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Thursday morning riddle

Q: Why did the counter-protesting “anarchists” cross the road?

A: WE REFUSE YOUR “DEMANDS” FOR A PROPER PUNCHLINE, RIGHTWING PIGS!*

My. And yet some people find those who peacefully protest government overreach “alarming.” Priorities, people.

(h/t JHo)

78 Replies to “Thursday morning riddle”

  1. Abe Froman says:

    Joe is a Spamarchist.

  2. Entropy says:

    WTFF?

    How the bloody hell are they anarchists?

    But… but.. the.. what…the.. the damn word means..

    WTFF?

  3. Silver Whistle says:

    I identify, for the benefit of this essay, a white person as any person with pale skin pigmentation that would commonly pass as white in this society. We don’t need to break this down any further. We know whether we’re white or not.

    It’s world class thinking like this that’s going to get us through these stormy seas.

  4. Jeff G. says:

    If you mention, as a deterrent to these types of fuckheads, that you may be carrying a gun for protection and you’d be willing to use it should they molest you, that’s you being the aggressor.

    No, seriously. I’ve read blog posts and emails and everything!

  5. NukemHill says:

    I’m helping organize the Tea Party rallies here in the Baltimore region. First meeting is Saturday morning. I’ve already forwarded the gateway pundit link to some other people. I have no idea if something’s going to happen, but we’re going to be prepared.

  6. Alec Leamas says:

    food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc.

    Is support for these things now de rigueur for Anarchists? Perhaps my definition of Anarchy is dated?

    This tea party movement that emerged only a year ago is a coalition of conservatives, anti-Semites, fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists, militia men, gun freaks, homophobes, Ron Paul supporters, Alex Jones conspiracy types and American flag wavers.

    I think this tells us more about them than it does the tea party people, no?

  7. NukemHill says:

    Careful, Jeff. Marc might come over here and try to delink you from your own site!

  8. guinsPen says:

    I don’t quite like the tone of your voice, Snapper.

  9. NukemHill says:

    a coalition of conservatives, anti-Semites

    See. I simply love being an anti-semitic Jew. It fills my heart with warmth and joy. Especially while slaughtering the Paschal Lamb. The cognitive dissonance is almost orgasmic in its power!

  10. Pablo says:

    Worst. Anarchists. Ever.

  11. JHo says:

    Is support for these things now de rigueur for Anarchists?

    Read to the bottom and all shall be made clear, Alec. At some point, “by any means possible” crops up.

  12. mojo says:

    Them anarchists need to get organized, if ya ask me…

  13. Jeff G. says:

    Worst. Anarchists. Ever.

    Okay, that made me crack a smile.

    Well done. I’m a tough audience.

    Incidentally, we’re a contagion, and Armed Liberal closed his thread on me to stop the spread. The dangers of communitarian politics, I guess: the possibility of an epidemic.

  14. Entropy says:

    They call themselves anarchists.

    They are advocating “anti-racist action” and “anti fascist action”.

    Are you guys familiar with AFA (Anti-Fascist Action) in Europe?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

    It’s fricken MiniTru. It’s mind-blowing. They read Orwell like a how-to book. And they believe themselves! How the hell do people fall for this?

  15. Abe Froman says:

    Every time I see these carnival geeks crawl out of the woodwork for a G8 summit with their scary hoods and handkerchiefs I’m taken by how obvious it is that half a man could beat any five of them to death with a Wiffle Ball bat. Under normal circumstances, dealing with crazy is something most people choose not to do. But when the rubber meets the road any confrontation with real people – as opposed to cops, in which case these pussies know the constraints they’re under – will not end well for the anarchists.

  16. Squid says:

    “Liberty for who?”

    Well, they certainly don’t believe in grammar rules. Down with standard usage! Fight the power!

  17. Hadlowe says:

    Egad, libertarians in the Tea Party? MUST PROTEST.

    Although I can kind of understand why an Anarchist would hate that. How can an Anarchist sow disorder if the people establishing order just kinda shrug and say, “So long as you don’t get any of that on me, we’re cool.”

  18. bigbooner says:

    Anarchism. How stylish.

  19. Frontman says:

    And now the obvious cheapo from Inigo Montoya:

    “Anarchist? You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it does.”

  20. Pablo says:

    Incidentally, we’re a contagion, and Armed Liberal closed his thread on me to stop the spread. The dangers of communitarian politics, I guess: the possibility of an epidemic.

    Well, you can’t promote open discussion of issues without shutting down a few threads.

    It’s really a gift, Jeff. A liberating one. With friends like that, etc…

  21. Squid says:

    From the bottom of the manifesto:

    * Login or register to post comments

    Is it just me, or do anarchists spend an inordinate amount of time and effort on getting people registered for stuff? Montoya is right.

  22. geoffb says:

    Liberty, in the United States, has become synonymous with the protection of rights to own property. […] The concepts of freedom and private property, then, are at direct odds with each other.

    “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” I came across this same theme at another site recently. Defining freedom down, till it disappears altogether.

  23. Sam says:

    OK, I’m a lefty, but even I have to agree that’s a pretty stupid thing to call tea partiers. Not the best way to tone down the political rhetoric, either.

  24. geoffb says:

    Anarchists are now about passing out paper “bombs”, in solidarity.

  25. Entropy says:

    How can anarchists want rights?

    These people wouldn’t know social darwinism if it ate them.

    Watching these goobers espouse political ideology really strikes me as very much like watching a cargo cult run a ritualistic air force base.

  26. Hadlowe says:

    Oh, I get it. They’re anarchists in the sense that stuff doesn’t have to mean what it means anymore. If A is not A, then Anarchists can totally be statists. They’re not idiots, they’re post-anarchy Anarchists.

  27. guinsPen says:

    Obamacare, already at work in the 57 contagious states.

    Thank you, Mr. President!

  28. Alec Leamas says:

    Liberty, in the United States, has become synonymous with the protection of rights to own property. […] The concepts of freedom and private property, then, are at direct odds with each other.

    What is really neat about this is that it must always be forward-looking.

    From their own website there is an exhortation to take property from the wealthy by any means. One would assume that some anarchists will put more effort into the ‘taking’ than others, at which point one could imagine a dispute between anarchists about the respective rights the different anarchists have in the plundered property as a result of the differing levels of effort by each. Hilarity ensues.

  29. Joe says:

    Spamarchist? Guam is a top market for Spam. Hormel loves Guam.

  30. happyfeet says:

    that is very soft civil war I think

  31. geoffb says:

    Hilarity ensues.

    Or gunplay if they are serious.

  32. geoffb says:

    The end game of that which they pursue results in this:

    The True Horror or Soviet Internal Exile
    From Dissent to Docility

    By Victor Herman and Fred E. Dohrs

    [A part toward the end of the piece]

    Some time later, as he lay on his warm stove, he realized that he was no longer thinking like a dissident. He had become an exile, a Siberian working out his sentence, with few thoughts about anything except his very simple and uncomplicated routine existence. Nothing else really mattered. He realized he thought less and less about his family, and indeed he rerely heard from them now. There was almost no communication from his old friends, the handful of dissidents he had known, the old group.

    And rarely, anymore, did he think about any future beyond the years of his exile, which still stretched out before him. Returning to home and to do his old job–if he could get it back, which was unlikely–seemed so remote he could hardly even imagine it. And he knew that Moscow and Leningrad and the other big cities would undoubtedly be off-limits for him for the rest of his life.

    He was in a way, shocked by the nature and level of his thoughts. No longer the bright intellectual who had thought to change the Soviet system–the system that now provided him with the simple nesessities of his life. But he was intelligent enough to know what had happened to him over the months and years of his exile. He had been beaten by the Soviet system.

    He was no longer a dissident. He was not even against the regime anymore. They had beaten him, as they had beaten countless others before him. He could not admit, even to himself, that he had been broken by the system, That would be too much for the small part of his mind which still thought within the old frame of reference. It wouldn’t allow him to admit final defeat. To be broken would be degrading.

    […]

    Once again, the Soviet system had won over the dissident. They had stilled a dissident voice and gained a docile worker, willing to produce and live at a bare subsistance level. He needed no guards, no dogs, and no expensive non-productive apparatus. After all, he was “free”!

    Unless the prisoner was to be worked to death, the exile system was better and cheaper than slave labor.

    Ans in the outside world, almost no one knew or cared.

    Why should they change such an effective system?

  33. steph says:

    I think all of the anarchists ought to go to Guam. They could do some real damage. I hear it’s near its tipping point.

  34. Spiny Norman says:

    Anarchists? Only in the sense of a 2-year-old being told “no” and throwing a tantrum.

  35. geoffb says:

    Two typos “or” should be “of” in the title. next to last line should be “And”.

  36. LBascom says:

    I felt much dumber having read that second link, so I went and dug up some Sowell on Class:

    The new trinity among liberal intellectuals is race, class and gender. Defining any of these terms is not easy, but it is also not difficult for liberals, because they seldom bother to define them at all.

    The oldest, and perhaps still the most compelling, of these concerns is class. In the vision of the left, we are born, live, and die in a particular class — unless, of course, we give power to the left to change all that. […]

    Among men born in families in the bottom 25 percent of income earners only 32 percent end up in the top half of the income distribution. And among men born to families in the top 25 percent in income earners, only 34 percent end up down in the bottom half.

    So, a third of people starting at the bottom 1/4 end up in the top half, not a bad record.

    Part II

    Many comparisons of “classes” are in fact comparisons of people in different income brackets — but most Americans move up from the lowest 20 percent to the highest 20 percent over time.

    Yet those who are obsessed with classes treat people in different brackets as if they were classes permanently stuck in those brackets

    Part III

    The real chumps are those who refuse to start at the bottom for “chump change.” Liberals who encourage such attitudes may think of themselves as friends of the poor but they do more harm than enemies

    And don’t even get me started on the idea that; “The concepts of freedom and private property, then, are at direct odds with each other”…

  37. TheGeezer says:

    Organized Anarchists.

    Mmmmm. Nice meditation.

    AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

  38. JD says:

    Phase 1: Collect anarchists/leftists
    Phase 2: ????
    Phase 3: Profit

  39. Spiny Norman says:

    #37 LBascom,

    I was going to post something about the Left’s 19th century (mis)understanding of “class”, but Thomas Sowell says it much better than I could have.

  40. psycho... says:

    “anarchists”

    There aren’t many perfect words, and that was one of them. Sad to see its corpse dragged around. If lefties have been smart enough to murder and defile it on purpose, golf-clap for them.

    But I think our well-educated anti-anti-state student-fascist mob types just don’t know any other words that end in -archy, and they’re for that, so.

    STARCHY NOW!

  41. geoffb says:

    It is quite easy to stick 99% in a thoroughly equal, thoroughly “fair”, subsistence level. Thus will all be equal except for that 1% that needs to be more equal to run it all, for the “fairness”.

  42. happyfeet says:

    that was sad about the dissident what got undissidented… we’ll come to think of his kind as pioneers I suppose

  43. Abe Froman says:

    Sowell’s been making that point for ages but lefties are so emtionally invested in their economic ignorance that it doesn’t matter. I mean that scrunt Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a book – “Nickel and Dimed” – where she pretended to be a lowly wage slave while actually living in comfort and the book was praised to the heavens and became required reading on many college campuses. Some kid fresh out of college called bullshit on it, moved into a homeless shelter with no money or resume and starting with menial labor had a car, an apartment and money in the bank within a year. When he wrote a book about it he was dismissed as a fraud by the same types.

  44. mojo says:

    Property is Freedom
    Property is Theft
    Property is Impossible

    All 3 are true, at one and the same time.

    Don’t blame me. I just report ’em, I don’t make ’em up.

  45. LBascom says:

    OT, but I think this a fair assessment of Palin.

  46. LBascom says:

    More OT fair assessment, this time Bush and Rove.

  47. Alec Leamas says:

    I mean that scrunt Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a book – “Nickel and Dimed” – where she pretended to be a lowly wage slave while actually living in comfort and the book was praised to the heavens and became required reading on many college campuses. Some kid fresh out of college called bullshit on it, moved into a homeless shelter with no money or resume and starting with menial labor had a car, an apartment and money in the bank within a year. When he wrote a book about it he was dismissed as a fraud by the same types.

    I didn’t read it, but I recall that someone who did explained that every time Ehrenreich was on the verge of making a material improvement to her situation, she went and did something purposely stupid and designed to put her back in the hole, like buying magic beans or something – because that’s what poor people would do, of course.

    All this is without saying that there are, in fact, benefits to being “poor” that are never spoken about – one of which is not having to do shit all day. You realize this if you’ve ever been to the hood.

  48. Jim Ryan says:

    I’m going to the DC Tea Party on April 15. I will be very pleased to meet the members of the anarchist club. But one request:

    Please apply the patchouli perfume liberally and directly into each armpit before the occasion. Splashing it about on your neck and chest hides a lot of the marijuana odor, but doesn’t do much to control the BO, which is absolutely ghastly. And ladies, please give your twats a good two or three splashes of the stuff, otherwise you simply won’t be able to wrestle the overall stench to the ground.

  49. Rob says:

    Video of African American Congressman Emanuel Cleaver being spit on by white teabagger
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmP4Gb2pEsY

  50. Pablo says:

    And that cop standing right behind him doesn’t arrest the guy? How can that be?

  51. Jim Ryan says:

    Wrong link, Rob. That’s a video of a guy yelling in the Congressman’s face. Maybe some spittle flew. Who knows or genuinely cares? No one. Not even you.

    How do the balls taste, Rob?

  52. JD says:

    I love drive-by spam trolls

  53. bh says:

    Isn’t that video of a man about to spit on the whole country?

  54. sdferr says:

    Damn bh, well done. That’s the first I’ve seen the association expressed. And so fucking true.

  55. Pablo says:

    Isn’t that video of a man about to shit on the whole country?

    FTFY.

  56. Obstreperous Inifdel says:

    How unbelievably weak, Rob. Wow.

  57. JD says:

    You can tell when we have that kind of drive-by nonesense just by the name in the recent comments.

  58. NukemHill says:

    Well, if that is a racist teabagger spitting on the right honorable Congressman, then I’m clearly a racist teabagger, too. After all, I spewed on my screen when I saw the video, and the commutative process of racist teabaggery leaves little doubt that my intentions were totally focused on putting the uppity Congressman Cleaver back in his place.

    Whew. Thinking like a Lefty Douchebag is well nigh debilitating. Anyone bring the key to the liquor cabinet? I’m in need of a pick-me-up.

  59. Hadlowe says:

    If I was George Soros, I wouldn’t be wasting money on Media Matters types and minimum wage astroturf goons. You can hire a warehouse full of Chinese to farm fake gold in video games for a few dollars a day. It seems that using those resources would be a better way to bog down right wing blogs with equivalent product as that produced by gnats like Bob. Plus, as a bonus he would get to subsidize the most progressive government on earth.

  60. Mikey NTH says:

    How do anarchists organize?

  61. Old Texas Turkey says:

    Waiting for GE to come out with their medical scanners in “Anarchy Green”, Toyota to market their Prius in “Resistance Purple”, etc, etc.

    It is delightful when corporations adopt the moonbatty “cause du jour” and then pimp it to a bloody pulp to make a couple of extra bucks off it. Primarily selling it to the hip and shallow. (Witness the greening and carbon douching by your household Fortune 500 names). Tyler Durden’s soap making operation was a classic example of that (in reverse).

    Its like …. poetic justice or something.

  62. McGehee says:

    How do anarchists organize?

    Feet first?

  63. Hadlowe says:

    “If an anarchist deviates from anarchist dogma, who will punish the offender?” he asked rhetorically.

    Or, phrased another way, can you spell anarchist with a capital A?

    Perhaps I’m conflating the rejection of authority with a rejection of order, anarchy with chaos, but I see little to no distinction between the two ideas.

  64. Mikey NTH says:

    #46 LBascom:

    Okay – that picture of Palin accompanying the article is…damn. It just is.
    Time for a new Dark Lady of the Sith?

  65. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    There used to be a fine commenter in here that was a quazi-anarchist. Grey? Is that right? I liked a lot of what he had to say. He wasn’t like these tools who are so fucked in the head, they have no idea what they are or what they espouse. They just know “anarchy” sounds cool…But, really you would have to look high and low to find a bigger group of sheep than these clowns.

  66. Silver Whistle says:

    I think the esteemed psycho is also of that ilk, OI.

  67. Mikey NTH says:

    #66 OI: Most anarchists think anarchy sounds cool because it means no bed-time and they don’t have to eat their vegetables.

  68. Hadlowe says:

    Mikey NTH:

    I think there’s a “you might be a redneck” formulation in there.

    Most anarchists can never find the joke in “Anarchy rules!”

  69. Matty O says:

    I like how the anarchists are so manly and sure of themselves that they wear masks or wrap their heads in scarves.

    They are really cowards. Anarchists from the 1900’s would laugh at them while kicking their asses.

  70. Lazarus Long says:

    “Comment by Pablo on 4/1 @ 9:11 am #

    Worst. Anarchists. Ever.”

    Yeah.

    They’re organized.

  71. Lazarus Long says:

    They’re afraid the libertarians will stage a coup and….leave them alone.

  72. Lazarus Long says:

    “From their own website there is an exhortation to take property from the wealthy by any means.”

    Oh, they’re free-lance socialists.

    That explains a lot, then.

  73. Lazarus Long says:

    “Comment by Rob on 4/1 @ 11:30 am #

    Video of African American Congressman Emanuel Cleaver being spit on by white teabagger”

    Chrissy Matthews does worse than that just about every show.

    What’s the big deal?

  74. buzz says:

    “Liberty, in the United States, has become synonymous with the protection of rights to own property. […] The concepts of freedom and private property, then, are at direct odds with each other.”

    Quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read. Today anyway. Rule of law and property rights. No freedom without those two things. But then that’s why those anarchist throw trash around and break things. The actual owner will clean up after them.

  75. geoffb says:

    What the anarchists never seem to realize is that they are simply the minor opening act, hired cheap, for the show that Tyranny is the closing star of. Every. Fucking. Time.

  76. Ccs says:

    I toyed with the idea of becoming an anarchist, until I found out there were so many rules.

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