Political funny pictures thread, part V *** If I don't laugh, I'll cry***

[Phase2]

 

[jamil]

In a very small way, I'd like to hear the explanation of that one....but I'm social distancing right now.

I'm really getting tired of this. The "social distancing" of course. But also that so many people have such radical views. Trump is literally Hitler. Social distancing = communism.

Maybe she could read a book. maybe some articles in various online encyclopedias. At least read the definition in some online dictionaries. This just demonstrates that right wing people can be every bit as delusional as right wing people accuse left wing people of being.

 

[BugI02]

Communism is a very specific thing. It is not coextensive with a police state or authoritarianism as both have existed in many, if not most, places without communism.

Specious. Police states and authoritarianism can exist without communism, but the more important datum is whether any communist states have ever existed w/o secret police and authoritarianism. I can't think of any, can you?

 

[Doug]

I sincerely doubt she could tell you anything about Communism.
She doesn't like social distancing; she heard someone say Communism is bad; she equates the two.
She may well be a Bernie supporter who thinks Socialism is the wave of the future and not see the connection between Socialism and Communism.

 

[jamil]

Specious. Police states and authoritarianism can exist without communism, but the more important datum is whether any communist states have ever existed w/o secret police and authoritarianism. I can't think of any, can you?

Specious. That doesn't prove the point that those measures in question are communist. They're not communist per se even if communists typically employ them. Authoritarian, yes. WWII Germany was authoritarian and not communist. So why not call it literally hitler if you must equate the measures used by the G with authoritarian regimes? It wouldn't make that accusation accurate either though.

 

[spencer rifle]

During the '60's and early '70's, (Yes, I'm old enough to remember), anytime a group got together to protest anything, people who had no idea why they were there or what it was about would join in, carry signs, and chant slogans they didn't understand.

Some people would protest trees having leaves.
It doesn't need to make any sense.

Wish I had the pic handy, but our oldest was in the UK some years back at a protest, I think having to do with university fees. One guy had a sign that said "I just stepped out for a pint of milk."

 

[Slapstick]

 

[BugI02]

Specious. That doesn't prove the point that those measures in question are communist. They're not communist per se even if communists typically employ them. Authoritarian, yes. WWII Germany was authoritarian and not communist. So why not call it literally hitler if you must equate the measures used by the G with authoritarian regimes? It wouldn't make that accusation accurate either though.

My interpretation of Hough's post was that he was saying secret police and authoritarianism are not uniquely communist, which is correct. I was pointing out that communism is uniquely authoritarian and secret policey

One is a proper subset of the other - unless you can point out a communist regime that was not also authoritarian and secret policey?

 

[BugI02]

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[2A_Tom]

Cannot use torches that's KKKish.

 

[BugI02]

Cannot use torches that's KKKish.

The townsfolk in Ingolstadt were using them long before the KKK

 

[Mikey1911]

Cannot use torches that's KKKish.

What we Yanks call “flashlights”, the Brits call “torches”.

 

[Route 45]

What we Yanks call “flashlights”, the Brits call “torches”.

And, as usual, they are wrong.

Just like "windscreen" vs "windshield." It doesn't "screen" the wind. It stops the wind. It's a windshield.

'Murica.

 

[2A_Tom]

Bolly, boot, pants...

 

[Liberty Sanders]

They call kerosene "paraffin" and a car hood a "bonnet." Now that's downright confusing.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

They call kerosene "paraffin" and a car hood a "bonnet." Now that's downright confusing.

And the car trunk is the "boot".

 

[printcraft]

Why don't they just use proper english!?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Why don't they just use proper english!?

Right? And always sticking extra letters in words willy-nilly, like "colour" and "shoppe" and "aluminium". It's like they're just making it up as they go!

 

[actaeon277]

Right? And always sticking extra letters in words willy-nilly, like "colour" and "shoppe" and "aluminium". It's like they're just making it up as they go!

https://grammarist.com/spelling/aluminium-aluminum/
I just had to look this up.

 

[Doug]

Bolly, boot, pants...

I think "boot" is the trunk of a car, but what about "bolly" and "pants?"