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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:08am PT
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Borut, товаришь мой, я знаю коммунизм! :-)
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:45am PT
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товаришь мой, я знаю коммунизм!
Well comrade, if you really do know communism, then you know that capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism is just the reverse.
Больше водки, товарищ?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:53am PT
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Ghost, I've only just had my first two espressos.
Sheesh, you think everybody here is a lush?
Oh, and thanks for the clarification.
(And yer Roosian is almost as gud as yer Norweeejon!)
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 09:45pm PT
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Uh, maybe we can keep this in English, my fellow capitalists.
The theory of communism is appealing to the unmotivated and lazy, but is always exploited by the 'rulers'. Baby steps away from communialism into totalitarianism.
From the feel-good, to the gulags and poverty. This is what I see slowly happening to us. And that's the only way the commies can break a free, independent, capitalist Republic like ours. Porn, brainwashing the youth, gov't reliance, destruction of religion, emasculating the male, racial division, class warfare, etc...
Break down culture,society, family and introduce the new God, the State.
You people think I'm crazy and paranoid but look at the last 4 years and the rhetoric. Forward!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 10:12pm PT
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I largely agree with that article, Bruce, except for calling Obama center-right. Which makes me question the whole angle of the article. I skimmed it.
Sounds like a RINO in sheep's clothing like some of Romney's advisors who actually wanted him to lose.
But the whole part about calling Bush out for spending like a liberal Democrat I believe, and concur with.
But if this dude believed that, how could he call Obama center-right? Fishy.
I'm an independent conservative, not a Repub, like this poseur seems to claim.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Nov 28, 2012 - 10:35pm PT
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Walmart IS Chinese, basically operates a slave labor force both here and abroad and foists it's true labor costs onto the American taxpayer. It represents corporations at their worst. Beyond clueless, duped in every respect. Republican dopers, minorities, and gays - as identity crisis go, those are tough ones and a sure sign of someone lost in the wilderness.
Truer words have never been written.
Bluey, a question for you, Why do you have such disdain for honest work?
Are Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Home Depot, or Walmart not entitled to reap profits from their gains? Who should reap the gains? The somewhat lazier, more uneducated "worker"?
Are you on the dole?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 10:36pm PT
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Because he is far left of George Bush. I would call Obama a Globalist-commie, but he would like to be the King of it all. It's way too egotistical for me.
It's weird.
And his calls for a private citizen police force that is just as well funded as the military smells a lot like 'Brownshirts' from Nazi Germany. Also the weird child indoctrination is creepy to worship Obama.
EDIT: Gary, why does Walmart do business in China? Do you know? Why does Apple?
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Nov 28, 2012 - 10:43pm PT
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EDIT: Gary, why does Walmart do business in China? Do you know? Why does Apple?
Because they hate our freedoms.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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No, corporate tax rates. We have some of the highest in the world. And very little tariffs on Chinese goods.
We are killing our economy through misguided economic policy. That includes Bush. Romney would have changed that. He said so, but nobody listened. People are stupid...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 10:50pm PT
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But Bluey that exactly what i mean - all that Brown shirt malitia stuff is straight out of the fascist handbook. He's right of center I tell you.
Don't get too caught up in labeling dictators. They all have their own flavor. Fascist, communist, whatever...They're all totalitarians. Our cultural as#@&%es are definitely communistic, but you could argue that Obama is fascistic.
They're both very close in ideology when they're done.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Nov 28, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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No, corporate tax rates.
Keep drinking the Kool-aid, Bluey. But it won't do you any good.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 10:58pm PT
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Any opinion of the content of the article?
Or would that require actually reading it?
I already said I largely agreed with it. Duh? I skimmed it like any literate person would in a large article.
First sentence is the point, subsequent sentences in paragraph are explanation.
What's you problem, exactly?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
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Anyway, if you think Obama is a commie I'd hate to think what you'd call the average Canadian!
A socialist.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:16pm PT
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So that makes you an anti-socialist.
I think you're just scared.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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Otherwise (gasp!) I might actually learn something!
So, what was your point in trying to make me look stupid? Did I miss some gem that you gleamed from the article?
I don't have time to fully read everybody's piece of wisdom, but I will skim them and usually get a feel for their weight.
Brennan, STFU. It's people who think like you who have gotten us to where we're at here. "ah, it's not that bad, nothing to see here"
This is because the geometry of where the center lies in modern policy and politics has followed popular cultural perception as far as what's reasonable and what's not as it applies to personal security.
This is mind-rot....
EDIT: So that makes you an anti-socialist.
I think you're just scared.
Yep. Because I remember my history...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2012 - 11:23pm PT
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You're a bit wrong, Bruce. You have to listen to him, Obama. He intends for much worse things.
Keep in mind that we affect global markets more than you guys. He is a speaker, not a leader. Other people are pulling his strings more-so than anybody I've ever seen in US politics.
Listen to him and watch him. He is nefarious.
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John M
climber
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:33pm PT
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Corporations are the next communist. Or rather the current communist.
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