Journal Bill Dog's Journal: tomaaato/tomotto; either way, it's red 7
From http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/07/quentin-tarantinos-anti-cop-comments-came-revolutionary-communist-rise-event/, on one reason why no one mentioned that one little factoid:
Part of this is the legacy of the Leftâ(TM)s single-largest victory in the culture war: decades of attacks on âoeMcCarthyismâ have smothered criticism of communism.
By portraying the critics of communism as conspiracy theorists and fringe kooks, the Left has created a chill effect on an entire generation.
We see the impact todayâ"nobody wants to call out actual, avowed, self-admitted, proud communists, lest they be accused of being a right-wing nut job using McCarthyite tactics.
It's an excellent point. Smitty's in denial. Bill O'Reilly outright lies about it (he's smart enough, and connnected enough, to know). The Left has made it impolite to call a communist a communist. It's been made to be like saying someone is like Hitler.
We've been suckered into obeying an imposed cultural norm of not speaking truthfully about certain truths. The GOP tells us that Islamic terrorism is our greatest threat. Fox News happily reports things and blissfully leaves out what it all means or the why, as if no one knows/it's some big mystery of the universe.
The Right wing goes along with perpetuating the Left's equivalent of the Devil's greatest con. Even the emperor's rivals are afraid to admit the obvious. We are truly the Left's bitches. It's amazing what asses Americans have let them make of us.
And what are we really talking about here. Are we calling those who want to demolish the American system abruptly "communists", and those who are doing it slowly "socialists"? As if only the former are who we should be worried about?
Even breitbart.com wimpily avoids the real issue. Communist orgs are relatively small and a dime a dozen. I remember seeing, quite some time ago now, on C-SPAN ole Democrat Sen. Tom "we passed this right [to health insurance] for the American people" Harkin speak at a Communist Party of America rally. So Tarantino spoke at a Revolutionary Communist Party event. Whatever.
The vast majority of the Left know America won't be brought down via revolutionary uprising by the proletariat, or blacks, or any other. What's been eating away at America the last several decades is the work of Leftists *within* the system. But there's too much social pressure to point out what's happening, and certainly too much to talk about why/what's behind it.
"Independent" Sen. Bernie Sanders is at least honest about himself, and no one bats an eye about it. He got a question in the debate something to the effect of is America ready for its first socialist president. Since we're already having ours, what they really meant is our first openly socialist president. And what would be meant by openly in this case is not just openly acting and sounding like a socialist but calling themself that.
Obama won't call Islamic terrorists Islamic terrorists, and the Right wing won't call communists(/Leftists/liberals/Marxists/Progressives/whatever) communists. Both are full of shit.
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Right wing bigots/racists/chauvinists like to play the victim card with their religious "freedom" bullshit. They're trying to turn the place into a patriarchal theocracy.
Obama won't call church bombing Christian terrorists Christian terrorists and bank robbers bank robbers, and the Right wing won't call bigots bigots. Both are full of shit.
There, all corrected, fixed up nice an' purty...
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They're trying to turn the place into a patriarchal theocracy.
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You are so silly, putting all your handicaps on full public display.
It I didn't think you were trolling by default, I'd say the public display of your own non-grasp of the point of Christianity would be laughable.
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Regardless the "point" of Christianity, you people are using it as a tool of crowd control.
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In the name of honest discussion, there are plenty of fakers afoot doing what you say. They tend to be cultish in nature.
However, you're completely welcome to come on by yourself [kingstownebaptist.org] and enjoy a reality check about what actual Christianity entails.
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The politicians you advocate and vote for are part of that crowd... Your church is anecdotal
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