Hi, I'm a Communist!

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Hi, I'm a Communist!

This recruiting video for the Communist Party is unbelievable. And listen to the music!

Dayaamm!

I think it's going to backfire big time.

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I got this at The Blaze here: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Communists

You can read a bunch of other stuff about this video over there.

Michael

Yup. The Anointed One was a Communist before Communism was cool. If in fact it is cool. A New Left nilhilist kind of Communist, of course.

http://twitpic.com/3615ae

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

How does one post a still image on this board? If such a thing is possible?

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Jonathan,

Right click on the image and select "Copy Image Location" or find the image's URL somehow.

Paste it into the post.

Highlight the URL.

Select the Image icon on the formatting bar. This icon is square with a border, like a snapshop, and it is to the right of the smiley and the chain.

Here is how the image in your link looks.

Michael

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Let's try it.

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Cool! It worked.

[Kimmler]

Did Ayn Rand write Atlas Shrugged for nothing? Was it all in vain?

Kimmler,

No.

I read it.

(That goes for others, too.)

Anyway, what logic leads you to believe that Atlas Shrugged and the Objectvist movement are one and the same thing? You have a weird way of equivocating things...

In other words, did you learn spin for nothing? Is it all in vain?

[bYou wish!

Michael

From wikipedia

"The theme of Atlas Shrugged, as Rand described it, is "the role of man's mind in existence." The book explores a number of philosophical themes that Rand would subsequently develop into the philosophy of Objectivism.[5][6] It advocates the core tenets of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and expresses her concept of human achievement. In doing so it expresses many facets of Rand's philosophy, such as the advocacy of reason, individualism, the market economy and the failure of government coercion."

I thought it was her magnum-opus...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Kimmler,

Why did you include your words in my quote?

Do you need to learn how to format this stuff properly?

Also, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus. So? Does that sound like the Objectivist movement to you? It sounds like a book to me.

If your confusions persist, please do not hesitate to ask for help. I promise that I will try to be as simple as I can until the ideas are clear.

For example, to recap, book is not the same thing as social movement. Books are made out of organized words and usually presented on paper or in an electronic format. A movement is made up of organized people (leaders and members), and involve politics or social changes.

Also, to further recap, my words are not your words. When you present your words as if you are quoting my words, you confuse the reader.

If you can get these things right, that's a pretty good start.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

From the horse's mouth: the audio from a recent National Socialist Convention strategy session.

I just got this on The Blaze.

It's self-explanatory.

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Michael

[George H. Smith]

Let's try it.

Am I supposed to see a picture here? All I see is a red x inside a box with "Posted image" to the right, and there is no way to click on the icon so as to display an image. The same is true of Michael's earlier demonstration post.

Ghs

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Am I supposed to see a picture here?

George,

LOL...

Actually there was a picture and your post is a good reason to say why there is no longer.

When you use a link to a graphic from another site, you have to be careful. If the picture disappears from that link at the other site, it will disappear here, too. I suggest folks download the graphic, then upload it to Photobucket--or some other image storing site--and use the link from there.

If anyone has any doubt about copyrighted images, sneaky folks rename the downloaded file before uploading. That way Photobucket (or whoever) does not delete the image. I'm not saying you should or should not do that. I'm just sayin'.

Anyway, IP protection on the Internet is all over the place. I suggest folks use common sense and not hardened categories or stubbornness while the copyright rules and laws are being thrashed out everywhere. In other words, do what you think is right or reasonable and don't worry too much about what other folks do.

Michael

[kiaer.ts]

Copyright allows a fair use exception which holds that for legitimate purposes of commentary use of material that does not damage the value of the original is allowed.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Ted,

Have you ever read anything at all that I have written on copyright? Or read any of the many copyright discussions here on OL? Or have you seen Robert's thread on the Rewirte Squad? Etc., etc., etc.?

You mentioning the Fair Use provision in this context is like me saying that Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged and treating it as new information.

I will repeat: At this point in history, common sense is the best guide to posting information from other people online. Anyway, Fair Use is so vague--both in statute and in case law--as to be meaningless for those who like hard and fast rules.

My opinion comes from a great deal of study. (And even then, I feel I have only scratched the surface.)

Michael

[sjw]

Ted,

Have you ever read anything at all that I have written on copyright? Or read any of the many copyright discussions here on OL? Or have you seen Robert's thread on the Rewirte Squad? Etc., etc., etc.?

You mentioning the Fair Use provision in this context is like me saying that Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged and treating it as new information.

Most Americans and Objectivists are extremely naive about the laws and the legal system. They are biased to assume that it is somehow sensible or fair. It takes something like this happening to them to begin to wake up: http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake (in this case it was the unfortunate victim's mother who needed to be woken up). Then they realize the system is far worse than they thought. All the times when they said "oh, well that person who seems to be getting abused by the legal system must have done something wrong, that'll never happen to me" come back to haunt them.

Another example is the typical Objectivist understanding of patent laws. In their disconnected-from-reality minds they think patents are fair, while having no knowledge of how the patent system actually works in reality.

Shayne

[kiaer.ts]

Ted,

Have you ever read anything at all that I have written on copyright? Or read any of the many copyright discussions here on OL? Or have you seen Robert's thread on the Rewirte Squad? Etc., etc., etc.?

You mentioning the Fair Use provision in this context is like me saying that Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged and treating it as new information.

I will repeat: At this point in history, common sense is the best guide to posting information from other people online. Anyway, Fair Use is so vague--both in statute and in case law--as to be meaningless for those who like hard and fast rules.

My opinion comes from a great deal of study. (And even then, I feel I have only scratched the surface.)

Michael

God you are defensive. I was agreeing with you 100%. Reread what I said. Take a pill.

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Am I supposed to see a picture here?

George,

LOL...

Actually there was a picture and your post is a good reason to say why there is no longer.

When you use a link to a graphic from another site, you have to be careful. If the picture disappears from that link at the other site, it will disappear here, too. I suggest folks download the graphic, then upload it to Photobucket--or some other image storing site--and use the link from there.

If anyone has any doubt about copyrighted images, sneaky folks rename the downloaded file before uploading. That way Photobucket (or whoever) does not delete the image. I'm not saying you should or should not do that. I'm just sayin'.

Anyway, IP protection on the Internet is all over the place. I suggest folks use common sense and not hardened categories or stubbornness while the copyright rules and laws are being thrashed out everywhere. In other words, do what you think is right or reasonable and don't worry too much about what other folks do.

Michael

The photos I have posted on Twitpic show up on my laptop but not on my iPad. I have no idea why that happens. I wonder if the forum software uses Adobe Flash, which on Apple's mobile device OS is as welcome as a whore in church or Murray Rothbard at an ARI board meeting.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Jonathan,

Sometimes dynamic pages also are a problem.

Also, there are certain kinds of dynamic (and a few static) links that the forum program refused to embed since malicious code can get through those ways.

This stuff happens when there are several technologies used for the same thing.

That's why the best option is usually to download the picture and upload to a place you are sure is stable before embedding it in a post.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Ted,

Sorry. I misread your intention.

There's a lot more to fair use than what you said and that threw me.

Michael

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Jonathan,

Sometimes dynamic pages also are a problem.

Also, there are certain kinds of dynamic (and a few static) links that the forum program refused to embed since malicious code can get through those ways.

This stuff happens when there are several technologies used for the same thing.

That's why the best option is usually to download the picture and upload to a place you are sure is stable before embedding it in a post.

Michael

I thought Twitpic was stable. Perhaps I should use Flickr.

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Let's try it again:

Scrapbooking Communists by curiousyellow, on Flickr

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Okay, I posted the "communist" image to Flickr, but I restricted access because many of my Flickr friends are altruist collectivist mystics (I.e., "Democrats") can any of you OL-ers see it, ir are you blocked too?

[Rich Engle]

Photobucket is a good place to store images. Then you can just drop the link in here using the "insert image" icon.

[Jonathan David Leavitt]

Photobucket is a good place to store images. Then you can just drop the link in here using the "insert image" icon.

Thanks, Rich. I already belong to Flickr, and it seems to work. If I have any trouble with it, I'll switch to Photibucket.

[Selene]

We were all amused by this video, but underneath it is the iron fist of dedicated communists and they intend, having encysted themselves in the Democratic Party,

to take it over. Like all cancers, they will metastasize and killing the host and in this case, they hope, the host's country.

Yep, the Communists have been here since the twenties.

The 29th CPUSA Convention was a big success and will hopefully go a long way toward improving the party’s contributions to the democratic movement. The strategic policy of uniting all the core forces and movements to defeat the ultra-right and consolidate the people’s coalition was resoundingly re-endorsed by the delegates. The quality of the discussion both before and at the convention reflected the hard work that members are involved in on the ground and a willingness to do the kind of hard thinking necessary to match it.

Recent articles in Political Affairs and People’s World show that the party’s process of confronting contemporary political challenges and looking for ways to move forward did not end when the convention adjourned in New York.

http://politicalaffairs.net/living-in-an-era-of-change/