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A comment on Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll.

Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by bb101 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:42AM (#11006219)
Does anyone else get an icky feeling from looking at cartoons from a late-1940s German newspaper? Entertainment for people of a country that only 5 years ago at the time was ushering millions into forced labor and gas chambers.
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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by ljf on Sunday January 31, 2016 @08:25AM (#11006310)
How do you feel reading the papers today?
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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by bb101 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @08:31AM (#11006325)
Pretty good. The only countries that seem to be doing the same today are North Korea and, to some extent, ISIS. Neither are from our culture so our ability to exert change is limited.
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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by elbasti on Sunday January 31, 2016 @10:15AM (#11006628)
"Some 10,000 children are housed in adult jails and prisons on any given day in America."

Relevant chart: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21647347-treatin...

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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by throwupper247 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:50AM (#11006551)
The US prisson system comes to mind ... completely ridiculous comparison, I know
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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by ant6n on Sunday January 31, 2016 @12:15PM (#11007016)
The difference is that post-war Germany was very much confronted with the gravity of what Nazi-Germany had done.

The US hasn't had that in more than 100 years.

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Re:Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Beca... by throwupper247 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @04:05PM (#11008065)
The irony is, germany was controlled by the allies then, including the US, the ones whose population you just called ignorant, that watches movies about prostitutes' escapedes or war glorification.
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