Where’s vimothy when you need him?

A Wankstain, the very modern model of a Major fucking Wankstain,

can’t somebody please make a youtube video of themselves sobbing “leave Jonah alooooone!!!” while his mascara runs?

You know, I’m working on a book about conservative pedophilia. Now, conservative pedophilia differs from classical pedophilia in many ways. I don’t deny this. Indeed, it is central to my point.

I’m naming my new band “Jonah and the Wails”

Hey, I copyrighted that, so no stealing.

Are pedophilia (conservative or classical) and homophilia legal in Philadelphia? See they all have Phila (or philia, whatever, quit nitpicking) in the word so they must be all the same.

Those mundane parallels are a bitch.

Except for the “being bad” part. That is central to my point. That liberals are bad. Yes some people thought classical fascists were bad. But that is not my point. My point is that they are both bad, especially the Liberals, and maybe Classical Fascists. That is central to my point — which is that the part of how people thought about the Classical Fascists — as being bad — is also true of Liberals, maybe even more so, that is, when they are being thought about, people should think of them as bad. That is central to my point.

Jesus fuck. I was just about to tack something on to the last thread about how fun it was going to be to count how many times Jonah backs off or waffles or otherwise accepts the blows like a Bozo Bop Bag, not even counting the ridiculous takeback on the book’s flap.

At least Dinesh stands up for his arguments. Jonah can’t even assert them without acknowledging his failure.

What a weakling.

Conservative Facts differ from classical facts in many ways. I don’t deny this. Heh, indeed, it only strengthens my point.

I’m afraid to ask, but is there anything in-context with that phrase to make it even a little less mind-bogglingly stupid?

Jonah want a SAMMICH!!!!

I believe hemophilia may be legal in Philadelphia, so your point is made. Now, liberal hemophilia differs from classic hemophilia in many ways. I don’t deny this.

I’m afraid to ask, but is there anything in-context with that phrase to make it even a little less mind-bogglingly stupid?

Honestly, not really.

The weird thing is, Conservative idiocy differs from classical idiocy not at all. I wonder why.

Are pedophilia (conservative or classical) and homophilia legal in Philadelphia? See they all have Phila (or philia, whatever, quit nitpicking) in the word so they must be all the same.

OMG. I just realized that this guy I know with a really fancy stereo must get off on bleeding profusely and having sex with the dead! Typical liberal audiophile hemophiliac necrophiliac.

I always thought classic hemophilia was an affliction affecting Hapsburgs and other royals, thus being PRE-revolutionary.

In the entire book does he actually mention WHO are the victims of “Liberal Fascism”?

How did you do that, Brad? The picture in the comments?

C’mon, owlbear, JONAH is the victim. Sheesh.

Haha, jiu-jitsu! The weakness of my argument is it’s strength!

Er, I mean, Gavin…

The Cult of Action?

All the hip young things Trying to make a scene, Living out forbidden dreams. Star spangled banner Flutters in the sky Time hustles those
Who wait to die.

Hippies, everydamn one of them.

owlbear1… Liberal fascism is made out of PEOPLE!

“mmmmmmmmmmmm soylent GREEN. My FAVORITE.” – Jonah Goldberg

In the entire book does he actually mention WHO are the victims of “Liberal Fascism”?

Conservatives.

Italians are not Germans? I must do some thinking about this.

Fascisms differ from each other because they grow out of different soil

I think Jonah confused terror and terroir.

Folks, we’re just at Act I, Scene 1 of this farce. Imagine what the whole rollout will be like. Just for a little foretaste: imagine the NY Times review. It’s certain to be, like the Chris Caldwell smackdown of one of Coulter’s books, assigned to a house-broken conservative pundit. But far sadder: unlike Coulter, Goldberg once aspired to sit at the grown-ups’ table. Said hapless house-broken conservative will have to choose between salvaging Goldberg’s reputation (by defending or nuancing the book, saying it’s a satire even though that’s not a defensible reading), or salvaging his own and those of “sensible” conservatives (by evaluating without pity the book’s main argument).

The bright line won’t be between left and right on this, but between the crazy right and the uncrazy right (though most of the latter will sensibly, if cravenly, only comment on Goldberg’s book if it is absolutely unavoidable). At the end of it all, Goldberg will be the most widely derided figure in all of punditry. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Goldberg: “what I call the totalitarian temptation”

As if he came up with the term.

That’s pronounced tear-wah. Not to be confused with the WAR on terroir.

Ouch, as plagiarism rears it’s ugly head.

Italians are not Germans? I must do some thinking about this.

Not if you’re Jonah, you don’t. “The Holocaust could not have happened in Italy because the Italians are not Germans.” Nuff said. No reason to delve any further. That requires reason and -(ouch)- work. It might get in the way of shallow thinking and making mundane parallels. It might delay the publication another 5 (or 20) years.

The Holocaust could not have occurred in Italy, because Italians are not Germans.

Please. Stop. Now. Please Stop.

Gerbils are NOT dildos. This is VERY important.

So, hopefully somebody will render this classic work of American philosophy in PDF form so we can search it word for word.

Mainly because I’ll win a bet if I can find the words “and stuff” anywhere in the text.

Therefore Richard Gere isn’t gay. It was a totally heterosexual gerbil.

I want to try!

The Crusades could not have occurred in Australia, because Australians are not Crusading Knights.

More Goldberg: “And in America, where hostility to big government is central to the national character…”

And here we have a hint of what Goldberg is really aiming at. This book is his contribution to the continuing right-wing assault on the welfare state. Like the classical liberal bullshitters and the Constitution in exile freaks, Goldberg wants to throw whatever dung he can at the post-1929 state to see what sticks, with the hope of chipping away at the state’s active role in safeguarding national economy and society from the violent vicissitudes of market capitalism.

Liberal fascists aren’t fascists at all. They’re LIBERAL!!!

(you can almost hear the squeaky cogs turning in his head when you read statements like that.)

Conservatives and fascists colluded and plotted with Nazi Gemany prior to WWII.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/09/conserva-traitors-hall-of-shame.html

Liberals fought the Axis Powers. It all makes sense now. Jonah wins. We are all fascists now and WWII was just a very bloody case of two groups of fascists squabbling over who gets to wear the boots.

This is actually central to my point.

Hmm … let’s try this.

because fascism is all about guvmint, and librulls in U.S. America oppose eliminating guvmint, therefore …

ahhhh ….

[head starts leaking, rots, turns to puddle of brown liquid]

“Fascisms differ from one another”

?

He couldn’t write “fascist systems” or “movements”? Well, as my (self-evidently Fascist) Union man Granddad used to say, “Capitalisms are all run by jackasses.”

Aiyeee…

Being a moron only strengthens Jonah’s Fruit of the Loom 38w waistband while he eats an entire pie.

Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways. But, liberal fascism is kind of like ancient fascism. It’s really quite close to high middle ages fascism, but way way way different from late antique fascism. Renaissance fascism, not so much. Postmodern fascism, lots! And revolutionary fascism is liberal fascism exactly.

Did I mention that Woodrow Wilson was the original fascist? (Though he stole all the ideas from Robespierre and Danton.)

I find it disturbing that I can google some of these statements and discover the sources for the Pantloads work.

This swill from the pantload isn’t about fascism, it’s about what he and others on the right deem Anti-Americanism.

I guess I should ask Gavin if the Pantload does in fact mention that phrase.

Jonah really is a moron. Stunningly stupid. He must have spent the advance on mallomars and Mountain Dew and had to come up with something and just didn’t care.

This is still one of the best web based disccusions of fascism, IMHO:

http://www.cursor.org/stories/fascismintroduction.php

Jonah is the Carl Linnaeus and Edward O. Wilson of fascism taxonomy.

Fascisms differ from each other because they grow out of different soil.

Should I plant my fascism bulbs in the fall or spring? In bunches or in rows? Will they crowd out my tulips and daffodils?

It is central to my point that Jonah Goldberg is an expert on fatcysts and fatcystems.

(From the further sections provided by Gavin)

Gee. A belief that one can “tinker” and create a “utopia.”

So by Jonah Gurglepant’s own definition, people who think they can import democracy through invasion or make America a Perfect Christian Nation by never talking about sex, stomping on gays and lesbians, teaching creationism in school and screaming blue murder when the check out clerk says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” are fascists.

i think i read in goldberg/brick’s book that somewhere in eastern africa, around 50,000 years ago or so, some hunter-gatherer turned to another and grunted “me want society to run on proto-fascist principles!”

that hunter-gatherer’s last name? clinton.

Hello. I am gbear and I am an audiophile.

“Hello, gbear”.

I’ve been trying to stop, ::sigh:: ,but I just can’t keep myself out of the record stores. New vinyl, used vinyl, CDs, even box sets and reissues for gawd sake! My cats are having to get by on table scraps. My wardrobe looks like ’80s Seattle ::sob:: I’ve tried to cut back to just listening to public radio, but it’s just not the same ::sniffle::

Thank you all for your support and help. I don’t know what I’d do otherwise. That’s all for now.

I’m partial to cubist and rococco fascism. Others prefer their fascism baroque.

Jonah is the Carl the greenskeeper of …… hey wait…… Jonah is aGAINST taxonomy. See, LIBRULS are all for raising taxonomies. And that’s fascist. So THERE.

My fascism is baroquen.

Please tell me this litter box liner of a “book”won’t make it onto a best seller list,anywhere. Please.

Jesus what a nitwit.

Hey Gavin, does he mention a chap named Joshua P. Hochschild? I found an essay with the same title and premise of Jonah’s meaty tome.

Too lazy to do the ahref thing:

http://politics.propeller.com/story/2007/10/19/liberal-fascism-a-short-essay/

The Plains Indians were fascists in that the smoke went out of a central hole in the teepees, rather than being allowed to freely circulate according to market forces.

The fact is, liberals are anti-AMerican, therefore fascist. America has never been facist, and never will. We have a mission from God to democratize the world, and we are doing fine, until liberals sap our will and strength. They are just like Nazis, liberals, and I don’t like them.

This book will soon be seen as a staggering break of heartworking genies.

Jonah is just doing the Reader’s Digest version of John J. Ray’s schtick:

http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/2003_10_05_dissectleft_archive.html

Leaving out all the big words.

Gary Ruppert, real or faux, is boring.

So, on a serious level, what’s the right approach for this? The book has the possibility (however remote) of shifting, ever so slightly, the playing field — in the same way that “when did you stop beating your wife?” forces the candidate to address wife-beating.

Education? Mocking? Relentless countering? The book is on-the-face preposterous and not even because liberals have to list why we’re not fascists, but because it’s a hypothesis based in complete absurdity. It’s like trying to address why the moon isn’t made of green cheese.

There’s some small solace in the whiplash his idiot readers might feel calling us fascists after a lifetime of calling us Marxists, but that’s the thing with totalitarians — they have no historical memory. And that’s the problem.

Pantload actually wrote the alleged word, “fascisms,” which of course is central to my point that … that uh, um ….

heartworking genies

Yike! that sounds like some kind of tapeworm thingy. I don’t want.

. Like Gary said: God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.

So, on a serious level, what’s the right approach for this?

Amazon reviews. I look forward to all of yours. And the General’s.

Wait a minute. I’m a lightweight compared to you guys intellectually, but even I’m not as stupid as Jonah.

what unites [fascisms]… are… the quest for community, the urge to “get beyond” politics, a faith in the perfectability of man and the authority of experts

ALL this, and more:

the aesthetics of youth, the cult of action and the need for the all-powerful state…..snore…..

This is like Sesame Street – “one of these things doesn’t belong!”

So, as I read it, there are mundane parallels not only between liberalism and fascism, but also between Fascism and:

Christian Churches, Alcoholics Anonymous, fraternal organizations, the Masons, Longaberger Basket salespeople, and Neighborhood Block Associations – by virtue of their “quest for community”

Steven Covey, Author of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” – by virtue of his belief in the perfectability of people

Nickelodeon TV, Paris Hilton, Harajuku, and Toys R US – by virture of the embrace of the Aesthetics of Youth

Ted Nugent, action picture director James Cameron, Monster Truck Rallies and Extreme Sports – by virtue of the Cult of Action (!!!!)

The bit about authority of experts is too idiotic. As opposed to what, one queries? The authority of ignoramuses?

“The fact is, liberals are anti-AMerican, therefore fascist. ”

This is what happens when trolls over-reach.

I asked for context. I’m genuinely sorry I asked. I’ll go back, re-read and snark after my taco salad lunch (horray for Taco Salad Tuesdays at the cantina!) but Gavin, you have my honest and geniune respect for submersing yourself in the ocean of stupid that is J. Goldberg’s Magnum Opus. And by ‘magnum opus’, I mean the really big condom that cartoon penguin must wear, because some that Opus differs from other opuses (opi?) in many ways, which is central to my point.

Should I plant my fascism bulbs in the fall or spring? In bunches or in rows? Will they crowd out my tulips and daffodils?

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a daffodil waving in a human face–forever.

Didja know that Tom Wolfe loves Jonah’s book on fatcysts?

Tom Wolfe on Liberal Fascism [Jonah Goldberg]

Since the buzz is starting, I thought Corner readers might be interested in what Tom Wolfe had to say about the book:

“In the greatest hoax of modern history, Russia’s ruling “socialist workers party,” the Communists, established themselves as the polar opposites of their two socialist clones, the National Socialist German Workers Party (quicknamed “the Nazis”) and Italy’s Marxist-inspired Fascisti, by branding both as “the fascists.” Jonah Goldberg is the first historian to detail the havoc this spin of all spins has played upon Western thought for the past 75 years, very much including the present moment. Love it or loathe it, “Liberal Fascism” is a book of intellectual history you won’t be able to put down—-in either sense of the term.”
—Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am Charlotte Simmons

12/18 11:54 AM

We have a mission from God to democratize the world, and we are doing fine, until liberals sap our will and strength.

Whoopsie, Gary showed up just in time! There’s that faith in the perfectability of man, the need for the all powerful state to coordinate society on a global level.

Not to mention the Cult of Action!!!

Genocide could not have occurred in Turkey, because Turks are not Germans.
Genocide could not have occurred in Rwanda, because Rwandans are not Germans.
I think I’m getting the hang of it.

Much as James Taylor can’t refuse to play ‘Fire and Rain,’

Oh, just plain fuck you for getting THAT ONE stuck in my head.

Where are all my old Slayer™ cassettes?
.

So, on a serious level, what’s the right approach for this?

I bet my rawhide chew that Tweety uses a quote from the book to preface a question to a democrat before IA and NH make their choices.

we are doing fine, until liberals sap our will and strength

Interesting use of the narrative present, characteristic of stream of consciousness writing in between bouts of snorting rails of meth off of a gay prostitute’s ass.
.

I think Jonah is looking ahead to the inevitable day when an unpopular war no longer divides the prowar and antiwar factions of the right and a “liberal fascist” is in the WH. Then the power of the state will be “baaad” again.

Tom Wolfe is a moron? I did not noe.

Now you dew.

The bit about authority of experts is too idiotic. As opposed to what, one queries? The authority of ignoramuses?

Don’t you get it?

This is why the Dear Leader refused to listen to the experts on such topics as Iraq’s WMD (or lack thereof), Bin Laden’s determination to attack in the U.S., Iran’s nuclear program, global warming, the general direction of Hurricane Katrina, evolution, Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the nature of waterboarding, and the long-term solvency of Social Security.

Turns out that listening to experts is fascist.

Thank you for defending our freedoms, Mr. President!

I think Sweden almost happened in Denmark. I know it was close.

Tom Wolfe from Wiki:

Wolfe is a fan of George W. Bush and voted for him for President in 2004, due to what he calls Bush’s “great decisiveness and willingness to fight.” (Bush, in turn, reciprocates the admiration, having read all of Wolfe’s books.[12]) After this fact emerged in a New York Times interview, Wolfe said that the reaction in the literary world was as if he had said “I forgot to tell you – I’m a child molester”. Because of this incident he sometimes wears an American flag pin on his suit, which he compared to “holding up a cross to werewolves [sic]”. [13]

Asked to comment by the Wall Street Journal on blogs in 2007, to mark the tenth anniversary of their advent, Wolfe wrote that “the universe of blogs is a universe of rumors,” and that “blogs are an advance guard to the rear.” He also criticized Wikipedia, which he said “only a primitive would believe a word of”, noting a story about him that was in his Wikipedia entry at the time, which he said never happened.

Jonah Goldberg is a historian? I can haz tenyur now kthxbai.

Tom Wolfe says Jonah is a historian. I says that I is a astronomer. If you don’t agree you are a fatcyst.

RodeoBob: opera.

I get it, Americans are hereditary anti-statists, so fascists have to trick the electorate into having a good government by pretending to be pragmatic and decent.

Anti-fascists, however, try to convince the people NOT to have a powerful government by being ruthlessly power-hungry and mind-bogglingly incompetent. They were trying to fail all along – like the Producers, only the “show about a show” part cancelled itself out so its for real.

I guess I does now – I would have known sooner but I don’t spend a lot of time at NRO.

Wolfe and Goldberg, bringing us teh fictions.

great decisiveness and willingness to fight?

He’s a moron.

Most of all they share the belief – what I call the totalitarian temptation – that with the right amount of tinkering we can realize the utopian dream of “creating a better world”.

Note the totalitarian utopian dream here is NOT to create a perfect world but, rather, the simple attempt to make a better world.

I was going to go into romanticism versus rationalism vis-a-vis the history of fascism… but fuck it.

“In the greatest hoax of modern history, Russia’s ruling “socialist workers party,” the Communists, established themselves as the polar opposites of their two socialist clones, the National Socialist German Workers Party (quicknamed “the Nazis”) and Italy’s Marxist-inspired Fascisti, by branding both as “the fascists.”

Fail.
.

Most of all they share the belief – what I call the totalitarian temptation – that with the right amount of tinkering we can realize the utopian dream of “creating a better world”.

I applaud Jonah for not attempting to make the world any better in any way and indeed working hard for the opposite goal.

Fascisms differ from each other because they grow out of different soil.

So does that make Turdblossom some kind of a fascist too?

Sorry, a fascism.

“American Idol” could never be produced in Italy, because Italians are not Americans.

How’s that for a first try?

So, on a serious level, what’s the right approach for this? The book has the possibility (however remote) of shifting, ever so slightly, the playing field — in the same way that “when did you stop beating your wife?” forces the candidate to address wife-beating.

It’s tricky. In a way, the merits of Goldberg’s arguments (such as they aren’t) don’t really matter. The acceptance of an idea is in part related to the frequency with which it’s put forth. So the more people utter the words “Liberal Fascism,” or the more they repeat the main claims of the book, the more his view will gain currency. All the little hedges and caveats get washed out when this happens, and you’ll be left with people who simply say “As Jonah Goldberg has shown, the liberals are the real fascists….”

As I see it, we have two possibilities:

(1) Ignore the work on the grounds that it’s too silly to merit any attention whatsoever. We don’t really bother with books that argue for (say) 9/11 conspiracy theories, the Flat Earth model, beneath contempt, just as we would ignore a work that argued for the flat earth theory. Downsides: (a) it’s too late, and (b) the conservatives will keep on crowing about this nonsense, making it seem like the other side doesn’t have a response.

(2) Absolute ridicule mixed with dispassionate and highly detailed criticism. People aren’t going to stand by the idea if they know they’re only going to get shot down. The downsides are that the author can claim to have “struck a nerve,” and that “the truth hurts.” The advantage is that it’s Jonah Goldberg, and it’s preposterously easy to make him look stupid.

Confession of a Hippie Fascist

It was ’68, a summer the world will never forget. I was serving on the People’s Committee for Corporate Inclusion & Reconciliation. Our mission was to negotiate an alliance with corporate America that would be a tie in with our companion program to forge a permanent three-way venture with the military in order to quell free thought and expression throughout the land.

All was going well until Comrade Joplin, in a Southern Comfort-fueled rage, refused Nixon’s attempts to lure her to the ranch for a long weekend of monkey sex. The whole glorious effort collapsed when the corporations, the military and Nixon stormed out of negotiations. We were so close. So close.

And now, just when our formidable power is once again on the rise, Jonah foils our plans for the perfect hippie, nationalist, military-industrial, law & order, make-the-trains-run-on-time, anti-intellectual, anti-arts, organic-honey-fueled, religio-utopia! Drat his special genius!

A world without evil would be a “better world,” no?

I take it, then, that it is fascist to call for, say, “an end to evil.” (Scroll down for the Goldbergian gloss.)

And Evil’s a pretty big enemy. Wouldn’t a state that is battling to end it need to be “all-powerful”? Or at least, like, rilly rilly rilly powerful.

From amazon, “What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?”

2 of the 4 listed:

“The Gallery of Regrettable Food ”

“Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery ”

All this time I took the Cheetos and Mountain Dew “Code Red” posts as pure jokes, but judging from the above, I think its right on. Apparently Loadpants really does resonate with others who share his poor culinary choices.

Unfortunately for Jonah, fascism never existed long enough to leave much of a footprint. WW II took care of that. This leaves him with saying that public libraries are fascist. And books are fascist. And safe drinking water is fascist. And bank accounts up to $100,000 being insured by the FDIC is fascist. And 14 items or less check-out aisles are fascist.

Where are all my old Slayer™ cassettes?

Goldberg, the meaning of dumb
The way that I want you to drool
So dense, you’re led astray
Writings that turn you into fools
Sucked in like cattle
You read stripped of
Your brain’s worth
Human mice, for the angel of dumb
Four hundred thousand brains to fry
Angel of dumb
Monarch to the kingdom of the dumb

Most of all they share the belief – what I call the totalitarian temptation – that with the right amount of tinkering we can realize the utopian dream of “creating a better world”.

You mean something like this?

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

W read twelve books? Without pictures?

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a straw man with a split hair before…

Gary Ruppert said,

The fact is, liberals are anti-AMerican, therefore fascist. America has never been facist, and never will. We have a mission from God to democratize the world

Gary Ruppert, the missing Blues Brother…

At the core of the stupidity lies some genuinly scary stuff…

What unites [facists] are their emotional or instinctual impulses…

Let’s ignore the idocy of conflating emotions and instincts for a moment, and look at what he’s saying, vis a vis what an ‘instinct’ is. Insticts are innate behaviors not governed by reason but tied to species and genus. As Dave Neiwert over at Orcinus points out, once you start describing the opposition as belonging to a different species than you, that opens the door to some real nastiness.

If his argument is “lefties are facists because they give into a temptation of their insticts”, that’s bordering on elminationist rhetoric. It’s not as clearly written as it could be, but I blame that on the marginal literacy of the author rather than an attempt at subtlety. I’m also placing this bit in the context of the blurb on the jacket that says the image of facism is a female teacher.

It’s a bit like watching an agility-trainer use a dog whistle to take a trained dog through a complex course. Except instead of a trainer, it’s Johan accidentally swallowing the whistle, getting it stuck in his windpipe, and franticly inhaling and exhaling as hard as he can, driving all nearby dogs to a frenzy.

I’m all out of snark. What an ultra-maroon.

Tom Wolfe is joined by Newt Gingrich and Charles Murray, co-author of the Bell Curve, in providing blurbs on the back cover.
Murray, in fact, is batting lead-off, and gets a big thank you in the acknowledgments.

Most of all they share the belief – what I call the totalitarian temptation – that with the right amount of tinkering we can realize the utopian dream of “creating a better world.”

So in order to not be a fascist you have to openly admit that your goal is to maximize world pain and suffering and endeavor to make the planet a dark, gloomy shitty place …

And Jonah wrote the book on it !!!

Pokemons are fascist. We need to kill them.

The Holocaust could not have occurred in Italy, because Italians are not Germans.

Give them some credit. They did invent the Ghetto.

Somebody never read Primo Levi.

Tom Wolfe is joined by Newt Gingrich and Charles Murray, co-author of the Bell Curve, in providing blurbs on the back cover.

If a book cover attracts these sorts of creatures to it, where they nest and lay their word eggs so that beautiful maggots of insight may hatch, burrow beneath our skin, feed on our soft tissues of reflection, and later erupt in pustules of understanding, how can we not buy this book?

Indeed, this is central to my point.

But as everything in history, time and place matter …

The man is a walking tautology.

Allowing blacks to be citizens in South Africa was one of biggest totalitarian temptations of all time. Just look what it did !

Doughn’t know much about history. Doughn’t know much biology. Doughn’t know much about science books. Doughn’t know much about the fucking French, either.

The Holocaust could not have occurred in Italy, because Italians are not Germans.

The Great Tail-Chasing could not have occurred in Kittenville, because kittens are not puppies.

Plantar Fasciitis, you will suffer de-feet!!!

If I had to choose between Jonah’s “friendly fascism” (i.e. organic agriculture, public schooling, and universal health care) and the unfriendly kind (i.e. uninvited democracy campaigns involving bombs, corruption, chaos, and cheetos), I’ll opt for the friendlies every time.

The Holocaust could not have occurred in Italy, because Italians are not Germans.

German people be drivin’ like _this_, but Eye-talian people be all like _this_.

And in America, where hostility to big government is central to the national character…
Have I mentioned how much I hate you Yanks and your habit of drawing broad, vapid generalisations about “national character”, based on little or no experience of other countries?

You’re not making a broad generalization that making broad generalizations about national character is part of our national character, are you?

I think I just sprained something…

oh noes my sekrit plan iz revealed.

Tom Wolfe lost it long ago. I mean, did anyone even finish “A Man In Full” or “I Am Charlotte Simmons”?

Pity, really.

“American Idol” could never be produced in Italy, because Italians are not Americans.

Dr. Loveless: I disagree. It’s right there in the book title. If Mussolini could be a liberal American Fascist, or whatever, then there’s no reason “American Idol” couldn’t be made in Italy. What are you anyway, a member of some differently-soiled anti-Americanist kind of fascisms? Or something?

W read twelve books? Without pictures?

Of course he did! And he quit drinking, too. And God talks to him every day.

I loved me some Right Stuff. It and Gandhi were very formative to my pre-teen brain.

Does that mean I may be some One Man Wingnut Sleeper Cell?

@ tiger: You may have sprained something, but the play looks pretty good on the Jumbotron.

Larry Ruppert said,

Give them some credit. They did invent the Ghetto.

Yo, homes, say what???? Ohno you din’t?!?!?!

“American Idol” could never be produced in Italy, because Italians are not Americans.

Nuh-uhh! America is Italian – just ask Amerigo Vespucci.

MzNicky said,

I did read A Man in Full. And I liked it, myself.

I see Norman Mailer has a not so shorter.

Anyways, Bush-lovin’ and Jonah-pimpin’? Damn Tom W., way to disgrace yourself completely on your journey out of this life.

Most of all they share the belief – what I call the totalitarian temptation – that with the right amount of tinkering we can create the utopian dream of “creating a better world”.

Whereas the right wing in America wants what, to create a worse world? Sure, if the desire to improve things is what makes a fascist, then I’m a fascist.

What a total knobbefsticke.

Except instead of a trainer, it’s Johan accidentally swallowing the whistle, getting it stuck in his windpipe, and franticly inhaling and exhaling as hard as he can, driving all nearby dogs to a frenzy.

This is an alarmingly amusing visual image. I see those cheeks a-puffing, that belly bulging, the arms a-swinging to provide extra lung capacity, the complexion turning slowly puce, while from the pursed lips comes a high-pitched “wheeeee-eeeeee! wheeee-eeee!”

Pure magic.

LWM–hey now, didn’t you know that the Wiki is edited and used only by fascists?

I’m not sure Humpty Dumpty could’ve said it better…

Everything is fascist because fascism in a fourth-dimensional construct that contains the entirety of our three-dimensional universe. Fascism is shaped like a tesseract inside of a hyper-pyramid. So there!