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The truth is that "intellectual laziness" is purely the territory of those who believe that their "knowledge" is irrefutable because it comes from the bible. A book clearly, irrefutably, written by man to control man. Saying "the bible says" so it must be true, is the definition of lazy, brain washed thinking. I'm sorry you cannot see this, perhaps one day you will. Actually, you may get help by looking at the myriad contradictions in the bible. Of course the theologians tell us "you are misinterpreting it." Well, considering it is, allegedly, the word of god, it's pretty poor. Oh, and incidentally, I certainly have not had "plain facts" revealed to me and chosen to ignore them. Were there even one fact indicating the existence of a creator. I would be happy to acknowledge it. Sadly, for the believers, all they have is blind faith and a book of childish stories. I, on the other hand, will enjoy the only life I am sure of. I will enjoy the many things that this one life has to offer, and do my best to be a caring, thoughtful, happy individual. When my time is up, if I am proved wrong, and find myself standing before the great dictator - who wanted me to bow and prostrate myself in abject worship, I will tell him I have been a good person and if that is not enough for him then I'm sure - in his "mercy" - he will send me straight to hell.

The Great Dictator 1940

Was in the mood to watch Chaplin's Great Dictator and saw this.

It's from "The Great Dictator" and I'd throw a doublepromote at it if it was not a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Chaplin-Dictator-Speech

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Chaplain made fun of ol Adolf in the Great Dictator-The Producers??...NOt a question of fair use s'matter of who owns what rights to the content colliding with who calls the youtube hotline-,1-800-THAT MY-SHIT-BITCH

*face palm*

Honestly what are you going to say next? Bush actually cared about democracy while bombing two nations back to the stone age?

The GDR, The DPRK shit even my own nation says they are democratic and for the people while remaining entirely dictatorial.

There is a difference between saying something to again acceptance and power. Then doing something entirely contrary. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and every other great dictator has been a master at saying one thing while pursuing their own agendas.

The whole film is available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3576946720625071273&ei=Tr42SaCNKYWGiQLu_JGhCQ&q=the+great+dictator

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So right now in America censorship is rife, free speech is under attack, and subverters are being at best sacked from their jobs and at worst tazered and beaten into submission. Bush is by all accounts now the great dictator of the free world.

Welcome to 1930s Nazi Germany. All the boxes are now ticked. We are doomed.

Here is the plot summary, which gives the context for this speech, from imdb:


Plot Summary for
The Great Dictator (1940)

During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

Obviously, I'm having a little Chaplin streak. Looking for the original Great Dictator dance, I found another dance that was just too cute to pass by.

From the Wikipedia:

The final dramatic speech in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, which was critical of patriotic nationalism, was highly controversial, as was his vocal public support for the opening of a second European front in 1942 to assist the Soviet Union in World War II. The critical view of capitalism in his 1947 black comedy Monsieur Verdoux was also controversial, with the film being protested at many US cities. His European-made film A King in New York (1957) satirized the political persecution and paranioa which had forced him to leave the US five years earlier. After this film, Chaplin lost interest in making overt political statements, later saying that comedians and clowns should be apolitical and "above politics".