On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:22:01 +0000
Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote:
> I guess that's the ultimate propaganda success really - not being
> aware that your country is always at war, and pretty much always has
> been.
Yep. I'm not sure if I already linked this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705933/
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s07e01-im-a-little-bit-country
It's probably the best analysis of the 'american political
system' (and history) that I know.
(funnily enough. it's way better than anything that
professional political 'philosophers' say, including statist
'libertarians')
> War is the ultimate rejection and domination of the sovereignty
> of other nations and individuals. So a government having their
> nation's people thinking they're not at war, and most of the time have
> not been, is the fundamental delusion of and successful propaganda of
> despotism.
>
> Your 93% link is eye opening - I knew it was coup after coup (war
> after war) since WWII, but was not aware of how similar this was to
> pre-WWII. And it seems most 'Merrycans don't quite see it (yet?)
> either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology
> Z
>
> PS If anyone can get/ leak the real/ original British Queen Elizabeth
> II's (alleged) Christmas message from December 2015, that would be
> freakin punk! (That would be the one where she says "enjoy your last
> Christmas" if the allegation has any truth to it.) Any good high-brow
> British cp's round here? Onion links acceptable...
