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"We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« on: November 28, 2011, 12:39:06 PM »
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Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-26-11 10:32 PM
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We Have to go Socialist
 Just sayin'

We cannot make it as individuals

We can, however, make it as a team

As a group

As in "all of us"

Don't let those of us who don't like that prevent it from happening...
 
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2011, 12:45:01 PM »
We went socialist.  Look where it got us, numbnuts.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2011, 12:49:16 PM »
The primitive define socialism as...

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96. Worker control of the means of production

.... but they really don't want to have to work to receive benefits.  Besides, if they got the economy they wanted, the "workers" in industires who made the most would become the new 1%.  When they were taken down it would be the next 1% they would go after.  It's a self-destructing economy.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2011, 12:50:53 PM »
There is always North Korea, Taverner.  The population starves together as one.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2011, 12:57:27 PM »
Yo idiot!  THERE IS NO I IN TEAM!   :bird: 






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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2011, 01:20:02 PM »
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Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-26-11 10:32 PM
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We Have to go Socialist
 Just sayin'

We cannot make it as individuals

We can, however, make it as a team

As a group

As in "all of us"

Don't let those of us who don't like that prevent it from happening...
 
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2011, 01:58:58 PM »
Yo idiot!  THERE IS NO I IN TEAM!   :bird: 

However, there is an "M" and an "E."  Just sayin'.

 :-)

Stossel has been putting on some brilliant stuff lately about the historical failure of communal ownership in societies like the Pilgrims.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2011, 01:59:36 PM »
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MFrohike (185 posts)      Mon Nov-28-11 03:38 AM
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146. Which is done how?
 Through constant vigilance on the part of the populace. It's not that hard to change a few parts of a system to throw it out of balance.
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TBF  (1000+ posts)        Mon Nov-28-11 08:10 AM
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150. Your "constant vigilanace of capital" has resulted in the top 1% of the country  
 controlling 40% of the wealth. No thanks, I'll stick with my plan to do whatever I can to transition this society to socialism as quickly as possible.  
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MFrohike (185 posts)      Mon Nov-28-11 12:57 PM
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155. Not so much, no
 All social revolutions fail. All they ever do is change the names of the players at the top and their titles. The reasons for the social revolution continue to grind as though nothing had ever happened. Witness Mexico, Russia, China, Vietnam, and the rest. A tiny elite hoarding most of the benefits while that majority get the shaft. When this happens over and over and over, it's time to realize that all systems are prone to abuse and that only a vigilant populace can stop it.

You can change the system all you like, but unless you have people paying attention, and I should say pressuring legislatures, similar results will occur. There will be a concentration of power at the top, which leads to outsized benefits for those at the top.  
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TBF  (1000+ posts)        Mon Nov-28-11 01:12 PM
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156. You might call it a failure when a dictatorship of the proletariat takes over -  
 but the USSR had great productivity and decent conditions for its citizens. I think we can learn from that society
, along with many in South America and also the current Scandinavian countries.

As long as "1% of the world population own 40 % of the global assets. The richest 2% of the world population own more than 51% of the global assets, the richest 10% own 85% of the global assets" (source - Wiki under income inequality) you are going to have folks trying to create a better, more equitable system. You may not like that, but the rest of us expect you to share.  
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MFrohike (185 posts)      Mon Nov-28-11 01:33 PM
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159. Seriously?
 Oh, this is rich. I'm going to use some bullet points for this one.

1. Productivity is not a subject on which America needs help. If anything, we're overproductive.

2. Decent conditions? Well, in comparison with Neanderthals, that might be true on a material level. However, when you add in the security organs and the other means of terrorizing the population, I'm going to think the Neanderthals had it better.

3. There is nothing to learn from Hugo. Hugo gets to play Che Guevara, Jr. because he has a lot of oil. If he's president of a country with no oil, he'd have been shooting his opponents long ago. Instead he gets to buy them off.

Fidel is a great hero to people for some reason I don't get. The guy prostituted his country to the USSR for cash. He sent his soldiers to be used as mercenaries in Africa and got paid for it.

There are other leaders worth examining. Recently, Lula and Morales have been worth giving a listen, even when they seem to be wrong.

4. "You may not like that, but the rest of us expect you to share."--This one is rich. You really don't get what I'm talking about at all, do you?

Let me make this really explicit because I've apparently been very cryptic until now. Unless people are watching their leaders, those leaders will find ways to benefit those at the top at the expense of the rest. Go read (or reread) Animal Farm. Orwell laid out a brilliant critique not just of totalitarian communist governments, but of all governments. The pigs in that story use misdirection and outright lies in order to confuse the other animals for their own benefit. That is the natural evolution of ALL human systems. Everything breaks down eventually. The only remedies are vigilance and pressure. Anything else is the modern-day equivalent of animal sacrifice to propitiate the gods.
 


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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2011, 02:06:36 PM »
Yo idiot!  THERE IS NO I IN TEAM!   :bird: 

There is no 'we' either.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2011, 03:06:18 PM »
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chaska (1000+ posts)      Mon Nov-28-11 02:40 PM
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162. Whenever presented with only two choices....
 always look for a third, fourth, fifth, etc.

All societies are a mix of individualistic and egalitarian values/motives (even ours - I know, hard to believe at this late date). We have swung too far to the individualistic side of the pendulum. We're long overdue for a return to equality and communal values. The answer to our problem isn't any true version of Socialism, but until we can think of a better way to describe what we want, that term will probably be used a lot.

And that's okay. Never let your enemy scare you off from your own name. But don't let him chase you into a definition of you that doesn't fit either. Don't let him make you embrace the tarbaby. He'll be laughing his ass off at you, and you will deserve it. Define yourself. Always.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2011, 03:14:51 PM »
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Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-26-11 10:32 PM
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We Have to go Socialist
 Just sayin'

We cannot make it as individuals
So much for the rugged individualism attitude that built this Nation...
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 03:26:30 PM »
So much for the rugged individualism attitude that built this Nation...

That went away when we let in the huddled masses yearning for freebies.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2011, 03:27:48 PM »
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chaska (1000+ posts)      Mon Nov-28-11 02:40 PM
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162. Whenever presented with only two choices....
 always look for a third, fourth, fifth, etc.

All societies are a mix of individualistic and egalitarian values/motives (even ours - I know, hard to believe at this late date). We have swung too far to the individualistic side of the pendulum. We're long overdue for a return to equality and communal values. The answer to our problem isn't any true version of Socialism, but until we can think of a better way to describe what we want, that term will probably be used a lot.

And that's okay. Never let your enemy scare you off from your own name. But don't let him chase you into a definition of you that doesn't fit either. Don't let him make you embrace the tarbaby. He'll be laughing his ass off at you, and you will deserve it. Define yourself. Always.

What do you mean RETURN?  We have never been the country that you DUmmies seem to think we were. Grow the hell up and take care of yourself.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2011, 03:43:45 PM »
However, there is an "M" and an "E."  Just sayin'.

 :-)

Stossel has been putting on some brilliant stuff lately about the historical failure of communal ownership in societies like the Pilgrims.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2011, 04:35:07 PM »
Just about done reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Reading it reminded me that leftest DUmmies have always been with us. Every new generation of these clowns think they have unique thoughts and ideas but it is always the same old tired crap that was said and tried before with crappy results. I swear there were parts of it that sounded like direct quotes from the OWS idiots.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2011, 04:40:00 PM »
Yet another DUmmie who thinks he can live at the expense of another.
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2011, 04:42:06 PM »
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

That is all.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 05:02:15 PM »
Just about done reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Reading it reminded me that leftest DUmmies have always been with us. Every new generation of these clowns think they have unique thoughts and ideas but it is always the same old tired crap that was said and tried before with crappy results. I swear there were parts of it that sounded like direct quotes from the OWS idiots.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2011, 05:13:12 PM »
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Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-26-11 10:32 PM
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We Have to go Socialist

Well, there is an obstacle in that Constitution thingy, unless the Kenyan is able to get reelected and stack the Supreme Court with more leftists.

Aside from that, socialism seems to be working out great for all those Eurotrash countries that use it.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2011, 09:05:18 PM »
Yo idiot!  THERE IS NO I IN TEAM!   :bird: 

But... there is an M and a E

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2011, 07:37:54 AM »
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172. nope.



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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2011, 09:08:55 AM »
"We Have to go Socialist" .... so we can find out it still doesn't work.

Just paraphrasing Nancy P..
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2011, 10:25:56 AM »
I'm reading that communist claptrap over there.

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You may not like that, but the rest of us expect you to share.

I don't give a shit what you expect.  What I expect is, is that you don't take my stuff.  Try it and you'll see a gun in your face.  Commies, I hate 'em. 

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140. Then we need affirmative action for entreprenuers and small business
 Edited on Sun Nov-27-11 11:18 PM by Mosaic
There can be no white male privilege in our egalitarian society. We must all be equal, democratic, and mostly socialist. It's not a dirty word. We've cleaned up the word liberal, most tv pundits use it respectfully again. We can de-demonize the word socialism. Laurence O'Donnell has already started, claiming he is a proud socialist and Newsweek proclaimed "We are All Socialists Now" on a recent magazine cover. Embrace it!

That was from early 2009, and people started screaming into the night, heading for the hills.  The Tea Party cropped up.  Newsweek was sold for $1.  Oh, and nobody watches O'Donnell. 


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txlibdem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-29-11 08:55 PM
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177. Is that a statue of Adam Smith??? That would make the caption make sense.
 The only ideology Lenin had was to keep Lenin in power. He was a better Hitler than Hitler. The same goes for Stalin. Perhaps double.

The little girl in the picture is angry because we killed equality in her country. We killed a free education regardless of your social standing. We killed advances in technology made by the USSR that took us over a decade to catch up to (Radial Keratotomy becomes laser eye surgery). We killed her hope of growing up in a nation that did not judge by the color of your skin.

In short, she's pissed off about living in a Capitalist Society.

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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2011, 12:08:32 PM »
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txlibdem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-29-11 08:55 PM
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177. Is that a statue of Adam Smith??? That would make the caption make sense.

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The only ideology Lenin had was to keep Lenin in power. He was a better Hitler than Hitler. The same goes for Stalin. Perhaps double.

Which pretty much renders the rest of your post moot, does it not?

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The little girl in the picture is angry because we killed equality in her country.

Equality?  What equality?  The equality of misery?  Yeah, everyone was equal in the old Soviet Union - some were just more equal than others.  Don't believe me?  Feel free to look up how the Russians treated everyone that wasn't white and spoke Russian; start with the indigenous tribes of Siberia and work your way through the Polish to the Cubans.

"Equal" my ass.

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We killed a free education regardless of your social standing.

As long as you were a member of "the party", comrade.  Otherwise, it was back to your plow or whatever else the state decided you should do.  And if you should complain, well, they had some special places to send you (all expenses paid) to get your mind right.







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We killed advances in technology made by the USSR that took us over a decade to catch up to (Radial Keratotomy becomes laser eye surgery).

 :lmao:

Are you friggin' kidding me?  Advances in technology?  Like what?  RBMK reactors? 

 :lmao:

One commie gets something right and you celebrate?  Gee, I wonder if there were people outside of the great and "equal" white Russians in "the party" that could have benefited from that procedure had it not been deemed by the benevolent commies that it needed to be locked away in the Soviet Union for 18 friggin' years. 

Some being more equal than others.....

You want to impress me?  Show me a vodka snorting atheist hyena that did something on the level of Robert Jarvik. 

The commies were consistently good at one thing - rocketry.  That was pretty much it.

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We killed her hope of growing up in a nation that did not judge by the color of your skin.

So long as you were white and Russian and belonged to "the party".

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In short, she's pissed off about living in a Capitalist Society.

Oh, I doubt that.  But if she is, at least she will be free to prosper from the fruits of her labor, no matter what it might be. 
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Re: "We Have to go Socialist" (Taverner )
« Reply #24 on: November 30, 2011, 02:34:13 PM »




The commies were consistently good at one thing - rocketry.  That was pretty much it.




They were not even very good at that. Really the only thing they were any good at was stealing other people's tech.
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