Posted on 09/16/2014 2:19:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I know, I know, I’m the guy that just keeps pointing out obvious truths but never offers any real solutions. Bear with me anyway.
My freshman year, I took a classical fencing class through Cornell P.E. with Maître d’Armes Adam Crown. He said some very interesting things to us before he left.
For example:
1.When it is not time to act, it is time not to act.
2.If you can call Obama a black president, you can also call him a white president.
3.America is exhibiting signs of becoming a fascist country.
4.In vino veritas (translation: “In wine there is truth,” or never trust a man who won’t get drunk with you)
Curiously, instead of instilling a patriotic epiphany enlightening me to the heresy of his ways, Crown’s leaving caused me to brood over his claims even more. He can still be found in Ithaca, where he teaches at the Crown Academy of the Sword.
What constitutes a fascist state? Well, according to the dubiously reliable, questionably credible and not-yet-peer-reviewed Google search I just performed, fascist regimes have certain traits in common. Here are 10 from a list by a certain “Dr. Lawrence Britt” (possible scholar, possible cyber-Pinocchio, I just don’t know): 1.“Powerful and continuing nationalism” (America! [expletive] yeah!)
2.“Disdain for human rights” (Including Guantanamo, Michael Brown/Trayvon Martin murders etc.)
3.“Identification of enemies/scapegoats for unity” (Terrorists have turbans!)
4.“Disdain for intellectualism” (Don’t send my children to some liberal fairy circus so Obama can teach them to worship Allah and believe in Darwin’s Satanism!)
5.“Supremacy of military” (Where’d you think all our taxes go? You think bombing civilians is going to pay for itself?)
6.“Rampant sexism” (Duh.)
7.“Religion and government are intertwined” (DUH!)
8.“Corporate power and rampant cronyism is protected” (It’s called “Wall Street” so we can wall out all the poor ugly people, hahaha! Am I right? Am I right! Alright, where are the keys to my Lambo? I need a bump before I drive home and get hammered.)
9.“Fraudulent elections” (Oh, Florida…)
10.“Controlled mass media” (Faux News, advertising, Hollywood, BET, Limbaugh)
America is also an institutionally racist country. Most people who live here and have a clue already realize this. Due to recent events, the Acquitted Trigger-happy White Police Officer and the Dead Unarmed Black Teen are something of stock characters in the urban legend of America. We live in a society where our guardians gun down our own people regularly based on how they look. Since America cannot rally itself through racial homogeneity the way WWII Germany could, American fascism has to account for this diversity in its populace with additional levels of control.
True control requires the right application of force on the right socio-economic level and the proper dissemination of accepted stereotypes. For example:
Private jails to house a penniless criminal underclass.
Heavily armed police to dominate impoverished black or Hispanic neighborhoods resorting to violence.
Drug laws that encourage the use and abuse of lethal (but taxable) substances and laboratory-made medicines.
Religion for thought control.
Money to buy out the politicians.
Corporate bamboo ceilings to ensure Asian-Americans don’t forget their place.
Lower female salaries.
A National Security Agency to spy on civilians, domestic and abroad.
Torture prisons to keep our enemies.
Depictions of Middle Eastern defenders as “insurgents” or “terrorists” to secure foreign oil, with the added consolation that Muslim-Americans at home will be suppressed by other ethnic groups.
Elections with the same two options (which are really the same team).
Price tags for educations.
And nukes. Just in case.
TLDR: Your vote doesn’t count, this is a police state, democracy is an illusion and you can be sad or go drink about it.
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David Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
“........a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.”.....
My BS degree came from the "College of Arts and Sciences" (at a different university).
Speaking as a former personnel recruiter, people with Arts and Sciences degrees
You're missing out on all the Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology and Mathematics degrees. For example. What sort of personnel did you recruit? Non-hackers who can't handle a real course of study?
WTF is “Thumpty” pray tell?
“Is there anything these 22 year olds don’t know?”
“When I was sixteen I wondered how my dad made it through life being as stupid as he was. When I was twenty-five I was astonished at how much he had learned.” ;-)
have no idea - just googled his name and Cornell and that’s what came up
I guess it’s the nickname of their fraternity at Cornell
As a fellow recruiter I concur. I think I’d rather have an articulate high school graduate, especially one who has been in the military or has some good civilian job experience, than an artsy-fartsy undergrad who believes all the Shiite his professors fed him.
The US version of “poofter” I suppose.
Yeah, their “research” didn’t even turn up the number one identifying characteristic of fascist systems (or the number two for that matter). Checking any dictionary or encyclopedia would have revealed those, so obviously they didn’t do any actual research and just pulled a bunch of attributes out of their behind.
Well, right there you might think there was something wrong with David.
“Controlled mass media” (Faux News, advertising, Hollywood, BET, Limbaugh)
Strange combination. I'd assume "controlled mass media" had something to do with the major networks and newspapers that go easy on Obama, rather than to recusants like Fox News or Limbaugh. Aren't the major broadcast networks more similar to the "controlled mass medium" of Hollywood than Rush Limbaugh? And when GE owns NBC and Disney owns ABC and both have their finger in all kinds of pies how independent are they really going to be? The big question, though: what does he have against Black people anyway?
See #21, above.
That was really hard to read...
I got as far as his 10 points.
What a tool. 100 grand (or more?) for an Ivy League education and this drivel is the best argument he can make?
I know high school drop-out millionaires and billionaires. Isn’t Cornell where Keith Olbermann matriculated?
I haven’t read the article. I’m sure it’s idiotic.
But.
The U.S. IS a racist, fascist police state.
Hey Zha, DUH!
What kind of shit are you smoking? If America is a fascist country, why are so many people trying to get into it, legally or illegally?
Don’t remember masses of humanity trying to get into Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany or TOJO’s Japan, nor voluntarily into Lenin and Stalin’s mass murder shitholes.
The same for Mao’s Red China gulag and Ho’s hellhole. And definitely the masses are not rushing the border barbed wire to get into the Mentally Ill Kims’ No. Korea.
Not many running to get into the Boko Harum Caliphate (yes they have proclaimed one for Africa) and most fled ISIS/ISIL’s heaven on earth caliphate in IRaq and SYria.
As a once highly ranked Middle Atlantic Conference epee fencer, let me give you some well earned advise - Wear your fucking helmet next time so you won’t get poked in the brain so much. Your head dents are showing.
[trying to figure out whether this is serious or satire]
Protip: Either way, if you want to be taken seriously as an arbiter of how real the struggle against the jackbooted thugs is, or taken seriously as a credible satirist of same, you might want to leave out the bit about taking classical fencing through Cornell P.E. with your maître d’armes. Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we?
Most defiinitely. I wish it had ended with the 4 things the fencing guy said. He was good.
Another one:
When the crime is ‘being black,’ police routinely respond with guns drawn
http://thelensnola.org/2014/09/16/when-the-crime-is-being-black-in-america-police-routinely-respond-with-guns-drawn/
I’m going to make a wild-eyed guess, here, that these individuals didn’t study Physics. Or Chemistry, or biology, or geology, or mathematics ...
I found one. He’s a chubby Chinese guy.
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