Disney Propaganda

Donald Duck For Taxes:

I love that war is equated with freedom and democracy.

I, too, have argued that paying your taxes is patriotic, and also that we shouldn't pay income taxes. I'm aware of the contradiction. Taxes are patriotic if you support our wars. You cannot be both pro-war and anti-tax, for that is cognitive dissonance. If your brand of patriotism is to be pro-war, and pro-tax, I disagree with you. If your form of patriotism is to be anti-war and anti-tax, I will vote for you. If you waver in between, you need to make up your mind.

More propaganda:
Donald Duck the Nazi

And the Military-Industrial Complex is only a slave driver if you're making bombs for the Nazis.

I also found this disturbing anti-war cartoon, which recreates Hiroshima:

Apparently a survivor of the blast wrote the script for this.

Comments

  1. k. double-u.April 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    You have to hand it to them. They did come up with a clever phrase: "Spend for the axis or save for taxes."

    Perhaps it's too bad that I feel no ownership for the wars we're fighting now. Because we don't pay taxes commensurate with the money we spend over there, we're so apathetic. If only someone would say, "Aye, laddie. It's your money. But it's your war, too." I think we'd see a tea party to remember.

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