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Epoch Times - 'The Spector of Communism'
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-29 11:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 Communism has been apologized for from the left and tolerated from the right for far longer than is moralistically possible. When John Dryden's dictum, "Beware the wrath of a patient man." plays out, what happens to the world's remaining communists will make Khmer Rouge Cambodia look like a petting zoo.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 13:42||   2020-03-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#2 And no apologist nor accomodator from either side of the spectrum will be spared.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 13:48||   2020-03-29 13:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I sure hope you're wrong MM - have you read on French Revolution?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 13:56||   2020-03-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure. Haven't you been saying for a while the Chinavirus mess has to burn itself out?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 13:59||   2020-03-29 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Cycles. Pendulums. You believe in them or you don't.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 14:06||   2020-03-29 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 I mean, once you start killing people over differences of ideology - where do you stop?

#5 I'm definitely not a Toynbeean.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 14:11||   2020-03-29 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 "We'll just keep this black widow in the far corner of the child's crib. No possible harm..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 14:19||   2020-03-29 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Most people are not evil by nature - they just run with the herd. Change the conditions, and your average leftist is totally harmless.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 14:24||   2020-03-29 14:24|| Front Page Top

#9 So let Pol Pot run on past so Bill Ayers doesn't get hurt. Sorry. No.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 14:36||   2020-03-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, I don't like it.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 14:58||   2020-03-29 14:58|| Front Page Top

#11 I suppose one might ask, did Ted Bundy belong in the electric chair? No? Really?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 15:14||   2020-03-29 15:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Some people will be stuck saying "Not all communists are bad people. Some of my friends and family are communists. You can't just lump them all together with Stalin." Well. That's something some people can say and think...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 15:43||   2020-03-29 15:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Asked how he felt about killing people, Rafał Gan-Ganowicz responded "I wouldn't know. I only killed communists."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 15:48||   2020-03-29 15:48|| Front Page Top

#14 I mean, once you start killing people over differences of ideology - where do you stop?

Who will decide how many cannibals, child murdering pedophiles and Ed Gein types we keep?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 16:07||   2020-03-29 16:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Straw men - I said difference in ideology, not actions
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 16:09||   2020-03-29 16:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Ideology. Ideation. Rationalizations. Excuses. Etc.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 16:14||   2020-03-29 16:14|| Front Page Top

#17 As an abstraction any idea is harmless. It's in the realm of action where some ideas become toxic. Straw men bur hot and sometimes burn down the whole damn wheat crop.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 16:15||   2020-03-29 16:15|| Front Page Top

#18 I think you been looking at the abyss too long, MM.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-29 16:16||   2020-03-29 16:16|| Front Page Top

#19 You think, therefore you feel you have a valid diagnosis. Be satisfied if not correct or happy, G.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 16:19||   2020-03-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

#20 "This world is full of
Endless abstractions.
I won't be held responsible
For my actions."

Albert Heads West - Nick Cave
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 16:33||   2020-03-29 16:33|| Front Page Top

#21 The only good Communist is a dead Communist.
Posted by Albemarle Bourbon4037 2020-03-29 20:21||   2020-03-29 20:21|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ Hear, hear!
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-29 20:22||   2020-03-29 20:22|| Front Page Top

#23 Hey guys, Methanol does not work to cure the virus, but it does have it's effects :-)
Posted by Beau 2020-03-29 21:27||   2020-03-29 21:27|| Front Page Top

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