We really aren't that far away from a military-backed Coup de Etat. Just need to piss off enough generals with massive military cuts.

Hey, it's what sparked Spain's pleasantries back in the 30's.

The track we're on, we won't need one...

In spite of BushCorp actively, and incorrectly, calling the insurgents/Al Qaeda/Saddam Hussein "Islamo-Fascists", fascisim is actually a form of military corporatism, where the country and its military are co-opted by the corporate/industrial complex and run for their benefit, rather than the benefit of the actual people who live in the country.

Why would the military stage a coup? Them and their corporate masters are already running the show. It's why we pay billions of tax dollars per week to keep the Contractor Army on track in Iraq...we can't just give them the money while they are here in the U.S., so we have a war, send all the contractors over there, and then give them the billions.

That is textbook fascism...at least we still have enough authority as the electorate to vote those assholes out of office.

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Todd

Thanks for the PoliSci 101, Todd.
Some of us have gone to college.


Speaking of which, how do you like China's shift from Maoism to Fascism?

To the ones who know what "fascism" is, no need to educate...that was for the ones who parrot BushCorp's "IslamoFascism" bullchit, some of whom also went to college, but conveniently forgot their Political Science fundamentals, including a bunch of dimwits who should konw better, like most of BushCorp.

It's too bad that most of their sheep don't know the difference, or more likely, don't care..."IslamoFascist" just rolls off the tongue so nicely!

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Todd

I don't know if China can be pigeonholed into any sort of standard political ideology...like the country, the politics there seems to be an odd mishmash of all kinds of stuff borrowed from all over the place...especially with the re-acquisition of Hong Kong.

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Todd

U.S. armed forces vs. Blackwater and the other "private security forces?"

Kinda makes stockpiling my own weapons start sounding more attractive.

Anyone know where a guy can get an RPG?

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Todd

This place is getting really scary now that we only have left wing nut jobs. Where are the right wingers to balance things out.
Yes the term "islamofacist" is dumb. There are some little points that meet such as a banding of one group against another and trying to put down anyone who does not agree by force but it does not make sense. This was a term used because it brings up all the pain from WWII and Mussolini/Hitler. Hitler was not a facsist govern by definition either but closer.
Now here we have our resident political nut job sounding off that we here are facsist. I ask if you know what facsism is nut job. Even with your ideology that is a stretch. Fascism has some basic points. First and formost.....it is a measure taken by one class against another to create strife and unrest. This is used to unite them against others in their own country to take over. As much as a few of the nut jobs want to say teh bible belt was united again the rest of us to take over the world to turn it to the worlds only true horrible religion....Chritianity. It would be more acurate to use the standard Dem arguement to say "the dirty rich are holding you down- unite you poor poor against them".
They also need ot be Chauvinstic. Yes, they do hold down those minorities and if you are not white in this country you stand no chance.....Forget affirmative action, welfare, grants for only minorities, free hospital care for the poor of all races,........the list goes on and on but they stand no chance. At least that is what many that need their vote want them to believe.
They should be Imperialistic and take all from other to enrich themselves......Well that is self explanitory. We take over other countries for their oil and run there governments. Lets just look at how profitable it has been for all of us imperialists. Our economy has skyrocketted......a damn boondoggle I tell ya.
They also fuse business and government together. O'wait....that was teh dems that want to control profits and think they can run things better.
I think I will start stockpiling some weapons if the next party in power has to many that think the way some here do. Bring back Aunty to balance things here please.

I didn't say we live in a fascist state...but we're closer to it than the RWWJ's use of "IslamoFascist", as none of the ones we're fighting are Fascists, or anything even remotely close...by definition.

The rest of your post is right wing babble.

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Todd

Already got a good stockpile of arms & ammunition. Good there. Don't come knocking if you aren't on the list.

The thing that confuses me who are the NEOCONS? Are they the good robots that change into cars, trucks and planes, or the bad robots that change into cars, trucks and planes? All these labels are so confusing.

The NEOCONS are the bad ones who turn the military into the PR wing of their pet corporations.

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Todd

Mmmmmmm, ..... back bacon

Do you know why there were never any jokes about Jonestown?

Because the punch line was too long.

Die thread, die.

All threads are better with Back Bacon!

Mmmm, back bacon....

Thanks Mike!

You might not believe this, but when bwp calls me "certifiable", that's about as much of an affirmation that I need.

Carry on, Sane One.





































I kid.








































Yer not sane.










































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Todd

I knew that sooner or later, we'd find at least one thing we have in common!

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Todd

P.S. That might be the only thing, though

I think we have plent of faux-centrist autobots...no need to actually recruit more.

Actually, as I said in the thread that hastened AuntyM's departure, I think she should "man up" and stay around...but realize that there are many who think JLH's offensive post was over the line, myself included, but well-deserved, and act accordingly.

Unfortunately, I think that, in spite of her faux-centrist non-PC stance, the decidedly un-PC, but accurate tone of JLH's post sent her scurrying.

You can't have it both ways...if you pretend to be a non-PC faux-centrist, then you can't complain when you are treated like one.

Such it is, as the PP World Turns...but you have to admit, the fact that there are "men" praying for a woman to allow them to return to "manhood" kind of defeats the whole purpose of their "faux-manhood"...

What a tangled web they weave...

What's the rest of that phrase?

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Todd

This has nothing to do with O-Bots, or racism...this is just a couple of simple facts about the world of PP on the Dark Side...Aunty made her own bed, and rather than lie in it, she ran.

I think you're likely man enough to manage without her...

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Todd

What exactly is it that makes white, supposedly well educated liberals hate their country so....?