Fight the American Stasi with Mockery
American Greatness,
by
Mark Judge
Original Article
Posted By: sagman,
1/3/2022 9:38:49 AM
In a 2019 article for The Atlantic, “The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance,” Charlotte Bailey explores how many of the thousands of Germans who were victims of the The Ministry for State Security—commonly known as the Stasi—still suffer from psychological trauma. The Stasi were part of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Before its collapse in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the GDR, as Bailey describes, “went to extraordinary lengths to spy on and control its citizens.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 1/3/2022 10:29:12 AM (No. 1026824)
Humor beats hate. We need more satire, more cleaver humorists. Conservative smothers brothers. There are no comedians on record in Nazi Germany.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Shells 1/3/2022 10:46:13 AM (No. 1026838)
This is an important mission. Sagman is needed!!
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Satire and sarcasm alone will not be enough to rip these communists from the grips of power.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
downnout 1/3/2022 11:05:54 AM (No. 1026857)
Welcome back, Sagman! You have been missed!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/3/2022 11:39:34 AM (No. 1026902)
Bullets beat humor and do not waste as much time in defeating totalitarians. Even debating the issue causes loss of ground that will be costly to regain.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/3/2022 11:43:19 AM (No. 1026912)
I think we have that suggestion down pat, FJB
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/3/2022 11:50:38 AM (No. 1026927)
Sarcasm and mockery will work on the sheep that believe all the crap that government spews. Fir the people in government, the best weapon is still a gun. Don’t EVER give them up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/3/2022 11:58:29 AM (No. 1026947)
The American game is a form of "You and Him Fight" brought into living rooms (and now streamed). We talk about polarization. It's no accident. It was created by media in the post-Nixon era after guys like Buckley and Vidal invented the genre. Remember "Crossfire"? How about "Point...Counter Point" on 60 Minutes? Even "The McLaughlin Group". Their pitch was political pundits (or guests) engaged in political hand-to-hand for 20 minutes with commiercials - as a public service, of course. It was a form of political pro 'rasslin' that had a high-minded veneer to make it respectable.
The government doesn't need informers as much as it needs "activists" to start the occasional "insurrection", such on January 6th. They can buy all the information they need (that we voluntarily provide for free) from Google, Yahoo! and Facebook.
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Sagman: "Don't make me have to get off my duff"!
squirrel: They play Candyland and you play 3D chess. As the French student in the movie, Better Off Dead said to Wayne Meyer before tackling the K-12 slopes..."Keek their ahhs".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/3/2022 12:35:11 PM (No. 1026994)
I spent New Year's with some old friends and found they had an Alexa in the room. When I stated my concerns, they said they don't care what it hears - they have nothing to hide. We did talk about the rutabaga in the White house and how the country is going to hell, etc.. (crime against The State?)
Then they said Alexa only woke up when you prefaced a statement with 'Alexa. do this'.
How can they think it's not sending your comments somewhere when it has to listen for a command?
I don't think anyone believed me - I'm the Fearmonger, not Fauci.
MAGA
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/3/2022 12:55:46 PM (No. 1027024)
Straight out of Alinsky. Ridicule is man’s most powerful weapon. #6 nailed it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kumoan 1/3/2022 12:57:30 PM (No. 1027027)
"...they said they don't care what it hears - they have nothing to hide..."
The FBI will be the judge of that, under direction of the DNC.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2022 1:54:19 PM (No. 1027068)
A good start, but I am pretty certain eventually it will require real fighting and not with words.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SoSensible 1/3/2022 9:00:35 PM (No. 1027355)
Sagman, I sympathize that you are always called upon, but most of us lack your gifts and it's almost a matter of noblesse oblige. Please, do get off that brilliant duff. Give your Ldotter admirers something to smile about. Or if not, it is at least good to know you're still around. :)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sagman 1/3/2022 10:24:05 PM (No. 1027387)
#14, two things hold me back: 1) Much of what I'd do would be original but a good deal of it would be
reprising stuff from 10-12 years ago to fit today's situations. I'm not sure people would accept the recycling.
2) When I was associated with Breitbart's sites 2010-12, I had a pretty big audience. People would regularly post my stuff on lucianne.com, and Ms. Lucianne would very occasionally make the posts must reads.
Posting material randomly here as replies, well, it is hit or miss that people who would enjoy seeing the stuff
would even know know it had been posted. I am not associated with any sites now which would run my stuff
which could then be posted as articles. So I ask myself if it is worth it to start up again. And I will also tell you that sites like American Thinker and Breitbart don't want humor/satire anymore. There's the Babylon Bee but that's a closed shop.
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Judge ends the article by saying a potent weapon to use against the "American Stasi" is mockery. I've been retired from the satire game for some time, but this crew may get me off my duff.