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#27 Oct 12 2011 at 9:09 AM Rating: Decent
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Now when the occupy crazies
It's cute you think one is a pack of crazies and the other isn't.

Regardless of who is and isn't nuts, why is "the success of the tea party" delusional?
#28 Oct 12 2011 at 9:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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Now when the occupy crazies
It's cute you think one is a pack of crazies and the other isn't.
Regardless of who is and isn't nuts, why is "the success of the tea party" delusional?
I was commenting on varus' inane delusions. IE: everything tea party does = automatically successful and the only thing to do.
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I hate to upset you,
I'd hate to do something I'd obviously fail at, too. Smiley: smile
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#32 Oct 12 2011 at 9:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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that goes without saying.
That you're a failure at everything? Well, yeah.
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#33 Oct 13 2011 at 6:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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lagaga,

Granted yankees carry out their days in a state of perpetual p*ssedoffedness but that goes without saying.

At one point, 'Yankees' meant all Americans. You know, the people who had a tea party.


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lagaga,

Granted yankees carry out their days in a state of perpetual p*ssedoffedness but that goes without saying.

At one point, 'Yankees' meant all Americans. You know, the people who had a tea party.


At one point? It still does.
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#35 Oct 13 2011 at 7:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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At one point? It still does.
People who can't wait for the confederacy to revive itself don't want to associate themselves with that term.
#36 Oct 13 2011 at 7:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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Doesn't change what the world calls them.
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#37 Oct 13 2011 at 7:56 AM Rating: Decent
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And I don't want to be associated with a group of overpaid, pinstripe-clad nancyboys.
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#38 Oct 13 2011 at 10:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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Doesn't change what the world calls them.


Fortunately, the majority of Neo-Confederates are not exactly world travelers and will never need to worry about it.
#39 Oct 13 2011 at 10:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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Duke Lubriderm wrote:
varusword75 wrote:
lagaga,

Granted yankees carry out their days in a state of perpetual p*ssedoffedness but that goes without saying.

At one point, 'Yankees' meant all Americans. You know, the people who had a tea party.



Yanks still means all Americans, in the same way that Limeys means all Brits. Smiley: schooled
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#40 Oct 13 2011 at 1:48 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Basically, if the complaint is against banks and corporations then it's an Occupier. If the complaint is against government, then it's a Tea Partier.


46% of occupy people are protesting about government corruption, that's twice as much as any other gripe.

Well according to that survey at least; which is a subset of CNN viewers, hardly 'scientific' I suppose.
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Basically, if the complaint is against banks and corporations then it's an Occupier. If the complaint is against government, then it's a Tea Partier.


46% of occupy people are protesting about government corruption, that's twice as much as any other gripe.

Well according to that survey at least; which is a subset of CNN viewers, hardly 'scientific' I suppose.


Very unscientific. Also, "Government corruption" is a pretty broad phrase. Does that mean government using its power to corrupt other aspects of our life? Or (far more likely), government corruption *by* wealthy corporations and lobbyists. The Tea Party opposes government interfering with private businesses and people. I'm going to speculate that the bulk of Occupiers oppose private business and wealthy people interfering in government, and not as much the other way around.

You also have to remember that you've got at least two very different groups involved. The fringe right (probably the far smaller group) and the fringe left. Communists and Libertarians might both oppose "government corruption", but have very very very different ideas about what to do about it.

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#42 Oct 13 2011 at 2:38 PM Rating: Good
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varusword75 wrote:
lagaga,

Granted yankees carry out their days in a state of perpetual p*ssedoffedness but that goes without saying.

At one point, 'Yankees' meant all Americans. You know, the people who had a tea party.



Yanks still means all Americans, in the same way that Limeys means all Brits. Smiley: schooled

Funny, I've never called 'em limeys. I've always thought prick worked so much better.
#43 Oct 13 2011 at 3:00 PM Rating: Good
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Communists and Libertarians might both oppose "government corruption", but have very very very different ideas about what to do about it.


The funniest part of this is the communist and liberal countries in the world are all doing better than the capitalist conservative countries....maybe its because they have taxes on people so they can pay the bills.

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#44 Oct 13 2011 at 3:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Also, "Government corruption" is a pretty broad phrase. Does that mean government using its power to corrupt other aspects of our life? Or (far more likely), government corruption *by* wealthy corporations and lobbyists. The Tea Party opposes government interfering with private businesses and people. I'm going to speculate that the bulk of Occupiers oppose private business and wealthy people interfering in government, and not as much the other way around.


Maybe I'm off base here, but less government corruption to me would mean less Solyndras. Which seems like a good thing. I suppose I'd be pretty surprised if someone one of the far left members was campaigning against 'green energy subsidies' though.
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lagaga,

Granted yankees carry out their days in a state of perpetual p*ssedoffedness but that goes without saying.

At one point, 'Yankees' meant all Americans. You know, the people who had a tea party.



Yanks still means all Americans, in the same way that Limeys means all Brits. Smiley: schooled

Funny, I've never called 'em limeys. I've always thought prick worked so much better.

Troll someone else Smiley: wink
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#46 Oct 13 2011 at 3:37 PM Rating: Decent
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Also, "Government corruption" is a pretty broad phrase. Does that mean government using its power to corrupt other aspects of our life? Or (far more likely), government corruption *by* wealthy corporations and lobbyists. The Tea Party opposes government interfering with private businesses and people. I'm going to speculate that the bulk of Occupiers oppose private business and wealthy people interfering in government, and not as much the other way around.


Maybe I'm off base here, but less government corruption to me would mean less Solyndras. Which seems like a good thing. I suppose I'd be pretty surprised if someone one of the far left members was campaigning against 'green energy subsidies' though.


That's pretty much exactly my point. They say "government corruption", but I doubt that the phrase means what it would mean if I were saying it. I don't think they mean wasteful spending, or programs which funnel money back into liberal supported/lobbied causes. They mean government bailing out banks instead of handing out free food, shelter, medical care, and education to the masses.

I'll freely admit that my cart is a bit ahead of my horse here. I'm assuming that most of the protesters are young liberal college aged types and thus that their positions will reflect the set usually held by that group. I suppose it's possible that this is a completely new set of young people, with completely new sets of positions that don't fit into the traditional "left/right" alignment. But I don't think that's the case. I think that this is just more of the same (mostly) liberal ranting, but with a deliberate attempt to avoid labeling them as such in an attempt to make it look like this is something new and different.


Dunno. I don't think it'll work. It sure looks like the same usual suspects to me.
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Communists and Libertarians might both oppose "government corruption", but have very very very different ideas about what to do about it.


The funniest part of this is the communist and liberal countries in the world are all doing better than the capitalist conservative countries....maybe its because they have taxes on people so they can pay the bills.


That depends very heavily on how you measure "doing better". The US could operate with 90% of its population living in abject poverty and working in the equivalent of sweatshops, operate industries with minimal environmental protections, and funnel all of the money not needed to keep the population in that poor state into building government controlled wealth and we'd be "doing well" economically as well.

I don't think that's the measurement most people use though.
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ya because Canada, Germany, France, and Australia operate with 90% of their populous in poverty Smiley: rolleyes

Hell France and Germany are supporting a large chunk of the EU.
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ya because Canada, Germany, France, and Australia operate with 90% of their populous in poverty Smiley: rolleyes

Hell France and Germany are supporting a large chunk of the EU.


Those are communist countries? Do you see how you don't get to refute my statement by changing it first? I'm sure there's a logical fallacy that addresses exactly that.


However, if you want to talk about whether or not those "liberal" countries (whatever that means) are "doing better" than the more capitalist/free-market ones, that's really a whole topic by itself. I'd argue that the more socialistic aspects of their economic systems allow their governments more power to conceal economic downturns in terms of direct impact on their population, but they aren't "doing better" in the long run as a result. When your economy already consumes large portions of the total productive output of the nation to provide social safety nets for the population, the population doesn't notice right away when the economy takes a downturn. The government just has to borrow more money to provide for the people. They're getting the same housing, food, medicine, education, transportation, etc that they got before. Right until the money runs out, of course.


The only reason the US is in as much trouble as it is, is because we foolishly elected Democrats right as the financial downturn happened and they decided to "fix" our economy by embarking on a massive campaign to change us into the same sort of social-safety-net system all at once. It's that attempt to adopt the European model at the exact wrong time that caused our problems. If we'd just addressed the problem (assets in the financial markets) via TARP and then stopped, the people would have suffered some economic problems for a short period of time, but we'd be in full recovery right now. It was because of those liberal economic policies that we're in the mess we're in. We'd be "doing better" than all the countries you listed if it were not for that.


It's not a failure of capitalism that caused our problems. If the GOP had been running things fully in 2008 and retained that control from 2008-2010, we would be sitting pretty right now. Unfortunately, our country had to relearn the hard way just how foolish the left's economic policies are, and will have to continue to suffer anemic recovery for the next 14 months until hopefully we get the GOP back in control of our economy and can finally fix things.

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gbaji wrote:
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Communists and Libertarians might both oppose "government corruption", but have very very very different ideas about what to do about it.


The funniest part of this is the communist and liberal countries in the world are all doing better than the capitalist conservative countries....maybe its because they have taxes on people so they can pay the bills.


That depends very heavily on how you measure "doing better". The US could operate with 90% of its population living in abject poverty and working in the equivalent of sweatshops, operate industries with minimal environmental protections, and funnel all of the money not needed to keep the population in that poor state into building government controlled wealth and we'd be "doing well" economically as well.

I don't think that's the measurement most people use though.

Well, some would say that's where we're headed, so we'll see if this holds true in a few years.
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No they are not communist countries but they do fall into the spectrum of liberalism. It could be argued that these countries are socialist (i like to think canada already is a social democracy.)
I suppose you could look at it like this.

America is far right
China is far left
Canada, Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Finland, and so on and so forth, are between them.

Im no sure how to make this easy so you don't miss the point. um.

You have capitalism, and you have communism, the countries I listed take a little bit from each extreme, resulting in a free market social program filled country.


Oh and before you throw your hands up and shout I didn't say that I said this...
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Communists and Libertarians might both oppose "government corruption", but have very very very different ideas about what to do about it.


Everyone of those countries is doing better than the US, and everyone of them have both capitalistic, and social policies that mesh very well together. For instance the Canadian, French and German Govt's all pay less as a % of GDP on their universal health system, then the US does for it's free market health system. Just one example.


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