tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post1823686470547467279..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Little By Little Entertainment Has Greased The Skids Into Nazism - "Irony" Should Have Stayed Dead Sixteen Years AgoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-91532214802461231392017-09-06T13:29:01.586-04:002017-09-06T13:29:01.586-04:00Oh, and, speaking of the National Lampoon, this is...Oh, and, speaking of the National Lampoon, this is how I think of the young Steve Simels, the boy in blue.<br /><br /><br />http://www.marksverylarge.com/images/7302cover_l.jpg<br /><br />I stopped finding it funny about the same time that Chris Miller started writing for it, though I didn't read every issue up till then. I thought it was mostly puerile and stupid. Frat boy humor. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-53444863326996533442017-09-06T13:20:08.539-04:002017-09-06T13:20:08.539-04:00I hope it never passes my keyboard again. It'...I hope it never passes my keyboard again. It's useless for any honest purpose, now. I wonder if Niebuhr might have been the last one to use it constructively. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-24150451002595177692017-09-06T13:18:24.919-04:002017-09-06T13:18:24.919-04:00Well, there's a guy you might have heard of, o...Well, there's a guy you might have heard of, one of Richard Spencer's proteges named "Stephen Miller" he's been compared to Goebbels quite a bit since January. Not to mention the right-wing Jewish support for Trump, even as he promotes Nazism.<br /><br />http://religionnews.com/2017/08/28/jewish-trump-supporters-resist-calls-from-other-jews-to-renounce-the-president/<br /><br />If I ever feel the need to consult one of Duncan's regulars about things Jewish, I'll go see if I can find DAS's old blog, I used to be a regular reader. You, I wouldn't trust you to give out accurate information about The Dixie Cups or Ultimate Spinach, you're such a lazy, ignorant liar. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-6867811887926267412017-09-06T12:35:31.524-04:002017-09-06T12:35:31.524-04:00Fuck you, asshole. What you know from being Jewish...Fuck you, asshole. What you know from being Jewish is right up there with what you know from funny, i.e., nothing.<br /><br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-36271473111514169932017-09-06T12:34:14.783-04:002017-09-06T12:34:14.783-04:00First, there are all manner of unintended conseque...First, there are all manner of unintended consequences, including the abuse of "irony" (the word and the concept), which is what the post is about, as I understand it.<br /><br />Second, if we're really going to talk about irony, we have to go back at least to Kierkegaard (no, seriously), to start to get a handle on what it is, distinguished from the usual misuse of the term (and especially the error of conflating "irony" with "dramatic irony").<br /><br />Third: "Isn't it ironic? don't you think?" was an intentional misuse of irony, mocking our incorrect usage of the concept. Oddly enough, most people thought that was the misuse of irony, not the satire of that abuse.<br /><br />I'm ready to just stop using the word. Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-83213904720747201342017-09-06T12:29:22.992-04:002017-09-06T12:29:22.992-04:00I don't remember either of them being involved...I don't remember either of them being involved with the National Lampoon, when did they work there? I would guess they probably worked there after I stopped reading the crappy thing, sometime before 1975. <br /><br />Is your argument that someone who is Jewish can't a. be a racist, b. can't have had something to do with the Trump regime coming to power? Because I can give you a list of names who are both.The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-30563477543585858882017-09-06T12:19:32.409-04:002017-09-06T12:19:32.409-04:00Danny Abelson and Ellis Weiner. Ellis writes for t...Danny Abelson and Ellis Weiner. Ellis writes for the New Yorker now, so obviously he's a Nazi.<br /><br />And fuck you again.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-26167374454848616522017-09-06T12:18:01.098-04:002017-09-06T12:18:01.098-04:00Oh, I merely mentioned that virtually everything t...Oh, I merely mentioned that virtually everything that Richard Spencer said in that speech had a parallel in something said by Darwin and, or, his closest inner circle of scientific colleagues who he cited as scientific fact.<br /><br />You're apparently the one who thinks he's a comedian. So, I'm led to believe that you find the Nazi salute "ironic" as he claimed. Did you feel exuberance over it, too?The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-80553862408597671412017-09-06T12:12:43.017-04:002017-09-06T12:12:43.017-04:00Name them. Name them. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-1835656938466719162017-09-06T11:54:15.266-04:002017-09-06T11:54:15.266-04:00" I first noticed in the frat boys who ran Th..." I first noticed in the frat boys who ran The National Lampoon."<br /><br />Oh, fuck you. I worked with two editors from the Lampoon in the 70s -- one was a refugee from South African apartheid and the other was a New York City jew. The suggestion that they were responsible for the rise of Trump is not just stupid, it's deeply offensive.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-57018717534397737392017-09-06T11:37:50.776-04:002017-09-06T11:37:50.776-04:00Ah yes. Along with Darwin, the biggest contributor...Ah yes. Along with Darwin, the biggest contributor to Nazism was clearly stand-up comedy.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com