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Pussy Riot

Removed 16th November, 2012 (never really was happy with this article; I think Westerners somehow just don't really get Pussy Riot, and the story was at a tangent with both the Western narrative and Pussy Riot, too, and like everything about the USSR, there is pitifully little documentation):

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

Feminism in Russia (WP); ahead of its time since 1917, behind the times since the 1970s.

• 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:

Feminism in Russia was ahead of its time throughout much of the 20th C, but the later generations of Russians are so fully propagandized by reactionaries that they will not stand behind any virtues of the USSR. Pussy Riot attempts to goad the Russian establishment into the 21st C, and their struggle will certainly be framed with overreaching anti-communism, even if only in the Wikipedia:Pussy Riot and Wikipedia:Feminism in Russia articles

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 (WP) tactics hopefully will bring to the fore

• As the lawyer representing the Russian Orthodox Church in the Pussy Riot 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

Removed 18th August, 2012:

Koobface virus facts Snopes.com

Removed 21st June, 2012:

(Fake Latin alert) Proliferatum ad surrealis

Ignorance is strength

See Wikipedia:"Polish death camp" controversy

Gunboat Diplomacy (WP): "I'm going to start deliberately misunderstanding everything"

Gunboat Diplomacy: "For example, Obama obviously meant that Poland exterminated people when he said 'Polish death camps'"

The Meek Shall Inherit (WP): "Yes, I can see how that might have run the risk of misinforming misinformed people"

Gunboat Diplomacy: "Huh? What the hell did you mean by that?!"

The Meek Shall Inherit: "Just that.."

Gunboat Diplomacy: "I just don't get it. Why won't you address my failure to comprehend you? You obviously subconsciously want to fail in this argument."

(Fake Latin alert) "Ad mausoleum" comes after ad nauseum, when we have all been bored to death

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Right but not correct

Social Services, EPA, legislative constraints on business practice...etc etc etc ad nauseum. Every government agency and then some.

Who is it exactly has the problem with authority? Perhaps, the 'patriots' that whine when the Taxman comes to ask for money for their country?

Captains of industry

• No. 57: Captains of industry boldly wait and see if local businesses become successful, and then proliferate innovation by imitating their business model, forging ahead into a world where all local profits can be first be boldly skimmed at corporate headquarters

• No. 78: Captains of industry take the lead in retreating from investing in areas of the economy that need assistance, boldly forging ahead into a world where nobody does anything for anyone

• No. 114: Captains of industry stand bravely alone against the tides and currents of competition, except when they boldly join together in secret price fixing agreements

Eternal War

Removed Sunday 30th Oct, 2011:

Capitalist Cloud Cuckoo Land

Nimble suits

"...business is faster at dealing with change than government..."

Government Committee: Staid and slow. Cautious. Afraid of changes that bring potential loss News report: "Several FISA judges said they also remain puzzled by Bush's assertion that the court was not 'agile' or 'nimble' enough to help catch terrorists" Board of Directors: Imaginative and quick. Bold. Daring. Unafraid of changes that bring potential loss Forum post: "...'No private company can compete with the government. Private firms must turn a profit, or at least break even to survive; whereas the US government can just print money'...'The only way that the government alternative can hedge out private insurance is if the government program does it better than private industry.' Forum post reply: 'If private industry is as agile and as efficient as it is supposed to be, competing with a big slow government organization should be easy'..." Government in fact has no reason to exist, outside of making changes. Business does, though; counting the money

Removed Thursday, 22nd March, 2012:

Uniformity

"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy

The suit. No other item of clothing has remained static and unchanged for over a century. Every other century, even during the middle ages, saw changes in clothing at varying paces. The suit is a symptom not only of groupthink (WP) in the business sector, but stagnation.

The Mao suit (WP), widely ridiculed in the West as a symbol of conformity, was actually based on the Western business suit, albeit a suit for all the people.

Removed 1st April, 2011:

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> </ol>