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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 10, 2024

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Why should there be any memes referencing these movies? First of all, they are old. Yes, they are old movies if you're a meme-making Zoomer. Secondly, "the Nazis won", how do you make a meme about "Nazis winning" with a WWII movie? If Trump had lost, you could at least imagine a Downfall meme with "Harris has won in Wisconsin and Michigan and is gaining in Georgia" - "it's okay, Pennsylvania should vote for me and Vance" - "mein Fuehrer, Harris got 51% in Pennsylvania, the Vance counteroffensive didn't succeed"

Why should there be any memes referencing these movies?

Because Valkyrie is about an attempt to assassinate Hitler, and Inglorious Basterds ends up being alternate history with a successful assassination of Hitler and Goebbels.

First of all, they are old.

Didn't stop this Inglorious Basterds meme from being posted on /r/moviescirclejerk just two years ago. It's text reads: "Plot holes: in Inglorious Basterds (2009), the antifascists kill and scalp Nazis instead of voting blue."

Well, "voting blue" clearly didn't work to stop Nazi II: Electric Boogaloo. And like so many people on Twitter and Tumblr are saying, we've got about 90 days left to somehow save Our Democracy and the lives of millions of Women, Latinx, LGBTQ+…

If failing to kill Hitler gets you into the history books and played by Tom Cruise in the movie about you, then imagine your legacy for taking out Hitler 2.0: Orange Edition?

The best Downfall one I've seen recently is "Hitler reviews footage of supposedly Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden where they wave Israel flags". It didn't even require the second part.