M.A.S.A.

Mirah

I love you
What color hat should I use for my "Make America Safe Again" campaign? Maybe I should just do safety yellow. I'll also be doing a side campaign that will be a spin on the orignal and it will be "Make America Sane Again" and then yet another side campaign called M.A.I.A. "Make America Insane Again."
And then I will write a blog titled, "Was America ever really safe?" and "What makes a place "Safe"? with arguements on many sides listing ways in which a place is safe or unsafe.
 

The Question

Eternal
Nothing is safe. You could be laying on your sofa with all your doors locked, windows barred, fall asleep... get a little excess saliva in your mouth, but instead of drooling, you're at just the right angle to inhale it into your lungs, drown on your own drool, and die in your sleep.

There's no such thing as 'safe.'
 

Volpone

Zombie Hunter
I can't find it quickly, but I swear...Damon Wayans(?) did a bit about MASA, as a play on "massa", and how they'd never send white people into space before first trying it out with brothers. Wanna say he did the whole vernacular thing--"Oh lawd, massa, it cold out here!"
 

Mirah

I love you
I am pretty sure I have seen that.

Does that have anything to do with America's safety?
 

Mirah

I love you
Nothing is safe. You could be laying on your sofa with all your doors locked, windows barred, fall asleep... get a little excess saliva in your mouth, but instead of drooling, you're at just the right angle to inhale it into your lungs, drown on your own drool, and die in your sleep.

There's no such thing as 'safe.'

Of course, this is just life.
 

Volpone

Zombie Hunter
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is America's SafetyTM.
 

Volpone

Zombie Hunter
Do not go there. I just finished rereading "1984." Orwell argues that war is essential. And I see his argument. I'm not happy about it, but I see it.
 

Mirah

I love you
I think I have that on my kindle fire.

I grew up in a military family. Always supported war, support the troops. I still support the military, many family have served. But I start to have feelings about war that are different now than when I was younger.
 

Volpone

Zombie Hunter
From what I understand, Orwell was a socialist. Which always confuses me, because his 2 best-known works, "1984" and "Animal Farm" are scathing indictments of socialism. I suspect that what it is is that Orwell believed in socialism in principle but came to realize that it couldn't be successfully implemented because of human (or pig) nature. In "1984" never says if capitalism was any good but he vehemently argues that the implementation of socialism that follows it is worse while maintaining the same social class system--and using things like never-ending war, revisionist history, fear, paranoia, and killing to keep everyone under control and for the Inner Party to remain in power.
 
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