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ChapStick Feminism
or in the UK, Lypsyl Feminism
It is for chapped lips. You know, the cold? Chances are there IS such a thing in Russia, but if it has a brand name, we do not know it. And you are not familiar with it. So it would not be a very good pun, in any case

Is feminism in Russia weaker than elsewhere?

• It was brought to Russia more fully earlier; rights were more nearly equal, inasmuch as that was less of a problem, and especially seen as less of a problem, it had less traction as an issue. So there was less struggle and more gain sooner, and as we shall see, less later

• Earlier and more fully than in other countries, women were part of the workforce and even the legislature and faced the challenge of asserting equal rights at home; inasmuch as this was not addressed by the government, it gave feminism a bad name among women themselves:

Pussy Riot

Under capitalism, women are not liberated because they have no opportunity to work. They have to stay at home, go shopping, do the cooking, keep house and take care of the children. But under socialism, women are liberated. They have the opportunity to work all day and then go home, go shopping, do the cooking, keep house and take care of the children - joke attributed to Russian people by Hedrick Smith, former Russian correspondent for The New York Times

This joke is dated, sure, but it shows how the USSR propaganda was dead on target when it showed the difference between the societies, and how women in the USSR faced the same problem as women elsewhere did later. This really is a problem, and it may still exist, or it may not

• Just as in other countries, feminism was critiqued by the mainstream, only more fully, because of anti-Soviet sentiment, and the opportunity to conflate it with the ruling Soviet. Again, this is a real problem; one that Pussy Riot's tactics hopefully will bring to the fore

• As the lawyer representing the Russian Orthodox Church in the Pussy Riot (WP) case made clear, the same people who were anti-Soviet were religious and anti-feminist. He called it a "mortal sin"^[1][2]

The losers in all this are likely to be the Catholic Church, which thoroughly deserves it, and the Soviet, which in many ways does not. Don't be taken in; feminism was practically invented by the USSR

Ignorance is Strength

The Rug of The Freedom of The November
...and Right-wingers not just wooly headed, but dreamy poets as well : "opportunity called November"

"We are unwilling to let this cabal of radicals pull the rug of freedom out from under us in our lifetime. Now we have this glorious opportunity called November" -Rep. Rep. Michelle Bachman^[3]

Hush, sweet prince Reagan, Lo, it doth come all 'p'on the Silken Winges of Opportunytie, and those assembled before, verily shall they dub it, The November

Feel downtrodden? Your freedoms trampled under foot? People in power suits walking all over you? New evidence has emerged of a possible reason why, and a possible solution. Just tug on the rug. Oh, if it were only that simple

Ouroboros Borborygmus
The Industrial-representative-military complex has already eaten itself. It is just too stupid to die

Divined from the entrails^[4] of an imaginary scapegoat:

2009 : Obama chooses the Republicans' health care plan, hoping everyone will finally agree with it. Reps create the name "Obamacare" (WP) and declare war on it

2029: The Dems disband and join the Reps, hoping everyone will finally agree. Reps create the Fatherland Party, leave the Republican Party and declare war on it

Non-witch's innocence proved by drowning. God be praised.
"If we're using a database lacking citizenship information to exclude non-citizens of, you know, one ethnicity or another from voting, you can't blame us if we exclude some citizens of, ahem!, one political party or another, by mistake"

Sure, no problem. And if we were to use this recall order to seek redress and express our feelings about this policy, you couldn't blame us if we removed from power, you know, some Florida governor or his henchmen, by mistake^[5][6][7]

Capitalist Cloud Cuckoo Land
You probably know the Law of Supply and Demand as saying that the price of something goes up when the supply decreases, but knowledge of the Law itself has fed back into the loop, causing speculators to sell when the price goes up, and therefore the supply increases.

If it is Opposite Tuesday, then this not a Law, it is Fizzbin

Neurotics build castles in the sky. Psychotics live in them. Capitalists float a futures market on the expected returns of rent from them

This is either, a Fahrvergnügen Driving Excitement Moment (aka Traffic Jam), or lunch break at the Feed and Seed, depending on whether the guy is waiting for a line of cars in front of him or waiting for his burger and fries to digest. You decide. Kind of makes a mess of the argument that public transportation is lame because you have to wait for buses

Lemmings

"...Packed like lemmings into shiny - metal - boxes / contestants in a suicidal race..." - The Police, Synchronicity II

Fully occupied buses get between 50%^[8] and 125%^[9] more miles per gallon per passenger than fully occupied cars. This model, of course, is not ideal;^[10] car occupancy is an average of 1.5 passengers rather than four, and bus occupancy goes from nearly full occupancy at rush hour to almost empty at other times.^[11]

Minibus and microbus routes have been used to great effect in Oxford England and other cities, often in developing nations, and achieve high levels of occupancy. With greater efficiency and smaller buses, the time between buses can also be reduced. But the key is public participation. The more people turn from private to public transportation, the lower the wait time, and the more expansion of bus routes.

Eternal War
Steven Colbert says that Elmo's arabic-language program for kids was the US' most successful deployment of a puppet in the Afghanistan region since Hamid Karzai^[12]

Dearth from above
Neocon warhawks are soft and fuzzy airheads; they just grit their teeth as they speak empty euphemisms, so one thinks they must mean something by it:

Case in point: Michael Ledeen, who has advocated "the kind of warfare that not only destroys the enemy's military forces, but also brings the enemy society to an extremely personal point of decision..."

A Few Men Good at being Bait

See Drop weapon

"We don't want you on the wall, we get that you don't care much for the parties you don't get invited to, you don't really know much about us, let alone anything 'secret', and those in the right need not "admit" to anything"

Daily Kos Comics

Anarchopedia:Message archive

1. ↑ David M. Herszenhorn (8 August 2012). "In Russia, Madonna Defends a Band’s Anti-Putin Stunt". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/world/europe/madonna-defends-pussy-riot-at-moscow-concert.html. Retrieved 9 August 2012. </li>
2. ↑ Sabrina Tavernise (9 March 2003). "Women Redefine Their Roles in New Russia". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/world/women-redefine-their-roles-in-new-russia.html. Retrieved 16 June 2012. </li>
3. ↑ http://minnesotaindependent.com/58135/in-maryland-bachmann-calls-democrats-a-cabal-of-radicals In Maryland, Bachmann calls Democrats a ‘cabal of radicals’, Andy Birkey, April 27, 2010, Minnesota Independent
4. ↑ Aruspicina: study of entrails to see the future Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Entrails of a sacrificed beast; which was Aruspicina..."
5. ↑ www.democracynow.org/2012/6/1/justice_department_orders_florida_to_stop Justice Department Orders Florida to Stop Voter Purge Targeting Latino, Democratic Voters
6. ↑ http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/12/2796905/noncitizen-voter-hunt-targets.html Hispanics, NPAs more likely to face noncitizen voter purge than whites, GOP
7. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/florida-voter-purge_n_1561137.html Department Of Justice Tells Florida To Stop Purging Voter Rolls
8. ↑ Manufacturing Climate Solutions – Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC), an affiliate of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University
9. ↑ Demonstration of Caterpillar C-10 Duel-Fuel Engines in MCI 102DL3 Commuter Buses
10. ↑ Thomas Rubin, in the "free minds and free markets" outlet Reason Foundation, criticized the report as being "far removed from actual “real world” experience." because the average occupancy of buses is so low. But it is Rubin who is not accurately portraying the real world, by using an average value, see main text
11. ↑ Passenger Transport (Fuel Consumption). Hansard. UK House of Commons. URL accessed on 2008-03-25.
12. ↑ http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-collections/415044/puppet-power/

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