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the chickens are restless.
Mar. 5th, 2009 12:40 pmFrance has lost all right to give any commentary on anything.
It seriously sickens me how many people outside France (especially liberal dumb-asses) romanticize this bullshit country. The best part in the article is definitely all the attempts to compare the pieds noirs to Jews in the Holocaust. Yeah. Now that is a persecution complex.
Yup, y'all were definitely Holocausted.
As Professor Tiersten says of Algerians, "They were crying, all right, but they weren't crying their love of France, I can promise you that."
This is my problem with being an econ minor in an American college. Studying economics is basically being indoctrinated with the capitalist system. I don't want to say studying the capitalist system, because that would imply some kind of critical analysis. Put another way, studying economics is pretty much studying Indonesian history under the Suharto Era. Yes, that is how bad it is. No, no, no, there was no coup against Sukarno! He gave up power willingly on his death bed!
There's this great Gary Larson cartoon - that I can't find online, unfortunately - of a cow barbecuing hamburger patties while other cows look on, saying, "You're sick, Jessie! Sick, sick, sick!" That's pretty much my view of capitalism. Ironically, in highschool I joked with a friend of mine (who's now at Wharton Business School) that we may as well just start serving "poor people burgers" and get it over with. Hard to believe, but we are still friends.
Oh, dear God. Somebody actually put "Death is a Drummer" up on YouTube. It's a still picture, but who cares? It only recently occurred to me how true that title is.
It seriously sickens me how many people outside France (especially liberal dumb-asses) romanticize this bullshit country. The best part in the article is definitely all the attempts to compare the pieds noirs to Jews in the Holocaust. Yeah. Now that is a persecution complex.
Yup, y'all were definitely Holocausted.
As Professor Tiersten says of Algerians, "They were crying, all right, but they weren't crying their love of France, I can promise you that."
This is my problem with being an econ minor in an American college. Studying economics is basically being indoctrinated with the capitalist system. I don't want to say studying the capitalist system, because that would imply some kind of critical analysis. Put another way, studying economics is pretty much studying Indonesian history under the Suharto Era. Yes, that is how bad it is. No, no, no, there was no coup against Sukarno! He gave up power willingly on his death bed!
There's this great Gary Larson cartoon - that I can't find online, unfortunately - of a cow barbecuing hamburger patties while other cows look on, saying, "You're sick, Jessie! Sick, sick, sick!" That's pretty much my view of capitalism. Ironically, in highschool I joked with a friend of mine (who's now at Wharton Business School) that we may as well just start serving "poor people burgers" and get it over with. Hard to believe, but we are still friends.
Oh, dear God. Somebody actually put "Death is a Drummer" up on YouTube. It's a still picture, but who cares? It only recently occurred to me how true that title is.
