I say there’s only one good reason to dislike red: the fact that it is the primary color of Ohio State “University.” Beyond that, disliking or disapproving of red is, well, nuts.

Ya know what’s funny, I bet Jill Stanek is a generally sucky enough person to root for the Suckeyes, despite her apparent hatred of red. Hypocrisy, no?

— Larry, who roots for the far superior school in Ann Arbor and says GO BLUE!

…use of catch-phrases and half-truths to exploit popular grievances) with propaganda (the use of historical and scientific arguments for purposes of indoctrination) in a form that came to be called agitprop. This form of theatre is explicitly intended to arouse the audience to action and to propagate the views and values of the sponsoring organization. In practice, the term agitprop is usually…

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just remember, you are tied to few rudimentary well understood ideology while most people here are equipped with far more complex ideological devices.

I was referring to Squashed talking about the death penalty for prolifers. That isn’t funny, even in jest.

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who is talking jest?

It’s not that hard stoking public backlash against ultra rightwing. It works all the time everywhere.

You think the same social engineering rightwing used against gay or minority don’t work against those mega churches, ultra evangelicals or you? As you notice and you clearly employ the tactic, it is not hard to create public opinion and move them to start coming after you.

You think a lot of people here don’t know how to shape mass perception, street politics, CIA manual on agitprop or guerilla vs peasant strategy?

get real.

legally eliminating several thousand people isn’t terribly hard to do.

The problem is we’re only “great” debaters. Over at Aunty Jill’s place they’re “master” debaters…

It’s also not policy-driven.