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Why it is essential to oppose your own team

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Friday, August 19, 2011 06:09
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:45 AM

DREAMTROVE


So we can get people like this into office. This is what I mean by "better democrats."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/08/new-york-subpoenas-ene
rgy-companies-over-fracking/41439
/

Eric Schneiderman was perhaps the only democrat I voted for last election, and he has not disappointed. All my third party votes help to weaken the corporatist candidates by comparison, sending a signal to the party that this is what I want.

Anyway, here's the story:

NY Att. gen. Subpoenas energy companies over bogus yield claims.


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:16 AM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!


Very nicely done Mr. Schneiderman!

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:20 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Of course it's absolutely essential to oppose your own "side" at times, cause otherwise it comes down to "just following orders" and go-along-to-get-along, the song of the blind god.

I sincerely doubt you could find a single anarchist around here who's actually active in the community who HASN'T had a verbal flaying at my hands, something which no few of em, especially the more nihilistic ones, ain't real pleased with.

Despite that, and the general cat-herding lack of cooperation amongst them, anarchists tend to make alliances based on mutual benefit even if it grinds their nerves to do it - other political factions could take a lesson from that, but they rarely do.

-Frem
PS. Perhaps because Anarchy doesn't really HAVE a concept of treason, has no party lines to cross, maybe...

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Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:53 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:



PS. Perhaps because Anarchy doesn't really HAVE a concept of treason, has no party lines to cross, maybe...




Oh, from what I've seen I think they have a very clear concept of treason: that which is a direct danger to the country. NOT a danger to the government, but a danger to the COUNTRY. And both major parties have been guilty.

It's that they don't have a sense of loyalty, at least when it comes to any particular political party.

I tend to vote Democratic, but can't recall having ever voted a straight ticket. My vote is theirs to lose, but lose it the party damned well can. And has in the past. But if there's a race in which the major-party candidate (from either party) is running against only a libertarian or a Green candidate, or pretty much any other third-party candidate, I'll vote for the third-party guy pretty regularly, simply to send that message.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Friday, August 19, 2011 6:09 AM

DREAMTROVE


A lot of folk in office are aiding and abetting this terorist attack on america, but a lot more are doing nothing to defend it, which is probably also treason,


That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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