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2016-09-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-28 03:11|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 If Trump wants to rule, and he wants to rule, he has to castrate the bureaucracy

Could be a difficult task. Most are already obsequious eunuchs.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-28 03:50|| 2016-09-28 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 If there are no balls to cut off, that leaves Columbian neckties and funny haircuts...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-09-28 08:39|| 2016-09-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 They hate Russia like Brer Rabbit hated the briar patch. And Putin's Russia loves communism in other countries.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-28 11:02|| 2016-09-28 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I watched them give Yugo Chavez a huge blank check over a fifteen year period because he was cont rt uniting to Hampton by crippling Venezuela's oil production.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-28 12:03|| 2016-09-28 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The remarkable thing is how much the utopia of left wing intellectual resembles the ancien regime.
The King ruled, with the assistance of the aristocracy, who were his high level civil and military servants. The upper classes consisted of lower level government employees (mostly poor relatives of the ruling class) Everyone else was one of the riff-raff.
The dream of our revolutionaries is this same system with them at the top, as in Cuba today.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-09-28 12:24|| 2016-09-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Auto cucumber got me: Gazprom.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-28 19:41|| 2016-09-28 19:41|| Front Page Top

#7 A centralized bureaucracy is a large part of the problem. I'm hopeful Trump will address it by mass firings.

Posted by phil_b 2016-09-28 20:20|| 2016-09-28 20:20|| Front Page Top

#8 At the top of Utopia's class system are the philosopher-planners who issue the regulations. Or rather they offer objectives. The bureaucracy filters them through successive layers,

The Emperor, as Son of Heaven, gives his decrees to the mandarins of the Imperial Bureaucracy... Does this mean that The Imperial Dynasties of China are Utopia ...or... that the left wing intellectuals are full of bovine excrement?

Posted by magpie 2016-09-28 20:30|| 2016-09-28 20:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Is it just me, or does it seem that all proponents of their version of "Utopia" fancy themselves as "...the thinkers, the philosopher kings..." and never the fast-food clerk.

Then reality comes-a-knocking.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-09-28 20:59|| 2016-09-28 20:59|| Front Page Top

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