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Joe Sacco Response To Jihadist Attacks On Satirists

Posted by khalling 10 years, 3 months ago to Philosophy
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hey, Euda, can we interview you on this-after all, you are a satirist: http://www.papapossum.com/
I would really appreciate your thoughts on killings and how we move forward in the World under this type of terrorism


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  • Posted by 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    no-this is about inciting WAR. yet no one wants to take on the war within their own US. so comfortable to fight over THERE
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My response was to clarify the point that I thought khalling was making. You did ask for clarification. (It does me good to look up info like that once in a while, just to remind myself of what the 'good Greenpeace guys' are really doing.)

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ jdg 10 years, 3 months ago
    To their credit, not only have other papers all over Europe reprinted at least some of the cartoons, but French Prime Minister Manuel Valls had this to say:

    "We are waging a war, not a war against a religion, not a war of civilizations, but one to defend our values, which are universal. It is a war against terrorism and radical Islamism, against all who would smash solidarity, liberty, and fraternity. We must defend secularism, without compromise, as has too often happened."

    (source - http://www.francesoir.fr/politique-franc... )

    Anyone who still calls the French cowards may want to rethink that. Our country could have fought back as well as they, but has done mostly stupid things like create the TSA instead.
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  • Posted by sumitch 10 years, 3 months ago
    Muslim terrorism

    It's going to do a lot of good for "world leaders" to march arm and arm down the streets in Paris. Nothing that is being done to destroy the root cause of the attacks around the world killing thousands of people. Sure there have been a few killings stopped, but nothing of real consequence. Muslims have attacked and killed millions over the centuries and the only thing that has ever stopped them is to wipe them out. Apparently our PC society feels that this so called religion has some Allah given right to kill all infidels or at a minimum subjugate them into virtual slavery. There is only one way to bring these pigs under control.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I certainly won't disagree that there are many monsters. This post was specifically in response to the satire used against the Muslim Jihadists.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 3 months ago
    but how do we identify those who should be driven
    into the sea??? -- j

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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The annual deaths due to vitamin A deficiency are 125-250,000 (which is to say, 250-500,000 children go blind annually due to vit A deficiency and half of those children die within a year of going blind). There are about 600,000 deaths per year due to malaria. The estimated deaths in 2014 in the middle east are around 300-350,000.

    The deaths due to vitamin A deficiency are almost totally preventable - Greenpeace has been single handedly blocking golden rice since about 2000. DDT is one of the safest chemicals ever developed - you can eat teaspoonfulls of it without coming to harm. The use of this inexpensive insecticide has been blocked by Greenpeace and other environmental organizations since the 1970's.

    So: Who is the monster? Islam, which causes 300,000 deaths per year or Greenpeace, whose tole is twice that number? But that's OK. I mean, it is just mostly children, right?

    Jan

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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are there cartoon satirists who focus on U.S. gov agency bloat and evils? They would have no shortage of material that's for sure. We need that... tons of it everywhere.
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  • Posted by TroutPound 10 years, 3 months ago
    I would like to support the French People by buying newspaper and cartoon pic. Would love to see cartoon pic plastered all over the world in support of French People. Can anyone help in this endeavor. Thank you.
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  • Posted by byHisgrace 10 years, 3 months ago
    Muslims do not assimilate, they conquer.
    Look up Gates of Vienna.
    Study Islam...
    Islam and the West are completely and totally incompatible.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not sure of your point. Are there others of whom we should also be concerned? Certainly. My point was that satire entails taking a characteristic to the extreme.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Before turning Ayers into a dung heap, I was thinking of displaying what a pipe-bomb victim may look like after being ripped apart.
    With photos encouraged, since I don't like my meat ripe.
    If an Islamic terrorist can do that, why can't another prehistoric monster?
    Yeah, yeah! Ayers is a Marxist terrorist. I know that.
    So is Obama in his own way.
    Hmmm, if Obama showed up with his Secret Service--what a banquet!
    I am dino!
    Hear me roar!
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  • Posted by 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    how cynical do you want to get? the point is to instill fear. enviro-mentals kill more people, openly profess teh good of population control and have their own army-the EPA and the UN. they steal lives in the dead of night and never get caught. I'll take an in-your face caricature any day. at least I know who the enemy with the real power to destroy is. but keep your focus on ISIS by all means. we'll just keep taking your freedoms away,( in the name of WWIII), putting people in camps (in the name of WWIII) killing innocent people (in teh name of WWIII) soldiers will lose limbs (in the name of WWIII) and our end game will not be clear with a Constitution of our design if we win (what's new with our govt). It'll be Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton sending in soldiers without bullets to be peace keepers and you and many others on these posts will be complicit in your support of it. We need to focus our anger where we can make the most impact against these threats. The ideas. winning back freedoms we have lost-too numerous to count since I was a kid. there will always be monsters...
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Satire uses extreme caricature to make a point. How do you make beheading more extreme? Radical Islamic behavior is it's own caricature.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I see someone who wants to be careful trying to shame others to his way of thinking. His examples are red herrings. Again, if people weren 't so identified with groups (the cartoonist refers to himself as part of a tribe) then people would be less offended and others not offended for them. In many countries that magazine would be banned. Indeed, we held for several years two journalists from Pakistan in Guantanamo who others turned into us as terrorists, all they had done was publish a magazine, like The Onion. I have certainly written things which make me very nervous. Govts have many systems in place to target citizens if they wish. FB has become very PC. You hear all the time about people getting posts or their pages removed or suspended. We self -monitor this site with our down vote and hide features
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago
    This should be a separate post with eud interview in the title.

    I had similar thoughts about the comic on the link, but thought I was misunderstanding something. Kh, what did you think of it?
    All of you who write about non pc subject matter honestly and openly are to be commended on your dedication, your bravery and your determination to shine a light on reality.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Black Hat Realtors" is about how Harry Reid sicced the BLM on the Bundy family with the claim that they were protecting a desert tortoise but in reality probably protecting a deal Reid's son had with a Chinese solar company that wanted the same land.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I instantly thought about the Happy Birthday Series. but the ones that stick with me as "shit, I clicked through to this" are "Aeneas," "Leviathan," "Foreign and Domestic."

    "Black Hat Realtors" reminds me how I see modern day left wing threat-hackers
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