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In reply to the discussion: Could you be friends with a Nazi?? [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)33. walmart and target don't have spies? are you *kidding*? they have spies all over the place.
they don't call them spies, but spying is what they do.
few wars have been waged by communists, and most wars waged by communists began as wars of ethnic or national liberation.
wars waged by capitalists (which includes the nazis) have been many.
here is just one dustspeck of information from the ongoing capitalist war that kills thousands on a daily basis:
Violence earlier this month in northwest Peru left more than 30 dead and more than 50 wounded, according to reports. Indian rights advocates put the number of dead and missing higher, with some groups saying more than 100 were killed or missing.
The controversial laws were part of numerous decrees that Garcia passed through special powers awarded to him by Congress last year with the goal of having Peru meet rules set in a free trade agreement with the United States.
The decrees made it easier for companies to gain concessions for oil drilling, mining and logging, including on indigenous lands. The forestry law, in particular, removed some 45 million hectares (more than 170,000 square miles) of Peruvian jungle from the government's list of protected lands.
The controversial laws were part of numerous decrees that Garcia passed through special powers awarded to him by Congress last year with the goal of having Peru meet rules set in a free trade agreement with the United States.
The decrees made it easier for companies to gain concessions for oil drilling, mining and logging, including on indigenous lands. The forestry law, in particular, removed some 45 million hectares (more than 170,000 square miles) of Peruvian jungle from the government's list of protected lands.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/18/peru.indians/
Your pretense that the US, or capital, has some high moral position from which to decry others is a sad joke, pure and simple.
This is corporations killing indigenous people under the protection of the US government. it occurs on a daily basis all over latin america, all over africa, in the middle east, and even in north america and europe.
you are so *conditioned* to think of it as simply 'regrettable collateral damage' that you can't even *see* it.
really, a sad joke.
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Hell, I have trouble being friends with "Christians" who don't want to help those "takers".
gateley
Feb 2013
#2
"no real power", IMO, the problem isn't that there are "ir-reconcilable" "differences" but that for
patrice
Feb 2013
#80
They may not deserve your friendship, but your responsibility for reality requires that you call
patrice
Feb 2013
#81
My family's general attitude to my taking a deep breath and letting it go:
no_hypocrisy
Feb 2013
#75
extermination of undesirables was an avowed policy of the nazis. it is not an avowed policy
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#21
Nazi policy was explicitly exterminationist in the case of Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, and
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#28
if capitalists are not the state, who or what is? given that the majority of state policies benefit
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#31
walmart and target don't have spies? are you *kidding*? they have spies all over the place.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#33
'business intel'. lol. is spying on worker organizing efforts now considered 'business intel'?
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#38
How does that even come close to the KGB and secret police of your beloved mass-murderers?
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#42
oh, first it was 'walmart doesn't have spies,' but now it's 'well, they do, but they're not as bad
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#44
where is it that i make the claim that walmart's spy practices are the equivalent of the KGB?
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#59
Sorry dude. You can't build a closet big enough to hide 100 million skeletons.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#65
when the CP actually was a viable party, that was not the attitude of the US government.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#49
I gave up fairy tales as a little girl. It's the real life body counts that concern me now.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#61
The source is Covert Action Quarterly, 1990. But even CBS says more or less the same -- today.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#64
It is a trait of fascism that the drive toward power for power's sake alone will wear ANY label.
patrice
Feb 2013
#83
Could you be friends with someone who supports the summary execution, without trial, of US citizens?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#26
If the point every comes in which I deny friendship based merely on American politics...
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#48
Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism; at least it was an Ethos.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#82
People praise hit men all the time, along with torturers and civilian killers
just1voice
Feb 2013
#84