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JaneyVee

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18. No. I would cringe every time they opened their mouth.

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Thu Feb 14, 2013, 11:59 PM

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Could you be friends with a Nazi?? [View all] kentuck Feb 2013 OP

all I know is you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose snooper2 Feb 2013 #1

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose Warpy Feb 2013 #4

So far is the operative phrase kairos12 Feb 2013 #6

Hell, I have trouble being friends with "Christians" who don't want to help those "takers". gateley Feb 2013 #2

Such people are not Christians. burnsei sensei Feb 2013 #7

This is not news to me. gateley Feb 2013 #9

Friends might be asking if they can be friends with someone... Deep13 Feb 2013 #3

So if your friend is a Nazi? kentuck Feb 2013 #5

NAZI LOVER! snooper2 Feb 2013 #8

Jesus, man. WilliamPitt Feb 2013 #10

None is. nt Deep13 Feb 2013 #14

"no real power", IMO, the problem isn't that there are "ir-reconcilable" "differences" but that for patrice Feb 2013 #80

It kind of depends... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #11

No. Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #12

Ha, I was just going to post that Corgigal Feb 2013 #36

Do not people have certain responsibilities as a human being? kentuck Feb 2013 #13

Pissed at me, my father once asked me what would I think of him no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #15

I guess what I was trying to say... kentuck Feb 2013 #16

A bit of background. no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #19

They may not deserve your friendship, but your responsibility for reality requires that you call patrice Feb 2013 #81

I want you to know that I really, REALLY appreciate your sense of humor!!! MADem Feb 2013 #56

Thank you. Once of my better moments in repartee. no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #71

Hee hee! MADem Feb 2013 #72

My family's general attitude to my taking a deep breath and letting it go: no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #75

As long as it isn't an Illinois Nazi Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #17

No. I would cringe every time they opened their mouth. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #18

Imagine the same question concerning communists Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #20

extermination of undesirables was an avowed policy of the nazis. it is not an avowed policy HiPointDem Feb 2013 #21

Your claiming Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, et al Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #22

Nazi policy was explicitly exterminationist in the case of Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and HiPointDem Feb 2013 #28

Thanks for these thoughtful points kimbutgar Feb 2013 #69

Or capitalists. EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #24

Capitalists, by the defintion of capitalism, are not the state Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #25

if capitalists are not the state, who or what is? given that the majority of state policies benefit HiPointDem Feb 2013 #31

"most wars have been waged for the same reasons" Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #32

walmart and target don't have spies? are you *kidding*? they have spies all over the place. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #33

You're seriously claiming that business intel gathered by Wal-Mart Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #35

'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

I repeat, how does that come close to the KGB? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #47

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

they make a desert and they call it peace. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #67

I think you are conflating theKed Feb 2013 #34

You left out religion and freedom of conscience. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #37

1950 called theKed Feb 2013 #39

"Communism is not inherently anti-democratic." Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #43

when the CP actually was a viable party, that was not the attitude of the US government. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #49

Good! I would want them to do the same thing to fascists Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #51

*sigh* theKed Feb 2013 #54

Calling the USSR theKed Feb 2013 #50

Sounds like the definition of insanity. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #52

Huh? theKed Feb 2013 #53

You wrote Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #57

Tell you what theKed Feb 2013 #58

NO kidding. laundry_queen Feb 2013 #60

"Some edumacation is in order here." Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #62

LOL are you series? laundry_queen Feb 2013 #63

As do OTHER types of regimes, so all such are brothers & sisters in fascism. patrice Feb 2013 #78

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

Huh? theKed Feb 2013 #66

It seems to me Mosby Feb 2013 #70

On the Side of Pol Pot: U.S. Supports Khmer Rouge HiPointDem Feb 2013 #40

That's a source? Some guy's teal blue website? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2013 #55

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

I knew a guy who wanted to limit voting Dirty Socialist Feb 2013 #23

Could you be friends with someone who supports the summary execution, without trial, of US citizens? Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #26

Where I live you don't any choice unless you are a compete hermit n\t doc03 Feb 2013 #27

I'm related to many RWNJ... a la izquierda Feb 2013 #29

Interesting el_bryanto Feb 2013 #30

Just a thought. SQUEE Feb 2013 #41

I smell another "purity thread" derby378 Feb 2013 #45

That depends, by Nazi, do you mean.. Fla_Democrat Feb 2013 #46

If the point every comes in which I deny friendship based merely on American politics... LanternWaste Feb 2013 #48

no samsingh Feb 2013 #68

Once, before the country became this divided nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #73

I can be casual "friends" with such people...(the second group, not the Nazis) Bettie Feb 2013 #74

K&R for evergreen personal reality testing! patrice Feb 2013 #76

Your criteria is far too slanted. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #77

"She's a Nazi, George. A Nazi!" KamaAina Feb 2013 #79

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