tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5190221508515750814..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: House MDdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88581530091341072252014-09-04T12:02:10.131-05:002014-09-04T12:02:10.131-05:00PS WRT to the Cabaret clip: Good clip, but it alw...PS WRT to the <i>Cabaret</i> clip: Good clip, but it always seemed terribly unlikely to me that a random <i>Hitlerjugend</i> would have such a brassy and classically-trained voice. And having him sing English lyrics with a German accent ("....but zoon zere's a vhisper, ahrise, ahrise....") takes away rather than adds to the effect. If you're going to be that over the top, why not also have him wear a monocle and carry a bullwhip, for fuck's sake?Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-40937323551704670052014-09-02T17:58:24.076-05:002014-09-02T17:58:24.076-05:00@Pinkybum: Well, at the very least, I can tell yo...@Pinkybum: Well, at the very least, I can tell you didn't go to college in Madison! :-DMister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65087472256073065852014-09-02T11:54:46.467-05:002014-09-02T11:54:46.467-05:00@Mister Roboto - both sides! Really? We know the r...@Mister Roboto - both sides! Really? We know the right are full of shit when they say "Obamacare" is fascist but campus-college hotheads declaring "conservative" to be fascist - I don't think so. Unless you have a specific instance in mind of course - I would be glad to see it. <br />Pinkybumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966880596265799283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-28388067734487328132014-09-01T14:45:18.361-05:002014-09-01T14:45:18.361-05:00Driftglass,
I was in the local wine bar the other...Driftglass,<br /><br />I was in the local wine bar the other day and one of the local conservatives started talking about this same meme, about the USA now being like Nazi Germany. I started blocking out the conversation after about the second sentence. And that leads me to the word of the day from the online dictionary: Ursprache – “a hypothetical reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic…” Its usage could go something like this: “You might as well be speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood about what you just said.” This will now be my new response to all my conservative acquaintances when they start talking about the latest bullshit meme/talking points of the day. Because, as we all know, there is not a discussion to be had with conservatives any more.<br /><br />Added bonus of the day: Have you heard about the folks in Modoc and Siskiyou counties on the California/Oregon border wanting to create a 51st state called the “State of Jefferson.” This is the quoted reasoning: “We don’t need government from the State telling people in a county what to do with their resources and their children’s education. You are better equipped to educate your children than the state or federal government.” Hence my response would be “You might as well be speaking Urspache, for all I understood about what you just said.”<br /><br />Please feel free to indulge yourself in the obvious circular firing squad idea about wanting to become a state government because you hate the state government. And the cherry on top is the idea of becoming another state of the United States which usually implies that “…a region or territory is so aligned, supportive, and conducive with the United States that it is like a U.S. state.” (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30709067274469602842014-09-01T10:25:14.406-05:002014-09-01T10:25:14.406-05:00Mister Roboto - Since we're musing on nomencla...Mister Roboto - Since we're musing on nomenclature, I appreciate your reference re fascism but also would note a different but similar throwing-about of the term totalitarianism. I'd suggest that nearly everywhere it's used (including in your comment) the term should be authoritarianism. The controlling impulse of totalitarianism needs to arise from outside of human control, or it's not "total." There is no political form, whether Communism, Fascism or Obamacare, that is totalitarian. I'd reserve the term for the ineluctable endpoint of capitalism a la Debord's "Society of the Spectacle." casimirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63458378350187892852014-09-01T06:49:56.764-05:002014-09-01T06:49:56.764-05:00Anonymous at 10:29: I've come to realize that...Anonymous at 10:29: I've come to realize that a lot of people on the left throw around the word "fascism" with a very weak historical sense of what classical European fascism really was. It wasn't "liberal" as the verbal diarrheists of right-wing talk-radio would have you believe, and it wasn't "conservative" as the college-campus hotheads on the left would have you believe. <br /><br />Rather, it was totalitarianism from what you might call the radical center. I recommend <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014_02_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Archdruid John Micheal Greer's three-part treatment of the subject</a> for a much-improved understanding of how to define fascism as it truly existed in its heyday. To read them in order, you need to start with the second-from-bottom post and work your way up, as the link is to a monthly-archive blog-page. :-)Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35501861148924638012014-08-31T16:58:29.666-05:002014-08-31T16:58:29.666-05:00@bowtie:
I've read various things on cognitiv...@bowtie:<br /><br />I've read various things on cognitive dissonance and one of the latest studies has shown that the smarter someone is, the more likely the person will be able to devils' advocate away any and all evidence contrary to their own beliefs.<br /><br />But mainly you're talking about cognitive dissonance. Here's a great article that discusses it in relatively decent length and has plenty of links.<br /><br />http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-11676647031414715062014-08-31T14:18:31.989-05:002014-08-31T14:18:31.989-05:00I'm not going to lie. I find a more than mild ...I'm not going to lie. I find a more than mild irony that Dr. Carson belongs to the party that has also lately been trying to sell the "But slavery really wasn't that bad or even really bad at all. It was just like a long term contract job that didn't leave you an opt out for mid contract termination!"<br /><br />So all I can hear from the wingnut-o-sphere bubble is "Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery! But remember folks, slavery wasn't that bad."<br /><br />Oh the fun mental images you can come up with when you stop caring to segment the different venn diagram areas of the wingnut-o-sphere. Beahmontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56940545711707196002014-08-31T13:43:33.952-05:002014-08-31T13:43:33.952-05:00There has been many religious conservative revolut...There has been many religious conservative revolutions that have wrought dysfunction. When they are all based on superiority of a few, the bidding of the few. Imagining that their efforts will distinguish them in the eyes of the few for the future of themselves and their children.<br /><br />One of these religious conservative efforts comes out of the Old Testament.<br />Believe me when I tell you as one who grew up in the 60's and 70's. That there use of Deuteronomy 21 was put into effect and I am here to tell you I survived And it made me stronger.<br /> I became efficient getting off the ground.They so polluted the ground it was not pleasant to be on. So much so I was able to rise above the tree tops and see out beyond the forest thicket..!<br /><br /><br />---Deuteronomy 21<br />18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:<br /><br />19; Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;<br /><br />20; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.<br /><br />21; And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.<br /><br />I withstood their stoning.....<br />and my own.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Robtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48749823970524572802014-08-31T10:29:21.150-05:002014-08-31T10:29:21.150-05:00Going to have to disagree with you, DG. While you ...Going to have to disagree with you, DG. While you (correctly) note many parallels between the US today and Weimar, one crucial difference that has struck me again and again in my studies is the utter indifference (and even disdain) great swathes of the political center possessed toward democracy at the time. I realize this can sound like I'm saying, "they didn't lurve freedum!!" but you have to recall this was a society where most had lived under autocracy--republicanism (small "r") was regarded at best as a bold experiment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44426065636586177962014-08-31T08:20:29.353-05:002014-08-31T08:20:29.353-05:00@bowtiejack
...By-and-large, I've noticed tha...@bowtiejack<br /><br />...By-and-large, I've noticed that people don't become doctors in order to help others anymore - they become doctors for the bags of filthy lucre that the elite of the medical profession can command.<br /><br />Since conservativism is in part or whole money-driven, it's a natural fit.tmknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-60985952232259112902014-08-31T06:37:55.697-05:002014-08-31T06:37:55.697-05:00DG, you should be required reading.DG, you should be required reading.JerryBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65859582339901034532014-08-31T03:58:18.756-05:002014-08-31T03:58:18.756-05:00Good morning, Mr. Glass.
Barack Obama...the mouse...Good morning, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />Barack Obama...the mouse that, for whatever reason, terrifies elephants.<br /><br />"The reason that is so horrible is because the only way that you have harmony and reach consensus is by talking. But if, in fact, people are afraid to talk, you never reach consensus. And instead you grow further and further apart. And that’s exactly what’s happening, creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation if we don’t fix it."<br /><br />Oh! So we can fix everything in this country if people just TALKED! Golly, why did nobody think of this sooner?<br /><br />Enjoy your day.<br /><br />---Kevin HolsingerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-86579754307609493472014-08-30T23:41:39.541-05:002014-08-30T23:41:39.541-05:00What is it with doctors and conservative insanity?...What is it with doctors and conservative insanity?<br />Not just Carson, but Bill Frist, Broun in Georgia, Tom Coburn, etc. Conservatism is the triumph of the power of money over all other values (that's what that "FREEDOM!" nonsense is about). <br /><br />So I guess these guys just identify absolutely with their, uh, economic class. bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43212452128740996272014-08-30T23:23:28.723-05:002014-08-30T23:23:28.723-05:00When your mission is to replace representative dem...When your mission is to replace representative democracy with oligarchy, you need as many shills as you can get. And they can't all look the same, either.<br /><br />Here's a little equation I threw together earlier to determine how much someone is willing to sell themselves for. <br /><br /><br />If:<br /><br />LoI x APL<br />______ < $X<br /> CD<br /><br />Where:<br /><br />LoI = Lack of Integrity<br />APL = Ability to project onto Liberals<br />CD = Cognitive Dissonance<br />X = Amount payed to own someone.<br /><br />Ben Carson's $X value is likely higher than some, and lower than others. The actual $X value is irrelevant, most of the time anyway.<br /><br />It's just a mathematical equation to show ownership. A mathematical lease on a person's soul, if such things exist.<br /><br />Regardless of whether the person is an actual believer or not, they are just as guilty as the true believers. I'd personally argue that in some ways, it's even more obscene because its done out of greed, the love of money and all that.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1958871693841642972014-08-30T20:40:29.401-05:002014-08-30T20:40:29.401-05:00Do the Ben Carson!
It's a shuck to the right,
...Do the Ben Carson!<br />It's a shuck to the right,<br />and a jive to the far right.Pinkamenanoreply@blogger.com