Yes, it is funny on a sad historical level and also as a commentary on what's happening here and now. It's black humor. Sheds light on the dark. Recognition of those times can lead to not repeating the pasts sad excesses. But the realists know that copycat crime crap happens all the time---if not by intent then by depressing coincidence when seeming threats conspire and scapegoats are set upon. It has always been a downer relity to me that if I had been there in the 1940s instead of here I'd've been herded into cattlecars and cremated by the state. By the luck of the draw, I was here.

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