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Life Under Terrorism

by Life Under Terrorism Thursday, Aug. 05, 2004 at 11:19 PM

Houses

Life Under Terrorism...
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Thank the sponsors

by € Thursday, Aug. 05, 2004 at 11:26 PM

The above presentation was brought to you in part by Microsoft, who supplied the stock graphics and also by whichever evil corporation designed the personal computer.

Isn't it odd how the average socialist believes millions of people are incapable of running their own lives, yet somehow HE can find a committee of 20 or so comrades that are so smart they can manage entire economies and everyone's affairs?

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Thank the capitalist morons who still don't get it...

by neo-cons still suck reagan\\'s maggots Friday, Aug. 06, 2004 at 5:17 PM

Mr. "I think i'll name myself a symbol like prince" tries to pull the old reactionary 'you guys are hypocrites cuz you use the tools of the system you critique" argument to try and discredit a sharp observation with graphics about the sad state of the U.S. economy and how it privileges the elite. Get a clue, the master's tools can be used to burn down his house, and then we can move on.

Isn't it funny how capitalists are so much in denial of their own condenscension towards others and their own class prejudices and even racism. Isn't it funny how some middle class and working class people will bend over to defend a system that will rape them blind in favor of the elite ("my power base" as bush said in Moore's F 9/11). When the elites that you seem to support send their own spoiled brats to war to defend Haliburton contracts, instead of the working class kids who have to options, then we can talk...

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neo-socialists are fuckin tards

by € Friday, Aug. 06, 2004 at 5:41 PM

Get a clue, the master's tools can be used to burn down his house, and then we can move on.

>>> No one cares that you use "master's tools." I just enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy of attacking the system that offers you the most opportunity out of all of them.

>>> Do you really think yourself so wise as to make the trains run on time? Do you really think people are going to surrender all they have worked for AND their rights AND their freedoms to obey a fistful of failed crap like socialism?



Isn't it funny how capitalists are so much in denial of their own condenscension towards others and their own class prejudices and even racism.

>>> I don't engage in class warfare and class envy as I'm not trying to seize power. Please save your breath with that IT BE RACISM shit. That only works on guilty white liberal morons. I don't care what color you are. Know your role and don't expect anyone to coddle you.

Isn't it funny how some middle class and working class people will bend over to defend a system that will rape them blind in favor of the elite ("my power base" as bush said in Moore's F 9/11).

>>> Whether you like it or not, comrade, you will ALWAYS have a boss, and if you ARE the boss, you have to answer to your people, employees and the guvmint.

When the elites that you seem to support send their own spoiled brats to war to defend Haliburton contracts, instead of the working class kids who have to options, then we can talk...

>>> The only war socialists love are the ones they can't win, like the war on poverty.

>>> As for the Michael Moore rhetoric, isn't it FUNNY how with all his millions he has created exactly ZERO scholarships or other alternatives for all those poor kids who instead join the Armed Forces?

>>> He must not have time to think about them when he returns to his mansion and throws his filthy baseball cap on the solid gold hat rack.

>>> There's nothing more to talk about. I am right; you are wrong.





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OneEyedMan

by KPC Friday, Aug. 06, 2004 at 8:00 PM
KPC

idiot: "I just enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy of attacking the system that offers you the most opportunity out of all of them. "

...suggesting ways to improve a system is not "attacking it",

idiot: "I don't care what color you are. Know your role and don't expect anyone to coddle you."

...You seem to be easily confused...just because you don't think you are a racist (maybe you should think again), doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist. Your response actually illustrates his point, but I am sure you didn't notice that.

idiot: "Whether you like it or not, comrade, you will ALWAYS have a boss"

..yeah, but you don't ALWAYS have to suck his dick.

As for MM...one questions...

...do you wingnuts jerk off when you make posts about him?

...fuckin' bumvent...if you're right, I'll take what's left.

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by € Friday, Aug. 06, 2004 at 11:19 PM

Genius: "I just enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy of attacking the system that offers you the most opportunity out of all of them. "

...suggesting ways to improve a system is not "attacking it"

----"Reform of capitalism" sounds a hell of a lot like communism to me. If you're not capitalist, have the fucking balls to stand up for your shit, however wrong it is.

Genius: "I don't care what color you are. Know your role and don't expect anyone to coddle you."

...You seem to be easily confused...just because you don't think you are a racist (maybe you should think again), doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist.

----I can't worry about leftist orthodoxy, one, because it's dead wrong, and two, why waste the energy.

----Lefties are not what any sane person would call reasonable. Get on their bad side and you'll be labeled just as rapidly.

----Racism exists, but it's only as big a deal as you wanna make it. If you're just looking for an excuse to be a fuck up, try blaming yourself instead of racism or the system.



Your response actually illustrates his point, but I am sure you didn't notice that.

----Sure I did. The ignorant blacks that tear down other blacks trying to make something of themselves speak ebonics. They sound like ignorant fools and they say shit like "It be racism." It's 2004. Get a new fucking excuse, at least, Sharpton.

Genius: "Whether you like it or not, comrade, you will ALWAYS have a boss"

..yeah, but you don't ALWAYS have to suck his dick.

----That's good news for you, then, isn't it?



"As for MM...one questions...

...do you wingnuts jerk off when you make posts about him?

...fuckin' bumvent...if you're right, I'll take what's left."

----Man, the above idiocy is suitable for framing.

----"One questions" followed by two senseless comments.

----Bailiff, escort the prisoner back to grammar school.

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facts

by Life Under Terrorism Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 5:26 AM

The artwork was done on Appleworks, but the other big capitalist computer company. It cost a little less than Word, and had better drawing tools.

I believe the evil corporation that invented the personal computer is Apple. More on Apple below.

I am not a socialist. Life Under Terrorism lacks a coherent ideology.

My position is stated in the phrase "wealth should follow work." To this end, I can state that my "solution" to the problems described is higher wages for work, and higher taxes on capital.

Apple is not a "good guy" in the business. They are notorious for monopolistic business practices when they can get away with it. Recently, they bought the video software Shake, which is used by postproduction companies. Shake was slated to become primarily a Linux-based product. Apple took it, and moved it to their OS X, and increased the price for the Linux version to the point where it would cost more to run it on a comparable Linux box.

That incident is the epitome of the operation of capitalism. Corporations, when they can, like to control prices, control markets, and control even the customers.

Corporations are the antithesis of public democratic participation. They take from the commons, and return little.

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reform of capitalism

by Life Under Terrorism Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 5:43 AM

----"Reform of capitalism" sounds a hell of a lot like communism to me. If you're not capitalist, have the fucking balls to stand up for your shit, however wrong it is.

That's because reform of captialism isn't communism. It's still capitalism.

One reform of capitalism was the creation of national banks, like the US Treasury. The reform of capitalism actually strengthened it. (It's called liberalism -- but today, that word's meaning is different.)

Another reform of capitalism was the creation of laws to prevent the abuse of workers. This also helped business in the long run, by raising standards so that an "honest businessman" could compete against exploitative ones.

Monetary policy -- reducing or increasing the prime lending rate -- is a reform of capitalism. This helps capitalism.

In fact, in some ways, the development of the American economy is the history of capitalist reform.

A communist is a revolutionary who believes in Marx's idea of historical stages. He or she believes that we're in a stage called capitalism. It was preceded by feudalism. It will be followed by something else; if the proletariat cause the change to happen.

This final stage would be different from the current stage, because private property would be eliminated, and all resources efficiently controlled by a "dictatorship of the proletariat."

What's funny is this: Wal-Mart, as it grows larger, is behaving more and more like a socialist government. They are a dictatorship by a cabal of rich folks, but operate their business with an eye toward efficiency and price controls. Consumer choice and quality take a back seat. Workers are not allowed to use negotiating agents to secure the best labor contracts. (It's like having a company union.) The elite are discouraged from ostentatious display of wealth: they fly coach.

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Life underwear

by € Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 7:48 AM

The artwork was done on Appleworks, but the other big capitalist computer company. It cost a little less than Word, and had better drawing tools.

I believe the evil corporation that invented the personal computer is Apple. More on Apple below.

----Apples are too expensive for the common man to just read email. The gay shell colors (gay as in ‘happy’) also annoy bosses who don’t want to suggest “fun” in their biz environments. But that iPod sure sells well.

I am not a socialist. Life Under Terrorism lacks a coherent ideology.

----No argument there.

My position is stated in the phrase "wealth should follow work." To this end, I can state that my "solution" to the problems described is higher wages for work, and higher taxes on capital.

----This has been proven to NOT work over and over and over and over again. You can’t tax a nation into prosperity, period. As for paying employees more money, the market sets the prices better than any guvmint management committee. Wealth follows merit.

Apple is not a "good guy" in the business. They are notorious for monopolistic business practices when they can get away with it.

----Why is this such a shock?

Recently, they bought the video software Shake, which is used by postproduction companies. Shake was slated to become primarily a Linux-based product. Apple took it, and moved it to their OS X, and increased the price for the Linux version to the point where it would cost more to run it on a comparable Linux box.

----Blame Shake’s creators. They obviously sold out to Apple.

That incident is the epitome of the operation of capitalism. Corporations, when they can, like to control prices, control markets, and control even the customers.

----But Big Benevolent Guvmint, they don’t want to control your life at all. Oh no. They’re just worried about “the common good.” Evil corporatiions can and do go out of business. Guvmints typically don't. I'll take my chances with Wal-Mart (more on Wal-Mart below).

Corporations are the antithesis of public democratic participation. They take from the commons, and return little.

-----How many millions, if not billions, of tedious man-hours of drudgery have been eliminated by Microsoft programs? How many jobs does the entire computer industry create? This psychopathic, irrational hatred of corporations is taught in the guvmint schools (by de facto socialist ‘educators’) and also stems from watching Robocop films too much.

----90% of American businesses are small businesses. Where’s THEIR relief under your plan to raise taxes? How do you expect small businesses to hire more workers and expand?

----"Reform of capitalism" sounds a hell of a lot like communism to me. If you're not capitalist, have the fucking balls to stand up for your shit, however wrong it is.

That's because reform of captialism isn't communism. It's still capitalism.

One reform of capitalism was the creation of national banks, like the US Treasury. The reform of capitalism actually strengthened it. (It's called liberalism -- but today, that word's meaning is different.)

Another reform of capitalism was the creation of laws to prevent the abuse of workers. This also helped business in the long run, by raising standards so that an "honest businessman" could compete against exploitative ones.

Monetary policy -- reducing or increasing the prime lending rate -- is a reform of capitalism. This helps capitalism.

In fact, in some ways, the development of the American economy is the history of capitalist reform.

----FDR’s “reforms” of capitalism prolonged the Depression. So a big, hearty ‘No Thanks’ to further ‘help’ by well-meaning socialists.

A communist is a revolutionary who believes in Marx's idea of historical stages. He or she believes that we're in a stage called capitalism. It was preceded by feudalism. It will be followed by something else; if the proletariat cause the change to happen.

This final stage would be different from the current stage, because private property would be eliminated, and all resources efficiently controlled by a "dictatorship of the proletariat."

-----If 100 million murdered by communism isn’t enough to awaken the too many who still believe in such fairy tales, there’s no hope for them. Other than religious communities like the Amish, I’ve never heard of a bunch of Berkeley-ites going off and starting their own successful communistic society. There may be a few, but they're obviously not very popular. “The State continues to be that great fiction by which everyone tries to live off of everyone else.” All the 'activists' sure want that grant money.

What's funny is this: Wal-Mart, as it grows larger, is behaving more and more like a socialist government. They are a dictatorship by a cabal of rich folks, but operate their business with an eye toward efficiency and price controls. Consumer choice and quality take a back seat. Workers are not allowed to use negotiating agents to secure the best labor contracts. (It's like having a company union.) The elite are discouraged from ostentatious display of wealth: they fly coach.

-----In a real dictatorship, the “rich folks” simply kill those who rise up against them, a far cry from Wal-Mart. ALL businesses with a clue “operate their business(es) with an eye toward efficiency and price controls,” except ultimately consumers and the free market set the prices.

----Fuck unions. Why should I pay higher prices as a penalty to compensate a mob of less educated goof-offs just cause they decided to band together? Why should some clown riveting the same gas tank to the same Ford all day make an hour? Unions died for a reason.

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work on it

by kniops Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 12:31 PM

"-----In a real dictatorship, the rich folks simply kill those who rise up against them"

yup, like the anthrax from mil spec, Aims strain bioweapons stocks.

Made in the USA.

Or the assassination of various leaders like MLK who challenge the system. A close look at the rest of your dorktype in equally fractured with inaccuracies. Waste your time here, you provide a fine target for abuse.

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€ fan club response letter

by € Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 4:06 PM

"-----In a real dictatorship, the rich folks simply kill those who rise up against them"

yup, like the anthrax from mil spec, Aims strain bioweapons stocks.

Made in the USA.

-----------u lefties always have some generic, obscure way to turn everything around to blame the USA. When I see them, I know I’ve officially won.

Or the assassination of various leaders like MLK who challenge the system.

----------I forgot that you have the CIA to blame for everything, despite lack of evidence. When you believe socialism works, you’ll believe anything, so no big deal.

A close look at the rest of your dorktype in equally fractured with inaccuracies. Waste your time here, you provide a fine target for abuse.

------Don’t stand too close, punk. You’ve already been burned once by that 'dorktype' that trounces your REDspeak every time. I am right. If you don't agree with everything I say, you are wrong.



-----As for GAY-PC, the IMC clown mascot, no time for a grammar lesson today.

Genius: "Racism exists, but it's only as big a deal as you wanna make it. "

...spoken like a true stupid while man....

------Aigh. Are we just another racist, bitter-assed “minority?” With an arrest record? One in four (excuse me, “FO’”) black males has one.

Now, I think your boss want some servicing.....better wet dem lips and get to it like a good lil' ho.

------I don’t know as much hoodspeak as you do, homey. I be havin’ a real job and shit, and no baby mama to pay fo'.

-----No go ride that donkey with Fat Al Sharpton as far as it'll take you.

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please work on it, €

by kniops Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 4:24 PM

Because your post are becoming more incoherent each time you feel compelled to spew...

Blood pressure can kill.

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hey foolio

by Life Under Terrorism Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 5:43 PM

Euro...

You're not very smart.

I probably dislike the government more than you do.

I should have added that I favor greater property taxes, and fewer income and sales taxes.

The main difference between Apple and Microsoft is size. You're impressed by size. Grow up.

You're no better than a computer program. You spout out rehashed rhetoric without new ideas. You see a word, and jump on it with some canned argument you read in a questionable article written by some conservative ideologue.

I won't debate with you further.

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Actions have consequences

by € Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 6:16 PM

You're not very smart.

---It's an illusion. It just doesn't take much to dethrone liberal elitists.

I probably dislike the government more than you do.

---Yet you seem to want more of it. I'm here to remind others that nothing magical happens when money is handed over to bureacrats.

I should have added that I favor greater property taxes, and fewer income and sales taxes.

---So much tax money is wasted now on fruitless "programs" and corporate welfare, I don't see why anyone who's not a politician would want to raise them at all. Or is paying 40% of your income and working until May just to pay off the guvmint not enough?

The main difference between Apple and Microsoft is size. You're impressed by size. Grow up.

---I've worked with both, I appreciate both. If I was impressed with size I would admire the federal leviathan we have now.

You're no better than a computer program. You spout out rehashed rhetoric without new ideas.

---Are you sure you're talking about me or every last "Red Star Lover" at this site? Marxism is a total failure yet it's alive and well on shitsymedia. Does anyone here read history other than marx?

You see a word, and jump on it with some canned argument you read in a questionable article written by some conservative ideologue.

---Common sense only sounds like a canned argument to the "True Believer." Life keeps throwing the same problems at people over and over again. It's only the liberal that wants to test the waters with both feet, treating civilization like a video game. He has no idea what the consequences of his frequent disastrous decisions wlll be. And why should he? "The Law" now protects the wrong people from their own stupidity.

I won't debate with you further.

---Only if I could believe it. Thank God the adults are back in power after 8 years of clitton slime.

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OneEyedMan

by KPC Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 7:02 PM
KPC

E-diot: "Aigh. Are we just another racist, bitter-assed “minority?” With an arrest record? One in four (excuse me, “FO’”) black males has one. "

...don't gotta be a minority to kkknow a stupid white man when I see one...

E-diot: "....As for GAY-PC"

..uh, thanks for the offer, sailor...I'm really flattered...but my gate don't swing that way.

...try cruising a Log Cabin Republican Meeting....

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OneEyedMan

by KPC Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 7:05 PM
KPC

E-diot: "Common sense only sounds like a canned argument to the "True Believer." Life keeps throwing the same problems at people over and over again. It's only the liberal that wants to test the waters with both feet, treating civilization like a video game. He has no idea what the consequences of his frequent disastrous decisions wlll be. And why should he? "The Law" now protects the wrong people from their own stupidity. "



...what the FUCK are you babbling about? Put away the crank, ya trailerpark throwback, it's crackin' your egg....

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__

by __ Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 7:20 PM

__...
___.jpg, image/jpeg, 600x391

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heh heh

by Heh Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 7:46 PM

That would make a nice T-shirt logo to walk around in Oakland with.

You will need someone to pick up your balls, however.

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__

by __ Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 8:48 PM

Mexicans are now the largest minority. The Asians arrived in boats and now 30 years later, own all the businesses in the black ghettos.

Mexicans, Asians and now Indians know which criminal, self-destructive race to avoid.

Oakland is another turd overrun by illiterate gangs. I hope never to see it's broken streets and burned-out buildings again. What city will the failed race ruin next?

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failed race

by Heh Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 9:34 PM

Oh so that's why the 'white' race couldn't make it without slaves to build this country. Very sucsessful parasites we are.

'you know something people?

I'm not black but there's a whole lot of times

I wish I could say I'm not white'-

Trouble Comin Every Day

-Frank Zappa

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OneEyedMan

by KPC Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 9:43 PM

.....geez, it's even predjudiced about who it hates....

..."way-ul....ah hates doze bee-nars 'n' cheenks , buh not 'zmuch az much az ah hates dem niggrahs...."

...why not try to be an equal opportunity nazi schmuck...that way you'll have more people who you can complain about keepin' yo pastey white ass down in the trailer park....

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__

by __ Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 10:16 PM

__...
gather_round_.jpg, image/jpeg, 212x226

Oh so that's why the 'white' race couldn't make it without slaves to build this country. Very sucsessful parasites we are.

Cut to Afro-ca. Billions in natural resources, never built a single town before the Euro Man showed up. Oh, and slavery still being practiced over there.



'you know something people?

I'm not black but there's a whole lot of times

I wish I could say I'm not white'-

Trouble Comin Every Day

-Frank Zappa

Don't worry about being a self-hating White fool. There are enough Jews, exploiting blacks as weapons of mass integration, who will see you extinguished from the face of the earth, all beacuse you're White.

Enjoy your stay in Amerikwa.



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This one is a little out there

by Life Under Terrorism Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 10:23 PM

This one is a little...
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This one isn't well formed, but it's got a point. I think if I were to do it again, I'd replace "white racism" with "racism".

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alternate theory

by alternate theory Saturday, Aug. 07, 2004 at 11:39 PM

alternate theory...
finster.jpg, image/jpeg, 600x391

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it's a picture

by more rational Sunday, Aug. 08, 2004 at 3:01 PM

(It's a picture, not an actual situation, and should be analyzed as such.)

Someone's racist fantasy is all that picture is.

Unfortunately, it's a fantasy backed by centuries of history.

Whatever the dynamics of this depicted interracial conflict, consider who's going to get arrested and booked, and who's going to get a slap on the wrist. That's white privilege in action -- whites can be the aggressor, but play the victim.

It's like that woman who killed her kids, then blamed it on some mythical black guy. That's white privilege in action.

white privilege is racism

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OneEyedMan

by KPC Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004 at 1:15 PM

douchebag: "never built a single town before the Euro Man showed up. "



...oh, so it was the Euro Man and not aliens that built the pyramids...

...well, we just KNEW it couldn't have been the Africans....



...back to Geo 101, ya fuckin' brainiac...

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