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By: mildlypiquedacademician

mildlypiquedacademician — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:08:05 +0000

Ernesto wrote:

Yep, comunism killed almost as many as capitalism but not as many as american expancionism

??? I assume you are referring to the colonization of America. Unfortunately, the last guy in the disease pool musical chairs was going to get it. Sadly for the Native Americans, they were it.

See http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/ for a comparative breakdown. No doubt about it, there is blood on the hands of nearly every winner in the international system, often a lot of it that said individuals would like to forget (see Belgium). But the death toll under Mao and Stalin is so large in such a short period of time (1930s to the 1960s) it boggles the mind.

And El Che, he can go get stuffed.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:43:17 +0000

Yep, comunism killed almost as many as capitalism but not as many as american expancionism, some of the t-shirts are nonsens thats right but most of them reflect the feeling of hate toward the american goverments liberal or conservative, for the rest of the world there is no diference. The us economy is going down for one reason, president Bush needs to ivade more contries to steel oil.
El Che was a guerrilla man he is not remebered for how many he killed but becaused he killed capitalists many of them hired by the CIA or the US goberment, and that s why he is a Hero and always will be remebered.

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By: mildlypiquedacademician

mildlypiquedacademician — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:12:30 +0000

Angry Diesel Engineer wrote:

###I just ran across some other entertaining shirts, involving our friend Radical Jack . . .

http://www.thoseshirts.com/tshirts.html###

Those are pretty good examples of the (muted) right-wing analogs of Radical Jack. Reagan on a shirt I have no objection to but Ann Coulter… ick, ick, ick.

By: Angry Diesel Engineer

Angry Diesel Engineer — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:01:12 +0000

I just ran across some other entertaining shirts, involving our friend Radical Jack . . .

http://www.thoseshirts.com/tshirts.html

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Winning In Slow Motion : energiesunit.info — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:18:00 +0000

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By: mildlypiquedacademician

mildlypiquedacademician — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:39:12 +0000

Dave C wrote:

###Looked at the list of t-shirts. The Einstein one and the 68 olympics were not quite as doomsdayish as you make out but yes the litany of back slaps for dogmatists was somewhat depressing.###

As I noted at the bottom of my post, there are plenty of people there who ARE fine, but they do not belong next to Mao, Trotsky, etc. I could have just as well picked Einstein. In fact I must have missed that one because I would surely have put him in with Harriet Tubman, Steven Biko, Frederick Douglass and MLK.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:24:56 +0000

Looked at the list of t-shirts. The Einstein one and the 68 olympics were not quite as doomsdayish as you make out but yes the litany of back slaps for dogmatists was somewhat depressing.
It was the same feeling I get when I see youngsters wandering down the street wearing relgious t-shirts or the oh so certain christ stickers on the back of various vehicles.
The certainty of dogmatists is a never ending source of worry for me, I mean how do you communicate with people who know what is right all the time?
Old Radical Jack is just a political version of Pat Robertson and the two of them haven’t moved on since they made their mind.
It kind of reminds me of when I went to a school re-union, for a lot of people there, school seemed to have been the pinnacle of their existence because they were still at school. The team captain still wanted that respect and continued living the life and nothing you could say would make him aware of let alone appreciate the cool breeze of reality.
So Jack is a sad old relic, just as the the various cults that exist in the world and most of the political parties are sad old relics of a surer more “ideal” time. The question that needs an answer now is what is needed to make things better?

By: mildlypiquedacademician

mildlypiquedacademician — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:50:31 +0000

Kinga says:

###I couldn’t agree more. Personally I want a USSR one with hammer and sickle. That’s just so chic and I am gonna look like a real rebel.###

Oh, oh, get the hammer and sickle tattooed to your forehead! That’ll REALLY show how much of a rebel you are! T-shirts (and magnetic car ribbons) are for those who lack conviction.

Pabsta wrote:

###Dude, you like don’t seem to get it and all. See Che would want to be on t-shirts, it was like his dream, man.###

Actually I suspect it might have been his goal, or at least he wouldn’t mind.