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    Iron Fist Senior Member Husar's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by AntiochusIII
    Careful, Husar, else somebody's gonna call on you for pulling a Godwin's Law. The Backroom has been rather thin-skinned and contrarian lately.
    I had to look up what that is, but I was nonetheless aware of what I was doing and that some people will choose to laugh it off just for being a Nazi reference. But then again, there may actually be some truth in it, think about the Dolchstosslegende. Maybe it is really bad that everybody compares the Bush regime and some of it's supporters(especially Don is not included here) to Nazis, but I really wouldn't do that if they wouldn't remind me of Nazis.
    Yet again, I have to say that I actually liked Bush when he was elected, but his actions led me to think different about him now.

    Genocide and crying: "oh noez, we are losers because all those cowards betrayed us!!!11111" are soo 1920s to 1940s, it's almost not even funny anymore.


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    Let's accept the utterly false premise that Dems want Socialism
    What? How in the seven seas is that false? The democrat base, led by the kossacks, practically screams for socialized health care and a thousand other implementations of socialism while fighting any sort of school vouchers.

    Most ordinary democrats may not want it, but the democrat party is now led by the nose by the fringe.
    Frankly, I think current Republican leadership is far to the right of the founding fathers; if Ben Franklin or George Washington tried to speak up on Fox News, I have no doubt they would be shouted down as traitors and soft-on-terror weenies.
    Republicans are far more authoritarian than the founding fathers, but in terms of gun rights and other freedoms (taxes, business, property) they are practically socialists. Shouted down as traitors? That's hyperbolic.

    Which end-point is more dangerous? How long does it take a country to recover from Socialism? How long does it take a nation to recover from theocracy?
    Hmm - let's look at North and South Korea. Or maybe even realize that back in 1780, the nation was much more of a theocracy, despite what ignorant, whining democrat activists may say about the present.

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    I think this thread could do with a long lie down, having lost its way in a dark and gloomy wood.

    Tsk, tsk.


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