07-11-2018, 02:49 PM
(07-11-2018, 01:54 PM)JDG 66 Wrote:(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.
...in the 60s, they were all walking around carrying a book of Mao's Thoughts in the back pockets.
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...
Let's see. Che, and Castro leap to mind. And the Sandinistas. I have an 1990s Rand McNally Atlas which sings the praises of Dr. Robert Mugabe. The entire period from the Summer of 1972 to November 1989 consisted of the Left claiming moral equality between the US and the USSR.
Cites? Oh yeah, you don't do those. Well let me put in a quick word: projection. I'm sure you can find a LW radical somewhere to cite, but you'll never find anyone in the class of Timothy McVeigh.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
