MetaFilter posts tagged with fringe

The form of the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations

shii — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:00:26 -0800

I have proposed, in the past, that the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations should disperse the Amerikkkans throughout the Third World instead of allowing them to remain in occupied North America. Here are some of my reasons.

The Maoist Internationalist Movement, covered here in 2003 and 2005, went under in 2008. A successor group, the It's Right to Rebel! Forum, also went dark that year. But never fear: the product of all these wonderful developments in revolutionary science, Maoism Third-Worldism, has arrived! It brings with it a Hate Amerikkka beat (more) that would make Mao himself bob his head. The new leader of revolutionary science draws political cartoons. The movie reviews continue, too: "Heterosexual patriarch with XY chromosomes and strategically ambiguous patriarch with XX chromosomes have a trivial romance problem while children and Third World people are oppressed" You'll be surprised to learn that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a pro-Maoist movie. They also get festive by celebrating KKKolumbus Day. And if you're looking for factional infighting with another completely irrelevant communist group, how about a scathing piece on Bob A-FAKE-ian, or maybe the Maoist Third-Worldist delinking of the Maoist Internationalist Movement itself? Hat tip to Something Awful Forums.

I await Trepanation with great Trepidation.

phrontist — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:01:21 -0800

We've discussed trepanation, the boring of holes in the head as practiced in antiquity and by a fringe do it yourself-ers, before. There now seems to be research indicating that the procedure may have medical merit, and even help stave off age related cognitive decline. This curious research brought to you by the Beckly Foundation which "promotes the investigation of consciousness and its modulation from a multidisciplinary perspective" and has a sweet logo.

Keep your eye on the grand old flag

shii — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:09 -0800

Fringe Friday: Did you know that a fringe around the flag indicates martial law? Any sovereign citizen knows better than to accept the jurisdiction of the American War Flag! Or wait--is it really Old Glory that bows to martial law? Fly your Civil Flag with pride!

The Lunatic Fringe

freshwater_pr0n — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:54:07 -0800

Before Ron Paul, there was Lyndon LaRouche. More a cult than a political party nowadays, the Larouche organization still somehow manages to draw in enough lost souls to keep the party limping along. He's been scary and discredited for longer than most of his followers have been alive, but the beat goes on.

everyone's a scientist

mdn — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:00:32 -0800

The sun is solid (this has beautiful images, btw). The earth is fixed, or maybe growing; relativi ty is wrong, and so is most of current thinking... For the intriguing as well as the insane, visit the fringes of science.

A musical plea for help

LinusMines — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:13:39 -0800

Let's Save Our Environment by Dancing Butterflies. Hitchhikers are the new BitTorrent.

postmoderncore

onkelchrispy — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:07:34 -0800

Net label postmoderncore is based in and documents the fringe music scene of Wellington, New Zealand. It celebrates it's fifth birthday this year as a netlabel. Good noise.

Unusual (or not) Music and Art (or not)

Joey Michaels — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 00:54:22 -0800

Freenoise. "This site exists to provide information on 'unusual' music and arts; the word "unusual" being easily replaced by 'unconventional,' 'non-mainstream,' 'underground,' 'extreme' or by any one of a dozen other useless labels." This includes such projects as Cock E.S.P., Wrong and the fascinating Panelectric Living Sinema. The link page is of particular interest, as it could open up a whole world to the uninitiated. I wish they linked my favorite bug faced noise band, Winter Carousel.

Joey Michaels — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:14:39 -0800

"The Antipsychiatry Coalition is a nonprofit volunteer group consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry - and of our supporters. We created this website to warn you of the harm routinely inflicted on those who receive psychiatric 'treatment' and to promote the democratic ideal of liberty for all law-abiding people that has been abandoned in the U.S.A., Canada, and other supposedly democratic nations." Hours of reading, but their report to President Bush is a good summary.