NationStates Jolt Archive


doublePlus needed its own thread: infiniteJest trading cards

Shingogogol
26-09-2005, 17:36
Infinite Jest, like the Onion, only bitter
how'bout these cards.
lovely since Bush's imperialist war on the people of Afghanistan


AMERICAN CRUSADE 2001+
TRADING CARDS

http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/cards.html



I especially like the 2 cards:
Afghani women under Taliban : screwed
Afghani women under Northern Alliance : screwed
The Downmarching Void
26-09-2005, 18:01
Don't they mean "Like The Onion, but without the humour?"

Those cards aren't worth more than a smirk at most. Boring.
Shingogogol
26-09-2005, 19:15
I guess, they don't play on the popular myth that Bush invented imperialism.

If you think that, no, you weren't learning anything during the 90s.
The South Islands
26-09-2005, 19:17
*yawn*
Shingogogol
26-09-2005, 19:30
just for that, I think I will go down to kinkoos and get them printed up
on actual cardboard.


empire is as old as Chris Colombus,
and when did the US 'officially' decide to not be imperialist?
soft power, hard power...
killing is just wrong.
all ye religious followers SHOULD know this.
guess those people's loyalty lies with a white (house) god


The American Empire and the Fourth World
The Bowl With One Spoon, Part One
Anthony J.Hall

In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.

http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1628