30-07-2004 23:52									#511
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Here's a good quote by Kidicious:

Screw hard work. The whole point of communism is so that we won't have to work so hard anymore.

	30-07-2004 23:53									#512
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT What, because you don't want to take the effort to (dis)prove whatever it is your accusing Arrian of?

I don't like to be exploited, in case that's news to you. I was accused of something, and no one wants to prove those accusations. What makes you think that I would be arsed into trying to prove those accusations are false, and how do you propose that I do that anyway?

	30-07-2004 23:57									#513
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John, the link doesn't work.

It's a funny one, and I remember it, although it doesn't speak to my current disagreement with Kid.

I'm looking for more of the "rich people are lazy bastards who exploit people like me because they don't do any REAL work, and I do, because invention and management isn't real work." [/paraphrase of course]

-Arrian

	30-07-2004 23:58									#514
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Holy ****! 500+ posts. We've done it again...

-Arrian

	30-07-2004 23:58									#515
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You don't like to work, and one of your ways to get around it is to reclassify it as "exploitation". And, no, that's not news to me. We went over this in a number of threads.

	30-07-2004 23:58									#516
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quote: Originally posted by Arrian I have presented evidence that you are, in fact, classist. I have also posed a question you have not yet answered: if you're a communist, are you not therefore supposed to be classist? What's wrong with it from a communist perspective? -Arrian

Look. People are all the same (by saying that I'm demonstrating that I am not classist), but rich people have less incentive to work and more incentive to support an exploitive system. The former is due to their diminishing marginal utility of work, and the latter has to do with their partiality towards themselves.

I'm not saying that ALL rich people are selfish and lazy.

	31-07-2004 00:00									#517
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Long live the ESTATE Tax!

	31-07-2004 00:01									#518
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Here's a good quote by Kidicious: Screw hard work. The whole point of communism is so that we won't have to work so hard anymore.

This proves that I'm not a classist. Thank you JohnT.

	31-07-2004 00:02									#519
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You've moderated your position since the early days, then. That's not the position you took a year ago. Good to see you've accepted that there are hard-working rich people.

I think we're done with this (especially since the thread should already be closed due to # of posts).

-Arrian

	31-07-2004 00:04									#520
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ESTATE TAX!

	31-07-2004 00:04									#521
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quote: Originally posted by Arrian John, the link doesn't work. It's a funny one, and I remember it, although it doesn't speak to my current disagreement with Kid. I'm looking for more of the "rich people are lazy bastards who exploit people like me because they don't do any REAL work, and I do, because invention and management isn't real work." [/paraphrase of course] -Arrian

Hmmm. Try this one.

I "linked to post" on the first one, don't know why it didn't work...

	31-07-2004 00:04									#522
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quote: Originally posted by Arrian You've moderated your position since the early days, then. That's not the position you took a year ago. Good to see you've accepted that there are hard-working rich people.

I never said there weren't. My grandfather was the hardest working man that I've ever known.

	31-07-2004 00:05									#523
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Long live the ESTATE Tax!

Death to the Death Tax!!

	31-07-2004 00:06									#524
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@ GePap.

THREADJACK

	31-07-2004 00:07									#525
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Well, since there has never been sucha thing...



SAY NO TO FALSEHOODS AND LIES. SAY NO TO "DEATH TAX. SUPPORT THE TRUTH, SUPPORT THE ESTATE TAX

	31-07-2004 00:08									#526
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Have you just learned HTML or something GePap?

	31-07-2004 00:08									#527
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Oooh, John, I think that might be the thread I was looking for!

-Arrian

	31-07-2004 00:11									#528
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quote: Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe Have you just learned HTML or something GePap?

No, I like to act as such when tackling pet peeves, such as the distortion of the "death tax".

I say proponents of this usage should kill themselves in protest

	31-07-2004 00:11									#529
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Hmm, maybe not... some good responses in there from Che, though re: optimistic/pessimistic view of human nature...

-Arrian

	31-07-2004 00:14									#530
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I bet this will be the longest thread ever. What is the record?

	31-07-2004 00:15									#531
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800+. No way this beats it.

Let's call it the GePap tax.

	31-07-2004 00:18									#532
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Thats an even more repulsive name than the Death Tax.

	31-07-2004 00:19									#533
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT 800+. No way this beats it. Let's call it the GePap tax.

As long as all proceeds go to me, fine. If they don't,

ESTATE TAX

	31-07-2004 00:21									#534
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quote: Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe Thats an even more repulsive name than the Death Tax.

* GePap sets up a new tax, called the Oglethorpe death tax. Asks the mafia to collect.

	31-07-2004 00:21									#535
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT 800+.

Wow. What was that thread?

	31-07-2004 00:22									#536
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Gepap's right. It's an estate tax. Calling it the "death tax" is just political spin to make it sound bad and try to get rid of it. And you guys know it. Not that there is anything particularly strange about political spin on an issue. This just appears to be Gepap's pet peeve for the day.

-Arrian

	31-07-2004 00:22									#537
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quote: Originally posted by Kidicious Wow. What was that thread?

Lancer's first MBT (Main Battle Tank) thread.

We also had a thread go to 600+ in the past couple of months. I think one of the Michael Moore ones...

	31-07-2004 00:23									#538
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The longest threads are well beyond 1000 posts. some are 1500 long but they are not OT. I thought we had had OT threads longer than that.

	31-07-2004 00:23									#539
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You forget they already are on the Oglethorpe payroll for distributing Sex toys to Jackson Missippi.

	31-07-2004 00:25									#540
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btw, I'm not an accountant. I'm just starting my upper division accountancy classes this semester.