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Jackpine Radical

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1. The 1% is too ill-educated to know anything of Macchiavelli.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 07:27 PM

Mar 2013

I The Prince, Niccolo pointed out that you have to leave the peasants at least enough crumbs to keep them from desperation, which is a sure ticket to insurrection.

Or, to quote Kris Kristofferson (via Janis Joplin), "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

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The 1% is too ill-educated to know anything of Macchiavelli. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #1

Maybe the Sequester will be just the ticket lunatica Mar 2013 #2