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By Andy on July 1, 2011
“”There was no meaningful revolution. It’s former members of the Soviet elite and their kids who are still running the country as we speak. Nothing’s changed for the general populace except that their rights to medical care, education and (shitty, but functioning) housing has been removed. Life expectancy is fucking worse in modern Russia than [...]
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By Andy on June 23, 2011
“When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don’t learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you’re a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they’re even more determined now to support anyone [...]
Posted in 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts, 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, 6. Controlled Mass Media, 7. Obsession with National Security, 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
By Andy on May 26, 2011
“At a guess, it will make a subset of random minutiae of everyday life more like Facebook while we continue to change the climate, burn up all our energy without developing any sort of sustainable replacement, turn dwindling supplies of rare earth metals into bullshit lifestyle gadgets that basically serve only to functionally make people [...]
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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
By Andy on May 3, 2011
“One of the standard conservative talking points from Limbaugh I’ve seen bubble up online has been that Obama tried taking too much credit for the strike, as evidenced by his alleged overuse of personal pronouns in the announcement (direct quote: For the record, ladies and gentlemen, in his brief announcement last night President Obama used [...]
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By Andy on May 1, 2011
“At the same time, I find it so strange. The jokes that are funny are the ones that are true. And this joke about Fox News — same as other jokes about Fox News from previous correspondent’s dinners — are all about its extreme bias, horrible reporting, and so on. And everyone laughs at them. [...]
Posted in 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption, 6. Controlled Mass Media, 9. Corporate Power is Protected
By Andy on March 30, 2011
From Adam Curtis: The idea of humanitarian intervention begins in 1968 with the Biafran war. It is a fascinating moment because it is where the framework – the filter through which we now perceive all humanitarian tragedies – was first constructed. The Eastern part of Nigeria had declared independence and called their new state Biafra. In [...]
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By Andy on February 18, 2011
YouTube – FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! Wisconsin Protester.
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