...the ubiquitous and courageous commenter named "Anonymous" contributed this gem to the thread:Looks like some one skipped the day that sarcasm was taught in school.
[***Forehead slap***] I'm so glad the
Death threats and Hitler regalia are signs of sarcasm, not hatred. So this sort of thing is A-okay.
It's sarcasm, rubes.
Update: Dan from New York calls yesterday's
Did you notice who Stewart and Colbert chose for their show's grand finale? Yusuf Islam, the Artist Previously Known as Cat Stevens. Quite a few good commentators noticed too, starting with Ed Driscoll who has video and links to the others.In case you forgot, the American convert to Islam endorsed the Ayatollah's fatwah against Salman Rushdie and has been barred from Israel for "transferring donations and funds to Islamic elements which are hostile to Israel," according to Israeli authorities. All in good fun though - unless you're one of those dumb rightwing racists who can't take a joke.
Update II: The brave, still anonymous commenter offers another clarification.
Since it was my comment that spawned your latest screed ... I'll play a little longer... I posted my comment as "Anonymous" because a few years back, I wrote an OP-ED regarding the Bush administration's unnecessary war in Iraq.It received lots of angry right wing comment. But, it also led to a right wing nut calling my home and threatening me and my family.
I can tell you are too dense to get it, but many of the people at the rally the other day were MOCKING you ... mocking folks who think that Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all the same thing.
They were mocking people who babble incoherently that Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were the same as Obama... They were mocking people who bring guns to political rallies to suggest that if they don;t get the political outcomes they want, they may react with "2nd amendment remedies"... They were mocking those who would think that a large man stomping on the head of a small women was justified [Ed: you can see stop-action photos of what really occurred here]
In the end, they were mocking YOU, and you aren't bright enough to recognize it.
I'll say it slowly; do try to follow along. Hitler himself wrote that Nazism was an effort to improve Marxism. Put simply, the philosophies of Marxism, Socialism, Communism and Fascism share many qualities, most importantly their assignation of unlimited power of the state over the individual, ending finally in totalitarianism.
Modern conservatism aligns itself with limiting power granted to the state, which is the framework established by the Constitution. It is the only known antidote to the decline of corrupted governments into tyrannies.
But don't believe me--Hitler himself wrote of Nazism:
"I have learned a great deal from Marxism, as I do not hesitate to admit. The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and penpushers have timidly begun...I had only to develop logically what Social Democracy repeatedly failed in because of its attempt to realize its evolution within the framework of democracy. National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order." -- Hitler to Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction, pg. 186.
The Nazi Party, is of course, The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei abbreviated NSDAP). Now, your course of reading for today is Whom Despots Fear, helpfully illustrated for imbecilic tools who require remedial, comic-book-level education on history, philosophy, law and economics.
UGHH...
ReplyDeleteRemember those pathetic 'BOMB TEXAS not IRAQ' signs?
How about the comedic brilliance of throwing batteries at Elderly Men and Women walking to attend a RNC Convention in NYC?
No surprise these fools think the Monkey=Bush photos are simply sarcasm, while comical photos of Obama are a crime against humanity.
TEA Party protesters can offer 'fascist' references knowing Obama's Socialism empowers the State and this can be called an outrage - but Democratic Partisan Liberals can portray anyone as a NAZI or Hitler and it is acceptable?
Remember when Durbin compared Our finest in the US Military to Nazis?
Sure, that was pure sarcasm.
The old Democratic Partisan playbook, which is created by an irrational bigotry - hatred of all who wisely oppose their sophistry.
Hipster has become a term describing a fool who simply follows blind fashion = perfect dupes for the Democratic Partisan Machine.
DNC Titanic is sinking us all.
ON another note, I was looking forward to a cool Halloween post via the ROSS talent.
ReplyDeleteAnd we turn into see links to the dysfunctional, dishonest, delusional Riehl?
BOO indeed...
Since it was my comment that spawned your latest screed ... I'll play a little longer ...
ReplyDeleteI posted my comment as "Anonymous" because a few years back, I wrote an OP-ED regarding the Bush administration's unnecessary war in Iraq.
It received lots of angry right wing comment. But, it also led to a right wing nut calling my home and threatening me and my family.
I can tell you are too dense to get it, but many of the people at the rally the other day were MOCKING you ... mocking folks who think that Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all the same thing.
They were mocking people who babble incoherently that Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were the same as Obama.
They were mocking people who bring guns to political rallies to suggest that if they don;t get the political outcomes they want, they may react with "2nd amendment remedies".
They were mocking those who would think that a large man stomping on the head of a small women was justified.
In the end, they were mocking YOU, and you aren't bright enough to recognize it.
Hey Anonymous DUDE
ReplyDeleteYour peeps had to be bused to the rally by Millionaire Huffington AND everyone at the rally dressed up like the Halloween freak show Comedy Central wanted them to appear. Tools DUDE, mere Tools.
You mock yourself each time you make an apppearance AND you're not bright enough to recognize it.
Stop humilating yourself, you're an embarrassment to your DUDE.
Susan
@anon- 4:53
ReplyDeleteAnd...
answered.
You gonna put some ice on that?
Note to Anonymous #3. Regardless of the supposed mockery intent behind the "death to right wing extremists" placard, believe it or not there are as many *liberal* wackos as there are right wing nuts. What if one of those liberal wack jobs takes one look at that placard and is suddenly inspired to off a few conservatives that he deems extremist. We're constantly berated for potentially inspiring right wing crazies to harm liberals. The same is applicable to your fringe element. Not everyone is as adept at discerning 'sarcasm' as you might be.
ReplyDeleteIts possible to combine a moderate form of socialism with democracy and prosperity, just take a look at the Social Democratic governments who have governed in Scandinavian countries and in the UK etc. during the past decades. Norway has a GDP per capita (even when purchasing parity is taken into account) well above the US:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
Why have a state at all if it only lead to tyranny? Let private companies handle policing, governing, defense etc.? I think it should be allowed to discuss what the state should do and not do without being called a fascist or communist. Calling Bush/Obama a fascist/communist diminish the horrors of real fascists/communists.