WikiLeaks: Desperate Housewives stifles Islamic extremism

[Heraclitus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...extremism.html

Popular US television shows including Friends and Desperate Housewives have done more to stifle Islamic extremism in Saudi Arabia than hundreds of millions of dollars spent on propaganda, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.

Modern American culture seems to be a strong memetic toxin

[Egbert]

Perhaps those two shows numb the brain to a bovine tranquility?

Maybe we should have them all watching Oprah and really numb their brains into total paralysis.

[DaShi]

I like Hera like this. Now that he's realized that he can't contribute to any discussion, he just posts a few interesting articles from the news and then buggers off.

[Provost Harrison]

At least those two shows are doing some good, because they are failing at their original purpose: being funny...

[SpencerH]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...extremism.html



Modern American culture seems to be a strong memetic toxin

They say that the turning point for Gorbachov was when he visited one of our normal supermarkets and realized that the USSR could never compete with America.

[Barnabas]

In the Soviet Unions and Soviet Block Poland people would smuggle and contraband Bon Jovi tapes.

This is why is am against the blockade in Cuba, if there were no blockade and millions of Americans would visit Cuba every year and fill it will Dollars communism in the island as it is nowadays would not be able to survive a decade.

[Kuciwalker]

The blockade against Cuba is just one of many insane, obviously ineffective policies things that have been run by the American government for decades.

see also: the War on Drugs

[Hauldren Collider]

Honestly, the biggest threat to communism is people being introduced to capitalism. Oh boy, a worker's paradise! Actually, you can keep that, check out these awesome cars you can buy in the US! They even start when it's cold outside!

[Kuciwalker]

The biggest threat to capitalism, on the other hand, is people like you...

[Provost Harrison]

Honestly, the biggest threat to communism is people being introduced to capitalism. Oh boy, a worker's paradise! Actually, you can keep that, check out these awesome cars you can buy in the US! They even start when it's cold outside!

Great thing about Cuba is, it's never cold outside

[giblets]

Honestly, the biggest threat to communism is people being introduced to capitalism. Oh boy, a worker's paradise! Actually, you can keep that, check out these awesome cars you can buy in the US! They even start when it's cold outside!

Wait, the biggest threat to communism isn't Reagan?

[DinoDoc]

Great thing about Cuba is, it's never cold outside

Suddenly Cold Outside in Cuba

[Hauldren Collider]

Wait, the biggest threat to communism isn't Reagan?

Can't be, Reagan's dead.

[DinoDoc]

This is why is am against the blockade in Cuba, if there were no blockade and millions of Americans would visit Cuba every year and fill it will Dollars communism in the island as it is nowadays would not be able to survive a decade.

Not that I disagree about the efficacy of the embargo, but how do you reconcile the island being flooded with Euro's and their money for decades and the survival of the regime?

[KrazyHorse]

The biggest threat to capitalism, on the other hand, is people like you...