tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273106680115390577.post3479272458642482100..comments2023-04-17T04:47:08.364-05:00Comments on Another idiot with a blog: Liberal Atheist Rantings: The New Face of Conservatism in AmericaDavid Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252984252296113144noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273106680115390577.post-4465805538770675102009-10-07T00:58:43.231-05:002009-10-07T00:58:43.231-05:00Thanks. Your story is fascinating, and unfortunat...Thanks. Your story is fascinating, and unfortunately seems to illustrate some things that seem to be universal truths.<br /><br />1) Most people (I <i>know</i> this is true of Americans, and judging by your story we're not alone) don't dig into facts. They want the reader’s digest version (e.g. the short meme version). This allows others who know the facts to hide them behind slogans. This happens here primarily with Fox News, and it’s how these people get wound up. They don’t know the truth. If they did, they’d be marching for the opposite cause. The propagandists get people like this marching for exactly the cause that will do them the most harm. The poor marching against policies that will benefit the poor. Isn’t that insane? It’s like Martin Luther King speaking out against equal rights! This is how they do it, and their propaganda and slogans never hold up under the light of facts. Fortunately for them, very few people are interested in inconvenient things like facts.<br /><br />2) Those with money and power have the ability to make the most noise, and also usually have the most to hide. They hide the truth using memes and slogans. Over here, it’s “Socialized Heathcare” etc. etc. The people protesting socialized healthcare don’t even know what it means. If they did, they would want it. It’s not the billionaires out there marching. They’re the only ones benefitting from what we have now. Every other industrialized nation in the world has figured this out, but in America we glory in our own stupidity. <br /><br />Feel free to rant here any time you feel like (after all, I do ;))999https://www.blogger.com/profile/04293635142370193709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273106680115390577.post-45645652856378375072009-09-19T07:54:31.236-05:002009-09-19T07:54:31.236-05:00you know? your rant wins ;)
i was starting to fra...you know? your rant wins ;)<br /><br />i was starting to frantically think only in russia as always freedom of speech is used by mean ppl<br /><br />here's my 5 cents in sketching stupidity landscape<br /><br />so one day i woke up to learn from local corrupted newspaper that our new mayor is selling the city to chinese (?!)<br />those who've lived here long enough are aware that this newspaper is quite a trash, supporting bandits and anyone with money (as our previous mayor was)<br />but the thing'd happened - they've gone online (with money stolen from the city budget last year before the privious mayor got finally accused)<br />so the news got aggregated over the russian speaking part of the Internet<br /><br />and a lot of ppl thought that was true and to get to those ppl authors put the article with racist slogans in different online communities, and that worked pretty well :(<br /><br />but all the real material is online on the city hall official web-site but it's BIG 170 pages long with digits and grids and there's no word about China (except that it's our fast developing neighbor) - its a constructive document to present a way to revive our economics - but now everyone hates it (not even reading just from lame online article)<br /><br />so we have long text no one wants to read and provoking headline with fabricated scandal material inside and tones of phone calls from ppl with the following: we know you are hiding materials from us...<br /><br />cause it's kinda biological to think that there are some OTHERS that make our life miserable and there's HE/SHE/IT to get blamed for that<br />and this biological thing is used by advertisers, political technologers etc<br /><br />and it's so sad to see Internet that was a place for free thought become a place for brainwashing<br /><br />cause you know authority is evil and concealing by definition and journalists... are they holy? (i can't even type that bs about sold out typists)<br /><br />but information is the real power and journalists are those with tools, media, qualification and very often without heart and conscience<br /><br />i'm sorry it's not a rant it's kinda cry<br />but i can't rant at home - cause i work for that city hall and my words would look as if i'm paid for that and it all sounds paranoid and realy feels paranoid so i need just to get it out<br />and i still hope there are normal ppl who really want to build things not mass minds and they'll see through that really frustrating bssorrowparthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17376244183339004329noreply@blogger.com