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In reply to the discussion: Could you be friends with a Nazi?? [View all]kentuck
(111,076 posts)16. I guess what I was trying to say...
...is that sometimes perhaps people do not deserve your friendship? Politics is not just about elections. It is about how we choose to live our lives.
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Hell, I have trouble being friends with "Christians" who don't want to help those "takers".
gateley
Feb 2013
#2
"no real power", IMO, the problem isn't that there are "ir-reconcilable" "differences" but that for
patrice
Feb 2013
#80
They may not deserve your friendship, but your responsibility for reality requires that you call
patrice
Feb 2013
#81
My family's general attitude to my taking a deep breath and letting it go:
no_hypocrisy
Feb 2013
#75
extermination of undesirables was an avowed policy of the nazis. it is not an avowed policy
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#21
Nazi policy was explicitly exterminationist in the case of Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#28
if capitalists are not the state, who or what is? given that the majority of state policies benefit
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#31
walmart and target don't have spies? are you *kidding*? they have spies all over the place.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#33
'business intel'. lol. is spying on worker organizing efforts now considered 'business intel'?
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#38
How does that even come close to the KGB and secret police of your beloved mass-murderers?
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#42
oh, first it was 'walmart doesn't have spies,' but now it's 'well, they do, but they're not as bad
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#44
where is it that i make the claim that walmart's spy practices are the equivalent of the KGB?
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#59
Sorry dude. You can't build a closet big enough to hide 100 million skeletons.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#65
when the CP actually was a viable party, that was not the attitude of the US government.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#49
I gave up fairy tales as a little girl. It's the real life body counts that concern me now.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#61
The source is Covert Action Quarterly, 1990. But even CBS says more or less the same -- today.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#64
It is a trait of fascism that the drive toward power for power's sake alone will wear ANY label.
patrice
Feb 2013
#83
Could you be friends with someone who supports the summary execution, without trial, of US citizens?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#26
If the point every comes in which I deny friendship based merely on American politics...
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#48
Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism; at least it was an Ethos.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#82
People praise hit men all the time, along with torturers and civilian killers
just1voice
Feb 2013
#84