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Spiffor
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CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:37
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Originally posted by Az
A) Thanks for Spiff for one of the only normal posts in the thread! 
B) Spiff, I am more interested in the people that are of your own political affiliation, but they're DUM LOL. Those who argue with you, but their argument level makes it seem as if they're arguing against you. |
That would get me banned
Well, an anecdote. Dumbness is not exactly involved, but neither is smartness 
During the referendum campaign, I was discussing with a voter who has all the bearings of a believer in the system (the pro-system people were all "Oui"). He was supportive of pretty much every economic aspect of the constitution, as he had a very capitalistic mindset. However, he was open to discussion, and there was one chance to make him change his mind by adressing how flawed the text was, from a legal perspective (extremely long and detailed, impossible to change in any meaningful way).
Another commie with whome I distributed the fliers comes mid-discussion and begins saying that the "Oui" will mean the death of our public services, that it will mean more competition and more delocalisations, etc...
Not only did that voter know full well that such statements were exagerated garbage (we agreed on such, as I had to look moderate to attempt to convince him), but he also agreed fullspeed with the phenomena that my colleague denounced. My colleague also took much time to make his horribly ordinary exposé, without letting neither him or me speak.
Useless to say, after such a long time, the voter wasn't up for continuing our previous discussion. He was also even more willing than before to vote "Oui" 
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Cort Haus
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London
Apr 2002
time: 05:37
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Here's a story - from two anti-war marches in London prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion: My position is anti-interventionist generally rather than anti-that-war-in-particular. It is certainly not anti-Israel, as the organisers seemed to automatically assume everybody on the march was, or should be.
The first march mostly involved standing in a queue of about 2 million people on a hot September on the way to Hyde Park. Around Piccadilly Circus where the two great rivers of demonstrators met there were a gang of hotheads jumping up and down on a bus shelter, waving Palestinian flags, thumping their chests and generally doing that Big Angry number. I was p*ssed off, as I wasn't there to support that cause.
By the time we got to Hyde Park we'd missed the speakers, but on the second march a few months later there were less marchers and we got to Hyde Park in time for the speakers. However, as they were all people like Ken Livingstone and George Galloway, again we were assaulted by furious anti-Israeli invective.
Of course I didn't realise before then that the Stop The War Coalition was an alliance of the SWP and the Islamist MAB. The left think they are using the Islamists to fill the gaping hole in their own consituency, but in fact it's the other way round, and Islamists are using large sections of the Left (and even the establishment) to advance their agenda.
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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:37
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Che:
Shouldn't that be anti-this war?
I've never understood antiwar commies.
Last edited by Ben Kenobi on 23-08-2005 at 23:38
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23-08-2005 05:28
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