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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-11 11:36 PM
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Suppose you work for a Koch Bros. Industry...and...
You have a bumper sticker for the candidate you want.

Not their candidate.

Could you be fired for that?

I'll bet you could. Only they'd use some trumped-up excuse for it. Kind of like age discrimination is how I see it...

*sigh*

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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-11 11:42 PM
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1. I don't know how they can call themselves
libertarian --- the "celebration of individuality" a la Ayn Rand.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-11 11:45 PM
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2. Neither do I.
They are as far from libertarianism as you can possibly get.

I mean, they move in lock-step.

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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-11 11:48 PM
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3. I believe that they are authoritarians
Edited on Wed Apr-20-11 11:51 PM by tabatha
in libertarian-sheep's clothing. (Reminds me of that dreadful Carly ad.)
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 12:00 AM
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4. They are the two horns of Satan
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 12:20 AM
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5. Indeed they are. nt
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:24 AM
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6. They'd probably just let the air out of your tires.
You oxygen freeloader, you.


;)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:27 AM
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7. No doubt, lol!
Too funny!

And I am NOT an oxygen freeloader!:P

:rofl:
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 02:19 AM
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8. Oh Sweetheart....
You know dag-gum well what the answer is.

So, what... are you still trying to hang on to innocence and naïvete?

No force of indigenous nobility exists in the corporate world at all.

Listen to this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4t5TaYD9WY

Other than that... we're here, and I'm not done with this shit by a long shot.

Love ya.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 02:27 AM
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9. Actually, when I started the thread, I didn't really know...
It came to me as I wrote it.

You can see how my thinking progressed ...

We are most definitely not done with this shit!

:P
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 02:48 AM
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10. "We"?
Hell no baby!

You have no idea yet, and that's ok. When it's in the pike, which is soon, you'll be one to know.

Which reminds me... do you know any decent illustrators? (I have a wicked project right now)

Either way; Here's a big deep kiss from me; ^x^

There is rage in light, and it is gorgeous. You are part of it, love.


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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 08:32 AM
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11. Well then fill me in too...
I'm beyond ready to do something about this crap.

-Hoot
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 01:22 AM
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18. Oh, will do.
I'm building a short list around here. Yer onit.
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 08:39 AM
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12. You're assuming Koch really cares what its employees think and interact with them to the level that

they would see an employee's bumper sticker.

I doubt they would even enter an employee parking lot for fear of getting the stench of the "working class" on them.

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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:10 PM
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13. Ah, you're most likely right!
God forbid they get that "working class" stench on them!

:toast:
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:13 PM
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14. Not if you're in a union, which many Koch employees are. You can, however, be disciplined if you
work in a newsroom and have a bumper-sticker or candidate sign in your yard.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:23 PM
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17. Indeed, this is true.
There is a higher standard for people who work in newsrooms or for newspapers or such like.

I used to belong to the League of Women Voters. We were not allowed to publicly advocate for candidates.

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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:17 PM
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15. but what if
the candidate was named Koch? http://www.koch2congress.com/5.html

That would have to be okay, right?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 01:21 PM
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16. That would depend on just which Koch it was...
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