tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post4724618681785654265..comments2023-11-07T04:53:01.453-08:00Comments on Dispatches from the United States of Mordor: The Hoppean Snake...Gerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-55956823016992558232021-02-14T13:18:32.805-08:002021-02-14T13:18:32.805-08:00Gert,
None of my comments are meant as an insult ...Gert,<br /><br />None of my comments are meant as an insult to you. You are a thinking man posting original thoughts, which is rare nowadays.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-7271860624527851552021-02-14T13:02:20.248-08:002021-02-14T13:02:20.248-08:00Gert,
The history of Latin America is a story of ...Gert,<br /><br />The history of Latin America is a story of poor people being exploited in turn by rich oligarchs and socialist "saviors."<br /><br />Go yahoogle Venezuela Boligarchia or boligarchs.<br /><br />The American left only cares about oppression from "the right." They defend socialist and marxist oppression (Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua).Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-54801443886210004642021-02-14T12:57:14.581-08:002021-02-14T12:57:14.581-08:00America's humorless, intellectually-stunted le...America's humorless, intellectually-stunted left is too stupid to understand when its being mocked.<br /><br />This is one practical reason why you should never use power to silence your enemies. Having no natural predators makes you fat, lazy and stupid, and as Dean Wormer warned us, that is no way to go through life.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-79832693094848250592021-02-08T19:58:23.544-08:002021-02-08T19:58:23.544-08:00This was obviously designed by Anarcho-Capitalists...<a href="https://youtu.be/MWFuyK6F8eE" rel="nofollow">This was obviously designed </a>by Anarcho-Capitalists to piss off Anarcho-Syndicalists, not as a policy statement endorsing genocide. In other words it says, "We don't take you seriously, and you'd be a fool to take me so." But of course, there are plenty of fools on both sides to go round.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-47421217872676862752021-02-08T15:28:35.033-08:002021-02-08T15:28:35.033-08:00Supporting Pinochet definitely made the US enforce...Supporting Pinochet definitely made the US enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine throughout LA harder than it needed to be. Unfortunately, if I've learned nothing else, its' often harder to "correct" your allies than punish your enemies. Its' typically all "carrot" with only a hint at "stick".-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-59055176355275350522021-02-08T15:22:33.915-08:002021-02-08T15:22:33.915-08:00Arcadian League... and Aratus of the Aechaen Legue...Arcadian League... and Aratus of the Aechaen Legue. The Iroquois Confederacy was Ben Franklin's model under the original American Articles of Confederation.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-8201343056914909602021-02-08T15:10:40.484-08:002021-02-08T15:10:40.484-08:00btw- I'm a huge fan of "confederacies&quo...btw- I'm a huge fan of "confederacies" like the Delian League.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-69764360695812611532021-02-08T15:09:17.582-08:002021-02-08T15:09:17.582-08:00What's your opinion of the Myanmar coup? Are ...What's your opinion of the Myanmar coup? Are the Rohinga a minority that can coexist with an ever shrinking Buddist minority? Should it break apart after an India-style ethnic cleanse, allowing both groups to go their separate ways?-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-22348545558551880982021-02-08T12:45:11.602-08:002021-02-08T12:45:11.602-08:00Hayek infamously wrote in a letter to the Times:
...Hayek infamously wrote in a letter to the Times:<br /><br /><i>“I have not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende.” </i><br /><br />Do you think he was simply unaware of Pinochet’s crimes?<br />Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-38480382863069845932021-02-08T09:28:19.553-08:002021-02-08T09:28:19.553-08:00Is it really fighting Communism/Socialism when it ...Is it really fighting Communism/Socialism when it results in decimating the working class while bestowing benefits on one’s best business friends?Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-46090960353733416852021-02-08T09:03:52.058-08:002021-02-08T09:03:52.058-08:00In the case of Chile I don’t know how much US Big ...In the case of Chile I don’t know how much US Big Business benefited from Pinochetism but the latter was a foul and extreme version of neoliberalism, the negatives of which are still felt today.<br /><br /><i> What both Pinochet and Thatcher achieved was a brutal offensive on Chilean and British society on behalf of big business hidden under the guise of “national renewal”. They attacked the idea and social base of collective action, attempting to force what in the post-Cold War climate became a catch cry for neo-liberal capitalists: “there is no alternative”. In the Sunday Times in May 1981, she alarmingly stated: “economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul”.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://theconversation.com/thatcher-pinochet-and-the-legacy-of-class-warfare-13342" rel="nofollow">TC</a>.<br />Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-68002981424973757162021-02-08T07:07:33.718-08:002021-02-08T07:07:33.718-08:00Vietnam WAS containment, of course. The question i...Vietnam WAS containment, of course. The question is whether such a horrible war is a cure worse than the disease.<br /><br />But the ‘policing’ in LA is hard to sell as ‘containment’, when you support monsters like Pinochet. Firstly, because claims of Democracy/Freedom/Liberty become a Big Lie when dictators like Pinochet are adoringly given support/free reign.<br /><br />Secondly when Big American Businesses benefit from these interventions it becomes Empire building, not policing.<br /><br />As re. that Big Lie, we seem to have stumbled into that with a bloodless coup, nowadays. How did we get here?<br /><br /><i> And I suffer from no delusions that the Left would have done to Pinochet what he did to them in a second.</i><br /><br />… is playing ‘alternative histories’. Truth is we just don’t know because there’s no way to find out.<br /><br />Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-51218239263327604182021-02-07T14:48:36.092-08:002021-02-07T14:48:36.092-08:00,,,after all, we're not the mercantilists you ...,,,after all, we're not the mercantilists you once were.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-46448900767875820902021-02-07T14:47:38.256-08:002021-02-07T14:47:38.256-08:00I'm all FOR adopting Britain's pre-post Em...I'm all FOR adopting Britain's pre-post Empire "Balance of Powers" strategy.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-44896348300134195262021-02-07T14:44:47.188-08:002021-02-07T14:44:47.188-08:00Allende was merely the Hugo Chavez of his day.
He...Allende was merely the Hugo Chavez of his day.<br /><br />Here's the thing. America assumed the role of "world police" in 1941. Since 1989 and the success of the "Containment" strategy...I now think it's time to disengage from the world and go back to our pre-WWII isolation. I blame GHWB for missing THAT strategic pivot.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-89987080642027545742021-02-07T14:32:54.705-08:002021-02-07T14:32:54.705-08:00What I don't agree with is the Hoppean idea th...What I don't agree with is the Hoppean idea that you can "exile" or "exterminate" political parties you disagree with. You may have to fight and kill them at times, but you can't attempt a "final solution." And I suffer from no delusions that the Left would have done to Pinochet what he did to them in a second.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-7713942952221884932021-02-07T14:23:40.370-08:002021-02-07T14:23:40.370-08:00...and yes, I still identify w/ Vietnam as a "......and yes, I still identify w/ Vietnam as a "Communist Containment" strategic necessity. <a href="https://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2015/11/partial-data-capture.html" rel="nofollow">Russian Ambassador Kennan</a> sure won Isaiah Berlin over, along with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment" rel="nofollow">entire US Defense establishment</a>.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-59473907209956395432021-02-07T14:17:57.979-08:002021-02-07T14:17:57.979-08:00Predates Antifa? How is THAT possible?
And I rem...Predates Antifa? <a href="https://beantownantifa.blogspot.com/2017/08/some-antifa-meme-magic.html" rel="nofollow"> How is THAT possible</a>?<br /><br />And I remember <a href="https://youtu.be/dYPnxbDgg9M" rel="nofollow">ARVN helicopter prisoner interrogations</a> from the Vietnam days.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-79024402878442693042021-02-07T13:03:46.187-08:002021-02-07T13:03:46.187-08:00Re. the Pinochet video, I can only see anyone who ...Re. the Pinochet video, I can only see anyone who approves of a 'leftist Holocaust' finding this funny. QED per the comment section, please don't say they're being... erm... 'ironic' (like Anglin always did)<br /><br />It's SICK and one has to be a sadistic fantasist to approve of it. Or a total political illiterate... I might give them the benefit of the doubt on that.Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-40612709802091309432021-02-07T10:06:28.747-08:002021-02-07T10:06:28.747-08:00A story about a prominent alt-right memer...
You ...A story about a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/" rel="nofollow">prominent alt-right</a> memer...<br /><br />You still identify with the alt-Right? Heaven forbid!Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-50958534043404444552021-02-07T09:53:47.233-08:002021-02-07T09:53:47.233-08:00Re. that last UToob, these types of memes can only...Re. that last UToob, these types of memes can only be funny if you identify with the cause(s) they represent.<br /><br />Like Holocaust 'gags' (how many J-ws can you fit into a minicooper? 14: 4 in the car and 10 in the ashtray!): technically the pun works but only a Jew hater would find the joke funny (or propagate it) Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-87544101596868730332021-02-07T09:39:31.875-08:002021-02-07T09:39:31.875-08:00#1 No. The timeline doesn't work. The alt-righ...#1 No. The timeline doesn't work. The alt-right's 'ground zero' was <i>alternative-right.blogspot.com</i> (which has since been 'cancelled'). Next came Andrew Anglin (The Daily Stormer), who started the whole meme business, with his 'jocular approach' to racism, WS, AS, Trump etc etc.<br /><br />All this resulted in a barrage of Pepe memes and later the Hoppean Snake but all that PREDATES BLM/antifa.<br /><br />#4. The left isn't good with memes (and I couldn't care less). But re. taking themselves too serious? That's rich coming from someone reprinting sometimes unreadable and endless tracts by Zizek!Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-34687499833662380462021-02-06T15:09:24.068-08:002021-02-06T15:09:24.068-08:00Besides, it's true.... the Left can't meme...Besides, it's true.... the Left <a href="https://youtu.be/avH_tyYtAfI" rel="nofollow">can't meme</a>. They take themselves WAY too seriously.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-92138880328506493162021-02-06T14:34:38.280-08:002021-02-06T14:34:38.280-08:00...as provocative as "Punch a Nazi" is t......as provocative as "Punch a Nazi" is to everyone to the Left of Stalin.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-2148232609756702922021-02-06T14:23:36.567-08:002021-02-06T14:23:36.567-08:00Sounds like the meme's development was purely ...Sounds like the meme's development was <a href="https://memedonkey.com/hoppean-snake/" rel="nofollow">purely reactionary</a> to provocations by ANTIFA types... so instead of taking the memes seriously, I'll take it for how it was meant.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com