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#1338109
Mapar
A moron in the Tea Party, news at 11.
10/6/2011 3:47:59 AM
#1338110
Go back to your nursing home and think clearly about what that "socialism" means for you.
10/6/2011 3:52:37 AM
#1338113
As long as big business is around to oppress the average citizen with price gouging such as pharamacutical companies are now doing in the case of shortfalls in certain medications, and this is just one example, big government will be needed. So you go on and get your small gonvernment and see how quickly your rights are really trampled and who the real problem is in this country. The Man no longer sits in the halls of government, but in the board rooms of corporate America. And The Man doesn't give a rat's ass about you as long as you keep working your fingers to the bone so The Man and his friends can keep getting rich off your labor while you have nothing to show for it in the end.
10/6/2011 3:56:58 AM
#1338114
D Laurier
Huh?
Those silly tea partyers/teabaggers...
wouldnt know socialism if it bit them on the ass.
10/6/2011 3:58:06 AM
#1338116
whatever
CSTDT.
"Liberals love dictatorships. In a dictatorship, they can just push their crackpot ideas and not have to worry about the little people complaining about a few minor details like, the ideas don’t work. The ideas suck.
Their model has worked so well in the past. History has the precedents of their ideas. Just look at the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China under Mao, Eastern Europe under the Warsaw Pact, Vietnam after 1975, Cambodia and Cuba."
Yes there were so many liberals in those regimes. Especially Nazi Germany, with it's great love of Jews and other minorities.
Sigh.
I wish the American educational establishments would provide the general public with the true definition of "liberal" so we wouldn't keep getting this standard off-the-shelf ignorant garbage from right wing nutters.
10/6/2011 4:00:37 AM
#1338122
SpukiKitty
Replace words like "Liberal" with "Conservative" and this stupid statement makes a heck of a lot more sense. Projecting, aren't we, Mr. Phillips?
10/6/2011 4:10:27 AM
#1338125
Percy Q. Shunn
Gotta love teabaggers!
10/6/2011 4:13:11 AM
#1338135
Bollox
That was a very long-winded way of saying 'Vote Republican', Judson.
10/6/2011 4:26:12 AM
#1338147
Sadhuman
You are an idiot and don't know what Socialism means. Like those roads out the front SOCIALISM, like the Police to come round when you are robbed SOCIALISM. Now go back to school and learn some thing, anything.
10/6/2011 4:48:30 AM
#1338149
N. De Plume
Destroy big government?
You guys want to destroy government, period.
10/6/2011 4:54:20 AM
#1338151
Canama
@ N. De Plume - No, they love government so long as they are running it.
10/6/2011 4:56:17 AM
#1338160
Orion
"Their model has worked so well in the past. History has the precedents of their ideas. Just look at the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China under Mao, Eastern Europe under the Warsaw Pact, Vietnam after 1975, Cambodia and Cuba."
Soviet Union - Yeah fail, kicked the Nazi's ass though so we gotta credit them that.
Nazi Germany - Actually pretty economically successful except for the wars, so like 2 years, lol. But Fascist is not Liberal or small govt so moot point.
China - As I recall is rapidly surpassing the many capitalist nations of the world and is powering through the global recession.
Eastern Europe - Varying experiences, it's a big area, mostly negative under the years of domination of a large imperialist superpower that only wants their resources (hint hint)
Vietnam - That nation that you lost the war to?
Cambodia - That nation you lost the secret war to?
Cuba - Still around after 40 years of embargo, still quite a popular government.
(obviously a tongue in cheek list here people, don't pick it apart too much)
XD
10/6/2011 5:10:32 AM
#1338175
Mister Spak
"We must find new leaders to replace these bad leaders."
We did that in 2008. Unfortunately the bad leaders came back.
10/6/2011 5:31:21 AM
#1338178
Zeus Almighty
"If this was a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier, just as long as I am the dictator."
"I'm the decider."
Guess which party those statements came from?
10/6/2011 5:38:38 AM
#1338179
thelivingguano
Am I wrong in thinking that these people entirely fail to grasp just how much the existence of the human race relies on collectivism?
If "big government" is "destroyed", what rises to replace it has historically been a widespread implementation of market-driven governance; the deregulation of commerce and industry generally to the benefit of another small elite group (as well as the small political elite in possession of civic power), and to the detriment of the wider populace.
Why does the illusion that corporate entities are somehow apolitical still hold so much sway. Big corporations are capable of just as much greed, power-mongering and repressive control of their employees (who are also their consumers) as any government. The main difference used to be that businesses were driven by profit while politicians were meant to be driven by some kind of sense of collective duty.
These days, politics and business are so intertwined that politics has become a career based on largely the same principles as business. I've been concerned and encouraged in equal measure by the Wall St Occupation; encouraged because people are making a stand against corporate dominance, but concerned because this is exactly the kind of grassroots activism which heralded the Chicago School-inspired coups across Latin America in the 70s.
AFTERTHOUGHT: In fact it was in the Latin American dictatorships of the 70s (i.e. Pinochet et al) that extreme deregulatory and free-trade experiments advocated by the Chicago School were tried out. The very opposite of liberal policy, and it was necessary to have an apparatus of state terror in order to enforce them; popular will had to be crushed to even implement them.
So this guy can fuck off, is what I suppose I'm saying.
10/6/2011 5:40:45 AM
#1338180
Yes the united states is such a leading example of socialism in the world. I mean with our free health care and free education, oh wait.
10/6/2011 5:41:40 AM
#1338185
QuasiRodent
Lord knows the socialist and liberal tendencies of those godless Scandinavian countries have led them to ruin.
10/6/2011 5:59:56 AM
#1338188
dionysus
The people we select must have as an overriding belief in the idea that big government must be dismantled
In other words they need to be one of those "the free market is magic" loons who think that removing all regulations will magically make all businesses operate 100% ethically and spew rainbows and sunshine rather than pollution. Enjoy that hot dog you're eating! Now with 50% more meat! And no OSHA compliance or minimum wage ensure that we'll have lots of cheap sources of meat for our hot dogs! What? You're going to go to the competition? What's that? We bought them all out and we use name recognition and intimidation to keep upstarts from having a chance to crack the market!
Big government exists for a reason and while we should be wary of the government having too much power, we need it to prevent other entities from getting too much power and taking advantage of people. If you think some CEO is less corruptible than a politician and is better going to look out for your best interests, you're fucked in the head.
10/6/2011 6:06:04 AM
#1338192
blah
Stupid but hardly fundie.
10/6/2011 6:12:19 AM
#1338198
Dr. Shrinker
McCain lost. Get over it!
10/6/2011 6:30:32 AM
#1338199
TGRwulf
YOu only want to "destroy the government" because currently elected officals don't share your exact ideals. Deal with hit.
10/6/2011 6:31:06 AM
#1338204
Horsefeathers
"They speak openly of the problems of liberty."
Problems of liberty? The only ones who have a problem with liberty are people like you.
"Liberals love dictatorships."
Do you even know what liberal means?
"Their model has worked so well in the past. History has the precedents of their ideas. Just look at the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China under Mao, Eastern Europe under the Warsaw Pact, Vietnam after 1975, Cambodia and Cuba."
Those were all far right wing fascists. You know, like the Tea Party and the majority of the current Republican Party.
Seriously. Look up the word "liberal" in a dictionary. You seem confused as to its meaning.
"We must find new leaders to replace these bad leaders. The people we select must have as an overriding belief in the idea that big government must be dismantled and we must take steps to ensure that never again is a socialist in the White House."
First of all, we have "Big Government" because, despite claims of doing and wanting the opposite, every fucking Republican elected as president expands it. It goes along with wanting to be the morality police and legislating every fucking thing people can and can't do.
Second, there's never been a socialist in the White House. Perhaps you should look up both "liberal" and "socialist" in the dictionary.
"We need to remember the words our founding fathers put in the Declaration of Independence.
'That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,'
They were talking about oppressive busy-body governments like you right wingers are trying to install, jackass.
10/6/2011 6:54:24 AM
#1338205
Raised by Horses
Now, suppose you were a member of the Tea Party, and suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself..
10/6/2011 6:58:03 AM
#1338209
Vesus
All this time, and they still don't understand what the word "socialism" actually means. I wonder if this idiot drives on public highways?
10/6/2011 7:07:04 AM
#1338211
Pee
"Our government needs much altering. Let us alter government before it becomes destructive of these ends and requires abolition."
Wait- and you're accusing US of treason?
10/6/2011 7:08:44 AM
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