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Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
12. If getting ahead were a choice then losing $1 would not be the lesser evil.
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 07:17 PM
Apr 2016

At this point, I think the metaphor is probably waving its hands in the air and begging for mercy.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
11. It's like an Empire of Evil.
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 05:50 PM
Apr 2016

Attacking innocent countries and stealing their stuff for Just Us.

Iran
Guatemala
Indonesia
Congo
Vietnam
Cuba
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Panama
Iraq
Somalia
Afghanistan
Honduras
Libya
Syria
Yemen
Bunch more for power and welfare for the wealthy and austerity and the boot for mankind...

What was it that Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, (Ret.), said?

[font size="6"][font color="green"]"War is a Racket."[/font color][/font size]


Rebkeh

(2,450 posts)
6. That would work if non-evil choices were unavailable
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 11:52 AM
Apr 2016

And they are always available. Don't believe the hype, they are always available. They scare us into believing we have only two choices on the menu: bad and less bad. When we know full well there's good, or even great, hidden in the kitchen. Distraction tactics are eventually going to fail. We have other choices.

Especially now.

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