The topic is serious, but perhaps one of the best illustrations of the mentality I’m going to discuss is nonetheless funny. As has been observed, Eurpoeans are very, very nice. Until they, very suddenly, are very *not. *The video below is a gag, where the husband of a typical german couple, in a typical german house, with their typical garden, decides to do something about cars that have been driving through the neighborhood too fast. Note their appearance and behavior – mildly neurotic. Slight…
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Forbes recently published an article on Chuck Johnson titled “A Troll Outside Trump Tower Is Helping To Pick Your Next Government [http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/01/09/chuck-johnson-troll-trump-transition-team] “. Yeah, the butthurt is glorious. > An internet troll, who was once called “the most hated man on the internet” and is banned from Twitter, is recommending candidates to serve in the Trump administration. Charles “Chuck” Johnson, a controversial blogger and conservative o…
Tom Kratman, in his regular column delivers a meme laden post which starts out with TrigglyPuff setting us up the bomb, and comes up with an indecently funny proposal for inauguration day [http://www.everyjoe.com/2017/01/02/politics/trump-inauguration-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-inauguration-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us#1] . Go give him some eyeballs, but I have this ready in the spirit. [
No, I’m not kidding. I fully realize that there are some damn good people who fully believe in socialism. Some, like Orwell, have the excuse that it hadn’t been broadly applied such that it’s inherent failures could be exposed for all the world to see – and even he, as time went on, began to change his views. It’s no coincidence that 1984 and Animal Farm were eviscerations of totalitarian systems like the Soviet Union, or just in general. Others, well intentioned, not necessarily stupid, though…