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The People’s Cube

Posted in Fun, Humor by Dave - the Infidel Sage on April 23rd, 2008

This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands. But I love it.

The Peoples Cube: The Stalinist Version of the Onion

 

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  1. Andre the Defiant said, on April 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    And the right wing has taught us that Jesus was a white guy with blue eyes who told us that he really wants you to be rich (via donations to Kenneth Copeland, of course), and that social inequality is far less important than abortions and “teh homos”.

    Oh, and that whole “blessed are the meek” and “turn the other cheek” stuff is nonsense… Get yourself a gun.

    Personally, I kind of like the one from the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. He was pretty cool. I just don’t think that he really cared if I kneeled before him or not.

  2. Andre the Defiant said, on April 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    I just spent forty-five minutes over at “The People’s Cube” trying to find something funny, via that elusive conservative humor, with no luck. Dave put it well, “when you have too much time on your hands”.

    Now I know how PG feels when I post Sadly, No!. Not that it’s going to stop me.

  3. Wes said, on April 24th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    I really have to move forward on my dissertation at some point about why conservative humor isn’t funny.

  4. hairybeast said, on April 24th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Wes, it’s because Liberals have no sense of humor.

    There - saved you ten thousand words.

  5. V said, on April 24th, 2008 at 6:34 am

    Actually, Jesus did support redestribution of wealth, as Christianity is supposed to do in general.

    Except the sadistic scum that call themselves so now, feel much better beating up homosexuals and then paying 50cent to a church or so.

  6. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    V please don’t take this wrong - but you are a twit. Please keep posting though.

  7. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    I find Dennis Miller funny. South Park cracks me up. Beast I find Wes funny. Oh wait - never mind. :)

  8. hairybeast said, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am

    The Beast meant liberals can’t laugh at themselves in the political arena, but that’s normal. It’s always funny til your own oxe gets gored.

  9. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    OK Dre, I checked out the Uber-snarkers take on Sandy’s logic. Not that I mind an involved discussion over the difference between pedophiles and pederasts. It is wonderful fun, such an uplifting topic. They even had Venn Diagrams. I just do not get the linkage to conservative humor.

    One thing I do not find funny at all is this little wonder from Sadly, No!


    It’s a disservice to whom exactly? Pedophiles? And am I gonna have to drag out some more Venn diagrams? Although every priest who abuses boys is gay, not every gay priest abuses boys And although every abuser is a pedophile, not all abusers are homosexual. It’s estimated that 20 percent of the victims of abuse by priests were females, and the last I checked the Catholic Church hasn’t started ordaining lesbians.

    Children or boys, homo or heterosexual, pedophilia or pederasty – it is clear that 80% of the problem involved homosexual sex. (The vast majority of the 20% that were females cases involved adult women that priests were having affairs with. That I submit is not as great a problem.)

    No that isn’t funny, it is sad. One thing you can deduce from the data is that homosexual priests have a great deal of difficulty in keeping their vows compared to hetero ones.

    This information is not new. American Bishops knew this, have always known it. They chose to go ahead and tolerate it for different reasons. There is no mystery here; gay men who can not control themselves should not be priests.

    Men, whether gay or straight, who can not keep their vows are easily identified during the seminary years. They need to go find something else to do.

    The Sadly, No! post is cleverly written. Its logic is faulty. It is mean in spirit. Its point is stupid. It is pernicious. The comments it engendered were puerile as usual for the site.

    Quit mistaking the glib and the clever with the intelligent. Wait, what am I saying? Never mind…change, change, yes we can!

    What was I saying about Liberals always resorting to…

  10. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    Beast, I just love picking on how serious Wes is all the time. :)

  11. Dave the Infidel Sage said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Nevermind that there is not a single verse spoken by Jesus or the disciples regarding “redistribution of wealth”. Jesus wasn’t overly impressed with wealthy people, but it had to do more with one putting other gods before him, than the money itself. Idolotry can take the forms of sex, drugs, science, money, self, and a host of other things as well. If you aren’t putting God first then whatever you are putting before him is a false god, and greed is a particular vile condition that we are prone to indulge in, and much be rejected along with all the other sins of the flesh.

  12. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Darn Dave, I thought Jesus was a commie!

  13. thompaine said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    V please don’t take this wrong - but you are a twit. Please keep posting though.

    That is some classic PG Warner right there :) I love it !

  14. E the Wise said, on April 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Andre, Wes and V make a fine trio! The Entente Cordiale of Conclub.

  15. hairybeast said, on April 24th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Wes and Andre aren’t jejune and arrogant.

  16. Commisar Pupovich said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    I came here due to a summons from our leader at the Peoples Cube to help advance the cause of The Glorious World of Next Tuesday when world socialism will triumph. Then I saw the comments here in regard to Christianity and redistribution of wealth. Naturally we progressives are all in favor of redistribution of wealth. provided of course we get our cut.

    However, I do wish to point something out that people who talk of Christianity, wealth, helping the needy etc seem to overlook. In the Old Testament you will find that helping those who were poor was indeed part of the Law. However, and this is the point that liberals seem to miss. A tenth of the land being harvested was left for the poor to harvest. But this is an important point…. the owner of the land was not expected to go harvest the crop themselves and then go find the poor and give them their portion. No, the poor had to go pick from the harvest themselves. Imagine that! It is also true that Jesus told us to help the poor, the sick, the elderly etc. But no where, is there the suggestion that the government, the church, or any other power that be should take this from another citizen to give to another citizen. There was another name he used for such behavior and it wasn’t charity, it was theft.

  17. Wes said, on April 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    Does V’s comment count as conservative humor? Because that one made me laugh. Perhaps I was wrong.

    But South Park is at its worst lately when it is preachy. I’ll take Awesome-O over ManBearPig any day. And between Towelie and something like whatever that hybrid episode was, it’s no contest either. I think Matt and Trey have been in Los Angeles too long.

    I will say that the story behind the episode about hybrids (Smug Alert, I think) was fantastic. Apparently, Matt Parker bought his mom in Colorado a Prius. And he asked her how she liked it, and she said that she got a lot of remarks from people. And recalled one incident where she was at a stoplight and another Prius drove up beside her. The man in the second Prius rolled down his window, gave her a thumbs up and said “Good for YOU.” And this enraged Matt and Trey so much that they wrote that episode (and included that line).

    Dennis Miller has definitely had his moments (though PJ O’Rourke has never done it for me). I was a big fan of Lewis Grizzard growing up. I’m not crazy about Blue Collar comics, but I like me some Ron White. I liked a couple episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia that had a conservative edge, too. And King of the Hill has been successfully making fun of liberals for over 10 years now. Perhaps the problem is just that in order to make funny conservative humor, you’ve gotta get half-liberals to write it. Which is to say, maybe in order to make something funny, you can’t hate whatever or whoever you’re making fun of. I believe I’ve heard a few comedians say that very thing before.

  18. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 25th, 2008 at 8:07 am

    I am upset that people are saying Jesus wasn’t a commie!

  19. hairybeast said, on April 25th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Excellent points, Commissar! One has to wonder if the “poor” in the USA (who would be considered staggeringly wealthy in most other poor countries in the world)would be willing to go pick their own welfare checks from the fields themselves if made to do so.

    The Cuber Forum picked up on this post and have been discussing it. They thought at first we were all Libs. Welcome to ConClub Gospodin Pupovich and all your fellow travelers. Feel free to continue to comment - that’s some high quality stuff.

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  21. thompaine said, on April 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Wes I agree about South Park. The one funniest episode this season was the one where the Kenny was huffing the cat piss. The silly ones are always the funniest.

    PG- I am upset that people are saying Jesus wasn’t a commie!

    Sorry to let you down but I am sick to death of havig that particular discussion. Just beacuse he had long hair and a beard doesn’t mean Jesus was a commie hippie.

  22. Commisar Pupovich said, on April 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Thank you for the comments Hairybeast. (You are not a cat beast are you?) Please do not mention the extent of my knowledge, as limited as it may be, of Christianity, for if it became known, I could be accused of ThoughtCrime™ and be sent to the Karl Marx Re-Education Center for some intense Shovel Therapy™.

    I do take exception when I see people who make comments for instance, that Jesus came into the world to show us how to Love, to Care more, to preach the Gospel of Social Compassion if you will. Of course he did do this, but that was not the core of the Gospel. Yet I see many clergy etc. that seem to make this as being the message of the Bible. Remember when the saying of the day was “What would Jesus do?” Well, the Bible gives many examples of the Lord being confronted with the poor the sick and the lame. Funny thing is this, I am unable to think of even one time when Jesus took money or food from someone else and then gave to the needy. His message in that regard is that it is we who should do these things out of our heart and love of God, not because the people were in need and therefore we “owe” it to them. Hmmmm, oh dear, some Atlas Shrugged is slipping out of my brain…. better go now! LOL.

  23. pg - your humble messenger said, on April 25th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    “Obama is my post-radical Jesus”

  24. thompaine said, on April 25th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Well said Commissar. People love to quote scripture to suit their own political ends without much regard to what Jesus was actually trying to teach us.

  25. Pajamas Media » The Truth Behind ‘Conservative’ Humor said, on April 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

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  26. Wes said, on April 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am

    Yay!! I got mentioned on my very first pingback!! I feel so proud.

    On that page, Oliver Willis hit the nail on the head: “Conservative humor always feels the need to explain its unfunniness because they always put the agenda first and the funny last, if at all.”

  27. Dave the Infidel Sage said, on April 29th, 2008 at 7:31 am

    It’s nice to see our humble little blog being referenced from time to time. It’s also funny to see Andre, V and Wes all grouped together… (:

    Well done, gentlemen.

  28. hairybeast said, on April 29th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    Congrats Wes! The Beast noticed you have joined him in the comments section of that PJ Media article and raised a few good points.

    April has been a pretty good month for this blog.

  29. doctor leonid fuku said, on May 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    You comrades surely jest as you claim “thepeoplescube” a “satire” site. As thepeoplescube healthcare commissar, I have been contributing to the mother site in earnest for some time and I can assure you we deadly serious.

  30. Navigator said, on June 6th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Speaking of funny … Liberals describing ThePeopleCube as not funny is funny!

    “”"I just spent forty-five minutes over at “The People’s Cube” trying to find something funny, via that elusive conservative humor, with no luck. Dave put it well, “when you have too much time on your hands”.

    Now I know how PG feels when I post Sadly, No!. Not that it’s going to stop me.

    Comment by Andre the Defiant — April 23, 2008 @ 11:10 pm”"”"

    In the words of of one of the most politically astute politicians on the planet today: “I don’t care who ya are, dat der is some funny stuff! ~ Larry The Cable Guy (R)”

    I agree with the good Doctor Leonid Fuke, ThePeoplesCube is deadly serious. Rather the using the sword to remove the heads of our enemy as radical Islam has chosen to do, the biting edge of satire has proven just as effective.
    Look at how many liberals want to foul the meaning of “Progressive”!

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