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Wolf "conservation" politics	[Jun. 2nd, 2011|05:41 pm]Footpad
[Tags**|politics, sigh, wolf conservation, wolves] [Current Mood**	grieved]Via kayucian: an article to make you rage.Hatred, viciousness, lies, politics, bloodlust, greed, and a whole lot of murdered wolves.Fucking bastards.
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Hanlon's Razor	[Jun. 22nd, 2010|07:07 am]Footpad
[Tags**|america, obama, politics, wanton lunacy, wtf] [Current Mood**	perky]Via snopes_dot_com: the actual title is "Obama's agenda: Overwhelm the system", but I think I'd rather let search engines see it as psychotic ranting. Holy shit, Batman!This sort of thing is why it's difficult for European readers to maintain much faith in American politics. Okay, we have slimy rags like Das Bild, and nasty papers like the Daily Mail do their own fine trade in reactionary bigotry but, on the whole, there remains a shaky and occasionally wishful assumption that elected political leaders, however incompetent, misguided, or corrupt or just plain unfortunate, are at least, in some corner of their cracked and grasping minds, at least trying to act in good faith according to their mandate to get elected again, make good headlines, further their own fortunes, look nice on camera, conceal their own inadequacies, score one over the other party and, pursuant to the above, maybe occasionally achieve something in the public interest.Heck, even our late lamented Gordon Brown presided over a party which, for all its flaws, did a great deal to improve the lot of everyday people in my home county, the poorest in England. Okay, so they were presided over by a bunch of authoritarian bastards and they got us into a war and damn near shafted the economy and we're going to spend a decade paying the bill under a different bunch of bastards whom we'll very soon hate just as much, but somewhere down there they were at least trying, know what I mean?Seriously, Mr Root. You may hate your leader's policies and person. You may think they're a lying manipulative bag of disaster whose policies are dooming your country from the economy upwards, and you're welcome to bring it on and say so (especially if your argument observes some of the ground-rules of intellectual integrity). But to frame them as actually wantonly evil, without ascribing any actual motive? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and until you provide that evidence your argument is refuted by Hanlon's Razor and,not to occlude the point with too much involuted grammar,you are a shithead, which you're welcome to bring down on your own fat head, but it's a real pity thatyou make your own country look shitty too.GTFO!
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The Obama problem	[Oct. 1st, 2009|12:07 am]Footpad
[Tags**|obama, politics, wtf] [Current Mood**	unnerved]Via cargoweasel, a particularly unnerving suggestion of a coup against Obama. The author, one John L. Perry, claims to be discussing it only as a hypothetical ("describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it"), but fuck him and his weasel talk: it's perfectly clear where his sympathies lie. He's selling the prospect of getting Obama out at gunpoint.Now, that's out not down: the man's not actually advocating violence. There's certainly some that would—mostly idiot nutcases, but they just go to show that in a country of millions, there's no limit to the insanity you can find.Which brings me to my problem. By American standards, judged by the extremity of his political position, just how barking mad is this guy? From here, given only the cherry-picked snippets and samples of the news and blogs, it's pretty much impossible to tell how common any given viewpoint actually is. Does Perry speak for an opinionated few, for the masses, only for himself? It's really hard for me to know.Which is where my American friends come in. Help me out here. What proportion of America actually thinks like this? John L. Perry is America's conscience and the voice of all righteous citizens. To the barricades! definitely polarised in his opinions, but a good many solid citizens would tend to agree with him -- maybe 50%. not speaking for the majority, but plenty of people hear what he has to say; 10% or so. in a pretty small minority, 1% or so, but still significant. an extremist; only a few freaks take this stuff seriously. A tenth or hundredth of a percent. a glassy-eyed drooling freak that even the Klan couldn't stomach. One in a million. John L. Perry should be removed from his job at gunpoint. If you'll allow me to position myself as a pretty average European, I think I can give a pretty average European view when I say that John L. Perry is **( ...Collapse )**Anyway. Set my mind at rest, I beseech you. Reassure me that Americans find such people crazy too. Whaddya say?
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