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The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald at DU:
Posted by woo me with science | Mon Jun 2, 2014, 12:04 AM (479 replies)
CUT THE CRAP! Your Month in Review from the most "progressive" administration ever.
Posted by woo me with science | Tue May 27, 2014, 12:40 PM (410 replies)
Wouldn't it be nice to have a REAL American Spring,
Posted by woo me with science | Sat May 17, 2014, 11:32 AM (50 replies)
One of the most surreal aspects of our new corporate crony politics.
Posted by woo me with science | Tue May 6, 2014, 12:57 PM (29 replies)
They are taking away our open highways
Posted by woo me with science | Thu May 1, 2014, 08:54 AM (265 replies)
These have got to be the saddest, most desperate talking points of all.
Honestly, the over-the-top Orwellian chutzpah would be funny if it weren't in the service of devastating millions. Psst....Third Way and Koch = the very same economic/war/police state policies and goals.
Hilarious. This is the second time I have seen this talking point today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4156659 Apparently the "propaganda machine" and its targets have been misidentified....In fact, we have had it all BACKWARDS! It is a jaw-dropping revelation, as alarming and earthshaking as the threads a week ago that revealed that impoverished Americans' rage at looters and profiteers is wholly justified, but that we have had the wrong target in our sights! We have tragically misidentified the REAL threat to us.....a cunning Goldstein by the name of....wait for it.... Glenn Greenwald. 
Yes, Greenwald is the REAL looter and profiteer that Americans need to fear. Not the tentacled NSA, not the rapacious One Percent, and certainly not the corrupt, purchased politicians who have been driving millions into poverty through predatory corporate policy. No, it is Greenwald. He has power!
And now thank god we have you and your compatriots to identify the REAL propaganda machine, too. Thank goodness you are here on a daily basis to defend the beleaguered NSA, the struggling global banks and corporations, the quivering and impoverished government of the United States, and the bedraggled One Percent against the Massive, Orchestrated Juggernaut of Propaganda being wielded against them by....poor Americans, Glenn Greenwald, and Julian Assange... (cough). Obviously the dramatic influx of pro-corporate, pro-police state, pro-Third Way, pro-everything One Percent mouthpieces at discussion sites across the internet has NOTHING to do with propaganda. It is merely a fluke of nature that they have swarmed into sites across the internet and shifted the political balance of DU and other discussion forums in just a few short months or years. It is merely an accident that they predictably and reliably swarm *every single discussion* that implicates this administration in the persecution of whistleblowers and journalists and assaults on the Constitution for the benefit of the One Percent. It is merely a bizarre accident that they evidence an influx and constant growth in their numbers that is unnatural to the point of being ridiculous**. And it is wholly a coincidence that they share a consistent set of rules and tactics for smearing liberals, disrupting liberal discussion, and fervently defending, minimizing, or denying *every single aspect* of the growing corporate authoritarian state. How in the world will the voiceless US government, the helpless surveillance and corporate media machine, and the defenseless banks and corporations of the One Percent *ever* hope to overcome the dread power of the vast propaganda machine wielded by the people against them?! __________________________________________ ** The influx will continue
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367 The goal of the propaganda across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801 |
Posted by woo me with science | Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:56 PM (2 replies)
Huge K&R. For the same reason we have trouble accepting
We simply fail to understand what the corporate-bankrolled Third Way understands: that the implementation of a corporate authoritarian state is a necessary incremental step in the long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long. long, long journey toward a liberal, compassionate future. They can't tell us people with limited smartness why. It's a secret. 
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Posted by woo me with science | Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:12 PM (2 replies)
+10000 Not only that, the threats were used to implement real austerity.
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And this TEMPORARY suspension of the threats, of course during an election year, and of course simultaneously repeating Republican lies about how the deficit will cause them to return in the future....is the obscene Third Way cherry on top. |
Posted by woo me with science | Thu Feb 20, 2014, 04:42 PM (6 replies)
Third Way Surreal: President seeks credit for election-year pause in his own hostage-taking.
He's *temporarily* removing, during an election year, the ax *he* suspends over our heads repeatedly as a tool to continue implementing vicious Third Way austerity.
'It will remain on the table."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=733502 You can't make this shit up. 
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Posted by woo me with science | Thu Feb 20, 2014, 02:42 PM (5 replies)
"It will remain on the table"
for exactly as long as the Third Way finds it useful to create hostage situations to justify other vicious austerity measures.
I see the predictable, dishonest Third Way lecturing has already begun upthread...the garbage suggestion that all these threats have somehow been merely decorative and haven't harmed a soul...
What a reeking load of bullshit. The manipulative threat of cutting Social Social Security is precisely *how* corporate Democrats have been able to inflict vicious austerity on Americans as effectively as they have. Without the threatened axe of Social Security cuts (which kept returning as the austerity kept escalating), they would never have been able to sell the vicious budget and social program cuts they HAVE inflicted on Americans...by justifying them as the lesser of two evils. If you had told us a few years ago that the Barack Obama administration would be presiding over government spending that assaults the poor even more viciously than the RYAN plan, we would never have believed it. Yet that is exactly where we found ourselves, surrounded by corporate mouthpieces exhorting us to be grateful "because he didn't cut Social Security." 
The cuts were offered by the President and put in his budget, and they have been used to inflict vicious austerity on millions of Americans. They *will* happen when the Third Way is finished using the threat of them to justify and implement all these other, very real, assaults. The Third Way are vicious, manipulative, Koch-funded vipers who have pulled this government and this party so far right over the past five years that the middle class is eviscerated. And now we have the Orwellian spectacle of a Democratic President making pretty speeches about income inequality while simultaneously keeping a plan to steal the subsistence checks of the poor "on the table" and fast-tracking a "trade agreement" that will hand national sovereignty to the corporations that will finish us off. These are not "centrists." These are corporatists hell-bent on looting this country into destruction. |
Posted by woo me with science | Thu Feb 20, 2014, 02:13 PM (0 replies)
