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2022-08-17 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by 746 2022-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 want a world where the economic ideals of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman lead the way.

Yeah yeah yeah, wait... Was he related to Salma Hayek?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-17 04:27|| 2022-08-17 04:27|| Front Page Top

#2

Ok, did the White House hire Mike Grillo to write this?

Or was it a group effort by NYT/WAPO CNN?

Mike Grillo is a 30'ish liberal writer in New Jersey.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-08-17 07:31|| 2022-08-17 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I have no skin in the game when it comes to the left choosing to destroy itself in a quest for raw power.

You will if they achieve it as they have in so many locations around the world.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-17 07:44|| 2022-08-17 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 This guy misses the point. Most on the right would feel the same if the FBI had raided Obama with such a flimsy pretext. Especially after years of leaks and lies hoping to tear him down. It's no the man in particular its the abuse of power to take him down that really has folks thinking Stasi.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-17 10:50|| 2022-08-17 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Stasi is a poor comparison, I agree.

A better metaphor is Haiti's Tonton Macutes. Both them and the FBI are enforcers of the regime in power, and have about as much legitimacy. That is, zero.

Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-17 11:38|| 2022-08-17 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I have no skin in the game when it comes to the left choosing to destroy itself in a quest for raw power.

That scene in Winter Soldier when the lackey suddenly realizes a rather innocuous statement just put him on the hit list.

You see, Michael, the movie is fiction, yes. Ask yourself though, why was that scene able to just breeze on by with no explanation?

Kiddo....you just put skin in the game. How many writers, official government writers, so you suppose highly authoritarian regimes allow? Its a small number so as to be controlled. How many unofficial writers?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-17 13:08|| 2022-08-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Actions speak louder than labels. Tyranny has many synonyms.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-08-17 17:32|| 2022-08-17 17:32|| Front Page Top

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