{"id":756,"date":"2008-01-13T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T03:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2008-01-14T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T06:24:34","slug":"there-is-no-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"There is no candy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cnahfapzhj4&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cnahfapzhj4&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why anyone who watches <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/If_Footmen_Tire_You,_What_Will_Horses_Do%3F\">this video<\/a> would think badly of communism:<br \/>\n1. You can be a maniac who gets kicks out of power-tripping over kids, teaching them to pray to (glorious leader) Fidel Castro instead of (won&#8217;t deliver on the goods) Jesus Christ in return for candy. This is an ideal job for about 73% of the population.<br \/>\n2. Typical criticisms of communism revolve around shortages of consumer goods. In this version of Castro&#8217;s Cuba, though, you can have all the candy you want. Ever.<br \/>\n3. The chalkboard clearly says, &#8220;COMMUNISM IS GOOD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I think the absolute best part of the video is at about 1:06, when the guy says, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see if your Jesus will bring you some candy now and produce a miracle.&#8221; Then he looks up to his left as if waiting for lightning to fall. It&#8217;s fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand why anyone who watches this video would think badly of communism: 1. You can be a maniac who gets kicks out of power-tripping over kids, teaching them to pray to (glorious leader) Fidel Castro instead of (won&#8217;t deliver on the goods) Jesus Christ in return for candy. This is an ideal job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-comics-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}