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Archae

(46,354 posts) Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:27 AM Jun 2015

Mix Don McLean, tinfoil-hat paranoia and outright stupidity, and you get this guy...

This guy is NOT writing satire.
He earnestly believes his own drivel.

Like most people in America and elsewhere in the English speaking world I've heard the refrain "bye, bye Miss American pie" wailing into my eardrums a thousand times and never had a clue what its singer was talking about, nor, frankly, did I give a dam, having never heard of Don McLean before or after his more or less one-hit wonder.

But today [May 2004] I got a clue as to its meaning after reading a news story about Asian and Indian immigration into the United States that contained the following sentence: "The Indian American Leadership Initiative is an organization that seeks to entice more Indian Americans into politics, the 'last slice of the American pie'."

As soon as I read those words the song "American Pie" jumped into my head and it occurred to me that maybe what the song was about was the take-over of America by foreign elements. Upon looking up and reading the lyrics my suspicion was more than confirmed.

The lyrics appear to be about a satanic communist take-over of America after a nuclear explosion has destroyed the ecosystem.

http://www.orwelltoday.com/americanpiesong.shtml

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Mix Don McLean, tinfoil-hat paranoia and outright stupidity, and you get this guy... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP

It is easy to think up new theories to explain just about anything. bemildred Jun 2015 #1

What is even trickier... Archae Jun 2015 #2

Is that different from being right? nt bemildred Jun 2015 #3

Come to think about it, no... Archae Jun 2015 #4

Yeah, I know. bemildred Jun 2015 #5

I see non-satirical stuff like the "American Pie conspiracy" a lot... Archae Jun 2015 #6

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

1. It is easy to think up new theories to explain just about anything.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:35 AM

Jun 2015

What is tricky is being right.

Archae

(46,354 posts)

2. What is even trickier...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:37 AM

Jun 2015

Is being correct, and not looking like a total horse's ass.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

3. Is that different from being right? nt

Reply to Archae (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:39 AM

Jun 2015

Archae

(46,354 posts)

4. Come to think about it, no...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:41 AM

Jun 2015

Just write these three letters, and there will be flames...

GMO

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

5. Yeah, I know.

Reply to Archae (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:43 AM

Jun 2015

I think we don't disagree, but you express it more forcefully.

Some words it's like throwing a grenade.

Edit: I never liked that song. It's the kind of song that everybody hears what they want to in. Like Dylan, but he is better at it. And the guy in the OP is way out there in the middle of his own imagination.

Archae

(46,354 posts)

6. I see non-satirical stuff like the "American Pie conspiracy" a lot...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:51 AM

Jun 2015

I read "Right Wing Watch" on a weekday basis.

Any and every right-wing nutcase is documented there in loving detail.

They keep reminding me of General Ripper in "Dr Strangelove."

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