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Tantz_Aerine on March 18, 2013
AND WE ARE BACK!Thanks everyone for your well wishes and your thoughts and support, emotional or through actions, it means more to me than I can possibly say. I have power back in my house despite still being disconnected from the ONLY power company operating in Greece and which has currently been turned into the tax collector extraordinaire of a vastly anti-constitutional and illegal government over here. Deidre has been with me from day one of this whole debacle and I appreciate her efforts on all fronts immensely. So here we are!!
PAGE 50! WE ARE FINALLY HERE!And to celebrate page 50 will will have for you a very special extra piece of art very soon, which means a lot to us both :) Stay tuned for it!
In the meantime, enjoy Ludger unleashing his bruiser to do his dirty work for him. ;)
Ozoneocean at 7:42PM, Jan. 24, 2016
I like how you subtly include the fact that the Nazis bought the rouse with the three dead bodies.
wildcard at 6:02PM, March 27, 2013
Oh dear, looks like Hacket has something particularly heinous in mind... Good to see you back on track anyhow :D
jmb___ at 2:56PM, March 26, 2013
Right -- like the bankers. & the CEOs who destroy livelihoods to the reward of golden parachutes. "Punch down" has always been a favorite way of getting the working classes to fight amongst themselves while the elite rob everyone blind, lambs for their table, bringing it back on topic a bit...
Tantz_Aerine at 11:25AM, March 24, 2013
imb: yes unfortunately that's the mainstream propaganda of late- pity for the perpetrator, disregard for the victim. And a general cultivation of leniency for those who commit great injustices, to the point that the worse the crime, the bigger the leniency. If we look around though, at all those sitting on the leading positions of the world and their track record in criminality, we can see why that is the promoted (and abominally skewed) way to look at things.
jmb___ at 7:24PM, March 20, 2013
We are also seeing it here with CNN lamenting the "ruined lives" of two football players who are going to juvenile detention for two years max, after a particularly heinous rape case, with never a pity spared for their victim -- at least enough people from a wide audience range are yelling at CNN (and the rapists) this time that they're feeling the heat, but it was particularly disgusting. Likewise Oscar Pistorius...it's not everyone making excuses but any is too many! Hmmm, you said that your local neo fascists are tossing tons of money around to try to buy followers -- and one thing that stood out was Katidis' singularly mercenary tattoo. Connection there, you think? A man easily bought, perhaps? It would fit with him trying to deny it by saying he was just pointing to a friend in the stands (right and I have a bridge to sell...)
Tantz_Aerine at 9:46AM, March 20, 2013
imb: You're right, and your estimation is correct. We still have grandparents who were young people when all this happened, and I cannot describe the haunting horror that still lingers in their eyes. As for defending youth, I would say that in cases like this, it's encouraged to do so because then it's far easier to rewrite history and trample on things nobody should dare touch.
jmb___ at 3:36PM, March 19, 2013
But for some reason there are swarms of people in the US who will leap to defend any youth accused of doing anything, anywhere, especially if he's a sports star, with bleats of "but he's so YOUNGGG! he must not've known what he was DOOINNNG!! don't be MEAAAN" and it makes me headdesk until migraines.
jmb___ at 3:34PM, March 19, 2013
Yeah that was what I was thinking based on your stories, that there was no possible way that he couldn't know, any more than in Poland or Russia or France or Malta or any other formerly occupied country -- younger people were still very aware in Britain and the historical PRESENCE of the War and the bombings was everywhere when I was there some time back, and that was much less oppressive than occupation.
Tantz_Aerine at 10:37AM, March 19, 2013
bravo1102: HAHAHA! Excellently said! // Skreem: thank you!
Tantz_Aerine at 10:36AM, March 19, 2013
(continuing) ..and not the 'economic geniuses' of the eurozone that have been pushing more than 4,500 people to suicide over here. If you came to live even a week among us Greeks, you'd know there's absolutely NO ROOM for nazis here. Never has been, never will be, and Katidis was stupid enough to believe he'd get away with it because soccer fans were in a goal rush.
Tantz_Aerine at 10:35AM, March 19, 2013
imb: Unfortunately the whole thing with Katidis is NOT due to ignorance on his part, and it's well deserved that he has been booted and snarled at and decried by everyone including the team's fans. ESPECIALLY the team's fans (AEK has got a very specific history). Greeks are very intolerant of anything that refers to nazism and fascism, and there is NO WAY IN HELL this kid wouldn't know what a nazi salute means. However there has been an avidly, and very well funded campaign to get a nazi party to become popular with young people over here (it's failing miserably) and they have been known to enlist the help of popular idols, especially in athletics, to publicly declare their approval of nazism. So Katidis deserves everything he gets and if I were an AEK fan and didn't already have a ton on my plate I'd goddamn sue him for defamation of my team. The whole incident with Katidis is a media fanfare to get the public opinion to believe that it's us that are the nazis, and not the (cont)
jmb___ at 4:28AM, March 19, 2013
Glad you have prevailed! Quick question -- any chance that guy Katidis could have NOT known what a Nazi salute was? People over here are making excuses for him saying "He's just a kid, no 20 year old these days is going to know what that really meant or why it's so bad, this is unfair & harsh." Which seems incredibly naive, it's not like American media or schools gloss over WWII and, more damningly, we weren't ever occupied.
bravo1102 at 11:40PM, March 18, 2013
Take a lesson from the Sicilians not the Italians. Make them an offer they can't refuse.
Froggtreecomics at 2:54PM, March 18, 2013
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