… surprisingly, the winner is not Andrew Sullivan but Foreign Policy magazine, which asks Can Gay Marriage Defeat ISIS, and stupidly concludes that it can.
Do you want to fight the Islamic State and the forces of Islamic extremist terrorism? I’ll tell you the best way to send a message to those masked gunmen in Iraq and Syria and to everyone else who gains power by sowing violence and fear. Just keep posting that second set of images [of gay people celebrating the gay marriage order]. Post them on Facebook and Twitter and Reddit and in comments all over the Internet. Send them to your friends and your family. Send them to your pen pal in France and your old roommate in Tunisia. Send them to strangers.
That’s the lesson of history: Brutality and fear can keep people down for only so long. The Nazis learned this; the Soviets learned it; the Ku Klux Klan learned it; Pol Pot learned it; the Rwandan génocidaires learned it.
I had no idea that the Nazis and Soviets were defeated by hashtags and idiot transparent rainbows on facebook profile pics. This must be from the “Underwater Gay Sailor” school of strategic thinking.
Hat tip: Sooper Mexican
Um… I’m pretty sure it was force of arms that stopped the Nazis, a stunted economy which failed to match America’s economy that did in the Soviets, prosecution of criminal Klansmen that subdued that Klan, a political power struggle that dethroned Pol Pot, and force of arms again that stopped the Hutus.
Notice what’s missing from that list? Pictures of lovey-dovey queers.
Egads. Time for us to pool our resources and those few people we actually like, move somewhere where we can sustain ourselves with an agrarian lifestyle, and watch the world go to pot.
I’m with you Sean L. I’m buying dried food, stocking up on silver and ammo, and just waiting for the Burning Times.
I weep for this nation. Seriously.
I didn’t take it so seriously, I thought it was humor based on history. People on all sides need to lighten up.
Tilly, people like that are deathly serious and not joking.
Lefties with no sense of history or proportion.
Davinci…i would add “reality” to your #6 comment.
While I do appreciate the desire to just let it go, I insist that, before we do anything on any scale at all, we have a plan for a Constitution at least outlined. I will not see the greatest country the world has ever known resigned to dust because of things the founders did not, and could not, know. We can take what we know now and improve upon the original design in ways that, according to Jefferson, was the natural progression of human events. I will put my thoughts out there in the coming days and see where it goes.
Oh wow, that would be treason, would it not? Eh, if this is my last post, fight the good fight for the soul of humanity for me.
Freeze dried nitrogen packed food is good for 30 years. Don’t forget planting fruit/nut trees. If you are north of the mason Dixon line try to twist your boyfriends arm into letting you have a walapini greenhouse.
Walmart unwilling to make confederate cake but makes ISIS flag cake instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ePFollQQE
Yes, those naughty boys did learn their lessons….after massacring 10’s of millions of people.
Ct, you lost me. The constitution, the bill of rights, was written over 200 years ago. It was for freedom of the time and foreseeable future. Like the age of Dino things evolve, however, everyone has a right to live and believe should be paramount, no one should have to live under oppression of any kind, and how can that be celebrated.
I don’t know what happened to that magazine. It used to have great articles, still does from time-to-time. But lately they’ve been opining about domestic stuff which is unnecessary. Did anyone catch this absurd article?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/26/pakistan-india-independence-gandhi/
People in the comments register their complaints with the lack of understanding and bias in the article. It shouldn’t have been printed.
The left really does think hashtag diplomacy works. Has anyone told them computers, social media and hashtags were around to defeat the Nazis.
Feel free to make the argument that the lead-up to WWII would have played out the same way with the transparency we have at our fingers today thanks to the internet, social media, etc.
Tilly, the document was unique in human history. The very idea that men could govern themselves had almost no precedent. The Constitution was really the first attempt at making a working society of free people. It was, of course, bound to fall apart. The founders acknowledged that. It was an experiment. The point of an experiment is to see what happens. It is now up to us to do it better. Not to be a dick, but I have no idea what you were trying to say at the end there. Please elaborate.
Just Me, enigma machine. Computers did beat the nazis! Err, sort of. Ok, yeah it’s wrong, but I had to say it.
Also, not dead!
CthulhuDreaiming, an excellent place to start with your new Constitution is the current one, minus the allowing slavery part, minus the 17th Amendment, and with the 2nd written a bit more clearly than it is now to protect the right of people as individuals to keep and bear arms. I don’t know if a mechanism for secession should be inserted–maybe with similarly tough requirements as changing the territory of a state (Art IV, Section 3), but with a way to over-ride Congress on a proposed secession.
CCP –
Given the current “transparency” and where we are now, and what we know of pre-ww2 hitler being charismatic and supported by many world leaders, i’d say not much would have been different.
Well, this seems to have become a breeding ground for just more “stupid” responses. I wonder how many more Christian bakers will be assaulted with lawsuits. Then, what about pastors? Most of them maintain a license to certify marriages, so I’m sure they’ll be sued. [A lawmaker in TN is proposing a “law” that protects pastors. Laughable, did he not notice how the Supreme Court just quashed a TN constitutional amendment like a bug?]
Kind of surprised one of the states hasn’t just responded by saying “OK, we won’t license marriages anymore. Go get a Federal license if you want one, we’re getting out of the business.”
TQM, I was thinking along the same lines. Except I would have the governors appoint a SCOTUS judge, and their term ends when the governor leaves office. Instead of voting on bills, the House and Senate would vote on sentences in those bills. Laws would have an intent clause at the beginning, and should the law be shown in a court to violate its intent, the law would be either repealed or ignored in the particular case. Laws would also be subject to an expiration date. Oh, term limits. I would probably cut out some of the unnecessary language, beautiful as the text is, it needlessly complicates things.
I have more, much much more.
lol, Christina.
I guess this is one instance where I’m not so cynical.