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Who watches the Watchmen?

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^hpqp:
Ha, this is the first thing I thought of as well.
>> ^blankfist:
Krugman is Ozymandias from Watchmen. A central planner.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-a
lien-invasion/
[thanks to @gwiz665 for the link]


That's actually the whole reason I sifted this clip.
I didn't really expect people to come and talk about the actual economics, I expected people to blather on about Ozzy and Watchmen and the NWO and Agenda 21 and the NAFTA Superhighway...


Oh, I get it. Krugman says something Orwellian and now we're all the wingnuts.

>> ^hpqp:

Ha, this is the first thing I thought of as well.
>> ^blankfist:
Krugman is Ozymandias from Watchmen. A central planner.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-a
lien-invasion/
[thanks to @gwiz665 for the link]



That's actually the whole reason I sifted this clip.

I didn't really expect people to come and talk about the actual economics, I expected people to blather on about Ozzy and Watchmen and the NWO and Agenda 21 and the NAFTA Superhighway...

Ha, this is the first thing I thought of as well.

>> ^blankfist:

Krugman is Ozymandias from Watchmen. A central planner.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-a
lien-invasion/
[thanks to @gwiz665 for the link]

Krugman is Ozymandias from Watchmen. A central planner.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-alien-invasion/

[thanks to @gwiz665 for the link]

Go nuts.
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Wow. I never thought a douche like Krugman would just come out and say something so on the nose like that. Veidt is a central planner. I've had debates with DFT over it (though DFT & NR claim Veidt is some right wing corporatist.).

Exhibit A: http://videosift.com/video/Look-How-D
angerous-These-School-Teachers-Nurses-Are?loadcomm=1#comment-1158288

You posting this? I love the Watchmen for its political significance. If you don't, I'll post it.



In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-a
lien-invasion/

Wow. I never thought a douche like Krugman would just come out and say something so on the nose like that. Veidt is a central planner. I've had debates with DFT over it (though DFT & NR claim Veidt is some right wing corporatist.).

Exhibit A: http://videosift.com/video/Look-How-Dangerous-These-School-Teachers-Nurses-Are?loadcomm=1#comment-1158288

You posting this? I love the Watchmen for its political significance. If you don't, I'll post it.



In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-a
lien-invasion/

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-alien-invasion/

Who will watch the watchmen?

Apparently a comedian on a cable show that parodies other news shows.

... seems so obvious in retrospect.

I'll say the same thing in the original sift thread. I think it's highly premature to even be thinking about a police state.

It's far more likely that because everyone has cameras on them now, it's easy to hold cops accountable for the ones that have less than stellar behavior. Prior to cell cameras, it was just a case of his word vs the supposed vicitim, and that's a hard case to prove regardless of what side of it you're on so probably very little got done so there was no incentive for cops to behave better. Correct me if I'm wrong but almost every time stuff like this has gone to the courts, the courts have sided with the civilians and not the cops. If it were the other way around, then yes, we'd definitely have something to worry about.

I think the only thing we really have to worry about is that there are a few states out there where filming cops is illegal...THAT's what really needs to be fixed.

As long as people keep the pressure up and whip out those cameras, then it's we who have the power, not the cops. Pandora's box has been opened and we KNOW who is watching the watchmen now...it's us

I just gotta add that it's the president of a police union saying these things that civvies don't have any rights to observe or interfere...sorry, but he's not a public servant, and this is probably one case where the republicans ARE right and that particular union is corrupt as hell. But that's the union, not the actual LAW of the land

>> ^blankfist:

Or they could just ask Dr. Manhattan to take a camera with him.


That's made me wonder why there wasn't a thriving Mars mission in Watchmen. He could just teleport a bunch of stuff and people over there.

Batman? No. Nite Owl? Maybe. Only one of you could be Veidt, so, sorry, but that had to be NetRunner.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
It's been a while since I last read Watchmen. Do I have something in common with Nite Owl/Batman?

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thank you, Daniel Dreiberg.

It's been a while since I last read Watchmen. Do I have something in common with Nite Owl/Batman?

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thank you, Daniel Dreiberg.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Take a Bow' to 'Take a Bow, muse, watchmen, black holes and revelations, haarp, matthew bellamy' - edited by gwiz665