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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I'm glad we had a reminder that 2Pac and NWA existed, in case anyone missed the 90's or something. 94? Not too shabby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JLCAIJLJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd_5-2kCzfs
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If Obama wasn't just accelerating the existing trend of contracting as many government services as possible, this would ring a little less hollow. Stimulus funds were just shoveled out to contractors - a handful of companies and their owners got the largest benefit and far many more workers were paid $10/hr temporarily to actually do the job. He should have taken a page out of FDR's book and had the federal government take on some of these projects directly -hundreds of thousands of people could be in secure, decently compensated jobs, what could be better for the economy? 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If Obama wasn't just accelerating the existing trend of contracting as many government services as possible, this would ring a little less hollow. Stimulus funds were just shoveled out to contractors - a handful of companies and their owners got the largest benefit and far many more workers were paid $10/hr temporarily to actually do the job. He should have taken a page out of FDR's book and had the federal government take on some of these projects directly -hundreds of thousands of people could be in secure, decently compensated jobs, what could be better for the economy? I'm pretty sure that would just be considered equivalent to Communism in the US now. And thus, literally equivalent to murdering innocent christian babies. Not that it excuses Obama or anything, but I do find it sad that the idea of providing a living wage to people has become toxic in the US. IT's amazing the degree to which US capital managed to get people to internalize that message. Cossacks helping out with Olympic security  
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 "Armed members of the so-called self-defense groups walk as they take control back from cartel members of the community La Huerta, in state of Michoacan, Mexico, on January 17, 2014. HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES" AP Source, article title typo included: "Mexico legalizes vigilante groups in Michoacan, welcomes them in fight against drug cartesls" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexicos-vigilantes-legalized-and-put-under-military-umbrella/
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Little Blackfly posted:I'm pretty sure that would just be considered equivalent to Communism in the US now. And thus, literally equivalent to murdering innocent christian babies. quote:"President Vladimir Putin was inducted into what is known as the Cossack host in 2005 and given the rank of Cossack colonel, previously held by imperial czars. 
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Octatonic posted:More Hip hop.  French rap kicks rear endhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6VbtWw6Slg An anti-American imperialist coalition gathers in Mexico on an underground cave, built by Bin Laden, where Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, FARC and the Cuban army led by Fidel himself join arms to destroy America, where the Black Panthers are already fighting against American soldiers. It ends with valete himself filling George Bush with lead in the White House  "This is for the victims of the wars you fabricated for the mouths that died due to the bread that you denied for the terror you sowed, spread and perpetuated for the men and women that your bombs mutilated for the sweat of the workers that you enslaved for the soul of this planet that you damaged."
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My dad would play this on guitar and sing this one when I was a kid and I turned out to be quite the liberal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSpc87Jfr0
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Alterian posted:My dad would play this on guitar and sing this one when I was a kid and I turned out to be quite the liberal. I love me some Pete Seeger and loathe suburban sprawl, but I really don't like that song. It always seemed like "Sheeple  : The Song"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WphNO24h9nA
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Alterian posted:My dad would play this on guitar and sing this one when I was a kid and I turned out to be quite the liberal. The composer of that one wrote many other badass songs too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvC4xq32AX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcdUtUYJpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzK5OH06ShQ Warning: May lead to liberal thoughts.
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R. Mute posted:I don't like the usual rap with all the hos and the "bling bling", I prefer intellectual and political rap *tips over* You made a valiant effort, but people unironically posted carbon copies of this anyway  Here's some scans from an amusing Unionist book of cartoons and commentary on the Irish Home Rule bills of the late 19th century.  It focuses on lampooning Gladstone for his support of HR and alliance with the Nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. Don't think it was as close as this image seems to imply...  This cartoon sees Gladstone trying to break up John Bull and a personification of Ireland. Many English feared that Home Rule (which was basically self-government while still having Ireland and its proposed assembly as part of Britain and subservient to the Imperial Parliament) would bring on full separation and independence for Ireland, contrary to Gladstone's claims (he believed he was strengthening the empire in the long term). Parnell basically just wanted whatever he could secure for Ireland at the time. He was very vague on his ultimate end, unlike Fenians and Sinn Fein.  Irish-Americans were generally more radical than Irish in Ireland and England. They were stronger advocates of physical resistance and in fact some Irish uprisings (such as the doomed Fenian one in 1867) were started by visiting Americans. But their support- particularly their financial support- was also crucial for constitutional Nationalist efforts. Here were see Parnell and Gladstone begging for money from an Irish-American ethnic stereotype. When Parnell had previously toured the U.S. in 1880 he had raised about $70,000 dollars for the land reform effort.  A lot of these cartoons address concern with a history of violent agitation in the Nationalist movement. As I indicated before, Parnell was active in the land reform struggle of the 1870s (it was actually what brought him to prominence). The Land League he led was made up of a lot of Fenians and ex-Fenians (a "physical force" movement for total independence), and although the League officially did not support violence, it benefited from the violence of its followers. For example, the boycott of paying rent to certain harsh landlords (starting with one who was literally called Boycott, this is where the term comes from) was enforced by the threat of violence. Aside from passing the eventual land act of 1881 that was being agitated for, Gladstone had literally nothing to do with it, actually passing a bunch of authoritarian coercion bills to suppress unrest. He's been included here as some sort of retroactive Fenian because of his support of HR from 1886, of course.  The association with the Fenians dogged Parnell until just before his death. There was a "Parnellism and Crime" commission that vindicated him by exposing some letters of his that explicitly cheered on violence as forgeries. Unfortunately Parnell was disgraced again just after that when it was discovered he had been in a longstanding affair with the wife of a follower. The Irish Parliamentary Party split after this revelation and weakened the pro-Home Rule contingent in parliament, and Parnell died before the second bill could be rejected. Here is Gladstone as a Moonlighter (violent Irishman who enforced boycotts at night).  Some people at the time rejected HR on the basis that "it doesn't matter if much of Ireland wants it, because most of the UK as a whole doesn't want it" (which seems absurd to us now). By this they generally meant "England doesn't want it", as Scotland and Wales actually nominally supported the idea (and no, I have no idea why the author thought "shut up" was a phrase sufficiently unique to Romeo and Juliet to make it a quote). 
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One of my favorite parks as a kid in New Jersey: I think it's in a museum now. It was built in the US. It's called the "Fenian Ram".
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Stultus Maximus posted:I love me some Pete Seeger and loathe suburban sprawl, but I really don't like that song. It always seemed like "Sheeple I give it a smugness pass since it was written half a century ago and is still relevant to current times.  Counterfeit money a UNC Greensboro student tried to pass off as real and signed "Moe Money"
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I humbly submit Andre Nickatina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jwG-SjE7oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8X0Q6yEV4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-tajlfkH08
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 This is Tom Perkin, founder and former head of a major Silicon Valley VC firm. He fears the coming "Progressive Kristallnacht" quote:I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich." One of his most recent investments is in OUYA, Inc. Yes, that OUYA. Where, oh where, would we be without the job creators? I should add that he has since "apologized" for his gaffe, or rather talked about how he spoke to the ADL and now realizes why some people might have misinterpreted his comments and taken offense, though in fairness he did manage to write and send that letter to the editor "on impulse". He would also like to remind you how very, very rich he is, and how he provides so many jobs in the Bay Area. Political Whores fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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I don't think the chances of such an act are zero, but when I think of "Progressive Kristallnacht," I think more along the lines of locking up "progressives" or anti-government/authority people, which would be more probable. Anyway, if people in mass ever did become violent, damage to the 1% would probably be incidental. Poor people know what rich people look like and where they live about as much as the rich know about the poor. People perceived as being rich would be the likely targets. To some degree I sympathize with worries the gov would try to "take our guns," but really, if they saw gun ownership as a threat, they would have taken them long ago. I suspect the powers that be let guns alone because they know we will use them against each other primarily if things ever got bad.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KAvPbO8JY
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quote:A medic of the anti-government protest camp (L) poses for a portrait with his security guard at the barricades near the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev, January 28, 2014. Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned while deputies loyal to President Viktor Yanukovich, acting to calm violent street protests, back-tracked and overturned anti-protest laws they rammed through parliament 12 days ago.  Interesting ideological graffiti battle going on on the wall behind them.
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StickySweater posted:I don't think the chances of such an act are zero, but when I think of "Progressive Kristallnacht," I think more along the lines of locking up "progressives" or anti-government/authority people, which would be more probable.  I think they would be pretty easy to find. Unfortunately, the gun owners in this country tend to be right wing as gently caress, and the left wing has deluded itself into thinking drum circles are worth something. So yeah, the fascist rich in this country don't give a poo poo about gun control because the people that own guns support them wholeheartedly. If it's any consolation, even in my conservative as gently caress hometown in Ohio I've heard people who are otherwise pretty much hardcore Republicans express pretty strong negative views about the ultrarich without the usual caveats of "they earned it" and other such bullshit. ryonguy fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Picnic Princess posted:These people should see what's happening in Alaska right now. This is what Alaska looks like right now. At the end of January. This picture was a few days ago so now there's even LESS snow.  It's been in the high 40s to mid 50s for weeks. Plants and trees are starting to bud, people are working outside shirtless. It's showing no signs of stopping at least for the next week. Nope, no signs of climate change here.
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It's been a beautiful winter in California so far and has pretty much been dry with highs in the 60's or 70's. This state is mega screwed though as it's completely bone dry. I'm not sure why the water restrictions haven't started but it'll be super bad once the shortages begin.  
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