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treestar

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29. Yep. And even McCarthyism while bad, is not Stalinism

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #15)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 09:51 AM

Jun 2013

Yet they are equated right off the bat.

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If it's not Stalinism, then what is it? [View all] JackRiddler Jun 2013 OP

If you wrote in complete sentences, you might actually make a "point" Kolesar Jun 2013 #1

Example. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #12

Stream of partly conscious(ness) is my take Progressive dog Jun 2013 #33

This message was self-deleted by its author JustAnotherGen Jun 2013 #2

Thank you. Liberal Veteran Jun 2013 #3

/thread... SidDithers Jun 2013 #10

I thought to set a better example JackRiddler Jun 2013 #14

Hahaha!! Major Hogwash Jun 2013 #32

I have this nagging sense I'm missing out on beer and travel money NoPasaran Jun 2013 #4

lololololo treestar Jun 2013 #30

IOW, authoritarianism. Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #5

Authoritarianism has already set in. Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #11

No argument here. Obey, conform, keep quiet and your head down, never question, Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #19

Of course no one has said that treestar Jun 2013 #31

You say it with every post. This board, at least much of its content, says it every day. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #34

You are misrepresenting my "every post." treestar Jun 2013 #35

Thanks for not posting 10 pages of this. HappyMe Jun 2013 #6

Yep, a long winded name calling exercise while patting himself on the back at the same time. nt stevenleser Jun 2013 #7

It seems to be quite fashionable at the moment. HappyMe Jun 2013 #8

All the cool kids are doing it nobodyspecial Jun 2013 #24

Speaking of long winded name-calling exercises designed to pat oneself on the back DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #41

They're still trying to find time in his schedule. I'm ready whenever they are. nt stevenleser Jun 2013 #42

I cant tell which side of which debate youre attacking. bunnies Jun 2013 #9

Keep watching. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #13

Something that doesn't kill millions of people BainsBane Jun 2013 #15

Thanks, historian. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #16

You're welcome. BainsBane Jun 2013 #17

A bot would do better. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #18

Bots aren't historians BainsBane Jun 2013 #20

Bots don't get sarcasm, either, historian. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #22

For fun, you can diagram the Palin-esque sentences in the OP Kolesar Jun 2013 #26

I read the Gulag Archipelago and you didn't ... eom Kolesar Jun 2013 #25

Not true. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #38

Yep. And even McCarthyism while bad, is not Stalinism treestar Jun 2013 #29

I met a Romanian general once... Octafish Jun 2013 #21

Point nobodyspecial Jun 2013 #23

We haven't starved 10 million Ukrainians to death lately (nt) Recursion Jun 2013 #27

And you haven't read the OP lately, either. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #37

Anyone who doesn't get what you're saying whatchamacallit Jun 2013 #28

Yup. Hard. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #36

REC. KG Jun 2013 #39

ah, a modified godwin arely staircase Jun 2013 #40