libelous_slander posted:

Thelneff now post an infographic with how many millions U.S. presidents killed. i bet gw bush is higher than people would like to think

oh um sure



EDIT* not to scale

Edited by TheIneff (Jan. 9, 2015 14:50:56)

glomper_stomper posted:

i don't think that would be nearly as clever or funny as the current thread title. in fact, i think if there are any german charlie hebdo supporters out there, they would find "ich bin charlie hebdo" a more appropriate and accessible alternative to "je suis charlie hebdo"

thanks

yeah that's a good point.

Urbandale posted:

Makeshift_Swahili posted:

"Freedom of speech" is a weird one because it seems like something bourgeois journalists/artists only freak out about on behalf of other bourgeois journalists/artists. If people without the platform to publish their opinions get killed nobody even brings up freedom of speech.

what are rights precious

8. “Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and Socialists everywhere have explained millions of times —that this freedom is a deception because the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists, and while capitalist rule over the press remains—a rule that is manifested throughout the whole world all the more strikingly, sharply and cynically—the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example. The first thing to do to win really equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying publishing houses and bribing newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance oppressed. The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. In this respect, too, the defenders of “pure democracy” prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people, who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement. Genuine freedom and equality will be embodied in the system which the Communists are building, and in which there will be no opportunity for massing wealth at the expense of others, no objective opportunities for putting the press under the direct or indirect power of money, and no impediments in the way of any workingman (or groups of workingman, in any numbers) for enjoying and practicing equal rights in the use of public printing presses and public stocks of paper.