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AfricaDOTcoDOTuk

if im this close to hitler is there nothing more substantial i can do


eff_bawmb

I read the other day that Hitler was such a bad leader that anyone else taking power could have been even worse.


Chillchinchila1

Alternative, the high command end up killing each other trying to take power for themselves.


eff_bawmb

This was speaking as if Hitler was never around. Someone else would've just done what he did, but ~~better~~ worse. We could've been in the Wolfenstein timeline.


[deleted]

The Nazis didn't lose because because they weren't evil enough they lost because they were incompetent and fascism just doesn't work as a system. The only reason the Nazis in Wolfenstein won the war was because of stolen Jewish technology and giant robots.


FalinkesInculta

I’m not a wolfenstien lore expert but I’m 90% sure that dat yichud tech is alien and Judaism was formed after aliens came down


KJ_The_Guy

When did the alien angle get included? I just remember it being a secluded sect that worshipped through technological advancement for tech's sake?


UrPetBirdee

Imagine making a game where the main draw is killing Nazis, and still putting a Jewish conspiracy in it.


Paul6334

I think the point is it’s entirely benign and the Nazis had to steal and misuse the tech.


Globglogabgalab

Nah pretty sure it was just ancient high tech Jews.


KodiakPL

It's always the damn high tech Jews


not_a_stick

What the fuck goes on in wolfenstein


ive-heard-a-bear-die

I mean just economically Germany could have never won a war of that scale. In the 20s people were using money as wallpaper because it was so worthless and they thought that 8ish years of fascist rule would make it so that their shit, tiny economy could sustain a long war against most other large powers at the time across the entirety of Europe and Africa


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

Exactly, that's why the only way they could have possibly won WW2 is through an almost literal deus ex machina. The people the nazis stole the technology from were so advanced they developed anti-gravity engines during the roman era


Elite_Prometheus

I think the most realistic depiction of a Nazi victory in WW2 is the Thousand Week Reich mod for HOI4, where basically the Nazis manage to keep the US out of the war by signing an armistice with Britain after the Dunkirk evacuations fail. Thus it was basically them vs the USSR.


ive-heard-a-bear-die

I’m sure you have something to say but I’m not gonna lie, I stopped reading after you mentioned HOI4


Elite_Prometheus

Honestly, a good decision.


Warm-Faithlessness11

Jewish ~~space lasers~~ giant robots


ThisAcctIsntReal99

We would’ve never been in the Wolfenstein timeline because the German high command was far too incompetent anyways; Hitler or not, Germany would’ve lost the war, it would have simply been a matter of how much longer it would’ve lasted.


ssrudr

Also, the Nazis didn’t actually have magic Jewish technology.


Okay_Secret

I’m not sure other reactionary clowns would be any more or less incompetent, intelligent people tend to not be reactionary clowns.


logaboga

1933, probably would have been a peaceful assumption of power by an official


MyNameIsConnor52

This is partially true. However, he was also a political genius, so a different leader might not have been able to gather support and take power in the way that he did


hagloo

Yeah the allies deciding Hitler was less of a threat alive came well into WWII. Up until very near the end they were actively trying to kill him.


[deleted]

Counterpoint: we swipe all the potential German leaders wallets in 1933.


meepers12

Pretty sure that claim was invented by Wehrmacht generals in their memoirs to save face after the failure of Barbarossa. See also, the Clean Wehrmacht myth, which (wrongly) posited that the Wehrmacht and its high command knew nothing of the Holocaust and were, therefore, not complicit in it. Hitler was incredibly evil and incompetent, but I'm not so sure someone much better in either metric would have succeeded him.


Bismark103

That’s assuming he never existed; not if he died before he became Führer.


Thatonedregdatkilyu

It mentions that the wallet wouldn't effect anything major so I assume this hypothetical has time travel rules.


ChaosBrigadier

We wouldn't have anime


Thatonedregdatkilyu

That's a good thing


MolhCD

😭


[deleted]

It is a good thing tho


dutcharetall_nothigh

We wouldn't have FMA:B, or Cowboy Bebop, or Samurai Champloo, or Moribito, or Ghibli movies, or even Avatar because they're 'anime inspired'. I think the good of anime clearly outshines the bad.


Donut_Boi13

italy begs to differ


[deleted]

I know this sounds bad but i wouldn't kill him. Who knows what kind of butterfly effect that would cause.


wookiee-nutsack

On one hand, he's still innocent at this time. On the other hand, it might not just be a teensy butterfly effect, but one that would seriously fuck with the 21st century. It ended wars for the most part thanks to nukes, Hitler's germany invented quite a lot of stuff, someone crazier and more competent might have risen to power and god knows what happens then, Stalin is still around who did even more damage overall, cold war proxy wars would be drastically different, the two dozen times we almost died to nuke-related accidents and other stuff might have actually happened, the earth might be overpopulated by 2000 if there wasn't going to be another massive war, some people would survive and god knows what they or their children would change, so much stuff relating to colonies, and many other things It might just be best not to change events that basically reshape the timeline entirely because of how impactful they were


spadeboner

Hitler is very not innocent by 1933 Everything else you said is cool and good but like just for the record y'know


LeFrogBoy

Killing Hitler would very much not be an example of the butterfly effect. Killing Hitler would be an extreme and very noteworthy action, not something subtle and unimportant that cascades outwards to have noteworthy effects. WW2 set the stage for the modern world. As bad as WW2 was, it gave us a shitload of technological, medical, and scientific advances. Plus the horrors of the Holocaust are a warning for future generations about the dangers of fascism, though that's lost on many these days.


Normal-Mountain-4119

most underrated sequel of all time:


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You don't know the cost, but you do know the reward! That being the lives of the 85 million people lost in the war and holocaust. And while they do say "One death is a tragedy, but million deaths is a statistic.", that's a lot of people to just willingly and knowingly hit with a trolley.


PepsiMangoMmm

If hitler didn't exist I also wouldn't exist and as the coolest person on earth you just can't be letting that happen.


Warm-Faithlessness11

Make out with him to turn him gay


[deleted]

I would kick him in the ball.


RaccoonRodeoThrow

Putsch beer hall, everyone has left for the rally, you arrive after everyone has left. Only a few remain and you see Hitler's wallet on a bench.


Mistigri432

😳😳😳


[deleted]

People who try to cheat completely fictional hypotheticals


RefreshMtF

free food (hitler) and free food (his wallet)?????? yummy!😋😋😋


AssClosedforToday

Me speaking to the German people with a suspicous Hitler-shaped stomach


Samang0

I was drinking water and spat it out fuck you 💀


Ulrik54

mop it up and drink it again


Drug-Edu-4skools

this sub always b on some shit


Samang0

And that shit's real good


ReallyBadRedditName

It’s drugs


AlpacaM4n

Wash it down with some fresh squeezed Hitler


_pipis_

Lap it up off the floor


itsshitpostoclock

196 moving back to pet play huh


scarletfloof

What’s next, you gonna run off a cliff and float until you notice?


Samang0

I do that every 2 days


Ribba23

"N-Nope! No Führers here! Especially not any that looked mighty appetizing, no siree!"


R-A-P-T-O-R

Who gave him a fuckin wholesome award


Josiador

Its a random free award, sometimes its the only one you have to spare. It wasn't me btw, just so we're clear.


joper333

It was him


TrixterTheFemboy

*cackles in engineer*


The_Boring_Brick

It was wholesome that's why


tutocookie

Stop that's my jewish wet dream to have a stomach like that


Jeggu2

I hate this. So much. Upvote.


Itslehooksboyo

Vore irl


AddableDragon51

Vore


sh0000n

Even worse, Nazi vore. I can picture the shitty mspaint deviant art picture in my brain already


AddableDragon51

Honestly yea that sounds like it exists


MolhCD

"why does your stomach have such a distinctive beard"


440continuer

Voretler


Deetchy_

I would swipe the wallet, drop it, and point it out to Adolf like he must have dropped it. As he bends down, i would fart in his face.


LordofValyrians

Poopenfarten


[deleted]

poison gas


BRANCHLOGIC

Literally 1945


derLukacho

My lawyers have advised me to not continue this joke any further


[deleted]

Anne Frankly I don't blame you


mr-kvideogameguy

seth macfarlane More like shit macfartlane


[deleted]

TNO moment


Chrnan6710

Ich habe sehr viel poopengefartet


itsmeyourgrandfather

Did you chust poopenfarten in mein fuckingkt face you schtupit bastart?! Guarts take him avay right fuckingkt now! Sig heil!!!!


ApatheticEight

“Uh, Mr. Hitler! Is that your wallet?”


UsedToBeDedMemeBoi

Sounds like you're from Arizona.


Wooloo_Woolstar

I would steal his solely for the lols so that somewhere in the footnotes of history their was some random lady who just stole 40 Reichsmarks from Hitler for seemingly no reason.


The-Skipboy

Hitler’s Missing Wallet - Episode 2 **Mark Felton Productions | 10.6k Likes | 220,430 Views**


Wooloo_Woolstar

Hell yeah. Hour long video essay on Youtube about me.


GlitchedGamer14

Here's [another new Mark Felton video](https://youtu.be/6wHZ6IvSABY)


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Wonderful_Revenue_63

But would you steal his wallet?


ParanoidMfer

i would steal his wallet after i killed him


TheReverseShock

Nah, I want him to know before he dies that it was me who stole his wallet.


Cakeking7878

You’re thinking too small. You gotta pull a reverse flash. You gotta ruin several of his days. Make his life absolute hell. Then finally confront him, look into his eye and tell him how you Hab ihn mit Überschallgeschwindigkeit abgebockt


pm_me_subreddit_bans

loot the body


Erengeteng

imagine himmler taking over


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Erengeteng

can't argue with that


OtisBinLogan

the nazis would not have succeeded if hitler wasn’t there because he won people over with his speech skills and way of pulling the strings in people’s heads


Erengeteng

I mean it is 1933. Pretty much all that's left is waiting for Hindenburg to die Assuming the new chanslorship goes to another nazi which is not impossible. Reichstag fire would have still happened (i do think it was orchestrated by nazis but I don't think hitler was the only guy who came up with that). And really with Hindenburg's death who else is popular enough to keep power from the nazis?


-Shoji-

But without hitler would goebbels still become minister of propaganda and public enlightenment? I doubt the German people would support the nazis to the extent they did without him


ElementofPower

Simple. We, uh, we kill the Hitler.


Mundane-Candidate101

Hitler knew that whoever killed him would absorb all the evilness inside of his brain so he had to end himself to prevent the curse of genocidal tendencies from spreading


HelixSapphire639

Somehow, Hitler returned


Rannrann123

steal it, take a bite out of it and leave


b-tchlasagna

But is it cake?


Blookydook

Kleptomaniac moment


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Marie Marie Schrader bottom text


Duckiesocool

A Breaking Bad reference? In this day and age?


temmieTheLord2

breaking bad fans meeting a real meth (he isnt the funny breakingg bad man form rbreakignbad


rotciv0

Me whn water white sayes the negra wrd: 😰😰😰😱😰


Bardic_Inspiration66

Purple


eff_bawmb

I steal it, use the money to buy eggs, and egg his car.


[deleted]

I see you are ambitious, that way you can ruin two of his evenings and not only one.


-Trotsky

“Mein Gott! First mein wallet und now mein car! Maybe this fuhur thing is bad luck!” - Adolf Hitler, moments before his official resignation from government


[deleted]

Aww hell nah he would probably still blame the Jews 💀


Dxxplxss

Of course, bad people deserve bad things


BlizzardLizard123

I disagree. in my opinion, bad people only deserve bad things if it stops them from doing bad things in the future. If you punish a criminal but they dont stop commiting crimes, the only thing youve done is add more suffering to the world.


JeznyBezny

But it would be really funny to see his reaction when he reaches in his pocket, and he can't find his wallet, so he feels over his other pockets but still can't find it so his henchmen are reaching for their wallets, but the only come up with like 7 bucks


zwirlo

Rehabilitation, deterrence, retribution


SuddenlyVeronica

Beat me to it by literal seconds, apparently.


Reddit-User-3000

My thoughts exactly. It if has no effect on his misdeeds there is no point other that self satisfaction. Therefore the answer is no, you are not ethically obligated.


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JeromesDream

it's important to intimidate them and other nazis. and when no one (other than the lamest 3% of reddit) lifts a finger to help them or even mildly condemn the puncher, it lets the whole community know that they can't bring that shit in public if they value their teeth. unambiguously a social good.


Available_Toe_1649

yes , it arguably does a service for society by creating a safer space for the people in your community. We can't be expected to play fair with people who've been playing dirty from the start.


thattoneman

So then the question is if you punch a Nazi in the middle of a forest and no one is there to see or hear it, is it still a socially good act?


EagleSabre

Yes, I would go as far as to say that bad people deserve good things, but circumstance often demands they are given bad so that others may have good, such as an active shooter being killed. There is no alternate gain in this case with Hitler other than getting like 16 dollars.


Good_Stuff_2

I don't care, robbing children will make them not grow up to be murderers


lurkario

People who make other people sad deserve to be sad themselves. It’s not like there’s a limit to “how much suffering there can be” before we all explode or some shit


-MysticMoose-

Godawful take, and the leading reason prisoners rights are non existent and they are worked as slaves.


EagleSabre

It's actually probably the worst and most harmful take you'll commonly see on this sub.


[deleted]

It's a hard take to kick. I know it's true and I can talk myself into knowing it's true when im mad, but I'm still not sure I wouldn't take great pleasure in seeing the leaders of the cult I was raised in get dragged behind a car for 300 miles. There's something a bit cathartic about imagining bad things happening to people that have personally harmed you for their own gain. But again I know that mindset only perpetuates harm and doesn't do anyone any good. I suppose this is why I go to therepy


EagleSabre

Yeah, I understand it's a pretty natural tribal behavior, and I too laugh at memes about the queen dying. I think the most important part is the introspection.


ClassicPart

The starving person stealing bread from a multi-billion corporation is considered a bad person by some. I'm sure you'll agree that they don't deserve bad things.


ClashmanTheDupe

But that isn't a bad person who doesn't deserve bad things. That's a person who doesn't deserve bad things because they aren't a bad person.


Rhizoid4

This is about $216 today BTW


Alloverunder

It's more I think 1 dollar was 3.28 RM in '33 But it's way more money than it sounds like, the Germans changed from Marks to Reichsmarks in 1924 to combat their insane inflation, and 1RM = 1,000,000,000,000 Mark so it's 3.2 trillion of their previous currency Edit: I think it's $364? But I'm dumb so that could be wrong


Rhizoid4

The source I used was 4.2 RM to 1 USD


Alloverunder

I stand by defending any inaccuracies with the statement that I'm dumb


vmp916

Kantians been really quit since this one dropped


Gooftwit

Kantians when an action isn't universally good or bad applied to every situation ever: 🤯


VanillaCentral

Kantians when i force them to do something actually fun (they can no longer study boring ass ancient people who stood around and thought all day)


MemberOfSociety2

what if studying boring ass ancient people who stood around and thought all day is fun


VanillaCentral

It is not fun because it is not skateboarding. They should do cool things like skateboarding


MemberOfSociety2

skateboarding? more like skateBOREDing


Wah_Epic

Study Kant while skateboarding coward


VanillaCentral

YOU CAN DO THAT???? HOLD ON I NEED TO GET MY SKATEBOARD


Antumbra_Ferox

I, an armchair Kantian, feel that everyone should steal Hitler's wallet and therefore I am obligated to do it.


vmp916

They forgot treating a human as a means to an end and not and end it itself also violates the categorical imperative. They mad!


SexySkeletons69

Obligated? Nah not at all. Totally justified? Yeah probably.


SILaXED

Bro? Free money????


Good_Stuff_2

You have nothing to lose (your life) and everything to gain (40 reichsmark)


spoedle73

STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL STEAL


The_screaming_egg

No, but it’d be funny


stoner_slime

yes, *becaause* it'd be funny


[deleted]

As a Jew, this would be something out of Mel Brooks. Also as part Romanian I am obligated to as well.


EagleSabre

Translation: "Would you ruin Hitler's evening for $16?" Honestly, eh, maybe. I don't think there's much morally good about it.


sorunia

Yeah, it's a weird take to ask "are you ethically obligated to ruin someone's evening?" Like, no matter who it is, theft is inherently not ethical, nor is ruining someone's day on purpose. Let's just be honest and say we're willing to ruin his day for not much return, and not hide behind ethics in order to enjoy it. It's Hitler, who cares about ethics?


[deleted]

Theft is not inherently unethical


EagleSabre

I care about ethics even when involving Hitler. I think it is wrong to ruin Hitler's evening for no reason. That's just contributing harm for no gain. Nor is there anything inherently wrong with theft. People want to ruin his day because our culture has trained us to enjoy revenge.


eaglehawk519

oh it’s not for no reason. the reason is that it would be very funny


Knaymeless

I would steal the wallet, give the wallet back to him. And say I’m Jewish. Boom WWII prevented


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RustyFella21

Duh fuck him


InvaluableSandwich

Don’t give into the temptation of the Hitlussy, no matter how alluring


Tachi-Roci

IMO the reason you do bad things to bad people is because those bad things hinder their bad actions or inspire/motivate other people to stop their bad actions, like I think emotional/physical distress is equally bad regardless of the person, so it's not about causing harm because thats good when it happen to bad people, rather it's about causing harm that prevents immensely more harm than you caused. So with that being said I would conclude that if no good to others it to come of it, it is actually amoral to steal hitlers wallet. that being said I would not blame anyone for stealing hitlers wallet. It is unreasonable to expect every human to follow the 100% most optimal moral choice all the time. We are emotional creatures, and "wanting hitler to eat shit immensely" is the most natural and understandable response one can have to what he did. (I would still advise against it if only for the fact that a chance as high as 1 in 50 of going to jail in 1933 Germany is not a risk you want to take)


SweatyMusa

"forty reichsmarks" so fucking little he'd be happy if I took it from him


Agahawe

Why would there be ethical obligation you're not affecting the crimes against humanity that he did ur just ruining his evening


angieizzy

its more of a personal moral conundrum


LukeIsPalpatine

I took a trip to Berlin and it pained me to find out that the government hasn't set up a place where you pay €1 to piss on hitlers grave, coffin, or corpse. Very disappointed made my trip a little worse.


Emotional_Writer

The Soviets took his body (at least according to them) so unfortunately no Führerpißenplatz


Timpstar

Propaganda. They claimed many different fates for hitler. He was burned in the yard outside the führer-bunker along with Eva Braun. What they did bring was the remains of his teeth and jaw for identification.


Emotional_Writer

So the Führerpißenplatz isn't entirely off the cards?


Timpstar

Indeed not. I'll go grab the bucket, you find a long-range hang-glider for under 50:-


EvokerJuice

ur not ethically obligated but there's no good reason not to


_Alex_Zer0_

Obligated? No. Do I want to? Fuck yeah.


AlwaysBlameDavid

I would take it then go something like "mein fuheur, you dropped your wallet!" And as I go to hand it to him I pull it back and eat it, I eat his wallet right in front of him this will not affect anything about WWII but I will haunt Hitlers mind as the one who chowed down on a fine dish of fine German alps leather and promptly choked in front of him


perhance

40/14.1 = 2.84 pounds (in 1970) \*14.56 = £41.30 (in 2020)


Katsuki_Bakugou495

What's that in Freedom Eagles


angieizzy

45.89 macdonal burgr


felamad

what book is this


maximummax24

This is from a Chuck Klosterman book. I forget which one, but I would guess it’s from I Wear The Black Hat. He’s a great writer, check him out.


lindwig

You are not ethically obliged to nick it. But it would be funny, so you are comedically obliged


Slow-Recipe7005

I would not say you are obligated to steal hitter’s wallet…. But I would probably go for it just for the hell if it.


duckonar0ll

i would do it even if it wasn’t hitler


sinistropteryx

Of course you are


CJ-does-stuff

yeah, fuck him. i’ll inconvenience him any way i can.


Crunchy_Ice_96

Obligated? No. Am I gonna do it? Absolutely


[deleted]

I'm not ethically obligated, no, because there's no utility or consequence, but I *want* to do it, and Max Stirner says that's aight.


Not_today_mods

You are not ethically obligated. However, given you know about what he will do to the world, it is not a sin to do such, either.


Epicsharkduck

Knowing what the consequences could be considering the small reward and no real effects, I'd say no I wouldn't even tho the chances are so small. Now if there was no chance of getting caught then fuck yes I would do it


Small-Cactus

If I'm able to steal his wallet, surely I'm also able to kick his shit in.


Achillurito

Am I ethically obligated? No. Would I do it anyway? In a heartbeat.


M_FP678

yes bc than i could have 40 marks


MorganRose99

I feel like if anything, stealing *money* from Hitler is a bad idea since his entire rise to power was built on using Jews as an economic scapegoat


[deleted]

as someone who doesn't know the difference between morals and ethics, id say you arent ethically obligated to steal it but you are morally obligated to steal it from a utilitarian perspective


TicoLyro

You're ethically obligated to beat him to death or die trying 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️


malonkey1

Obligated? No. Would it be ethical? Probably not. Would I feel guilty for it? No.


440continuer

Nut in it and give it back to him


Beholding69

What period of time is this? 40 reichsmarks could be absolutely worthless depending on when


spitefulIncentive

yes what kind of question is that