Every since I can remember we have been on the verge of total annihilation.

[verybusy]

Every since I can remember we have been on the verge of total annihilation.

Global cooling
Global warming
Climate change
Bird flu
Ozone depletion
Swine flu
Ebola
Y2K
Rising sea levels
WWW3
WWW4
Economic armageddon.
Peak oil

I'm suprised we aren't all dead.

Fear sells.

 

[sparkylitesthefuze]

https://thothub.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Maitland-Ward-nude-lesbian-photos-1.jpg

 

[FGB]

Every since I can remember we have been on the verge of total annihilation.

Global cooling
Global warming
Climate change
Bird flu
Ozone depletion
Swine flu
Ebola
Y2K
Rising sea levels
WWW3
WWW4
Economic armageddon.
Peak oil



I'm suprised we aren't all dead.

Fear sells.

You forgot Duck and cover from the atomic blast!

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Fear sells.

Best buyers are in the US of A

 

[Kantarii]

The Doomsday clock been stuck at 2 minutes to midnight forever and a day. I think the clock is broken.

 

[verybusy]

 

[verybusy]

Best buyers are

DUMZ

LIBZ

PRGOGZ

LOONZ

FEMZ

NIGZ

GIMPZ

FGAZ

GAZE

and sundry REE TARDS

~F~Y~P

 

[DMBFFF]

You forgot Duck and cover from the atomic blast!

"The key word is survival in the new frontier."

Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU
4:43

YT comments:

Brock Landers
2 years ago
Years ago showed this to my mom, who graduated high school in 1957, and she had tears in her eyes at the end. She wasn't even a Steely Dan fan. Apparently, this video is an actual time portal to 1963.

Erika Mcqueen
1 year ago
My 7th graders enjoyed this song and video . We just started on the Cold War

Eric Lynch, Salesforce & .Net Developer
3 years ago
One of my all-time favorite music videos from the 1980s. I loved the nods to the 60s, the era when I grew up as well. Beautifully done, great song. Can't say enough good things about this video and the era it came from. Awesome. Thank you for posting.

[size=+1]The political right also uses scare tactics.[/size]

▪ Reefer Madness.
▪ War on Drugs.
▪ Lesbians, gays, and bi-s, oh my!
▪ Yellow peril
▪ Mexicans flooding in, raping and murdering
▪ your daughter marrying a black man
▪ loss of religion
▪ Kuwaiti incubators
▪ Al Qaeda in concrete bunkers
▪ Muslimphobia—Busybigot even favours killing their children

1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjho-zVgDXo
6:38

https://www.elyrics.net/read/0-9/1000-homo-djs-lyrics/supernaut-lyrics.html

Practially every one of the top 40 records being played
on every radio station in
the United States is a communication to the children to
take a trip, to cop out, to
groove. The psychedelic jackets on the record albums
have their own hidden symbols
and messages as well as the lyrics to all the top rock
songs and they all sing the
same refrain: It's fun to take a trip, put acid in your
veins.

 

[toeskr]

The political right also uses scare tactics

But the political left speaks the truth.
Would never resort to scare tactics.

I just need to sell all my shit within the next 11 years before the earth ends. Preferably to a granola driving a Subaru.

 

[DawnONight]

"The key word is survival in the new frontier."

Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU
4:43

I love that song!

I remember after Reagan got elected, the leftists in my high school then college were absolutely convinced his rhetoric would bring about nuclear armageddon.

Instead, his "peace through strength" policies brought about a hastened end to Soviet tyranny.

 

[oggbashan]

MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction - has worked as a deterrent and stabiliser in a nuclear-armed world for seventy years.

It assumes that the Presidents of the USA and USSR (now Russia) would order a retaliatory strike if their country was attacked with nuclear weapons, and that those Presidents' responses are unpredictable.

That was one of the worries about Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. He is a pacifist and has said he would never authorise a counterstrike, nor could he envisage any situation where he would commit UK forces to a war. Boris Johnston would and he, in the view of other nuclear powers is as unpredictable as President Trump.

 

[SpeareChucker]

You forgot Duck and cover from the atomic blast!

Indeed.


Desks were much sturdier back then.

 

[DMBFFF]

But the political left speaks the truth.
Would never resort to scare tactics.

I just need to sell all my shit within the next 11 years before the earth ends. Preferably to a granola driving a Subaru.

Both exaggerate.

Btw, didn't right wing radio talk a lot about Y2K?

11 years sounds reasonable to prep—you'll be ready for emergencies while the process should be easy. Granola probably decays: better sealed packages of constituent ingredients, and maybe a bicycle added to some dependable vehicle. Many rightists might give you good advice on prepping.

I love that song!

I remember after Reagan got elected, the leftists in my high school then college were absolutely convinced his rhetoric would bring about nuclear armageddon.

Instead, his "peace through strength" policies brought about a hastened end to Soviet tyranny.

I remember that stupid video by Ultravox Dancing with tears in my eyes.

This Ultravox song was much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cf833c-ec

also:

B.B.Gabor-Soviet Jewellery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoIyfEH8Bn0
4:54

YT comments:

Jessica Audia
5 years ago
High School Toronto early 80's...good memories!
16
Ez Van
10 months ago
Yes, hes is originally from Hungary, but emigrated to Canada.

MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction - has worked as a deterrent and stabiliser in a nuclear-armed world for seventy years.

It assumes that the Presidents of the USA and USSR (now Russia) would order a retaliatory strike if their country was attacked with nuclear weapons, and that those Presidents' responses are unpredictable.

That was one of the worries about Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. He is a pacifist and has said he would never authorise a counterstrike, nor could he envisage any situation where he would commit UK forces to a war. Boris Johnston would and he, in the view of other nuclear powers is as unpredictable as President Trump.

The results speak for themselves.

I'm not sure it's unpredictability, but the opposite—they would!


What does WP have to say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn#Foreign_affairs

During the 1982 Falklands War, in a meeting of Haringey Council, Corbyn opposed a motion offering support to British troops sent to retake the islands, instead declaring the war to be a "Tory plot" and submitted an alternative motion that condemned the war as a "nauseating waste of lives and money".[305] Corbyn has said that he would like Britain to achieve "some reasonable accommodation" with Argentina over their Falkland Islands dispute, with a "degree of joint administration" between the two countries over the islands.[306][307]

I've been re-thinking that, but Thatcher, to her credit, stood up to those fascists in Argentina, and the country's likely the better for it.

He opposed the Iraq war—which I agree with.

He's anti-NATO—something Trump isn't all too crazy about either.

I wonder what his idea of strategic defense of UK is?

At a meeting hosted by Stop the War Coalition in 2009, Corbyn said he invited "friends" from Hamas and Hezbollah to an event in parliament, referred to Hamas as "an organisation dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people," and said that the British government's labelling of Hamas as a terrorist organisation is "a big, big historical mistake."[341]

Okayyyyy.

I'll let Shefita reply to that:
https://youtu.be/t7Xt4ObtKas?t=159


Though I support the right of return for all Palestinians from Israel, West Bank, and Gaza and their descendants.

In 2004 Corbyn and 24 other backbenchers signed a parliamentary motion "congratulating" the journalist John Pilger "on his expose of the fraudulent justifications for intervening in a ‘genocide’ that never really took place in Kosovo", leading to later criticism that he had labelled Serbian war crimes as fabrications.

He stood up for, Jamal Khashoggi, and that's good. Ditto the Kurds.


But yeah. Nukes. Them's a country's aces.

 

[SpeareChucker]

We were never as close to annihilation as when Trump was elected President.

 

[bellisarius]

MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction - has worked as a deterrent and stabiliser in a nuclear-armed world for seventy years.

It assumes that the Presidents of the USA and USSR (now Russia) would order a retaliatory strike if their country was attacked with nuclear weapons, and that those Presidents' responses are unpredictable.

That was one of the worries about Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. He is a pacifist and has said he would never authorise a counterstrike, nor could he envisage any situation where he would commit UK forces to a war. Boris Johnston would and he, in the view of other nuclear powers is as unpredictable as President Trump.

The hand wringer's are going to grasp at any straw.

 

[phrodeau]

Is Israel off the map yet?

 

[Rightguide]

We were never as close to annihilation as when Trump was elected President.

Don Lemmon, Alisyn Camerota, Rachel "Rosewell" Maddow, were all clutching their pearls for all they were worth...which is a lot less today..

 

[Fuzzy1975]

~F~Y~P

No defence though, just a childish edit to my quote. Should I have expected better?