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')I certainly hope people are expressing their concerns freely and in detail.
Personally I am happy to see plenty of Tea Party type rallies, especially those with signs and slogans. I wish there had been personal signs allowed at the Beck rally.
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Re: History of American Progressivism through Literature
by dinopello » Wed 01 Sep 2010, 14:42:38
Your hopes are fulfilled ! There are thousands of permits issued yearly just for the National Mall area alone and constant rallies, protests, gatherings, speeches, concerts etc going on with people expressing their views or trying to influence citizens and policy makers on every topic you can imagine. Of course, everyone who does it wants publicity, but national news only just covers the ones they think might get them ratings. Even the big rallys like the "Sea of Pink Rally" for breast cancer this year don't get that widespread coverage. But, since I live here, I notice 100,000 women milling around in pink T-Shirts !
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Re: History of American Progressivism through Literature
by Pretorian » Wed 01 Sep 2010, 16:40:12
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')No, Nazism is a form of fascism, like rain is a form of water.
')No, Nazism is a form of fascism, like rain is a form of water.
If Germany implemented fascism in 1930s that does not mean a country cannot be nationally socialized without it. Fascism is nothing but an intent to rule efficiently, reduce waste, reduce costs , ets. It got nothing to do with a nationality or a race whatsoever. Mussolini had quite a few of Jews around him, didnt he? One was even a minister of something. He got offed later on though, but for a good reason.
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Re: History of American Progressivism through Literature
by Pretorian » Wed 01 Sep 2010, 17:13:21
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Jonah is a Nazi apologist. He's so tied in knots that he says that American skinheads and the KKK are liberals. I'd love to see him try to explain that to some skinheads and curbed. Jonah has jumped the shark tank many a time, but he folded the Liberal Fascism blog shortly after he tried to argue that the white supremacist who shot the black guard at the Holocaust memorial was really a liberal by definition. He also said that Hitler was an antisemite, but that did not necessarily make Hitler a racist. Apparently jonah missed all the stuff about "race" that Hitler wrote.
Jonah's writing is part of a genre of Nazi apologist/Hitler apologist. This was all set up to be a campaign theme for the GOPer trailer trash when it was assumed Hillary would be the nominee. But then Obama got elected, which put them in the position of arguing that black people are closet fascists, and presumably holding to fascist themes of racial purity, nostalgia for the past, and paranoia about minorities.
"Liberal Fascism" is why the word "retard" needs to stay our slang vocabulary, for people who have actually read it. Most people that cite "Liberal Fascism" have never actually read any of it, and are in a sub-sub-retard category.
I do agree with this rant, however why liberals pretend to be a part of this " progressivism" weirds me out. What kind of a progress is Liberalism? You have two people, one is getting out of here through dialysis, another is a healthy guy with 2 healthy kidneys. A healthy guy is forced ( coerced, convinced, bribed, whatever) to give away one of his kidneys. As a result, we have 2 sick individuals. What kind of a progress is this?
People are not equal with other people to begin with. They never were, they never will be.
Some are stronger, some are smarter, some are insane, some look nicer and so on and so forth.
If people were equal, you would mention my name in your will if i would wish it to be there. If people were equal, you would take in a homeless guy to live with you. And so on and so forth.
Furthermore, I have never seen a liberal able to explain why exactly this " equality" border sits so firmly on a specie borderline and not a step back to the subspecies ( races) and not a step forth to the genus. Why not extend this " equality" and "rights" to chimps that are 99% identical to humans? What about gorillas, with their 96-97% proximity? Or may be we could extend this to all apes, and then to all primates, and then to all mammals, to all vertebrae? How about that slimy growth under your deck that has 50% of your DNA? No? It got no face? It got no mother? It is... it? Not him, not her, or both? Its the language thing, right?
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