07-03-2018, 03:42 PM
Whatever you're using to post, it sucks. I haven't dealt with the hard per-line character limit in 20 years!
Well, you can certainly hold a grudge if you want to look back 50 years. Just fyi: most of that was political theater.
Since I've never been fond of Chavez either, and thought Stalin and Mao were as despicable as you do, what's your beef here? You can't just assign political positions to others because it's convenient for you.
He's going after Merkel as hard as he can, and he's insulted just about every ally we have in Europe and the Far East. Of course, he loves the Saudis, Erdogan and Duterte -- to say nothing of Putin. He's even friendly with Kim Jong-un, for God's sake!
He proves the axiom that corporate CEOs are petty-demagogues in their corporate roles, and totally unsuitable as government executives. When they asked Lee Iacocca about running for President, he turned it down for that reason.
(07-02-2018, 07:46 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(07-02-2018, 03:39 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Really? Stalin and Mao are hardly exemplars of the left.
I've known leftists my whole life, and I know how you guys operate. In the 50s and 60s, your leftist forebears adored Stalin and were totally in love with Mao. Think of the Senate McCarthy hearings. And in the 60s, they were all walking around carrying a book of Mao's Thoughts in the back pockets.
Well, you can certainly hold a grudge if you want to look back 50 years. Just fyi: most of that was political theater.
John X Wrote:Then when people like me are proved right, and people like you are proved wrong, that's when you say -- "Stalin and Mao are hardly exemplars of the left." Well yes they are, or they were, until you changed your mind for convenience.
The same is true of Chavez. All the leftist idiots were in love with Chavez when he was destroying Venezuela, and people like me were
saying that he was a disaster. Now it turns out that I was right and people like you were disastrously wrong, and all these loony left idiot celebrities and politicians no longer want to talk about Venezuela. I've seen this many times in my life, so I consider your claim that "they are hardly examplars of the left" to be completely full of crap.
Since I've never been fond of Chavez either, and thought Stalin and Mao were as despicable as you do, what's your beef here? You can't just assign political positions to others because it's convenient for you.
John X Wrote:David Horn Wrote:I can point to nations that have political systems more or less to my liking: the social democracies of Western Europe that Trump is working overtime to destroy.
Lol!! What are we talking about here? France? Spain? Italy? Germany? What social democracies do you love that the mean old demagogue Trump is trying to destroy? Lol!
He's going after Merkel as hard as he can, and he's insulted just about every ally we have in Europe and the Far East. Of course, he loves the Saudis, Erdogan and Duterte -- to say nothing of Putin. He's even friendly with Kim Jong-un, for God's sake!
He proves the axiom that corporate CEOs are petty-demagogues in their corporate roles, and totally unsuitable as government executives. When they asked Lee Iacocca about running for President, he turned it down for that reason.
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