Alatriste -> RE: Taxes, Corruption (Jun. 25 2011 17:03:05)
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Cut the insulting language, e.g. 'moronic', 'pendejo', 'drivel' etc. Accept that others may disagree with you or don't say anything at all. With comments from you like...quote:
...your mate, Hitler I find your outrage inconsistent with your practice of posting, i.e., stating Hitler is my mate. I might just be Jewish for all you know. I would say the insulting language starts with you Escribano, and then the tempo raises here with follow-on statements from your own "mates" like...quote:
Der Stürmer Since you are the board Commander-in-Chief, others will feel free to follow your example of behavior on these politcal threads. When I see civility in the responses to my posts I will react in kind, when I see condescension and arrogance, I will also react in kind. If you want the respect of a leader, then act like one. You don't see me posting like this over at falseta's forum. Go ahead, push the ban button if that is your urge. quote:
...apart from that I have a first class honours degree which seems to infuriate you for some reason. Actually it does not infuriate me. It is irrelevant to any opinions that you may state. But mentioning your education appears to be a simple case of braggadocio and arrogance. I was entertained that you would announce it. Hence you are now Kate with Honours, a well earned title for all to see. Is this not what you wanted? quote:
You know nothing about me... Yes, and believe it or not, many of us may just like to keep it that way. Comprende? Education can actually be a hindrance at times to forming a "learned" opinion, though it can also be a help. Mentioning one's own bona fides, however, is usually a last resort used when one can't articulate their own reasoning. It's simply tantamount to saying, "Shut-up I went to college and you didn't." quote:
In fact even the book Alatriste recommends, The Black Book of Communism, begins in the introduction Did you actually read the book? Practical communism, that means real communism as practiced in the last two centuries, is what concerns us and is what the book is about. It is not about "conceptual" communism which is what today's apologists seem to invoke when defending communism, which tends to dismiss the atrocities of the communist regimes. In the case of Spain, there is zero reason to believe that had communism gone unchecked by the civil war, that communism in Spain would not have gone totalitarian like it did in all the other countries that adopted/practice communism today and in the last century. Name one regime where communism was, uh...benevolent. quote:
Chomsky on Socialism Chomsky's political opinions are as bad as anyone's. There are no oracles when it comes to political opinion. There are only opinions. The issue is that the defense of the side that lost in Spain, is often done simply so that either (1) one can appear as a liberal and enlightened fashionista, or (2) because one is a communist, or (3) possibly both. It's kinda like wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt while strumming a guitar and singing a Mercedes Sosa song, all the while not having ever read Obra Revolucionaria. quote:
...that the Communists would have been a better choice for Spain. I would never agree with that view either. Really only two choices in that debate Escribano. Taking sides against one is the same as taking sides for the other. Perhaps if you had experienced real civil war in any given country firsthand, you would know that. There's is no third choice for you, and you can't sit on the fence either. Choose or die right away by not choosing. Choose, and maybe you get to live for a while longer and make it through if your side wins. One has to deal with the reality of the situation, and not the conceptual by looking at the situation from afar in some comfy country (like those who studied the civil war from afar), or by looking back through the comfort of events that have already passed.
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