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Post by ronnierocketago on Mar 31, 2009 15:16:43 GMT
But not controlled by people (as it should be). They ridiculed the idea that reckless, irresponsible financial speculation by the wealthy elite is the cause of this collapse, and obviously lent their support to the theory that it's the fault of the working people who wanted things they couldn't afford and jumped at the opportunity to have them. Fuck that poisonous shit. I would say its the fault of both, but hey you can't win political points by beating up the little (irresponsible) people, and the institutions that made a fortune taking advantage of them, like you would by say firing the CEO of General Motors. (Also RNL, what other politics did you expect from such dedicated gun-owning anti-authoratative libertarians?)
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Post by RNL on Mar 31, 2009 17:30:23 GMT
I wouldn't just fire the CEO of General Motors, I'd seize the entire company and all its assets, along with most of the personal assets of its executive staff, and put that immense consolidation of socially created wealth towards addressing social needs rather than lining the pockets of parasitic super-consumers.
And no, in no sense is the individual consumer responsible for the economic collapse. From a position of utter powerlessness the working person will take what table scraps they are offered, and if those table scraps take the form of reckless patterns of lending, that's not their fault.
And yeah, I know they describe themselves as 'libertarians'. That's why I'd like to see them stay away from politics, as they embarass themselves and leach the humour out of the show.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Apr 9, 2009 21:42:06 GMT
South Park creators given signed photo of Saddam Hussein During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series. The admission comes with the show's 13th season already running in the US. It will celebrate its 12th anniversary later this year. The show, which satirises a wide range of topics, including religion, sexuality and mental illness, has won a number of awards including three Emmys for Outstanding Animated Programme. Recent episodes have seen Barack Obama using his Presidential victory as a way to steal jewels from Washington in an Oceans 11-style heist. It also recently depicted the United States Treasury as deciding economic measures by cutting the head off a chicken and letting it run on a game show style board, landing on a decision. Stone, 37, said both he and Parker, 39, were most proud of the signed Saddam photo, given to them by the US Army's 4th Infantry Division. He said: "We're very proud of our signed Saddam picture and what it means. Its one of our biggest highlights. "I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the movie. "Over and over again – which is a pretty funny thought. "That's really adding insult to injury." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5122031/South-Park-creators-given-signed-photo-of-Saddam-Hussein.html
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Post by Michael on Sept 29, 2009 2:13:57 GMT
Ugh. I saw the "Go God Go" episodes recently, the ones in which Cartman travels to the future where religion doesn't exist, and yet the "Unified Atheist League" and "United Atheist Alliance" are at war. Criiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinge. Sheer idiocy.
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Post by Michael on Nov 4, 2009 5:44:13 GMT
Last 3 episodes were so great.
"See Stan, now they're normal, like us."
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