What may be the first large-scale graffito against the Republican National Convention appeared within the last few days on the back side of the landmark Grain Belt beercap sign in Minneapolis.
The slogan, which faces traffic entering downtown Minneapolis on the Hennepin Avenue bridge, reads “Get Out Phascists,” with the initial letters G.O.P. highlighted in red, white and blue.














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Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
Read Naomi Wolf, The End of America. Nazis are not the only fascists.
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Don’t change the subject, Andy; although Swiftee’s a friend of mine, I don’t endorse everything he writes in every forum, and he knows it (and when he’s right, dammit, he’s right). If you think I need to explicitly condemn everything he writes that I disagree with, I have a long list of leftyblogs for you to toss under the bus. Assuming you wanna avoid a charge of “cavorting”.
You game?
If we may get back on subject, by your leave: I’m not sure how one can write a “neutral” piece about something that compares half of one’s fellow citizens to Nazis; not sure if “neutrality” is appropriate when an act is both criminal and oozes hatred.
I mean, if someone spray-painted “KILL FAGS” on a Planned Parenthood clinic, and I were to write a “neutral” piece on it, you’d certainly draw inferences over my “neutrality”, no?
The difference is, that’ll remain forever hypothetical. As opposed to…
…well, you know.
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Wow. Mr. Steller wrote a pretty neutral description of a noteworthy incident.
It’s interesting that you seem so sensitive to “loaded words” and “hate,” considering you cavort with hate-blogger Tom Swift.
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
So, Mr. Steller, why exactly are you glorifying both criminal vandalism and a bigoted attack against people coming to our city to take part in the democratic process?
Indeed – are you endorsing the idea that people who differ from the comfy-left-of-center mainstream are “phascists?” That’s a pretty loaded word, there.
(And yes, I use the word “glorifying” advisedly; you are quite clearly not condemning this act, which is both vandalism and, as Hillary would say, “creating a climate of hate”. You don’t support hate, do you?)
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 10:06 am
So, Mr. Steller, why exactly are you glorifying both criminal vandalism and a bigoted attack against people coming to our city to take part in the democratic process?
Indeed – are you endorsing the idea that people who differ from the comfy-left-of-center mainstream are “phascists?” That's a pretty loaded word, there.
(And yes, I use the word “glorifying” advisedly; you are quite clearly not condemning this act, which is both vandalism and, as Hillary would say, “creating a climate of hate”. You don't support hate, do you?)
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 10:49 am
Wow. Mr. Steller wrote a pretty neutral description of a noteworthy incident.
It's interesting that you seem so sensitive to “loaded words” and “hate,” considering you cavort with hate-blogger Tom Swift.
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Don't change the subject, Andy; although Swiftee's a friend of mine, I don't endorse everything he writes in every forum, and he knows it (and when he's right, dammit, he's right). If you think I need to explicitly condemn everything he writes that I disagree with, I have a long list of leftyblogs for you to toss under the bus. Assuming you wanna avoid a charge of “cavorting”.
You game?
If we may get back on subject, by your leave: I'm not sure how one can write a “neutral” piece about something that compares half of one's fellow citizens to Nazis; not sure if “neutrality” is appropriate when an act is both criminal and oozes hatred.
I mean, if someone spray-painted “KILL FAGS” on a Planned Parenthood clinic, and I were to write a “neutral” piece on it, you'd certainly draw inferences over my “neutrality”, no?
The difference is, that'll remain forever hypothetical. As opposed to…
…well, you know.
Comment posted August 12, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
Read Naomi Wolf, The End of America. Nazis are not the only fascists.
Comment posted September 2, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
has to be UC fucking right,
you all fucking suck from right to left
Comment posted September 4, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Just let me interject for a moment. Do your homework. The same people who created and fund Planned Parenthood are also responsible for influencing the mass media's recent acceptance of “fags” (which I actually support, just not or the same reasons of population suppression.)
Comment posted September 23, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
how’bout some photo cedit next time
Comment posted September 23, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Apparently something went wrong with this post’s original photo, which I took. That’s fixed now, and it’s back (the flag is blowing the other way). Thanks for your photo (credited by link) in the interim, p…kin…e.
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