Comments on: We’re liberals and we run the show: we don’t need your steenking history

By: Jake Was Here

Jake Was Here — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:32:29 +0000

Some socialists advocate complete nationalization of the means of production, distribution, and exchange; others advocate state control of capital within the framework of a market economy.

Has anyone besides me (and Jonah Goldberg, of course) noticed that the latter half of that is pretty much what Hitler and Mussolini did? — or at least the smokescreen they hid behind. I know Hitler had “bigger” things on his mind than the economy.

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“Love me. I’m a liberal” : Stop The ACLU — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:55 +0000

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» “Love me. I’m a liberal” - Blogger News Network — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:41:56 +0000

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By: Ed Driscoll » He Says He Wants A Revolution

Ed Driscoll » He Says He Wants A Revolution — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:52:12 +0000

[...] And as Neo-Neocon notes, when you control the media and academia, you control history as well: “We’re liberals and we run the show: we don’t need your steenking history.” Filed under: Hollywood, Interrupted, Oh, That Liberal Media!, The Future and its [...]

By: Thomass

Thomass — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:20:47 +0000

“I want the president to tell the American people that, contrary to what they have been taught for many years, government is a jewel of human association and an heirloom of human reason…”

I’ve been reading this in other places in other forms. One being ‘government / taxes or lord of the flies, pick one’.

Anyway, they must have slept through 20th century history. Who murdered those 100 million plus civilians and sparked those mega wars? Small government types?

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:29:58 +0000

Nolanimrod: See this.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:06:07 +0000

Dear Neo,
There is a good book, The Breaking Point, about Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Jose Robles, which details the perfectly vicious, scandalous treatment Dos Passos received at the hands of “The New Republic,” according to the book because he was insufficiently Stalinist. They published vicious, defamatory untruths then. They haven’t changed. They don’t care. It’s one big masturbatory, solipsistic extravanganza.

By: Oblio

Oblio — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:09:43 +0000

Rick, if you want to find your TARP money, I think this is it: it’s still in the bank.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/Current/

By: Oblio

Oblio — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:58:43 +0000

Well done, Mr. Freeberg! More dinner party techniques for when progressives trap you in the corner, and what you really want is another glass of wine. I’ll bet they get a cagey and hunted look when you propose RULES.

Rick, do you think enough Republicans will defect to cause the party to implode and reform under purer libertarian principles? I can’t see that happening.

FGOS, I am a Republican, and I supported federal capital infusions and other steps to keep the banks solvent. Secretary Paulson pretty well botched the operation. And almost all parts of the economy–banking above all–are and have been controlled through regulation.

Rick, you might find this link amusing. http://mises.org/quiz.aspx

I think I scored about 75. I hope that doesn’t make me a hypocrite.

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:18:36 +0000

Since Obama’s victory, more than one liberal “friend” has tried to engage me for the purpose of self-entertainment, and they make me feel bad because I’m the one who ends up being entertained. Before finger-waggling begins in earnest I ask for their agreement on two centrist precepts:

1. You really shouldn’t adopt, let alone advance, the belief that someone is a clueless moron if you haven’t personally made that person’s acquaintance (*cough* Sarah Palin *cough*);

2. You cannot use your conversion to, or occupation of, a point on the ideological spectrum to manifest some inner decency or goodness; bad people have good ideas & good people have bad ideas every single hour of every single day.

I’ve yet to have met one hardcore liberal who showed even token resistance to agreeing to these.

And I have yet to meet one hardcore liberal who, having agreed to these, went on to triumphantly make their point in the manner in which they envisioned when they decided to challenge me to their absurd little Fox-n-Hound exercise.

Your Mister Wieseltier needs to cogitate somewhat on centrist precept #2, I think. Or he should’ve done that before he started writing. Could have saved himself some embarrassment at your merciless, flensing hands.

Way too late now.