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  1. says

    Hey, look! It’s Muammar! Gadaffi has now joined Hitler, Khomeini, and Stalin in the debit column of world history. Is that Kim Jong-il waiting his turn? Soon, now! (Who’s the guy in the back? Too skinny to be Idi Amin. Could it be Mugabe?)

  3. retrocool says

    We want peace and we’re going to fight until we get it.
    That’ll definitely work, right?

  4. Matt Penfold says

    We want peace and we’re going to fight until we get it.
    That’ll definitely work, right?

    That whooshing sound you are hearing ? It is the point going right over your head.

  5. Gregory says

    I’m so getting that. Nothing terrorizes dictators and wanna-be theocrats quite like an independent, educated populace.

  8. joed says

    Without Bush, Cheney, and Obama the poster is incomplete.
    These three terrorists have killed millions of innocent people in a relatively short time.

  9. laurentweppe says

    Wait: It wasn’t about a Undead/Kaiju crossover? You know, with four of the dictators in the foreground being dead and the two remaining being zombies, I kinda hoped it was a poster for a christmas flick: Could have been named “Doctor Manhattan’s Children versus the Legions of the Murderous Undead.”

  10. Gnumann says

    Seems like SAIH is a bit to dense to mention it, but they’re a charity – and I assume any profit will be used to help people.

  11. frankb says

    Without Bush, Cheney, and Obama the poster is incomplete.
    These three terrorists have killed millions of innocent people in a relatively short time.

    As much as I hate Bush and Chaney, I don’t recall them killing even a million people. I will also say that Obama is not in the same league as Bush and Chaney. His opportunities for killing large numbers of people are dwindling as the wars wind down. There are a lot of criticisms to be made of those three, so we don’t need to exaggerate.

  13. says

    What the shit is that poster on about? The educated classes are the most complacent in mass abuses of power. Who do you think writes the newspaper articles and foreign policy journals and writes the laws and designs the weapons and every other god damned thing that makes the war machine continue? It is the class of college educated people. They are absolutely necessary to authoritarian rule and are indoctrinated more strongly that the other classes, largely through things like university education.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6lFOhLJ0c

    The poster also makes it seem as though people who haven’t graduated from somewhere aren’t educated. Activist traditions in the US included things like unions organizing community education, using books like “math for the masses” and such so that communities who did not have any schooling were equally (if not more) educated than their schooled counterparts. Now with the internet (and stuff like kahn academy) there is little reason to think that the two things are exclusive to each other.

  14. says

    As much as I hate Bush and Chaney, I don’t recall them killing even a million people. I will also say that Obama is not in the same league as Bush and Chaney. His opportunities for killing large numbers of people are dwindling as the wars wind down. There are a lot of criticisms to be made of those three, so we don’t need to exaggerate.

    It depends on how much blame you put on them for the murderous economic policies of the USA.

    If you see tons of starving people outside your door and you have plenty of food and money to help them, and instead buy a bunch of guns and ammo to kill some other people far away who aren’t threatening you, how much responsibility lies with you for your decision? What about the future damages of war ravaged countries, which make it unlikely that they will develop life-saving infrastructure in the future? I would say a whole lot of it rests on their shoulders. They could at least speak up about the injustice instead of pretending it doesn’t exist.

  18. frankb says

    What about the future damages of war ravaged countries, which make it unlikely that they will develop life-saving infrastructure in the future? I would say a whole lot of it rests on their shoulders.

    Can the dehumanizing militaristic culture of a whole nation rest on the shoulders of a few individuals? That can be argued either way. I am saying that the wars in Afghastan and Iraq can be put on the shoulders of Bush and Chaney, snd that did not cause a million deaths.

  20. Ichthyic says

    The educated classes are the most complacent in mass abuses of power

    exactly.

    that’s what’s great about the poster.

    Irony. you failz it.

  23. Midnight Rambler says

    The educated classes are the most complacent in mass abuses of power

    exactly.

    that’s what’s great about the poster.

    Irony. you failz it.

    Judging from the rest of the post, I think skeptifem meant “complicit” rather than “complacent”, but the latter is indeed more accurate.