to wit: WE THE PEOPLE make things popular by our acceptance and enjoyment of it; it becomes OURS (YOU gave it to us!)...
things like this movie (which i didn't know was not popular when it came out) got a second life BECAUSE of its widespread exposure, BECAUSE of US, not THEM ! ! !
same with viral hits and such like 'gangnam style': NOBODY on earth would have heard it or responded to it or given it a snowballs chance in hell of making 'serious' money, IF IT WASN'T FOR US, not THEM ! ! !
the nike swooshtika isn't popular because nike did such a mind-shattering job of designing the ultimate logo; no, it is popular because WE MADE IT POPULAR... there is ZERO inherent value in the swooshtika, it is ONLY our interest and popularization that make it 'valuable'...
kmart's vietnamese-made sneakers may have a logo that -objectively speaking- is ten times the masterpiece that the swooshtika is, but we don't see people buying shirts and crap with that 'prettier' logo splashed all over everything, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MADE THEM POPULAR... (even though there may be 10 pairs of kmart sneakers sold for every over-priced piece of nike crap...)
WE make or break the popularity of EVERYTHING, THEN we are punished for our efforts by the TECHNICAL 'owners' of it, but NOT the 'REAL OWNERS' of that tiny piece of culture, US, ALL of us collectively...
without US making buying/use decisions, disney, nike, starbucks, cox cable, etc, etc, etc, aren't worth shit...
it *is* difficult to escape the maw of capitalist imperialism because of their dominance and prevalence...
i have nothing but sympathy -particularly for parents with kids- for people who are working for institutions which they feel uncomfortable being associated with, but they have no practical choice...
The Man has us by the short and curlies...
particularly these days, job prospects are for shit...
with VERY FEW respites in its his story, amerika has been at war against one country or another... now, we're so super-civilized (the most civilizedest EVAHHHH!), we can wage war against a handful of countries at one time, with one claw tied behind our backs...
we HAVE -directly and indirectly- been responsible for the MURDER of MILLIONS of mostly brown, mostly poor, mostly mooselimb people -'civilians', men, women and children of all ages- ACROSS THE PLANET against people and countries who COULD NOT under any conceivable circumstance pose a real risk to amerika...
endless, illegal, immoral, unjustified, worldwide war waged against EVERYONE, and on CIVILIANS who had less to do with whatever irked Empire, than fat, jingoist, propaganda-victims like yourself are responsible for by supporting this amoral Empire...
you should be ashamed, yet you bray like an ass...
if you go by body counts, you'll lose that argument every day of the week, propagandabot...
art guerrilla aka ann archy art guerrilla at windstream dot net eof
I will only say this: the IMPLIED threat of mass movements is what authorities respond to, they could not care less if some non-violent group is protesting, etc... *that* is what they fear, that the sheeple will bare their vestigial fangs, not a bunch of silly peaceniks shouting ineffectual rhymes...
i will not comment on whether i think this brilliant idea is appropriate or not; i would only commend you to google 'assassination politics', and learn that only secret gummint assassins can make lists, not mere citizens...
you can't... that way, The They (tm) can jack you up for anything at anytime...
the whole thing is so bizarre, it makes me shake my head in open-mouthed wonder: SECRET laws ? SECRET interpretations ? ? SECRET judges ? ? ? SECRET trials ? ? ? ? SECRET prisons ? ? ? ? ?
cue gil scott heron:
And now it's winter Winter in America And all of the healers done been killed or sent away Yeah, and the people know, people know It's winter Winter in America And ain't nobody fighting Cause nobody knows what to save And ain't nobody fighting Cause nobody knows, nobody knows And ain't nobody fighting Cause nobody knows what to save
1. the summation, as far as being a nothing-burger best left uneaten by a no-skinned trautwig, is correct... 2. even as an un-involved lurker/spectator, i often see so-called trolls act as necessary brakes on steamrolling gruppethink... 3. similarly, they can offer valid criticism that insiders and tribe-members may be loath to proffer...
having said that, the resident troll-in-chief is a sub-species whose signal-to-noise ratio is not worth the trouble... its most maddening trait is its hit-and-run style which will only respond to points it feels can be 'refuted', but leaves all the tough questions untouched...
skips around all day on a thread, but somehow overlooks the valid evidence offered in rebuttal... funny, that...
...the gummint is fine with FOIA requests, as long as they don't reveal anything; once you find the magic handshake to reveal actual gummint (OUR) bidness, than *that* is problematic...
got it... (message: it ain't YOUR gummint, citizen-scum)
i might add that his 'reasoning' is also flawed in one huge aspect of the 'awareness' aspect: apparently he has no problem when the day comes (VERY SOON) when virtually undetectable nanobots slither into every orifice of his home, body, and brain, and reports back EVERYTHING: bodily functions, blood constituents, 'anomalous' EKG readings, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum...
if he has nothing to hide... *snicker*
seriously, the day of nanobots is not far off, and then -since they are effectively unnoticeable crawling our brains- there shouldn't be any problem with that, richtig ? ? ?
no shit, the posner family is FULL of authoritarian, status-quo shills...
i *think* probably related to a well-known jfk k-k-k-konspiracy 'debunker', called gerald posner, who is an authoritarian slimeball, too...
again, when i think of anti-american propagandists like the posner klan, i think: *someone* has to be the shills on the spook's payroll...
(make no mistake, i think there are PLENTY of mis-guided, mis-informed, mis-human beans who carry the water of authoritarians without being paid a dime, because that is what the unthinking asshats actually believe; but i am certain there are more than a few who get some lucre for the job...)
stenography is much easier to do with access, and criticizing the powerful people you are reporting on makes hobnobbing much more difficult. I can excoriate large korporate-owned news organizations having to pander a bit to those in charge. This is the dilemma reporters have:
"If you have integrity but no access, nobody listens to you. If you have access but no integrity, nobody trust you."
did that bullet go clean through your foot, or did it get lodged in there ? ? ?
you are positing what HAS TO happen under the current TOTALLY debased, TOTALLY corrupted korporate-owned media world, where they are NOT working on behalf of us 99%, but shilling for the 1%...
*THAT* is NOT the system necessary to maintain a 'well-informed' populace/electorate, but the contrary: a propaganda model to keep the masses ignorant...
as it is presently constituted, The System/The Media work EXACTLY as THEIR OWNERS want it to work: keeping stupid sheeple in the dark and snarling at each other, instead of looking askance at their evil shepherds...
it hasn't got shit to do with 'afflicting the comfortable, and comforting the afflicted'...
Guerrilla indicated that the 99% are not planning to tar-and-feather current administrators, like Eric Holder, one of the Defenders of the Constitution (sic) who received marching orders from banksters and has written a series of secret laws based on fascist authoritarianism. Holder, an American traitor who skulks in Washintoon, has said he is reluctant to show his face because he fears truth, justice and the American way.
“Unless secret information that has not come to my attention is leaked to me, what I have indicated in my testimony before the world is that any politician who’s engaged in true traitorous activities is not going to be strung up by the 99%,” Guerrilla said.
“I certainly don’t agree with what Empire has done,” Guerrilla said. “In some ways, he blurs the line between human and psychopath. But on the basis of what I know now, I’m sure there is a basis for stringing up Holder.”
thank you... don't really give a shit about people recording a few seconds of the movie, BUT inconsiderate aholes who fire up their cellyphones in the theatre are no-class, selfish, arrogant jerkwads... they don't deserve to be arrested, but they do deserve to be thrown out without a refund...
one major reason why i HATE going to movies... rude children -no matter their age- is what they are...
...and yet he -anarchist/theif/liar/whatever else you claim- HAS done more for his fellow citizens with those actions than i'm guessing you have, richtig ? ? ?
if only our human heroes wouldn't have human failings... 'cause those are the only ones who are 'doing it right', right ? ? ?
if we wait for perfect people to commit perfect acts of civil disobedience, we will NEVER throw this yoke of Empire off...
hip, fit, rich young companies like google and yahoo going around with all that sexy data just hanging out all over, and hardly anything on, are you kidding me, they're just asking for it, aren't they ? ? ?
i mean c'mon, a red-white-and-blue-blooded spook couldn't be expected to resist a fine piece of prime database like those bitches, could they ? ? ?
for chrissakes, they LORD their hot data over everybody all the time, teasing us with their shapely consumption curves, flashing those suggestive ads at you *everywhere* you go, man, that's just not right...
...and cronyism wins the day again ! ! ! appeal denied ! ! ! face slapped ! ! ! due process ignored ! ! ! fascism victorious ! ! !
that makes 751204823 times in a row, but who's counting...
from the few reports i've seen, i've no doubt that she wasn't 'pro-defendant', but pro-rights/constitution, AND the kops/persekution hated her for that...
*THAT* is what really sticks in the craw of The They (tm): they don't WANT judges/lawyers/juries to *actually* go by the constitutionality, inequity, etc of unconstitutional laws and bad actors all around in the (in)justice dept, that would be bad for bidness...
my google voice number *is* my *real* cellyphone number, you insensitive clod ! ! ! 8^)
i actually have a separate google voice number i signed up for when they first came out, but when i got new cellyphone a while back, sprint works with google that allows you to sync your cellyphone number with an identical google voice number...
in fact, they took a google voice number somebody else had which was my cellyphone number, and gave it to me...
kind of annoying in that it forwards to a couple email accounts, so my tablet jingles when it comes in on on gmail email, then jingles again when it comes into another email, and then does it all over when they go through k9 email...
...*THEN* my phone rings with the message: yep, my phone is the LAST piece of electronics to get a phone message ! ! ! weird
On the post: It's Not Such A Wonderful Public Domain, As Paramount Plans To Block 'It's A Wonderful Life' Sequel
illustrates my overarching point precisely:
things like this movie (which i didn't know was not popular when it came out) got a second life BECAUSE of its widespread exposure, BECAUSE of US, not THEM ! ! !
same with viral hits and such like 'gangnam style': NOBODY on earth would have heard it or responded to it or given it a snowballs chance in hell of making 'serious' money, IF IT WASN'T FOR US, not THEM ! ! !
the nike swooshtika isn't popular because nike did such a mind-shattering job of designing the ultimate logo; no, it is popular because WE MADE IT POPULAR...
there is ZERO inherent value in the swooshtika, it is ONLY our interest and popularization that make it 'valuable'...
kmart's vietnamese-made sneakers may have a logo that -objectively speaking- is ten times the masterpiece that the swooshtika is, but we don't see people buying shirts and crap with that 'prettier' logo splashed all over everything, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MADE THEM POPULAR...
(even though there may be 10 pairs of kmart sneakers sold for every over-priced piece of nike crap...)
WE make or break the popularity of EVERYTHING, THEN we are punished for our efforts by the TECHNICAL 'owners' of it, but NOT the 'REAL OWNERS' of that tiny piece of culture, US, ALL of us collectively...
without US making buying/use decisions, disney, nike, starbucks, cox cable, etc, etc, etc, aren't worth shit...
we literally own them, but without owning them...
On the post: It's Not Such A Wonderful Public Domain, As Paramount Plans To Block 'It's A Wonderful Life' Sequel
Re: Re: I never liked...
On the post: Facing Backlash And A UK Govt Inquiry, LG Now Claims To Be 'Looking Into' Its Smart TVs' Data-Slurping Habits
Re: Re:
it *is* difficult to escape the maw of capitalist imperialism because of their dominance and prevalence...
i have nothing but sympathy -particularly for parents with kids- for people who are working for institutions which they feel uncomfortable being associated with, but they have no practical choice...
The Man has us by the short and curlies...
particularly these days, job prospects are for shit...
On the post: Former NSA Lawer Stewart Baker: FISA Minimization Policies Are To Blame For 9/11 Attacks
Re: Re:
we HAVE -directly and indirectly- been responsible for the MURDER of MILLIONS of mostly brown, mostly poor, mostly mooselimb people -'civilians', men, women and children of all ages- ACROSS THE PLANET against people and countries who COULD NOT under any conceivable circumstance pose a real risk to amerika...
endless, illegal, immoral, unjustified, worldwide war waged against EVERYONE, and on CIVILIANS who had less to do with whatever irked Empire, than fat, jingoist, propaganda-victims like yourself are responsible for by supporting this amoral Empire...
you should be ashamed, yet you bray like an ass...
if you go by body counts, you'll lose that argument every day of the week, propagandabot...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
On the post: Copyright Maximalist Talking Points On Leaked TPP Draft
Re:
hope you have a deeper spider hole than sad damn who's sane...
On the post: LG Smart TV Caught Collecting Data On Files Stored On Connected USB Drives
Re: Re:
am going to be in the market for a teevee after the holidays, and i sent LG an email telling them which brand i will NOT be considering...
told'em to FOAD...
On the post: Cop Shoots Cuffed Teen In The Face With A Taser, Claims He 'Feared For His Safety' [UPDATED]
Re: Gandhi
*that* is what they fear, that the sheeple will bare their vestigial fangs, not a bunch of silly peaceniks shouting ineffectual rhymes...
On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That
Re: Re: We need a list
On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That
Re: Liberty died...
the whole thing is so bizarre, it makes me shake my head in open-mouthed wonder: SECRET laws ? SECRET interpretations ? ? SECRET judges ? ? ? SECRET trials ? ? ? ? SECRET prisons ? ? ? ? ?
cue gil scott heron:
And now it's winter
Winter in America
And all of the healers done been killed or sent away
Yeah, and the people know, people know
It's winter
Winter in America
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows what to save
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows, nobody knows
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows what to save
On the post: Sports Journalist Gets Trolled On Twitter, Tattles To Troll's Parents
one person's troll...
1. the summation, as far as being a nothing-burger best left uneaten by a no-skinned trautwig, is correct...
2. even as an un-involved lurker/spectator, i often see so-called trolls act as necessary brakes on steamrolling gruppethink...
3. similarly, they can offer valid criticism that insiders and tribe-members may be loath to proffer...
having said that, the resident troll-in-chief is a sub-species whose signal-to-noise ratio is not worth the trouble... its most maddening trait is its hit-and-run style which will only respond to points it feels can be 'refuted', but leaves all the tough questions untouched...
skips around all day on a thread, but somehow overlooks the valid evidence offered in rebuttal... funny, that...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: FBI Stops Responding To The Most Prolific FOIA Filer, Because He Might Actually Learn Something
so, in short...
got it...
(message: it ain't YOUR gummint, citizen-scum)
On the post: Chicago Law Professor Claims No Privacy In Your Emails, As Long As The Content Isn't Used To Detain Or Harass You
Re: CREEPY
if he has nothing to hide...
*snicker*
seriously, the day of nanobots is not far off, and then -since they are effectively unnoticeable crawling our brains- there shouldn't be any problem with that, richtig ? ? ?
dick...
On the post: Chicago Law Professor Claims No Privacy In Your Emails, As Long As The Content Isn't Used To Detain Or Harass You
Re: 2 posner's
i *think* probably related to a well-known jfk k-k-k-konspiracy 'debunker', called gerald posner, who is an authoritarian slimeball, too...
again, when i think of anti-american propagandists like the posner klan, i think: *someone* has to be the shills on the spook's payroll...
(make no mistake, i think there are PLENTY of mis-guided, mis-informed, mis-human beans who carry the water of authoritarians without being paid a dime, because that is what the unthinking asshats actually believe; but i am certain there are more than a few who get some lucre for the job...)
On the post: Bloomberg News Kills All Credibility: Kills Story Critical Of China, Fires Reporter Who Reveals This Fact
Re: Rock and hard place ...
"If you have integrity but no access, nobody listens to you. If you have access but no integrity, nobody trust you."
did that bullet go clean through your foot, or did it get lodged in there ? ? ?
you are positing what HAS TO happen under the current TOTALLY debased, TOTALLY corrupted korporate-owned media world, where they are NOT working on behalf of us 99%, but shilling for the 1%...
*THAT* is NOT the system necessary to maintain a 'well-informed' populace/electorate, but the contrary: a propaganda model to keep the masses ignorant...
as it is presently constituted, The System/The Media work EXACTLY as THEIR OWNERS want it to work: keeping stupid sheeple in the dark and snarling at each other, instead of looking askance at their evil shepherds...
it hasn't got shit to do with 'afflicting the comfortable, and comforting the afflicted'...
On the post: Eric Holder Doesn't See Any Basis To Prosecute Glenn Greenwald... For Now
fixed that for ya, eric...
“Unless secret information that has not come to my attention is leaked to me, what I have indicated in my testimony before the world is that any politician who’s engaged in true traitorous activities is not going to be strung up by the 99%,” Guerrilla said.
“I certainly don’t agree with what Empire has done,” Guerrilla said. “In some ways, he blurs the line between human and psychopath. But on the basis of what I know now, I’m sure there is a basis for stringing up Holder.”
fucker...
On the post: The MPAA's Plan To Piss Off Young Moviegoers And Make Them Less Interested In Going To Theaters
Re:
don't really give a shit about people recording a few seconds of the movie, BUT inconsiderate aholes who fire up their cellyphones in the theatre are no-class, selfish, arrogant jerkwads...
they don't deserve to be arrested, but they do deserve to be thrown out without a refund...
one major reason why i HATE going to movies...
rude children -no matter their age- is what they are...
On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack
Re: Re: Re: Hammond lying again
if only our human heroes wouldn't have human failings...
'cause those are the only ones who are 'doing it right', right ? ? ?
if we wait for perfect people to commit perfect acts of civil disobedience, we will NEVER throw this yoke of Empire off...
On the post: Privacy Groups Want The Government To Investigate Google Over The NSA's Hacking
well, they *were* asking for it...
i mean c'mon, a red-white-and-blue-blooded spook couldn't be expected to resist a fine piece of prime database like those bitches, could they ? ? ?
for chrissakes, they LORD their hot data over everybody all the time, teasing us with their shapely consumption curves, flashing those suggestive ads at you *everywhere* you go, man, that's just not right...
what do they expect ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Appeals Court Rejects Judge Scheindlin's Request To Refute Allegations Of Partiality And Impropriety
and the returns are in ! ! !
appeal denied ! ! !
face slapped ! ! !
due process ignored ! ! !
fascism victorious ! ! !
that makes 751204823 times in a row, but who's counting...
from the few reports i've seen, i've no doubt that she wasn't 'pro-defendant', but pro-rights/constitution, AND the kops/persekution hated her for that...
*THAT* is what really sticks in the craw of The They (tm): they don't WANT judges/lawyers/juries to *actually* go by the constitutionality, inequity, etc of unconstitutional laws and bad actors all around in the (in)justice dept, that would be bad for bidness...
On the post: 'Attribution Troll' Issues DMCA Notice To Remove Critical Posts From Techdirt, Boing Boing And Popehat
Re: Why?
8^)
i actually have a separate google voice number i signed up for when they first came out, but when i got new cellyphone a while back, sprint works with google that allows you to sync your cellyphone number with an identical google voice number...
in fact, they took a google voice number somebody else had which was my cellyphone number, and gave it to me...
kind of annoying in that it forwards to a couple email accounts, so my tablet jingles when it comes in on on gmail email, then jingles again when it comes into another email, and then does it all over when they go through k9 email...
...*THEN* my phone rings with the message: yep, my phone is the LAST piece of electronics to get a phone message ! ! !
weird
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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