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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Sunday 5/10/15 - 1:58:55 PM EST (GMT-5)
No, Sir!
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Sunday 5/10/15 - 2:12:28 PM EST (GMT-5)
yes, mr. mccarthy.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Monday 5/11/15 - 2:32:08 PM EST (GMT-5)
....but a long time ago I was in love with a girl who was a mamber of of the Communist Party's Youth movement. She's the only commie I've ever met (The reds were never very poupular i Norway. Last thing I heard was that they had a few hundred members  ). |
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Monday 5/11/15 - 3:04:32 PM EST (GMT-5)
I thought about it, but figured I'd save myself the hassle come next red scare
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Avant-garde
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Monday 5/11/15 - 3:53:40 PM EST (GMT-5)
No, but I know a few who have been.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Monday 5/11/15 - 5:20:31 PM EST (GMT-5)
a couple of my dad's relatives are pretty open about their views which are similar to that of communism.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Tuesday 5/19/15 - 6:42:02 PM EST (GMT-5)
What do you mean by "similar"? You're either a commie, or you're not.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Tuesday 5/19/15 - 7:48:20 PM EST (GMT-5)
tierra y libertad, camaradas
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aldod
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 1:23:47 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 5/19/15 - 6:42:02 PM sander wrote:
What do you mean by "similar"? You're either a commie, or you're not. |
That was Mccarthy's view. A lot of people answered his question with "no" believing that they were not and had never been members of the communist party and wound up serving time for perjury when the committee was able to demonstrate that they held some views in common with the party.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 9:54:29 AM EST (GMT-5)
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:40:31 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 5/19/15 - 6:42:02 PM sander wrote:
What do you mean by "similar"? You're either a commie, or you're not. |
redistribution of wealth is the one thing that they espouse in particular. these relatives (cousins of my dad) have always been rebellious, at least that's what the other relatives have said. |
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:44:06 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:40:31 PM Inquizitor2 wrote:
redistribution of wealth is the one thing that they espouse in particular. |
well, the scale kinda matters here. any taxation at all is a redistribution of wealth |
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 4:42:35 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:44:06 PM Kungfullama wrote:
well, the scale kinda matters here. any taxation at all is a redistribution of wealth |
do you consider 60%+ tax rates reasonable? said relatives seem to be okay with it, even if it means less control over your own personal income. |
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 5/20/15 - 8:10:09 PM EST (GMT-5)
Isn't everyone? Red's all the Rage these days.
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aldod
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 5/21/15 - 1:12:19 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:40:31 PM Inquizitor2 wrote:
redistribution of wealth is the one thing that they espouse in particular. |
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:44:06 PM Kungfullama wrote:
well, the scale kinda matters here. any taxation at all is a redistribution of wealth |
Yep. At the present time, we are redistributing wealth from the middle to the wealthy. Experience shows that this is bad for the middle and for the poor. The wealthy seem to be OK with it, so we'll probably go on doing it this way for a while.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 5/21/15 - 8:51:06 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:44:06 PM Kungfullama wrote:
well, the scale kinda matters here. any taxation at all is a redistribution of wealth |
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 4:42:35 PM Inquizitor2 wrote:
do you consider 60%+ tax rates reasonable? said relatives seem to be okay with it, even if it means less control over your own personal income. |
under Nixon the highest income tax bracket was 70%, was he a communist? |
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 5/21/15 - 12:55:13 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 12:44:06 PM Kungfullama wrote:
well, the scale kinda matters here. any taxation at all is a redistribution of wealth |
On Wednesday 5/20/15 - 4:42:35 PM Inquizitor2 wrote:
do you consider 60%+ tax rates reasonable? said relatives seem to be okay with it, even if it means less control over your own personal income. |
On Thursday 5/21/15 - 8:51:06 AM Kungfullama wrote:
under Nixon the highest income tax bracket was 70%, was he a communist? |
That would explain letting the Commies win in Vietnam, his opening up of China, and his coziness with Brezhnev...
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 5/21/15 - 9:21:55 PM EST (GMT-5)
I agree with some ideas from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, but I'm not an official member of the Communist party or anything like that.
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7 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Sunday 5/24/15 - 11:23:26 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 5/19/15 - 6:42:02 PM sander wrote:
What do you mean by "similar"? You're either a commie, or you're not. |
There are several levels of communism in France who are politically represented, but unlike socialists, they never took power. |
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7 yrs ago - Thursday 6/11/15 - 6:53:54 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Thursday 5/21/15 - 9:21:55 PM BlackBird77 wrote:
I agree with some ideas from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, but I'm not an official member of the Communist party or anything like that. |
Not "officially"... Okay.  |
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7 yrs ago - Thursday 6/11/15 - 6:54:16 PM EST (GMT-5)
I mean at least be open about it, like me.
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