OT: scum stike again!

The author, Bini Adamczak, is a Berlin-based social theorist and artist.

She probably doesn't appreciate the contradiction between socialism and com munism which has been well-known in the English-speaking world since 1870.

Idealist communists think that communism is about instantiating socialist p olicies in the real world, and tend to gloss over the consequences of tryin g to establish socialism in a one party state.

?If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.?

Mikhail Bakunin's 1870 insight doesn't fit well into children's books.

That sort of thing is why I cut them out of my will. ...Jim Thompson

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Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.

communism-for-kids/

If they need a place to test the next generation of MOABs, then this must surely be the premier choice.

I think Trump should ask a simple, but fundamental, question... is Federal funding of colleges and universities productive for the common good?

Obviously not, so treat them like sanctuary cities, cut off the money. ...Jim Thompson

What's obvious to Jim is less obvious to the rest of the world.

Trump cutting off federal funding for education would be as stupid as cutting funding for environmental protection. Of course he has already done that.

Another gesture to make the pig-ignorant happy could be just what he needs to win a second term. Who else would vote for him?

Yeah, they must think that if they cut the money off for that stuff it will somehow magically arrive in their pockets instead.

LOL

You'd think there'd be only so many times that the guys with 9/10ths of the pie can tell "Real America":

"oh hey, no sorry you can't have the last slice, um...yeah ah, those Mexicans and those filthy universities took it all! Yeah! It's their fault..."

Maybe they'll wise up eventually. We know where the pie hides...

Being forced to fund Commie propaganda through general taxation or "licence fees" (as we in Britain have to with the BBC) is morally repugnant and utterly reprehensible. There is something fundamentally repulsive about the mere concept, let alone its implementation. A person can end up in jail here for not having a TV licence (all the revenue for which goes to the BBC even if you don't watch a single minute of BBC programming - and they call it "programming" for a very good reason).

The BBC is boringly middle-of-the-road. Cursitor Doom is lunatic right, wit h a real enthusiasm for fake news.

If the BBC catered to him, and the other thousand-odd lunatics who like the ir facts to be invented by the likes of Steve Bannon, the rest of the UK wo uld get justifiably upset.

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Cursitor Doom can get up quite a head of steam when his favourite delusions aren't treated with the respect he thinks they deserve.

enue > for which goes to the BBC even if you don't watch a single minute of BBC

According to the Complete Oxford Dictionary, the word "program", when used in the sense that the BBC employs, describes a public notice, issued before hand, of any formal series of proceedings. The dictionary's first examples of that use goes back to 1808, and the BBC was using it that way long befor e anybody started talking about computer programs.

The proposition that the BBC is trying to program anybody is one of Cursito r Doom's more bizarre delusions. They aren't even as didactic as the averag e church.

Yeah it's a retarded law, there are lots of retarded laws still on the books in 2k17 in the US too. We don't actually enforce many of them, though.

It's the kind of tax "progressives" would be against too because it's regressive and disproportionately penalizes the poor, same as any sales tax does. So called "progressive" Massachusetts has a suck-ass sales tax of 6.25% on just about everything except clothing under ~$100 and food from the grocery store.

I'm all for say penalties for driving infractions that scale with income; I don't begrudge anyone for spending a lot of dough on a nice car but it doesn't give them the right to break traffic laws and put everyone else at risk, and what does someone who bought a $120,000 car care about a $150 speeding ticket.

Handing out a $5000 ticket might make them take a little notice; take it

Meanwhile prostitution was de-facto legal in Rhode Island up until the early 2000s or so just because it wasn't made explicitly illegal and I guess nobody noticed. Then the Internet came along and they started wondering why the Rhode Island Craigslist had 50 times more ads than any other state LOL

It's pretty funny that you guys get so excited by a book. It's just ideas. Anyone who reads a book can choose to accept or reject the ideas written in it. Isn't it better to expose people to knowledge and ideas than to keep them in the dark? In fact, it seems the best way to expose fallacies is to write about them and let people see they are not correct.

But then I expect you think "Animal Farm" is subversive.