Are We the Baddies?

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[@suspicioususer]

Nothing tells a Dutch farmer "We're here to help" more than pitch black uniforms, lightning bolts, and skulls

[@JoshSweetvale]

+ThatDutchguy ..As a dutchman: Fuck you.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

rock3tcat (ⵙⴰⵔⵓⵅ) Dutch are Germanic you moron !

[@thatdutchguy2882]

DiamantVis the Diamant reference gave it away, you lot seem to do that habitually Silver man, Silberman, Zilverman, Goldman, Goudman, von Gold, van Goud, Diamond, Diamand, Edelstein, Adelstein, Edelsteen, Adelsteen, etc. Your tribe seem to like colours to: Greenman, Groenman, Groen, van Groen, Green. Zwart, van Zwart, Zwartman, Black. Geel, van Geel. Blauwman, Blauw, van Blauw. Never hard to find, the members of Abraham's tribe.

[@dionisyantonow3925]

Brandon Michaels fuck Dutch for both ss divisions you formed and for all bread ur farmers fed to nazis :)

[@lartinmuther183]

@@thatdutchguy2882 Fuck the tribe, gott mit uns!

[@peris_arts_film9699]

I find it hilarious that this is the first time I’ve seen this sketch but I’ve seen the image with the text of “ are we the baddies “ and the voice in my head was spot on

[@glenbe4026]

This did not really originate the idea. The british sitcom, Allo Allo, also had a German Officer postulale "are we the baddies" and that came out in the 80s. Though I like this sketch also.

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

Just in case anyone is wondering, the skull iconography is actually meant to be a "loyal unto death" thing. Wasn't unique to Nazi Germany. Still though, pretty appropriate that the worst regime in history managed to outfit its guys in grey and black and put skulls on their hats.

[@inTHEwrongGENERATION]

communism was far worse

[@TheBigMajskorv]

inTHEwrongGENERATION That is not relevant at all here, shut up.

[@AMPATL]

inTHEwrongGENERATION _is_ not _was_

[@Tellmeimaninja]

inTHEwrongGENERATION Yeah, starting the second world war and preforming the most infamous genocide in history is pretty low on the evil scale.

[@ShmidleyWitz]

Tellmeimaninja Communism has so far killed one hundred million people. I wonder if you can guess why you've been taught the Nazis were worse.

[@Birdlover425]

pirates are fun

[@joeyghostx]

+Birdlover425 but like it or not pirates are still the baddies.

[@Thurmanator]

not realy

[@josephstalin7353]

I never said we were fun

[@totgaming1943]

@@Thurmanator not if your an irish sailer if you get the thing im saying

[@Giragoji]

​@@josephstalin7353Like it or not the pirates are baddies

[@bgt2848]

I’d like to believe there was one German officer who had this exact same word for word conversation 😂 I mean had to be one lol

[@davidlippman6114]

They likely did.

[@davidcervantes9336]

I’m pretty sure more than one did.

[@LazarouDave]

"Sind wir die Bösewichte?"

[@tcc8829]

Anyone else come here after seeing the meme to this just to see if the way he said it was the same way in their head and turned out to be right?

[@OmniMonitor]

Mitchell and Webb should a season of Blackadder.

[@GMovieSeeker]

+Joshua V Mitchell as Blackadder and Webb as Lord Percy?

[@OmniMonitor]

GMovieSeeker I was more thinking a wwII comedy written by them.

[@GMovieSeeker]

After watching all seasons of Blackadder, I thought that a series set in contemporary days would be interesting... About Blackadder running a corrupt, failing company or something.

[@paulunga2828]

The whole season?

[@TheAmishGamer]

Blackadder's Brexit would be great, with him as the shadowy, Machiavellian, Aaron Banks type figure manipulating Cameron, May, the Leave campaign etc.

[@mainlyglitches]

For some reason I just had an impulse to watch this video. It's been eight years since I saw it and suddenly I remember it and want to watch it.

[@jaylin7545]

As much as I don't like the Nazi Party, if WW2 were a fashion show.. the allies would've gotten their asses beat.

[@genesmolko8113]

That's because German uniforms were literally designed by a fashion designer.

[@Jotari]

You;re not wrong...but I really hesitate to say that you're right.

[@augustovasconcellos7173]

@Hayden Dahlsjo Yup, people only say the axis had better uniforms because the only allied soldiers people remember are the ones from the USA, a country that's _literally incapable_ of designing good-looking uniforms.

[@explosiveanimator2368]

While I do prefer British helmets I have to agree

[@XRMTTF]

Hugo Boss designed it all.

[@DeadRpoetry1167]

One of the best sketches ever. Giggle every time.

[@DeadRpoetry1167]

The "who's the captain" sketches are funny...in fact their series was fairly satirical, cutting, annoying to some, but basically...funny. Haha. Armstrong and Millers WW2 Airmen sketches are funny. Newman and Baddiels "history Today".

[@the-chillian]

The Queen's Royal Lancers have skulls for cap badges too, from the old 17th Lancers famous for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" -- where, ironically enough considering their motto, they got both death AND glory.

[@Tounushi]

>Has the rank of Obersturmführer (1st lieutenant) >in the SS >totenkopf collar badge, so concentration camp service >asks "are we the baddies?" I can think of one good thing about skull insignia: hussars. Prussian hussars, specifically.

[@sniperguy1995]

SS camp guards wore brown piping on their uniform

[@sniperguy1995]

Tounushi ie camp guards had brown piping on their uniforms these guys have white piping meaning infantry

[@madscience1221]

0:45 the line you came for

[@Erc888]

Well yeah, I said "these days." The point of the sketch is to show that some Nazis truly believed they were the good guys, because they really didn't reflect on the things they were doing. And perhaps we in the West (including Germans, yes) haven't really reflected on the things we have been doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo etc.

[@glenbe4026]

STOP delineating the Nazi's and Germans as two separate entities. The Nazi's were Germans. The vast majority of Germans supported the German expansionist policies of 1930s-1940s Germany, Differentiating Modern Germany and Nazi Germany is fine. trying to suggest Nazis were NOT the German State at the time is not. Also guess what, the JIA was Japanese.

[@jacobschmidt]

why dude we assume that were the good guys?

[@vulpine3431]

​@@glenbe4026 First of all, that was a 7 year old comment you replied to. Second of all, by Nazis, we are referring to the Germans. The country is referred to as Nazi Germany or the third Reich.

[@lawrencefoster5855]

It does make we wonder - did a handful of whispered, uncertain conversations like this actually happened at the time..? Almost certainly there were men of all ranks who knew damn well they were the baddies, but also knew it meant certain death to try to do anything about it

[@hexx6120]

The police with punisher skull

[@hatmann5697]

"British Tory MPs discuss modern Politics (2019, stylised)"

[@stone1andonly]

Still one of the greatest sketches from TM&WL. They are both brilliant.

[@Cheesemasta]

In the early days of the NSDAP, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich "The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community."

[@royalseal734]

Top 10 most iconic anime duos

[@DG-mk7kd]

It's always important to, every now and then, ask if you're the baddie. Say before: blowing up that kindergarten, beating up that reporter, demanding that someone be fired because they told a crude joke 10 years ago or demanding the police be defunded.

[@Corrupted-file]

🤘

[@flouglemireindustries4335]

Honestly I'm on your side about defunding police. It's better reforming a system that still is trying its best to do its job and HAS to do its job, than just defunding it entirely

[@null1023]

Oh, that was effing brilliant.

[@notfunny6369]

What a golden skit

[@LonerStonER217]

Punisher skull wearers " are we the baddies?"

[@dianabarahona2233]

The puishers are bringing child-raping, baby-eating Satanists to justice. The Nazis are Satanists. So, the missions are different.

[@11Kralle]

The same question rushed trough my mind when I was a kid "Did anyone of my forefathers became suspicious as he saw those badges on official uniforms at his time?" - there was of course a direct connection to the crown prince of Prussia, who wore scull and bones as emblema of his elite infantry...

[@halorecon95]

Elite Cavalry* The Prussian Hussars :P

[@11Kralle]

My fault. Although it goes a bit "deeper" in history - but you're right! I stand corrected.

[@Speedojesus]

Visualization of Richard Spencer talking with people on Stormfront

[@666deadman1988]

Ironically enough, the British Army has a cavalry regiment called the Queen's Royal Lancers, and they use a skull as their symbol.

[@TerryCraig23]

Jack White (from the White Stripes) is American and he liked this sketch so much he mentioned it in an interview ("WTF Podcast").

[@dineskumarragu4187]

Jon Snow asking Tyrion after witnessing Khalesi burning down King's Landing 0:50

[@corbinslusher844]

Hilarious Sketch!

[@bajsbrev4651]

That skull is a prussian symbol that signifies that the wearer is completely willing to die fighting for their people.

[@maxshby8136]

Agard Viking Joke (noun)- Something to amuse people especially with a punchline

[@bajsbrev4651]

maxy waxy So funny that i forgot to laff 👌👌

[@rock3tcatU233]

Agard Viking You nordic "people" are not white, that's why you didn't get the joke.

[@bajsbrev4651]

Yes, white skin is integral to comprehending such diamond cutting wit.

[@Fulminatrixx]

Well, being a Prussian symbol doesn't make it less a baddie thing !

[@samovarmaker9673]

Comment: "Nazis were not good" Reply 0.00000000012034 seconds later: "Communism was worse Stalin personally murdered 60 billion"

[@Psycorde]

Nazis were/are terrible, but communists are no better. Two (or more) things can be true at once.

[@ArmyNavyAcademy]

That's true

[@jakequali7608]

Samovar maker Stalin killed twice as much as Hitler. They’re both tyrants.

[@jayparmo2284]

60 billion? so his murdering wasnt just limited to our planet? he killed aliens too?

[@filippodelstabile1512]

Mr Cloud Why do you think we haven’t found them yet?

[@thenarrator9204]

That was well done.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

56 people haven't looked at their caps recently.

[@Reikis645]

I would say of all time.

[@InterGeekStudios]

How it feels to be the black eagle strike force

[@APZachariah]

Classic.

[@TheLordZoka]

The skull symbol was a very specific symbol to be on their caps. It did not appear that often on any part of the SS or the Wehrmacht. All I do know is that it was even used on caps in WW1.

[@davidcabreonmunoz6258]

0:49 US soldier during the Mexican-American War.

[@JohnDoe-sw1sm]

US Soldier during any War really.

[@noahbagel]

John Doe false

[@adrianshephard378]

Mexico did sign a treaty you know, giving them territory.

[@isaiahkovalcik1370]

this video is great so funny

[@nelson3300]

LOL "Hans, are we the baddies?"

[@rosaleenauk]

thanks for a decent copy of this :)

[@Focusyn]

That's looks like a real MG 42.

[@kremineli]

Anyone else here because of Mighty Jingles ?

[@rogerborg]

Stop touching children.

[@_cjessop19_70]

The title basically summarizes Overlord

[@myra_4]

Ah, I see you too watch Gigguk

[@TheBurgundyRobot]

The Zone of Interest (2023)

[@link42323]

hahah omg i always wondered about the skulls

[@HiAdrian]

The whole idea is hilarious.

[@robbie_]

"pirates are fun!"

[@mikedawolf95]

This is the only time you could show the SS death skull symbol in a comedic setting

[@Gurnerman]

Hugo Boss helped design and produce the SS uniforms

[@deltahalo241]

Catra and Adora in a nutshell

[@marcuspinson]

and plenty of US military units in world war 2 used it there is even now still a rangers patch that has a skull in hell wearing a beret with flesh melting off it that says "rangers dont die, they just go to hell to regroup"

[@TheMikeyReilly]

How do you know my 'friends'? Hahaha.

[@LittleAlex-ub4fe]

“This isn’t a war of good guys vs bad guys, this is a war of bad guys vs bad guys” -Dan Carlin

[@KamiKagutsuchi]

That Mitchell and Webb Look

[@bernardblack6116]

This is America now. I often think of this scene as of lately especially while I'm watching the news.

[@absolutegarbage3654]

Fun fact: if you watch the news you are most likely a moron

[@CoryMck]

@@absolutegarbage3654 so you're informed without the news? How do you work that out?

[@absolutegarbage3654]

@@CoryMck the internet like any non cavemen

[@CoryMck]

@@absolutegarbage3654 so you get your news from social media?

[@bernardblack6116]

@@absolutegarbage3654 you do know 'news' doesn't only refer to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox, right? I get my news from many sources. Perhaps you should inform yourself about these things. There are other outlets for news

[@JackT13]

Just genius

[@ApriliaRSA250]

Napoleonic Wars: Prussian Death's head. Don't know if it goes back further...

[@mr.bandity9604]

I noticed a lot of association with Nazis and the Totenkopf (the skull), the Totenkopf was created by Fredrick the Great of Prussia and was first put on uniforms in 1808. Still an absolutely hilarious sketch.

[@sockschappercat]

Interestingly enough, the Royal Lancers have a skull-and-crossbones insignia.

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

very funny

[@jonnashernandez6695]

Are we the baddies ?

[@SinerAthin]

Well, he was one for symbolism and all that. He DID want to be an artist, if I recall.

[@0catie0]

@Dinglot68 that mitchell and webb look

[@imerupp]

The skull & crossbones are from the Hussars originally. This video takes place on the Eastern Front, Stalin came to power before Hitler, and up until around 1944, Stalin had already killed twice as many innocent people than Hitler did by '45.

[@imerupp]

I am not a Nazi apologist, it is appalling what they did. As I have stated though it is a well known historical fact that by '45 Stalin had purposely starved and killed more people that Hitler had by the end of the war.

[@imerupp]

Magni56 read below

[@imerupp]

sure doesn't.

[@Fluxquark]

Meneldhil One should bear in mind that famines were quite common in tsarist Russia. It's also quite interesting that around 1931 the USSR was in the process of mechanising industry and needed machines. The hostile capitalist nations refused to be paid in anything else than grain, even though the gold or timber offered by the USSR would have been greatly beneficial for them. Stalin made the trade and hoped for a good harvest, which didn't happen, leading to a massive famine. One should also bear in mind that deaths because of famines in self-proclaimed communist countries are always chalked up to communism, but deaths because of famines in capitalist countries (Africa, India, etc.) are just a thing that happens. We have a terrible double standard in the west.

[@feedbak007]

Again, a pedantic history lesson on a funny sketch. Actually I thought it was pretty daring considering all of the horrible things that were going on in Europe and Russia during those times...(and after the war as well.)

[@13Psycho13]

The Skulls or rather Totenkopfs on the SS uniforms are a newer version of skulls the Prussians kings lifeguards used, they were meant to scare people. Also, the Black colour of the uniforms are also meant to be sombre, authoritative and scary, also people respected the men in Black. (Black is a traditional German colour) Did you know Hugo Boss made al the SS uniforms?

[@gilbertoignacioaguirrevarg4550]

They've got skulls on them

[@Sirenhound]

It's not exactly iron clad reasoning though. I'm sure there are plenty of anti-fascist (I can't believe I have to spell the whole word out now to avoid triggering conservatives) yet pro Sea Shepard people. The Nazi's were bad because of their actions, not their iconography. The Nazi symbol is banned in some parts of Europe because of its history, not due to its radial angles somehow offending people on a mathematical level.

[@ElBandito]

The Imperium of Man approves skull imagery.

[@Ianderification]

They're the regular SS Officer Uniforms. They're collar tabs identify them as Oversturmführers, equal to a 1st Lieutenant.

[@pepparmostheelder]

Probably is either a real but with fake/blank ammo or a replica. The only thing seperating a good replica from the real thing is basicly a working fiering mechanism.

[@kennethreese2193]

Got to love mocking wehraboos. I wish these guys and KZbin would have been around when I was a kid.

[@addisonwelsh]

Kenneth Reese These guys are SS, not Wehrmacht.

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

@@addisonwelsh Doesn't make a difference, both waged a genocidal war on behalf of Hitler. If the Wehrmacht weren't bad guys, when Hitler said "invade Poland", they should have said "no"

[@addisonwelsh]

@@FwendlyMushwoom I never said they weren't the "bad guys" (though nothing is ever that simple in war) I was merely pointing out that they weren't Wehrmacht soldiers, so the Wehraboos weren't the ones being mocked. Oh, and anyone who refused Hitler's orders was usually shot.

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

@@addisonwelsh Shot by who? Another soldier? What if he decided to say no, too?

[@addisonwelsh]

@@FwendlyMushwoom He would be shot by the brainwashed SS and Gestapo fanatics. You also need to realize that the war wasn't sold to the German people as a campaign of Genocide. Poland had been the territory of the old German Empire, they were simply reclaiming what had been taken in the unfair peace of the last war.

[@sullivan_j]

Hey this is the clip Jack White talked about in an interview with Marc Maron!!!!

[@emdiar6588]

Really? Thanks. You've sorted out my next video search.

[@misterStevePikk]

Is it the Marc Maron WTF podcast or a different interview? Trying to find it but he's interviewed him more than once I think

[@Bluehawk2008]

Soviet agriculture was being mechanized... and making good progress until a certain lot of baddies dropped by uninvited.

[@ObssesedNuker]

I can't help but wonder if that is part of the joke...

[@Jonra1]

Baddies or not, I'd say Soviets were the bigger baddies and Russia only seems to continue the work.

[@halorecon95]

Magni56 In WW2 there have been more war crimes commited by the Soviets then by the Germans. Note the *WAR* crimes part. The Germans did more crimes against humanity in the years of 1939-1945... But only just. The Germans mostly treated their prisoners fairly, more fair than any other armed force, save for the British. And the Russians were horrible to their prisoners, just look at what happened to the 6th army. Under Adolf Hitler's reign 20 million people died, most of whom were not German. Under Josef Stalin 35 million *SOVIETS* died *without* counting those who died in WW2. Please tell me again how the Nazis were worse then the Russians. Also to OP: Russian agriculture was not being mechanized, Stalin was pumping all his money in factories and the military, the people were starving.

[@ObssesedNuker]

halorecon95 "The Germans mostly treated their prisoners fairly, more fair than any other armed force, save for the British." Yeah... tell that to the 3.3 million Soviet POWs who were starved, tortured, and murdered by the Germans or the ~5 million who were made into slaves. The Germans treated WAllied prisoners okay, but the Soviets were treated like shit. "Under Josef Stalin 35 million SOVIETS died without counting those who died in WW2." Oh, your one of those who believe in the hysterical overestimates. Modern scholarly consensus is that Stalin was responsible for ~20 million deaths. Any more then that and you run into the problem that the Soviets could not have lost so many people in WW2 and still won. "Please tell me again how the Nazis were worse then the Russians." Well, that can be summed up by a single answer: there is still a Poland today.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Bluehawk2008 You mean Lenin and Stalin right? Who stole most of the mechanized farming equipment from farmers in their reorganization programs which led to famine which in turn led to the deaths of a few million people. So much so the Russians then forced Ukrainian farmers to give over almost all their wheat stock piles to feed Russia. In turn leaving little Seed Grain let alone Grain for bread which turned Ukraine into an utter disaster. Yes the Russians were doing such a good job before the Nazis invaded. Such a wonderful brilliant job. In all respects if you ignore pro Soviet Propaganda from the periods leading up to the fall of the Russian Empire and leading up to and after WWII. The Tsarist were far better for Russia than the communist ever were.

[@cryptosporidium1375]

Totenkompf, deathshead, badassery incarnate.

[@tallonmetroids271]

They really weren't, though. "Just kicked a few dozen unarmed Gypsies into a ditch and had my subordinates shoot them because I'd prefer plausible deniability in case this comes back on me one day. I'm TOATALLY a badass."

[@nickirmen6671]

Hans, could you not say crack SS division, cuz that makes me think of crack, and I love crack

[@PowerofRock24]

KZbin CEO after a long campaign of censorship and punishing "wrong think" - Circa 2019

[@VelmiVelkiZrut]

@TheLordZoka Only on the Sturmtruppen badges, late-war.

[@HaniiPuppy]

I'm sure there's a Europa Universalis mod for that ;D

[@KyleOProduction]

Officers wore formal pretty much everywhere, infantry did the actual fighting.

[@OriginalKasym]

Linhardt to Caspar in BL and GD route

[@MightyMothra]

I didn't say we weren't FUN

[@tothyveigh1074]

When a British submarine returns to base they fly the Jolly Roger.... Just saying :P

[@tallonmetroids271]

American subs do it too. Had one a few months back do so. Rum, anyone?

[@Jcolinsol]

Okay, they were the baddies, but they did have impeccable taste.

[@jimmieoakland3843]

Is this the IDF?

[@SinerAthin]

I meant the modern militaries:P

[@Sceonn]

Are we the baddies? lol

[@fmyates]

What is this from? Because it’s brilliant.

[@mitchelljack1590]

Mitchell and Webb Look

[@WynRhodesTCB]

turn on captions 2:17

[@ryan473]

because it's a comedy sketch.

[@jackmallory7996]

Great stuff Comedy that makes a serious point. Nobody thinks they're the 'baddies'. Not even the Nazis.

[@Booyaka9000]

Just as with the Russians today...

[@Lindkvist1515]

Hugo Boss designed them, must be that!

[@MrJimmyTide]

Do you do poison?

[@TheK1t3]

Hahha. Classic

[@PigeonMaster334]

I think that's the name of the skit though :P

[@dodec8449]

Well, isn't a star a rat's anus? In a way?

[@jeremiahpeppercorn3292]

Vonnegut pretty much used a asterisk to depict an asshole in Breakfast of Champions. I always wondered about that.

[@cosmokramer9378]

Hang on, lemme check...

[@TheAmishGamer]

So if we're all made of stars, doesn't that make us all rat's anuses? In a way?

[@Kaneisback2]

I know they were bad.... but damn their uniforms were on point. Think about it, its half the recruitment tactic they ad... walking around your 1930's village dressed like that.

[@joshpecker4352]

Looks awesome too

[@decxd9029]

what show is this? this is hilarious!

[@wishcraft4u2]

+decxd It's in the description. David Mitchell also frequently appears on British panel shows like Quite Interesting. Also of note are their sitcom Peep Show which is based on a kind of gimmick where things are seen through the first person perspective of characters and you listen to their thoughts as they experience things, which is sort of awkwardly realistic and voyeuristic.

[@Fonzleberry]

+decxd That Mitchell and Webb look

[@DasPuppy]

that thouht never occured to me.. but then again.. I am german...