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Originally Posted by ubertuber
This joke was never really funny.
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Yea yea but come on, you didn't read it either.
Being my mind is a bit addled by cold medications, I decided to read all that and it really added, well nothing to the discussion.
We have links about the semi-marxist C. Wright Mills, worried about the 'power elite' whoever the hell they really are, and wanting to join all the leftists in some grand movement to overthrow them. Typical socialist dream, but Mills can be forgiven as this was the 1950's, socialisms follies were not fully understood. This also has very little to do with 'your rights' unless you want to stretch a drunk getting hurt by cops when he refused to submit to a blood test with the 'power elites'.
Then it ties into corporations as the true 'power elites' so now the drunk guy getting hurt is due to McDonalds, great.
Then it all ties in declining crime rates and William J Chambliss's work to show that of course things are worse now than better, even though I don't see anything in Chambliss's work to support that. Noting a problem does not mean the problem is worse now than in the past.
So no, he didn't contradict me, he brought in a bunch of 6 degrees of separation related links, and got upset when he was called on it.
I mean does anyone think the cops would have been NICER to this guy in 1950 if he was acting the same way about something similar? That you would have even heard about it?