[lbo-talk] "Brits" (as seen by Yanks)

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Jul 11 10:48:30 PDT 2005


yeah, like this:

<quote>

> In the contemporary Western world, most people who identify with the

> Left -- meaning the majority of people -- hate war, corporations,

> pollution, Christian fundamentalists, economic inequality, tobacco and

> conservatives. But they rarely hate the greatest evils of their day, if

> by evil we are talking about the deliberate infliction of cruelty --

> mass murder, rape, torture, genocide and totalitarianism. </quote>

At 01:42 PM 7/11/2005, snitsnat wrote:
>At 01:07 PM 7/11/2005, James Heartfield wrote:
>
>
>>I do not read the stoical response as complancency.
>>On the contrary, I am rather glad that London is not wallowing in self-pity.
>
>hear! hear! thank dog for that! leave to the u.s. conservatives to
>gratuitously grab the incident and act like a bunch of fools, quote
>Churchill, and practically blubber as if they gave two hoots -- when not a
>couple of years ago, the U.K was their favorite left fascist state
>whipping buoy. "If we don't watch out, we'll become like the left fascists
>in England!"
>
>they need a fainting couch instead of a La-Z-boy, i tell ya.

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-- rwmartin



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