DUmmie FUnnies 09-06-06 ("The answers to many of our questions can be found in the movie 'V'")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | September 6, 2006 | DUmmies, KOmmies, and PJ-Comix

[NeoCaveman]

I find my answers in the upcoming moving "D is for DUmmie"

[kevkrom]

I watched it last weekend. and marvelled at some of the parallels to today. The whole politics of fear campaign: the offer-up-your-liberties-so-we-can protect-you mentality.

You mean fear tactics like:

• We're all going to die in 10 years if we don't do something about the environment! (Said over 10 years ago)
• Electing Bush will mean any or all of the following:
  • Old people starving in the streets
  • Black people being lynched left and right
  • Concentration camps for gays or leftist protestors
• "Vote or die!" Referring to the immenent reinstarement of the draft, which of course not only never happened, but was voted against by its own sponsor, Democrat Charlie Rangel
• And so on...

[Mr. Silverback]

When I read the headline, I thought they meant the TV series. I always had a thing for Diana.....Me too, on both counts. Yowza!

[Charles Henrickson]

Is it just an overblown "Batman" on acid?

In other words, benburch.

[kevkrom]

I was also wondering, since I usually consider myself somewhat of a pacifist--are we now nearing a point where violence might be the last resort?

I wouldn't be surprised if a serious and unbiased scholarly study proved that pacifism invariably leads to more irrational violence than would otherwise have occurred.

[Mr. Silverback]

When I saw the title, I thought of the TV series with the lizard aliens...I was like, "Are they going to start claiming Karl Rove eats mice? That the neocons are going to steal our water and then take us back to their planet to eat us?"

[SquirrelKing]

LOL - That is one lizard I would've hit.

[Charles Henrickson]

I watched it last weekend. and marvelled at some of the parallels to today. The whole politics of fear campaign: the offer-up-your-liberties-so-we-can protect-you mentality. Scary shit.

I know, it is scary! I mean, the very fact that this movie is being confiscated, that people who see it are being hauled off to re-education camps, that %^&*$# bushco is not letting us SEE this movie--

Oh, wait. . . .

[SquirrelKing]

Apocalypse Down and the English Patient

Um. Don't you mean "Apocalypse Now, Genius? And The English Patient??? WTF???

Oh, right, you ARE a DUmmie.

These are awesome, PJ. I love the thread from a week or so back where some DU noseminer wanted everyone to put on V masks and stand in front of city hall in silence on election day. Yeah. That'll teach us.

[JamesP81]

When I read the headline, I thought they meant the TV series. I always had a thing for Diana.....

Out of my age group, but excepting the fact that she was evil and quite literally wanted you for dinner, not bad :D

[Charles Henrickson]

Bullocks!

Is she in this one?

[weegee]

...the much hyped futuristic look at the bleak futures of England and America under the current trends

It was a slam on Thatcher's England in the 1980s. MOVE ON.

[Charles Henrickson]

we don't have to swallow the BS.

[Insert benburch joke here.]

[Talking_Mouse]

Without a doubt, the keystone address in the entire movie is Valerie's account of life as an emerging, then fully out and proud lesbian, the relatively minor hardships of falling in and out of young love and rejection by her parents for the crime of coming out with the truth about herself, then the Fingermen, as the operatives of the new police state were called, black-bagging both her partner, Ruth, and herself shortly thereafter.

Now I know of several current states where being a lesbian is a crime that carries the death penalty. However, none of them would allow a woman to be an actress, due to the fact that the female form must be covered up to avoid igniting the lust of pious males.

I do not understand how all the GLTB hysterical people are so afraid of "Christin" governments. Look at the current laws enforced in progressive Islamic states like Egypt or Jordan on their GLTB brothers and sisters. Were I one of them I would be gathering gunpowder to blow up something a lot different than Parliament.

[kevkrom]

Is she in this one?

No, I think "V for Vendetta" is a joke, too.

[Charles Henrickson]

Would the people truly be inspired enough to take to the streets? Or would they stay home and drink beer, like our current situation.

Call the DUmmie Slacktivist Corpse!

[kevkrom]

[Insert benburch joke here.]

I actually thought this one was benburch:

Cheney mask, prison orange and handcuffs and shackles.

[Charles Henrickson]

V gave them incentive to hit the streets with the distribution of the masks. It was one of the more brilliant ploys in the film.

Having seen some of the DUmmies, I think masks is a good idea.

[Mr. Silverback]

Jane Badler...hubba hubba! They're in production on a new V miniseries that will run in '07, and IMDB says she's going to play Diana again. She's in her fifties now, I'll bet she still looks good, but are they still going to write Diana as randier than a tomcat? That would be pretty weird to see from somebody only a few years tyounger than my Mom!

I'm hoping it's just a coincidence that there's suddenly a series about Nazis from space again during a Republican administration...

I really do appreciate that series for its pro-abstinence message: "Girls, don't be messin' around, because that cute boyfriend who says he loves you forever might just be a bipedal lizard who wants to eat your whole species."

[kevkrom]

I really do appreciate that series for its pro-abstinence message: "Girls, don't be messin' around, because that cute boyfriend who says he loves you forever might just be a bipedal lizard who wants to eat your whole species."

Of course... that's close enough to reality that I have no problem with that message. ;)