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

[snitsnat]

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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