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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 3:51:32 GMT 1
Whataboutism (e.g. "But what about ISIS's brutality?" "But what about Putin's anti-gay law?" "But what about the actual black criminals?") is my new enemy. It's a fucking disease.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 4:04:06 GMT 1
I always thought of the comment section of articles/blogs as one of the most idiotic things ever. It's at best a marketing tool, and at worst the open forum for anonymous smears. A case like this convinces me even more: I mean, no shit people do such a thing. I would even say that the comment section exists mostly for that kind of purposes. Anyway, Israel actually pays you for doing this kind of a hit job online. Shit like this is only a tip of the iceberg. No conspiracy theory, but just a fact. China does, too, and so is America in places like Cuba, Venezeula and Ukraine. |
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 4:27:41 GMT 1
This needs to be said periodically, too: How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamasonline.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123275572295011847The Israeli government loved Hamas when it successfully split Palestinians. It still does on some level I guess, judging from the way it seems to think screaming "Hamas! Islamists!" somehow cleanses itself of the gory blood stains on its cloths. |
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 4:35:35 GMT 1
The American celebrities who have expressed their solidarity with the Netanyahu government so far:
Jon Voigt
Bill Maher
Joan Rivers
Howard Stern
Anyone else? Such a stellar cast. Great PR, I'm sure.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 4:52:32 GMT 1
I received an email from a group who supports Hillary. It needs my "support", apparently. This is what I wrote back:
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 5:02:39 GMT 1
Meet the group who practically owns US Congress:
Most of your representatives care more about these cheesiest-ever creeps than about you. Democracy at its finest.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 6:46:28 GMT 1
Andrea Tantaros @fox News just said that the only language "Muslims" (not my word, but hers) understand is a bullet in the head. What the fuck is wrong with these monsters? And why do I see even more women than men saying horrific things in public? The likes of Tantaros, Coulter and Ingraham get away like it's nothing with saying things that even Bill O'Reilly would have to work hard to defend himself for. No self-restraint whatsoever. As bad as most of the Washington Post columnists are, no one is even close to Jeniffer Rubin in terms of naked atrociousness. According to David Sheen, the vast, vast, vast majority of the people who joined the massively popular "Death to the Arabs" selfie campaign on FB in Israel were young girls. So many right-wing women. So many of them, who so casually talk about de facto genocide. Miri Regev and Tzipi Hotovely are only two of many. Here's Ayelet Shaked - another telegenic female MK, who said "Palestinian mothers should be killed, and their homes demolished, so that they can't raise those little snakes anymore", in public:  I don't know if some crazy old men are only cynically using these telegenic female underlings as the foot soldiers to launch verbal Grad rockets indiscriminately at all of us, but these women tend to be willing to go to the creepy length for their "honesty"/"straight-shooting". Ever since I saw a female CEO firing dozens of workers out of pure spite right in front of me, I've never had that delusion of female softness and roundness. But it's all so telling. Horribleness has no gender issue, that's for sure. |
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 18:47:12 GMT 1
Oldie but goodie.
Love Me, I'm A Liberal, by Phil Ochs:
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 23:10:22 GMT 1
I must say that Don Lemon guy is no pushover. He didn't yell or fold or cry for mom when Talib Kweli called him out. I know for a fact that most of the media guys are not used to being called out. It's so incredibly easy to destroy them mano a mano. He's at least better than most of them.
Still pretty much owned, and looks ridiculous, though. Talib is entirely correct.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 21, 2014 23:11:56 GMT 1
The donation campaign for Darren Wilson, the cop who shot and killed Mike Brown, apparently has already raised well over $100k. The "Whites are the true victims of racism" crowd are truly awesome.  |
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 22, 2014 3:23:56 GMT 1
BTW, apparently, they use WePay to crowdfund for Darren Wilson.
And it happens to be the same payment processing service that cancelled a medical fundraiser for sex workers. I know that, because a friend of mine angrily told me about it when that happened. It was definitely this one, WePay.
I'm sickened by the way the society treats prostitutes. Apparently they are not even human fucking beings under its criteria, even though the sex industry is an indispensable part of the society AND economy. Hell, I don't know how some of the US Congressmen and many CEOs could stay sane without their favorite call girls giving them the comfort and sense of relief that their spouses cannot give them. Economically speaking, many of the prostitutes are incredibly "productive" members of the society.
The obvious stigma on that industry will always stay there, of course. But I don't understand why we must go the extra mile to rub it in, denying their basic human rights like that.
The fundraiser for Darren Wilson certainly offends a lot of people, especially considering the nature of many of the messages that the donors left on the page, but it's free speech and all that. They have the right to do that.
What harm could a sex worker's medical fundraiser do to anyone? Whom could it hurt? What are the criteria? Are there even any criteria there? Prostitutes are simply automatically sub-human, much worse than racists?
It's all so sad. You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger hypocrisy than this one.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 22, 2014 12:27:06 GMT 1
I'm always amazed at American liberals' astonishing ignorance - ignorance about the people that they are supposedly fighting. They think that the conservatives are being absolutely ridiculous and disingenuous when they play the victim card, arguing that conservatism - or the right-wing ideology as a whole - is supposed to be about preserving the privilege of the strong. Some "strong", bitching all the time about being "victims"! Ha!
In reality, conservatism was all about "bitching" - the sense of victimization - from its beginning. It should be clear if you actually read Edmund Burke, the father of the Anglo-Saxon conservatism. For people like him, the French Revolution was a real thing because, well, it was a real thing. It was a revolution in the truest meaning of the word because the revolutionaries tried to take away the privilege from the ruling class and actually did it, if not fully successfully. Many of the old aristocrats were actually dispossessed, humiliated or killed, and had to flee for England or elsewhere. It was real, and the Englishmen shat their pants seeing the fate of many of the French aristocrats, and that dangerous revolutionary ethos creeping into their islands as well.
On the other hand, the Left was, and is, all about winning something that they didn't have, about creating a new reality. It's a much harder task than preserving something, and does take an extraordinary amount of passion and determination to achieve. The victimization - being the victims of the ongoing injustice - is certainly a major part of that drive.
But you have to pause now and think about this: do you think the reaction to or fear of losing something you had/have is any less strong than the resentment toward not having something? If anything, the former can be much stronger than the latter. Those who didn't have any to begin with, like many of the American slaves back then, tend to know how to be content; those who have just lost something big, something that they had taken for granted, usually don't.
Just look at Iraq, even. Ever since the "revolution" was imposed on the country by the US military, the reaction of the Sunnis, who had pretty much ruled the country, has been absolutely ferocious, far more ferocious than anything Shiites had ever done when they were largely the "ruled". Having lost much of their power to the Shiites, they just went bananas. Those former elites totally consider themselves victims - the victims of that enormous, irrational disruption that is the US military.
As Corey Robin said, the Right's central belief is so simple that it makes you cry: We have a better world if better people govern lesser people. That explains all the branches of conservatism/right-wing ideology. And the Left tries to disrupt that hierarchy, that "better" part. Full democracy, which is the Left's invention, enables random "lesser people" to defeat the "better people" via the cold brutality of their numerical superiority, at least in theory - the whole concept of democracy is scary. Income tax and capital gain tax try to reduce the "better"-ness of the capitalist elites. Labor unions empower "lesser people" to a threatening degree - threatening enough to ruin the "better world". The father is suddenly not the ruler of his mini-kingdom (which is a very critical part of conservatism - having your own private kingdom, mini or not) - the family - anymore. Blacks are suddenly equal to whites, and the poorest section of whites suddenly lose the subjects for them to rule over/look down on, whether ideologically or materially, which is why poor whites were always far more emotional over racial equality than the richer ones. The list goes on and on and on, and their fear of losing something dear and important to them was always, always real. Yes, from blacks' point of view, whites claiming to be victims of anything now look absolutely ridiculous, and silly in a disgusting way. The society where we live today is far more right-wing than not. In many ways, the Right has won, especially since most of the "liberals" are nothing but part-time Left, part-time Right, itching to go full-time Right when it comes to economic matters, even. Obama was Left only in his presidential campaign "Change", the word that sounds so hollow and 2008 now. The Clintons are full Right on vital issues. And this tendency goes well beyond America. The Right is winning everywhere on this planet.
But any ideological movement has to just drop dead as soon as it realizes that it has already achieved much of its goal. So it never admits it has. Wait a minute, this is it? This is what we fought all these years, decades, for? All the sacrifice, sweat, blood - for this? No way! We have a Muslim socialist president up there! What about fucking Obamacare? What about the fags and dykes marrying each other? And you tell me this is it? No way is this it! It's a train that has to keep going no matter what, fueling itself with the belief that the utopia is still nowhere in sight, keeping the same victim mentality burning inside its heart.
The sense of victimization is engraved on the core of the Right's belief system. Because that's how it all started.
You never understand conservatives/right-wingers' communist-like zeal unless you understand that. They can raise $200k for a killer cop just like that, in a matter of a few days. Because they are "victims" fighting something scary. Always.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 22, 2014 16:51:58 GMT 1
Oh God, I spent an unusual amount of time on writing the post above, like it's my job or something. I've been probably going overkill lately. Proud of the post, though.
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Post by miscmisc on Aug 23, 2014 17:44:01 GMT 1
After that beheading clip on youtube, predictably we have a shit load of nitwits saying that the US must "destroy ISIS".
They do know that such an effort would be pretty much Iraq War all over again, right? After a series of air strikes, the war would inevitably move to the urban guerrilla warfare stage inside the ISIS territory, where they have solid - if not unanimous - support from the locals who hate the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Iraqi army, or Assad and the Alawites in the Syrian case, more than anything else. Yup, yet another "asymmetric" warfare, with thousands and thousands of civilians inevitably killed by Americans.
ISIS and its supporters had uploaded dozens of gory clips before that one, which most people ignored, with the World Cup and Ukraine and Gaza and so on going on concurrently. You know, they are very IT-savvy. They were screaming in the intertubes "Hey, look! We are doing God's work here! We aren't pansies like most others! We are a serious force with a serious mission! Look!" for a long time, and finally they've got the attention that they were seeking.
ISIS is neither an Islamic Wehrmacht nor an Arabic Imperial Japanese Navy. It wouldn't be able to take all of Iraq, let alone establish that silly "Caliphate" that supposedly stretches from part of India to Eastern Europe. That's just what advertising people call "gonzo PR". But I suppose that many people other than ISIS benefit massively from playing up its "existential threat" (even to the US apparently).
I always find it funny that the loudest war mongers are usually the ones who have absolutely no actual strategy to achieve any of their maximalist objectives. They are all a bunch of opportunistic bloodsuckers, or delusional herpes-heads. And they wouldn't dare to even hint at Saudi Arabia's (or their own, for that matter) responsibility for the whole chaos. Just as usual. Thus we have to put up with John McCain's ugly face and anti-musical voice for years and years and years and years and... ** vomit **
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Post by Kenshin (Banned) on Aug 23, 2014 23:11:38 GMT 1
Wow, what a shitty world.
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