Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

[nycbos]

This skit seems pretty relevant right now

[QueerDuck]

1. It's a funny skit... but in real life, with regard to that symbol... NOBODY is that stupid.

And if they are that stupid, they do not deserve to hold any position of authority.

[BlueWavePsych]

2. What clip best sums up the Trump era? An old Mitchell and Webb sketch about WW2

This comes from a sketch in which Robert Webb and David Mitchell play SS officers, fighting loyally on the field. Except Mitchell suddenly has an epiphany: “Hans,” he asks Webb, “are we the baddies?” Despite its age, this meme has had an online resurgence in the past two years, so clearly does it relate to the present day. So, given Trump is himself a throwback that some of us had thought had been consigned to the dustbin of pop culture history, it feels appropriate that his time is represented by a 12-year-old meme.

Everyone in the UK and US today has grown up with the certainty that, whatever our countries’ flaws, we are, broadly speaking, the good guys. We are the ones who fought the Nazis, who bring democracy to fascism, light to darkness. But now we look around, post-Trump, post-Brexit, and we are suddenly living in countries led by mantras spouted by Nigel Farage and Fox News. Are we the baddies?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/30/trump-era-mitchell-webb-are-we-the-baddies

Now more relevant.