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  1. prole

    natty pubic radio

    But isn't David Brooks just sooo dreamy?
  2. prole

    Fux Freakout

    "In theory, we can wipe everyone off the face of the Earth or we can do nothing at all. Between these two extremes, there is a range of possible action. Thanks and good night." Why do you have to do this? Why can't you address the situation as it actually exists in the real world as opposed to this parlor game bullshit?
  3. prole

    Fux Freakout

    YES, THOSE ARE THE ONES WE"RE WAITING FOR YOU TO PRODUCE! Aren't you one of them? Chris Hedges, Ward "Little Eichmann's" Churchill, Ken Livingstone, George Galloway, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. The non-existence of people who attribute all Islamist violence to exogenous forces that have no connection whatsoever to Islam isn't really an interesting claim to parse sense such people do, in fact, exist. Much more interesting to speculate upon what motivates people to engage in a passionate defense of actors who are inspired by a ideas that's completely at odds with all of the liberal values that supposedly inspire them. I've already argued my position which you've doggedly refused to acknowledge. Here you've provided a list of names but no examples of a "passionate defense" of suicide bombing or whore stoning or anything else. Since you mention Chris Hedges, a good place for you to start would be the video you posted that we're already familiar with. Where in his many statements there is the argument you attribute to him here? I must have missed it.
  4. prole

    Fux Freakout

    How do you account for Duranty, btw? Uh, he was a Stalinist...?
  5. prole

    Fux Freakout

    YES, THOSE ARE THE ONES WE"RE WAITING FOR YOU TO PRODUCE!
  6. prole

    Fux Freakout

    It's positively Shakespearean...
  7. prole

    Fux Freakout

    I'm sure it (whatever it is) is good enough for the people it needs to be good enough for.
  8. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Ask for real world examples of contemporary Leftists making apologies for suicide bombing and whore stoning to corroborate his claims, Jay gives you the British journalist who served as the Moscow bureau chief of the New York Times from 1922 through 1936. GREAT WORK JAY! I mean, wow.
  9. prole

    Fux Freakout

    flap, flap, flap...
  10. They won't benefit, but insurance companies only really lose if a movement for a public option emerges from striking the mandate. No popular mobilization/political will for that so no full-court press by the industry to whip up public opinion against court challenges. What's the prediction if the mandate goes down?
  11. Most, if not all, of the Right's misinformed whining as well as it's legitimate opposition to forcing people to buy private health insurance can be boiled down to the lack of a public option. Irony strikes again of course when one realizes that the provision to force people to buy private insurance from an essentially useless, parasitic industry was backed wholeheartedly by the bought and paid for Republicans (and Bluedicks) who now challenge it. Not a bad strategy when you're dealing with a somnambulist citizenry with the historical memory of a crack addict.
  12. "Then one day Jed was shootin' at some food and up from the ground come a bubblin'... GOLD" Wait, what?!
  13. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Actually, it's the GOP's presidential candidate for 2016. They won't be running one next year.
  14. prole

    Fux Freakout

  15. What's amazing is that as it appears that a democratic wave may be starting to crest in the middle east, our own seems to be retreating dangerously...
  16. prole

    Fux Freakout

  17. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Ya, we could tell!
  18. Of course one way to do so has been to build up...Islamist groups!
  19. prole

    Fux Freakout

    You are f-ing insane. Your response typifies your style of "debate". As usual j_b posts a long argument, which you simply dismiss, along with some vapid insults. And you actually expect people to engage you seriously in discussion - there's nothing serious yet alone substantive that you have to offer. And your cryptonazi twin is not different.
  20. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Which judging by its longevity is the greatest troll ever.
  21. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Are you still kicking it around here? I thought you were only doing posts on political bloopers and spell-check appearances.
  22. prole

    Fux Freakout

    The argument put forth in the film above suggests that, for some, individual freedom in liberal societies creates inherently unstable systems and that neo-conservatism and militant Islam developed somewhat symbiotically as a reaction against that instability. The fantastical claims of a Left apologia for acts of terror and religious atrocities are simply a means for people like Jay to deal with the frustration of the liberal left's unwillingness to accept a reduction of the issues involved into a metaphysical clash of good and evil and instead seek answers in the historical development of actually existing phenomena and propose policies based on that analysis. Delving into history reveals far too many skeletons for people like Jay and the policy implications that follow have the potential to undermine the ongoing projects near and dear to the American foreign policy establishment and corporate capital. I'm not sure if there are some postmodern scholars out there on some relativist fringe preaching that suicide bombing and whore-stoning should be condoned out of respect for religious tolerance, but if there are, they have no relationship whatever with the historical Left or its philosophy.
  23. prole

    Fux Freakout

    Ironically enough the most dyed-in-the-wool Leftist (a self-proclaimed small-"c" communist), Slavoj Zizek, quoted twice in this thread has explicitly rejected the "multiculti" frame in favor of the universalisms that have always been the foundation of Left politics. The projection of appeasement and apology is a neat trick for the idolizers of an American foreign policy establishment that basically created modern day militant Islam (real and imagined) from scratch. Once more for your enjoyment... [video:youtube]
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