Man I was just riffing on your response.

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Man I was just riffing on your response.

alcaray — 7/5/2006 3:35:34 PM (archived)

And it is certainly true that leaders the world over and through all of recorded history have maintained power by exaggerating threats and assigning scapegoats. I can't imagine anyone would be so stupid as to think Republicans were immune to the lures of these tactics. Read a paper.

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Eating Media Pablum - Lindy - 7/2/2006 5:14:20 PM
- Nonplussing over Goebbels appeal to the left. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/4/2006 1:49:47 AM
  - re: Nonplussing over Goebbels appeal to the left. - ER - 7/4/2006 2:13:20 AM
    - No. - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2006 4:19:07 PM
      - re: No. - ER - 7/4/2006 5:50:14 PM
        
        Still no. - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2006 9:27:07 PM
        
        Not even maybe? - ER - 7/4/2006 11:35:58 PM
        
        re: Not even maybe? - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2006 3:06:12 AM
        
        My work here is done. - ER - 7/5/2006 4:26:57 AM
        
        structured conflict - Robert - 7/5/2006 5:54:45 PM
        
        "go negative" - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2006 5:58:58 PM
        
        Answer: The Big Lie? - Robert - 7/5/2006 7:49:05 PM
        
        Adios Muchachos - ER - 7/5/2006 8:33:29 PM
        
        Diffusing tension...... - Lindy - 7/5/2006 10:58:38 PM
        
        How dare you!!!! - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2006 9:42:18 PM
        
        re: Adios Muchachos - ER - 7/5/2006 10:07:13 PM
        
        Ain't it the truth! (n/t) - Robert - 7/5/2006 10:22:05 PM
        
        re: Adios Muchachos - Lindy - 7/5/2006 10:01:02 PM
        
        conservatives are very sensitive about that relationship... - alcaray - 7/5/2006 9:53:38 PM
        
        Oh that old thing - Robert - 7/5/2006 9:25:46 PM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2006 7:30:43 PM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - Robert - 7/6/2006 10:40:53 PM
        
        re: Politics - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 6:14:27 PM
        
        Interesting analysis - Lindy - 7/7/2006 1:34:44 PM
        
        re: Interesting analysis - Robert - 7/7/2006 4:33:25 PM
        
        re: Interesting - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 6:24:49 PM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - gbaikie - 7/7/2006 12:23:26 AM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - Robert - 7/7/2006 4:48:17 PM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - gbaikie - 7/7/2006 8:32:19 PM
        
        re: Oh that old thing - gbaikie - 7/7/2006 8:39:30 PM
        
        Interesting results on that other one. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2006 9:25:09 PM
        
        I like it. It has the ER seal of approval. (n/t) - ER - 7/6/2006 12:52:12 PM
        
        re: Answer: The Big Lie? - gbaikie - 7/5/2006 8:27:09 PM
        
        Tom's obsession - Lindy - 7/5/2006 5:01:09 PM
        
        Check out Lindy lecturing me on obsessions... ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2006 5:50:27 PM
        
        New Maps of Hell - ER - 7/5/2006 5:47:26 PM
        
        Flattening the world... - podrock - 7/6/2006 4:43:22 AM
        
        Don't you dare go away! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 7/5/2006 4:42:09 PM
        
        Not fade away - ER - 7/5/2006 11:40:08 PM
        
        Bigger than a Caddilac - Laurie Street - 7/6/2006 2:51:43 AM
        
        And bigger than a Cadillac, too - Laurie Street - 7/6/2006 2:52:58 AM
        
        Tom's other reply - channeled - Daniel - 7/5/2006 9:10:12 AM
        
        (people reading this at work should turn off the sound) (n/t) - D. - 7/5/2006 9:26:24 AM
        
        re: My work here is done. - gbaikie - 7/5/2006 8:26:19 AM
        
        Actually... - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2006 5:55:58 PM
        
        Washingtonmonthly.com - Robert - 7/5/2006 8:40:53 PM
        
        On the other hand... - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2006 7:35:25 PM
        
        re: On the third hand... - Robert - 7/6/2006 10:47:49 PM
        
        re: On the third hand... - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 6:27:20 PM
        
        drafting leaders - Robert - 7/8/2006 2:55:00 AM
        
        re: leaders - Tom Brosz - 7/8/2006 3:15:07 PM
        
        re: leaders - gbaikie - 7/8/2006 8:38:06 PM
        
        re: On the third hand... - gbaikie - 7/6/2006 11:38:20 PM
        
        I want no party to feel entitled to rule America (n/t) - alcaray - 7/6/2006 9:19:52 PM
        
        Probably take a few more year of Dems losing badly, I guess (n/t) - gb - 7/6/2006 9:32:13 PM
        
        I can't figure out a connection between my post and your response. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/6/2006 11:45:40 PM
        
        re: Washingtonmonthly.com - gbaikie - 7/6/2006 2:40:56 AM
        
        "Show me you are a not complete fool" - Robert - 7/6/2006 3:53:55 AM
        
        re: "Show me you are not a complete fool" - gbaikie - 7/6/2006 6:37:30 AM
        
        I hope not. - Tom Brosz - 7/5/2006 7:27:05 AM
        
        Thanks, Tom. I can live with that. (n/t) - ER - 7/5/2006 11:09:28 AM
        
        Reasoned response ER - Lindy - 7/5/2006 12:43:09 AM
    - "Elisee Reclus and Pyotr Kropotkin were both anarchist geographers" - R.L. - 7/4/2006 4:45:32 AM
      - re: "Elisee Reclus and Pyotr Kropotkin were both anarchist geographers" - ER - 7/4/2006 5:06:20 AM
  - Yuk yuk - Lindy Goebbels - 7/4/2006 1:59:00 AM
- So you are saying the threat of terrorism is a lie? (n/t) - SteveS - 7/3/2006 6:30:40 PM
  - Not any more - Lindy - 7/3/2006 8:03:08 PM
    - So you think Bush started the threat of terrorism? (n/t) - SteveS - 7/3/2006 8:38:32 PM
      - Of course not - Lindy - 7/4/2006 12:47:07 AM
        
        What's even more obvious - Lindy - 7/4/2006 1:02:52 AM
  - Exactly! It is all a plot of the MSDs (mainstream dictionaries). (n/t) - alcaray - 7/3/2006 7:04:19 PM
    - I thought it was a reasonable question (n/t) - SteveS - 7/3/2006 8:36:40 PM
      - Can't imagine why. Pretty insulting to Lindy, or to everyone's intellegence. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/3/2006 9:00:07 PM
        
        Insulting, how? - SteveS - 7/3/2006 11:42:36 PM
        
        So you are a traitor to our country? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/5/2006 3:28:42 PM
- Interesting you should use an unsourced quote to illustrate this. - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2006 5:54:22 PM
- Here's one even more relevant - Lindy - 7/2/2006 5:16:28 PM
  - re: Here's one even more relevant - gbaikie - 7/3/2006 12:24:52 PM
    - Ahhh, Geoff............... - Publius - 7/3/2006 5:33:45 PM
      - re: Ahhh, Geoff............... - gbaikie - 7/3/2006 9:39:00 PM
        
        think you are wrong there. - alcaray - 7/3/2006 9:52:46 PM
        
        Discerning truth - Lindy - 7/4/2006 12:57:40 AM
        
        re: think you are wrong there. - gbaikie - 7/4/2006 12:21:24 AM
        
        Man I was just riffing on your response. - alcaray - 7/5/2006 3:35:34 PM
        
        re: Man I was just riffing on your response. - gbaikie - 7/5/2006 8:10:19 PM
        
        zzzzzz...zzzzzz...zzzzzz... (n/t) - alcaray - 7/5/2006 8:44:20 PM
    - Lindy 2; Geoff 0 (n/t) - alcaray - 7/3/2006 4:16:50 PM
    - Manson wasn't interested in ruling the world - Lindy - 7/3/2006 1:52:24 PM
  - Bush closing Federal libraries - Lindy - 7/2/2006 10:45:05 PM

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