In the 70s and 80s, Nazi groups in America were very fringe, so the comedy comes from the juxtaposition that such a wackjob extremist group would take root in somewhere as banal and Midwest as viewed at the same time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Carrie Fisher is coming after me with a battle rifle, I have to drive my used Cop Car with Cop Shocks and Cop Suspension through a shopping mall
it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the 70s and 80s, Nazi groups in America were very fringe, so the comedy comes from the juxtaposition that such a wackjob extremist group would take root in somewhere as banal and Midwest as viewed at the same time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Carrie Fisher is coming after me with a battle rifle, I have to drive my used Cop Car with Cop Shocks and Cop Suspension through a shopping mall
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
MAGA, when Nazis were fringe groups, and got punched when showing up in public.
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fr bro 😪
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out