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Wednesday November 10, 2010 · 11:13 AM PST

2010/11/10 · 11:13

Babeuf here. Socialist moi. Just wondering what strange fungus or rotted grain the so-called progressives on this list have eaten as of late. Capitalism stinks. It exploits. It favors the rich. It will strip you of your dignity and your last dollar. It will grant you enough resources to physically reproduce yourself, so that you will work and so that you will peck down and shit on the poor slob who has less than you. It will divide you, you will hate people because they are different from you. You will grow to love and respect the bastards who are daily screwing you.

babeuf

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 11:06 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 23:06

I have always been a leftist. I was born one. I consider my self, without hesitation or equivocation a socialist, as the French put it pur et dur. When I lived in Europe, I worked for socialist parties and policies. When I live in the US, I work for left liberal politicians and policies. My work often throws me into political work against torture. But I must say, with great bitterness and sadness, that after this election cycle I will never again refer to myself as a progressive.

babeuf

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Friday November 06, 2009 · 2:51 PM PST

2009/11/06 · 14:51

I was on the phone with a friend from Europe this morning. We were discussing the headlines: 10 % unemployment, destruction of the safety net, health care, disturbing teabaggers and now the Fort Hood shootings. There was silence on the phone for a minute and she said, are you worried, because you know I am. This friend and I have worked together in many a politically unstable country, and we return to our respective homes, she France, I the US and we chat about the troubles of other places. But today was different. I felt unsafe for the first time. The rhetoric of the right is beyond lunatic amusement. It is seriously dangerous. The level of violence that it incites, is horrifying and the ignorance it requires frightening. All they need right now is a trigger. When you have casually repeated calls for violence against the president, the speaker of the house and liberals in general you know things passed the point of funny" haha" crazy, to scared as hell "haha" I'm worried about my safety crazy.

What is most troubling is that none of the Rethug leadership is willing to reign them in. They are, in fact, encouraging them.

babeuf

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Wednesday October 14, 2009 · 1:01 PM PDT

2009/10/14 · 13:01

I love Michael Steele. Can't stop watching him. Track his word-droppings all over the intertubes. He is my favorite daytime sit-com, which is why I have dubbed him the "super-genius". No one embodies the cynical, crypto-racist stupidity of the Rethugs than Steele. He is the textbook definition of the gift that keeps on giving.

Well, after his bang up job with GOP.com. Steele is on to bigger better things. His brilliantly edgy blog "What Up", was dashed by the man who changed the title to "Change the Game". That's right Steele, "don't hate the playa, hate the game, my man". (OMG I can't stop the jive avalanche!)

babeuf

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 1:05 PM PDT

2009/08/07 · 13:05

I know this isn't much of a diary. But with the escalation of violence at the Townhall meetings I'm calling on all Civil Rights veterans and people with non-violence training to get to your Townhall meetings. TPM has reported that one of of the teabaggers has called on their supporters to carry arms. This is unacceptable, but must be met with cool heads and non-violence on our part. As droogie so eloquently put it "We must be beautiful", if not only because we are better than this, violent mob, but out of our own self-preservation.

So, here is yet another call to get out there and attend the Townhalls. And folks who know how to keep their heads when violent mobs come out, time to represent.

On Torture and The Visual

babeuf

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Sunday May 24, 2009 · 4:38 PM PDT

2009/05/24 · 16:38

PHILIP GOUREVITCH the author of the 1998 book on the Rwanda massacre We Wish To Inform You... has a very interesting article in the NYTimes today expressing his ambivalence about the release of the more Abu Ghraib torture photos.
"The Abu Ghraib We Cannot See" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24gourevitch.html)

The gist of his argument is that sometime a picture does not tell the whole story, as teacherken's impassioned and direct diary argues.

babeuf

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 11:51 AM PDT

2009/04/21 · 11:51

I must state up front that like many I too am troubled by the Obama administration's response to the Bush torture crimes. There can be no equivocation in the case of torture: it is wrong and those guilty of torturing another human being should be punished.

As clear and straightforward as my denunciation of torture may be the path to justice however, is complicated. A lot of folks have been screaming Nuremberg--which got my Godwin meter up. The dramatic and morally unambiguous scenario of WWII, with the Nazi's on one side and good democracies on the other will not be reproduced in the prosecution of the Bush war criminals. It is important to remember, that the fascists lost, they were the vanquished. The US the victors. Nuremberg was a success in revealing to all the crimes of Nazism, precisely because Nazism had been defeated. The defeat of Bushco is not an analogous situation.

babeuf

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 2:43 PM PDT

2009/04/06 · 14:43

The right wing is clearly going off the deep end as anyone who has tuned into Fox loony hour has witnessed Beck, Bill-O et. al are pulling out every known rightist conspiracy theory and coughing it up like a hair-ball at the foot of the Obama administration. It's frightening indeed, because as the P'burgh shootings have shown us there are ample crazies out there who will act on these theories.

But we here in the reality based community need to stay sane. I thought in the spirit of Colorado is the Shiznit's diary that I would start a little game called:

Michelle Bachmann Fears...

More beneath the fold.

babeuf

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 10:28 AM PST

2009/01/16 · 10:28

So people who is it going to be? Who is the final cylon? For the all you sci-fi folks out there, I know you are as sad about the end of Battlestar Galactica as you are as joyful of the end of the Bush Administration--OK that was a ridiculous analogy but hey!

So who will the final cylon be:

Starbuck: The most logical choice but way too predictable
Roslin: My personal fav because of the whole prophetic angle, plus I want to see her get mean and angry.
Adama: A long shot
Lee Adama: No. Way. Please.

Or will it be...
Speculate your hearts out.

Poll

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Who is the final cylon?

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Who is the final cylon?

Starbuck

8 votes

Adama

6 votes

Roslin

36 votes

Lee Adama

2 votes

Gaeta

22 votes

Balthar

15 votes

Taking 'Bout My Generation

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 5:54 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 17:54

The significance of this election is finally starting to sink in. Do you remember way back in the primary... one of Clinton's surrogates said something to the effect that the Democratic party could never win with a collection of eggheads and African-Americans. Well I am that dreaded demographic--a post-boomer egghead African American. Angered by this remark, I secretly felt it might be true...and low and behold, Obama has vindicated not just my tiny demographic, but so many Americans fed up with guns and butter culture wars.

babeuf

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 10:36 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 22:36

I have worried, volunteered, freaked out, become intertubes obsessed, went on a 15 minute rant about fruit flies with a total stranger, got embarrassed and literally ran away. Obama has taken over whatever graymatter space I have left. Six more days....! But I found the funniest survival suggestions on 23/6: "Eight Ways To Survive The Next Eight Days Without Losing Your Frigging Mind" http://www.236.com/...

Don't Donate More Than 25% of Your Life's Savings to The Obama Campaign, Set Aside Five Minute Every Day For Poll Acceptance and Do Not Read Anything With the Words "Bradley" or "Effect"

babeuf

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 12:09 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 12:09

Sorry for the brevity, I'm holding a wiggling three month old at the computer. Donna Brazille nails it. I mean, about everything that is near and dear to this election, its meaning for all Americans. It is quite moving. I've tried to embed it and hope others will be able to, but here is the links:

http://jezebel.com/...

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