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The Diner is a left wing communist/socialist website.  You missed that spin?

Looks like it. Never thought it as left wing communist, socialist leaning...maybe sometimes? Certainly not centrist or right wing.

Again, I can't see how you could have missed it.  Perhaps because you're so obsessed with Peak Oil you don'r read anything else?

Well, just chalk it up to me not going to the cool smart kids high school I guess, where perhaps politics are part of the curriculum. My political spidey sense isn't apparently what you think is normal for the 3 or 4 denizens allowed to roam freely here.

As far as the topic of the communists/socialists here, considering the small population to which you referred, it is difficult for me to confuse someone who talks about ideals that Marx and Lenin might have espoused with folks happily enjoying the fruits of their labors with multiple nice Germany luxury cars for all family members and a 7 figure investment in his own domicile. That is like $500k per person to lounge around! Would he really chuck all of that for Soviet style concrete towers where all the animals are equal regardless of results they deliver? Some animals are more equal than others of course...K-Dog appears to have earned his status through delivering said results, why would he want to walk the Communist walk at this stage of his life? I'm guessing there is intellectual discussion...and then RUN LIKE HELL from the results a Communist lifestyle. 

Now you being a communist/marxist is fine, lacking the ability to generate the kind of economic results that K-Dog did makes you ripe for a "leveling of the playing field" philosophy as it were. I mean, "If the cool smart kid high school isn't enough to get me ahead all by itself and into the favor of the Illuminati, then the system must be rigged!" being the operative idea.

I will just stick with whatever words people want to use for the system the US is nowadays, where results can still be rewards even if K-Dog and I weren't tagged by the Illuminati for greatness as a young age, and those who can't deliver said results are rewarded with....whatever.

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The Diner is a left wing communist/socialist website.  You missed that spin?

Looks like it. Never thought it as left wing communist, socialist leaning...maybe sometimes? Certainly not centrist or right wing.

Again, I can't see how you could have missed it.  Perhaps because you're so obsessed with Peak Oil you don'r read anything else?

Well, just chalk it up to me not going to the cool smart kids high school I guess, where perhaps politics are part of the curriculum.

There were electives you could take, but I was just a science and math geek in those days.  I just took the required classes in World History and American History.

The spin of the website has nothing to do with our respective net worth or what kind of car is in the garage.  It's political philosophy which is apparent in the text. Explicitly on numerous occasions, so it doesn't matter what HS you went to as long as you learned to read at the 6th grade level.

Anyhow, I don't buy your ignorance excuse.  Now back to topics posted on over the last 2 days or you go back in the cooler again.

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Well, just chalk it up to me not going to the cool smart kids high school I guess, where perhaps politics are part of the curriculum.

There were electives you could take, but I was just a science and math geek in those days.  I just took the required classes in World History and American History.

Same here. So that is about what I know about differences in political systems, commies are X, socialists are Y, capitalism is good, don't ask about oligarchies because that will be come important in the future, blah blah blah.

The spin of the website has nothing to do with our respective net worth or what kind of car is in the garage.

Does the kind of hypothetical Communism discussed around here consider the idea that some communists are more equal than others? That is certainly how it worked out, in both the USSR and currently China. The folks more equal than other folks got the good stuff...everyone else got what they got.

Is it an intellectual disconnect to argue for Communism while having personally enjoyed NON communism like here in the US?

Anyhow, I don't buy your ignorance excuse.  Now back to topics posted on over the last 2 days or you go back in the cooler again.
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Sure. Surly posted this on reddit:
This Sudanese refugee asks: Why is the world ignoring her country's crisis? Link

The single comment and her response was great....on a classic "it sure ain't the politics", as well as Dave's response.

I think the best answer might be....because who the hell knows where Sudan is on a map, let alone is concerned about it as much as where they are going to retrieve their next latte?

And Dave:

u/Surly01
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Brown people. "Shithole countries?" Who cares? What's new on Netflix?

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That was not a return to our recently posted topics.  Back to the cooler.

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