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put this on fb yesterday, i'll try and develop it

Imagine it’s a Friday on the beltway. You want to pick up Charlotte from violin practice but Josiah is at soccer over near Annapolis, we’ve all been there. Unfortunately the traffic is completely jammed, four lanes of cars stretching for 20 miles between you and your destination. Hopeless right? Now imagine your Lexus was equipped with tactical nuclear rocket launchers. Believe it or not, it’s just this kind of innovative blue-sky thinking that’s taking place deep within the Pentagon; a blueprint for how to blast our way out of the geopolitical gridlock of the 21st century.
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pretty good, but that metaphor is way too sustained and coherent
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yeah change "geopolitical gridlock" to something incomprehensible about world flatness and also stab thomas friedman over and over and over
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tom friendman is a product of his milieu, nothing more. he never built a rocket launcher or forced slave laborers at gunpoint to mine coltan to put in an ipad himself. by an accident of birth he sits in the bed of roses growing on the pile of manure. and some of the greatest propagandists of actually existing socialism were identical to tom friedman, merely captured by a better cause
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https://twitter.com/lowenaffchen/status/230854012319178752
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i would prefer not to
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wasn't this a classic goatstein thread
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Israel is a modern-day Gordian Knot. But instead of an Alexander to cut it apart we will need a Martha Washington, to weave it into a flag composed of millions of tiny knots and two peaceful states.
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littlegreenpills posted:

tom friendman is a product of his milieu, nothing more. he never built a rocket launcher or forced slave laborers at gunpoint to mine coltan to put in an ipad himself. by an accident of birth he sits in the bed of roses growing on the pile of manure. and some of the greatest propagandists of actually existing socialism were identical to tom friedman, merely captured by a better cause



The kind of people to whom tom friend man is successful propaganda could be swayed by a light breeze

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iF U dOnT StaND 4 SumTInG U W1LL FaLl 4 N E ThinG
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A little Sri Lankan boy came up to me as I was boarding a plane to Shanghai and asked me, "But Mr. Friedman, what could I do without the technological opportunities afforded to me by an American, Western-style education?" I thought for a few moments, and said, "If you don't stand for something, sit!"
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American capitalism may be looking a bit rusty around the edge but there’s one thing it can do better than any other economic system; ice-cream. I was taking my daughter to Baskin-Robins last Friday when I was struck by a thought: This system worked perfectly! You take the produce, you take the ideas, mix them up in a big bucket and you end up with hundreds of different flavours. As I ordered my daughter a boysenberry delight (plus a double choc fudge for myself) I realized that we’ve been making things too complicated; all you really need is the ideas, the ice and the cream, and this system of innovation and delivery can work anywhere.

Let’s take the middle-east with its intractable hatreds and the constant existential threat faced by Israel. Israel is a Baskin-Robins in a rough neighbourhood; nobody wants to go for a sundae when a crackhead is going to mug you. So what do you do? You make the neighbourhood better. It was so simple! I congratulated myself as I sharted my brooks brothers suit pants on the way back to my lexus. All we need to do in the middle east in change up the ingredients. Instead of bringing fundamentalism through the loading dock, we bring tickle-me-elmos; Instead of Allah, we bring Steve Jobs. Mix these up together and who can resist? Would Muhammed from Nablus rather blow himself up or create apps to help his countrymen watch their weight from all the delicious ice-cream they will be eating.

It’s a Hardee’s solution to a Halal problem. Build it, mix it, dream it….they will eat it. 31 flavours of liberalism beats 31 hadiths any day of the week.

And that’s one moral lesson that’s easy to swallow.
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im searching my tweet backlog for "thomas friedman"
https://twitter.com/lowenaffchen/status/228611594995773440
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http://twitter.com/lowenaffchen/status/132940699434885120
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gyrofry posted:

wasn't this a classic goatstein thread



http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3076512

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Tom Friedman grinned at the woman. "I'm going to put my fuck in you" he said. The woman, waiting for a fuck, nodded.