I realized that we did just what the "Chicago Machine" would do.
holy shit.
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
build a nationwide machine based on the Chicago Machine
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the Chicago Machine WORKS
christ on a cracker.
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, a mirrorworld anti-Chicago Machine where there's no neighbourhood coercion or turkeys, yeah?
― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you get the option to be wired into the Machine OR Mother Brain.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"the new Dem Machine, which will carry us all forward into an Age of Mutuality."
Somewhere, Huxley laughs?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost to suzy: or graft, bribery, extortion, racism, waste, arrogant flaunting of all of the above, and on, and on, and on...
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a book that person, however well-meaning, has obviously not read.
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
The other day my mom started foaming about La Machine Chicago - and tying O to same - based on living there for one year only. Try to argue with her and she's all OH YEAH, I BEEN TO HYDE PARK - IN '67.
― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she should have stuck around for 1968.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_WriF8m2mVt0/SBe9zYQnloI/AAAAAAAABs8/4xsk-CjVrQo/s400/David+Douglas+Duncan--Dem+Con+68.jpg
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
(What makes that photo is the banner in the distance reading "HELLO DEMOCRATS!")
― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It's possible that he's a little TOO awesome ...
― polyphonic, Thursday, 23 October 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
haha Dr. Morbius you should e-mail John Dean, tell him you found the liberal authoritarians finally, they're no longer a theory.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 October 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
were they ever just a theory?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think they're a whole corner of that ideology graph thingy, actuellement.
― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that well-known ideology graph thing (http://www.politicalcompass.org/index) is pretty clearly a libertarian indoctrination tool. There's a whole body of literature surrounding the concept of authoritarianism, and as far as I know to align libertarianism as its polar opposite strongly misrepresents authoritarianism.
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 October 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
don't confuse Political Compass for the World's Smallest Political Quiz. The former makes conservatives foam at the mouth because it (generally) pegs them as authoritarians, and libertarians foam because its emphasis on value questions highlights their proximity to conservatives.
― sad man in him room (milo z), Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
(but the idea of a 2-axis or 3-axis ideology guide is generally pretty stupid as a rule)
― sad man in him room (milo z), Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, okay, thanks!
― Dan I., Friday, 24 October 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
to align libertarianism as its polar opposite strongly misrepresents authoritarianism
Who did this? we're talking about LIBERAL authoritarians. the Daleys, Humphrey, all the Dem senators not named Feingold, etc.
You just KNOW those two Obama Youth robots quoted on HuffPost are going to cluck their tongues at anyone who protests President Bam governing (and bombing) from the "center." "He has to do this to get re-elected!"
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
you are truly a seer
― joe 40oz (deej), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
despite yr condescension i think most of us are pretty aware around these parts that obama will not be ushering in a totally post-partisan age. yes, people will be there to cheerlead whatever he does. i dont see why u think thats news to anyone.
― joe 40oz (deej), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
uh, we are IN a postpartisan age, that's the problem.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 October 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf are you talking about never mind
― joe 40oz (deej), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
morbs/feingold 08
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
but morbs like 48.5% of this country maintains a polar opposite view than you (and the other 48.5% or so) on practically every single issue there is. how do you propose anything ever getting done? short of the blue coastal states seceding from Jesusland?
p.s. i think it's a little early to take Barry to task for countries he hasn't bombed yet.
― flyover statesman (will), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
he's way smarter, more likable, and likely more decent than we've had in decades. give him a shot.
― flyover statesman (will), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ otm
Wanting the moon is understandable, but is no reason to turn down the offer of a few genuine moon rocks.
― Aimless, Friday, 24 October 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I am giving him a shot. But I think liberal reforms have been deemed impractical by the entire ruling class since at least 1980. Time will tell if the New Depression shifts the spectrum.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 October 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=populism_without_pitchforks
He's apparently a "communitarian populist!" Thanks, intellectually lazy "progressive" JACKASS. Perhaps you would consider investing in a DICTIONARY before you become a WRITER.
"Communitarian Populism!!" You know, how Hitler rolled!! Jesus Christ. Obama's greatest flaw really is having supporters like these.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and yes I already feel guilty for linking that piece and possibly causing other people to try and read it
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
no its cool i saw the populism without pitchforks in the url before i clicked
― some sort of sweetpea New Deal (Lamp), Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Him being the antichrist could be a problem, apparently.
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/images/Picture%205-166.jpg
(lol)
― StanM, Sunday, 26 October 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Topeka KS 66604
― imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Sunday, 26 October 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL at one medieval thought accusing something incredibly dense like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminianism of being satanistic.
― StanM, Sunday, 26 October 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Amen.
― ℵℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜ℘! (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 26 October 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
amen xp!
― 8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 October 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll amen if the screed writer can learn to spell 'worshipped'. HAHA.
― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Monday, 27 October 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
the most impressively irritating thing in the world is the font used by Phelps' propaganda posters
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i like obama a lot but some of his supporters' eagerness to justify daleyism as "just politics" or "just what you gotta do to get elected" is seriously disturbing.
― J.D., Monday, 27 October 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I like that the Westboro thing is headed as a news release. Front page of the next day's New York Times: "BARACK OBAMA IS ANTICHRIST."
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 27 October 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
J.D. what "daleyism" are you referring to?
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 27 October 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
mixing up Fred Sanford & George Jefferson
― ban or astroban? (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 3 November 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
too much of a fuckin badass
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
overweeningly handsome
overly unflappable
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 November 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
embarrassingly thoughtful
skinny legs
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 3 November 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
ballhog
― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Monday, 3 November 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
insufficiently cruel
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 November 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link