primitive bewails socialist greed

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6512570

Oh my.

And predictably, the primitives are avoiding this bonfire like the plague.

David__77 (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-10-09 12:24 PM
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South Africa communist leader drives a BMW

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa - Speaking recently on Nelson Mandela Day, the chief of South Africa's Communist Party urged citizens to stick to values of equality and selflessness. He sometimes sports a Mao-style cap, and as minister of higher education, he has called for revolutionary content in university schooling.

So why did he choose a $137,000 BMW for his official car, and buy it with government money?

...

At Zuma's last rally before the election this year, Nzimande broke into a song: "My mother was a kitchen girl. My father was a garden boy. That's why I'm a comm - u - nist! I'm a communist! I'm a communist!"

One reader on a popular political website, devastated by Nzimande's BMW splurge, wrote: "I'm in tears. I first heard this at a rally and I heard it from Blade. It struck a chord. . . . NOW THIS???"

Another, under the signature Mgababa, wrote: "I am so disappointed in the minister, first it was red wine and now it is BMW. Is Blade still a true communist?"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-com...

(Why do so many leaders on the left always fall into self-aggrandizement in such a blatant fashion? It raises the question: how should elected leaders be compensated? Can't we expect that they are motivated by moral incentives primarily?)

No primitive's gonna touch this.

[Freeper]

David__77  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 12:24 PM
Original message
South Africa communist leader drives a BMW
   
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa - Speaking recently on Nelson Mandela Day, the chief of South Africa's Communist Party urged citizens to stick to values of equality and selflessness. He sometimes sports a Mao-style cap, and as minister of higher education, he has called for revolutionary content in university schooling.

So why did he choose a $137,000 BMW for his official car, and buy it with government money?

...

At Zuma's last rally before the election this year, Nzimande broke into a song: "My mother was a kitchen girl. My father was a garden boy. That's why I'm a comm - u - nist! I'm a communist! I'm a communist!"

One reader on a popular political website, devastated by Nzimande's BMW splurge, wrote: "I'm in tears. I first heard this at a rally and I heard it from Blade. It struck a chord. . . . NOW THIS???"

Another, under the signature Mgababa, wrote: "I am so disappointed in the minister, first it was red wine and now it is BMW. Is Blade still a true communist?"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-com...

(Why do so many leaders on the left always fall into self-aggrandizement in such a blatant fashion? It raises the question: how should elected leaders be compensated? Can't we expect that they are motivated by moral incentives primarily?)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6512570


Hmm who woulda thunk a communist leader would be so materialistic? 

[Freeper]

leveymg  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Sep-10-09 01:01 PM
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2. No, he doesn't drive a BMW. That is a fascist lie, fabrication, and falsehood . . .
   
the government pays for a driver. And the Moet.

 

[Karin]

Here's a real eye-roller.  After someone points out that it is a fatal flaw of humanity and communism, David says:

David__77 (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-10-09 02:15 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. I do not consider it a flaw of communism.
 I consider it a flaw of phony communism. It is a flaw of false leftism, of misleaders who are opportunists abusing a fundamentally sound ideology. My point is, just because some people have abused it doesn't mean that capitalism is the best of all possible worlds for all time

Someone then gently told David that communism has historically been not-so-hot.  Bonfire blew out. 

[The Village Idiot]

So why did he choose a $137,000 BMW for his official car, and buy it with government money?

Some pigs are more equal than others.

[Lord Undies]

proteus_lives  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-10-09 01:38 PM
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4. What's so surprising?
   It's the party elite. One of the fatal flaws of humanity and communism.

Stalin and other Soviet leaders lived like a tsars while their people were sent to gulags and waited in lines for toilet paper.

Mao and Chinese elite lived lived like emperors while their famines killed millions.

Jong Il lives in North Korean palace while the people eat grass.

Castro gets the finest brandy and cigars while his people build boats out of garbage to get to America.


It's the same story in every communist country.

   OH1 MY1 WORD!!!1111  

How many sacred cows are gored in that Little Goon post?

[The Village Idiot]

Government food aid for everyone.... private jets and wagyu beef for the elites though

[LC EFA]

Another, under the signature Mgababa, wrote: "I am so disappointed in the minister, first it was red wine and now it is BMW. Is Blade still a true communist?"

He seems to be following the standard playbook to the letter.

Morons like you that don't understand the practical implementation of the system you support should be deported to live under it.

[Duke Nukum]

Some pigs are more equal than others.

If it is fundamentally sound, I wonder why nobody in the history of Marxism has been able to make it work?  If it was fundamentally sound, I would think it would be simple and most people would naturally follow some form of it without coercion?

[Lord Undies]

If it is fundamentally sound, I wonder why nobody in the history of Marxism has been able to make it work?  If it was fundamentally sound, I would think it would be simple and most people would naturally follow some form of it without coercion?

It's like the Perpetual Motion Machine.  A grand theory with no basis in practical reality. 

[JohnnyReb]

It's like the Perpetual Motion Machine.  A grand theory with no basis in practical reality. 

The Perpetual Motion Machine has a better chance of working.

[Wineslob]

David__77 (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-10-09 02:15 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. I do not consider it a flaw of communism.
 I consider it a flaw of phony communism. It is a flaw of false leftism, of misleaders who are opportunists abusing a fundamentally sound ideology. My point is, just because some people have abused it doesn't mean that capitalism is the best of all possible worlds for all time

This is why a FAILED ideology keeps rearing it's ugly head throughout the world. Some DUmbshit somewhere still believes that it just wasn't TRUE enough.



David.............you are a ****ing idiot.