Typical GOP obfuscation. Big Bird is socialist, Gritty is communist.
John Oliver has officially crossed over into “always cool” territory. Which is defined as anyone who has acted with Muppets*
*Unless they were convicted of heinous crimes like Bill Cosby and Chris Langham
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984 , as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.
Umberto Eco - Ur-Fascism
First they came for Murphy Brown, and I did not speak out—
I realize that we had paranoid bircher whackjobs even during the height of actual-communists-with-actual-power; but I can never avoid thinking back to the ‘hygeine hypothesis’ regarding allergies when I see a patently ridiculous situation like this.
Both these performative idiots and the crowd they are pandering to are so far removed from having seen a real communist(or even a reasonably serious command economy without any of the restructuring of labor relations that actual communists were interested in) that their communist response flares up in full force on exposure to vaguely pro-social behavior, the sight of a government competently executing virtually any function(even the ones that classical libertarians agree are legitimate state functions); or even failure of the state to intrude on private enterprise to make it act the way they think it should.
Is there some political/psychological equivalent to a stiff course of prednisone we can use?
If it didn’t sound…kind of mexican… I’d assume that shouts of Viva la muerte! would be an official in-group signalling mechanism by now.
The classical libertarians are also communists though, or anti-capitalist at the very least.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicalLibertarians/
This is a community for Classical Libertarians (i.e. those who follow the philosophical thought of the great founders of libertarianism, such as Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Stirner)
a response so deranged that satire is impossible
Today’s Republican party in a nutshell! This is what the party is now, for everything.
I was just reading a NYTimes article about the Democrats losing white rural votes, and it starts off with a conservative Democrat arguing that the party needs to move right to regain those votes, but continues on with interviews of those voters explaining why they vote for Republicans. E.g. the belief that Democrats are going to create death camps for Trump voters, that they only watch/listen to pro-Trump news media, that Democrats were pushing “CRT” in schools and making white children hate themselves, etc. The article then talked about the last time there was real support for Democrats in these areas - when people had union jobs that connected them with Democratic politicians. The Democrats embracing neoliberal economic policies in the ‘80s destroyed their white rural voting base, perhaps permanently. These voters now exist in an un-reality. All of which is to say: policy won’t get these voters back on the Democrats’ side. These voters won’t even know what their policies are, and they certainly won’t care.
Can any nation continue to exist if the citizens don’t pull together to do something for the common good, at least once in a while?
Yes, but you need an absolute monarchy or totalitarian dictatorship to make it work.
We’re in the trial group, about to find out.
Free ivermectin in industrial strengths for all who want it? Lots of it?
I suppose that buying the Trumpist fucktards a dictionary would be a waste of money.
No way I’d be his neighbor.
That’s a beautiful counter to those squatters who call themselves Classical Liberals.
Some really good advice. At what point do the party higher ups realize that those on the right will never come over, and maybe going on the offensive would be a good idea for a change.
But only if the hole in the middle is large enough…
“ I suppose that buying the Trumpist fucktards a dictionary would be a waste of money.”
Of course it would be, it would be full of words that they would use against you as evidence to support their fucktartidess.
(Is that even a word? Well, it is now!)
they’d just eat the covers off.
Since the people behind Seasme Street took it to HBO over PBS, no, the puppet and puppet show aren’t communist. They’re capitalists.