Spot the Hilarity

[Doktor Howl]

What are plutocrats and multi-national profiteers culpable FOR, if anything?

Everything and nothing. That's the hilarity.

A man selling stolen goods is guilty.  So is the man who buys it.

A man selling stolen goods back to the people he stole if from is guilty, the man who buys it back is just an IDIOT.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In Democracy American, You vote to fuck Self in ass!

Yeah, the American public was just asking for it over the course of 30 years and the wealthy elite quietly and steadily complied. There was nothing predatory, systematic, or conspiratorial about it, and if there was, it was mostly the fault of the people harmed by it. Hmmm...

Who screamed to be protected - made "safe" - at all costs?

Who screamed for the government to "get tough on crime"?

Who supported the bizarre invasion of Iraq with an 81-87% majority?

Who calls bank reform "communism"?

(fun fact:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/127448/Banking-Reform-Sells-Better-Wall-Street-Mentioned.aspx 43% of Americans oppose bank reform)

You have to remember that every single one of those examples was backed by massively funded PR campaigns to influence public opinion, and advertising works. Even on smart people. Especially when they don't know it's advertising, but even when they do.

[Doktor Howl]

I mean, look around; Capitalism has become SO BLOATED that it is now indistinguishable from Soviet Communism in 1985.

We don't have to wait in line for toilet paper, this is true...We just can't afford it.

We don't burn books - or "offensive" magazine covers - we just take them off the shelves.

We don't have secret arrests and trials...Um, wait.  Yeah, we do.

We don't have secret police.  Wait, sorry, I was all 20th century for a moment there.

We don't have a politburo.  Instead, we have a completely ineffectual congress.

Our leaders and captains of industry drive Western automobiles.  We have Zils.  Our leaders eat caviar, we hope there are enough potatos.

I'm happy to be a kulak.  True capitalism in our lifetime!

Why you whine like dog whose fur is too tight for it's arsehole, hah?  Is sound glorious to Enrico, is more and more like sweet homeland of Salazore every tuna smelling day!  Rejoice faggots!

When Enrico first step foot onto Amerikan soil in year of 252 (1986 to you faggots), Lucille Ball say to him (she and me had one again off again sausage party for over 30 years... her speaking voice sound like Lambchop puppeto before Enrico came to call, yes.) that he would be disgusting influence on Amerikan people and country, and slowly it turn into Salazore, as if by osmondis.  Is truly beautiful, it bring tear to Enrico's glass eye.

So, question is... when Enrico can start rolling razorwire onto beaches?




Yours truly,

in good times and hairy,

your friend,

still waterproof after all these years,

Enrico.

Enrico:  He doesn't make an economic wasteland; he makes the economic wasteland better.

[Doktor Howl]

In Democracy American, You vote to fuck Self in ass!

Yeah, the American public was just asking for it over the course of 30 years and the wealthy elite quietly and steadily complied. There was nothing predatory, systematic, or conspiratorial about it, and if there was, it was mostly the fault of the people harmed by it. Hmmm...

Who screamed to be protected - made "safe" - at all costs?

Who screamed for the government to "get tough on crime"?

Who supported the bizarre invasion of Iraq with an 81-87% majority?

Who calls bank reform "communism"?

(fun fact:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/127448/Banking-Reform-Sells-Better-Wall-Street-Mentioned.aspx 43% of Americans oppose bank reform)

You have to remember that every single one of those examples was backed by massively funded PR campaigns to influence public opinion, and advertising works. Even on smart people. Especially when they don't know it's advertising, but even when they do.

Yes, this is 169% true.  See my above post.  The people doing this are in fact guilty as sin.

But I know people who DON'T buy it.  You.  Net.  Me.  LMNO.  Cain.  Many, many others.  I can't explain why some people buy it and some people don't, except for maybe the Nenslo Principle.

I used to think it was because the people that buy it are too exhausted from the treadmill to think, but that doesn't explain you, for example.  You haven't stopped moving since I met you, and you are more often capable of thinking this shit through than I am.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't agree... I think the population has been slowly pushed into a situation of greater and greater stress, this is true, but greed by the those in power is the controlling factor, not the people demanding it. Eating what they're sold because policy-makers tell them it's what's good for them, true, but that's a slightly different story.

I have to go to work now, I'll jump back in later.

I can buy that.  But they're still eating it.

[LMNO]

Enrico is back!  You glorious faggot!

[Left]

Fun thing is, the wealthy elite SOLD it, and the American people lined up to BUY it.

Mostly, I think, due to the "pre-rich" meme.

What socio-economic problem in America ISN'T the people's fault?

What are plutocrats and multi-national profiteers culpable FOR, if anything?

Running a giant multigenerational confidence scheme.

[Doktor Howl]

Another thing:  This recent wave of racism that's hit over the Zimmerman case is a shink-wrapped product sold to the public. 

"It isn't YOU that ruined America.  It wasn't you demanding a 20% return on your investments, it wasn't you demanding cheap crap, cheap.  It wasn't you screeching about your 401K, or mistaking the stock market for the economy.  It wasn't you standing there at your tea party, dipping tea bags in tea cups because you were afraid to break the park rules.  It wasn't you masturbating publicly in the Occupy General Assembly, for the adoration of your fans.  It wasn't you screeching about taxes that you don't actually pay.  No, it was none of these things.  It was a 17 year old boy in a hoodie, with his pockets full of Skittles and Arizona Ice Tea."

Fox News and Townhall.com are pushing this shit as hard as they can, with everyone from Allen West to Ann Coulter spewing raw sewage out of their mouths to whip up the 20% of America that desperately needs to hear these things. And that 20%, once they have received this validation, are very, very loud...Which makes people think it's the majority view.

[Doktor Howl]

Also, this utter shit:

http://www.examiner.com/article/trayvon-s-skittles-arizona-tea-and-something-called-purple-drank

Which ought to make RWHN happy.

ETA:  Same site's next article:  UFOs visit US Air Force in Florida

Also, quotes rashmanly.com and urbandictionary.com as sources.

[Enrico Salazar]

Enrico is back!  You glorious faggot!

Is Enrico's decade, you fabulous slut.

[Junkenstein]

In Democracy American, You vote to fuck Self in ass!

Yeah, the American public was just asking for it over the course of 30 years and the wealthy elite quietly and steadily complied. There was nothing predatory, systematic, or conspiratorial about it, and if there was, it was mostly the fault of the people harmed by it. Hmmm...

Who screamed to be protected - made "safe" - at all costs?

Who screamed for the government to "get tough on crime"?

Who supported the bizarre invasion of Iraq with an 81-87% majority?

Who calls bank reform "communism"?

(fun fact:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/127448/Banking-Reform-Sells-Better-Wall-Street-Mentioned.aspx 43% of Americans oppose bank reform)

You have to remember that every single one of those examples was backed by massively funded PR campaigns to influence public opinion, and advertising works. Even on smart people. Especially when they don't know it's advertising, but even when they do.

That advertising sticks though. Part of the value of massive brands is in the Awareness of the product to the general populace. It's embeded and generational as well I would guess to a large degree. Parents building positive associations at young ages (Fast food=treat) with certain brands will probably be passed on. I'd guess this could apply negatively as well, but those cases are much rarer.

I think what I'm getting at is there seems to be a large chunk of people who will not alter their opinions unless seriously shocking evidence is presented to them. In these instances (Twin towers=Islam bad for example) or any of those listed in the polls, these were hot topic news stories for some reason or other. Anything which gives an "unsafe" vibe automatically sets a lot of people into a very conservative mindset. A scared monkey seems easier to control and shape the opinions of than a calm, thinking monkey.

I would suggest a lot more people are actually much more conservative than they can comfortably admit to themselves which is why you get shit like this happening all the time. Look at Texas. Wasn't there some vote recently that would fuck over at least 50% of the people living there? Probably a bad example, but if that was up at a federal level again now, would you not be worried?

If it was open to some kind of mass vote where everyone gets a say on it, would you not be terrified?

[Doktor Howl]

I would suggest a lot more people are actually much more conservative than they can comfortably admit to themselves which is why you get shit like this happening all the time

McCain and Palin were sort of betting on that, too.

So was Romney and the muppet.

[Doktor Howl]

I would in fact state that most Americans are terrified of the monster they created.  They just don't know how to stop it.  Meanwhile, the monster is being hyped by the media, because the media is part of the fucking monster in the first place.

[Junkenstein]

I would suggest a lot more people are actually much more conservative than they can comfortably admit to themselves which is why you get shit like this happening all the time

McCain and Palin were sort of betting on that, too.

So was Romney and the muppet.

You know, I half wonder what would happen if one year the US election strategy was "Fuck EVERYWHERE else, just convince Ohio"

Probably not the path to power, but I'd be interested to see what the results would be. I doubt it'd be a total wipeout, left/right politics is probably one of the most ingrained things to people who intend to vote anyway.

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Fun thing is, the wealthy elite SOLD it, and the American people lined up to BUY it.

Mostly, I think, due to the "pre-rich" meme.

What socio-economic problem in America ISN'T the people's fault?

What are plutocrats and multi-national profiteers culpable FOR, if anything?

Oh, they're guilty as sin.  They've been using social engineering since Reagan's day, and very effectively.  But to say that it is ALL their fault is to say that humans have no volition.  Frankly, I can't decide which option is worse.

They sold it, but the American people bought it, in a decades-long fit of utter stupidity.

People aren't nearly as morally culpable for getting ripped off as the people running the scam.

I guess I don't understand the thinking behind why victims of fraud deserve remotely the same level of blame as the plutocratic scum that consciously and systematically takes people for everything they're worth.