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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:37 AM
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VIDEO - Olbermann covers Fascist Francis Fukuyama
Neo-Coservatism is to Apple Pie as Fascism is to Apple Strudel.

FUCK YOU Fukuyama! ... insert Chinese proverb here_________________.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Fukuyama-on-Coun.mov

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:51 PM
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1. kick
It's worth watching.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 01:53 PM
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2. Where is it?
I can't find it.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:37 PM
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4. D'OH!
It didn't load the first time.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:09 PM
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3. Francis Fukuyama is Japanese
Guess his family got full bellies and great jobs as kapos for selling out the others in the internment camps. There's always someone willing to say and do anything for a job in the master's house.

What a disgrace.

What I find so dispicable is that loudest voices defending Bush's most reprehensible policies are minorities seemingly trying to curry favor from whites in power by trading their souls for a few crumbs from the master's table: Powell, Rice, Gonzalez (Torture Memo), Dinh (author of Patriot Act)and now Fukuyama (neo-con shithead!). Belefonte was right. And these people are worse than their white counterparts for their collaboration with their oppressors.

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:51 PM
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5. Yes, Belefonte was right, and inspired this:

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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:53 PM
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6. add Michelle Malkin
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:55 PM by bobbieinok
from the internet--the free dictionary

Mal´kin
n. 1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.
3. A scarecrow.
4. (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:10 PM
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8. LOL!
I gotta get a high res photo of her hideous face so I can vandalise it! :D
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:06 PM
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7. a review of one of Fukuyama's books
http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4411712-99939,00.html

A penny for his thoughts
Francis Fukuyama was wrong about history. His ideas on science in Our Posthuman Future aren't worth much more

Peter Conrad
Sunday May 12, 2002

Observer

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama


....

The fuss he makes about the chemically-modified brains of people on Prozac is even sillier. Living in the puritanical US, he may not know that people have smoked, drunk alcohol and taken drugs for centuries, using whatever potions were available to tinker with their moods. It's bad for some, and not for others; our species is tough, but it's pompous nonsense to decry those who are weaker as less than human.

Worse than that, it may be viciously prejudicial. The Nazis categorised those they disapproved of as subhuman, just as Fuyukama stigmatises certain groups as posthuman: in an ugly jest, he warns that 'computer geeks in AI labs who think of themselves as nothing more than complex programs and want to download themselves into a computer should worry, since no one would care if they were turned off for good'.

There's his pseudo-scary motif again. Just why, I wonder, does he want to make us worry? I managed to preserve my equanimity until the end of his book. But now, to be honest, I do feel a certain dread. What worries me is that Fukuyama, who at best can proficiently fillet someone else's ideas, has been widely mistaken for a thinker.


(I'm sure someone has said this before...Fukuyama=f*** you)
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:12 PM
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10. Fukuyama might be right about Prozac...
:D



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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:32 PM
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11. That is the scariest Pickles pic yet!! Priceless!
Those eyes follow you around the room, and the green reptile skin glows like a radioactive cloud!

:rofl:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:40 PM
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12. Excellent!
You are the first person to pick up on those finer details. ;)


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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:11 PM
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9. Did you hear Fukuyama flogging his new book on NPR yesterday morning?
At one point he admitted that worldwide opinion of the US is "unbelievably low."

REAP WHAT YOU SOW, DUDE.
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