Friday, January 14, 2011

"Wayne" - an example of a debased political culture

Blogger "Wayne" comes off as being one of the stupidest individuals on the fucking planet. I banned him a long time ago after a comment he left in this post but for reasons known only to himself, he has occasionally tried to post things in the three years since. His most recent offering was only last Sunday, when in a post called "Normalizing Horror" I pointed out that a series of US governments have collectively killed over two million Iraqis and I described this mass-murder as being of "Hitlerian" proportions. I banned the comment but you'll have to take my word for it, that Wayne-o typed that I should also have included the monsters Stalin and Mao, his point being (I assume) that it is not only the right-wing that commits mass-murder (as if I needed to be told that).

I wish that I'd left that stupid comment up because even though he's banned, and because I thought it a useless offering in any case, it occurred to me that his attempt to school me on leftist perfidy is actually evidence of how debased a political culture we inhabit.

Hitler was a totalitarian dictator consumed with anti-Semitism and a murderous eugenics delusion. Stalin was a totalitarian dictator with a paranoid conspiracy obsession. Mao was a totalitarian dictator in a country full to bursting with starving people who had fought a brutal war against a genocidal enemy and he was consumed with his own megalomaniacal delusions.

George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush supposedly governed over a democracy with a free media, human rights, and the rule of law. We are supposedly free people with the power to hold our leaders to account and we can read expozays about our leaders if we're motivated to do so.

But within this supposedly democratic and free environment, these three monsters have contributed to the deaths of over two million people (in just one example of their monstrosity, when they have the entire world to cavort around in!) and not only has there been no accountability for their crimes, it's also the case that when some shit-heads are presented with a statement of their crimes, they will ignore it and instead try to make some stupid, obvious point that left-wingers have been guilty of crimes against humanity in the past.

Yes, yes. Stalin and Mao killed lots of people. And they're dead. And in the case of Stalin, his regime, like Hitler's, is also dead and gone. But the system that produced the Bush's and Clinton is still with us and it's still killing people and it's the system that we (through our lap-dog Canadian federal politicians) are participating in and sometimes actually cheering on to new depths of depravity. Try to process how deluded, stupid, debased, and useless you have to be to not grasp the significance of this even after it's been shoved right before your eyes.

6 comments:

no_blah_blah_blah said...

To add to your point, the popular concept of a one-dimensional political spectrum is haphazardly tied with the economic spectrum on a single axis. More informative** depictions of a political spectrum are actually two-dimensional, and as one would expect, there are many different interpretations.

For example, using Hans Slomp's older spectrum for Europe, a social democracy is far from communism, even though they are both "left of centre". (Social democracy is moderate upper left while communism is extreme bottom left.)

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** I said "more informative", but that's not necessarily true. I would suggest that the spectrum has to be relative to the current state of a country (or group of countries). For example, support of interracial marriages would have been a sure sign of a left-wing progressive over half a century ago, but these days someone would have to be a total nutcase to be against interracial marriages.

Scott MacNeil said...

I would be VERY interested to hear what Wayne has to say about this? Forget the censorship, let him run amok with his diatribes so we can all enjoy his inanity!

thwap said...

Wayne can't contribute to the discussion. Aside from his revealing brain fart he's banned and is only the topic of discussion, not a participant.

You can find evidence of his blatherings on my blog before that post or on "Canadian Cynic" blog between 2006-2009.

He has his own blog, but last time i looked it was nothing but links to other dip-shits like Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Mark Steyn and other vermin.

Orwell's Bastard said...

Thwapster:

I'm feeling your pain. It's a tough call, really - you want to maintain a certain baseline level of intelligent discourse, but sometimes you want people to see what you're up against. I don't know why you seem to attract so many brainless rightwing trolls (well, maybe it's because you're less reluctant to be quite rude), but FWIW, I actually enjoy publishing some of the dumber comments at my place, just so people can read them and see the authors for what they are.

But hey - not for me to say. Your blog, your rules.

OB

thwap said...

Orwell,

At the time that I banned Wayne, Canadian Cynic was doing enough work exposing these turds. Perhaps there's some educational value in letting their stupidity have a voice on your blog, but I was just so sick of it by that point ....

Anonymous said...

The way I see it, these guys should stay on their side of the fence. They have so many places to feel at home with the likes of Ezzie Le Rant, Frum, O'Riely, Pallin, etc., etc..There's plenty of places to wollow. Leave us alone. Rise up! Words are loaded but never leathal.