OT: the evils of socialism vs. the evils of capitalism

[MonkeySlap Too]

Why is it when the Socialists are called on thier crimes, the thread gets locked, yet we can have hundreds of pages of poorly supported bush-bashing go unnoticed?

Or is it because I singled out the PRC - is the site pro-PRC/anti-American?

Just wondering...

[Juan Alvarez]

Because it's a lot funnier to bash on Bush!

[Mortal1]

This is a known liberal website. They defend freedom of speech as long as its not something they don't like. What a joke.

[@PLUGO]

maybe it's the lack of connection to the thred's topic...

or it was the men in black

heheh "bur"

[MonkeySlap Too]

Don't make me bring up typos from the latest issue!

And they don't wear black - usually it's olive green..

[@PLUGO]

want a job as a spell cheker?

[CaptinPickAxe]

This is a known liberal website. They defend freedom of speech as long as its not something they don't like. What a joke.

you are a moron...

First Amendment in action.

[rogue]

Because Gene has a thing going with Barbara Boxer.

[Yum Cha]

Yea, pretty off topic I suppose. But rather civilised nevertheless, concerning the topic.

And Thanks Christopher, I did some reading up, and learned something. I'd make the same points, but I'd frame them differently.

[Hard Fists]

He's an easy target...I'm guessing that you're part of the 12 percent that's still behind old W....it's a free country

[Mr Punch]

Yeah, that was a nice civilized discussion despite that Yin Yang showing up again. But LOL at Monkeyslap claiming that the reason it was locked was because of some socialist-defending... Only Simon M was claiming China and Cuba were lovely lovely places and nobody else was supporting him, and I don't see the mods choosing to lock because they're socialist sympathisers! Paranoia anyone?

But I can't see any threads where Bush-bashing is continuing either...?

Mortal, you're hilarious. 'Liberal' is such a BS scapegoat blanket term now in the US and you don't really have very many over there. You'd sh!t it if you ever came to Europe... this board is right wing for most Europeans!

[Mr Punch]

He's an easy target...I'm guessing that you're part of the 12 percent that's still behind old W....it's a free country

Is it only 12 now? Where does that stat come from?

[Hard Fists]

Is it only 12 now?

Oops. I guess that you'd never know I used to work in government relations...I've been over a year out of the profession, so bear with me. His current approval rating is 39 percent...numbers taken from the most recent Gallup poll. I think I may have been thinking about the war approval rating or something, maybe I was thinking abount how much we're going to take it in the @$$ for the next three years...sorry that sounds a bit liberal

We should applaud him for his sacrafice!!

RD, before we applaud Gene for his sacrafice, we should probably see which member of the party he's been comforting, it may not have been too much of a hardship.

[MonkeySlap Too]

Mat, not locked for defending socialism - for the concise and well argued case against it.

For months now I've seen long threads bashing America, bashing Bush - most of them passed upon fallacies of Chomskyian magnitude - and they are tolerated. But when China was brought in as an example of the horrors of socialism (and I didn't even get to the forced late term abortions performed by injecting poison into the womb) - presto we were locked out. Now there is a lot of good things going on in China as it seeks to modernize without collapsing into chaos - but the results of creating a 'workers paradise' are pretty clear - and it has only been the introduction of market influences that have started to make things significantly better.

It just seemed funny to me, seeing as we are all CMA nuts. Are we selling our souls to a government that refers to the U.S. in internal documents as 'enemy number one'?

[David Jamieson]

Wow, you have access to internal PRC documentation in regards to their position on their relationship with the USA? You must be like james bond or something! lol

Yep, Mao killed millions in the war to grasp control of China.

Seems to be a trend regardless of the model that the leader in order to get or maintain power will kill people in some way shape or form. Be it now or be it a hundred years ago. No ruling power is without it's mortal sins or it's pecadillos.

As for Bush, it is quite possible he is the least educated, least wordly, most myopic president the states have ever blessed themselves with.

Now try To speak out against that government and see how fast you wind up in the protestors fenced area. If you dissent, you will have no outlet for that dissent, you will be ostracized, ridiculed and marginalized. How is this different anywhere?

Freedom my ass mateys, you are losing civil liberties daily. I guess you won't notice until it directly affects you personally, but that's another issue.