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Yeah, that made me think of this urban legend I heard recently about conservative PACs and think-tanks.
I heard they hire people to sit in rooms and bombard the internet with their talking points. They have this going in two shifts a day according to the legend.
I had a friend who got his M.A. recently and couldn't find work in his field, of course. Anyway, he told some colleagues of ours that he worked for two days for a conservative think-tank down here. All he had to do all day long was blog on the internet -- in his own words -- about how health care reform was a joke and how great Bobby Jindal is (and a whole host of GOP politicos on the national level) and how the federal government was going to come rape your daughter or send a couple of "minorities" to do it.
According to this guy, he said that there was a whole room, set up like a computer lab, and they had these sheets of information -- talking points. And their bosses directed their staff, some 50 people in a room, running at two shifts a day, crawl all over blog sites, newspaper response forms, message boards, facebook and twitter, and all other kind of social media spewing out GOP propaganda. It paid $10/hr. He quit after he got an adjunct position at a nearby community college.
This is just legend...I doubt the veracity of this guy's claims...but it makes me wonder.
It's probably true.
Left-wing groups do it as well, but a number of organizations have been caught doing that sort of thing.
People, be a free thinker. These partisan think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute(is a conservative think tank, NOT a libertarian one) are funded by corporate interests. The Koch Brothers fund the CATO institution and other conservative think tanks.
These so called "economists" and "scientists" are paid bucks to deceive the little man into thinking global warming is a hoax and trickle down economics is worthy.
What is getting worse is that these special interests are starting to get into academics.
Nazism is a right-wing ideology...not a left wing ideology. Nazism is a right-wing, traditionalist and conservative reaction to left-wing ideologies.
Jeeez I love it when posters post stuff here and prove they know nothing about the subject they speak of, you are correct about nazism but you have to understand some righties get confused because of one word in the name of the organization, thinking is not their strongest talent and research is out of the question, not sure their propaganda minister allows free thought, I believe it is Verboten.
Casper
Nazism is a right-wing ideology...not a left wing ideology. Nazism is a right-wing, traditionalist and conservative reaction to left-wing ideologies.
Nazism was inspired by Italian Fascism, an invention of hardline Communist
Benito Mussolini. During World War I, Mussolini recognized that conventional
socialism wasn't working. He saw that nationalism exerted a stronger pull on the
working class than proletarian brotherhood. He also saw that the ferocious
opposition of large corporations made socialist revolution difficult. So in 1919
Mussolini came up with an alternative strategy. He called it Fascism. Mussolini
described his new movement as a ``Third Way''.
Hitler followed the same game plan. He openly acknowledged that the Nazi
party was ``socialist'' and that its enemies were the ``bourgeoisie'' and the
``plutocrats'' (the rich). Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler eliminated trade unions,
and replaced them with his own state-run labor organizations. Like Lenin and
Stalin, Hitler hunted down and exterminated rival leftist factions (such as the
Communists). Like Lenin and Stalin, Hitler waged unrelenting war against small business.
But the history of the past century has been grossly distorted by the predominantly left-wing media
and academic elite. The Nazis have been universally condemned -- as they obviously should be -- but they
have also been repositioned clear across the political spectrum and propped up as false representatives of the far right --
even though Hitler railed frantically against capitalism in his infamous demagogic speeches.
The Nazis also had something else in common with the modern left: an obsessive preoccupation with race.
Hitler and his Nazis considered races other than their own inferior, of course. Modern ``liberals,''
who vociferously oppose the elimination of racial quotas, seem to agree.
It is so funny watching both sides of authoritarianism arguing about which one is worse!
You both promote force and violence to achieve your goals, stop acting all high and mighty!
If you're referring to me I'm totally against coercive government.
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