BDR:
"...These clusterfucks, the romantic egoist in me wants to believe them the awesomest clusterfucks ever, but I wonder, doesn't every generation think their time the clusterfuckest ever? Are humans fundamentally shittier than ever or just as shitty with enhanced surveillance capability? Here, let me type anti-Corporate invective into googleblooger and plunge send.
In any case, those patdowns in airports are training whacks on your snout to sit the fuck down and STFU when told to sit the fuck down and STFU. Our overlords are busy negotiating the terms of our complicity too..."
There is a service we can provide here, if so inclined. Get. This. Message. Out.
The internet may be going pyramids and skyscrapers, soon - but it still has its back alleys and speakeasies and a lot of us chill on the doorsteps and fire escapes of both. Spread it by way of poor man's balconies; whisper it on the doorsteps. Spread it beneath the street lights. Spread it.
We have other complicities available to us. Ones which the bosses can learn to fear.
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
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I don't like this sneakin' about by The Man. I was promised jackbooted thugs, goshdarnit!
Jackboots for Crisis, for transition - The Arms of Krupp, Daimler, Bayer, et al thankfully, wistfully remind us...
Jackboots for transition, and Boeing will back a cake...
The major outcry about the pat-downs is because the policy is largely affecting prosperous white folks, and it was put into place by the Kenyan Usurper. Where were these people when warrantless wiretaps were going on under the Bush maladministration? Would these people complaining about the TSA searches protest stop-and-frisk policies in largely poor, black neighborhoods?
Dumb, deluded cobags don't realize that poor minorities are the canary in the civil liberties coal mine.
Pardon the distorted uses of "liberal" and "conservative" here, but I am reminded of the idea that my friends used to toss around when I was in my 20s. It goes like this:
a "liberal" is a "conservative" who has had his first negative encounter with the police.
while
a "conservative" is a person who hasn't ever had a negative encounter with the police.
Now, the little parable clearly distorts "liberal" because it gives them too much awareness and actual purpose. Most liberals I know aren't anything but friends of the government and its enforcers, and they're among those whose default is "if you get pinched for it, you deserved it."
Good one, Oxtrot.
Sounds sort of like one of my own faves, which sprung to mind during the Seattle Rebellion and A16:
An anarchist is a Liberal who's been pepper-sprayed by the police.
Would these people complaining about the TSA searches protest stop-and-frisk policies in largely poor, black neighborhoods?
Actually, yeah. But not most. In fact, most black people happily get on board with rulers who want to herd them into prisons. People generally don't participate politically, even in their own interest. I admit, I'm mostly tasked with making a living, but I probably take racial issues into account more than some of my Clinton and Obama-worshiping black neighbors. Can I please have moral exemption from a cavity search?
This idea of the pat-downs as paybacks to affluent, indifferent conservatives is beyond stupid. You either oppose the jackboot and truncheon or you don't.
The revolutionary who gleefully contemplates gross encroachments on anyone's personal liberty on the supposition that the object has been insufficiently broke, brown, left, activist or otherwise the equal of some lameass masturbating blog troll is as revolutionary and useful as Stalin. He's also an idiot.
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