An internet friend brought attention to this piece:
One Word Turns the Tea Party Around
For reasons which I hope are fairly plain to my 2.3 regular readers, I don't personally buy into one half of the argument, because I don't see any reason to separate the modern state from the modern corporation. They are not seamless, but the are nestled together pretty and neat.
Still, it cuts through the glibertarian bull shit fairly well, and that's something.
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
Just flip government and corporations in that sentence:
ReplyDeleteThe threat to our way of life comes from corporations, and the solution is to shrink corporations while freeing government from corporate control.
Exactly. But Kodos and Kang have us exactly where they want us. Is it too late? My sources are despondent.
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I'm far more persuaded by your musings on power than those on the organs of state--not that I would do you the injustice of thinking that you see those as particularly severable or distinguishable, and y'know, I'm just sniffing around the borders of your turf anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat said, yeah, it's a real nice play.
I think people pay way too much attention to what the Tea Partiers think and want. Were it not for the snooze media shoving them in our face all the time you'd never know they existed.
ReplyDeleteThey're a media creation funded by a few billionaires and really aren't anything more than republicans.
Frankly, I just don't give a shit.
I'd be interested in hearing more about your cellular biology expertise, Jackie Crowbar.
ReplyDeleteYou can skip the whole "glibertarian" schtick and focus on another subject in which you pretend expertise but don't possess any of it.
So recount for your 2.3 readers the extent of your cellular biology and genetics experience for us all, would you please?
After all, at Charlie Davis's place, you pretended to disparage my comments by saying I'm wrong about industrial origins of many modern cancers.
Show us your Carville best, Jackie.
Your grasp of the arguments others make is somewhat deficient, Karl.
ReplyDeleteI would compare you to Don Quixote, but Cervantes' creation should not suffer the association.
A good day to you, all the same.