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  1. Tekkus McDwarf

    Tekkus McDwarf Member

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    Bah! Capitalism is the WAVE of the future! Communism is dead. All former communist countries have adapted, gladly, to capitalism at the same rate at which they berate it. The socialists in the USA are so glad they no longer have to defend communism as a system and revel in the fact they can pick and choose from parts of the agenda in their quest for power. The new political definition of the future, years from now in historical wrtings on this period, will include the prefix "Corporate" in addition with other terms like "Dictatorship" and even "Democracy". Capitalism is the only economic power tool on the bench, the rest are all hand cranked by child labor. It is merely a tool. In the end, the quality of work it can produce depends solely on the skill and the character of those who weild it. On that note, I can hardly wait 30 years to hear about the "Corporate Pornacracy" under Clinton and the "Corporate Military Dictatorship" of Bush. I imagine by then all of our presidents will be hated on a universal level and we'll get to the point where we truly view corporations as individuals and elect General Electric to 2 terms of presidency under the campaign slogan of "Many talking heads are better than one".
     
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    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    @Matt: So did my family, and since I'm actually a Norwegian Citizen, I would be more befitting for the Throne.

    @Dark Elf: All you said is true, now go invade Russia.

    @Tekkus: Cuba is still communist. Get your facts straight.
     
  3. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    It will at the very least have to wait until late spring though. History has shown that attacking Russia in winter is a very bad idea, as some 30,000 Caroleans found out the hard way.
     
  4. Tekkus McDwarf

    Tekkus McDwarf Member

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    My facts ARE straight. Get your facts straight. I said all FORMER communist countries. By that I meant where dialectic materialism was actualized in practice, not in peasant fantasies induced from cigar rolling hallucinations. In practice though, Cuba is not communist, for one thing, it lacks several institutions which have been common to industrialized communist states. At best, it was merely a protectorate and never reached the industrialized status necessary to supplant the burgeoise. Its just a post Batista dictatorship looking for handouts and someone to blame for the fact that they refuse to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps".

    EDIT - BTW, happy Pearl Harbor Day! In the US, we celebrate by going en masse to Sushi Bars, eating, then screaming "FOOD POISON" or getting really drunk and signing very badly to karoke.
     
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    rroyo Active Member

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    The singing's bad enough, but when they start signing to it as well.... *shudder!*
     
  6. Tekkus McDwarf

    Tekkus McDwarf Member

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    exactly, same concept as creating Mexican jalapeno based cuisine to induce Montezuma's revenge.
     
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    Why, is there another kind of communism ? A kind that doesn't lack everything necessary for a modern, viable republic ? You know, like elections, separation of powers, constitution, rule of law, judicial review, freedom of any kind, rights of any kind, independent media, protection against the tyranny of the majority, viable monetary policy, et cetera.
     
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    Frigo's anti-communism rants are stupid.
     
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    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Boring perhaps, but terribly accurate.
     
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    mathboy New Member

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    And have absolutely nothing to do with anything talked about previously in this topic.
     
  11. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Tekkus begged people to do his homework for him*, there was a flamewar, somehow we ended up discussing whether we should invade Norway or Russia for oil, then a brief mention of Mexican food and jalapenos and now you're suddenly upset that the debate has switched to the flaws of communism, which belongs just as little to this thread as everything else?

    *Please don't start the loop again.
     
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    mathboy New Member

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    No. Before Frigo, there was some sort of discussion, or at least flaming. The thread wasn't just people posting monologues agreeing with everybody else while touching nothing of what they quoted.
     
  13. Tekkus McDwarf

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    mathboy has a point. Since the original post is graded and long passed moot, on with the flaming. In an effort to keep the interactive quoting up...

    Ok, I'll start. Next poster fills in the blank and leaves a blank for the next. "Yo mamma" type insults incur a penalty of a $50 reduction on your next welfare check since it is already considered deficit spending on humor.

    You suck because _____________.
     
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    you got a purty mouth.

    You suck because____________.
     
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    I think Tekkus is a stupid little dwarf and is mostly posting this to gain postcount.

    And yea, invading russia in spring.
    Maybe we should contact som mercenarys? yes? no?
     
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    Mercenaries are unreliable, you want the people fighting for you to believe in your cause. The Roman reliance on Germanic legionaries was part of their fall as an empire, after all.

    Of course, it's even better if you trick your enemies into fighting themselves bloody before you take any explicit action yourself. Russia has oil, so has China. All we need to do is a conspiracy theory sufficiently believable to make both nations go to war, watch them weaken themselves and then step in as a peace negotiator vowing all you really wish for is to serve when you're elected President of Sinorussia.
     
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    I like rice.

    Post count +1!
     
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    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    You know, there's a small village in Norway named after my family... and an uncle 4 or 5 times removed plays in a jazz band, and has a harley. I still've lots of family there. Oh, and if you take over Sinorussia, can I be Governor of Mongolia [with a more flamboyant title, as fitting with me]?
     
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    You shall be known as... DARKFOOL OF MONGOLIA!!!


    Besides, if DE is President, I shall be the Chief of Security.
     
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