhere, makes a big mess, misses the target, and is then caught in a contradiction. Fun!

All that’s left undone in the Wingnut Field Manual now is to blame the victim.

…and yet he keeps on coming back time and time again.

OCD?

Well, one might go look at his list of endorsements from Malkin, LGF, Instashiznit, and Sully; as well as his links to “Day By Day”, Nice Doggie, Vodkapundit and Roger Simon.

Well, they shall judge thee by the company you keep. Or in other words, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Ben Shapiro called. He thinks it’s seditious that you stole that picture from his agitprop material. I told him I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.

I just wanted to back up Menshevik’s comment and also to tell you your confusion might stem from misreading “ihm” as “ihn.” With “ihn” the sentence as is would make no sense, but with a slight change in the verb (“liegen” to “legen”/ lie to lay) it would then translate literally as “People lay him at the heart,” which sounds like what you’re taking as the meaning.

Like tigirismus said, it’s one of those things that doesn’t really translate well word-for-word, kind of like “mir ist kalt. (In fact, with a little word order change, you can see how it is exactly like that: “Ihm liegen die Menschen am Herzen.”)

But not FAVORABLY. Shouldn’t that count for something?