Poll of the Day > so do you think in 700 years from now...

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We will have a German resturant chain called Hilter Grill like Genghis Grill, or will there be a Bill and Ted remake and they make friends will Hilter.
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I highly doubt it.
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I'm going to have to say no...
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yeah, i do.

once you get a generation or 2 removed from horrible people, revisionist historians love to point out the positive shit that came about as an unintentional byproduct of the shit they did.

ghenghis kahn for example gets credit for opening trade between europe and asia. alexander gets credit for bringing helenism to the middle east. both were not anything either of these monsters intended. they were genocidal maniacs, but once you actually get to a point where nobody living experienced this awful shit, or knew anyone who did, the narrative changes.

theyll make arguments about all of the technological advancements that were made. oh we made it to space off the backs of the nazis. and oh, israel was made into a nation state as a direct result of hitlers actions and blah blah blah

its shooting an arrow and then painting the bullseye around it. revisionist historians are great at it.

edit: id say give it a couple hundred
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^ don't forget about hannibal.
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History is funny like that. There's a good chance something like that will happen one day. Not in our lifetimes, but Hitler's evil is going to eventually going to be downplayed as time passes, as people directly harmed by Hitler die, and as people who know people who were directly harmed by Hitler die, and people who knew people who knew people who were directly harmed by Hitler die, and as that chain becomes longer and longer over the course of time, there's a good chance, in a few centuries, Hitler will be reduced to "quirky German villain."
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there's a restaurant called naruto

https://www.yelp.com/biz/naruto-japanese-restaurant-anchorage

anything is possible
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Golden Road posted...

in a few centuries, Hitler will be reduced to "quirky German villain."

He sort of is, already... I mean, it feels that way, sometimes... Also, didn't they make a hitler sitcom once?
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Troll_Police_ posted...

ghenghis kahn for example gets credit for opening trade between europe and asia. alexander gets credit for bringing helenism to the middle east. both were not anything either of these monsters intended. they were genocidal maniacs, but once you actually get to a point where nobody living experienced this awful shit, or knew anyone who did, the narrative changes.

If anything, I find that people tend to accentuate the negative more with Khan. While he was an absolute monster to anyone who opposed him (and I don't think I've ever seen anyone dispute that), he was actually reasonable as a ruler (for the time period, anyways), and instituted a number of remarkably progressive policies, like allowing conquered peoples to keep their culture and religion, which was virtually unheard of at the time. That and he usually gets tagged with a bunch of awful shit that he didn't actually do, like the sacking of Bagdhad (source of the famous "The Tigris ran red with blood and black with ink" descriptor) and the creation of germ warfare by hurling diseased corpses into a besieged city, both of which were carried out by his descendants long after his own death.
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LinkPizza posted...

Golden Road posted...

in a few centuries, Hitler will be reduced to "quirky German villain."

He sort of is, already... I mean, it feels that way, sometimes... Also, didn't they make a hitler sitcom once?

The difference is "edgy." No one uses Genghis Khan to be edgy. In all likelihood, Hitler will be seen the same way one day.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Who%27s_Back_(film)
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helIy posted...

there's a restaurant called naruto

https://www.yelp.com/biz/naruto-japanese-restaurant-anchorage

anything is possible

naruto is food fyi
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