Monday, October 21, 2013

Mecha-Castro Macho

Over in a LGM thread, a cut-&-paste troll listed the objectives of World Communism according to Cleon Skousen.* As a narrative the items are bald and unconvincing. Skousen is clearly a frustrated haiku poet and leans toward an aphoristic style:
*Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
This is where we encounter the collegial nature of the Interducts where all is cooperation and comity. Substance McGravitas stepped in with the corroborative detail and the artistic verisimilitude and such as:
October 18, 2013 at 1:29 pm
*Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
Well YEAH. The communist apparatus is giant and made of iron, belches black smoke and CRUSHES EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH.
How cool is that?
But did he provide the appropriate illustration? Did he bogroll.

I don't know where you people would be without Riddled to pick up your toys after you.
"Needs more smoke," Another Kiwi vouchsafed. "Black smoke was mentioned."

"I'll just add another all-crushing Communist Apparatus and update the title," I said. "No-one will ever notice."
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* Described, in the finest euphemisms available to the Whackyweedia collective, as a "faith-based political theorist".

5 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

I WOULD have illustrated, but one-handed typing is hard enough.

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

Well, Stalin means "steel", right? The cossacks and shakos are a bit of an anachronism, though.

tigris said...

C is for complete, nothing further needed here.

L is for lofty, your ambitions are high!

E is for enrich, a quality you share.

O is for old fashioned, you cherish the past.

N is for natural, the genuine side of you.

Smut Clyde said...

The Athenian Cleon, IIRC, was a tanner and a loudmouth buffoon of a demagogue.

I see that his nephews have opted for more Biblical names. They have retained the family tradition of frothing lunacy, however.

Yastreblyansky said...

"I see that his nephews have opted for more Biblical names. They have retained the family tradition of frothing lunacy, however." Or in the case of Royal Skousen (b.1945) aspirational adjectives.