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Tue Oct-20-09 03:45 PM
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| 26. lol i know what you mean, its got to be some sort of delusion |
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you sit there with your che tshirt, black beret and next thing you know your wolfie smith shouting power to the people...
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| -why are Americans scared of labels like "socialism" ... I mean .. mortally scared ... |
TheCoxwain |
Oct-20-09 02:06 PM |
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Because they think it's Stalinism. (nt) |
Posteritatis |
Oct-20-09 02:08 PM |
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Conditioning. |
silverweb |
Oct-20-09 02:09 PM |
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They think it's 'Soviet', which was actually pretty awful. |
Captain Hilts |
Oct-20-09 02:12 PM |
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Well, actually, it wasn't at all as bad as it was made out to be by the hostile |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-20-09 02:25 PM |
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Yes. It was so successful the E. Germans had to build a wall to keep all of the W. Germans out |
Freddie Stubbs |
Oct-20-09 02:54 PM |
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yup only someone who didnt have to live under the soviets would ever say it was brilliant |
vadawg |
Oct-20-09 03:14 PM |
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Takes all kinds, I suppose |
Posteritatis |
Oct-20-09 03:22 PM |
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lol i know what you mean, its got to be some sort of delusion |
vadawg |
Oct-20-09 03:45 PM |
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oh god, the t-shirts.. |
Posteritatis |
Oct-20-09 03:59 PM |
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Ugh! I HATE to see those Che shirts at Dem or peace rallies. nt |
Captain Hilts |
Oct-20-09 07:34 PM |
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Isn't it amazing some folks still think that? They didn't live there. I did. Yuck! nt |
Captain Hilts |
Oct-20-09 07:33 PM |
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You always get a soft underbelly of renegades for whom the grass on |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-20-09 06:49 PM |
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Sorry, I lived there. It was awful. nt |
Captain Hilts |
Oct-20-09 07:32 PM |
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Yeah, gulags, state famines and secret police were awesome. |
proteus_lives |
Oct-21-09 04:13 PM |
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They don't know what it is and don't bother to learn. That's what leads |
alsame |
Oct-20-09 02:15 PM |
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They grew up hearing this ... |
coconut22 |
Oct-20-09 05:01 PM |
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Americans are afraid of their own shadows |
depakid |
Oct-20-09 02:22 PM |
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There is something definitely weird about |
RaleighNCDUer |
Oct-20-09 02:27 PM |
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Because they are good students of right wing radio |
BOSSHOG |
Oct-20-09 02:23 PM |
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It's a euphemism. It represents a world changing too fast for those entrenched in the status quo. |
Gman2 |
Oct-20-09 02:34 PM |
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Cold war hangover. |
harun |
Oct-20-09 02:38 PM |
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Some of these folks aren't old enough to remember the cold war |
depakid |
Oct-20-09 03:08 PM |
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Because we are stupid and like binary thinking. (nt) |
TheKentuckian |
Oct-20-09 02:42 PM |
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or if you are into neural nets .. all the subnets are composed of step functions |
TheCoxwain |
Oct-20-09 02:49 PM |
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We are a heavily uneducated nation, and are to lazy too research the facts. |
ej510 |
Oct-20-09 02:50 PM |
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LOL. Yep, Godly, Satanic, and probably bad. (nt) |
TheKentuckian |
Oct-20-09 02:55 PM |
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The world is laughing at us. |
ej510 |
Oct-20-09 03:08 PM |
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Because they don't actually mean Socialsim when they say it ... |
JoePhilly |
Oct-20-09 03:13 PM |
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The people who shout these terms are uneducated bafoons. They have no idea what those words mean. If |
ej510 |
Oct-20-09 03:20 PM |
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That's not a question that can be answered in a chat room |
demwing |
Oct-20-09 03:19 PM |
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Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao. Next question. nt |
anonymous171 |
Oct-20-09 03:19 PM |
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Are you really that dim that you can trot out those laughably empty |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-21-09 09:07 AM |
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Excellent response. So good that it immediately reminded me of |
truedelphi |
Oct-28-09 01:53 AM |
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Socialism is about giving up freedoms to get something else. |
county worker |
Oct-20-09 03:28 PM |
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I can take your argument to all kinds of logical extremes . but I wont do that ... |
TheCoxwain |
Oct-20-09 03:36 PM |
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You assume that we all want to have "collective freedom" |
county worker |
Oct-20-09 03:56 PM |
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Strange that most people in other nations don't have such fears |
depakid |
Oct-20-09 04:04 PM |
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Single payer is not in everyone's best interest. |
county worker |
Oct-20-09 04:24 PM |
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Single payer is simply a more efficient and economical means of financing |
depakid |
Oct-20-09 11:56 PM |
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War is not in everyone's best interest, either |
LastLiberal in PalmSprings |
Oct-21-09 06:46 PM |
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No ..we ALL may not ... but if a majority of us do .... then we get it - Right? |
TheCoxwain |
Oct-20-09 04:12 PM |
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I doubt the majority will ever want socialism in this country. |
county worker |
Oct-20-09 04:19 PM |
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How the fuck is paying for health insurance the same thing as freedom of thought? |
Lilith Velkor |
Oct-20-09 04:29 PM |
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Who said it was? |
county worker |
Oct-20-09 04:36 PM |
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You did. |
Lilith Velkor |
Oct-20-09 09:40 PM |
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Even secret police aren't brain-readers. But most of the people in those former |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-21-09 07:59 AM |
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Yeah, it's funny how economic self-interest is not considered a virtue if you're poor. |
Lilith Velkor |
Oct-21-09 12:52 PM |
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It would be funny to you, very queer and very laughable. It's the comical |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-21-09 02:10 PM |
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"very queer." Oh, how nice. |
Lilith Velkor |
Oct-21-09 05:43 PM |
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I've just read that first sentence and I don't need to read on. You have totally misread |
Joe Chi Minh |
Oct-21-09 06:17 PM |
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I should be pleased that you wave the Bible at me and call me a Republican? |
Lilith Velkor |
Oct-21-09 06:53 PM |
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Not really |
quaker bill |
Oct-28-09 06:38 AM |
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Only non-thinking Americans are scared - you only have to say BOO! to them! nt |
polichick |
Oct-20-09 03:53 PM |
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Marketing. |
asdjrocky |
Oct-20-09 04:25 PM |
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We're still dealing with fall-out from McCarthyism. |
riderinthestorm |
Oct-20-09 08:08 PM |
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:Insert bogeyman, a couple of strawmen, and wimper like an infant: |
izzybeans |
Oct-21-09 05:48 AM |
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Ignorance and the inability for them to see what is right in front of them |
and-justice-for-all |
Oct-21-09 06:23 AM |
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Lots of people think socialism = totalitarianism, capitalism = democracy. nt |
raccoon |
Oct-21-09 09:40 AM |
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Because we've been indoctrinated |
lunatica |
Oct-21-09 02:20 PM |
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General stupidity, the end result of an education system that is severly lacking. n/t |
NorthCarolina |
Oct-21-09 05:04 PM |
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Cold War hangover plus stupidity |
SpartanDem |
Oct-21-09 05:14 PM |
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Oct-21-09 05:49 PM |
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I dunno. Socialism has done anything wrong in this country. By the way |
southernyankeebelle |
Oct-21-09 05:52 PM |
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The fear of communism was fueled by fear of atheism. They don't know the diff. |
Hamlette |
Oct-21-09 07:03 PM |
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