20 Common Themes, Rhetorical Tactics and Dangerous Policies
4. Both relentlessly demonize opponents. “Hitler’s radio harangues demonized his domestic political opponents, calling them parasites, criminals, cockroaches, and various categories of leftist scum,” Neuborne notes. “Trump’s tweets and speeches similarly demonize his political opponents. Trump talks about the country being ‘infested’ with dangerous aliens of color. He fantasizes about jailing Hillary Clinton, calls Mexicans rapists, refers to ‘shithole countries,’ degrades anyone who disagrees with him, and dreams of uprooting thousands of allegedly disloyal bureaucrats in the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the FBI, and the CIA, who he calls ‘the deep state’ and who, he claims, are sabotaging American greatness.”
- Jaxson66
- 02-13-2020, 06:41 PM
- Levianon17
- 02-13-2020, 07:18 PM
20 Common Themes, Rhetorical Tactics and Dangerous PoliciesAll Politicians can fall into that category, you can't single out Trump on that. You're just trying to pick gnat shit out of a hay stack.
4. Both relentlessly demonize opponents. “Hitler’s radio harangues demonized his domestic political opponents, calling them parasites, criminals, cockroaches, and various categories of leftist scum,” Neuborne notes. “Trump’s tweets and speeches similarly demonize his political opponents. Trump talks about the country being ‘infested’ with dangerous aliens of color. He fantasizes about jailing Hillary Clinton, calls Mexicans rapists, refers to ‘shithole countries,’ degrades anyone who disagrees with him, and dreams of uprooting thousands of allegedly disloyal bureaucrats in the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the FBI, and the CIA, who he calls ‘the deep state’ and who, he claims, are sabotaging American greatness.” Originally Posted by Jaxson66
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-13-2020, 07:23 PM
- eccieuser9500
- 02-13-2020, 09:46 PM
what makes you think he's plagiarizing anyone? can yous prove it?Triggered.
yeah .. didn't think so. just more hollow rhetoric of the far left.
since you idolize socialism how 'bout the atrocities of your paragons of totalitarian socialism?
you know ... these guys .. who make Hitler look like a choir boy?
Great Purge
https://www.history.com/topics/russia/great-purge
Newly Released Documents Detail Traumas Of China's Cultural Revolution
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/47687...ral-revolution
you "idolize" two of the most brutal socialist extremists ever. and yet you think socialism is this benevolent utopia for the "people". right!!!
you've been lied to friend .. and you fell for it hook, line and sinker.
BAHHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
- Clay Media
- 02-13-2020, 09:48 PM
The old Hitler/Nazi thing again? Stop crying wolf.
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-13-2020, 09:51 PM
- eccieuser9500
- 02-13-2020, 10:00 PM
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-13-2020, 10:04 PM
Triggered. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
https://www.koaa.com/homepage-showca...lled-by-police
Uncovering the criminal history of suspect killed by police
Suspect Devon Malik Bailey officially identified
COLORADO SPRINGS — The El Paso County Sheriff's Office confirms the man who died in an officer involved shooting in Colorado Springs on Saturday is 19-year-old Devon Malik Bailey. With Bailey's full name and date of birth News5 was able to search court records and even pull an affidavit that says he was accused of sex crimes in El Paso County.
Court documents reveal Bailey had interactions with police three times since 2015. Charges from two of those incidents were dismissed by the district attorney.
Court records also show Bailey was facing charges tied to two victims. The charges include Criminal Attempt- sexual assault on a child by one in position of trust. Court records show Bailey pled *not guilty* to the charges about a week ago.
The officers involved in the deadly shooting are on administrative leave and in accordance with state law the El Paso County Sheriff's Office is now in charge of the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting.
- HoeHummer
- 02-13-2020, 11:27 PM
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-13-2020, 11:29 PM
- eccieuser9500
- 02-13-2020, 11:42 PM
https://www.koaa.com/homepage-showca...lled-by-police
Uncovering the criminal history of suspect killed by police
Suspect Devon Malik Bailey officially identified
COLORADO SPRINGS — The El Paso County Sheriff's Office confirms the man who died in an officer involved shooting in Colorado Springs on Saturday is 19-year-old Devon Malik Bailey. With Bailey's full name and date of birth News5 was able to search court records and even pull an affidavit that says he was accused of sex crimes in El Paso County.
Court documents reveal Bailey had interactions with police three times since 2015. Charges from two of those incidents were dismissed by the district attorney.
Court records also show Bailey was facing charges tied to two victims. The charges include Criminal Attempt- sexual assault on a child by one in position of trust. Court records show Bailey pled *not guilty* to the charges about a week ago.
The officers involved in the deadly shooting are on administrative leave and in accordance with state law the El Paso County Sheriff's Office is now in charge of the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Drunk, angry and triggered.
Such a Fun Age - the hit novel that skewers white privilege
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/202...hite-privilege
Reid muses over how the term ‘woke’ is increasingly presented as a pejorative: “I can see why people might dissociate from a term that doesn’t seem to effect change…” she says. At the same time, she remains constantly receptive to change, mentioning how Philadelphia’s Fair Workweek legislation aims to improve conditions for the many diverse workers – the real-life Emiras and tens of thousands of others – employed by the city’s retail, hotel and fast-food chains.
You opened the door to the tangent.
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-13-2020, 11:55 PM
how? how could this happen under the great socialist utopia of the Dear Leader Mao?
A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine
https://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/16473...s-great-famine
Chinese villagers welcome the arrival of tractors purchased by a farmers' cooperative in April 1958, during the Great Leap Forward campaign. The disastrous modernization program ended in China's great famine and tens of millions of deaths.
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
First of two parts
It's not often that a book comes out that rewrites a country's history. But that's the case with Tombstone, which was written by a retired Chinese reporter who spent 10 years secretly collecting official evidence about the country's devastating great famine. The famine, which began in the late 1950s, resulted in the deaths of millions of Chinese.
For Yang Jisheng, now 72, the famine hit home while he was away. He was 18, busy preparing a newspaper for his boarding school's Communist Youth League, when a childhood friend burst into the room and said: "Your father is starving to death."
Yang rushed home to find a ghost town — no dogs, no chickens, even the elm tree outside his house was stripped of bark, which had been eaten.
Yang Jisheng, 72, spent a decade working undercover, secretly amassing official proof of China's great famine. "When you are writing history, you can't be too emotional. You need to be calm and objective," he says. "But I was angry the whole time. I'm still angry."
Louisa Lim/NPR
The teenager took rice for Yang Xiushen, the man he called his father, but who was really his uncle. But the elder Yang was no longer able to swallow and died three days later.
"I didn't think my father's death was the country's fault. I thought it was my fault. If I hadn't gone to school, but had helped him dig up his crops, he wouldn't have died," Yang remembers. "My vision was very limited. I didn't have the information."
Unbearable Hunger, Inhuman Behavior
It was April 1959, a year after China launched its Great Leap Forward, a political movement forcing the population to drop everything and make steel in backyard furnaces so China could catch up with the U.S. and Britain. The country's entire population ate in collective kitchens, pots and pans were confiscated, and farm work was stopped.
Provinces reported record grain hauls — exaggerating their figures and resulting in huge procurement targets, leaving nothing for peasants to eat. Millions starved to death.
As an adult, Yang used his credentials as a reporter for the state Xinhua news agency to cajole and beg his way into provincial archives. He started gathering information on the famine in the mid-90s, and began the project in earnest in 1998.
He worked undercover for a decade at immense personal risk, pretending to research official grain and rural policies, in order to put together the first detailed account of the great famine from Chinese government sources.
From his research, Yang estimates that 36 million died during the famine. Most deaths were caused by starvation, but the figure also includes killing during ideological campaigns. Some Western scholars have put the toll as high as 45 million.
Unbearable hunger made people behave in inhuman ways. Even government records reported cases where people ate human flesh from dead bodies.
"Documents report several thousand cases where people ate other people," Yang says. "Parents ate their own kids. Kids ate their own parents. And we couldn't have imagined there was still grain in the warehouses. At the worst time, the government was still exporting grain."
Tombstone
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng
Paperback, 629 pages
purchase
At the epicenter of the famine, Xinyang in China's central Henan province, the post office confiscated 1,200 letters sent begging for help. The level of energy expended on covering up what was happening is chilling.
One passage in the book reads: "When the Guangshan County post office discovered an anonymous letter to Beijing disclosing starvation deaths, the public security bureau began hunting down the writer. One of the post office's counter staff recalled that a pockmarked woman had mailed the letter. The local public security bureau rounded up and interrogated every pockmarked woman without identifying the culprit. It was subsequently determined that the writer worked in Zhengzhou and had written the letter upon returning to her home village and seeing people starving to death."
Those who tried to leave the area were sent to labor camps. Ideological campaigns continued; in one district of Henan alone, 1,000 people were beaten to death for political problems.
Book Honors Unsung Heroes
At first, Yang says, he struggled to put all of this on paper.
"At first when I was writing this book, it was difficult. But then I became numb. When you are writing history, you can't be too emotional. You need to be calm and objective," he says. "But I was angry the whole time. I'm still angry."
The result is Tombstone, a monumental history of famine, which was released in Chinese four years ago and has recently been published in English.
China: Change Or Crisis
TIMELINE: China Under Communist Rule
The Picture Show
The Art Of Chinese Propaganda
Stacy Mosher, the co-translator of the English version, says it's "an extremely important book."
"What Mr. Yang has done is ground-breaking and will live forever as he hoped," she says.
Mosher says the book honors both the dead and the unsung heroes.
"There were certain officials who within their own local parameters were able to save lives because they were able to ignore the central government's directives. They had the moxie, they had the guts, and they saved lives," Mosher says. "That is the lesson to take home: A system can be diabolical, it can be lethal, but the individual can make a difference."
The English version is less than half the length of the original two Chinese volumes. But Mosher says the significance of the Chinese version is that it allows Chinese readers to find out exactly what happened in their own provinces.
"For that reason, the Chinese version is absolutely essential for its Chinese audience," she says.
Banned In China
The book is banned in China, where histories blame the famine on natural disasters, the withdrawal of Soviet experts and policy mistakes. Yang says the first two reasons are just excuses that don't hold any water.
Counterfeit versions of his book are in circulation, as are photocopies and electronic versions. Yang says he doesn't care about copyright. He just wants Chinese to know their own history.
"Our history is all fabricated. It's been covered up. If a country can't face its own history, then it has no future," he says. "And if a regime destroys history systematically, that's a terrifying regime."
As China prepares to unveil its new leaders, Yang — a lifelong Communist Party member — hopes they'll push for change. He chose the title Tombstone as a memorial to his father and other famine victims.
For years, he feared the book might be his own tombstone. Now he hopes it will be a tombstone for a political system that caused mass deaths.
"Now China has reached a crossroads, and to find which direction to travel, it needs to view through the prism of history," he says. "A people who have forgotten their history have no direction. My book faces up to the darkness to avoid darkness."
oh why oh why did yous let us die Great Leader Mao? were yous too busy eating the cow? the last cow in China??
BAHHAHHAHAHAAAAAA
A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine
https://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/16473...s-great-famine
Chinese villagers welcome the arrival of tractors purchased by a farmers' cooperative in April 1958, during the Great Leap Forward campaign. The disastrous modernization program ended in China's great famine and tens of millions of deaths.
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
First of two parts
It's not often that a book comes out that rewrites a country's history. But that's the case with Tombstone, which was written by a retired Chinese reporter who spent 10 years secretly collecting official evidence about the country's devastating great famine. The famine, which began in the late 1950s, resulted in the deaths of millions of Chinese.
For Yang Jisheng, now 72, the famine hit home while he was away. He was 18, busy preparing a newspaper for his boarding school's Communist Youth League, when a childhood friend burst into the room and said: "Your father is starving to death."
Yang rushed home to find a ghost town — no dogs, no chickens, even the elm tree outside his house was stripped of bark, which had been eaten.
Yang Jisheng, 72, spent a decade working undercover, secretly amassing official proof of China's great famine. "When you are writing history, you can't be too emotional. You need to be calm and objective," he says. "But I was angry the whole time. I'm still angry."
Louisa Lim/NPR
The teenager took rice for Yang Xiushen, the man he called his father, but who was really his uncle. But the elder Yang was no longer able to swallow and died three days later.
"I didn't think my father's death was the country's fault. I thought it was my fault. If I hadn't gone to school, but had helped him dig up his crops, he wouldn't have died," Yang remembers. "My vision was very limited. I didn't have the information."
Unbearable Hunger, Inhuman Behavior
It was April 1959, a year after China launched its Great Leap Forward, a political movement forcing the population to drop everything and make steel in backyard furnaces so China could catch up with the U.S. and Britain. The country's entire population ate in collective kitchens, pots and pans were confiscated, and farm work was stopped.
Provinces reported record grain hauls — exaggerating their figures and resulting in huge procurement targets, leaving nothing for peasants to eat. Millions starved to death.
As an adult, Yang used his credentials as a reporter for the state Xinhua news agency to cajole and beg his way into provincial archives. He started gathering information on the famine in the mid-90s, and began the project in earnest in 1998.
He worked undercover for a decade at immense personal risk, pretending to research official grain and rural policies, in order to put together the first detailed account of the great famine from Chinese government sources.
From his research, Yang estimates that 36 million died during the famine. Most deaths were caused by starvation, but the figure also includes killing during ideological campaigns. Some Western scholars have put the toll as high as 45 million.
Unbearable hunger made people behave in inhuman ways. Even government records reported cases where people ate human flesh from dead bodies.
"Documents report several thousand cases where people ate other people," Yang says. "Parents ate their own kids. Kids ate their own parents. And we couldn't have imagined there was still grain in the warehouses. At the worst time, the government was still exporting grain."
Tombstone
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng
Paperback, 629 pages
purchase
At the epicenter of the famine, Xinyang in China's central Henan province, the post office confiscated 1,200 letters sent begging for help. The level of energy expended on covering up what was happening is chilling.
One passage in the book reads: "When the Guangshan County post office discovered an anonymous letter to Beijing disclosing starvation deaths, the public security bureau began hunting down the writer. One of the post office's counter staff recalled that a pockmarked woman had mailed the letter. The local public security bureau rounded up and interrogated every pockmarked woman without identifying the culprit. It was subsequently determined that the writer worked in Zhengzhou and had written the letter upon returning to her home village and seeing people starving to death."
Those who tried to leave the area were sent to labor camps. Ideological campaigns continued; in one district of Henan alone, 1,000 people were beaten to death for political problems.
Book Honors Unsung Heroes
At first, Yang says, he struggled to put all of this on paper.
"At first when I was writing this book, it was difficult. But then I became numb. When you are writing history, you can't be too emotional. You need to be calm and objective," he says. "But I was angry the whole time. I'm still angry."
The result is Tombstone, a monumental history of famine, which was released in Chinese four years ago and has recently been published in English.
China: Change Or Crisis TIMELINE: China Under Communist Rule
The Picture Show The Art Of Chinese Propaganda
Stacy Mosher, the co-translator of the English version, says it's "an extremely important book."
"What Mr. Yang has done is ground-breaking and will live forever as he hoped," she says.
Mosher says the book honors both the dead and the unsung heroes.
"There were certain officials who within their own local parameters were able to save lives because they were able to ignore the central government's directives. They had the moxie, they had the guts, and they saved lives," Mosher says. "That is the lesson to take home: A system can be diabolical, it can be lethal, but the individual can make a difference."
The English version is less than half the length of the original two Chinese volumes. But Mosher says the significance of the Chinese version is that it allows Chinese readers to find out exactly what happened in their own provinces.
"For that reason, the Chinese version is absolutely essential for its Chinese audience," she says.
Banned In China
The book is banned in China, where histories blame the famine on natural disasters, the withdrawal of Soviet experts and policy mistakes. Yang says the first two reasons are just excuses that don't hold any water.
Counterfeit versions of his book are in circulation, as are photocopies and electronic versions. Yang says he doesn't care about copyright. He just wants Chinese to know their own history.
"Our history is all fabricated. It's been covered up. If a country can't face its own history, then it has no future," he says. "And if a regime destroys history systematically, that's a terrifying regime."
As China prepares to unveil its new leaders, Yang — a lifelong Communist Party member — hopes they'll push for change. He chose the title Tombstone as a memorial to his father and other famine victims.
For years, he feared the book might be his own tombstone. Now he hopes it will be a tombstone for a political system that caused mass deaths.
"Now China has reached a crossroads, and to find which direction to travel, it needs to view through the prism of history," he says. "A people who have forgotten their history have no direction. My book faces up to the darkness to avoid darkness."
oh why oh why did yous let us die Great Leader Mao? were yous too busy eating the cow? the last cow in China??
BAHHAHHAHAHAAAAAA
- eccieuser9500
- 02-14-2020, 12:03 AM
Triggy McTriggered.
- The_Waco_Kid
- 02-14-2020, 12:06 AM
Triggy McTriggered. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
if yous say fidel
https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithfl.../#23f05f4a6d76
10 Surprises About Fidel Castro's Extravagant Life
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s communist dictator, former president and divisive world figure, died on November 25 at 90 years old—53 years and three days after his nemesis U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Despite their adversarial status, both men were born into wealth via extremely ambitious fathers, both loved sports, both had a mistress weakness, and both fought for their country to oust dictators. That’s where the similarities end.
Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba's 1959 revolution.
JFK died young and Castro lived a long, well-heeled life. Castro survived 11 U.S. presidents. Although he didn't live in a palace and streets weren't named for him, Castro still lived more extravagantly and hypocritically than he wanted the world to know. Cuba’s revolution leader wasn’t as modest as he led on. A decade ago, Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s personal net worth at $900 million. That's a lot of socialist rationing for one person. Luxurious living arrangements were especially appealing to Castro. But for security reasons (after hundreds of assassination attempts), Castro's paranoid personal life and residences were top secret. Even Cuban citizens didn't know where he resided.
Fidel Castro, one of the longest-serving world leaders, died November 25 at 90 years old. (Photo by... [+]
Today In: Lifestyle Old
Here are 10 surprising nuggets about Fidel Castro’s lifestyle and ancestral homes (that is, the main two residences we know about).
1. Fidel Castro was born on his father Ángel Castro’s prosperous 25,000-acre, 400-employee sugar plantation (called Las Manacas farm) in small town Birán, Cuba—about 500 miles from Havana on the eastern end of the island. The property now serves as a Castro museum.
PROMOTED
Fidel Castro was born on this sugar plantation in 1926. (Photo by Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images)
Fidel Castro was born on this sugar plantation in 1926. (Photo by Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images)
2. Founded by their wealthy landowner father in 1915, Fidel and younger brother Raul Castro’s childhood home in Birán burnt down in 1954 but a replica was erected in its place in 1974.
Cuban President Fidel Castro examines photos of his relatives at his native house in Birán, Cuba.... [+]
A picture of Cuban leader Fidel Castro in his ancestral home which is now a museum. (Photo by Joe... [+]
3. Fidel and Raul’s parents, Ángel Castro and Lina Ruz González, are laid to rest at the Birán plantation. Castro’s privileged background (although non-bourgeois) contradicted his message, so to give himself street cred, he touted his grandparent’s background as “exploited Galician peasants” from Spain.
The burial site of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro's parents on the grounds of their childhood... [+]
4. Like JFK, Castro’s father sent him to boarding school where he received a quality education (despite mediocre grades). Baseball, reading, and politics were among his interests. At 14 (though he claimed he was 12), he even penned a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt congratulating him on his re-election while brazenly asking for $10 American cash (sounds like a secret capitalist).
As a 14-year old (not 12 as he claimed), Fidel Castro congratulated FDR on his re-election in 1940.... [+]
5. The Birán estate was more than a working sugar plantation. Prominent landowner Ángel Castro also established a primary school, hotel, pub, post office, a market store, and a ring for cockfighting (again, it sounds like a capitalist venture).
A building that served as a guest house on the Birán sugar plantation, founded by Fidel Castro's... [+]
6. Castro ruled Cuba for 49 paranoid years. He moved frequently due to an estimated 600 assassination attempts by the CIA and other foes. The failed plots are infamous—exploding cigars and poison milkshakes included. Castro eventually ceded power to his brother Raul and retired to the gated community “Punto Cero” (Point Zero), his top-secret 75-acre suburban Havana home which resembled a vast military compound.
Fidel Castro meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his brother President Raul... [+]
7. Punto Cero, a pre-revolution golf course property, was reportedly set up by Castro in the 1970s. According to Castro’s former bodyguard, the estate complex includes orange, lemon, mandarin, grapefruit and banana trees, as well as cows and six greenhouses to grow food.
Castro's compound is reportedly on the former grounds of the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club.
8. Punto Cero was far from the “fisherman’s cottage” Castro publicly claimed as his main asset. The luxurious complex in the Jaimanitas neighborhood (15 miles outside Havana proper) served as Castro’s summer residence near the capital city’s embassy district. According to Castro's former bodyguard (as reported by InCuba Today), he also owned a residences in Cayo Piedra (a stones throw from the Bay of Pigs), La Caleta del Rosario, which featured a private marina; and La Deseada, a chalet in Pinar del Río—reportedly one of Castro's favorite duck hunting spots.
Fidel Castro in Pinar del Río after the 1959 Cuban revolution. Castro frequently visited and took up... [+]
9. Retired Fidel Castro met foreign leaders, dignitaries and Popes at Punto Cero, including Pope John Paul II in 1998, Pope Benedict in 2012, and Pope Francis in 2015. Despite his Jesuit background, Castro was an atheist. Yet he still reveled meeting Popes, even exchanging religious books with them.
Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba in 2015. The Vatican described the meeting at... [+]
10. According to President Raul Castro who announced his brother's death, Fidel will be cremated and given a state funeral—perhaps with a final resting place near his parents on the Birán plantation. Although, in Fidel fashion, that is still a secret.
A man looks at a newspaper's front page the morning after Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro... [+]
- eccieuser9500
- 02-14-2020, 12:12 AM
Back on topic . . .
Trump Is a Would-Be Dictator
https://www.thenation.com/article/po...cism-dictator/
Trump Is a Would-Be Dictator
https://www.thenation.com/article/po...cism-dictator/
This administration may resort to increasingly coercive tactics to make up for the shortfall in public trust caused by its xenophobic and racist policies. If the economy takes a serious hit, Trump’s only chance of winning reelection would be whipping up the fear factor as much as possible; after all, during times of plague, it has always been all too easy to demonize outsiders as vectors of disease, death, and economic disintegration.