Questions to wrap up your weekend

[sabotabby]

Everyone's sick of talking about the stupid cartoons (although I have a new-found confidence in gaybortion, which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot. So hah!), so let's talk about more interesting subjects.

Baby Godwin is a sad panda.

Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez to Hitler.
Then Chavez said that Bush was worse than Hitler.

[Poll #667317]

(Hat tip to roter_terror and springheel_jack.)

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Also, OCAP and Uprising are doing joint movie nights and are looking for recommendations for movies to show. They must be fun (that means no didactic documentaries, kthnx) and political in some way. Until the spring, exceedingly long movies like The Battle of Algiers cannot be shown because Uprising has no heat.

La Haine, They Live!, Life and Debt and The Harder They Come have all been recommended, and I'm being told to quash any suggestions of Bread and Roses. (Heh.)

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

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Marinetti thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and fealty. He is now passed out in the living room.

Comments

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Cow Tse Tongue!! Best pun in the entire thing.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Probably not, but you can never tell with these guys. Rumsfeld's remarks? Softening people up so that they could if they really decided they wanted to. I can't see a scenario where it would become likely, but I wouldn't put it past them if somehow circumstances were to arise that gave them a reason. At any rate, if I were a Venezuelan military planner, I'd consider it an eventuality that should be taken seriously and planned for as a worst-case scenario. Or perhaps slightly more likely, a US-backed attack by Colombia.

[sabotabby]

Even the black-and-white version? I remember the more recent one being surprisingly awful, but I didn't think the old one was that bad.

[sabotabby]

I've heard of it and heard it was good. I'll suggest it.

[sabotabby]

What's it about?

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

Ma 6-T Va Craquer. French hip-hop movie showing poor kids fighting cops. Great riot scenes at the end. Kind of like La Haine, but not as good. Just more violent, but you have to wait till the end to get the goods.

1900>/i>.
Only if you have 4 to 6 hours.

[sabotabby]

What was that?

I loved Libertarias and I thought Land and Freedom was good (but nowhere near as good as the book. Also, Devil's Backbone.

Re: i'm confused

[sabotabby]

I don't know. I noticed that too, though, and it looked like he was peeing through his udder.

Maybe he was a gender revolutionary as well.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[sabotabby]

That was the point at which I needed to share it with the class.

[sabotabby]

Oh, I'm dying to see 1900, but imagine sitting in what used to be a fish shack, on uncomfortable chairs, with no heat, surrounded by crusty punks, for the length of that movie.

Re: i'm confused

[ironed_orchid]

Gender revolutionary cow! Yay.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

I'd actually rather not picture that, thank you very much.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

I love that song. I posted about it last week I believe. On Dana Lyons' website, there is a chronicle of how he wrote the lyrics.

http://www.cowswithguns.com/Cowstory.html

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Well, the internets says (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=hugo+chavez&word2=adolf+hitler) Hugo Chavez kicks Adolf Hitler's ass hands down.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[sabotabby]

There's a book?!

Squee!

[sabotabby]

It's the reincarnation of Googlewars, but bigger and better!

You have just made me a very happy woman.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Bush kicks his ass too. Poor Hitler is now the bitch of a neoconservative (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=george+w.+bush&word2=adolf+hitler). LOL.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. I meant Ken Loach, so Land and Freedom.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Haha.

Judging by the book cover, it looks like a book for children. Cat in the Hat meets Che Guevera meets Rambo.

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[sabotabby]

I found out a few days ago that a friend of mine is pregnant. So maybe it can be a gift for the baby.

[sabotabby]

PWNED.

(Speaking of which: Ahahahaha!

Re: Personally, I recommend this political movie.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

It instills the values of the revolution in a form kids understand. Plus, the kids who grow up reading it will most likely come in support of the bovine revolution, give up the reins of power wilingly, thereby eliminating a violent bloodbath in the struggle between human vs bovine. (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=human&word2=cow)

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Laugh all you like at the misfortune of poor Trotsky. In all fairness, though, Stalin never boinged Frida Kahlo. :-P

[sabotabby]

You make a good point. Trotsky died earlier, but he probably died a much happier man.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I think that the popular support Chavez has would spell out *massive guerilla warfare*. I mean it's nothing like Saddam Hussein, who was mostly reviled, even by the people who had sectarian sympathies or connections with him. Chavez actually has massive popular support. Considering the quagmire that the U.S. is currently in Iraq, and the intense strain it is creating on the entire armed forces in the U.S., a military operation in Venezuela is unlikely.

As for proxy forces, well, Columbia isn't even in control of itself, and setting off that kind of regional algebra might end up worse for the U.S. in the end. I mean you start a war only because you're completely desperate or you think you have a massive advantage over the other party. I don't think that the U.S. is in either position, and unlike Iraq, I don't think it's even deluded to be in either position.

As far as invading countries goes, I'd put a lot more money on Iran, which could be even stupider than invading Venezuela in a way, but more relevant to U.S. geopolitical interests. I mean Iran is selling its oil and gas in 25-year contracts to China and India, but I don't think Venezuela is. Iran is probably meddling in Iraq as well as trying to get nukes, and is a constant threat to Israel.

Venezuelan oil is still flowing freely to the U.S., and while it's gaining some influence in Latin America, it's still relatively benign outside its own borders, other than shoring up Cuba, which is a symbolic rather than actual threat.