American Hot Buttons - so fucking easy to push

[whatchamacallit]

Chemical Weapons? "This will not stand! We must attack!..."

Bullets, Cruise Missiles, Daisy Cutters, White Phosphorus, Depleted Uranium Shells, DRONES? "Ain't no thing but a chicken wing". The preceding implements of death are just some of the ways we will kill innocents if we go to war. Why are we so disconnected from reality, and so easy to play?

[snooper2]

1. If we dropped a million IPhones pre-loaded with videos of Miley shaking her ass

I bet they all chill the fuck out

[KittyWampus]

6. Maybe if we dropped a million jobs. People who have decent work usually aren't that interested

in killing.

[whatchamacallit]

7. ?

[NutmegYankee]

11. Did you not log in Monday?

A VMA performance practically owned GD.

[liberal N proud]

2. All you need is the illusion of a multi network media to propel the propaganda

And you can get these freaks to do anything!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Here's the "hot buttons":

Google Operation Mockingbird. They say that it has been discontinued.

[whatchamacallit]

4. Yep.

[Eleanors38]

5. Bis repetita.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Had to look that up

[Eleanors38]

9. Describes phenomenon of people listening or experiencing the same

thing over & over because it is comforting or familiar; subtext by some scholars' reckoning is "so what's new?"

[fujiyama]

10. It's scary because we're already there

What's amazing is no one is even bothering to talk about this because everyone has lost count of how many places we're involved in.

How does such a country claim to be a force for good in the world?

[Eleanors38]

12. Few talk about our wars just as fewer talk about problems

close at home: More and more people see themselves as impotent to do anything. Jimmy Carter said it best last month.

"We are no longer a functioning democracy."