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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:46 PM
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note to republicans -- in the old soviet union your counterpart
would have been a loyal communist party member. or even stalin himself.

that's right -- in the old soviet union THOSE were the conservatives.

the same today in china.

liberals, progressives, lefty shit disturbers all -- we'd be the ones in prison for being dissenters.

there isn't one goddamn thing you conservatives don't have ass backwards.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:48 PM
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1. It could be their plan to be more like China and the USSR
The government for which the GOP claims is too intrusive controls everything people do in China as it did in the USSR.

But as twisted as the republicans make everything they do, that wouldn't be a surprise if they was their ultimate goal.

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:50 PM
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2. i believe as a whole republicans have morphed into something --
Edited on Thu Jan-13-11 01:51 PM by xchrom
and i'm not sure they know -- or even want to get back to something more normal.
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:51 PM
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3. As long as they're the ones in charge,
they're fine with that.

(I'd tell them to be careful what they wish for, but I don't think they'd get it.)
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:52 PM
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5. Regardless of what it took to gain control
They will do anything to maintain or gain control.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:54 PM
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7. lol! that much too nuanced for them. nt
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:51 PM
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4. Seriously, they are SO CONFUSED nowadays!
And I think that's been one of the goals of right-wing talk radio and TV. Bombard with white noise and confuse the shit out of as many people as possible. Oh, make them afraid, too, while you're at it. They're much more easily led that way.

Scream about "isms" and conflating all of them within the irrational rants spouted day after day. They don't seem to realize that you can't be a communist and fascist and Nazi and socialist all at the same time.

Another thing they're confusing of late. Saying Obama and Democrats are "p*ssies" yet in the same sentence also crying that the left is more violent.

Pick something and stick with it, for cryin' out loud!

:rofl:

:shrug:

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 01:54 PM
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6. they're spinning like tops -- it's weird. nt
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 02:12 PM
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8. Ideology on the right fits in Old Germany.much more easily.
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