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Macdesktops.com turned into a conspiracy FUD induced web page?
Let's include the desktop image creator's message on this:
"Why the inverted site?
The short answer is that the world seems upside down these days.
The following is my current perspective on current events. Feel free to disagree with me, but please don't email flames to me. If you are, for some reason, so offended that you intend never to return to MacDesktops for another picture because it's run by a liberal peacenik, then I submit to you that such a choice would only deprive you of an excellent source for quality desktop pictures. But it's your choice to make; I've already made mine by posting this, so don't email me telling me you won't be back. I hope none of you will take such extreme action, but I know that 75% of you are pro-war and some of you will take your "business" elsewhere.
We're in the middle of war now. President Bush managed to avoid any meaningful diplomacy: failed utterly to build any kind of international coalition: presented forged documents when attempting to establish a justification for war that was unconvincing to the UN Security Council even with the presumption that the forged documents were real: alienated our second strongest ally, France: alienated our newfound ally and Cold War adversary, Russia: and rushed to an unprovoked war against a nation already crippled by U.N. Sanctions.
Our Constitutionally guaranteed rights to a free press have been undermined by both corporate consolidation of media "assets" into a handful of corporations with conflicts of interest, and by the transformation of "news" into entertainment more worried about ratings than about informing the public. Below are a variety of articles, primarily from AP, UPI and Reuters, which have received no television coverage even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, where support for the war runs significantly below the national average of 75%.
What I said above is my current perspective on current events. Please consider all of the available facts while developing your current perspective; don't let yourself be led blindly by a biased press nor swept along by rampant nationalism.
Finally, I expect that some of you are at this very moment telling me mentally that if I hate America so much, I should leave. To this I answer, that I like America: I like the Constitutional guarantees to free speech: I like the Constitutional guarantees to freedom of the press (even if it's not doing us much good right now): I like the Constitutional guarantees to freedom of religion (even though they are ignored by our elected representatives and not enforced well enough by our judiciary)."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"Why the inverted site?
The short answer is that the world seems upside down these days.
The following is my current perspective on current events. Feel free to disagree with me, but please don't email flames to me. If you are, for some reason, so offended that you intend never to return to MacDesktops for another picture because it's run by a liberal peacenik, then I submit to you that such a choice would only deprive you of an excellent source for quality desktop pictures. But it's your choice to make; I've already made mine by posting this, so don't email me telling me you won't be back. I hope none of you will take such extreme action, but I know that 75% of you are pro-war and some of you will take your "business" elsewhere.
We're in the middle of war now. President Bush managed to avoid any meaningful diplomacy: failed utterly to build any kind of international coalition: presented forged documents when attempting to establish a justification for war that was unconvincing to the UN Security Council even with the presumption that the forged documents were real: alienated our second strongest ally, France: alienated our newfound ally and Cold War adversary, Russia: and rushed to an unprovoked war against a nation already crippled by U.N. Sanctions.
Our Constitutionally guaranteed rights to a free press have been undermined by both corporate consolidation of media "assets" into a handful of corporations with conflicts of interest, and by the transformation of "news" into entertainment more worried about ratings than about informing the public. Below are a variety of articles, primarily from AP, UPI and Reuters, which have received no television coverage even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, where support for the war runs significantly below the national average of 75%.
What I said above is my current perspective on current events. Please consider all of the available facts while developing your current perspective; don't let yourself be led blindly by a biased press nor swept along by rampant nationalism.
Finally, I expect that some of you are at this very moment telling me mentally that if I hate America so much, I should leave. To this I answer, that I like America: I like the Constitutional guarantees to free speech: I like the Constitutional guarantees to freedom of the press (even if it's not doing us much good right now): I like the Constitutional guarantees to freedom of religion (even though they are ignored by our elected representatives and not enforced well enough by our judiciary)."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Well, thats his choice. He owns the site. He choose to post it there, if he wants. We can choose not to go there as well.
...as he states. Seems like that would be a silly choice, though. OK. IMO, that would be silly.
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Originally posted by maxelson: ...as he states. Seems like that would be a silly choice, though. OK. IMO, that would be silly. |
You used the word silly twice. You better watch it.
Jeez, I know it. My sense of style is slipping. Must be daylight savings. Lose an hour, and I go all sill... dippy.
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Originally posted by Zimphire: You used the word silly twice. You better watch it.
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"FUD", "baseless", "knee-jerk".
Alright, I call for a boycott!
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot: Speaking of which, I move that the following words be added to MacNN's ******** filter: "FUD", "baseless", "knee-jerk". |