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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:39 AM
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If you behave like a ROMANOV long enough...
...then the people you're treating like SERFS will eventually invent something similar to BOLSHEVIKS, who will depose you, line you up against a wall, shoot you and ALL of your family, then throw your bodies down a hole.

Mind you, what rises out of such social upheaval is not necessarily the most desirable result: recall the archetypes such as the Reign of Terror in France and the Communist disaster of the 20's and 30's. But we don't seem to learn, do we?
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:42 AM
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1. communist distaster of the 1920s...

...happened because Lenin took over the movement and started setting up huge, centralized bureacracy. But that's another story.

Nice analogy!
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:45 AM
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2. Well, Stalin wasn't much help.
I guess I just want to know why the so-called Inteligensia/Aristocracy of this country can't figure this out? If they want HAPPY serfs that aren't planning revolt, then this sure isn't the way to go about it.
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:45 AM
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3. Does that make Karl Rove *'s personal "Rasputin"...?
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:58 AM
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5. More like their POTEMKIN.
Rasputin was a perverted anarchist. Not that he had any particular philosophy, mind you.

Rove is busy propping up the NeoRomanov Dream that is Bushism. I'd say that makes him Potemkin.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 09:53 AM
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4. interesting analogy. I prefer comparison to Soviet's
especially since many Neo-Cons are former Trotskists and Soviet 'experts'.



One party system
Corrupt cronyism leading to national disaster
complete control of media
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