Re: We won in Vietnam, we'll win in Iraq!

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That's pretty great. I was told Cracked sucked.


Posted by: David Weman | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 9:36 AM
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Cracked got bought and re-launched a couple years ago, and the new website is completely different from the old magazine.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 9:59 AM
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I don't get it. Some jerk thinks its funny to mock extremists by being more extreme, and challenging the other extremists.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 10:01 AM
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I'm not saying it's fair, or not cruel, or anything, but the point of the joke is that he can be that over-the-top and the people on his side aren't spotting him as absurd; ridiculous as he is, he's successfully passing. (Now, again, this isn't fair - he's at least partially exploiting people's politeness rather than their sense of what's reasonable. But it is funny.)

This comment brought to you courtesy of Standpipe's Joke Explaining Blog.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 10:08 AM
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Matt Taibbi did a somewhat better job.

As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.

Posted by: Sven | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 10:09 AM
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LB, isn't that kind of like the Borat movie, which I have not seen. Making fun of the rubes is an honored passtime, I guess.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:01 AM
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3: Some jerk thinks its funny to mock extremists by being more extreme

Yet oddly enough, it wasn't the plant whose idea it was to go charging through a hostile crowd with flag and idiotic sign held high. That's what makes his prank so beautiful: it's the thorough jackassery of the group he infiltrates that enables every step of it, leading eventually to his moment in front of the camera. I'd say it's pretty damned funny.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:04 AM
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It's also amusing (by which I mean "weird and chilling") that the Protest Warriors issue faux military ranks to their volunteer coordinators.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:05 AM
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Making fun of the rubes is an honored passtime, I guess.

When they're racist fucks who want to show "blacks" the barrel of a gun, yes. Or maybe you're saying that the people he's infiltrating are behaving normally in your experience?

Fucking PC liberals, always laughing at our earnest American lynch mob bigotry.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:49 AM
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3: Seriously, if I had known it was gonna lead to all this trouble, I'd have picked my own cotton.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:53 AM
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Joe- at what point did you think that I endorsed racism? I was just commenting that I didn't find the article as funny as others, who felt it worthy of posting. Oh, I forgot that you are Oscar Wilde, what with the importance of being earnest and all.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 11:57 AM
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3: Seriously, if I had known it was gonna lead to all this trouble, I'd have picked my own cotton.

The funniest thing about those who would display this incicive little epigram is that, no, they still probably wouldn't have picked their own damn cotton.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 12:04 PM
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Where's all the racial shit coming from all of sudden?


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 12:07 PM
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Beats me.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 12:09 PM
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Oh. Well, on my end, when I said...

When they're racist fucks who want to show "blacks" the barrel of a gun

...I was referring to the Protest Warrior poster shown in the article, with the big block letters reading "Reparations For Blacks!" over a picture of a gun being pointed directly at the intended audience. Maybe I'm reading too much into it?


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:33 PM
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Ah. I'd forgotten about that.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:42 PM
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15: I missed that one the first time. Charming.

I think the basic message of the poster is more "the government wants to steal your money at gunpoint," but still, yeah. Definitely Turner Diaries-positive.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:46 PM
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What's stranger about the poster is the UN symbol in the back. I do get pissed every time my UN tax bill arrives in the mail.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:49 PM
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Those black helicopters with the stealth mode aren't cheap.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:50 PM
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Your swat is vital to the paranoid effort!


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 1:58 PM
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The Protest Warriors are going to keep me from realizing my dream of a planet full of unicorns, aren't they?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:14 PM
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Race or no, Joe's got it right: making fun of that particular version of the rube? Easy, but completely and utterly deserved.

What happened to your sense of humor, TLL? Been consorting with us liberals too long?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:26 PM
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TLL: I spent a lot of time in the interior Old South, and I get the impression that this is where you currently reside. I think that ridicule and contempt for "extremists" of this sort is easier for people who don't run into them at the drugstore or the neighborhood bar.

Your lack of appreciation for this sort of humor is (I'm guessing) based on a tolerance and respectulness for regular folks. I've moved to the East Coast, and no longer feel conflicted about this sort of thing.

The Waco Kid understood:

"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:26 PM
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23: Gimme a break. My uncle, who my husband is spending the day with, is one of those rubes. I love him dearly, and I've spent my entire life making fun of him.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:28 PM
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My memory, which may be incorrect, is that TLL resides in California.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:37 PM
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B: Not quite what I'm talking about. I don't know what your experience is, but spend a decade or two in a *really* red state, and you'll find it's exhausting going through every day feeling contempt for the majority of the ordinary folks around you.

(Or, alternatively, you may just have more stamina for that sort of thing than I have.)


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:38 PM
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I don't know what your experience is, but spend a decade or two in a *really* red state, and you'll find it's exhausting going through every day feeling contempt for the majority of the ordinary folks around you.

I totally believe this.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:40 PM
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Mmm. I find law firms difficult for almost precisely the same reasons.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:45 PM
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"law firms" s/b "Unfogged," and the lack of posts is explained.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:46 PM
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No way, Tim. She loves me.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:48 PM
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26: Depends. If you share with the contemputous folks a real joy in pissing people off, it's kinda fun. What's really exhausting is being surrounded by people who are perfectly nice about how hateful they are.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:51 PM
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You hate that which you love, Apo. I'm pretty sure I heard that said in Silence of the Lambs, so you know it has to be true.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:52 PM
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I feel like most folks 'round here have a pretty high level of tolerance for their own contempt.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:55 PM
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25: Maybe so - I have no idea where I came up with that idea. Just a vibe, maybe.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:55 PM
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"What's really exhausting is being surrounded by people who are perfectly nice about how hateful they are."

Yeah. That too.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 2:58 PM
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I've concluded my brother and sister both are authoritarians, who choose to live in Foxworld. I can't say why, nor what it means. But the mocking is fine by me: these beliefs really are contemptible.

I don't see any point in confronting my own about them, as if I could convince them otherwise, although I will express disagreement and make them state the belief just so they hear themselves, in the hope that'll do some good. But laughing at protesters and strangers caught on camera? Absolutely.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 3:09 PM
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25. RMP is right, I am in beautiful sunny So Cal. And I have no problem with mocking people with intolerant or racist attitudes, but the smugger than thou can suck my dick. As the eminent Judge Smaels said in Caddyshack- the world needs ditchdiggers, too.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 6:00 PM
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Making UN jokes is all very funny now, but when you get throat cancer from being forced to provide oral pleasure to sinister UN operatives named Natasha, you won't be laughing then.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 05-18-07 10:33 PM
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