« Modern art cannot exist in the same world as traditional art. | Main | Healthcare.Gov: Dead on Arrival »
October 25, 2013
Comment of the Month
By JB remarking on:Side-Lines: "As a white American, I think that African Americans and Indians should pay us royalties for the use of our civilization."There's probably more wealth bound up in one single LandSat image than was destroyed by us in the West's romp around the world. Any conceivable amount of money in reparations for the damage we did to everyone, times a thousand, has been amply repaid. We have collectively created whole worlds and put them in the hands of the entire Human Race, either for free or for a tinytiny fraction of the cost of making them. We've actually altered the way the human race does things. We created the sky and then built ships to travel it. History will never again be the same for our existing, and the options available now to even the smallest person alive boggle the mind. There is no more moral component to these claims; they're simply power politics and should be treated as such. Don't get heated up about them; stay cool and organize to fight. Propaganda is a very old game.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 25, 2013 9:31 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Roger that!!!
Now that the GOP has caved on their latest issue, we will soon get to witness "the fight" over immigration reform. Or is that witness the fight over "immigration reform"? Anyway if you have the time witness a prophet on the issue who was making the case back before we had decades of experience on this issue. It's a YouTube playlist of 6 ten minute videos about Enoch Powell. Watch it at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwO6v9POt74&list=PLFA5D29579795FE7B
Posted by: Scott M at October 26, 2013 2:44 AM
Take the moral high ground away from them.
Yea. I like that.
Posted by: cond0010 at October 26, 2013 4:50 AM
Amen, and amen.
Posted by: Jimmy J. at October 26, 2013 7:54 AM
...remind me, how did they get us to pay them??
Posted by: leelu at October 26, 2013 7:55 AM
...remind me, how did they get us to pay them??
Coercion, i.e. the point of the gun.
Posted by: John Venlet at October 26, 2013 8:55 AM
Their only power is the delusional guilt of white liberals.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at October 26, 2013 9:03 AM
Gagdad Bob has it right and Jesse Jackson perfected it. It's called "shakedown".
Posted by: Denny at October 26, 2013 10:06 AM
Leelu: "remind me, how did they get us to pay them??"
Several ways. In no particular order:
By appealing to your best instincts, of charity, compassion, guilt, and remorse.
By gaining control, first of your systems, and through your systems, your children and your laws.
By never stopping their pressure.
By reacting to ANY opposition like a rabid weasel getting a rectal exam with a barrel cartus, making opposition seem more trouble than it was worth.
By constant screening from a hostile, anti-American press.
By never stopping their pressure.
By moving slooowly enough to let you think that each advance against your freedoms was the last.
By your defenders seeming or being or being made to seem buffoonish enough to discredit their opinions at the outset.
By never stopping their pressure.
By you having a life that kept you occupied, and trusting that those in office would protect you and yours.
By smiling, and smiling, and being villains.
By never stopping their pressure.
Etc.
Short form: they worked slowly and used your laws and your decency against you.
Posted by: JB at October 27, 2013 6:04 AM