Reviews for Patriot Games

[MoralLibertarian]

Ehh...

All the people on this site who say you're unpatriotic? Come on, I'd say about at least half agree with what you say.

I know tons of liberals who question the patriotism of conservatives. Many think that if you support Bush, you are devoid of a mind of your own, or you are uninformed, or you are part of a vast right wing conspiracy, or the right wing is suceeding in it's plan of keeping you poor and stupid. These accusations are just as blind as the "You're unpatriotic!" crap.

Only ignorant people criticize their opposition along these lines. I understand that you're doing it to be funny (no one would find your flash movies interesting if they were polite) so that's okay. I don't question your patriotism, but I recognize that we differ ideologically. As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with that.

Anyway, My favorite is still the "McDubya's" one. That was just too funny.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

OK, here is the deal:

I was watching the George Bush Show #6. Whether or not you agree with Bush's politics or not, this flash is tremendous. Now, I'm not obtuse. I realize that there are still people who will just not find it funny.

Irrespective of that, it is generally one of the top ten series' on Newgrounds. Still, there will be detractors (yes, I know this!)

HOWEVER, when the few bad reviews came, it felt like "liberal this" and "liberal that". I live in one of the most Hyperconservative communities in this country (you can't even buy alcohol on a Sunday in many cities out here). Everytime I hear the work LIBERAL used this way, it is meant to be hateful and is usually tossed out there by a "good Christian".

That said, I got pissed and took it personally.

It sounds so funny to me that you hear people question the patriotism of Republicans. I don't doubt that you are factual in that statement, you would just NEVER hear that where I live.

Perhaps I am too cloistered?

At any rate, the truth of the matter is that people should always be looking to find the middle. I think that a lot of my over the top stuff "like this movie" are drawn from my irritation with the community that I live in. I know that there are many more moderate people out there. Unfortunately, they don't live anywhere near me.

For the record, McDubya's is one of my favorites too.

[jjshadow33]

Please God......

don't let America vote that moron back in for another term. Excellent job and well thought out. You'll have to do more as we get closer to election time.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Time, unfortunately, is something that have very little of.

Feel free to check out the 16, or so, other anti-Bush movies that I have already submitted to Newgrounds. They are equally entertaining.

[R-Green]

Patriotism is strange, isn't it?

Blind, unconditional patriotism is a permutation of idealism, and is, by that virtue, a constraint and impediment on the intellectual and rational faculties of human beings. Its prevalence is expedited by the mindless ease with which one can consider him or herself patriotic, and formulate subsequent actions accordingly.

Now, out of personal interest, riddle me this: In my case, how is it possible that relativism, thorough education, and incessant philosophical contemplation has crystallized within me a vehement propensity toward capitalism, imperialism, and conservatism? Do I fit your paradigm? I am a proponent of the hard right (in contemporary political nomenclature, at any rate), so, am I simply unwittingly following the torrents of conformity? Is there room, in the TheOtherTruth’s world, for intellectually-founded conservatism? Come now, you offend me.

And, although I assuredly am not a fan of the “pot-smoking, tree-hugging liberals who reproduce in-species,” I simply cannot summon enough superficiality and emotional simplicity to call you “unpatriotic.”

Oh yeah, the flash was entertaining. Well paced, kinda. Viva la free speech indeed, brother.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Oooooooooh ,A conundrum. I am torn in retort as I must respond to a man (presumably) who has used the blasphemous word "paradigm". Covey ruined that word for me, but I digress.

Nomenclature is really what perpetuates the devisive nature of our current station in life. If we could rise above the "black and white" corner that we have been herded into, there would be more hope for us all.

In and of itself, diametric opposition draws people (oxymoron?) to clash at the middle creating a vicious circle of negatuve perpetuation. We eventually get so intrenched in our dogma that we can no longer see the forest for the trees.

What vexes me is the orthodoxy on both sides that almost makes people seem misanthropic.

We are, indeed, brothers. However, in frequest lapses, we seem to have lost that notion.

Intellectual conservativism, as mentioned in an earlier review, harkens back to Adam Smith. I would submit to you that conservatism is more an economic concept, than an idealogical one (theocrats might disagree).

I fear that I have strayed from the question at hand which was primarily one of "nature versus nurture". Allow me to continue.

If through true education and thoughtful contemplation of societal paradigms (yuck) you have been imbued with a propensity toward capitalism and conservatism and theocracy was NOT one of the mitigating factors in this revelation, you are (almost by definition) not one of the herd. You are a self actualized "lone wolf" and may proceed to devour the herd for your own draconian purposes.

Thank you for your delightful review.

[LeonTrotsky]

Hmm.

It maybe a little crude but don't judge on appearences because it's telling the truth.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

Yes, it is a little crude. Don't let the kiddies watch this one.

I always think that it it a little crude that the right calls people who think this way "bleeding heart liberals", or "liberal hippies".

They use those two statements in a vicious, mean spirited way that is meant to be hurtful. It is almost like using the "N word", but nobody ever calls them on it.

Do you suppose that if I called them "right wing, nazi zeolots" that they would let me off the hook for being mean spirited?

Certainly not. :)

Thanks again for the positive review

Thanks again for the good review

[PHOENIXtrunks]

Yeah, I agree with "evilexorcist"

Even though he has a stupid screenname (mine isn't any better either), he's right on the money with how our government was founded in the first place. We're supposed to be open minded and actually follow the constitution that those smart people who wore wigs 200 years back wrote. But instead of following the constitution, we try to change it and find loop-holes in it to suit our own needs. It's pure capitalism at its worst.

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

If we used the standards of the people on the right to prove our patriotism, we would have to take up arms against the right and kill them in order to be patriots.

I extrapolate the facts to get to this assessment, but isn't it really true? Check out this possible logical conclustion:

1: you must fight all things unamerican to protect our way of life
2: Our present government is acting to assault our most basic rights (granted by our forefathers in the constitution), and that is unamerican.

Conclusion: We must attack and defeat those who would violate the sacred trust of our Constitution. Those are the people on the extreme right!

I am not so sure that this is a far stretch. Everybody (MYSELF INCLUDED), should work to be more moderate. I make the extreme points because it needs to be done. This country was founded by even thinking men who knew how to compromise and had common sense.

We need to get back to that.

"TOT steps off his soapbox and goes back to bed."