Jeremy Sapienza's Comments

Antiwar.com Blog : Deaths in Afghanistan Skyrocket under Obama

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:40:14 +0000

I love how they include 2012 though it was only 18 days in. Makes a much nicer chart at a glance if you're trying to mitigate a disastrous appearance.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:52 +0000

Example: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/22/dear-antiw...

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:31:58 +0000

I was actually going to say, Code Pink has been involved in mic-checking Obama here and there, and would be surprised if they weren't in NH. John, maybe a correction is in order?

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Neither Walsh nor anyone else here at Antiwar.com had or have anything at all do with Bush. Try again.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Eh, Chomsky is wrong on this. That said, there is a LARGE proportion of American libertarians who do not fancy themselves what we call "vulgar" libertarians -- the kind that says food stamps are an unfair evil while corporate welfare is "just how the game is played." They have an automatic prejudice for corporations and business in the same way many on the left have an automatic prejudice against it. Both positions are equally ridiculous. Many of us are mutualist anarchists, anti-estate syndicalists, Tuckerite voluntaryists, and any combination thereof. The Rand faction and the LP types are the reason I don't even call myself libertarian anymore. They're so distasteful and unattractively right-wing. Also, LOL at saying Thomas Jefferson didn't like wage labor. I think we all know that's true.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:16:27 +0000

It's certainly true that there is a combination of welfare state services that work better than here -- no argument, really, just look around. And frankly, I'd take a peaceful Scandi welfare state over the ineffectual, disastrous US one in a second. They may come with their own problems but nothing comparing to what we get here. War and attacks on civil liberty mean we have SO MUCH MORE to deal with in the US. Be best to tear it all down. Reform is impossible.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:12:03 +0000

You mean you don't see any reason to throw out the fantasy of such a system. Because that is what we have always had. And at least for you, it seems to have worked in its main goal -- making the powerless feel they have a stake/say. They don't. Just look at what actually happens. Are you going to make them stick to the Constitution? No. "Ayn Rand" is the progressives' Godwin's Law. Yawn.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:07:04 +0000

"While a libertarian opposes war simply out of fear of government power, a progressive opposes war out of concern for the lives and livelihoods of those involved." Lie. Libertarians fear government power because they care about their fellow humans. Obviously. In fact, grassroots progressivism has an identical motivation to libertarianism, but some of us are more anti-authoritarian than others, and have a different understanding of people's motivations (i.e., economics). It's sweet you think "the people" can own and run political power. Actually no, it's dangerous and has us right where we are now -- looking for a savior in the next most successful backstabber to rise to national prominence. But hey, good luck voting for.... whom exactly? The American voter should envy Sisyphus. At least he gets the boulder up the hill each time.

Antiwar.com Blog : Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:59:10 +0000

Where were libertarians? Here, encouraging people to protest his wars and power grabs. There, protesting the Afghanistan and Iraq wars before they happened -- with progressives, thinking they'd be around as allies the next time. Libertarian is not conservative, and has nothing to do with Bush. You know this, so stop that. John's point is that MOST progressives -- clearly not all, as YOU and many like you are here at Antiwar.com -- have made the choice for what they think will be slightly better lives for already rich whites at the literal, one-for-one expense of the mass death of brown people far away. So who is more racist and greedy -- libertarians or Obama progs?

Antiwar.com Blog : SOPA, and Why We're Not Blacked Out

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:53:12 +0000

No, we shouldn't, for reasons explained above and below by paulBass

Antiwar.com Blog : SOPA, and Why We're Not Blacked Out

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:28:22 +0000

HAHA, no! Slip of the fingers... but appropriate I guess. Thanks.

Antiwar.com Blog : Duh, Winning! (Hearts and Minds Edition)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:41:33 +0000

On this, only Arthur Silber (what happens when someone who comes out of the Rand cult has two brain cells to rub together) has the proper attitude on pissing http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/01/vari... In short: the men are DEAD, and we care they're being splashed with urine? The LATTER is an outrage? Doomed culture.

Antiwar.com Blog : John Glaser on RT Talking War in Afghanistan

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:30:56 +0000

The host asked if this reflects on every soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. John said No, but, and provided concise explanation. I would have said yes and been silent. This is why I don't get on TV :-D

Antiwar.com Blog : The Last Refuge of the (Happy) Scoundrel

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:45:51 +0000

Wait. "Civic pride" is mentioned. This is not the same as "civic nationalism." You can have a great deal of civic pride based on your real joint accomplishments in collaboration with your neighbors. This is good and would make us happy. Nationalism removes 1) the accomplishment part and 2) the neighbors part. It's meaningless. So was the question fudged?

Antiwar.com Blog : Deep Thoughts From The Guardian

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:01:32 +0000

Sachs is the ultimate double-downer - some random policy not working? Do it more! That is literally his prescription for everything.

Antiwar.com Blog : Deep Thoughts From The Guardian

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:57:11 +0000

That's boring.

Antiwar.com Blog : Video: Elderly Israeli Fighter Talks About 1948 Genocide

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:52:03 +0000

"This was war. So these things happen." - Every killer's excuse throughout history. "Zionism simply means a homeland for Jews." - And also, necessarily, that anyone who is in the way can drop dead. " So if your against Jews having their own state and your not against anyone else having their own state, then you are anti-Jewish." - Good thing I am against people having their own state, anywhere, when it requires genocide. What else you got, hasbara troll?

Antiwar.com Blog : Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:34:59 +0000

The area was "Taliban-infested," says CNN. Then I guess *shrug* this is just an unfortunate side effect of the struggle against violent extremism. *smile* The moral responsibility really lies with those who would resist our pacification.

Antiwar.com Blog : Ron Paul's "Loyal Aides"?

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:13:18 +0000

Seems like a pretty basic obviousness that Ron Paul will not be president, ever. Hardly seems fifth columnish to point such out.

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette : Glenn Greenwald

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:37:27 +0000

Uh, ok.