Midmyst
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:05 PM |
I believe we should have a law in the U.S. stating that anyone with communist leanings cannot be elected to any government position, and any current communists must be impeached. However, before you flame me, people could still be communists in private. They just would not be allowed to run for election.
Without communists in government, we would have more conservatives and libertarians, who would set the economy on the right track again. |
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:08 PM |
| Ban Capitalism too, and you've got a deal! |
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Midmyst
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:08 PM |
| Capitalism hasn't killed billions of people, though. |
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Midmyst
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Ozawa
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:12 PM |
| It has enslaved billions, though, to this day. |
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Midmyst
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:14 PM |
| There were slaves in the communist countries. Just look at the gulags. Capitalism didn't even cause slavery in the 1700s and 1800s; it was the socialist governments who did that. |
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| 06 Dec 2013 07:20 PM |
Communism = bad Capitlism on the right track but still not optimal
Technocracy is where it's at. |
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Telafight
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:27 PM |
Explain to me how it is possible for an economic system to 'kill billions'.
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:28 PM |
@Tela
Ask Stalin, I bet he knows. |
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Telafight
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:31 PM |
| Americans have been so caught up with their own propaganda that it's very hard to get it through their thick skulls that the human rights abuses Stalin committed had nothing to do with communism. |
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:32 PM |
@Tela
>had nothing to do with communism
Surrreee.
Oh, did I forget to mention the Chinese? They killed even more. |
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Telafight
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:36 PM |
"Without communists in government, we would have more conservatives and libertarians, who would set the economy on the right track again."
Google 'libertarian communism', please. |
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Telafight
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:42 PM |
"Oh, did I forget to mention the Chinese? They killed even more."
You're also conveniently ignoring the many people's lives who have been lost due to capitalism. Millions and possibly billions have lost their lives due to slavery, imperialist wars ect...
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| 06 Dec 2013 08:53 PM |
Capitlism kills to save many
Communism kills to save a few |
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| 06 Dec 2013 10:41 PM |
"There were slaves in the communist countries. Just look at the gulags."
Prisoners in the United States provide forced labor so I guess you can say the United States has slaves.
"Capitalism didn't even cause slavery in the 1700s and 1800s"
Transatlantic Slave Trade and debt |
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| 06 Dec 2013 10:44 PM |
'Capitalism hasn't killed billions of people, though."
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Congo when it was ruled by King Leopold
Both World Wars were fought between capitalist nations
Irish Potato Famine
American imperialism in the Middle East
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0Z0NE
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| 07 Dec 2013 02:51 AM |
"Atlantic Slave Trade" That only accrued because, Politicians legalized it.
"The Congo when it was ruled by King Leopold" This is just bad political ruling.
"Both World Wars were fought between capitalist nations" Because, Adolf was a complete capitalist, believed in free markets now didn't he! So was Stalin!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Irish Potato Famine" More people died from disease actually than from eating the potato. Plus capitalism couldn't control this.
"American imperialism in the Middle East" Imperialism is a political policy not an economic one. |
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stomache
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| 07 Dec 2013 02:55 AM |
communism should not be banned it hasn't killed anyone,its just a failure |
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| 07 Dec 2013 02:56 AM |
"communism should not be banned it hasn't killed anyone,its just a failure"
It's only a failure because of human nature. |
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stomache
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| 07 Dec 2013 03:01 AM |
@0z "Germany was socialist (National SOCIALIST party,"
actually germany was completely fascist the party was only called national socialist to get poor people to vote for it
"but to an extent of course), Russia was (supposedly) communist."
the soviet union was also fascist |
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stomache
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| 07 Dec 2013 03:02 AM |
@thehar i never claimed otherwise |
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| 07 Dec 2013 03:09 AM |
the soviet union was also fascist ---- No true scotsman. |
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stomache
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| 07 Dec 2013 03:17 AM |
@flat but its true the ussr was only communist by name |
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| 07 Dec 2013 03:28 AM |
but its true the ussr was only communist by name ------------ Because, they totally didn't have the 10 planks of communism. |
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