Comments on: BoingBoing and Propaganda

By: JM

JM — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:08:54 +0000

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/07/cuba.blogger.detained/index.html

Top story on CNN. And another one about Venezuela on BoingBoing. You see it everyday. Nothing new.

By: JM

JM — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:30:40 +0000

I believe that humanity pretty much sucks. We may have the potential for greatness, but various factors influence us so that we act and think like fools. They get us every time. I used to think otherwise, but I’ve seen that almost everybody is an egoist. There are better individuals, but they usually don’t get very far in live, because society doesn’t let them. Yet, I believe to that regardless of how annoying, dumb or “evil” someone is, he still deserves some basic rights. Because, under other circumstances, he would develop another character.

By: Wolfgang DelaSangre

Wolfgang DelaSangre — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:27:41 +0000

I won’t say I approve of homosexuality, nor will I say there is nothing wrong with it. But you will never hear me say that a homosexual man is less of a person than I am. As far as God is concerned, I’m not any better, and if He measured sin, I’d be much worse off.

I don’t like that people are treated unfairly (but that goes in both directions; a lot of “rights” movements don’t want fair treatment, they just want to be spoiled). I like this sort of propaganda even less. It’s not at all wrong to express your own views in a civil manner if you are a journalist, and it is impossible for any journalist to be completely unbiased. But there are lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of them.

You may have heard the saying, “I like humanity; it’s the people I can’t stand.” For me, it’s the other way around, and then some: I like SOME people, but humanity in general is an annoyance. Always making racket, making the outside smell like either dead skunk, ashes, or wet dog, and always, ALWAYS, complaining that there lives aren’t going the way they want them to but that they shouldn’t have to lift a finger to get what they want. The people I like are the people that know better, but also haven’t forgotten how to dance. (Okay, I watched an episode of Babylon 5 a minute ago. Borrowed that last bit from Ambassador Molari.)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:57:37 +0000

How very postmodern.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:34:11 +0000

Everyone is lying. Be it BoingBoing or jungeWelt. The best you can hope for is becoming good at propaganda yourself. Or that others are intelligent enough not to rely on one news source alone.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:11:01 +0000

I wouldn’t underestimate what the US can do. They don’t need to use the army to cause mayhem.

Besides, how does any of this make this kind of propaganda acceptable?

By: JM

JM — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:17:41 +0000

I don’t think the US has the power nor the influence to go to war in Latin America anymore. Propaganda against Chavez can be found in every mainstream news outlet. There’s no use fighting it. I mean, Chavez acts as a clown on purpose and aligns himselfs with dictators, and I think it’s because of that. He will be hated by the West anyway.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:04 +0000

I don’t think warmongering Americans have a problem with rounding up gays.

But you can easily get the “liberals” to be screaming for a “human rights intervention.”

By: JM

JM — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:29 +0000

I don’t think warmongering Americans have a problem with rounding up gays.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:50 +0000

Yeah, but I’d expect better from BoingBoing.