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Old 01-04-2012, 07:18 PM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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I can't tell whether it's yours or mine, but we seem to have a bad Sarcasm Detector in the loop somewhere...
sarcasm good.
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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Roy if you think its only been going on here for the last 3 years I've got some wonderful beach front property to sell you just east of Goodland. Great view of the ocean.
Absolutely. The same people that NOW think that Obama is undermining freedom (while not being at all specific) turned the other way or agreed when Bush tapped American's phones without court approval, held Americans without trial and used the DOJ to prosecute Democrats for political reasons.
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Old 01-04-2012, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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So what are you saying? Obama is going to take you "itty witty big bad guns away"? You know there is help for paranoid delusions!
Just let me point you in the direction of the nearest "FEMA" camp!
Why don't you read my link and then we can discuss what the lady said. Otherwise you will have to continue talking with yourself and your non-reading friends.
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Old 01-04-2012, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Finally? You mean courageously standing up to the powerful pro-Nazi lobby?

The characterization that the opposite of Socialism is Freedom is a false narrative. In the U.S., Socialism is used as a dirty word. In Europe it's just another political party.

The Post Office is a socialist enterprise that's embodied in the constitution. The founders must have been Socialists, huh?
How about we talk about the topic of the link? Surely you would know more about the socialism in the title if you had read the link. Do you think you can uphold the man from Kos that the woman who wrote the article is a liar when she was there in 1938 and he wasn't even alive yet?

Maybe you could read that article and find out that the Austrians had to vote for socialism or communism or keep on with absolute anarchy in the cities.
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Old 01-04-2012, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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If you support Social Security or Medicare, you support socialism.
Do you have any idea how far from the real topic of this thread you progs are right now? The lady that wrote the article I linked said that the Austrians voted to accept Nazis as their government because things were so bad in Austria and they heard how great things were in Germany in 1938. I would really like to see one of the intelligent progs read that article and that would have to be you.
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Old 01-05-2012, 07:25 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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Do you have any idea how far from the real topic of this thread you progs are right now? The lady that wrote the article I linked said that the Austrians voted to accept Nazis as their government because things were so bad in Austria and they heard how great things were in Germany in 1938. I would really like to see one of the intelligent progs read that article and that would have to be you.
It doesn't take much effort to get a brief history of this period from Wiki: History of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What this has to do with today in America is beyond me.
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Old 01-05-2012, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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The characterization that the opposite of Socialism is Freedom is a false narrative. In the U.S., Socialism is used as a dirty word. In Europe it's just another political party.
In Real America, freedom is about being a part of a larger collective. The premise of "freedom" dictates that certain ideologies must be suppressed at any cost. Except when it comes to reaping the benefits of a social security checks and Medicare/Medicaid.
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Old 01-05-2012, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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In Real America, freedom is about being a part of a larger collective. The premise of "freedom" dictates that certain ideologies must be suppressed at any cost. Except when it comes to reaping the benefits of a social security checks and Medicare/Medicaid.
What the hell do you mean using that word collective in conjunction with freedom?

Nice shot at the individual you were shooting at, me, because of social security that was created by FDR and his Congress of Dems back before I was 6 years old. Have you been paying SS as long as I have?

I forgot to ask you Ghost, if you now what the original topic of this thread was. Do you have any idea? I guess not.
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