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No. No more making corporations "faceless". That gets us nowhere. No one is going to hate a greenish-gray block with glasses. People hate people. The White House as a face, the Senate has a face, the House has a face. Put an actual human face on corporate greed. Like this:  Ted Kelly who was the CEO of Liberty Mutual Insurance for thirteen years prior to retiring last June was paid $50,000,000 a year from 2008 – 2010. That’s $24,000 per hour or $192,000 per day.  quote:The latest big news is the transaction [Aubrey] McClendon engaged in to try to grab for himself a bigger slice of his company's profits. You see, Chesapeake gives its CEO the right to buy a 2.5% interest in the gas and oil wells the company owns. Oil wells don't come cheap, though, so to take advantage of the offer, McClendon borrowed big -- as much as $1.1 billion, according to reports -- and pledged his ownership interests in the wells as collateral.  Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sa...why do I have to give this picture an explanation or name? Americans should know exactly who this guy is and why they should loathe him. His name should almost always be in the same sentence as "let the Bush tax cuts expire". Socialists didn't oppose corporate abstractions back in 1910. They opposed J.D. Rockefeller and James "Buck" Duke. That's what got us anti-trust laws, not demonizing human blocky things.
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Took this picture at the park earlier. Reminds me of the LF days...
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Click on the  for  pictureAdolf Hitler  Aleksandr Lukashenko  Alfredo Stroessner  Antonio Salazar  Augusto Pinochet  Hafiz and Bashar al-Assad  Benito Mussolini  Chaing Kai-shek  Elena and Nicolae Ceaucescu  Ferdinand Marcos  Fidel Castro  Francisco Franco  Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier  Hastings Banda  Hideki Tojo  Higinio Morinigo Martinez  Idi Amin  Jean-Bedel Bokassa  Jomo Kenyatta  Iosif Stalin  Josip Tito  Jozef Piludski  Juan and Eva Peron  Khorloogiin Choibalsan  Kim Jong-Il  A short interlude with Lenin  Manuel Noriega  Mao Zedong  Menghistu Haile Mariam  Siad Barre  Muammar Gaddafi  Kemal Ataturk  Omar al-Bashir  Pol Pot  Rafael Trujillo  Robert Mugabe  Saddam Hussein  Saparmurat Niyazov  Slobodan Milosevic  Hugo Chavez 
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Dec 19, 2012 08:08
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rjryan3 posted:*effort* Every now and then something comes along to remind me that there are artists with a lot of time on their hands. 
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Dec 19, 2012 08:16
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Crasscrab posted:Nazis sure love their Norse runes, but to be honest it's a no brainer why. poo poo's pretty badass looking. Then there are also the other symbols that they used, like the Totenkopf ("dead man's head"), which falls into the more international category of skull and crossbones motifs. Before being adopted by the Nazis it saw use by Prussian King Fredrick the Great's Husaren-Regiment Nr. 5, a Hussar regiment Colonel von Ruesch. HCO Plumer GCB GCM posted:And indeed, more recently, such as in the Great War, when Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst von Hohenzollern wore the totenkopf on his hussar shako during the Verdun campaign (and indeed elsewhere). Good looking lad that he was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
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   "The News posted:Three more workers in a polio eradication campaign have been shot in Pakistan, and two of them killed, the latest in a string of attacks that has partially halted the UN-backed global health campaign to stamp out the crippling disease.  What? Why would the Taliban sound like Jenny Mc- quote:
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Dec 19, 2012 11:19
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HCO Plumer GCB GCM posted:And indeed, more recently, such as in the Great War, when Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst von Hohenzollern wore the totenkopf on his hussar shako during the Verdun campaign (and indeed elsewhere). Good looking lad that he was. AFAIK a Totenkopf emblem was also worn by all german flamethrower regiments in World War I. Looked for a pic where it's visible, but alas no luck. 
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Dec 19, 2012 13:04
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Zeroisanumber posted:Every now and then something comes along to remind me that there are artists with a lot of time on their hands. Reminds me of this Twilight Zone I saw last night. That genie in a bottle someone brought into my shop turned me into Hitler! What an unforeseen twist! _______________________________/  More shocking was when he wished for $1M and the government swooped in and took 90% in taxes.
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Apparently this is blocked in the UK after Channel 4 said they own the copyright. Which is interesting, because it was broadcast by the BBC to the extent there's still a BBC Three ident visible in the corner.  UKIP suspends* a political candidate after his manifesto called for the forced abortion of foetuses detected to have Down's Syndrome, in an attempt to save the state medical costs. *eventually, after they realised it made them look like NSDAP
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Dec 19, 2012 13:41
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Deceitful Penguin posted:The Hakakross is actually Germanic in origin, independent/parallel creation of the swastika. The Nazis, of course, with their rear end backwards ideology, could pick either one really. I highly doubt this, considering that the swastika was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean over a millennium earlier than our first evidence for its use in any part of northern Europe. Given the fact that, for instance, runic writing is known to have originated from very early contact with the Etruscans, it seems almost certain that the symbol was adopted from Italy.  One of, if not the, earliest Germanic inscriptions, found on a helmet in northern Italy and probably made by a member of the Cimbri, who invaded Italy in the late second century BC.
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 quote:President Barack Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets the son of a White House staffer in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 26, 2012.
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More Zizek!     
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MeinPanzer posted:I highly doubt this, considering that the swastika was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean over a millennium earlier than our first evidence for its use in any part of northern Europe. Given the fact that, for instance, runic writing is known to have originated from very early contact with the Etruscans, it seems almost certain that the symbol was adopted from Italy. They way I learned it, the modern use of the swastika in the West began after items with swastikas were found during the excavation of Troy in the 19th century. Some people were happy to make a connection between the "Aryan" Germanic people and the Hellenistic world I guess. Before it became associated with the Nazis, it was used as a sort of good luck charm similar to the four-leaf clover. The Swedish ASEA company used the swastika until 1933.  Things that make you go hmm..  Source  Source
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ekuNNN posted:More Zizek! He's so dreamy~  
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Exclamation Marx posted:*Taking Taliban claims at face value* The Taliban could cite the bin Laden raid as a reason, but they've been pulling poo poo like this for as long as they've been around because they want the efforts to fail. Long before the bin Laden raid, they were telling the people that vaccination was all just a Western plot to sterilize Muslims. 
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^^^ Yep  Exclamation Marx posted:
The Taliban has been targeting health workers since well before Bin Laden was killed. The Taliban are more than willing to kill to terrorize the population to regain political power, regardless of the CIA (or anyone else, really). The ten members of the International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp killed in 2010: 
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MeinPanzer posted:I highly doubt this, considering that the swastika was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean over a millennium earlier than our first evidence for its use in any part of northern Europe. Given the fact that, for instance, runic writing is known to have originated from very early contact with the Etruscans, it seems almost certain that the symbol was adopted from Italy. Zeroisanumber posted:The Taliban could cite the bin Laden raid as a reason, but they've been pulling poo poo like this for as long as they've been around because they want the efforts to fail. Long before the bin Laden raid, they were telling the people that vaccination was all just a Western plot to sterilize Muslims.  You guys still remember Malala right? Apparently she's still a target. Because another thing that threatens the Taliban is women with an education~
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 So many levels of wrong here, I don't know where to start.
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Dec 19, 2012 17:53
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Zeroisanumber posted:The Taliban could cite the bin Laden raid as a reason, but they've been pulling poo poo like this for as long as they've been around because they want the efforts to fail. Long before the bin Laden raid, they were telling the people that vaccination was all just a Western plot to sterilize Muslims. They popped some vaccine workers in Nigeria for pretty much the same reasons. Happens all the time. I don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of polio like we did smallpox.  Polio!
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Uhhh, I don't think that anyone is gonna defend the Taliban (Even though they're killing yanks) What the gently caress is wrong with you? 
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Miltank posted:What the gently caress is wrong with you? The American soldier is a symbol of oppression and death in the world, in case you missed the fact that America has been a force of evil for a long, long time now, so killing them? Probably a good thing, even if it's a symptom and not a cause.  And this old classic can never be re-posted enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbEaZ-Jnws
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I live in a world where rich and greedy fuckers can send a bunch of poor immigrants to kill and fight for their profit with the people of that country mostly not giving a poo poo while everyone else suffers, is what's wrong with me pokeyman. Even the first world isn't safe from neo-liberalism, which hosed up my country. Those people were humanitarians you piece of poo poo. 
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lothar_ posted:Chile can tell us what happens after something like that.   
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Miltank posted:Those people were humanitarians you piece of poo poo.  Whoop dee do, it sure does loving suck when the poo poo of the past comes to bite you in the rear end. And do you think that you, fuckhead in America being indignant over pictures, are the one suffering? No, it's still the Afghans. They lose either way, whether it's Taliban killing them and aid workers or your lot shooting up weddings because they "suspected terrorist activity" there. Are there a few good yanks, like them? Sure. And it's loving tragedy they were massacred, so much so the loving Taliban said they were innocent. (Not that they did jack about it). In fact, there are a lot more decent yanks than I thought before I came here, but the loving idea that a few people doing good absolves your loving country is grand, you tosser. VVVV gently caress, even though the soldiers are doing the actual murder the blood isn't all on their hands, but the fucks that send them. But good loving luck ever bringing those dickwads to justice.   (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Miltank posted:Those people were humanitarians you piece of poo poo. I'm assuming he meant American soldiers by Yanks, not the people in that picture. Although I'm being very generous in reading his post as: "fighting foreign invasion usually seems like the right side in a conflict and America is a belligerent nation, but the taliban are so poo poo that that doesn't apply here" because I hope he doesn't mean killing Americans in general is a good thing. 
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midnightclimax posted:AFAIK a Totenkopf emblem was also worn by all german flamethrower regiments in World War I. Looked for a pic where it's visible, but alas no luck. The Totenkopf was the emblem of the Garde Reserve Pionier Regiment, Germany's flamethrower troops in WWI. It was worn on the sleeve, as seen here:   
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Couldn't find a decent picture when looking for Kill All Americans, so have this:
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ekuNNN posted:I'm assuming he meant American soldiers by Yanks, not the people in that picture. Although I'm being very generous in reading his post as: "fighting foreign invasion usually seems like the right side in a conflict and America is a belligerent nation, but the taliban are so poo poo that that doesn't apply here" because I hope he doesn't mean killing Americans in general is a good thing. Fortunately, tissue engineering is now at the point where we are almost able to grow human skin entirely in the lab. This is great not just because it removes animal testing for cosmetics, but also because it allows for what are effectively on-demand autografts (self-grafts) for burn victims. There's still a little ways to go, though.  
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2012 20:54
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I live in a world where rich and greedy fuckers can send a bunch of poor immigrants to kill and fight for their profit with the people of that country mostly not giving a poo poo while everyone else suffers, is what's wrong with me pokeyman. Even the first world isn't safe from neo-liberalism, which hosed up my country. Did you just say that most US Soldiers are poor immigrants? 
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I live in a world where rich and greedy fuckers can send a bunch of poor immigrants to kill and fight for their profit with the people of that country mostly not giving a poo poo while everyone else suffers, is what's wrong with me pokeyman. Even the first world isn't safe from neo-liberalism, which hosed up my country. No one is more bellicose than me. There are not enough ditches in the world for the people I despise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5poSm7m7zk&t=128s Look how the dogs celebrate Arkan murderer of the Bosnian Ummah:  
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Crocuta posted:They way I learned it, the modern use of the swastika in the West began after items with swastikas were found during the excavation of Troy in the 19th century. Some people were happy to make a connection between the "Aryan" Germanic people and the Hellenistic world I guess. Before it became associated with the Nazis, it was used as a sort of good luck charm similar to the four-leaf clover. The Swedish ASEA company used the swastika until 1933. The Swastika laundry co, Ballsbridge, Dublin, was in operation right up until 1987, and having started under that name in 1912 jovially claimed "we were here first" when asked why they still traded under that name:    http://comeheretome.com/2010/04/26/swastika-laundry-1912-1987/
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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You can read up on the US Army's demographics here: http://www.armyg1.army.mil/hr/demographics.asp    
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Monkeytime posted:The Totenkopf was the emblem of the Garde Reserve Pionier Regiment, Germany's flamethrower troops in WWI. It was worn on the sleeve, as seen here:  The Totemkopf is still on the cap badge of the Queen's Royal Lancers, a cavalry regiment in the British Army. Kraxis fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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