tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7401732231446334944..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Today In Both Sides Do It: The Parasite-Cultdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70254461408631517402017-04-12T08:48:31.227-05:002017-04-12T08:48:31.227-05:00Oh, and Mike Rodgers is a fuckwit- you can always ...Oh, and Mike Rodgers is a fuckwit- you can always tell a conning Conservative- yes, you're right- there is no other kind- they all wear the veil and think we can't see how their eyes change when their mouths open and the lying begins; the micro-expressions they cannot hide- for love nor money. <br /><br />Thank God for micro-expressions and body-language. They're 'tells'...<br /><br />Have a good one, Your Driftness.<br /><br />B D S <br />LaLi.<br /><br />P.S.<br />..."and what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but loses his soul?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14437622895241250152017-04-12T08:35:09.102-05:002017-04-12T08:35:09.102-05:00"I know I'm a Prima Dona" says Scott..."I know I'm a Prima Dona" says Scott, as Patton. Well, I was going with-"Just another American Asshole", but I'll take prima dona, for the win, Alex!<br /><br />If I recall, which I'm pretty sure I do, after a lifetime of listening to my Grandaddy talk about- "The Route To Caen", he in his volunteer position of tank-driving the "Bathless Groggins", we Canadians were ORDERED to hold up, just outside of Victory, so the Yankees could seize their glory.<br /><br />You see how hollow and false that is, right? Fool's gold. Enjoying it? 'cause now you've trumped yourselves- and you're taking the rest of us 8 billion down with you. Thanks for coming out, hillbillies.<br /><br />Now, Thomas Friedman & his Mustache of Understanding, tried to enlighten me last evening. Nothing. Just nothing. And I've give him, and many others, a multitude of years to do it and I'm- done. Done and done.<br /><br />Remember this: the Truth is simple. Will always out.<br />And the Truth shall set us free. Strong & Free!<br /><br />B D S<br /><br />Salute-<br />LaLi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88337724120036224802017-04-11T21:14:00.857-05:002017-04-11T21:14:00.857-05:00I don't know who Andrew Kaczynski is, maybe I ...I don't know who Andrew Kaczynski is, maybe I should, he seems like a nice Polish fellow, the kind grew up with and learned to respect. I'm old enough now to know better, but the generation before me enjoyed ethnic identities in a way that is lost now, without rancor, always with respect.<br />So here we have Andrew's tweet, terse, no bullshit, just some facts, presented without comment - here, look at this - take two seconds to read it twice.<br />It sums up the hate that is in power now.<br />Just fucking hate.Pablo in the Gazebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889182902268675036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65578039889832830282017-04-11T20:29:06.541-05:002017-04-11T20:29:06.541-05:00I think we need to step back and go to the next le...I think we need to step back and go to the next level of background to get the right perspective on bothsiderism. First, all "modern" economies (since at least the early 19th century)have been mixed economies, i.e. government serves to set the playing field and, to a widely varying extent over time and country, also the referee function. America was founded on genocide (native Americans), slavery and religious intolerance (all those fundamentalists, past and present) that seek to impress a horrible "Christian" theocracy on the country. So, the U.S. is a country that is almost uniquely set up for a highly exploitative and vicious culture of capitalism associated with a my way or the highway type of individualism. The US history of labor oppression is a case study of this.<br /><br />This combination resulted in repeated drastic economic crises (called Panics) and a terrible civil war throughout the 19th century, despite a lot of New England idealism and great but ineffectual thinkers. By the early 20th century, the depredations of rampant capitalism demanded reforms just to make the country continue to function (TR, Wilson and FDR for short) so that by the 1950s, transparently rapist capitalism had been tamed by government. But the long-run themes of American history: genocide, slavery and theocracy never went away, especially in the South and West and eventually they came back, unsuccessfully with Goldwater, more successfully with Nixon (but without unbridled capitalism) and most successfully with Reagan when exploitative multinational capitalism cynically welded itself with theocracy and racist economic exploitation.<br /><br />So that's where we are today except Reaganism , which was mostly a show went totally radical ideologue on the right under Gingrich and successors and the entire political discussion has been radically shifted to the dysfunctional right. The ability of the Deep Capitalist State to buy all sorts of media is a major factor in bothsiderism but America's historical legacy of genocide, slavery and theocracy makes the rightist project so easy and that's why bothsiderism succeeds. Until it doesn't. Once the system starts to collapse, the Capitalist Deep State may back off. We'll see.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.com