If the recent events in the Twin Cities have had a certain mephitic familiarity to them, well....
They aren't without precedent.
Oh, I'm sorry. Was that offsides? Too fucking bad.
Yes, the G.O.P. hasn't advocated the liquidation of undesirables...openly, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other parallels.
Claiming a monopoly on patriotism and love of country? Check.
Demonizing the opposition as traitors? Check.
Claiming alliance with the clean-leaving regular folks against the decadent elites? Check.
Stressing ignorance as a virtue? Check.
Sporting perpetual hard-ons for any and all things militaristic? Check.
Emphasis on creepy, necrophiliac rituals of martyrdom? Check.
Led by a jumped up ex-military man with a bad temper and hatful of hollow promises to win the masses over even as he plans to fuck them over? Check.
Still, I suppose that as long as folks aren't being shipped off to death camps, the rest of the disturbing similarties can be overlooked, especially if the bootheel to come rests more heavily on someone else's neck, be they women, gays, blacks, latinos, liberals, foreigners, and the like.
Subway Sect - Nobody's Scared (from a 1978 single) - The death rattle of rationality. I've said it before (in the context of the Dead Kennedys music): When the situation on the ground rivals -- nay, exceeds the most paranoiac of punk prophecies, then we're in dire straits indeed, comrades.
Edit: Before the anonymous faces in the peanut gallery again decide for some cheap point-scoring, I'd just like to say that Godwin's Law can go fuck itself.
Friday, September 05, 2008
nobody's sorry
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Yeah, it's overdrawn and paranoiac, but why else are we up at this late hour watching this crap? Dire straights indeed, it's turned this socialist into a campaigner for the lesser evil, Caribou Barbie and her evil WarLord will not speak for this dyke. Damn right we're grumpy, anon. Thanks for saying it Andrew, xoxox
If you're more interested in harping over some facile bullshit internet "rule" than looking at historical precedents, then go visit some other dark corner of the internet where you can all feel like the little princes of the internet you think are.
I watched Triumph Of The Will last nite (after the Giants win of course)- I figured it was better to watch McCain's rally in the original German version.
It's like a bad sitcom "He's a doddering old P.O.W. and she's a feisty former Miss Congeniality. See what happens when they get paired up in a big White House"
Laughing through my tears
How about Corporate Fascist !
Delusional Stupid Anon..
Step Away From The Kool-Aid Anon !
I thought I had seen everything cynically possible in politics over the past two deacdes.
But the choice of this Republican running mate was outreageous. Is it true she has only been overseason two occasions, and both of these were connected with the military?
What next?? They have one of those Survivor type reality shows where the last man standing gets Secretary of State for Defence.
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