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Show posts MenuQuote from: Internet Jesus on September 26, 2012, 04:10:20 AM
At least you left the Furries out of it.
Quote from: Cain on September 22, 2012, 12:12:12 PMQuote from: Internet Jesus on September 22, 2012, 04:02:13 AMQuote from: Fidel Castro on September 22, 2012, 03:54:37 AM
Hell, yeah. Just sub in "reactionary elements" and "good party member" and you're there.
If the reactionary elements were to get re-elected (they won't), we could
kiss our socialist values goodbye. This anti-Proletarian radical would finish his
decimation of our economy and destroy what is left of the country our
forefathers fought so hard to establish. The good news is that there
are still enough good party members who won't let this happen, so we
will stop the destruction with the election on Nov 6. Thanks so much
for your genuine concerns regarding my well-being, but the only
emotional issues I have are those related to the Bourgeois party of
America and people like you who can't see the light.
Fuck me. I only made 4 edits.
I've been arguing for a long time that the Republicans are the Bolsheviks of capitalism.
Not only their rhetoric, but a lot of their political propaganda and organizing comes straight from guys like Lenin. Which makes sense, once you have a party which stops treating politics as a bound system between opponents who can reasonably disagree on certain topics and instead as an existential struggle for mastery. But even so, you'll see a hell of a lot more references to Gamsci and Lenin by Republican strategists than you will by Democrats, and a lot more conscious use of their methods.
That's not the only source of bizarre, totalitarian thinking that seems to motivate the party (ohai Carl Schmitt!) but it's a major one.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 21, 2012, 11:29:06 PMQuote from: Cain on September 21, 2012, 11:13:15 PM
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/09/20/the-poor-get-poorer-3-character-traits-that-undermine-prosperity/?singlepage=true
I think the part I like about this best is this quote:QuoteGluttonous, slothful, irresponsible and entitled: Today's "poor" are the "rich" Jesus warned us about.
Biblical literalism goes where? For a fundamentalist, this is terribly inventive, in the same sort of way that, say, Catholicism is.
I liked the misleading disposable income graph chart thing. Because SNAP, Section 8, school lunch programs, utility bill assistance, Medicaid, and TANF are totally just free moneys that you can use for any old thing.
QuoteConfirmed: The Director of 'Innocence of Muslims' Is a Schlocky Softcore Porn Director Named Alan Roberts
An Alan Roberts is listed as director on the film's casting calls and call sheets from the summer of 2011, back when it was innocuously called Desert Warriors.. Castmembers and crew told us yesterday that Roberts was brought on by producer "Sam Bacile" aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, and he muddled his way through a disorganized three-month shoot.
This is the same Alan Roberts listed in IMDB as the director of a handful of softcore porn movies and other low-budget films, according to acquaintances we spoke to today.
"I am sure it was the same Alan Roberts, as I remember him speaking about this project," said filmmaker David A. Prior, a longtime acquaintance of Roberts, in an email. Roberts is listed as a producer on two of Prior's films, 2008's Zombie Wars and 2007's Lost at War.
"He did work on [Innocence of Muslims]," confirmed a man who was Roberts' business partner in a post-production facility he ran, who asked not to be named.
The backstory behind how Roberts became director of Innocence of Muslims is still unclear, like so many things about the film. We've tried to reach Roberts, but his business associate told us he "turned off his phone" soon after protests broke out over the film and is laying low. But he said Roberts was "non-political" and did not have any apparent anti-Islam feelings. Roberts may have been duped by the film's producer in much the same way as the rest of the cast and crew. They believed they were participating in a period piece about ancient Egypt and had no idea the movie would be edited and dubbed into a piece of Islamophobic propaganda.