Posted on 07/10/2016 7:24:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The graphic at the top of this post is derived from the logo of the Socialist International. The original image — which can be seen on the left side of my adaptation — is vaguely repellent. A clenched fist holding a rose — what is that supposed to mean?
Is it going to punch me in the face to make me accept the socialist state, and then hand me a flower as a consolation prize? Or is it maybe a kinder, gentler version of the upraised clenched fist, the venerable symbol of World Revolution?
That image was brought to mind by last night’s post of an op-ed by Ahmad Mansour, a secular Muslim in Germany who called on German leftists to stop trying to prevent criticism of Islam. He urged them to engage him in a dialogue about Islam, in hopes that his religion might be reformed.
Since he refused to consider the possibility of dialogue with the supporters of AfD and PEGIDA, it was clear that he spoke to the Left as a man of the Left, in effect demanding an intra-Left conversation. Yet he concluded his essay with these words: “Dare to listen to us and discuss with us!”......
But back to the Socialist International.
Whenever Socialism comes on stage, you get the Fist. It promises to bring you the Rose, but there’s no rose without a fist.
When voters in their naïveté casts their ballots for the Socialists (which they do over and over again, depressingly enough), the first thing that happens is that their taxes go up. It’s a systemic requirement — if a socialist government is to keep its promises to distribute wealth and benefits more equitably, it has to get the money from somewhere. Perhaps it should invade a neighboring country and loot it.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...
All of the black liberation marxixt movements use the fist too, but no rose.
Why did you have to put a picture of Rosie O’Donell in there to gross me out?
ROFLMAO! Thanks for the post/graphic. Laugh of the day for me. Much appreciated, Mutt.
It’s the ones not in that pic, that we’ll be fighting.
Click The Pic
I like that website.
The Rosifistians.
Peace is the absence of resistance to communism.
Peace is what you have when you finish deporting the socialist for treason, whipping the “social activist” for looting, jailing the hippie for public indecency, putting the feminist in a lunatic asylum, quarantining the homosexual as a public health danger and shooting the Muslim for being a security threat.
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