I don’t know much about how practical fascism works, but this seems almost as if it could serve as an object lesson, were one willing to, you know, squint…
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>I don’t know much about how practical fascism works
It works much like the military, and for the same reasons.
I’ll opine that this is why US service members tend to be among the least “modern liberal” segment of society. Having seen what you have to set aside under the UCMJ to make an authoritarian system work,
(in the idealized case of self-selecting, young, physically healthy citizens)
they know that the current administration and the people that voted it in are daft, daft, daft.
Cheers,
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Jeff, for an advanced primer on this sort of payoff, see Mayor Daley, Jesse Jackson and a certain Anheuser Busch distributorship being awarded…
Hey, Michael Moore. Put down your sandwich and pick up your camera. The NLPC has a big scoop for you.
Ford didn’t take TARP, their bailout money came in 2006. I think, unless something changed since early March. I could be wrong.
Anyway, pointing out stuff like this is just so unhelpful.
Ford’s financial support for Sharpton places into doubt the judgment of Ford executives. I can think of no expenditure farther removed from the core mission of saving the company and the American auto industry than bankrolling Sharpton.
Well, I don’t know… “Nice little auto company you’ve got here. Shame if it were to get hit with a few frivolous racial discrimination lawsuits…”
I’m kidding, it’s not unhelpful, stuff like this cheeses me off. They want to stay on good terms with Obama because he’s threatening too all-in on the greenhouse bullshit. If they don’t get the re-tooling loans, they aren’t going to be able to make the mandated switch, if they appease The One by kissing up to Sharpton, maybe they can put off the “Green Initiative” for a bit. Either way, they’re fucked.
Do any of the rest of you guys ever wonder if the whole green movement isn’t just an attempt to cut the balls off of Big Oil? War by proxy and all that.
The prominence of Sharpton is a classic example of the latent racism on the left. He’s a special, protected creature because the black community is too “stupid and impotent” for polite society to hold any of its leaders to even basic standards. Hell he ran for elected office in New York while living in New Jersey and nudge/wink that wasn’t even an issue since he wasn’t really going to win. There’s literally no explanation for his having any standing other than the demented paternalistic racism that characterizes the left. This ain’t fascism, it’s just a clown show and corporations have been falling for it for quite some time now.
This is worse than socialism, it’s DIRTY. At least USSR residents knew who to blame. This is socialism with a private sector front, to serve as a whipping boy/food taster.
Now I need a shower.
“Comment by Sticky B on 4/7 @ 12:59 pm #
Do any of the rest of you guys ever wonder if the whole green movement isn’t just an attempt to cut the balls off of Big Oil? War by proxy and all that.”
Global Warming is the biggest fraud ever attempted. I was a supporter of Sen. Fred Thompson in large part because he was the only presidential candidate that was brave enough to point out that the temperature of earth has varied at the same rate as Mars (that plus his common sense approach to GITMO). Many people said he didn’t have the “fire in the belly” required, but I would rather have had someone with principles over a someone that is big on campaigning.
Sticky B, if “Big Oil” has such a lock on things, buy shares. Then you can run teh world!!!
Many people said he didn’t have the “fire in the belly†required…
Mostly the press said that. One of the most depressing things about the last election was the bullshit catch 22 the media pulled on Thompson without anyone seeming to notice.
They didn’t cover him because he wasn’t serious, and they could tell he wasn’t serious because no one was covering him.