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Reminds me of Count Dankula, the guy who dressed his dog up like hitler and got arrested for it.

by junon 5y ago

tombert 5y ago
I thought he taught a dog to do a Nazi salute whenever someone said "gas the Jews", so I think slightly worse than just dressing it up. I still think it's ridiculous he got in trouble for it though.
- throw_m239339 5y ago
  > I thought he taught a dog to do a Nazi salute whenever someone said "gas the Jews", so I think slightly worse than just dressing it up. It was a(n amateurish) skit. The Monty Python did worse, did he need an authorization for that or something? This is getting ridiculous and the trial was a farce itself, with real life consequences. Neither should have a record of any kind of doing what they did. Praise the first Amendment, the kind of liberalism European governments strangely aren't in a hurry to copy...
  - bitwize 5y ago
    Popehat's Law of Goats applies.
    - collegeburner 5y ago
      It's not a "law", it's often misused as a cheap way to attack things that are obvious satire. Like here, being edgy (even in bad taste) does not make someone an actual nazi. Of course even if they were an actual nazi that should still be protected.
      - oh_sigh 5y ago
        Poetically, the only other dog that I know of which learned the Nazi salute was absolutely despised by the Nazis, and they went out of their way to try to find the dog, using a lot of resources that could have been more efficiently used gassing innocent families. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12nazi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12nazi.html
  - tombert 5y ago
    I agree, hence why I said I don't think he should have gotten in trouble.
  - pessimizer 5y ago
    > did he need an authorization for that or something? I think the legal standard is that he had to have finished an Oxbridge degree, or at least spent a semester in the Footlights.
    - deleted 5y ago
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  - hulitu 5y ago
    Monty Python shall be forbidden. "Nail him, i say". They even have a manual: "How to irritate people".
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  I find the response to him vastly more offensive than his obvious joke of having a cute dog making a horrible gesture. No, it wasn't a very good joke, but some of those live by the reaction of the audience... What has been brought onto him because of that video is a travesty.
  - tombert 5y ago
    I don’t agree with punishing him, but if his further statements since then are anything to by, he is someone I very much don’t like. Obviously being unlikeable shouldn’t be a crime, but I don’t really have to respect him either.
    - raxxorrax 5y ago
      Of course. I tend to excuse his behavior because of the accusations against him are dishonest to the core. Not that I would have had high expectations from anyone that calls himself Count Dankula in the first place.
rglover 5y ago
He didn't dress it up, just taught it to respond to certain phrases. The original video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ro2aKSUIezY https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ro2aKSUIezY

Reminds me of Count Dankula, the guy who dressed his dog up like hitler and got arrested for it.

by junon 5y ago

Reminds me of Count Dankula, the guy who dressed his dog up like hitler and got arrested for it.

I thought he taught a dog to do a Nazi salute whenever someone said "gas the Jews", so I think slightly worse than just dressing it up. I still think it's ridiculous he got in trouble for it though.

throw_m239339 5y ago
> I thought he taught a dog to do a Nazi salute whenever someone said "gas the Jews", so I think slightly worse than just dressing it up. It was a(n amateurish) skit. The Monty Python did worse, did he need an authorization for that or something? This is getting ridiculous and the trial was a farce itself, with real life consequences. Neither should have a record of any kind of doing what they did. Praise the first Amendment, the kind of liberalism European governments strangely aren't in a hurry to copy...
- bitwize 5y ago
  Popehat's Law of Goats applies.
  - collegeburner 5y ago
    It's not a "law", it's often misused as a cheap way to attack things that are obvious satire. Like here, being edgy (even in bad taste) does not make someone an actual nazi. Of course even if they were an actual nazi that should still be protected.
    - oh_sigh 5y ago
      Poetically, the only other dog that I know of which learned the Nazi salute was absolutely despised by the Nazis, and they went out of their way to try to find the dog, using a lot of resources that could have been more efficiently used gassing innocent families. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12nazi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12nazi.html
- tombert 5y ago
  I agree, hence why I said I don't think he should have gotten in trouble.
- pessimizer 5y ago
  > did he need an authorization for that or something? I think the legal standard is that he had to have finished an Oxbridge degree, or at least spent a semester in the Footlights.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- hulitu 5y ago
  Monty Python shall be forbidden. "Nail him, i say". They even have a manual: "How to irritate people".
raxxorrax 5y ago
I find the response to him vastly more offensive than his obvious joke of having a cute dog making a horrible gesture. No, it wasn't a very good joke, but some of those live by the reaction of the audience... What has been brought onto him because of that video is a travesty.
- tombert 5y ago
  I don’t agree with punishing him, but if his further statements since then are anything to by, he is someone I very much don’t like. Obviously being unlikeable shouldn’t be a crime, but I don’t really have to respect him either.
  - raxxorrax 5y ago
    Of course. I tend to excuse his behavior because of the accusations against him are dishonest to the core. Not that I would have had high expectations from anyone that calls himself Count Dankula in the first place.

rglover 5y ago

He didn't dress it up, just taught it to respond to certain phrases. The original video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ro2aKSUIezY https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ro2aKSUIezY