SoyViking [he/him]

This is your brain on liberalism

Goebbels certainly didn’t believe in the right to privacy but there is nothing connecting him to the “if you have nothing to hide…” quote. He certainly wasn’t the first to come up with it, as it can be found in a 1917 piece by Upton Sinclair.

It seems like Goebbels’ connection to the quote is one of these “it feels so true that it has to be true” misattributions that floats around on the internet and in popular culture.

And by the way, the NSA are Nazis, they are bad people doing bad things for evil reasons.

It is almost impossible for a character in a Hollywood film to speak with a Slavic accent and smoke a cigarette without also being some sort of asshole.

But also “if someone slices you across the stomach with a big sword you don’t bleed you just hold your stomach and fall over while going ‘arrghh’”

Magic computers that can sharpen and enlarge a grainy CCTV frame enough that you can read what people are typing on their phone.

The American president that goes “gee-haw we really need to stop Voldemort so the people of Agrabad can enjoy democracy and human rights!”

The divorced single-parent cop who struggles to make family life work despite being good at solving big scary crime.

The “we just want to do senseless evil for no apparent reason” terrorists