Comments on: Words, They Are A-Failin’ Me

By: Socraticsilence

Socraticsilence — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:40:11 +0000

Wait a minute, the Nazi’s primary expression in terms of the military and foreign Policy was a strong armed forces and an expansionist military, does that mean that anyone supporting an expansionist military is a fascist, and if so does Jonah address the issues this raises vis a vis Israel, and to a lesser extent the United States?

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:00:36 +0000

Um that sounds better as “first half of the 40’s”.
I’d been at the pub, OK?

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:28:25 +0000

Funny thing is, Strangefate, “fascism” is already a word! It’s already got, like, a definition and everything
And there are people who spend the second half of the 1940s under the impression that they were fighting it! Some of them are my friends; some of them are my relatives in the old country.
Now some of the regular commentors on S,N! [the name of D. Sidhe comes to mind] have proposed that Mr Goldberg is not inherently an unmitigated chundernozzle scumbucket . They have suggested that perhaps he is just a weak-willed kid who is following the path of least resistance; and in an alternative universe where he was swapped at birth and grew up in a different environment, he could have grown up to fill some socially-beneficial, non-toxic niche, possibly involving the flipping of burgers. So I have tried to emulate D. Sidhe’s example of humanism and sympathy. But after the extracts from Goldberg’s book, this is not easy.

By: zsa

zsa — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:49:47 +0000

Funny thing is, Strangefate, "fascism" is already a word! It's already got, like, a definition and everything. Seriously, I looked it up. So, yeah, kind of odd that Jonah saw fit to implicitly redefine it, apparently as a rough synonym for "government", or perhaps for "government Jonah disagrees with".

By: El Cid

El Cid — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:45:23 +0000

It’s cute to think there might be a thesis to Jo’berg’s scribblings.

By: g

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:33:09 +0000

The real thesis is “We are all of us Nazis.”

No no no no no. I have to correct this.

“The real thesis is “We are all of us Nazis except me [Jonah Goldberg]”

And his friends. And his mom.

By: porndog

porndog — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:52:55 +0000

You just might be a Nazi if…you didn’t eat any Cheetos in the past month.

By: Strangefate

Strangefate — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:47:31 +0000

Out of curiosity does Jonah actually define the word “fascist” at any point in his book? Because I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what fascism entails from these passages. Apparently a fascist is anyone who promotes a national policy of any kind…and yet one can also be individually fascist by doing such things as exercising, eating vegetables, or criticizing Jonah Goldberg.

This book is wonderfully postmodern. The real thesis is “We are all of us Nazis.” Anything you do, no matter how seemingly innocuous, is in fact directly comparable to gassing thousands of Jews. The only people who aren’t modern day Nazis are apparently Jonah Goldberg, ‘compassionate’ conservatives (IE mythical creatures akin to unicorns), and skinheads/Klansmen.

BTW – Was Hitler sufficiently liberal to be a Nazi? I’m no longer certain…

By: gbear

gbear — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:37:16 +0000

Oops. Two threads above.

By: gbear

gbear — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:34:03 +0000

SEK, it’s even worst than you thought. He whispered them in the thread above this one too. The cad is playing with the affections of multiple partners in the same household. I even responded to him up there. I feel so cheap. ::sob::

By: SEK

SEK — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:22:48 +0000

Oh Michael Blaine, I thought you were mine own. I mean, when you whispered those same sweet nothings in my ear, I thought it meant we were meant for each other. To see you write the same thing here makes me think you didn't mean it ... and that stings, dude, it stings to the bone.

By: JR

JR — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:12:46 +0000

You know what else liberals and nazis liked? Breathing! And blinking! I even heard that for a few hours each day both would lie dormant in their beds in an unconsciously fascist stupor!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:01:16 +0000

I have an unhealthy addiction to Starbucks peppermint mocha frappucino’s, Vicky’s potato chips, and Ben and Jerry’s half baked ice cream, but I prefer my (veggie) burgers and fries homemade.

By: g

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:52:56 +0000

I have a rather sick and unhealthy liking for Arby’s [sob - don't hate me].

By: gbear

gbear — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:46:04 +0000

Lesley, I personally could not exist in a world without Dairy Queens.

By: gbear

gbear — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:43:45 +0000

‘D’ is for ‘diploma’.

So do they also say ‘C’ is for ‘Carma’?

By: emm

emm — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:41:08 +0000

Bradrocket, my blogcrush on you continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Work it!!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:39:37 +0000

Here's the Jonah Goldburger - Jumbo size. It's hard to get the face to look like part of the burger so it's not a great effort.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:18:06 +0000

I live in Canada! Of course there are hundreds of McDonald’s “restaurants” but other chains – like Burger King, Dairy Queen, A&W, and Wendy’s – are few and far between. I’ve only seen one Wendy’s in my city and that one I pass on the road maybe three times a year.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:58:45 +0000

Leslie: I am a veggiefeminazianimalwelfaristfascist my own self, yet where I live there is no way to avoid the ubiquitous fast-food iconography, not to mention the nauseating seared-contaminated-flesh stench that emanates from their greasy putrid eyesore storefronts. How do you avoid it? I would love to know.