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Fresh_Start

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Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:25 PM Jun 2016

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... Faux pas Jun 2016 #1
+10 99th_Monkey Jun 2016 #2
I use the comparison the Russian Revolution - proletariat versus tsarists. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #3
I wonder how history would have been different if Kerensky prevailed. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2016 #10
shhh, not supposed to notice that bit. niyad Jun 2016 #4
Yesterday's meme was "blackmailer". Today's is "dictator". arendt Jun 2016 #5
It's for discipline. Octafish Jun 2016 #7
Perfect wife-beater photo! LOL n/t arendt Jun 2016 #8
In the movie, the whole town applauded him. Octafish Jun 2016 #11
Or is this a plutocracy. Octafish Jun 2016 #6
Dictator? You've really jumped the shark buddy. Avalux Jun 2016 #9

Faux pas

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1. ...
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:30 PM
Jun 2016
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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. +10
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:31 PM
Jun 2016
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
3. I use the comparison the Russian Revolution - proletariat versus tsarists.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:56 PM
Jun 2016

Bernie and his followers use 99% versus oligarchy. We all know how the proletariat fared after the revolution. The leader took full control and the proletariat got jack shit.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
10. I wonder how history would have been different if Kerensky prevailed.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:16 PM
Jun 2016

niyad

(112,434 posts)
4. shhh, not supposed to notice that bit.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:57 PM
Jun 2016

arendt

(5,078 posts)
5. Yesterday's meme was "blackmailer". Today's is "dictator".
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 12:58 PM
Jun 2016

It just keeps getting worse when its supposed to be getting better.

The sore winners cannot stop beating their wives.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
7. It's for discipline.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:03 PM
Jun 2016

Show who's boss.



Lookit alla happy faces.

arendt

(5,078 posts)
8. Perfect wife-beater photo! LOL n/t
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:04 PM
Jun 2016

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
11. In the movie, the whole town applauded him.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:16 PM
Jun 2016

He had resisted until shamed into doing so.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Or is this a plutocracy.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:01 PM
Jun 2016

Plutocracy. Oligarchy. Kleptocracy. Kakistocracy. What's the differrence, right, Fresh_Start?

"One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money." - Catherine Austin Fitts


It's E-Z when you got all four branches of Wall Street on the Potomac on your side.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
9. Dictator? You've really jumped the shark buddy.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:14 PM
Jun 2016

Not that this will mean anything to you, but Sanders supporters don't have authoritarian personalities. We know how to think for ourselves.

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