UK Comedian Fights for Free Speech?

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Top 10 Most Controversial Movies of All Time

 

Full-Bore Incompetent Politics: Abortion Edition

A woman in Alabama signs a law, and so it must be the men fo California’s fault, somehow…

 

Political Film Blog

Joe Giambrone

Nothing should surprise me anymore here in Trump’s America, but let’s take a look at what’s been flying around the web this week. In the wake of abortion ban attempts in Alabama and other mid-western states, women have taken to memes to fight their battle. And what has identity politics wrought now? What do these memes have in common?

They blame men! Shocker!

Point of fact, I’ve never met a male in over half a century here who was actively trying to outlaw abortion. Not one. I’ve never heard one even talk about it in a personal interaction. Strange, since it’s men oppressing women in a grand fictional conspiracy in meme after meme. Nevermind that the Governor of Alabama, who signed the actual law, is a woman.

Most men don’t give a shit about the topic, unless they get someone pregnant and then they are happy the option is available. It’s not men who are organizing to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. I’m not sure how today’s feminists can be so off-target that they couldn’t hit the side of a church.

Yes, it’s fundamentalist religious groups doing this. It’s astounding that this needs to be typed, but here we are. American-Taliban theocrats are the ones organizing to mold the country into their warped image–not “men.” How dense do you have to be not to already know this? American politics is so sloppy, so full of generalizations and propaganda, that few people are capable of thinking clearly about this or most other hot-button topics.

Women are mindlessly alienating their own political allies with this barrage of hate against men. Heckuva job. Divide and conquer yourself.

The fundamentalist religious nutbars have built an empire of Madrassas to indoctrinate their children and train them as foot soldiers in their ideological wars. Their numbers have grown steadily, ushered in by charlatan televangelists and megachurches.

The Catholic schools have also become more brazen, such as that field trip to DC that became a national racist incident. That high school class was bussed in to the Capitol to act as anti-abortion fodder for the church. This is organized political action using children of both genders to achieve what is now being legislated in multiple states. That church and school should have lost their tax-exempt status over these types of activities.

Religion is the antagonist here, not gender. If you can’t even properly define your adversary you’re not going to get very far on the battlefield.

I’m not sure if some American women are simply reluctant to attack religion because of their own religious beliefs and indoctrination, and “men” are always available as the handy scapegoat. Sure, why not? Just blame the men.

But, I’m not having it. Take a good hard look in your mirrors, ladies, and try again.

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Social Democracy, not Democratic SocialISM

 

Words matter.

Socialism, even democratic socialism, is quite different from progressivism

Deep State Whitewashing of Vietnam

 

 

“The Vietnam War” – Documentary Or Epic Of Fiction?

The first three parts of the ten part “documentary” are a whitewash of the motives of the politicians who sold the war to the public. The CIA’s and military “deep state” machinations behind them is not investigated but covered up.

Republicans Hate Colleges

 

Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.

 

Unintentional Support for Sanders?

Counterpunch has been a blatherpocalypse these past few months. For and against Sanders has been the hot-button topic.

This dude, Andrew Stewart, makes a great case for Sanders by making it easy to reject the hair-brained communist-manifesto rhetoric of himself, Andrew Stewart:

“I am by choice one who describes his politics as anarcho-syndicalist, which I feel has a more tenable chance of being achieved in this country than the parliamentary road.”

So a flavor of anarchist, but he then goes on to praise the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in any number of ways, like that was a noteworthy success we might emulate, only to take it much further this time…?

Stewart says:

“The nationalization of the banks and socialization of the means of production are bare essentials of any real socialist program, regardless of ideological tendency.”

This is false, as Scandinavian countries, and most of the western world for that matter, instituted countless social assistance programs without doing either. The demand to seize the “means of production” in a sweeping totalitarian maneuver is so radical on its face, and so impossible in reality–not to mention undesirable–that it would force a society that resembles North Korea or STASI Germany in order to implement it!

Verdict: Andrew Stewart’s prescription for humanity is a kind of 19th century totalitarianism. His criticism of Sanders is that Bernie is in no position to upend the entire economy of the planet, use military force and come marching in some sort of revolution to please the handful of diehard communists (or anarchists? he seems confused) who will accept nothing less.

So, perhaps Bernie is doing something right.

Ukraine Disintegrating?

Right Sector is now in a stand-off against the central (coup) government in Kiev.

Poroshenko calls for disarming of ‘illegal groups’ in Ukraine

Ideology = Delusion: The Science

Denying problems when we don’t like the political solutions: Why conservatives, liberals disagree so vehemently

Pain and Gain (2013)

This was a surprising film, as I hadn’t expected much.  Turns out that if you can get past the neon orange skin colors, a Michael Bay trademark, the story is very dynamic and well spun.

These wacky characters are well developed over the course of their crime spree.  The story is based on true events, by the way, and not just a muscle exploitation opportunity, as the trailer appeared to be.  This is a serious crime film with darkly comedic overtones.

In some ways it’s a classic gangster scenario, getting roped into more serious consequences as ambition takes over.  It pits the American dream ideal, sold on TV by arrogant millionaire huckster Johnny Wu, against the reality of working class insignificance.  It pits notions of American meritocracy against get rich quick thievery.  It flips the characters somewhat, so that the likable protagonists are the bad guys, and a very unlikable mark is the antagonist, but also the hero in a way.  It’s an uncomfortable mess of a situation and hard to believe that it could actually have transpired.

Žižek: They Live vs. Ideology

This wacky guy, Slavoj Žižek, is showing how it can be done, critiquing the culture by diving into movies (hey I’m jealous!).  More.