3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
Focus on the Family Leader: “We’ve Probably Lost” on Gay Marriage
By Andy on May 23, 2011
“Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a majority of Americans support gay marriage. It was the third such survey this spring, and if you add in the number of Americans who support civil unions, public support for same-sex relationships has become the dominant position. … Even Jim Daly, president of the right-wing group Focus [...]
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How Roger Ailes Failed at Setting Up a Strong Republican Candidate for 2012
By Andy on May 23, 2011
‘”[Fox News's Roger] Ailes is the most successful executive in television by a wide margin, and he has been so for more than a decade. He is also, in a sense, the head of the Republican Party, having employed five prospective presidential candidates and done perhaps more than anyone to alter the balance of power [...]
Posted in 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights, 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, 4. Supremacy of the Military, 6. Controlled Mass Media, 9. Corporate Power is Protected
Dickhead FL Gov Want to Drug Test Welfare Recipients, Make Them Pay For It
By Andy on May 9, 2011
‘“It’s fair to taxpayers,” Scott said after the vote. “They’re paying the bill. And they’re often drug screened for their jobs. On top of that, it’s good for families. It creates another reason why people will think again before using drugs, which as you know is just a significant issue in our state.” HB 353 [...]
Fanboys Punk Out, Players Play
By Andy on May 6, 2011
“Americans want to talk about killing and watch violent movies and play violent video games, and watch fighting sports. But it’s all about simulacra. Hence the popularity of things like the UFC gym franchise where you can “train like a UFC fighter,” without actually sparring. Which is sort of like spending all your time doing [...]
Posted in 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, 4. Supremacy of the Military
Former Military Interrogator on How Torture Delayed Finding Bin Laden
By Andy on May 4, 2011
“One of the things that people aren’t talking about is the fact that one of the people that was confronted with this information that bin Laden had a courier is Skaykh al-Libi, who was held in a CIA secret prison and was tortured and who gave his CIA interrogators the name of the courier as [...]
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Potency of the Moment
By Andy on May 2, 2011
“The potency of the moment is Obama’s to lose. … So historic is the shift, in fact, that all Obama really has to do now is let the astonishing details of the clandestine operation trickle down and word of his direct, daring involvement penetrate the collective consciousness, and not only will any current agenda items [...]
Posted in 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment, 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights, 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, 4. Supremacy of the Military, 7. Obsession with National Security
Jeremy Scahill on Bin Laden
By Andy on May 2, 2011
“I found it quite disgusting to see people chanting, like it was some sort of sporting event, outside of the White House. I think it was idiotic. Let’s remember here, hundreds of thousands of people have died. Iraq was invaded, a country that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, nothing to do with Osama bin [...]
Posted in 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights, 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, 4. Supremacy of the Military, 7. Obsession with National Security
Fox Headline
By Andy on April 27, 2011
ThinkProgress » Fox News: White House Releases ‘What It Says’ Is The President’s Birth Certificate.
Evil POS
By Andy on April 27, 2011
“To be clear, I don’t hate Trump because he’s an old, rich, white man. I hate trump because he is an evil piece of shit.” via Commenter on MetaFilter
My Mistake
By Andy on April 27, 2011
“Oh my mistake, all the birthers need is educating. It’s been such an effective strategy on climate change, health care, gun control, marriage equality, how can it not work on this? Let’s show them some facts and bask in the warm glow of their enlightenment.” via Comment on MetaFilter.