Comments | redwoodpecker: The good times are killing me

redwoodpecker

The good times are killing me

Oct 19, 2007 13:09

I've come to the conclusion that I have just been going at this whole war the wrong way. Really, who cares if we blow the legs off a million Iraqi children, especially when they'll probably just grow up to hate our freedom anyway. They're not even people. They're not people in our movies, in our discourse, or even in our minds. Their lives aren ( Read more... )

torture, rape, apathy, iraq, good times, hate, murder, war, dehumanization

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I remember... 2dumb4politics October 20 2007, 08:44:58 UTC

... when they attacked our freedom.

Re: I remember... redwoodpecker October 22 2007, 12:50:06 UTC

lmao, Well, that's ok cause we're giving that freedom right back to them. Our own special brand of Democracy, which comes in tiny lead chunks and is launched towards you at high velocity to ensure maximum freedom impact, preferably clustered in the head or chest.

Re: I remember... 2dumb4politics October 22 2007, 15:24:45 UTC

That's the most direct way to win those hearts and minds!

day83justice October 25 2007, 07:16:04 UTC

I found your journal via drive-by; that is to say, I was surfing communities. You’re mad, clearly, and that’s okay by me - it means you care. I do wonder though, how much? Specifically, as passionate as you are about innocent Iraqi’s dying by a rate much faster than American protest of the war, do you care enough to be effective ( ... )

redwoodpecker October 26 2007, 13:43:24 UTC

There is no cure for terminal stupidity, and polite language has never woken someone up from ignorance. Do you know what helps? If there's a message that you think you can do a better job disseminating, don't tell me how to do it, do it yourself. The message needs to appeal to as many people as possible and so needs to be presented in as many ways as possible ( ... )

hestiaschild October 26 2007, 20:02:35 UTC

I stumbled on your journal from the UrbanPagan community, and while I don't necessarily agree that everything that is posted there should be solely about paganism (I more or so think that if you're a pagan, and you're urban, anything you post there is relevant)I will say that some of the comments were out of line on both sides ( ... )

redwoodpecker October 26 2007, 20:35:13 UTC

That's very interesting, I'd be interested in hearing your husband's opinions on what's going on in Bolivia right now with Evo Morales being elected and with the country having recently freed of their debt to the world bank, which often has a lot to do with the rampant poverty in third world nations ( ... )

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