Flippant Friday: Ask sabotabby

[sabotabby]

Really. Ask me anything*. I'll answer it, in a manner of speaking.

Does anyone know, speaking of flippancy, where I can find the equivalent of this for the year ahead? I heard the new colours suck and I'm just dying to know! (Actually, it's for work, but I am curious and the Color Association makes you pay for it.)

* But if it broaches certain topics, I'll lock the post.

Comments

[sabotabby]

My own beliefs often diverge from the majority of anarchists (in my advancing years, I'm becoming more red than black, and I disagree with most anarchists I've met about the CNT's participation in the Republican government. I'm going to get flamed for saying that, too.) But for what it's worth, Radosh is wrong. (He's also wrong about the Rosenbergs.)

World War II was also a clash between unpleasant ideologies, but it was worth fighting in the sense that very little, if anything, could have been worse than a fascist victory. Same goes for Spain (although I think categorizing the post-37 Republic as entirely Stalinist is inaccurate).

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

He's also wrong about the Rosenbergs.

Both of them? Not just Ethel?

[sabotabby]

I'm not convinced Julius actually gave the Soviets anything useful or anything that they didn't already have. (Whether he intended to or not is a different story.)

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

It is testamentary of the gutlessness of (most) liberals and centrists in the decades succeeding the Rosenbergs' execution, that few could do more than quite theatrically roll their eyes at the ensuing controversy, rather than point out that, guilty or no, neither person should have been executed. Or, if it isn't cowardice or squeamishness in debate, it's a perverse tendency to jettison the most humane aspects of one's ideology in defense of said belief system. Perhaps that's an odd little corner to focus on, but I share a house with a conservative who dismisses the Katrina refugees as behaving like children in relation to the state; never mind that the very purpose of government, according to her belief system, is to protect property and the citizenry against the ravages of Mother Nature and the threatening state of nature. This sort of sloppiness drives me up the wall.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

(although I think categorizing the post-37 Republic as entirely Stalinist is inaccurate)

I agree with this. and Radosh is a weenie.