On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > You are good (apparently) at ignoring the dictatorship presented by the > democratic party, > For decades I was a member of the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, the original anti-slavery party, the pro civil rights party; but as they drank more and more crazy juice I became increasingly uncomfortable over the years. What pushed me over the edge was Ted Cruz who did everything he could to destroy the economy by defaulting on government debt, so I became a Democrat in 2013. > > which is now a Stalinist sort of organization. > With hyperbolic verbiage of that sort you really should get into politics. > > It is just my chance, being nothing but a serf, to correct the > misapprehension of a fellow serf, being you. If we really are just serfs living in a Stalinist organization then you should expect to be arrested within the hour for saying we are just serfs living in a Stalinist sort organization . Do you expect to be arrested within the hour? > > > You are using a totally, imaginary, dividing line of "good billionaire > oligarchs" versus "bad billionaire oligarchs," > Bill Gates has saved thousands of more lives than Mother Teresa ever did, and more than most nations aid to the poor did. > > > I do not love the billionaires that are members of the Business Round Table > Billionaires are powerful and powerful people are respected but almost never loved except by serfs in Stalinist organisations; the general population loved Stalin and many in Russia still do. But any society that has power is going to have powerful people in it, and whatever they do they are unlikely to be loved, it's just an occupational hazard. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
