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LarsThorwald
04/30/09

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Yes, I hope the aliens win, because everyone knows that an increase of taxes on the upper echelon of wage earners to levels consistent with the marginal tax rate under Bill Clinton in the 1990s is commensurate with socialism. And I hope the aliens smell like ham. Because that's what America needs: aliens that battle against idiotic and profoundly ignorant cries of "socialism!" and smell like ham.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@LarsThorwald: the tax policy isn't what defines socialism, it's the nationalization of several formerly private companies that makes it socialsim.
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AngryEddy
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: Private companies that managed their businesses so poorly they tanked the global economy and then begged for handouts and accepted the terms that came along with them - don't let that detail slip by.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@AngryEddy: that changes what it is in much the same way that the fact that bush did it to changes what it is, namely in no way what-so-ever.
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Gaudeamus Max
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: I think I blew a gasket reading that.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@Gaudeamus: socialism is socialism. it's not a bad word it's just an ordinary word with a specific meaning that happens to define current political events. if that blows your gaskets then maybe you should get out more.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: It's an ordinary word, but it has nothing to do with politics in the US. Europe, sure, though their forms of socialism are pretty mild.

Obama would be right-wing in everywhere but the US.
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Gaudeamus Max
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: I just meant the structure of the sentence. I'm hip to socialism.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: it has everything to do with US politics. when an industry moves from fully private owned to partially government owned this is, by definition, a movement from less socialist to more socialist. it doesn't matter what country you're in, socialism means the same thing in all of them. it makes no difference where US politics stand relative to europe because it's not a sliding scale.

@Gaudy-Mouse Muad'Dib: apologies then. i have a tendency to obfuscate my message with syntax others find odd. i think it's some kind of genetic condition.
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dirtybacon
04/30/09

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Yes He Can.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/30/09

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Whoever wins we lose.
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