Sipsey Street Irregulars: Perverting symbols for the service of the elites. Classic collectivist propaganda technique utilizes Marvel Comics: "Captain America battles right-wing conservatives in new comic."

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Perverting symbols for the service of the elites. Classic collectivist propaganda technique utilizes Marvel Comics: "Captain America battles right-wing conservatives in new comic."

In the latest issue of Marvel’s revamped Captain America, the iconic superhero takes on a group of right-wing conservatives trying to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border. In 'Captain America: Sam Wilson #1,' the superhero also known as Sam Wilson heads to the border to take on an “evil” militia group known as the Sons of the Serpent, who are patrolling the area between Mexico and Arizona."

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Anonymous said...: AYFKM......; October 18, 2015 at 6:34 PM
Allen said...: and right at the end, the REAL captain america tells falcon to "stand down"

"this is commander steve rodgers acting on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D.--I order you to stand down!"

a small bit of searching and you can download the issue for free as a .cbr; October 18, 2015 at 9:44 PM
Chiu ChunLing said...: Whatever. Age of Ultron was stupid enough for me to lose interest either way. The premise of "Artificial hyper-intelligence (or genie or whatnot) interprets directive to secure world peace as a mandate to enslave/exterminate humanity" always has promise, but the villain needs to actually seem possibly hyper-intelligent rather than completely moronic for it to work. And making him fight his own perfected form (while totally ganging up on him)? Uh, that's kinda super-villain territory for a reason, guys.

Same thing with the Cobra-Commander expy. I mean, "you know how you make me press one for English at the beginning of every call to my satellite provider? That is something I cannot abide!" A real superhero would intervene with that situation by hiring the bad guy a better writer first. Also, he might try finding actual Hispanics (or at least Asians) for the bad guy to hassle (or, you know, an artist who knows how to draw someone that doesn't look completely Caucasian aside from their complexion).; October 19, 2015 at 12:33 AM
Anonymous said...: Marvel under Disney is headed for the DC toilet.
Now, the question is, do I sell off my old comics NOW, before the Marvel name tanks? Or hold on to them, and watch their value rise as a memory of Marvel's better days?

B Woodman
III-per; October 19, 2015 at 9:58 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Perverting symbols for the service of the elites. Classic collectivist propaganda technique utilizes Marvel Comics: "Captain America battles right-wing conservatives in new comic."

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