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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    you're getting that Orwellian speak down pretty good..............
    Your point? doesn't sound anything like any Orwell I ever read, and I reckon I've read nearly all of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    Your dictionary "definition" is from "Infrequent ninja"
    Whatever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    Whatever.
    Good answer

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    No. Take a fucking civics class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    So, it's made up....gotcha....
    fruitcake
    1. A derogatory term for a homosexual man.

    2. Someone who is completely insane. <snipped poorly-copied-and-pasted derp>
    4. Crazy old biddy who pretends to be an ex-teacher and is obsessed with anonymous strangers on the Internet. Or just stick with definition #2. Same thing.

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    I will let UPAWS know the donation will be coming...and why...Great story

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulletbob View Post
    Ezra Taft Benson Quotes Nikita Khrushchev.
    In 1959 Eisenhower asked Ezra Taft Benson to teach Nikita Khrushchev about Agriculture.
    Ezra relayed a conversation……

    “Your children will live under communism.” Khrushchev said.
    “On the contrary,” Secretary Benson replied, “My grandchildren will live in freedom as I hope that all people will.”
    Khrushchev then retorted: “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; we’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”

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    Kinda like Obama feeding us socialism, little by little
    Snopes says the alleged Khrushchev quote cannot be verified or authenticated.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kh...-of-socialism/

    Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, religious nut job, and Secretary of Agriculture, and there is precisely zero percent chance he was fluent in the Russian language.

    Aka, he never actually heard Khrushchev say these words.

    We are supposed to accept he heard about it second hand from the interpreters or other sources, but no one and no documentation was ever found by Snopes to authenticate his claim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    you're getting that Orwellian speak down pretty good..............
    The point is, you see, that normal capitalism inevitably gives some minor benefits to those it exploits. Until recently American capitalism has been rich enough to get the mugs working on the promite they'll get rich too. It was always a fantasy, obviously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulletbob View Post
    Ezra Taft Benson Quotes Nikita Khrushchev.
    In 1959 Eisenhower asked Ezra Taft Benson to teach Nikita Khrushchev about Agriculture.
    Ezra relayed a conversation……

    “Your children will live under communism.” Khrushchev said.
    “On the contrary,” Secretary Benson replied, “My grandchildren will live in freedom as I hope that all people will.”
    Khrushchev then retorted: “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; we’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”

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    Kinda like Obama feeding us socialism, little by littlehttps://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/vladimir_lenin_136421


    https://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/comm...ism-balint.htm


    https://thisonevsthatone.com/socialism-vs-communism/
    Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.


    Im sure he would never say such a thing after all that would be something a communist would never say right .And there no way a communist would think that way.

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    Troll alert!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iolo/Penderyn View Post
    The point is, you see, that normal capitalism inevitably gives some minor benefits to those it exploits. Until recently American capitalism has been rich enough to get the mugs working on the promite they'll get rich too. It was always a fantasy, obviously.
    but you're not talking about capitalism......what you're talking about is crony capitalism. Or an even better couple terms would be fascism and socialism. that's where you're using orwellian speak trying to intimate that what we have now is the capitalism envisioned by the founders, when what we really have is exactly the opposite of what the founders intended
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    but you're not talking about capitalism......what you're talking about is crony capitalism. Or an even better couple terms would be fascism and socialism. that's where you're using orwellian speak trying to intimate that what we have now is the capitalism envisioned by the founders, when what we really have is exactly the opposite of what the founders intended
    Classical capitalism is a silly intellectual fantasy that could never work and never has. You can steal a living from the people who do the work for only so long, even if you control the means of propaganda, unless you pretend to give them something. Racist and other division will only work for a while, and the real alternative is constant war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    Whose definition is this?
    You really can’t be that dumb. Or can you? Apparently so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iolo/Penderyn View Post
    Classical capitalism is a silly intellectual fantasy that could never work and never has.
    as usual, you are clueless when it concerns classical capitalism..........tell us why it never worked
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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