Is there life on Mars? … And other tough, progressive questions
A recent post on the People’s Blog made me think of the following:
Is there life on Mars? If so, there are too many questions we must answer before we contemplate going there. Tough, progressive questions.
- Is there social justice on Mars?
- Is there an economy on Mars and if so, does it need regulating?
- Is there a community on Mars and if so, does it need community organizers?
- Are there genders on Mars and if so, is there gender equality for all 58 of them?
- Is there private property on Mars and if so, is there redistributive justice?
- Is there illegal immigration on Mars and if so, are there sanctuary cities?
- Are there elections on Mars and if so, is voter ID required?
- Is there Al Sharpton on Mars?
- Is there homosexuality on Mars and if so, is there homophobia?
- Is there parenthood on Mars and if so, does it need to be planned?
- Are there corporations on Mars and if so, are they considered people?
- Is there an environment on Mars and if so, does it require environmentalists?
- Is there climate change on Mars and if so, is the Martian science settled?
- Is there a nuclear bomb on Mars and if so, do they need negotiators?
- Are there Muslims on Mars and if so, is there Islamophobia?
Actually, the last question has already been answered: there no Muslims on Mars.
Muslims ‘warned in Fatwa not to live on Mars’
Fatwa reportedly issued warning Muslims not to make ‘hazardous trip’ to live on Mars
Muslims have been warned in a Fatwa not to go and live on Mars because it would pose “a real risk to life”, according to a Dubai news organisation. The General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the United Arab Emirates said that anyone making such a “hazardous trip” is likely to die for “no righteous reason”.
Indeed, there appears to be plenty of “righteous reasons” for Muslims to die here even without Mars.
Come to think of it, progressives still have plenty of righteous causes to fight on Earth as well. Besides, if none of the above exists on Mars, there would be nothing for us to do there but to sustain ourselves by hard work.
Maybe we should join our Muslim brothers and not go to Mars after all. No matter how tempting it is to spend billions of other people’s money on such a trip.
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I was hired as a graphic designer and I did my job well, recycling the original revolutionary poster by Dmitry Moor, one of the founding fathers of Soviet agitprop. Now that the book is out, here’s my two kopecks.
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I follow the developments in Russia very closely and one thing today’s Russians couldn’t care less about is Communism. To be sure, the Communist Party still has a strong presence there, but that’s mostly because Putin is feeding the communists in order to appease the nuts and the old-timers. That is also part of Putin’s strategy to shape and maintain his own opposition…
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FBI hires Ashley Madison hackers to retrieve Clinton emails
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Recovered images from Hillary emails prove it was only yoga
While the FBI is still at a loss regarding the content of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail cache from her days as secretary of state, one thing they have determined beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the Democratic presidential frontrunner is a diligent distance-education yoga student.
Emailing yoga routines are standard practice in distance education, said Mrs. Clinton’s online yoga instructor Maha Bharata through an interpreter. He claims that over the years he has sent her over two hundred thousand Hindu-language emails with pictures of yoga poses, which constitutes 90% of the data that had been wiped clean from Clinton’s personal server.
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All squares are equal, and all players are equal. Nobody is too smart, nobody is too slow. Guaranteed equality of results. A symbol of fairness and painless existence. Nobody’s a boob with the People’s Cube!
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EDITORS NOTE: The political satire originally appeared on the Peoples Cube.
