Differing Perspectives [Jay Nordlinger]So by this definition, Charles Ruthenberg was not a communist, but Timothy McVeigh was. Communism has proven to be a pretty murderous political ideology lo this century past, but murderousness per se has got nothing to do with what identifies a political system as communist. Italian Fascism was murderous. National Socialism was murderous. The Government Junta of Chile was murderous. None of these were communist. In fact, all of them were specifically--and murderously--opposed to communism.
Senator Obama said this about John McCain: “By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.” That’s interesting. Obama evidently thinks of communists as people who share. I think of them as people who kill.
Plainly, Barack Obama does not think that communists are people who share. He's saying quite the opposite. He's saying that dudes like Jay Nordlinger think that communists are people who share. He's making fun of guys who see in his proposals to make the income tax incrementally more progressive a plan to collectivize the American economy. Meanwhile, their boy has been collectivizing and nationalizing the economy for the last year at breakneck pace. Is he a communist? (IOZ dit : oui.) So say what you will about Obama. I'm not a fan myself, obviously. But the guy makes fun of Republican partisans who see Reds beneath every stone, behind every bush, and sure as the sunrise, one pops up to prove his point for him.
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Making fun of rightwing lip-frothers is a fairly easy shot. The only surprising thing here is that The Chosen One had the guts to take it.
Not to mention the fact that if Communists are people who kill, then by the guiding free-associational logic of the Republican Party these days people who kill are Communists. Ergo The Troops are Communist, ergo John McCain is a praiser of Communists, which means Jay Nordlinger is basically screwed.
i'm "struck" by the background/wallpaper for the national review online, and i can't help but think "it was a dark and stormy night..."
someone please tell me it's self-parody.
Don't forget the Knights Templar...they had arcane rituals, obeyed a book, lived and worked collectively and killed people. And the Essenes. I contend that a good Christian (Pray Tiffany spare us from that logical contradiction) is a communist. Jesus, assuming he was actually around, was a communist. Hell, he sounds like Joe Hill...
That said, ADB has some breaking news on the McCain campaign... http://angrydrunkbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-campaign-announces-major-shakeup.html
if a then b. if not b then not a.
what's so difficult about this?
Gus Hall all the way! dead communists rule.
...so, does this mean I don't have to share my pie?
Are the differences between so-called fascists and so-called communists really important? I'd think the great and power IOZ would not so easily be taken in.
See:
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2008/10/more-sense-less-nonsence-on-socialism.htm
Are the differences between so-called fascists and so-called communists really important?
Whether important or not, they are, in fact, differences.
Obama: You are not a communist because you share your peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You are a communist because you want to make me share my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Though it is hilarious how radical they think Obama is, at the same time I find myself saying under my breath "honestly, I wish you fuckers DID have something to be afraid of from him" when they spew their crap. Their definition of a radical serves to show how ridiculous they are, and as a reminder that no radical could ever make it that far in the first place, much that times actually call for (a certain type of) radicalism.
Well, Erin, given your shitty ability to argue logically, I can't imagine that you're raking in a quarter million a year for your lawyerly services, so don't worry, you can have all the PBJs your fat ass can handle.
No, you have me wrong. I am pretty much a MYLF, and I am doing just fine, thank you very much.
Plus, I share my toys and my sandwich all the time (no double entendre intended, but given the maturity in these parts, knock yourselves out), but like most people I would imagine, I would just like the dignity of deciding with whom. For example, Iraqis...
Iraq = just America sharing its giant exploding peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Do you think Mr. Nordlinger has to work to misunderstand everything he hears, or does it come naturally?
I just had a thought... this "Obama's a dirty commie!" bullshit's not going to go away if he's elected, is it?
I bet people on the news are going to be soberly asking whether wanting to increase taxes makes you more like Stalin or Marx for a while yet.
Excuse me, I have to go vomit.
I think it's pretty much reflexive for the Right to assume any Democrat is a Commie/Socialist, or at least say so for the consumption of their audience.
The silly bit is that Obama is so very moderate and establishment...
And we have socialized the Banks and one of the highlevel insurance outfits (AIG) under Bush.
For Nordlinger et al, Socialist means whatever they want it to.
Stalin was a man. Stalin was a monster, therefore all men are monsters. Ergo: don't share your peanut butter sandwich; take it. Ayn Rand
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