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HughBeaumont

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Tue Jan-12-10 07:52 AM
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38. Save the snark.

The reason we have none of what I mentioned is because of corporate influence on legislation and government. It's not just a "scary bogeyman". Corporations and the wealthy are gumming up societal progress, laying off people by the hundreds of thousands (all because their quarterly profits slip 1 or 2 basis points), polluting without care, colluding with colleges to keep education more expensive and out of reach, and even after getting everything they want STILL expect the world to be handed to them on a silver platter. They're turning this nation into an international laughing stock.

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- You see...well...that is...um...how should I put it without mincing words?	YOY	Jan-11-10 11:05 PM	#1
- To them it means "Scary boogeyman."	jobycom	Jan-11-10 11:11 PM	#2
- I'd note that there's one major difference here...	Cessna Invesco Palin	Jan-12-10 01:56 AM	#13
- So you're claiming that corporations have no influence in the USA?	Fumesucker	Jan-12-10 02:11 AM	#14
- No I'm not.	Cessna Invesco Palin	Jan-12-10 02:25 AM	#17
- We all use shorthand terms to describe or denote certain attitudes and certain people..	Fumesucker	Jan-13-10 05:33 AM	#46
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- What?	jobycom	Jan-12-10 05:28 AM	#29
- Of course you don't.	HughBeaumont	Jan-12-10 07:13 AM	#35
- Well I'm glad that's settled.	jobycom	Jan-12-10 07:44 AM	#37
- Save the snark.	HughBeaumont	Jan-12-10 07:52 AM	#38
- That rather supports my initial statement.	jobycom	Jan-12-10 08:37 AM	#42
- Only some of them	treestar	Jan-12-10 09:00 AM	#43
- Extremists see everyone else as a member of the opposite extreme.	Kaleva	Jan-11-10 11:12 PM	#3
- i was told by a facebook friend	DesertFlower	Jan-11-10 11:13 PM	#4
- Because he can't speak Russian?	Bucky	Jan-12-10 01:48 AM	#12
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- James Burnham, Orwell, Koestler, and Arthur Schlesinger	MisterP	Jan-11-10 11:15 PM	#6
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- It's the Nazi-Communist talk that pisses me off.	aquart	Jan-11-10 11:41 PM	#8
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- You'd have to understand conservative ideology	Juche	Jan-11-10 11:44 PM	#10
- Because we were all taught in school to hate communists	xfundy	Jan-12-10 12:24 AM	#11
- It is a code word for everyhing we are not. It goes back to the mid 1800's.	Ozymanithrax	Jan-12-10 02:13 AM	#15
- Because they're so far to the right, Hitler looks like a moderate n/t	krispos42	Jan-12-10 02:20 AM	#16
- LOL	EFerrari	Jan-12-10 02:30 AM	#19
- Same reason everything to the right of Kucinich is "fascist corporatism" to left-wingers n/t	Azathoth	Jan-12-10 02:25 AM	#18
- +1	whistler162	Jan-12-10 07:59 AM	#40
- Because their minds are stuck in the past......	Joe the Liberal	Jan-12-10 02:41 AM	#20
- Drones til the end of time. knr nt	Union Yes	Jan-12-10 02:55 AM	#21
- BTW I take it as a compliment! =) nt	Union Yes	Jan-12-10 03:14 AM	#22
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- LOL @ Tea Party "movement"	Dappleganger	Jan-12-10 07:59 AM	#39
- TEH RED MENUHCE! MARXISOCIALICOM'NISTS!!	HughBeaumont	Jan-12-10 04:36 AM	#27
- Large Print propaganda of old for the authoritarian minded dies hard	GreenMetalFlake	Jan-12-10 05:40 AM	#31
- Isn't that somewhat "retro"? I thought the new accusation was "Islamo-fascist"?	DailyGrind51	Jan-12-10 06:01 AM	#32
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- Because the president is Black...	Lucy Goosey	Jan-12-10 07:20 AM	#36
- It the John Birch Society roots	CanonRay	Jan-12-10 08:18 AM	#41
- Because to them, every problem looks like a nail. nt	Javaman	Jan-12-10 09:41 AM	#44
- Because they grew up during the Cold War.	Odin2005	Jan-12-10 02:48 PM	#45
- Because rightwing governments throughout the previous century	mmonk	Jan-13-10 05:39 AM	#47

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