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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, February 20, 2021

On Adam Curtis and His "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

35 comments:

jez said...

Now there's a guy who sticks to arguments that can't be corroborated with data!

Gert said...

Where the hell is FreeStinkah?

FreeStinkah 2024! Dahdahdingodong!!! Bullcrap you can believe in! 20 % more antisemitic for the campaign!

jez said...

He died last autumn. All the talk of dead people on electoral registers amuses me no end, the one dead voter I know for certain voted emphatically for trump!

Thersites said...

...unlike all the dead Democrat voters, who have been on the voting lists since Roosevelt, and died during the Truman Administration .

Gert said...

@Jez: I should say something nice but I can't. Nocando, sirree.

@Thersites: and your evidence for that is?

jez said...

He'd have been disappointed with a platitude!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Biden got millions more votes than Obama. Where'd they come from? Hades must have a PO Box.

Gert said...

You think he might have preferred an insult? Because I've got scores of these...

jez said...

In 2016 Trump tempted several thousand people to vote for the first time, for him. In 2020, he did the same trick but also for people to vote against him.

Gert said...

FJ:

So still no evidence then, just assertions. Like Russiagate.

Joe Conservative said...

We'll see what the Supremes say Monday and Thursday on the 3 cases.

Gert said...

Are they gonna sing their judgements?

Gert said...

Jokes on a stick, I can't find much about these upcoming judgements?

Joe Conservative said...

Sydney Powell, Trumps former lawyer, says they're coming...

Joe Conservative said...

Dismissed as moot. So much for election reform.

Gert said...

That has nothing to do with electoral reforms, though...

Gert said...

Record sales of blackfacing stuff as Coca Cola tell staff to be less white! ;-)

Joe Conservative said...

No, it has to do with the credibility of our democracy. I have a suspicion that after today's ruling, the electorate is about to get VERY white.

Gert said...

So when a side loses an election the 'credibility of your democracy' is in doubt?

Now why does that remind me of Banana Republics?

From an outsider's perspective cries of 'the Republic is in danger!' are as old as the Republic itself. That should tell you something...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Over half the ballots in 2020 were mailed in. THAT alone is worthy of a couple of banana bunches.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and it would appear that the verification process was statistically deficient by all historical measures.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

In 20% of the states, unsolicited absentee ballots were mailed to every voter, created quite a surplus of ballots.

Gert said...

Not one court has found merit in the 'steal' allegations. They must all be in on it too.

Like troof: police, intel, DOJ all working in concert to hide the hideous truth that Bush/Mossad was wotdidit.

Joe Conservative said...

It's hard to find merit in allegations when the Courts have deemed all post election day challenges "moot" or "without standing".

Joe Conservative said...

The Courts are "in on it" to the extent that they are scared to death of disrupting the Democratic process and being accused of interference therein thereby gaining the "politicized" label.

Joe Conservative said...

;p

Gert said...

Your affliction is called 'hope'...

The hope that against ALL ODDS the election result may yet be reversed... Your rational side knows it won't, of course.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No, my hope was that above all odds the voting system would be fixed without a need for violence. Violence will now me almost certainly unavoidable. The Democrats fears of domestic violence And terrorism are getting baked in, as we speak.

Gert said...

Violence will now me almost certainly unavoidable.

Yeah, I can see where you're gonna go with that one: BLM violence perfidious, 'stop the steal' violence unavoidable (ergo 'good')

Violence is never unavoidable: it's a path some people choose.

Self-defense is the exception here but rightly pushing for electoral reforms does not qualify as that.

Joe Conservative said...

When all peaceful remedies exhaust themselves, violence becomes unavoidable. The Court was supposed to be the remedy. Now it has been proven to be part of the problem.

Joe Conservative said...

The Eumenides have been released.

Joe Conservative said...

The Sacred Grove of the Eumenides, outside of Theseus' Athens, burial ground of Oedipus, has been made profane.

Gert said...

Problem is: no Gubmint will ever give in to the demands of violent protesters. Nor should it.

So unless these violent protesters get the upper hand (that's a coup, of course) their violence will be costly and fruitless at once. Lose/lose.

Gert said...

Anyway, don't get killed on the barricades; it ain't wurfit!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I hear ya!