Drawn by one of the most famous editorial cartoonists of the 20th century, Sir David Low's classic "Rendezvous" cartoon published on September 20, 1939 in the London Evening Standard depicts Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin celebrating "Poland's corpse" and the cynicism embedded in their early wartime alliance. The signing of the 1938 Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact gave Hitler the green light to aggressively pursue his war aims and assured him, at least for the time being, that he would not have to fight a two-front war.
They even have sponsors! Can't remember the guys name, D.B something? Not Cooper... Ahhh, it will come to me.
You gotta get those accounts over to the big leagues, that's where the money is at, we are all just a bunch of broke dick bastards for the most part at this place.
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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
but everybody here knows I am full of shit. Hee hee. Maybe that's why Good News Tues is so fun, I don't know.
I hate to wait until 7 pm now, but that's when I told peeps it would be going up, so 7 pm it is!
I definitely feel like this community needs the series, stat. Life is so rotten in 2016, you know? Just writing the essay earlier cheered me right the fuck up!
had to do an essay in Gr.11 English on a protest song. We had so much fun. She alternately howled with laughter or gasped at the notion of a draft for war as I explained the context, practically line by line. It's just the best. Cheers, mate!
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Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
What will the 'serious people' who come here and read think of such flippancy about the fascism that's going on here. They will use this to not take us seriously.
Got another #NoDAPL link for you, this from early c99p member wendy davis at her site (she tried hanging here before the Ides thing, but, best I can figure felt she was too far left and unreformed hippie-ish even for the original gang, so she's carrying on at her Café Babylon - now watch this remark get me into trouble!):
she was here for a bit and I enjoyed what she had to say. I'm 'too far left' for a lot of people here but I don't think it matters as this place is a good mix of the now defunct left, center, right political spectrum they tweaked so bad it's a joke. I'm finding people who used to find me politically 'radical' in real life have been radicalized by what's going on. The powers that be and the puppet pols and their propaganda arm the media are just not believable to anyone with an unwashed brain. Thanks for the link I book marked it and will read her excellent blog. Wasn't she a 'firebagger' for a while?
around since the original Google Group was formed, but, I must say that (IMO) it was a major loss to the progressive blogging Community when FDL folded.
I never understood 'why' she sold. At one point, Jane was out a lot because of her Poodle's brain tumor (or whatever). But, I thought that the treatment was successful, and that she (Hamsher) returned to FDL.
For a while, I didn't check in there as much, and before I knew it--I saw that she was stepping aside--selling it to Kevin and crew.
As for DKos, I'll be there 12 years in November, though I didn't post or comment there (to speak of) for more than a few years. I drifted to DKos after I left the Dem Party, because they scr*wed over Governor Dean so badly. (I was a pretty far gone Deniac--belonged to '2' DFA Chapters--whew!)
Anyhoo, IMO, Hamsher allowed expression of more leftist views, than Kos ever did.
Mollie
“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit, and, therefore, to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.” --Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)
of her own (a hip replacement that went badly and perhaps more serious stuff). So far as I'm aware - and I stayed to the bitter end when FDL officially became Shadowproof (a site committed from the start to social movements eschewing pols and parties entirely) - there never was a transfer of ownership. Hamsher wrote a farewell post in which she handed over running the site to Kevin Gosztola as managing editor, Dan Wright, and Brian S. (always forget his last name, the prison project guy).
Since then these three paid journalists have added Joanne Leon to their staff and a young Middle Eastern-American female reporter, Ranier K(?). So far as I know, they are.all paid staff of Shadowproof operating beneath the FDL Media Group umbrella.
They do solicit funds from time to time (like to pay Rania's salary), but seem to keep the lights on and the small staff housed and fed without running perpetual fundraisers.
Quite honestly, I've been pretty impressed with them despiteva bias over unfortunate things said by the "youngsters" as they made it clear the future, they believed, belongs to them. More than a year later I can't disagree. It's not FDL, but I do think their instincts to cover social movements rather than politics has turned out to be correcr.
I was a member and when dkos got all authoritarian and mean time spent a lot of time there. I didn't like the format as I'm more of a commenter then a essay writer.
One more piece of shit like this election and they'll turn me into a goddamned Bolshevik.
Or, possibly, a social anarchist (apparently I'm not very far off from that now!)
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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
that's the only requirement. Give a good, reasoned argument why a policy is wrong but which differs from what they want to hear and you're a fringe-y person who doesn't need to be listened to. Repeat what they say with a lot of foul language and they act nice to you, no matter how much of a fool you might be...Markos, Turkana, Teacher Ken are in that category.
Comments
After you ignore this essay, videos of your favorite fascist
songs will be welcome in the comment thread.
Here's my favorite fascist song . . .
[video:https://youtu.be/bYJMtn6IJeE width:500 height:333]
Please, take this as intended,
Asshole.
; }
Do I need. a snark tag ?
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Don't make me delete my 58 accounts.
If I have to do that I'll never get a thumbs up for anything.
I Nominate This Masterpiece for the 'Essay of the Year' Award
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
tl:dr
This essay was a bit too long for my taste though. I had to quit after the title.
... But You Signed the Magna Carta, JtC!
Here I was, thinking, "As the Great Conciliator, JtC really knows how to make peace between rebellious factions on this blog."
How foolish of me.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
JH, you find the BEST cartoons, TY. eom
Every time.
Thank you, JekyllnHyde.
Insightful Essays Bring Out the "Inner Fascist" in Me
Thank you, Caerus.
Drawn by one of the most famous editorial cartoonists of the 20th century, Sir David Low's classic "Rendezvous" cartoon published on September 20, 1939 in the London Evening Standard depicts Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin celebrating "Poland's corpse" and the cynicism embedded in their early wartime alliance. The signing of the 1938 Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact gave Hitler the green light to aggressively pursue his war aims and assured him, at least for the time being, that he would not have to fight a two-front war.
Read more about David Low and see many more of his cartoons lampooning fascism and totalitarianism.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
I do think it's one of my better ones.
I thought "Club 58" was only available at TOP? ;)
They even have sponsors! Can't remember the guys name, D.B something? Not Cooper... Ahhh, it will come to me.
You gotta get those accounts over to the big leagues, that's where the money is at, we are all just a bunch of broke dick bastards for the most part at this place.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Broke genitalia illegitimi
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This just in from my AOL news feed (OK, I'm a Luddite):
Naturally, the first thing I did was start counting paragraphs! The second was learn some Filipino bad language! LOL!
Just offering it as an option here, for those who might like to give warning when they're about to streak blue. Or not.
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I'm pretty sure Trix/Silly Rabbit had at least 59 accounts.
hey Now!
I resemble that comment!
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me
Do you know how hard it is to ignore
asshole-ishness?
Do you?
hahahahahaha
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Ignoring asshole-ishness is hard work.
I added...
a Farce-ist tag, hope you don't mind.
Well played, Sir!
Nf
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
You didn't add it immediately, but adding it pretty fast is
good enough for me.
LOL. I think we might have a c99p meme now. :)
Thanks for the laugh. I'm trying to finish Good News Tues, but I'm takin' a break. Formatting is hard.
Everytime I see the other essay, or the comments to it, I keep thinking of this:
ALL JUNIOR GIRLS REPORT TO THE GYMNASIUM IMMEDIATELY! IMMEDIATELY!
I should specify that Mean Girls was on MTV last night.
I miss Colorado.
Shiz...
what problems are you having with the formatting? Can I help?
Oh, not a thing, Johnny!
I just meant that I was formatting the articles in the diary and such. It's a long process, mostly because I'm a perfectionist.
So, seriously, no problems at all. It just takes time and, as some of you may very well know, I have zero patience. Zip, zero, nada.
Besides, the whole thing is done now, so I'm a happy camper. Heh.
I miss Colorado.
Meme Indeed! C99P., is nothing more than a site for Farce-ists..
I am getting some T-Shirt idea's already, lol!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I would wear a "Farce-ist" shirt. N/T
Good News Tues is exactly what we need.
Posting a series like that is only the most recent excellent idea in that long list of excellent ideas you've shared with us, Shiz.
Thank you.
Well, that is very kind of you, Rusty,
but everybody here knows I am full of shit.
Hee hee. Maybe that's why Good News Tues is so fun, I don't know.
I hate to wait until 7 pm now, but that's when I told peeps it would be going up, so 7 pm it is!
I definitely feel like this community needs the series, stat. Life is so rotten in 2016, you know? Just writing the essay earlier cheered me right the fuck up!
I miss Colorado.
You miss Colorado, but Colorado probably misses you more.
I'm going to read Good News Tues immediately at 7 pm, and it will receive an immediate thumbs up.
Woody Guthrie on them fascists :=)
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Woody was okay, but Arlo is a damn fascist.
And I can prove it . . .
[video:https://youtu.be/m57gzA2JCcM width:500 height:333]
LOL, rusty! I taught my daughter about Alice's when she
had to do an essay in Gr.11 English on a protest song. We had so much fun. She alternately howled with laughter or gasped at the notion of a draft for war as I explained the context, practically line by line. It's just the best. Cheers, mate!
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
A great example of teaching your children well.
And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by . . .
[video:https://youtu.be/EkaKwXddT_I width:500 height:333]
I'm starting a new group,
"Antiwar Fascists", or "Fascists against War and Fascism"
If anyone's interested please sign up at "Fascists for Freedom.com"
Uh oh...
looks like you might have lost your avatar Al. Deleting it and then re-uploading it in your account page will probably fix it.
will do j
go take a nap, you deserve it.
I'll be there, Al!
Will trudge along with your army, or sail will your navy, wherever it's headed - "Over hill, over dale, lots of waves."
(Though I must admit *flying* is my thing - "Off we go, into the wild blue yonder"!)
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
How can we be sure it's fascist enough for us?
We have our fascist credibility to consider, we can't just join any old fascist group that comes along . . .
We'd need to walk the walk, not just talk the talk...
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Cool it Fuhrer Cat...
Mr Hilter! They're onto us!
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Wonderful.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
We're fighting for PEACE!!1!
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
I'm raising polecats for peace
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
This essay is a farce
What will the 'serious people' who come here and read think of such flippancy about the fascism that's going on here. They will use this to not take us seriously.
Seriously? n/t
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
That would make a good Monty Python skit,
"Unserious Fascists"
oh, shaz
Got another #NoDAPL link for you, this from early c99p member wendy davis at her site (she tried hanging here before the Ides thing, but, best I can figure felt she was too far left and unreformed hippie-ish even for the original gang, so she's carrying on at her Café Babylon - now watch this remark get me into trouble!):
https://cafe-babylon.net/2016/09/04/red-warrior-camp-at-standing-rock-at...
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
I like Wendy Davis
she was here for a bit and I enjoyed what she had to say. I'm 'too far left' for a lot of people here but I don't think it matters as this place is a good mix of the now defunct left, center, right political spectrum they tweaked so bad it's a joke. I'm finding people who used to find me politically 'radical' in real life have been radicalized by what's going on. The powers that be and the puppet pols and their propaganda arm the media are just not believable to anyone with an unwashed brain. Thanks for the link I book marked it and will read her excellent blog. Wasn't she a 'firebagger' for a while?
WD was--one of their best and most prolific writers, IIRC. EOM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Yes, she was - as was I.
Never could find anything of interest in DailyKos myself. That's why I hung out at FireDogLake instead.
All I know about DK has been here at c99p - not pretty. I miss FDL deeply.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
Well, I'm a bit biased toward this crowd, having been
around since the original Google Group was formed, but, I must say that (IMO) it was a major loss to the progressive blogging Community when FDL folded.
I never understood 'why' she sold. At one point, Jane was out a lot because of her Poodle's brain tumor (or whatever). But, I thought that the treatment was successful, and that she (Hamsher) returned to FDL.
For a while, I didn't check in there as much, and before I knew it--I saw that she was stepping aside--selling it to Kevin and crew.
As for DKos, I'll be there 12 years in November, though I didn't post or comment there (to speak of) for more than a few years. I drifted to DKos after I left the Dem Party, because they scr*wed over Governor Dean so badly. (I was a pretty far gone Deniac--belonged to '2' DFA Chapters--whew!)
Anyhoo, IMO, Hamsher allowed expression of more leftist views, than Kos ever did.
Mollie
“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit, and, therefore, to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)
National Mill Dog Rescue (NMDR) - Dogs Available For Adoption
Update: Misty May has been adopted. Yeah!
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Hamsher ran into serious health issues
of her own (a hip replacement that went badly and perhaps more serious stuff). So far as I'm aware - and I stayed to the bitter end when FDL officially became Shadowproof (a site committed from the start to social movements eschewing pols and parties entirely) - there never was a transfer of ownership. Hamsher wrote a farewell post in which she handed over running the site to Kevin Gosztola as managing editor, Dan Wright, and Brian S. (always forget his last name, the prison project guy).
Since then these three paid journalists have added Joanne Leon to their staff and a young Middle Eastern-American female reporter, Ranier K(?). So far as I know, they are.all paid staff of Shadowproof operating beneath the FDL Media Group umbrella.
They do solicit funds from time to time (like to pay Rania's salary), but seem to keep the lights on and the small staff housed and fed without running perpetual fundraisers.
Quite honestly, I've been pretty impressed with them despiteva bias over unfortunate things said by the "youngsters" as they made it clear the future, they believed, belongs to them. More than a year later I can't disagree. It's not FDL, but I do think their instincts to cover social movements rather than politics has turned out to be correcr.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
I very much like all those people--
was sorry when Dan went there instead of coming here; wished he could be both places.
Fond of all of them, although I think Kevin and I have tussled on a few issues--he's the one I don't know personally. But he does good work.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Me too
I was a member and when dkos got all authoritarian and mean time spent a lot of time there. I didn't like the format as I'm more of a commenter then a essay writer.
I'm farther left
than people around here probably think.
One more piece of shit like this election and they'll turn me into a goddamned Bolshevik.
Or, possibly, a social anarchist (apparently I'm not very far off from that now!)
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The "Serious People" will like you if you agree with them
that's the only requirement. Give a good, reasoned argument why a policy is wrong but which differs from what they want to hear and you're a fringe-y person who doesn't need to be listened to. Repeat what they say with a lot of foul language and they act nice to you, no matter how much of a fool you might be...Markos, Turkana, Teacher Ken are in that category.
uh-oh...blood pressure rising, must stop here.
I like minimalism
Night Sea 1963 by Agnes Martin
To thine own self be true.
Yawn.
Ignoring.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I knew I could count on you, Raggedy Ann.
Solidarity!
At least you didn't Rick Roll us
No I won't do it.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Did I inspire you in that other diary?
Heh. My evil spreads.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver