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Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
1. That's the beauty of it - we don't NEED to fight corporate rule!
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 04:30 PM
Jun 2015

All we need to do is keep supporting more and more corporate candidates, simply on the basis that they are not as bad as the Republicans, and after a few more election cycles a liberal utopia will magically appear.

Seriously. This is the only way.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
5. That's close..
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 05:41 PM
Jun 2015

... but really don't worry about corporate rule, so long as we make "progress" on social issues, it's all good.

Until no one can feed their family anyway.

antigop

(12,778 posts)
10. as one DUer has said: "We'll all be equal in the breadlines." Sorry, I can't take credit for it.
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 08:26 PM
Jun 2015

I tried to find who said it, but didn't have any luck.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
2. Braveheart did not exactly celebrate diversity as I recall.
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 04:33 PM
Jun 2015

Or at least that was my impression. In fact that's my only impression as I don't remember much else about it.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
6. I do not support the reasoning to go centrist. Born a FDR Demcrat and will probably die one. One
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jun 2015

question either for you are posters. They are telling us it is all over because TPA passed. I thought we were going to be able to read the damned thing when it was finished and then be able to vote on it again. What happened to the chance to vote it down one last time?

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
7. I love it when people use completely fictitious movie scenes...
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 05:57 PM
Jun 2015

to try and depict how their ancestors acted.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
11. The scene depicted in the film had absolutely nothing to do with the REAL
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:14 PM
Jun 2015

Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Furthermore, Wallace never made that speech.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
15. Nope, no point to you at all.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 07:39 AM
Jun 2015

You pulled a bullshit fictitious movie scene to try and make a point. Usig that bullshit fictitious movie scene means you failed to make any point whatsoever.

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