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Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion
A 3-year-old Onion video titled "Martial Law Plans Revealed?" has swept across the internet recently, and taken the gullible along with it. The video has some preaching from the highest mountain top about the evils of a government turning fascist, and an equal number explaining until red in the face what The Onion is.
Whoa, what the hell? They really were involved in an embezzlement controversy, and an internal ACORN investigation found that poor management led to bad behavior on the part of employees. Based on your statements, I'm guessing you visit nothing but left-wing blogs and so have a completely one-sided perspective of nearly everything. Frankly, I find it amusing that the left gets to experience what it's like to have allegedly edited footage portray you in a bad light after all those years of heavily edited "documentaries" like Michael Moore films and Outfoxed.
Pretty much the entire Obama era so far has been an example of the left experiencing all the things they did to the right and an administration doing all the things Bush did. The country didn't change at all.
>>>They invite it, though, with [left] wing politicians calling [Bush] a [chimpanzee], a 'secret [Nazi] or [fascist], not [properly elected] in the U.S. because he [bribed the Supreme Court and stole the election]. Talking about death panels in the [secret prison camps] and [Guantanamo Bay], etc. And that's in the [DNC] itself, not just in the [Green] Party.
Fixed that for you.
I guess you forgot about that.
Or else you endorse it.
POINT = There are idiots in both parties. The way Obama's been treated these past two years is no different than how Bush was treated the previous eight.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>When the idiots don't realize the Communists fought against the Nazis.
There's no stronger fight than brother against brother. They were originally partners (prior to 1920s) and only split later on..The only difference between the National Socialists and the Communists is that the Natsi Party wanted to keep companies privatized. The Communist Party did not. In all other aspects they are almost identical - strong centralized power. - Elimination of undesirable populations. - Rise of a cult figure (Mussolini and Stalin respectively). Control of the media to spread propaganda. 5 or 10 year economic plans.
And on and on and on
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Other than countless examples in the past, from regular people to celebrities to businesses who have been attacked by the likes of Jesse Jackson, the big reason this is a bit of karmic retribution is the NAACP's recent declaration that the entire Tea Party is a racist organization. There is no official Tea Party organization--it's a bunch of local groups using the same moniker. There have been a few racist individuals who attached themselves to the movement, but they have been distanced. It's really just a group of anti-government, anti-tax people. Obama has even stated he doesn't believe the group is racist.
Disagreeing with the Tea Party is one thing, but playing the race card in 2010 is a cop-out and nothing more than a political play to try to drum up minority support going into the November elections. It's the same reason Obama is suddenly talking about immigration reform even though he knows it won't pass--it's to appeal to Hispanics by making it look like he fought for it but was foiled by Congress. Never mind that he didn't pursue it all when he had the 60 guaranteed votes.
I didn't think it was possible, but Obama has made me even more cynical about politicians than Bush. But now we're going way off-topic, and it's not like we'd sway each other anyway. :)
And why would black people have a problem with the word niggardly? It's derived from the same place we get the word nigger. And for a stretch of a few hundred years, when white people would say the word nigger, they would then go out and rape, beat, and kill black people.
So, that's why they get upset when a white person says it, and not when a non-white person says it. It's part of their cultural memory. What is so difficult to understand about that?
He is socialist that's the thing, it's not a untruth if it's true. As a canuck looking in, I see the same ideas and policies that political parties here(NDP, Green, Liberal and sometimes Tories) do, including pushing or ensuring state ownership of public property, etc.
It's not limited at the federal level either, but it exists at the state level too. Mainly in democrat heavy states.
Om, nomnomnom...
I'm not a fan of Obama, but choosing between him and Palin is a no-brainer. I probably would have voted for McCain if he hadn't chosen Palin as his running mate, but it would be completely irresponsible to put that woman one heart attack away from being president. Biden is an asshole, but at least he's an asshole who I believe knows how to tie his own shoes.
The Tea Party is a bunch of racists. Half the signs at any given Tea Bagger rally are racist and the whole sham is nothing more than a bunch of fat rednecks who had no problem with running up a massive deficit as long as it was a white, republican president doing it to blow up brown people. The second it's a black, democratic president running up a deficit to keep the economy from collapsing and maybe raise the standard of living in this country they all suddenly found their fiscal conservatism. It's fucking disgusting is what it is. The only good thing about those ball-sucking retards [they called themselves the Teabaggers, I almost feel bad about picking on someone that fucking stupid, almost ;) ] is that they're driving a wedge into the republican base and ensuring that they'll lose the next election...
Not ACing it because I have karma to burn and I'm not going to hide when I've got nothing to say but the truth!
I didn't elucidate my point clearly. If I call a white kid a honkey, he's not going to feel threatened in any way. It's still racist, but the act is going to be meaningless to him in most situations. He does not connect that word with violence. (This is a generalization: if you grew up in a mostly black neighborhood, I don't doubt that the word honkey could carry the threat of violence in certain situations.)
The vast majority of white-looking people have not been subjected to racial discrimination, or if they have, it's been to their benefit. The vast majority of black-looking people have been subjected to racial discrimination, and more often, with far more experience involving actual violence, abuse of authority, etc.
So, when there are many synonyms for the word niggardly, why use it? "Because you want to" seems like a sorry excuse to start shit, like a guy who just happens to like collecting Nazi memorabilia.