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(11-21-2011, 07:24 PM)kandrathe Wrote: So, while interesting, I find the views of 1%ers like Soros, Buffet, or Micheal Moore also just a little hypocritical. They are in a position to *really* tap into the power to change the system, and yet given the prospect, they won't kill their golden goose.
What is it you expect them to do?
Also, a little odd to lump Michael (not Micheal) Moore, who is certainly in the 1%, in with George Soros and Warren Buffett, who are in the 0.0000001%. Mike's got a couple million in the bank, earned entirely off his movies, every one of which is a jeremiad against inequality and the system that perpetuates it. Buffett could sweat twenty billion and still be unimaginably rich.
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11-21-2011, 11:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-22-2011, 12:16 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Here's another goodie from that fat ass reactionary troll named Newt Gingrich.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...361,b=facebook
Child Labor never sounded so good. Yes indeed, let's put them to work instead of making their schools better and educating them. *sarcasm*
And another lovely proposal from another ultra compassionate right-winger, Mitt Romney:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/21/ro...-spending/
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FWIW, links to Huffington Post and Rawstory are looked on here with about the same validity as links to Foxnews opinion pieces and Free Republic.
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Regardless of where they came from, the videos are straight from the horses mouth and dont lie. See for yourself.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
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(11-21-2011, 09:06 PM)FireIceTalon Wrote: I will quote Napoleon (I think it was him) here and say "Never interfere with an opponent while he’s in the process of destroying himself". 
No this was Marx who said this.
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(11-22-2011, 08:07 AM)eppie Wrote: No this was Marx who said this.
I haven't seen a definitive citation either way, but Napoleon is a lot more plausible than Marx. It shows up on Napoleon's wikiquote page under the attributed, rather than sourced, quotes.
Marx, I've not seen the claim. Got a source? (Karl or Groucho?)
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(11-22-2011, 09:13 AM)Jester Wrote: (11-22-2011, 08:07 AM)eppie Wrote: No this was Marx who said this.
I haven't seen a definitive citation either way, but Napoleon is a lot more plausible than Marx. It shows up on Napoleon's wikiquote page under the attributed, rather than sourced, quotes.
Marx, I've not seen the claim. Got a source? (Karl or Groucho?)
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I found the source somewhere in between my sense of humor and some of the recent messages in the lounge dealing with FITs signature.
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(11-22-2011, 10:07 AM)eppie Wrote: I found the source somewhere in between my sense of humor and some of the recent messages in the lounge dealing with FITs signature.
Ah! Begging your pardon, sir. Your wit was drier than I was expecting. Good show.
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