Mixed Message? Or Not?
I was trolling through some of the photos from the recent protests on the anniversary of the start of the libervasion of Iraq. I have no desire to make any comments on the protests, I'm sure you can imagine my reaction if you're at all familiar with this site. (If not, read this, this or this.) However, from this collection of photos from the San Francisco rally, one image caught my eye:
I wonder if this jackass has any concept of what the combination of imagery he's sporting might mean to anyone with a scintilla of historical knowledge. Christ on a handcart! Obliviousness, thy name is socialism.
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On a slightly more subtle
On a slightly more subtle note, dja ever notice that perhaps 3 in 5 Palestinian psychopaths sport M16s? Or that Egypt is second only to Israel in aid? Great Satan indeed, supplying all that weaponry. The ubiquitous alternative, the Kalashnikov series, was designed and originally manufactured by godless Communists- godless, by Allah!- or their puppets.
Isn't there a properly Islamic weapon they can take on jihad with them?
So how do we know this guy is
So how do we know this guy is a socialist? Oh yeah, forgot -- root of all evil and all that.
Except if you think a level playing field is a good idea. Or universal health care. Or public education.
Ross,
Ross,
You might also add- although Johno is ALOT smarter on this than I- the 40 hour work week.
But you'll have to convince me about universal health care. The closest I ever came to it was in the Army. Quick version: if you're broken or bleeding, you're in pretty OK shape. Otherwise... well just try not to get sick, put it that way.
Public education, at least in
Public education, at least in America, came before socialism. If by level playing field, you mean equality of outcome, sure, and that sucks. If you mean equality of opportunity, that has little to do with socialism. Universal Health Care is certainly socialist, and I'll have nothing to do with that.
Socialism and its offshoots have caused more misery, death, and poverty than any other ideology in world history. Its a reasonable candidate for root of all evil.
Those protests were sponsored by socialist groups like ANSWER. So it's a reasonable assumption.
The forty hour work week was a good idea. But wasn't that more of a trade union program? The union movement in America never fully bought into the socialist agenda.
But that's all beside the point, as I was just making a quip.
Who's to say that the guy in
Who's to say that the guy in the photo ISN'T from Germany? After all, Germany wasn't with us at the UN when we finally decided to go it without the imprimatur of the security council.
Though I have to admit, the photo is fraught with so many allusions. Buckethead, thy comment was rather witty. I'm going to guess the knave really is oblivious.
I will make no further comment on universal healthcare. socialism or residents of the Bay Area.
Universal health is not
Universal health is not socialist. Plenty of G-d-fearing, capitalist countries had it before they had socialist governments. Hell, Bismarck demanded it.
Maybe you need to define
Maybe you need to define socialist, B, then also provide a definition of communist, for contrast. I do not think that universal health care is a BAD thing, that leads to political decay, in the same manner as communism. Pretty much every civilized country in the world manages to have universal health care.