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notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:16

#241

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger

Uh huh. So now I can line up everything that's happened in the capitalistic parts of the world and line it up against that stuff? Nazi Germany, Clearances of Native Americans, etc.?

Try lining up everything that happened in the US since 1945. It would be fair. You no interested in fair?

KrazyHorse

King

Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:16

#242

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Or is it only okay to lump half-a-dozen different systems and/or countries together when they're communists?

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:19

#243

Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Why? The Khmer was aligned with the Chinese, who hated the Russians' guts. The Vietnamese were aligned with the Russians. Ergo the Vietnamese and Khmer were not part of the same system.

You're trying to list atrocities and on one side you have USSR, East Bloc countries, China, NK, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, while on the other you have the US. Period. Interesting. Remind me to never play cards while you're dealing.

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:21

#244

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OK. Add Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Belguim, Austrailia, New Zealand, India, who else?... OK Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, Portugal, Italy, Austria, hmmmm. are there more? probably a few, but that'll do for a start.

OK KH. Show us the blood since 1945!

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:24

#245

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger
Why? The Khmer was aligned with the Chinese, who hated the Russians' guts. The Vietnamese were aligned with the Russians. Ergo the Vietnamese and Khmer were not part of the same system.

You're trying to list atrocities and on one side you have USSR, East Bloc countries, China, NK, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, while on the other you have the US. Period. Interesting. Remind me to never play cards while you're dealing.

You forgot to mention China. Oh, no! You did! You mentioned 'aligned with the Chinese'.

Do you think I, or any other Westerner who ever cared saw a difference between Mao and Stalin?

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:25

#246

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a) You're still only up to ~30% of my list. Maybe you should add Guatemala, Chile, Turkey, El Salvador, Haiti, South Africa et al to that list. If you're still short you can lump in Pakistan, Argentina and a few more biggies.

b)Where? Inside those countries? Remember when I stated that:

quote:
I do not deny that the USSR was, generally, worse than the US internally (I would rather have the US governing me as a US citizen than the USSR governing me as a Soviet citizen)

notyoueither

Deity

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:26

#247

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Ugh. You're just pissed the wrong(?) guys won.

GeneralTacticus

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of Melbourne, Australia
Dec 2001
time: 15:22

01-09-2002 12:27

#248

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quote:
OK. Add Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Belguim, Austrailia, New Zealand, India, who else?... OK Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, Portugal, Italy, Austria, hmmmm. are there more? probably a few, but that'll do for a start.

OK KH. Show us the blood since 1945!

Algeria, Kenya, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissua, Angola, plus Spain and Portugal themselves (dictatorships). Then there are all the atrocities committed with Western approval by nations you left off the list.

Last edited by GeneralTacticus on 01-09-2002 at 12:43

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:27

#249

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Mao and Stalin were similar; they were contemporaries and allies. But for almost all of the rest of their histories the countries listed ran very differently. If you can't see the difference between Pol Pot and Castro, then you'll forgive me if I can't see the difference between Hitler and Dubya.

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:28

#250

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quote:
Originally posted by notyoueither
Ugh. You're just pissed the wrong(?) guys won.

I'm glad the USSR fell (would rather it have transformed itself into a better country than either old USSR or US, but what the hell) and I'm counting the days till the Chinese and NK disappear.

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:31

#251

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The point, my dear frog, is not the difference between Pol Pot and Castro. It is between Kennedy and Stalin.

Your choice. I prefer Kennedy and even Reagan, thank you very much.

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:33

#252

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger

I'm glad the USSR fell (would rather it have transformed itself into a better country than either old USSR or US, but what the hell) and I'm counting the days till the Chinese and NK disappear.

Why do you think it isn't doing that (the Russians into a better country)?

Never underestimate the Russian people. Many people have lost a lot by doing so.

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:33

#253

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Why not? Sweden, for instance, was better than either the USSR or the US.

So was (is?) Cuba.

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:35

#254

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quote:
Originally posted by notyoueither

Why do you think it isn't doing that (the Russians into a better country)?

Never underestimate the Russian people. Many people have lost a lot by doing so.

If it is, then it's because they're building it from the ground up. They lost a hell of a lot by undergoing their revolution. Would have been better if they could have gone from being authoritarian collectivist to democratic collectivist instead of going to anarcho-capitalist and moving from there...

GeneralTacticus

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of Melbourne, Australia
Dec 2001
time: 15:22

01-09-2002 12:36

#255

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Just to elaborate further about Brazil:

quote:
originally posted by Dom Pedro II
Since this started with Brazil... In 1964, the Brazilian military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Brazil. What most Americans do not know is that the U.S. 7th fleet was off the coast of Joao Pessoa ready to HELP the Brazilian military. After the coup was over, did the Americans press the military regime to begin setting up free elections? Hardly! The CIA began selling torture devices, which my father personally saw with the good old "Made in the USA" printed right on them. They trained the Brazilian police in numerous torture techniques, so that when the regime was lifted in 1985, 10,000 people had been slaughtered. In Chile it was 15,000 by the U.S.-backed Pinochet, in Argentina another 10,000.

He posted this at http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...ighlight=Brazil

quote:
The point, my dear frog, is not the difference between Pol Pot and Castro. It is between Kennedy and Stalin.

Your choice. I prefer Kennedy and even Reagan, thank you very much.

Is anyone here arguing otherwise?

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:36

#256

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The Swedes are ruled out of contention for Abba.

/Edit. And I suck at spleing.

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:37

#257

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You misspelled

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:38

#258

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger

If it is, then it's because they're building it from the ground up. They lost a hell of a lot by undergoing their revolution. Would have been better if they could have gone from being authoritarian collectivist to democratic collectivist instead of going to anarcho-capitalist and moving from there...

They will find their way. The masses often defy the pundits when given thier will. The Americans did.

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:39

#259

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How long will they have to pay for it, though? It's been a decade and their living standards are still in the crapper. Lenin managed to piece the country back together in half that time...

KrazyHorse

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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:43

#260

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Holy ****. We've just posted 4 pages of crap...

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:44

#261

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quote:
Originally posted by GeneralTacticus

quote:
The point, my dear frog, is not the difference between Pol Pot and Castro. It is between Kennedy and Stalin.

Your choice. I prefer Kennedy and even Reagan, thank you very much.

Is anyone here arguing otherwise?

re citations of the statements of other posters. Sorry, not accepted as sources. Would you accept my word on anything?

As for the Kennedy-Stalin thing... I thought that was the point of the last 3 pages. Silly me.

notyoueither

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:45

#262

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger
Holy ****. We've just posted 4 pages of crap...

GeneralTacticus

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Dec 2001
time: 15:22

01-09-2002 12:46

#263

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quote:

re citations of the statements of other posters. Sorry, not accepted as sources. Would you accept my word on anything?

As for the Kennedy-Stalin thing... I thought that was the point of the last 3 pages. Silly me.

Not Kennedy vs. Stalin, US vs. USSR. Big difference.

KrazyHorse

King

Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:22

01-09-2002 12:48

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Like I said: Kennedy as a US citizen vs. Satlin as a Soviet: advantage Kennedy

Kennedy vs. Stalin as a Vietnamese peasant: deuce

notyoueither

Deity

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Aug 2001
time: 22:22

01-09-2002 12:48

#265

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quote:
Originally posted by Frogger
How long will they have to pay for it, though? It's been a decade and their living standards are still in the crapper. Lenin managed to piece the country back together in half that time...

Not much longer. Freedom does not take too long to sort itself out.

It will not be smooth, but people, ordinary people, will become affluent before very long. Then they're hooked!

No pushing back that crack once it's smoked!