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SMO - you may be looking for your extensive discussions with Rich333 on this thread - I moved them to separate thread on the People's Blog for the following reasons:

1. To preserve them as a museum piece in a special SMO memorial place.
2. They made this thread hard to navigate.
3. I wanted to see how this "split topic" function works.

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Red Square wrote:SMO - you may be looking for your extensive discussions with Rich333 on this thread
nope... I still have nightmares about a world covered with gallows, privatized police forces, bad roads, and no dictionaries... heheheh... I'm just catching up and seeing what I missed over the last year. Besides, isn't intellectual sentimentality a thoughtcrime? :)

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... you believe Microsoft is <b>good</b> for the software industry!

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Zampolit B. S. Blokayev

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Dzerzinski wrote:...if you are a middle class Christian white male.
Don't forget heterosexual

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Joel wrote:
Chairman EMU wrote:... if you think that Western society has contributed anything positive to civilization.
Yeah nothing much apart from most of mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, much of philosphy, economics, rennaissance, enlightenment, code of law, democracy/republicanism, the UN (largely founded by the US), electronics, optoelectronics, engineering, computers, space exploration, most of astronomy, cars, air travel, the internet, rights of man, womens' sufferage, anthropology, psychology, ethics, and just about everything else helpful and/or aesthetically pleasing which I have ever laid eyes on. Nothing much really.
I thought native americans did all that, and whitey stole it!

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If you think ANY Walmart product does not come from a chinese sweatshop full of starving 12 year old girls.

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...if you think that Chelsea wasn't a virgin birth because <i>no one</i> would to our Many-Titted Empress, not even Mr. Reno when it gets down to it.

...if you think that Nansky Peloski is not beautiful.

...if you think that the Goracle is a stupid totalitarian power-mad liar.

...if you think.

...if you ever thought your political science professor might be wrong.

...if you ever wished your taxes were a little lower.

...if you ever went outside on a hot day and did not immediately tell the nearest person it was a sign of global warming.

...if you ever daydreamed of owning your own business.

...if you think oil companies should be allowed to keep any profit.

...if you believe it is okay that pharmaceutical companies charge money for their health-giving medicines.

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...if there's a single thing that you don't have an opinion on, no matter how ill-informed, on which you will prescribe coercive action.

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...if you think that Pat Robertson is right that the great champion of human rights and stalwart against AmeriKKKan imperialism, Hugo Chavez, is a putz and a thug who needs a 7.62mm round between his eyes.

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...if you think that the Muslims really want to kill us and can't be made happy with a group hug.

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... if you really think we can all just get along.

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...if you think that our Many Titted Empress is not the most magnificent, giving, nurturing Mother Earth that the world has ever seen, overflowing with kindness and concern.

<sound of retching>


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... if your really entered this contest with the desire to win.


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...if you really believe that the WTC was brought down by bloodthirsty jihadists and not a conspiracy on the part of the government.


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Commissar Theocritus wrote:..if you exist

Commissar Theocritus.... I bow to you for your response is so to the point!

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For that is after all what it boils down to. The hatred of responsibility of existence.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:For that is after all what it boils down to. The hatred of responsibility of existence.

I hate, therefore I am....

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:For that is after all what it boils down to. The hatred of responsibility of existence.

Could that be called "Anti-existentialism"?

You know... A big FUCK YOU!!! to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus?

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Blokhayev

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Zampolit Blokhayev wrote:Could that be called "Anti-existentialism"?

One would hope so. Ok, the Pup has never cared for philosophy and certainly not qualified to debate it per se. In fact, I just pulled this up from a site allegedly quoting the Oxford University Press for political existentialism:

"It is expressed in reaction to the grand designs in human history seen by Hegel and his followers. In particular, it denies the existence of natural law, an unchanging human nature, or indeed any objective rules. Each individual is cursed with freedom and must make his or her own way in the world, although many people resort to devices to hide this from themselves."

Denies objective rules? Deny my rules and they will discover how objective my boots are provided I am feeling generous that day and not wishing to waste a perfectly good pistol shot. People making their own way in the world? Not in my Party by Stalin's Ghost!

And the common view in all of the various definitions can be summarized by "the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts."

It would seem clear that this goes against the Party in many ways. Uniqueness of the individual? One prole can dig a ditch as well as the next. One can be as unique as the Party needs them to be. We love uniqueness after all... unique worker proles, unique drone proles... Human existence is explainable... it is to serve the State. There is freedom of choice of course... to serve the Party or be a non-person whose name will never be remembered. Now the one thing that is true is that an individual will indeed be held responsible for the consequences of his own acts.... or perhaps not, depends on how I, or the Party feels today.

But then I restate, I am not an expert on philosophy. Did I miss a memo on this?

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Commissar Pupovich, I admire your zeal, but recall that the single tenet of the Party is that actions do not have consequences--for the actor. It is our duty to make sure that someone else pays the price. That is after all the Progressive way.

We, the party, in order to form a more perfect slavery, do hereby decree that we can do what we want and as long as it sounds good, someone else picks up the pieces.

I have spoken.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:Commissar Pupovich, I admire your zeal, but recall that the single tenet of the Party is that actions do not have consequences--for the actor. It is our duty to make sure that someone else pays the price. That is after all the Progressive way.

Da, but of that course applies only to Party members correct?

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Of course. Whoever is currently in the party. And that changes at my whim. Nothing like a purge of the faithful for a heart-starter on a cold morning.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:Of course. Whoever is currently in the party. And that changes at my whim. Nothing like a purge of the faithful for a heart-starter on a cold morning.

Now that is eggsactly what I figured. I am heartened that the younger generation has not forgotten the ways of my grandfather Iosef! The real Man of Steel!

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"It's for the People"
equals
"It's for the Children"
equals
"It's for the Earth"
which means
"It's all for me, sucker."

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...if you think that the bright orb in the daytime sky has more to do with Global Warming than mankind.

...if you think that hurricane intensities and frequency are cyclical.

...if you know that at times in the past the Northwest Passage was navigable.

...if you know that Vikings settled in Iceland and Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period.

OK, I'm ready for Siberia now comrades - especially now that Global Warming has turned it into The Peoples Paradise.

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Red Jim! Is this thoughtcrime I see? Oh yes, it is a good thing you are ready for Siberia! Here's your shovel!

BTW, even I am struggling with potential thoughtcrime of competition.... for my beloved Fighting Bayou Bengal Tigers of LSU are currently ranked #1!

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That's The People's shovel comrade Commissar!

Yes, once again the the team of the prolitariat is only ranked 29th, does not the simple farmer deserve more?

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Hmmm... the polls I see only go down to 25...with others showing who got votes. So what is your prole team Comrade?

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Why the team every member of the working class should support, the Fighting Texas Aggies. They got 29 votes and those casting votes for them get access to the Party's "special" stores for luxuries like toilet paper and whiskey.

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Ah, yet another misguided Texican here....

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...if you put quotation marks around the phrase "Religion of Peace"

Aw, crap. <Starts packing burlap sack with warm clothes for gulag>

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If you think "2+2=4" then you too may be guilty of THOUGHT CRIME

......If you believe Dear Komrade Al Gore knows what he's talking about

......If you think Dear Komrade Hilary is a real woman

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Comrade Jones wrote:......If you believe Dear Komrade Al Gore knows what he's talking about

......If you think Dear Komrade Hilary is a real woman

Hmmmmm, that first comment is ThoughtCrime™ comrade. Perhaps a few hours with a People's Shovel™ will help you clear your thinking?

Oh, and Welcome to the People's Cube comrade.... you can collect your shovel from the foreman.

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Commissar Pupovich wrote:
Comrade Jones wrote:......If you believe Dear Komrade Al Gore knows what he's talking about

......If you think Dear Komrade Hilary is a real woman

Hmmmmm, that first comment is ThoughtCrime™ comrade. Perhaps a few hours with a People's Shovel™ will help you clear your thinking?

Oh, and Welcome to the People's Cube comrade.... you can collect your shovel from the foreman.

Don't forget, Comrade Jones, before seeing the forman to collect your shovel you must first check into the nearest Karl Marx Treatment Center for re-education. Welcome to The Cube™.

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Zampolit Boris Sukavich Blokhayev

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Yes, Comrade Jones, welcome to the Cube. Commissarka Pinkie is in charge of Vodka rations; be nice to her. You'll need them. It'll make your shoveling a lot easier.

I'm in charge of being very objectionable. It's a nasty job but someone's gotta do it and I killed for it.

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...if you secretly think that Cynthia McKinney wouldn't make an effective President of the United States.

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If you really, down deep inside, think that Algore is just a sad, old, washed-up hack politician.


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...If you entertain the notion that Wind and Solar aren't the ONLY solutions to our energy needs in the future.

...If you attempt to deal with the world as it is rather than as the Collective believes it should be.

...If you have photoshopped the "Hope" Obama poster, by substituting the word "Nope" in its place.

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If you soil yourself laughing while Our Many Titted Empress and Obamarama tear chunks out of each other.

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If you think of ways that you might commit ThoughtCrime™, then you have committed ThoughtCrime™.

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Pupovich wrote:If you think of ways that you might commit ThoughtCrime™, then you have committed ThoughtCrime™.

Not if you are thinking of a Thoughtcrime™ that you can impute to someone holding you back from a desired billet.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:Not if you are thinking of a Thoughtcrime™ that you can impute to someone holding you back from a desired billet.
No need to risk the Thoughtcrime™, Theo. Just get them diagnosed with sluggishly progressing schizophrenia. Problem solved!

-AK

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if you dont welcome the flood of illegal immigrants swarning into America

if you want to return those already here to the third world toilets they came from

if you consider Mexico a third world toilet

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TonysGirl wrote:if you consider Mexico a third world toilet
It is; I live 200 miles away. What's interesting is that I personally like Mexicans. They're survivors and they don't complain, in general; they just get on with things. They haven't been told for generations that they are helpless. They just get on with things. They haven't been coopted into the victim game (yet). They just get on with things.

True, imported with the illegal flood are illegal practices: bad gangs and a patriarchal top-down mindset in which the patron did everything. (Try being the patron: you have to solve <i>everything</i>, including personal conflicts between cousins who conduct them in Spanish and bring them to you. I'm not making this up.)

But a lot of them are making a true American Success Story. The worst impediment is that goddamned bilingualism, but even here, with 90% Mexican population, you hear, more and more, young children whose first language is English. Who call to their mother in English, and who are answered in English. Without a heavy accent.

Yes, Mexico is a third-world toilet, and it's because of the people who run it. The biggest mistake America ever made was not keeping control of Mexico 100 years ago and cleaning out that rat's nest of kleptocrats.

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From an economic view, it is hard for me to understand the desperation of Mexicans to come here without considering the "kleptocrats" as you call them. Despite all the talk, we get most of our oil from Mexico and Canada, not Saudi Arabia. They have the work force, and they are also a nation that can attract tourism.

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A couple of things. First, and this opens me to charges of racism, no one is meaner to a Mexican than a Mexican; it's part of that hierarchy. Every Mexican beat cop has to get graft every day, shake down people, and give part of it to his superior. Who must do the same thing. The graft goes up to the Chief of Police in Mexico City. In the 80s the police chief, Juan Durazo, stole four billion dollars. I'm sure his successors did just the same thing.

In the 60s here in Culo del Pecos there was the bracero, or guest-worker, program. Braceros, dirt poor people, would be brought in to pick cotton. They were so poor that they would haul the stove out in the yard and chop a hole in the floor of the barracks to cook.

They sent most money back to Mexico, of course, but also lived. Every Saturday night most would get passing-out drunk, and be thrown in jail. Sunday the patron would bail them out--100 people in a two-room jail--and they would have their belongings returned to them.

"What a country!" They'd never had that happen before. It doesn't happen in Mexico. Period. You go to jail, you come out with nothing. And your family has to pay to get you out, and the crime doesn't matter. Murder costs more.

These innocent people, who worked 12 hours a day, would be given lifts by our local Mexicans, who would then roll them for their money.

This is why some pasty-faced German/English/Irish gringos sometimes get inserted into arguments which are really none of their business.

It's cultural. The Chinese are the smartest people on earth, right? Gunpowder, movable type, and everything else. And what did they do with it? Who invented the ability to do things with inventions?

It's cultural.

Commrade J. Galt
If you think capitol punishment is wrong but abortion is OK!


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John Galt wrote:If you think capitol punishment is wrong but abortion is OK

"If you don't think that life is a construct. Or that reality is a construct. Or that when you shut your eyes the world doesn't disappear."

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If you ever considered appropriating the Chairman's Hummel's, you too may have committed ThoughtCrime™.

If you ever wondered what the Empress would look like after you got through pouring boiling Hyfra Hildo lubricant from her own machine, down her gigantic dragon mouth, you have indeed committed ThoughtCrime™.

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If you ever wondered if HopePeaceChangeYadaYadaYada ever said anything, you may have committed a Thoughtcrime.

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If you have ever had to stifle a guffaw when the Empress speaks, you have committed a ThoughtCrime™.

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If you have ever seen Our Empress give a speech and thought, "Steinway," you may have committed a Thoughtcrime™.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:If you have ever seen Our Empress give a speech and thought, "Steinway," you may have committed a Thoughtcrime™.
Damn, I will report for re-education ASAP.

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That is a lesser crime, Commissar Maksim. Just do not see Nansky Peloski and think of Batman's Joker. Nor see Rosie O'Donnell and think "John Deere."

Or see James Carville and think <a href="https://www.docjohnson.com/products2.aspx?cat=3#">Doc Johnson</a>

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Or have ever seen Krissy Keefer and thought "Mooooooooooo! Mooooooooooooooooo!"

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I have thought of throwing Krissy Keefer into a dairy and making instant cottage cheese of the milk.

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If you have ever read the last post by Commissar Theocritus and did not report him to the authorities, you have committed ThoughtCrime™.

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If you have no Idea of what to think about the several above posts....

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If you have thought that tweaking Betty was not fun, you may have committed a Thoughtcrime™.

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If you have never tweaked Betty, you have indeed committed ThoughtCrime™!

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Now I really don't know what's going on. I'm confused!!! Stop using big confusing words!!

WAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Did I mention I was confused...?

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There now Premier, try these new pre-medicated Hot Pockets.

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*munch* *munch*

Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?

*eat*

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Why nothing Premier.... absolutely nothing is going on behind your back. Wait... there is no need to look.

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What's behind me?

[turns around]

I see nothing, why would you tell me to not turn around if there was nothing and the thing... with... um....

Okay, just what's going on here, and why do I have a sneaking suspicion that something bad is going to happen?

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. . . if you even dare to question Karl
. . .if you go to the zoo and want to see the elephants
. . . if you dare question the Kamissar
. . . if you think the Oktober Revolution is actually in Oktober. (It's in November for the unenlightened).
. . . if you think Stalin is defined as trying to delay something.

Fullov Bolshevik
...if you ever changed jobs because you did not wish to join a union.

<PS>

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Comrade Fullov, welcome to the collective. Please report to Commisarka Pinkie for your shovel and beet ration card, Marshal Pupovich for your discount Party Pass to the Pup's Pleasure Palace, and to Chairman Punchenko with your wallet open (large bills preferred).

Murffovich
...if you have a book authored by Michael Moore next to your toilet for purposes other than reading.

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Murffovich wrote:...if you have a book authored by Michael Moore next to your toilet for purposes other than reading.

Now that would put the fear of Lenin in the most progressive comrade!

Murffovich
Marshal Pupovich wrote:
Murffovich wrote:...if you have a book authored by Michael Moore next to your toilet for purposes other than reading.

Now that would put the fear of Lenin in the most progressive comrade!

Which seems most frightening Marshal? The placement of the progressive anti-bible so close to the kommode , or the possibility of papercuts and the subsequent infection that would be the result of true thought-crime?

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Anything that would cause me to commit ThoughtCrime™ is what puts me in fear. I am so worried about this that I engage in morning denouncisthenics just in case I committed ThoughtCrime™ in my dreams.

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... If you think the Palinazi is a hottie
... If you have fantasies involving bears and the Palinazi
... If the thought of an old man and a young hottie makes you think of reform


 
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