You know, dude, you’re allowed to not like your mom, and maybe you even have good reasons for it. But damn, dude, why do you have to hate everyone else’s mom, too?
READERS! Stay tune tomorrow for a look at a much longer and in many ways even nastier MGTOW disquisition on motherhood and mother’s day, which was helpfully left in the comments here by a very angry dude!
@Dali
The joke was “you’re a hardline socialist, the John Birch society gets rustled about that kinda thing, kyeh”.
I’m glad I vaguely remembered a mention of it in one of my old Bathroom Readers.
The John Birch Society was founded by a guy named Robert Welch, who owned a candy company in Massachusetts. John Birch was an American officer and missionary who was killed shortly after the end of World War II in a skirmish with Red Chinese forces and therefore was, according to Welch, the first American casualty of World War III. Welch was most famous for his comments that President Eisenhower was a card-carrying member of the Communist conspiracy. Basically everyone else was a Communist too. (Welch would be very much at home in today’s Right — except that he would never suck up to Putin.)
The Chad Mitchell Trio was a folk group that came to prominence during the early 60’s folk song fad. I had several of their physical albums and have downloaded the rest, which dates me terribly. They did a number of political satire pieces like the “I Was Not a Nazi Polka”, and a lot of traditional folk songs.
@GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
He sounds like a right pinko peacenik hippy commie compared to what you have in the USA today 🙂
@Simon — thanks for putting those two items together — I was familiar with Eisenhower’s speech but hadn’t thought of it as what Welch would see as evidence of Ike’s perfidy.
Eisenhower had seen war and sent thousands of young men to their deaths. He had no illusisions about the “glories” of war.
Speaking of celebrations…
Happy Norway Da…Ooh, Squirrel!
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