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Old 03-31-2019, 06:51 PM
 
Location: TN/NC
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Today's focus on gender/sexual identity would be completely alien to a communist of a century ago.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:33 PM
 
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Responsible property owners take steps to keep vermin out; the same principle applies to Trump's wall -- save that a few do-gooders have taken up the cause of the vermin -- sorta like "animal rights".

And the arguments from the Looney Left get crazier and more childish every day:

https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/white-...ronment-study/
Vermin? Are you for real?
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:34 PM
 
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The wall and closing the borders keep people in. People that drive down wages so we are all more poor (outside of the ruling class). ie: Communism.
Read the definition of communism. Has nothing to do with people driving down wages.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:36 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Vermin? Are you for real?
I am 100% opposed to the wall, but people who willingly trespass on private property are vermin.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:36 PM
 
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Not to mention the forced land confiscations for a government jobs program.

Sounds familiar...

Lenin
Stalin
Mao
Castro
Pol Pot
Or how about forced land confiscations to build a wall?
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:37 PM
 
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SJWs use "social justice" as a smokescreen. They are all about control, censorship, and authoritarianism.
Yeah, that old let's have everyone be equal and be treated fairly is a real bugaboo isn't it? LOL>
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:39 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Or how about forced land confiscations to build a wall?
Ummm...

That's the government jobs program to which I was referring.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:39 PM
 
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The U.S. may not be full-blown commie, but has been trending that way since FDR.

Since 1913 the U.S. has definitely been mostly socialist, however.

And the MAGA wall fetishists are too stupid to realize their precious wall is the very definition of a communist land confiscation for the good of the State.



Because equality and fairness don't exist in nature.

Making everyone equal requires the use of violence against those with more skill and knowledge; it's why every communist revolution involved the killing of intellectuals.

Actually, this country could use all the intellectuals it can get. We're sorely lacking in that department these days.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:40 PM
 
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Ummm...

That's the government jobs program to which I was referring.
Maybe I misunderstood.
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Old 03-31-2019, 07:43 PM
 
Location: City-Data Forum
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We're always told by Communists that Communism never succeeded because "it was never implemented properly" or something to that effect.

This feels a lot like the arguments that people make for Gender Equality and other variations of Equality Of Outcome.

For example, I heard a statistic recently that 147/150 of the unicorn startup companies (startups valued at over $1 billion) today are founded by men and the remaining 3/150 are co-founded by husband-wife couples.

This is because "we still don't have equality of opportunity"?
That's not what Gorbachev said, he said the U.S. and the West lied to him.

The outcome is only different when the opportunities are different. Some of this is genetic, some is nurture, all is the environment that shapes us.

If the opportunities are the same, then the outcomes are logically the same also. Unless by the mantra of "equal but separate" and "equal opportunities" one means a completely DIFFERENT TYPE of "equal" and different kinds of "equal opportunities."
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