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In reply to the discussion: Twelve Reasons We Need to Strike Syria Now: [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)282. Really, you trust Boehner more than Emma Goldman, Gandhi, or Howard Zinn?
Or a man who voted for the Iraq War because he is apparently too stupid to know when he's being manipulated (or so he claims)?
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The only ones who didn't were Thoreau (and that's the modern political sense).
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#54
See thats the thing...in this contex...you don't get to just "crown people" Anarchists...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#62
you are deeming them Anarchists...when most have never made any such claim.
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#95
Did Whitman call himself an Anarchist...or is he just another that you claim is?
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#168
I have never talked about the history of anarchy...talking about what it means...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#389
they hate ALL govt...get it? We are Democrats...one in fact kept mentioning Plato..
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#350
NO an Anarchist at a Democratic forum....is the very epitome of Troll!
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#180
No....that is not Anarchists. Anarchist despise ALL forms of government
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#377
but you are not a Fantastic Socialist...you are the Fantastic Anarchist.
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#390
Republicans would be accepted...BUT they wouldn't be able to change the "atmosphere".
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#391
See my point is Anarchists hate government and want them all disbanded...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#392
I have shown time and time again...I know EXACTLY what it means...and I have the actual
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#167
I'm not an Anarchist....I have nothing to prove...but as long as we are on the subject..
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#293
No I am not interested in Plato right now....Do you deny the core principle of Anarchy
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#309
the still share the same core principle..hatred of all types of govt....violent or not...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#388
You do know that Henry Clay Frick had murdered hundreds of workers.
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#322
I wasnt supporting Frick was I? I was opposing your bullshit about Anarchy!
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#324
Okay now you are a Socialist...I don't blame you for trying that tactic...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#317
Wow, you better tell that to all the libertarian socialists and anarchists then.
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#331
You don't even read the material and then profess to tell me who I am?
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#333
More like willfully refuse to fall for the inanity that anarchy is something beside the absence of
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#393
Nope...but the Anarchists have been trolling this site for a couple weeks now!
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#155
You mean Platos Retreat...that nasty Wife Swapping Club from the 1970's
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#321
LOL, my aren't you the self important little bully, OK then, ignore my advice, call out members
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#352
I haven't broken rules.....this place is for Democrats...not anti-govt types
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#354
You are not a bully but you are gunning for people that identify as Anarchists? You said you want to
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#355
You damn skippy...they are Anarchists...they are anti-govt...ANY govt....this is Democratic
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#357
I wouldn't say nerves.... a few funny bones maybe... you are rather amusing at times. /nt
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#353
So you admit you are just here trolling the Democratic Underground....
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#197
"Anarchy" and "anarchism" are not perfectly synonymous. That, perhaps, is the crux of the problem
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#206
That's the thing though. You keep repeating the dictionary definition of "anarchy" without any
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#211
As you've been told by others, a one-sentence dictionary definition doesn't tell the whole story.
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#216
Simplified or not...that's the core principle behind it...no denying that.
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#223
Yes they ARE trying to redefine the world... Anarchy is the absence of state correct..
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#395
How about Anarchist....lets see what the dictionary says about that....
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#209
It's really hopeless to argue with someone who won't educate themselves, carla.
Th1onein
Sep 2013
#133
I happen to have a great education....and I know what an Anarchist stands for
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#261
I am replying to nearly 10 people at the moment...sorry to insult you with a little typo in my zest.
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#130
So now the major malfunction is I don't write long posts to you? So you are insulted
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#210
If they really wanted to, I highly doubt you'd have the power individually to stop it...
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#208
No, I really don't think so. I think your fear of anarchist infiltration is a bit overstated.
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#397
Believe what you will. I just don't think things are quite that black and white.
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#407
who is lying...I was born in 61....got a problem with that? Decidely much older huh?
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#106
then why did you pop in to defend a debate with Anarchists about what Anarchy is?
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#349
Really, you trust Boehner more than Emma Goldman, Gandhi, or Howard Zinn?
Downtown Hound
Sep 2013
#282
Dictionary definitions of a political philosophy as complex as anarchy will not suffice.
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#113
I said dictionary definitions about a complex philosophy don't suffice.
Fantastic Anarchist
Sep 2013
#120
and its still Democratic Underground....the Full On Anarchist takeover of it hasn't yet happened.
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#29
Oh, I see. So when you are proven wrong you change the wording. Doesn't work.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#198
You are insulted by being called an Anarchist and being told this isnt Anarchist Underground
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#111
but its still not Anarchist Underground...its Democratic Underground..
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#253
What's interesting to me is how you keep repeating that this is "Democratic Underground"....
beerandjesus
Sep 2013
#275
Yeah, blowing civilians ("collateral damage") to pieces is really liberating for them, right?
nomorenomore08
Sep 2013
#215
Unlike the expert on the subject, I din't start chewin' me tobaccee 'till my 5th
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#231
You forgot this one: "We're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here"
W T F
Sep 2013
#35
This is the result of eight years of Kerry's efforts to bring peace to Syria.
OnyxCollie
Sep 2013
#36
K&R you missed Do you stand with the leader of the Democratic Party? Or do you stand with Rand Paul?
idwiyo
Sep 2013
#135
I saw your responce :) I just thought that OP was classic "Let's bomb'em 'cause FUCK RON PAUL!11!!!"
idwiyo
Sep 2013
#138
A duer posted one I thought was funny, (If we don't bomb) "We will look like pussies!"
quinnox
Sep 2013
#194
I'm against this war, but this OP adds nothing to the discussion. Only one of the reasons
stevenleser
Sep 2013
#236
The 9% whom are FOR any bombing, invasion or intervention should be drafted....
Bohemianwriter
Sep 2013
#272
The 1% has WAY TOO MUCH MONEY on its hands ... must think about ways to spend it !!!
blkmusclmachine
Sep 2013
#284
EXACTLY. I still remember Cheney and the "mushroom cloud." Such appalling fear-mongering.
anneboleyn
Sep 2013
#290