The Potato (Day) of Tyranny....

[smithing_chick]

I don't understand how people that far removed from reality actually get elected. Re-education camps? Seriously? It boggles my mind. And where do people who supported things like warrantless wiretapping on US citizens, Gitmo, & the Patriot Act get off ranting about the destruction of civil liberties?

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p

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[incendiary_dan]

And where do people who supported things like warrantless wiretapping on US citizens, Gitmo, & the Patriot Act get off ranting about the destruction of civil liberties?

Ummm... With the exception of Guantanamo, Obama has publicly stated that (and now followed through with his statements) that he supports these illegal actions, and even increasing them. Not to mention his mandatory "civil service" for people between 18-25, and the administration's most recent attempt to basically outlaw small farms and gardens (thanks to his friends from Monsanto). At least his weapons ban failed, since even the majority of the Democrats voting for it recognized that the similar ban in the '90s only increased gun crime.

The fact that Fox News reacts this way is, of course, insane. They're just as fascist, just in a slightly different way.

...so actually, their response is expected. Fascists hate competition for tyranny.

[smithing_chick]

Please show me a creditable source where Obama has claimed to be in favor of illegal wiretapping, as everything I've seen from him has said otherwise. However, he is blocking legal challenges to the previous administration to determine just how much criminal activity of that nature was going on- something I disagree with

[incendiary_dan]

Public school failed you, so it succeeded:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

It doesn't matter if someone was democratically elected whether or not they're fascist, and I wonder at the naivety of anyone who believes there is democratic voting in this country, especially considering the near complete hegemony on discourse corporate media has. FOX and KOS and all those other retarded conservative media outlets only slightly different in content from the retarded liberal media outlets. FOX is just more ridiculous. They are all covering the same stuff with the same presumptions; there is no discourse, only the appearance of it.

And I guess you don't actually read my journal or anything, because I've given dozens of examples of Obama specifically saying he'd push for more domestic surveillance. In one case, he even covered up a particularly damning part of his speech, but luckily people caught it on tape.

[smithing_chick]

First off, I mostly went to Catholic schools, which are private, although my high school was public. Still, I learned about fascists, dictators, tyrants & such in grade school initially. I'm old enough that Communism was still the Great Evil we learned to fear from birth

[incendiary_dan]

"Fascism can better be described as Corporatism." - Benito Mussolini

[smithing_chick]

Like I said, you really should read the *entire* article, instead of just pulling quotes that fit your argument. It's quite interesting.

[incendiary_dan]

I read the whole thing. I've read far more than that on the subject of modern fascism, thankyouverymuch.

It's sad you're so out of touch with what's going on in the world that you believe all this shit. I'm not going to waste any more time on someone who insists on burying their head in the sand. I've got far more important things to do. Earnest desire to save the world and all (hope someone gets that reference).

[smithing_chick]

*sigh* Ah, I remember the days when I, too, was young & convinced I knew everything there was to know about the world.