Please what watch this important cartoon

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  • August 8, 2009 at 10:24 pm #85829
    Ashlee
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    This has it own thread
    because what was done 50 years ago is comming true today
    and needs to stand on its own!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6p5QPVhPI

    August 8, 2009 at 10:37 pm #85830
    Delmo Walters Jr.
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    Strange. I watched the cartoon yet there was no FMG or strong women or anything like that so, why post a link to it?

    August 8, 2009 at 10:57 pm #85831
    Ashlee
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    Sorry honey its a learning thread .
    thats why it in general topics alone.

    August 8, 2009 at 11:15 pm #85832
    luvmuslgirls
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    Well, not to make a big argument, but it is still under the wrong category. I don't think it should be under "Fandom & Nerd Stuff". Prob belongs under "Free for all"?

    August 8, 2009 at 11:25 pm #85833
    ant1937
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    No idea why that is a must see. ???

    August 9, 2009 at 1:15 am #85834
    alex
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    I fail to see how 50 year old anti-communist propaganda is prophetic, like the guy says, unless you're one of those who thinks Obama is a socialist. 

    August 9, 2009 at 1:53 am #85835
    Fett
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    This is just a shameless bit of propaganda, and extremely ironic, since capitalism seems to have brought about a lot of what this cartoon thinks capitalism would prevent.

    August 9, 2009 at 11:00 pm #85836
    10-4
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    An old propaganda cartoon. That's a neat find from the past. It's not quite as ironic as the previous post implies. Most of the bad stuff is just the State and it's small clan of beneficiaries trying expand it's power at the expense of the market. Capitalism, with it's Profits, and Losses is reserved for the masses and mercantilism, Profits for them, and Losses for us, is for the elites. Noting really new in that. Been going on for ages.

    August 10, 2009 at 12:44 am #85837
    CaptMalcomReynolds
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    Well, it is interesting in all honesty.

    I see the part showing where the person is chained up and gets a Union Stamp could be related to various proposals for union "card check" legislation.

    http://www.heritage.org/research/labor/wm1366.cfm

    The Supreme Court did rule on Kelo vs City of New London in Connecticut which transferred private property as part of a redevelopment program spearheaded by another private business. It was a 5-4 decision and very contested.

    In the part of the video where the man is surrounded by barbed wire and gets an old phonograph placed on his head, is symbolic of increased control over media. Hell, the White House is in a pickle over it's recent decision to collect information from dissenters on the health care debate using it's flag@whitehouse.gov email system. This is an attempt to control the debate and what's put out there by people. There is some discussion about whether this is legal under the Privacy Act of 1974.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/white-house-collect-fishy-info-health-reform-illegal-critics-say/

    Lastly, there is a TON of rhetoric flying about concerning class warfare, attacks on corporations (some justified, some not), growing racial divides as is seen in groups like La Razza, New Black Panthers, Farrakhan and Wright, and the KKK (of course), and struggles regarding religion in the public sphere.

    All of these are transforming the United States to what (in [font=Verdana]

    August 10, 2009 at 2:11 am #85838
    Ashlee
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    Well said Captain!, The rest Please Line up for your "End Of life counseling" and remenber gentalman Viagra does not aid in Worker Production! If you do not have Lead in your pencil Tought ! You screwed around enough! And we also taking all your money in your Bank account.
                                        Commrade Ashlee
                                       

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