So, the funniest thing just happened. I'm sitting at home working, and the doorbell rings. I go open the door and there is a package there, just delivered by the US Post Office (book I ordered from Amazon.com). Anyway, as I pick up the package, I hear this blaring voice talking about radical islamic fundamentalists and they must be stopped and whatnot. It fades as the postal truck drives away. It reminds me of some movie where the invaders are driving through town with trucks with big loudspeakers on top proclaiming whatever they want. Just so funny. From a US Post Office truck.

That's really scary actually. I'm hoping the driver just had his radio turned WAY up or something.

Hah.

our tax dollars at work...

wtf is that supposed to mean?

Can you read?

I mean, that was a complete enough sentence if you ask me.

He's mocking the federal tax spending system...

Duh...

haha, yeah.. basically we are paying money to have CRAP most of us don't want forced into our lives by the mailman daily. We get more than enough politics on the news, in the paper, and the internet. I don't need it forcefully broadcast into my neighborhood.

I don't get it. Does anyone actually think that your postal service is spreading propaganda in this manner?

Propaganda? My mailman is just a bald guy doing his job in a little mail mobile. The only propaganda I get in the mail, that comes to mind, are those pamphlets about the National Guard.

yeah, probably that.

Yeah, they do. And honestly I was wondering for a minute. But yeah, the radio thing.

Apart from maybe 2 previous posters, you lot are idiots.

You work for the man.

What's more disturbing is that some of you would even consider the message that radical islamic fundamentalism needs to be stopped propaganda. Anyways it seems obvious to me that he was listening to talk radio like many people who spend all day on the road.

... holy molehill, batman

Are you a victim of mailman harrassment?

It was so loud. Maybe he didn't want to miss anything as he had to walk up to my door and drop the package there (since it wouldn't fit in the mailbox by the street).

Pah, that's just the UTTER CRAP Fox news airs when there's no real news to report. Doesn't matter if it's propaganda or not; it's utterly uneducational, boring, common-sense, fluff.

You're probably right. It is pretty funny though.

The postal worker who delivers to my neighborhood is an unusually attractive woman.

The Postwoman Always Rings Twice

Propaganda is propaganda. Whether you believe in the propaganda is up to you--but it's not necessarily untrue or a bad connotation. Propaganda doesn't mean "hey that's not true and is stupid!", it's just a political way of expressing views in a persuasive manner, essentially. Also, why do you have to bring your obviously neo-con political view into everything? Everyone knows what you are, no offense but just chill. You don't see me going into every thread that has anything to do with the US government saying "BUSH SUCKS LOL". Just chill dude--no need to try and start flames whereever you go.

But yeah, that's odd. I visited the post office today by coincidence, though there was no blaring anti-islamic radicalism propaganda.

What you say about the definition of propaganda is correct and something that I've said here on more than one occasion. Right after I posted that I thought that it was ironic I wrote that the way I did.

I don't think I was really bringing in any non-related political comments. Pretty much most of the sane world knows that radical islamic fundamentalism needs to be stopped. In that regard it really isn't propaganda but common sense like Freelancer said.

I know that Brian didn't mean it in a serious way and was being humorous but many of the responses were whacked.

i talked to my mailman about videogames once.