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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l1OWwEwF5Ahahahah wtf
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Nelson Mandela died yesterday, and he was the last of them, the last of the patriots in a line all the way back to George Washington who fought to rid their native countries of the deadweight of colonialism, who fought for self-determination against the rule of distant, unyielding governments that slid into tyranny without even knowing they were doing it, who fought and won and, in Mandela's case, like Washington, but unlike Michael Collins and so many others, outlived the stifling detritus of dying empires. Nelson Mandela was a reminder of all the others, famous and obscure, who fought the same battle in so many places against so many oppressors, known and unknown. He was the last in their line, the last of them -- people like, to name only one, Ho Chi Minh -- who drew strength and purpose from the deep, lasting echoes of what a group of wealthy merchants and planters -- and, yes, slaveholders -- set loose upon the world in Philadelphia in 1776. What they did was to set freedom itself free, although most of them probably didn't know they were doing it at the time, and many of them would have blanched at the prospect. But the one thing they did, Mr. Jefferson and all of them, was throw out to the world in their magnificent rhetoric a magnificent bluff. Nelson Mandela was the last man who called it in the last place it was called.
All men are created equal.
Endowed with certain inalienable rights.
Self-evident.
Call.
And raise.
That's why it is not a day for carping twerps. It is not a day for remembering the cramped, wretched treatment of Mandela from the likes of Richard Cheney and Ronald Reagan. It is a day, in America, for remembering that, for all our imperfections and for all our loss of faith in our true birthright, that we are in our national soul a revolutionary people, that it was here that was first established in practice the principle later enunciated by another Irish patriot, Charles Stewart Parnell:
"...no man has the right to fix the boundary of a nation. No man has the right to say to his country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further..."
It is a day for honoring a revolutionary by remembering that we are all children of one of the first revolutions against, as Jefferson once put it, all forms of tyranny over the mind of man.
Mandela's great task was different. He had to wrestle with the primordial hatred of race sharpened to an almost incomprehensibly sharp edge. He had to fight against systematized, mechanized, and weaponized hatred. Instead, in exile and in prison, he decided to create one country out of another. His people were colonized within their own nation. He fought against a kind of internal colonial rule that often was as harsh and bloody than any ever imposed by an outside power. And then when, through the strength of his moral witness, he won his battle, he had to make a new nation out of the suspicious remnants of the old. This was a true revolution of the mind and he was its leader, and he won that revolution on Robben Island long before he won it for all of South Africa. That is what we should remember any more.
There are few colonial nations any more. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye. For the most part, we are not kept colonized with rubber bullets and water cannon -- although there is plenty of that going around these days, as militarized law enforcement all around the world is summoned to do the bidding of major corporations -- but rather through sophisticated financial instruments that keep the money and the power moving upward. There is resistance, as there should be -- the Occupy movement, and what went on in Greece this year -- and that resistance has had its martyrs, like Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria. But it is colonization of a vague and amorphous -- if incredibly powerful -- variety. There are no radio stations to capture, no capitals to fall, no Dublin Castle over which the successful rebels could take command. But it is a revolution of the mind, no less than Mandela's was, and that is also what we should remember today when we remember that we are, in our souls, a revolutionary people. We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves. He reminded us because he was the last one of them, the last in the line that began with George Washington, the last one to witness what Lincoln called for 150 years ago. He was there for a new birth of freedom.
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https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large (https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large)
I forgot how much the right secretly hates Mandela
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large (https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large)
I forgot how much the right secretly hates Mandela
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large (https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large)
I forgot how much the right secretly hates Mandela
Let's be real. Many of those arguments, especially the ones that shed light of his violent actions are legitimate criticisms towards Mandela - and trying to rationalize it by telling yourself well hey he's a freedom fighter! - is pretty dumb.
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large (https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/408795404458029057/photo/1/large)
I forgot how much the right secretly hates Mandela
Let's be real. Many of those arguments, especially the ones that shed light of his violent actions are legitimate criticisms towards Mandela - and trying to rationalize it by telling yourself well hey he's a freedom fighter! - is pretty dumb.
remember boys and girls, the only just revolution was the American one.
And can anyone blame him for attempting to topple a tyrannical regime with guerrilla tactics?
remember boys and girls, the only just revolution was the American one.
Am I being contrarian when I say,"fuck the alamo?" because I hate the alamo and what it stands for.
There's also a pretty big dollop of cutesy contrarianism here. Folks, especially people who argue about shit on the internet, love the idea that they're part of a select few that's educated themselves on the real truth. You get a surprising amount of people saying the Civil War wasn't really about slavery, even when they have no cultural affinity for the Confederacy, just cause they'd hate to believe the simplistic morality tale they were taught in high school actually wasn't complete BS.
You guys need to understand the descent into madness. Most people just don't know, and as long as they're safe and warm in their little corner of the world, they don't care either. But here we have a European-style country that's been largely reclaimed by Africa.
How did this post get ignored?
Apparently, the fox news website has shut off the ability to comment on any Mandella story because of true colors overflow.Hahahahaha
:-[You guys need to understand the descent into madness. Most people just don't know, and as long as they're safe and warm in their little corner of the world, they don't care either. But here we have a European-style country that's been largely reclaimed by Africa.
How did this post get ignored?
Cause we know benji and recognize when he's quite obviously 'aving a larf.
A mutual acquaintance made a good point- right wingers NEED ALL DEM GUNZ in case the GUBMINT needs to be overthrown, right?
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The thing that gets me is the utter lack of respect. Here we have, a dude whose resolve ended apartheid in South Africa. Let's bring up totally irrelevant shit because I don't know. The guy just died, was an impactful and influential man the world over, so let's kick shit on his barely cold 95 year old body. I don't even care what they thought of him. The lack of respect is what gets me. Reddit was unreadable yesterday because a bunch of teenagers who googled Nelson Mandela's Wikipedia page contains things that happened during the height of 60's social action. How dare he.
There's also a pretty big dollop of cutesy contrarianism here. Folks, especially people who argue about shit on the internet, love the idea that they're part of a select few that's educated themselves on the real truth. You get a surprising amount of people saying the Civil War wasn't really about slavery, even when they have no cultural affinity for the Confederacy, just cause they'd hate to believe the simplistic morality tale they were taught in high school actually wasn't complete BS.I think there's a lot of value in this kind of thing to an extent, of course then I'm a fan of revisionist history for revisionist histories sake, but in many cases it's seeking out confirmation bias. Mandela's "relevance" is within living memory far more than a JFK or MLK where people who were kids then, or Lincoln or whoever farther back, get to pretend they always were going to be on that winning, moral, side so there's probably far more lasting and recent politico-cultural hangover from the fights in the 1980s. And Mandela's Presidency was even sooner and like all administrations there's stuff to criticize there which offers more "cover."
remember boys and girls, the only just revolution was the American one.Besides, the Loyalists had it coming strutting around town wearing their crown-protected property.
It's a GAF repost of some angry boer.
edit: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=92568844&postcount=394
It should come as no surprise that she and Barack have no clue about America's reverence for, nor reference to, our flag, or that both want to eliminate all memorials and ceremonies commemorating the 9/11 attacks.
The projection industry can't stop won't stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJgWMI0hch8
The projection industry can't stop won't stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJgWMI0hch8
Context plz
He does know that the President's "order" isn't an actual like law or something he has to follow right?
As Americans we celebrate the farmers at Lexington and Concord who used force to oppose British tyranny. We praise George Washington for spending eight years in the field fighting the British Army’s dictatorial assault on our freedom.
Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote and the Continental Congress adopted that “all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Doesn’t this apply to Nelson Mandela and his people?
Some conservatives say, ah, but he was a communist.
Actually Mandela was raised in a Methodist school, was a devout Christian, turned to communism in desperation only after South Africa was taken over by an extraordinarily racist government determined to eliminate all rights for blacks.
I would ask of his critics: where were some of these conservatives as allies against tyranny? Where were the masses of conservatives opposing Apartheid? In a desperate struggle against an overpowering government, you accept the allies you have just as Washington was grateful for a French monarchy helping him defeat the British.
where were some of these conservatives as allies against tyranny? Where were the masses of conservatives opposing Apartheid?
Wasn't Mandela a devout Christian?
(I was talking about the 27 years he spent in prison)
The schizophrenic South African sign language interpreter who said he hallucinated during Nelson Mandela’s memorial on Tuesday reportedly has an extensive criminal record, including murder, rape and kidnapping charges.
According to South African news network eNCA, Thamsanqa Jantjie has “faced rape (1994), theft (1995), housebreaking (1997), malicious damage to property (1998), murder, attempted murder and kidnapping (2003) charges.”
Despite his record, the station said it was not clear whether Jantjie has ever served time in prison, as “many of the charges brought against him were dropped, allegedly because he was mentally unfit to stand trial.”
Even more bizarrely, it was not clear whether the murder charge against Jantjie from 2003 was ever properly resolved because the court file against him is “mysteriously empty,” eNCA reported.