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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #720 on: February 04, 2008, 06:00:51 PM »
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Widewing, you realize, of course, that what you describe is just communism, right?  Big fan?


“I was quite shocked at the sum of money young Vanderbilt squandered on what he so ineloquently classified as 'fine art'. I examined several pieces of this agglomeration and was rather taken back by the lack of quality, and the lack of inspiration therein.

My suggestion that such a sum would be of far better service providing relief for widows and orphan children was met with a gaze of abject incredulity that I was at once fearful that Alfred would become immediately apoplectic.”

Theodore Roosevelt, in personal correspondence, 1903.  

I suppose TR was also a communist....


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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #721 on: February 04, 2008, 08:17:05 PM »
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“I was quite shocked at the sum of money young Vanderbilt squandered on what he so ineloquently classified as 'fine art'. I examined several pieces of this agglomeration and was rather taken back by the lack of quality, and the lack of inspiration therein.

My suggestion that such a sum would be of far better service providing relief for widows and orphan children was met with a gaze of abject incredulity that I was at once fearful that Alfred would become immediately apoplectic.”

Theodore Roosevelt, in personal correspondence, 1903.  

I suppose TR was also a communist....


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In that sense he was.  It is very communistic in nature thinking you have ANY right to tell anyone else how to spend their money.  Or even get offended or pissed off with what they do with it.


Don't like it?  Fine!  Raise / Earn your own 20 million dollars and quit your communistic *****in'.
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #722 on: February 04, 2008, 08:28:52 PM »
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In that sense he was.  It is very communistic in nature thinking you have ANY right to tell anyone else how to spend their money.  Or even get offended or pissed off with what they do with it.


Don't like it?  Fine!  Raise / Earn your own 20 million dollars and quit your communistic *****in'.



and it is very...weak willed, to not tell someone else what you think of them and their actions,  because it is potentially communist, merely because it is what they do with there money.

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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #723 on: February 04, 2008, 08:30:33 PM »
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“I was quite shocked at the sum of money young Vanderbilt squandered on what he so ineloquently classified as 'fine art'. I examined several pieces of this agglomeration and was rather taken back by the lack of quality, and the lack of inspiration therein.

My suggestion that such a sum would be of far better service providing relief for widows and orphan children was met with a gaze of abject incredulity that I was at once fearful that Alfred would become immediately apoplectic.”

Theodore Roosevelt, in personal correspondence, 1903.  

I suppose TR was also a communist....


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That's certainly a communist sentiment.  The difference between TR and you saying it, of course, is that you have the benefit of over a hundred years of communism in action to refer to, Widewing.

Or do you need more than 105 years?
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« Reply #724 on: February 04, 2008, 08:54:16 PM »
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Earn your own 20 million dollars  


by "earn" do you mean underpaying your workers or by buying out your competition and creating a monopoly or inheriting it or all of the above?

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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #725 on: February 04, 2008, 09:14:30 PM »
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In that sense he was.  It is very communistic in nature thinking you have ANY right to tell anyone else how to spend their money.  

Communists were telling everyone how to spend money?
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« Reply #726 on: February 04, 2008, 09:18:34 PM »
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #728 on: February 04, 2008, 10:17:36 PM »
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That's certainly a communist sentiment.  The difference between TR and you saying it, of course, is that you have the benefit of over a hundred years of communism in action to refer to, Widewing.

Or do you need more than 105 years?


So, a social conscience is communism? Urging someone to consider doing something for those who are in need rather than engaging in pointless self-gratification is an example of communism? Really? Someone should have informed Jesus before he stuck his neck out. I think he would have been appalled had he known that he was actually preaching communist sentiment.

If you and lasersailor wish to debate something, then put together something of substance, rather than two sentences of low brow, light-weight trolling. Define something specific about TR that was communistic in nature, then support it with some facts and analysis. See if you can do it on your own and avoid plagiarizing (you know, cut and pasting of some other person's work).

Did you know that Alfred Vanderbilt drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania? A non-swimmer, Alfred gave his life vest to a female passenger. This woman was not provided with a life vest for herself and her baby. Vanderbilt promised that he would find her one. Upon not being able to do so, he removed his vest and strapped it on the lady. His body was one of 700 or so not recovered. The lady and child survived. He gave away something more valuable than his many millions. I guess he died a good communist, eh?


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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #729 on: February 04, 2008, 11:32:14 PM »
I don't see how there is anything "communistic" about expressing your views on whether someone has wasted their money on a silly endeavor or that said money could be better spent in another way.  That would be expressing an opinion, nothing more.

Forcing someone at gunpoint or upon fear of imprisonment to spend the money the way you say they should is another matter.

I don't see that what TR or WW said implied any type of coercion, and therefore comparing it to "communistic thought" is silly.
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #730 on: February 05, 2008, 12:01:35 AM »
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In that sense he was.


Not in any sense. Why do you post such silliness?

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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #731 on: February 05, 2008, 07:48:38 AM »
I'm seeing very little "funny" or "pictures" all of a sudden...

Can't ANY[/i] thread in the O'Club stay away from becoming a political/ethical/racial argument!?!
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #732 on: February 05, 2008, 08:16:14 AM »
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Can't ANY[/i] thread in the O'Club stay away from becoming a political/ethical/racial argument!?!


Apparently not.

I wants teh funnay pics!
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #733 on: February 05, 2008, 10:24:06 AM »
Man, leave it to some squeakers to screw up a funny picture thread. :huh

Why don't you guys just go have a nice hot cup of STFU and let the pix move on.
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Re: Funny Picture thread.
« Reply #734 on: February 05, 2008, 11:02:41 AM »








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