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Old 04-10-10, 03:33 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee View Post
The cute thing is so many people seem to WANT to be serfs serving a tiny, predatory elite. Licking the hands that beat and kill them. And that tiny, predatory minority has hired guns who's only job is to warp reality and make servitude sound reasonable. And OF COURSE these people want government small, or non-existent. Bullies don't like it when there is no teacher monitoring the schoolyard, either.
I've always been bothered by people who 'know' they're right. You don't discuss, you preach. You don't argue, you condemn. Anyone who disagrees with you obviously likes being wrong, or being stupid, or being a slave.

Of course we love being slaves to the evil corporations, but the salvation you have in mind for us lies in the wonderful, friendly, loving government? Some of us actually see the people in the government as worse monsters than your hated CEOs. Can you show me that I'm wrong about that?

Has it ever occured to you that you might be wrong? Is it possible to have a discussion, or does it have to be a shouting match? Or a put-down match?
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