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Post by szaleniec on Apr 2, 2011 14:43:58 GMT -5
Who was it that said that fascism would come to the US wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross (or bible, I forget)? Pretty sure s/he hit the nail on the head. Sinclair Lewis. That should be 1935, surely?
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 22, 2011 7:34:24 GMT -5
I looked at the cover alone. Usually you aren't supposed to judge a book that way but, that rune symbol isn't just used by Pagans, it's also used by assorted white supremacists. I guess a swastika would have been too obvious.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 14, 2011 15:17:11 GMT -5
Reminds me of that piracy warning that goes on about how piracy allegedly funds terrorism. Gives me this glorious image of Osama bin Laden flogging knock-off DVDs from his car boot.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 13, 2011 17:14:02 GMT -5
More thread de-derailing: Racism is fine, but swearing is a gosh-darn no-no. Dude, hentai is aimed exclusively at adults -_- you're nonsensical. You'd think seeing this: ... on the box would be a giveaway, wouldn't you?
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 19:53:06 GMT -5
Thanks whoever found the original cartoon. Again, I can't tell you how much that thing disgusted me, especially because the same conservative dumbsh!ts who believe it think the 1st Amendment protects Ann Coulter's right to call for the mass murder of liberals. Also, you'd think the law and order types would be against diverting the responsibility for crime away from its perpetrators.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 18:55:57 GMT -5
That's not to say the numerology wasn't happening though, I found some first-hand examples on Twitter but their notation was 09/11/01 + 03/10/11 = 12/21/12. Even though it was 0546 on March 11 locally in Sendai when the quake happened. That reminds me of the question of my cousin's birthday. He was born in Japan in the early hours of the 20th July, but now lives in the UK where his birthday is technically the 19th. As I was born in the late evening (coincidentally on the 19th July, but some years earlier) I'd be in the opposite situation if I ever found myself living anywhere two or more hours east of home.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 15:38:15 GMT -5
I move for an official suspension of the Godwin rule for the duration of this thread! Godwin's law isn't a law in the sense that it's a behavioural guideline, it's more of an observation of reality, condensed into an easy statement. It basically says as any debate progresses, the probability of one side comparing the other to Nazis in the hopes of claiming the moral high ground approaches 1. As such, it can't be suspended in the same way the law of gravity can't be suspended. Besides, it also states if the comparison to Nazis is due to the accused actually advocating something the Nazis did and are infamous for (e.g. bigotry against the disabled), it doesn't count. Which is quite ironic, really.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 15:25:50 GMT -5
Well, this assumes that you don't count the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937. Or the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Or the aggravating factors of the Wall Street Crash in 1929, or German hyperinflation in 1923, or the Treaty of Versaille in 1919. Or the First World War in 1914. Or the sudden political shift in Europe caused by the unification of Germany in 1860... True enough. It's impossible to study the war in any detail without looking at the historical context, but I bet that's as lost on the bastards as my link would be. It's all a game to them, where the white-hatted Americans shoot the black-hatted Japanese who probably resemble a racist caricature and everyone lives happily ever after. I'm counting at least five, or at least one error every three words - equivalent to 0.33 Palins of rhetorical errancy. OK, I got using "krauts" for Japanese people, "nuking" Pearl Harbor, the fact that most of the people affected by it weren't even born back then, and the general claim that Japan deserves to be hit by natural disasters because once they did something Americans weren't much fond of. What's the fifth? That the commenters themselves had also not been born yet? Or even their parents, for that matter. Like the first comment on your link says: I guess it's the same mentality as the fuckwits who go on about the war when England play Germany, but there's a difference between making tasteless jokes in the context of a football match and saying that people deserve to die for living in the wrong country.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 12:42:08 GMT -5
Whatever, they'll get over it. Then again, they didn't get over Pearl Harbor, and they weren't even born when it happened. But, hey, who cares if they're "offended"? I sure don't. Like I said, there seem to be lot of people for whom the events of history in general and WWII in particular mean nothing but an excuse for political point-scoring or simply "LOL IM SO KEWL AMIRITE". They can all fuck right off.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 10:52:51 GMT -5
It always baffles me to see people talking about things like fish and chips and roast beef as though they prove that British food is bad, rather than absolutely fucking awesome. That said, I appreciate a good curry too. And the Yorkshire puddings with the roast beef. Dear god, the Yorkshire puddings. Home-made for preference, I can't get away with the frozen supermarket ones. Oh, absolutely! And as for fish and chips, I'll just leave this here:
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 10:47:20 GMT -5
At the same time, however, I've gotten chewed out because anyone who doesn't "know" the Civil War was about slavery is a pseudo-intellectual from one of those librul colleges. I think they're trying to co-opt the abolitionist movement in the hope of distracting people from the fact that it owes its existence to liberal philosophy.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 10:45:04 GMT -5
It always baffles me to see people talking about things like fish and chips and roast beef as though they prove that British food is bad, rather than absolutely fucking awesome. That said, I appreciate a good curry too.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 10:19:15 GMT -5
No. The fact that it's on a huge geological fault might have something to do with it, though.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 10:04:32 GMT -5
Fuck the lot of them. Ahem.This fails on more levels than I care to count.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 12, 2011 8:56:58 GMT -5
Fuck people who can't let go of the past, especially when they hadn't even been born then. They give the rest of us who are interested in history a bad name. This goes double for anything at all to do with World War II.
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