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posted by Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy at 7:24 AM
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/headdesk
We must unite against the Sino-Japanese alliance! Only white gay men can protect us!
hare krishna, hare krishna, hare krishna...
I'm increasingly suspecting that Dr. Socks's beware is worth heeding.
"For America to survive economically in the coming Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity...After all, the white race is the minority race and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don't band together, we are going to end up as farmers--or, worse, mere entertainment--for more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics."
-Gore Vidal
But hey, he's your guy, right? Two sides of the spectrum, and you picked yours.
You know how ironic and hypocritical and sadly funny it is that all the anti-Romney/pro-Obama people can appreciate the bad things about American conservatives while rationalizing the same behavior from Obama? That's primarily what your cartoons are about. What is the value of your insights, though, if they can't be applied to any situation other than the current "American Democratic Party v. American Republican Party" show?
As you've demonstrated so well over the years, someone can be 100% "right" about Bush/Romney/et. al., and still be completely missing the point about the greater political game. Becoming "one Zen level" better by figuring out Obama doesn't mean you've figured out everything there is to figure out, or that you and your friends should be immune from any further questions and this press conference is over.
If your real goal here is one of shutting out the disagreeable and focusing on easy targets that your friends already understand the reasons for laughing at, go with it--the group cohesion you'll further develop will build a stronger new version of the same old movement, and you'll become more influential and accepted. Addressing detractors directly makes you weak and unpopular.
You did the efficient thing by ignoring the substance of what was said, providing an indirect "word to the wise" to your readers about the unsavory element, and sharing a link to someone else who did the same to make clear the direction the wind is blowing.
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