LA Politics "Air Mary"

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Followers of Marxism murdered millions and millions of people and caused abject misery for million $ more. I don't think even Hitler personally killed anybody
     
  2. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    So did followers of Christianity. Americans slaughtered and murdered Indians, and had slaves, along with locking up Japanese Americans just for being Japanese Americans.
     
  3. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    He ordered the deaths of millions, chief. Marx did nothing of the kind. He was a Philosophy nerd. Marxism is just a political theory. You are talking about Bolsheviks and Communists. Unlike true Marxism that advocates a classless society, those political parties instituted a totalitarian government that only copied Marx's socialist economic theories.
     
  4. MLUTiger

    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    I'm willing to bet that the bulk of her wealth is from her husband selling his staffing business in Monroe. The house was once just a lot bought for cheap back in 1997 when real estate prices were depressed there. They built it and Frank got into Real Estate after. I'm sure it's easy networking when your wife is a Senator.
    Followers of Yahweh have killed and continue to kill many, many more...
     
  5. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Technically, Yahweh, Jehovah, and Allah are all names for the same diety . . . the God of Abraham. The same god that once asked Abraham for a human sacrifice.
     
  6. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Yeah people conveniently leave that part out that God told Abraham to sacrifice his child and this crazy bastard almost did it.
     
  7. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Abraham must have been crazy if he thought he heard voices from God telling him to kill. Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz blamed voices from his neighbor's dog
     
  8. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Marx called for the "elimination of deleterious influences in order for Russia to bypass the capitalist stage." The Russians did just that at the point of a gun

    In a letter to Vera Zasulich dated 8 March 1881, Marx contemplated the possibility of Russia's bypassing the capitalist stage of development and building communism on the basis of the common ownership of land characteristic of the village mir.[133][178]While admitting that Russia's rural "commune is the fulcrum of social regeneration in Russia", Marx also warned that, in order for the mir to operate as a means for moving straight to the socialist stage without a preceding capitalist stage, it "would first be necessary to eliminate the deleterious influences which are assailing it (the rural commune) from all sides."[179] Given the elimination of these pernicious influences, Marx allowed that "normal conditions of spontaneous development" of the rural commune could exist.[179]
     
  9. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Anyone can twist sane ideas into insane actions based on those ideas. Again a prime example is people killing in the name of god. By the way, killing in the name of, bad ass song.
     
  10. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Are you referring to "Killing me softly with his song" by Roberta Flack?
     

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