Rolling Stone Cover

[star seed 7]

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

I've seen it multiple places.

[bubbles4ksu]

There are a lot of mindless idiots in this country. I don't think bubs or team bubs really has an issue with the cover. I think he really has an issue with society. I share that same grievance with society at large. Sex sells, people are generally soft, everyone is a victim, the public sees that he is attractive and may have had some personal strife, so they become sympathetic towards him. It's sad that this happens and I hate it. But for people like the g.E crowd, this cover isn't a big deal. It changes nothing. He is what he is, what he did, not what he looks like, or his childhood. There comes a day when our lives are our own. He came to a crossroads and he chose to go down a bad path. There was a moment, a choice, he chose wrongly, albeit probably slaying trim like a yeti all along the way.

yes, 'PoundsignKid, that's pretty much how i feel 

that plus the fact that i hate america's enemies more than most. 

[steve dave]

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

yeah, it really isn't getting any play at all nationally. more of a goEMAW thing.

[bubbles4ksu]

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

yeah, it really isn't getting any play at all nationally. more of a goEMAW thing.

npr had an editor on. the host went after him and he was pretty sheepish.

[steve dave]

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

yeah, it really isn't getting any play at all nationally. more of a goEMAW thing.

npr had an editor on. the host went after him and he was pretty sheepish.

ok, npr and goEMAW but that's it

[bubbles4ksu]

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

yeah, it really isn't getting any play at all nationally. more of a goEMAW thing.

npr had an editor on. the host went after him and he was pretty sheepish.

ok, npr and goEMAW but that's it

gizmodo and gawker.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

 

FWIW, this is the only forum Ive seen or heard this being talked about. 

yeah, it really isn't getting any play at all nationally. more of a goEMAW thing.

Not sure you have a strong grasp on what "fwiw" means, libtard.

[Kat Kid]

FWIW, I've never lost in a foot race to Usain Bolt.

[Paul Moscow]

Why anyone cares what's on this irrelevant magazine is beyond me.  The only people who read it are white guys that learned guitar after age 22, those weird music geeks that share terrible "Indy" music on Facebook, and people who collect records.

But we are still gonna kill that writer from that irrelevant magazine tho, right? Cause danger and stuff.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Why anyone cares what's on this irrelevant magazine is beyond me.  The only people who read it are white guys that learned guitar after age 22, those weird music geeks that share terrible "Indy" music on Facebook, and people who collect records.

But we are still gonna kill that writer from that irrelevant magazine tho, right? Cause danger and stuff.

Uhhhh, go for it.  But don't be surprised if he stands his ground and doesn't let you kill him. 

[OK_Cat]

FWIW i've never not been in the same room as brad pitt

[bubbles4ksu]

The Dzokhar Tsarnaev Rolling Stone Controversy Is Kanye West's Fault

[bubbles4ksu]

FBI Dashes American Teen Girl Trio's Dreams of Joining ISIS

I read that article today and was reminded of this thread. I also remembered something I should have mentioned when I was raising a fuss the first time. The following is an excerpt from a review of Mein Kampf by George Orwell written in 1940. I'd read the review a couple of weeks before the Marathon bombing and it affected me. I'm not drawing any parallels between the two situations except that our postmodern attitudes continue to be less psychologically sound than something as miserable as jihad. I find this to be an extremely uncomfortable and unfortunate truth. The RS cover bothered me much more as an example of this situation rather than a potential cause for more terrorism.

...I should like to to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power - till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter- I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs - and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett's edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the  expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that there is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at, but at any rate the grievance is there. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero  who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can't win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous, half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.

Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers, tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense, they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin's militarized version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation "Greatest happiness of the greatest number" is a good slogan, but at this moment "Better an end with horror than a horror without end" is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underestimate it emotional appeal.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

In a rudderless country where our leaders stand for nothing, people in search of meaning will naturally gravitate towards people who stand for something, even villains. How else do you explain young girls gravitating towards black burqa'd servitude?

[star seed 7]

You are a rough ridin' idiot