Duh Aficionado Magazine: AIDS ≠ Hitler
I'm a few days late on this, obviously, but that long weekend wasn't going to enjoy itself. Anyway, this is the new German PSA about AIDS that people keep sending in to tips@videogum.com. It is basically the 9/11 PSA of German PSAs about AIDS, and it is also NSFW.
Yikes. What a terrible ad! Although it would be funny (not funny) if everyone stopped overusing the term Nazi when they thought someone was being overbearing or malicious and started using "pandemic incurable retrovirus." You know, like, "Jesus, my algebra teacher is such a pandemic incurable retrovirus about showing your work on the daily five-point pop quizzes she makes us do every day before class." Or, you know, like, "the DMV is staffed by a bunch of sadistic, half-literate pandemic incurable retroviruses." You get it. Not to mention the classic Seinfeld character, the Soup Pandemic Incurable Retrovirus. Wouldn't that be hilarious? Ugh. This lady knows what all that which I is talk about. (Get it? She is not a professor of smarts.)
In any case, I am pretty sure that the only thing Hitler and the AIDS crisis have in common is their historical demonization of the gay community. Otherwise, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS AD EVEN TALKING ABOUT? I mean, sure, the Third Reich exterminated most of the Jews in the middle of the night when they were on their way home from the Meatpacking District, but that's still a pretty thin comparison. Is the argument that if the Jews had simply worn more condoms they would never have been slaughtered by the millions in death camps? Because UH.
Oh, and did you see this one?
Yeah. It might be a hard truth to face, but it is high time that women stopped having casual sex with Stalin. AY-AY-AY. This is your brain on AIDS.
(Thanks for the tip, Gideon, Mandesha, Beck, and Scott.)
Posted by Gabe at 5:45 PM in Hospital, Oh, Yuck!, PSAs
Tags: AIDS | Health | Hitler
Is this from an episode of True Blood?
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I'm confused about that woman's problem with the ad. It sounds like she would prefer WALL-E to be the face of AIDS.
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So they uncovered the Eva Braun sex tape?
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That was one super sexy ad until that demagogue showed up, talk about a boner kill.
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I'm more disturbed by the fact that I got a boner upgrade when he showed up.
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I'm going to apologize before I say this but... I think you mean it's a boner holocaust.
Sorry.
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I really don't see where the beef is. It spins sexual recklessness and irresponsibility into something horrifying, which is a great idea for an AIDS PSA. It puts a face on an awful disease that's killed millions of people, and humanizing something like that is a very effective strategy for building awareness and promoting prevention. It seems like people are offended by this because it deflated their boners so quickly that it made a noise.
Sometimes people need a good boner-deflating shock.
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Death (you) WOULD be behind deflating our boners. You jerk.
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Think of this from my perspective. Boners end lives while simultaneously creating them. The lives created by boners will eventually end.
Either way, the boner makes my job much harder.
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Urgh!
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I thought Eli Roth killed Hitler. So how can he be having sex here? Trick photography?
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Give credit where credit is due.. this video probably convinced tens of thousands of German teenagers to have safe sex with a sock.
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With Hitler's face drawn on it like a li'l Hitler love puppet. (I am trademarking that name for my I'm Trying To Go To Hell line of sex products. Don't steal it.)
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To be fair, Hitler really puts the fuck down here.
I don't know what I'm being fair to, I think I just want somebody else to acknowledge that they also noticed this.
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Yea in other words, apparently Hitler was a really good lay.
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What can I say? My man Hitler crushes ass!
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Thanks for (getting AIDS on) the tip of my penis, Amanda-Nazi.
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Stalin looks like he's thinking about baseball.
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It is strange to see Hitler so happy after watching all those Downfall parodies. Also, BULLET TIME SEX!
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An FBI agent unfamiliar with high-speed photography just put you on a list.
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This ad wants to see my O face but it's getting me UGH face
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Not to be a Grammar Pandemic Incurable Retrovirus, but, um... Shit, your grammar is perfect. Jerk.
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If only we had a time machine, we could could go back in time and KILL AIDS.
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Adolf Hitler is a historical figure that triggers terrible associations for any decent human being and appropriating his name or likeness for your whim is inexcusable in pretty much any context.
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I agree with you, Edward Elizabeth HITLER. I tried to make a similar point before whilst arguing that Holocaust jokes just ain't right, but it was not as well-worded, I guess.
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Great Know I get a hard on every time I see a picture of Hitler, thanks.
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now
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That ad makes sex look AWESOME!!!.......at first. The it dose something terrible.
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Man who is charge of the AIDS awareness division in germany, eli roth?
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I HATE when they try and give them a theme.
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they have to show the man's even ass in ads? Damn porn directors.
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Your photo made me smile. Then your username made me laugh out loud.
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It would have been a much more effective ad had they also superimposed Roseanne Barr's face on the German girl's face.
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Who knew that Hitler had such a HOT ASS?
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holy ghost, this is not an episode of scooby doo
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Ladies, don't you hate it when you're having sex with a hitler and he doesn't use a condom? And what's with that moustache? I mean, seriously!?!
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That's a dealbreaker, ladies!
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Instead of Hitler, the big surprise in the American version will be Jigsaw.
And then to cure her AIDS, this woman will have to have to cut off her own head while handcuffed to a deli slicer before she drowns in human waste. On a roller coaster.
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You guys, I feel like I'm being obvious here. But nobody's said it yet (I mean, really. You guys are usually so on the ball), so...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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so wait...inglourious basterds is banned in germany...yet this psa is totally okay....um....
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It's really hard to find a sexual partner once people know that you've had sex with Hitler.
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Only if Hitler's parents had used condoms....
BTW, Jews are the new Muslims.
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