11/13 Open Thread: Happiness is a Chore and a Fraud
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 5:00am
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Wednesday Open Thread: Want the Truth? Heh, silly you.
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 5:00amIt's Day 297 of the Year 2018 CE
So, October 24, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.
Fascism Lite: The Lessons Learned this Time Round
Submitted by leveymg on Wed, 10/17/2018 - 3:09pmThere are several lessons about fascism between the Wars that have particular relevance for our own time. First, fascism is not confined to a particular time, place or set of economic conditions in the past. Fascism is not just grainy black-and-white photos of Depression-era Europe.
Corporate Media Is The Poison/The Baffler: "#RIPMyShillaries: An end to the era of professionally explained candidates"
Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 11/30/2016 - 12:02pmLast night I went to a dentist appointment and they had the ubiquitous big flat screen tv which was tuned to CNN. If I had just entered a restaurant I probably would have walked out; if obliged to sit in a waiting room more often than not I ask if anyone is watching it, and either ask to switch it off or to change the channel. There was even a flat screen tv in the patient's room where I had my teeth cleaned.
A couple commercials
Submitted by bunsk on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 11:15amI took note of a couple commercials I saw yesterday… They were both taking something that’s essentially a scam, and packaging it as something positive and desirable.
If All Ads Were Like Politics
Submitted by NinoTheMindBender on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 3:06pmBuy our car. It doesn't break down nearly as often as the other models.
Eat at our restaurant. People don't get food poisoning nearly as often here as that other place.
Our airplanes don't crash nearly as often as the other guy's.
Our bottled water is less contaminated than our competitors.
Sure you get salmonella with our soup, but the other company give you botulism.
Care to add some more?
