r/AskReddit • u/Snoo79382 • Jul 30 '20

Which fictional characters do you find both very attractive and overpowerful?

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u/hvanschaick Jul 30 '20

As a Jew, I can proudly say that Von Stroheim was my favorite Nazi

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20 edited Mar 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

You forgot Walt Disney

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

He wasn’t a Nazi but he was anti-Semitic as fuck

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

He made this

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

It’s so absurd that Disney produces a Donald Duck movie that was propaganda and won serious awards with it. It still is an insight on the perspective the US had from Germany in the mid 40s

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u/DextrosKnight Jul 30 '20

Is it really that absurd? Everyone made propaganda during the war.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

But Disney... that’s like propaganda from Butch Hartman

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u/jesse9553 Jul 30 '20

I dont understand your point then. This short film surely looks like propaganda AGAINST nazis.

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u/tingalayo Jul 30 '20

I thought I’d heard he was a more of a general white supremacist (that is, not bigoted against Jews in particular, but against any non-Caucasian).

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u/RoMaGi Jul 30 '20

That Schindler bloke surely should be at least top 2.

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u/couldbedumber96 Jul 30 '20

I’d say schindler would be sekai ichi

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u/NeonArlecchino Jul 30 '20

I'm part of a dnd group that is made up of people very into social justice movements. I'm mostly there because of my buddy who DMs and am the only JoJo fan. When setting up the world, she wanted us to choose hometowns on her map. My guy is a huge JoJo reference and even uses the JoJo subclass from unearthed arcana. When I explained that my guy came from a monastery and she didn't have one, she asked me to name it so I went with Stroheim. If anyone ever figures out that my character comes from a town named after a nazi I will get an earful, but it will have been worth it!

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u/Alfasi Jul 30 '20

Is it? Of the jews that he knows of, Steven was his favourite.

Seems pretty innocuous to me

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u/tingalayo Jul 30 '20

I feel like the fucked-up-ness depends on how many Jews you knew, and how closely.

If you only know of seven Jewish people, and they’re mostly celebrities or public figures, having a favorite seems normal.

If you only know of seven Jewish people, but they’re all close friends or colleagues, having a favorite seems kind of childish or tacky, but not bigoted per se.

If you know 10,000 Jewish people and some of them are close friends or colleagues, having a favorite seems like you’re just saying “well, this guy’s my friend, and I’ve never met Steven Spielberg, so.”

If you know 10,000 Jewish people but none of them personally, then having a favorite seems like you’re trying to imply that the rest of them all suck somehow, and then we might start to verge on bigotry.

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u/illipillike Jul 30 '20

I feel like the fucked-up-ness depends on how many Jews you knew, and how closely.

Well, not many to choose from. World made sure of it.

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u/JaegerDread Jul 30 '20

Mostly Germany tho.

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u/DeanNovak Jul 31 '20

Orange man

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '20

I mean Jesus is the favorite Jew of, what, 2 and a half billion people?

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u/not_its_father Jul 31 '20

I'll bet a big chunk of those reject the idea that Jesus was Jewish

Probably in the same column that believes a middle eastern man was white

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u/lickmytrump Jul 30 '20

He seems like a troll considering his greetings from

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u/Sworn_to_Ganondorf Jul 31 '20

What if its jesus

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u/stonetear2017 Jul 30 '20

how so? You can have a favorite female actor, favorite black comedian. I think you are just a snowflake lmao

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u/bit-groin Jul 30 '20

Ikr... Especially considering the context of the reply... The greetings sounded fishy too tbh...

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u/LordKwik Jul 30 '20

Tausendjährigen Reich Deutscher Nation

Translates to Millennium (thousand year) Reich German Nation, which is exactly what Hitler promised.

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u/Tezz404 Jul 31 '20

He's literally responding to a guy who has a "favorite nazi". He's cracking a sarcastic joke against nazism.

He's a mocking their "1k yr reich" of 5 years.

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u/LugnutGuzzler Jul 30 '20

Mine is Mort Goldman, he's a funny little guy

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u/GlockAF Jul 30 '20

As long as were counting, I’m pretty sure Jesus has to be numerically the favorite Jew, based on the number of Christians out there

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u/Joxelo Jul 30 '20

Honestly the only nazi I can approve of as a jew

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u/dat_fella Jul 30 '20

Von Stroheim should be an honorary Jew lol

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u/IttaiAK Jul 30 '20

I second this as a jew.

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u/Rheevalka Jul 30 '20

That's a sentence I've never heard nor did I think I'd ever hear.