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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 09:36 AM
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Has anyone noticed the cute trick where many DUers have
taken to calling anyone or anything moderate "corporatist"?
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 09:50 AM
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1. DLC and corporatist are their equivalents to "poopyhead". Their reactions are juvenile
I am pretty far left when it comes to goals and ideal worlds and get called that.

Maybe I'm "moderate" when it comes to strategy and getting things done.

Whatever.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:50 AM
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7. The use of certain terms as pejoratives is a trick they've learned from the right-wingers
I guess if ones purpose is to try to insult/cut the person you're talking to, then it's a good technique. :eyes:
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:07 AM
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2. I just want to know how they make a living
No one can be "pure" in terms of never dealing with coporations.

The LLC form - limited liability company - has become a lot more popular. I wonder how they will deal with that. :rofl:

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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:26 AM
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4. But if you take a penny from private... Uh... Wait. Who doesn't?
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:46 AM
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6. When one considers friends and family and 401Ks, mutual funds
and just trying to make a living, there are few that don't profit or count on corporate "tainted" $$$$$
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:25 AM
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3. Yes, I've noticed. It's gotten kind of weird. I keep expecting Marx
and Lenin to start up a sing along.
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OregonBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:29 AM
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5. Thanks for the chuckle. I needed that in the morning.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 11:30 AM
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9. You're welcome! nt
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 11:34 PM
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14. I am kind of a Marxist but not like those posing as one.
I am more of a 'everyone should be equal' type of Marxist and am willing to support someone that I think is working toward that, not the I want my pony now type.
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Cary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:54 AM
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8. The average person just isn't very smart.
Like P.T. Barnum is alleged to have said, no one ever went broke undersestimating the intelligence of the American people.

Real thought takes a lot of effort.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 11:36 PM
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15. I thought he said a 'sucker was born every minute.'
why do I feel I am being insulted. :tinfoilhat: :sarcasm:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 02:10 PM
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10. Just more deadender scamming.. I went into
GDP last night on positive OPs but of course there were the usual detractors..and I noticed that they don't care if they're based in reality or not.

With a twist of egomania..it seems anything Obama does good is because of the whiners(like President Obama doesn't have his own core center to make his own decisions-something they never will understand). IOW, they're taking credit.

I really didn't need anymore proof they were delusional.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 02:48 PM
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11. YOU SELLOUT DLC CORPORATIST ARGH BLARGH *foam*
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MerryBlooms Donating Member (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 03:39 PM
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12. Oh definitely.
Apparently, some of us missed that particular memo.
Grrr ...
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 04:39 PM
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13. Have I noticed? They seem to consider that to be my rightful screen name.
The irony is, I don't even consider myself a "moderate."
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