Posted on 05/08/2007 4:00:44 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The DUmmies are getting almost honest by creating a new group exposing their TRUE desire: a "Socialist Progressive Group." I say ALMOST honest since if they were completely honest they would just drop the pretense and call it a Communist Group. That's what they really mean. In fact, communists like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez (when you strip away the "Bolivaran" BS) call themselves socialists as in the ubiqutous Socialismo o Muerte! posters seen all over Cuba. Also USSR did not stand for the Union of Soviet Communist Republics. It stood for Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics. In any event, it is good that the DUmmies are showing their true colors as collectivists and haters of free enterprise as you can see in this THREAD proudly announcing the formation of the Socialist group. It sure makes it easier for the DUmmie FUnnies to find fresh DUmmie material to feature in its editions. So let us now watch the "Socialist Progressives" declare their manifesto in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, enjoying the this new grouping of self-declared collectivists, is in the [brackets]:
New DU Group: Socialist Progressives Group
[New DU Group: Communist Collectivists Group.]
The mission of the DU Socialist Progressives Group is to link Socialist ideas and suggestions for political change to a Progressive framework, with the end result being positive and forward looking discussion and solidarity.
[The mission of the DU Socialist Progressives Group is the collectivation of private property with the end result being the destruction of free enterprise.]
I thought all of DU is supposed to be a socialist progressive group!
[It really is but now they are admitting it in public.]
I have regarded Socialism as the moderate economic system in between two radical ones....capitalism and communism.
[Communists always call themselves Socialists.]
I have experienced it first hand. Lived it. Loved it and discarded it. Travel to China and see how the UTOPIAN IDEAL ALWAYS GETS CORRUPTED and then realize that China is now involved in the GREAT EXPERIMENT, mixing Capitalism and Socialism, WHY? Because SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK. Unfortunately, innocent people are still dying and people are still being treated as a commodity.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
If you truly knew something about classical socialist theory, you would know that it is BASED on Democratic principles, and without them (like in China and the Soviet Union) it always fails.
[Apparently Socialism also failed in France (and Britain and Scandinavia and...)]
Until people figure out that the nation-state concept is a failure, and until we being to rebuilt local communities... no, not communities.... tribes where in people in small groups work together, share responsibilities and have a direct voice in the affairs of their tribe, we will continue to have miserable experiences, savage injustice, awful violence and we will get to keep sitting around pontificating about how and why all of the large governmental systems theory we try never seems to work that well.
[It takes a village...I mean a tribe.]
Thank you, Skinner, for creating this group!!
[Thank you, Skinner, for creating a great new source for DUFU comedy material!!]
“tribes where in people in small groups work together, share responsibilities and have a direct voice in the affairs of their tribe”
If my tribe is bigger and more powerful than YOUR tribe, can I come and take your stuff??
That would be quite Nietzschian, wouldn’t it?
Imagine a Socialist World where the gays can prance through the Lilly’s, without fear of moralistic judgement! (Barf!)
They're definitely using more freelance stuff, but they're not necessarily willing to pay for it.
Except that the dynamics of newspapers are different than magazines. You can sell the SAME article to many newspapers. I've sold the same article to up to a dozen newspapers before. Some will pay just $25 (bottom rate) but some pay up to $100. So if you sell to 6 newspapers in which 3 pay $25, 2 pay $50, and 1 pays $100, you've actually earned $275 for that article.
One big problem is that editors are reluctant to open e-mail word document attachments but I found a way around that.
They have to pay something. Even as little as $25. To my way of thinking they will have to accept more freelance stuff now that there have been staff cutbacks. BTW, I predict that a lot of newspaper staffers will simply quit because they will be given larger workloads as a result of the cutbacks.
The mission of the DU Socialist Progressives Group is to link Socialist ideas and suggestions for political change to a Progressive framework, with the end result being positive and forward looking discussion and solidarity.You forgot "and elimination of freedom", but with so much material to mine, it's inevitable that something would be forgotten.[The mission of the DU Socialist Progressives Group is the collectivation of private property with the end result being the destruction of free enterprise.]
PJ: The problem is not the staff. The problem is the costs of distribution.
Newspapers have to cut down trees, ship those trees, then make horrible smells when they convert the trees to paper.
Then they have to burn more fuel to ship the paper to expensive presses in huge buildings, spread expensive ink all over them.
Then they have to deliver them to homes, get our fingers dirty, etc.
Then there is the problem of disposal, waste, etc.
PJ Comix and FR produce the same result and only use a few electrons to do it. It's all economics101.
You already ARE the future of journalism.
The/A paper is losing money, so they cut staff to save payroll and other expenses. Quite possibly, the paper will be a bit thinner. It will actually be more difficult to justify outside/additional expense beyond established levels, so IMHO it will be more difficult for you to sell articles to said paper.
You would do better to sell articles to media that rely more on submitted articles, like magazines and smaller more localized publications.
Well, I'm ready to vote this guy off the island.
I’m thinking a lot of newspapers will REPLACE staff written material with freelance material. It’s ultimately cheaper for them.
“”Until people figure out that the nation-state concept is a failure, and until we being to rebuilt local communities... no, not communities.... tribes where in people in small groups work together, share responsibilities and have a direct voice in the affairs of their tribe, we will continue to have miserable experiences, savage injustice, awful violence and we will get to keep sitting around pontificating about how and why all of the large governmental systems theory we try never seems to work that well.””
This sounds like it’s straight out of that Little Red Book they love so much, but it been regurgitated for the progressives...
Basically my idea was to provide a service to readers that ONLY newspapers can provide. Something that would be highly appreciated by readers. So if someone out there is connected to a newspaper I would be happy to pass it along. I think I will call it the "Hirsch Plan" in honor of the lazy Herald editor.
OK, wow! This guy is one of those eviro-Nazis you read so much about. Yes, there will be no injustice (snicker), just uniform and miserable poverty. But the bears and rare forms of disease-bearing mosquitoes will be able to live without interference, so this is a GOOD thing.
Snort!
” economic conditions aren’t really that relevant to the daily needs of an editor, and they shouldn’t be to you either.” Out of curiosity, who is then responsibile for the economy of the biz and the contributors?
I read an interesting analysis once that concluded that the “inbox” or to do list is the enemy of innovation. Sounds like you ran into that. Offer to do it for him instead of suggesting what he might do and see if you get better results.
I read somewhere recently that local newspapers are the most profitable these days.
It makes sense. Local businesses want to reach their local community, and are unlikely to find GoogleAds or the big metro behemoth useful to that purpose.
As usual, this stuff is not very well thought out. Talk about a target rich environment. Sometimes it's really hard to figure out where to start.
From Wikipedia: In common modern understanding the word tribe means a social division within a traditional society consisting of a group of interlinked families or communities sharing a common culture and dialect. In the contemporary western mind the modern tribe is typically associated with a seat of traditional authority (tribal leader) with whom the representatives of external powers interact.
Either they simply don't know what they are talking about or they really are telling us what they want, or both.
Tribes are almost always authoritarian with a patrilineal command structure some blood linkage (familial, racial). So much for socialist diversity.
Tribes are generally self-contained, self sufficient entities. Good bye modernism. I wonder if any of them can grow food, make pig iron, weave cloth, or treat a wound?
The bottom line translates into: Hey, guys. Let's see if the suckers will swallow this bit of garbage so we can get our rightful power back.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Yea, real Progressive(sic)..
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