Opponents of the war point to casualties and to the low-scale attrition which are wearing away at the morale anf fighting ability of our troops. They forget that post-World War II, Nazi's were a problem for years and we had to occupy Japan for more than 30 years to pacify the population. The American occupation of Germany continu
The good thing about totalitarian regimes is that they keep things like this out of the public view. Nazis and Stalinists for instance, were very particular about what people were able to see, and I'm sure they kept their torture procedures under tight security and scrutiny. When I see these photos, my disgust is not in the humiliation (this is a fact of war), but in the way the soldiers were posing for pictures. That is absolutely stupid and intolerab
...And then he asked me if I was a socialist, and I said, "Certainly," and it was as if I'd said I like donkey semen in my latte instead of milk. He then went into a mad rant about lefties like Mr. Doyle and how I was a typical Globe columnist. I said, no, truthfully, I think I'm regarded as "idiosyncratic" (the first six-syllabl
Just because something sounds like a wacked conspiracy theory doesn't mean its not true. Conversely, just because the fact that its a wacked conspiracy theory doesn't necessarily make it untrue, doesn't mean that its not a wacked conspiracy theory that is not necessarily true.
To many an Arab mind, the resistance movement is good and the occupiers are evil. This is no more incorrect a blanket statement than saying that we are good and they are evil. We may have a greater tradition of western rationalism, but this is OUR value, and not a universal one. It does not govern the universe, it only interprets it. And it is, in fact, the greatest tool we have to justify our posession of power over the earth, but in fact nothing can
Well the difference I think, is how the label is used. Is the label something that has been rationally developed and is an end in an of itself, or is the label an 'image', developed falaciously and used as a means to bypass something intellectually. I think alot of conservatives today are guilty of labeling people so that they can 'diminish' them and avoid dealing with what they have to say. Who would pay attention, afterall, to a communist pinko who h
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NK's Kim Jong-IL who by the way is running Kerry TV ads on NK state run tv, Source?
No, I asked what you would have us call YOU. Call me Ying, thank you.
The what would you have us call you? I have some choice phrases I think would fit you nicely. You could call what I have expressed nihilism. Nihilism, please note, is not the intellectual phenomenon that produced fascism. It's unique because it is completely harmless when used for social criticism (thou
You fit lad, I just think that you might find it more comfortable in the "them" camp. Enjoy their campfire if they will let you in, but they have a bad history of not allowing outsiders in. Outsiders tend to be killed in horrific ways, fortunately those of "us" will at least attempt to stop this from happeneing even to someone li
And yet laughing and making bad jokes about the genocide of Jews will not trivialize it? I wouldn't do it in front of children who might not understand, but a rational adult should be able to satirize (trivialize?) the holocaust complex without losing sight of the fact that the Holocaust was u
You called yourself those things with your own posts son. I just licked the label and placed where it was so obviously required. Well if the label of KKK is required in situations where truthfulness is not desired, I guess you can justify your words perfectly. However I don't think falsities are desirab
If by "breaking through clouds of ignorance" you mean advocating a "detached view" of genocide or atrocity, then consider me permanently overcast. No amount of elevated vocabulary can conceal the revolting depths of your philosophy. Actually I was thinking in simpler terms: You quoted me out of context,
When you think about it, all those racist jokes (including that one about a thousand Jews in the ashtray) and porn on the Internet and tentacle rape porn from Japan actually contain deep satirical imagery and social commentary. Probably not, but if you can't appreciate the differences and similarities b
Yes I am talking to you and I am not your buddy. Then you are participating in a failure, and we shall never break through the clouds of ignorance if we are participating in failure. Therefore there is no further discourse between us, since I refuse to strive towards failure.
It's disgusting, it's vile, distasteful, insensitive, cruel, unusual, and immature. Yeah, that pretty much sizes up Franz Kafka, Dostoevsky, Luis Bunuel, and many other great artists of our times. Mind you, this comic is a rather pale immitation of anything devised by a master, and the drawing coul
1) I love your misuse of the word "fascism". I didn't misuse it. 2) Surely somebody of your superior intellect can understand the difference between those examples of cru
Who cares The truly disgusting thing here is the 'Holocaust complex' that causes such a knee jerk reaction when anything to do with the subject is brought up. If people would unwire that little piece of mental programming that causes them to flip in response to any 'lightened take' on the matter, and instead take a stoic and thoughtful approach, they might be better able to understand the fascism within themselves. It's really not so big a dea
Why don't we just get it over with and privatize marriage? Let insurance companies grant licenses for a small fee, and provide whatever marriage benefits they like. Some companies can refuse to issue gay marriage licenses, and all upstanding moral people can reward them by signing on. And they can pay a little bit extra for the comfort of being in the club for morally superior people. Take government out of t
Ian, Canada is not superior in any way to the US False. According to the United Nations Human Development Programme (done in 1998), which ranks nations based on three major indicators (Life expectancy, educational attainment, and real GDP), Canada is the top ranking nation in the world, with a
if I am right and the closer a person is to the centre the more rational (less emotional) they are. So if I am a stubborn left-wing Marxist academic elite (which I am not -at least completely- but for theoretical purposes), who most would consider to be firm
conquering: actually taking over the pple and establishing cities and such. nonsense. All we have to do is install a puppet government and exploit their resources. That fits the definition of conquest pretty squarely in this day and age. And isn't this what Bush has been trying to do? Afterall, there ar
Unfortunately, many Americans wouldn't know a fascist unless they saw an man in an officer's uniform with a giant red swastika duckwalking across the street ! And even then they'd probably dismiss him as an anti-semite, without understanding the true reason people gravitate towards fascism. Too many Americans look back at World War II, and instead of understanding fascism, they learn that America is #1. My hope is that rational minds will prevail, and
Perhaps Europeans differentiate between 'right action' and 'wrong action' better than Americans, who seem to view any action as 'right action', even if it doesn't produce 'right consequences' and wasn't based on 'right intention', neither of which can be said with complete authority to apply to the United States war in Iraq. In this case, some Americans have a vague sense of 'right intention' based on Saddam Hussein's humanitarian and military threat,
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