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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 01:55 PM Original message |
How would you ever explain to your grandkids that you were on the side of corporations? |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yep. Whose side were you on? |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. Nope, but I'd have to have children first before I could disappoint grandchildren |
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WingDinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. hOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN TO gOD THAT YOU KILLED YOUR OWN COUNTRYMEN TO STOP |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. It was society.. it was the easy thing to do.. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. They see it as defending freedom and Jesus. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. Change that to "capitalism" and I'm with you. That is why I'm working |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. Corporations are why our economy has so much less poverty and hunger than it ever did in the past |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I blame the individuals behind corrupt corporations. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And there are some screwed-up incentives currently |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yes it really is the obscene amounts of 'benefits' and direct |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Both of which were provisioned by corporations |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I would have to disagree with you on that in regards to the MIC. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I've worked for the MIC, in a shipyard |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. I understand what you are saying, I am thinking more along the lines |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. That is a Big Lie - current Global Corporations for private interests |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. It would depend on if we value profit more then the natural world. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. If humans are rational and spiritual beings, we do value |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:32 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. I agree 100%. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Name a school that is not built or supplied by several corporations |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. We need to reenact regulations and enforce laws to prohibit |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. How about corporations that do not maximize utility over time in economic terms? |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 10:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. David Koch is that you? |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. Oh brother nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-23-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. Aw was someone mean to your friends the Kochs? |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. An apt question |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. If I don't die fighting in the revolution to overthrow them, |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is why I wisely decided not to have kids |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. we are all the blame for something. A perfect world would be a very boring place. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. My grandchildren |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
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senseandsensibility (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
21. Someone unrec'd this |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I recced as well... |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
25. By handing them the keys to the kingdom |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. The Delluded Fascist/Conservative Losers |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
32. 1)I won't have grandkids, and 2) I'm not on the side of corporations. |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't know |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-11 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
36. If I were on the side of the corporations, I'd explain it with a FAT fucking check... |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-23-11 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
37. Three words: "I hate you." |
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theaocp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-23-11 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
38. Easy: they'd lie about it. |
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