The power of ridicule. by Fremdfirma

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The power of ridicule.

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UPDATED: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 13:20
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Sunday, December 6, 2009 11:51 AM

I was actually planning to write a piece on this, but Bob Wallace kinda beat me to the punch on it.

Bugs to the Rescue
http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/wallace/wallace2.html

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The wisdom of cartoons teaches us one of the ways to attack the wrong is by ridiculing it. By outsmarting and tricking it. Evil can't stand to be ridiculed. If the Devil really is wandering around somewhere, he doesn't scare me. I'd just laugh at him.

I pay great attention to the amount of ridicule directed at politicians and the State. I do not believe any State can survive once the ridicule of the public reaches a critical mass. I've haven't seen it yet happen to the State, but I have seen it happen to politicians.

In the right hands, ridicule is every bit as deadly a political weapon as a bullet, and far less risky if you're smart about how you use it.

-F

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Sunday, December 6, 2009 1:24 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

In essence: "The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society". Bingo.

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Monday, December 7, 2009 8:28 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Which helps explain why I'm the way I am...

And also why more and more people are getting their "news" from The Daily Show. We're not getting the real story from anyone, so we may as well just laugh at ALL the assholes.

When the world is in the shitter, and you're little people and can't make a difference and won't be heard, might as well point and laugh. After all, what are "they" gonna do, KILL you? Pointing a gun at a drowning man is really an empty threat, don'tcha think?

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:56 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Which explains the way I roll.

The more people hate, the closer I am to the truth and to the right path.

Besides... how much ridicule did MLK, JFK, G. Washington, T. Jefferson, G. Khan, Ghandi, receive?

lol I would rather be hated by the sheep, than loved by them. It just shows that Im doing the right thing. After all, the sheep always hate the shepherd.

(Ducking from the inevitable hate posts...)

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:03 PM

CHRISISALL

Peter Parker has it down pat. Make fun, and if ya win, all the better.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:06 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:20 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Hate to quibble, but...

"Bugs was always outsmarting, tricking and ridiculing his opponents. He didn't use violence."

Apparently not much of a Bugs Bunny student.

See, for example, "Captain Hareblower"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3274382137005127076#

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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