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Patriotic Joker

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Foxfier
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Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 6:57am

Ah, essential Joker. He’s got sore spots, and is totally random. 😀

Tom Byrne
Tom Byrne
Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 9:10am

Similar lines were used in the movie “The Rocketeer”. A gangster realizes he was hired by a German agent and says:
“I may not make an honest dollar, but I’m not betraying my country”.
Inspiration or trope?

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 9:49am

Dang. I was about to bring up rocketeer but Tom beat me to it. Excellent tastes sir. 😉

And supposedly true from what I heard. The mob really did hate Nazi and communist. (There’s probably a great book to be written there if it hasn’t.)

Tom Byrne
Tom Byrne
Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 9:56am

Nate:
The mob may have hated them only as competitors, in which case the feeling was no doubt mutual. Mussolini went after the Masons and Hitler (after Rohm’s assassination) after the homosexual community for fear of their creating competing loyalties, not because they disapproved of their behaviors per se.

Foxfier
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Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 12:14pm

It’s probably need more than one or two examples to be a trope– although the over-trope from Casa Blanca might be involved. (“Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”)

Or maybe “even evil has limits”?

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Sunday, May 31, AD 2020 4:33pm

Tim as the saying goes, “even bad men love their mothers.”

Well bad men can love their country too.

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