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cui bono

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Sat Nov 9, 2013, 03:02 PM
Nov 2013

One person tried to equate taking away corporate personhood with crazy Teabagger policies. That is our crazy left?

And they equated the likes of Cindy Sheehan and Roseanne Barr with the batshit crazy wingnuts who don't believe in science and don't know more than a second grader in just about any subject yet are making laws for this country. Or not making laws really.

I went at least a dozen rounds with someone else who was all snarky with me (par for the course with that one) telling me that they and the Dem Party have "moved past the left", and kept trying to insult the left with various comments (they were trying to anger me, they've admitted they enjoy it like a sport), and when I calmly kept repeating the question of what was it about what the left stands for and fights for that they don't like... it ended up they had no answer. We danced around it for days and then absolutely nothing. But then that particular person seriously knows nothing. They never have anything of substance to say, they only reason they are on here is to be snarky. It's good to make that clear though, make them state it or show that they are unable to do so.


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K&R.... daleanime Nov 2013 #1
The TPP and TTIP are just vehicles to pass control of countries over to corporations. fasttense Nov 2013 #2
This is also an example of the rich eating the rich. tecelote Nov 2013 #4
??? progressoid Nov 2013 #11
While I can't put words in the Poster's mouth; greiner3 Nov 2013 #14
Great response. tecelote Nov 2013 #23
KR Ian_rd Nov 2013 #3
So the New York Times is worried about copyright and digital rights? How about water rights? magical thyme Nov 2013 #5
stopped mtasselin Nov 2013 #6
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good? SchmerzImArsch Nov 2013 #7
I dont understand. Are you implying that freedom and liberty are perfect and we should rhett o rick Nov 2013 #16
In my brief posting experience here SchmerzImArsch Nov 2013 #18
I get it now. I am a little slow on catching sarcasm. THe question mark rhett o rick Nov 2013 #20
I'm still developing my snarcasm skills SchmerzImArsch Nov 2013 #22
I am the one that needs to be better at detecting snarcasm. Carry on. nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #24
It's not you. William769 Nov 2013 #32
Could someone please explain to me what the "good" part of the TPP is? snot Nov 2013 #26
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2013 #27
In your brief posting here under this user name right? William769 Nov 2013 #31
The same paper that endorsed the war with Iraq. Another bad judgement from the NYtimes. adirondacker Nov 2013 #8
The Times has never lived up to the standard people expect of it starroute Nov 2013 #19
k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #9
Recommend! KoKo Nov 2013 #10
If I had a right to know deancr Nov 2013 #12
New York Times shows who the Bosses are. Octafish Nov 2013 #13
K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #15
I was naively hoping that with a Democratic president we would have transparency. rhett o rick Nov 2013 #17
It's closer to a mugging than a war dreamnightwind Nov 2013 #21
"Especially when he ran on it." cui bono Nov 2013 #28
I think when Obama ran the first time he thought he needed the left's help. rhett o rick Nov 2013 #33
"no where to go" - We need to change that. That's why we have two parties with similar econ agendas cui bono Nov 2013 #35
I think Obama knew before he got to the WH. rhett o rick Nov 2013 #38
This treaty is being written by megacorps, for megacorps; secret not only from us, snot Nov 2013 #25
Not sure petitions help much PuraVidaDreamin Nov 2013 #29
The liberal media is mythology.........nt Enthusiast Nov 2013 #30
So the left objects to the TPP and the Con-Dems try to disparage the left for such. rhett o rick Nov 2013 #34
+1,000,000 cui bono Nov 2013 #36
If "they" have moved anywhere it's toward the right. rhett o rick Nov 2013 #37
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