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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:05 PM
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Why do some DUers spell it 'Amerika' insted of 'America?' (nt)
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:11 PM
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1. Becuase they're trying to imply that it's become fascist/Stalinist.
Edited on Sat Sep-16-06 10:17 PM by seawolf
People like that... *shakes head*

It's corporatist.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:14 PM
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3. Read the Patriot Acts in their entirety and you'll see the country is
fascist, or at the very least the government has full provisions to legally turn this into a fascist police state.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:17 PM
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4. I just edited my post.
Corporatist, or at least my definition means that the Republican fucksocks in government will do whatever is best for the corporations. If that infringes on our civil liberties, they don't give a shit about constitutionality.

And, BTW, you're not an idiot. Think I'll change my post title.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:19 PM
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5. "Fucksock"
I like that. :)

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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:12 PM
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2. Because Patriot Acts I & II have destroyed all our civil liberties.
Much like Hitler did in Nazi Germany.
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Quagmire05 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:37 PM
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6. but why spell it with a k?
I still don't see a link to the spelling?
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:40 PM
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7. How about "Ameriga?"
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Quagmire05 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:44 PM
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9. I just figured it out
Amerika is just America in German duh brain fart on me
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:48 PM
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12. No. I don't think you have figured it out yet.
"Fascist, or at the very least the government has full provisions to legally turn this into a fascist police state.

Corporatist, or at least my definition means that the Republican fucksocks in government will do whatever is best for the corporations. If that infringes on our civil liberties, they don't give a shit about constitutionality.

And, BTW, you're not an idiot. Think I'll change my post title."

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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:19 PM
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15. That was seawolf's response to me.
Quagmire had nothing to do with that. Floog, read before you decide to be an ass to someone.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:22 PM
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16. My response to Quagmire had nothing to di with seawolf's response to you.
And stop calling me names.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:44 PM
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10. In German, "America" is spelled "Amerika." nt
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:44 PM
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11. It's the German spelling
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:40 PM
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8. Some spell it Amerikkka....
KKK, KWIM?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:59 PM
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13. In a country such as Amerika, there is bound to be a hell-of-a-lot of food
lying around just waiting to be ripped off.


Abbie Hoffman's STEAL THIS BOOK
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:02 PM
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14. Because, Amerika is the world's greatest Dumocracy!
Edited on Sat Sep-16-06 11:18 PM by Guy Fawkes
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:34 PM
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17. There was a novel by Kafka with that name.
Wikipedians describe the major themes:

The novel is more explicitly humorous and slightly more realistic than most of Kafka's works, but it shares the same motifs of an oppressive and intangible system putting the protagonist repeatedly in bizarre situations. Specifically, within Amerika, a scorned individual often must plead his innocence in front of remote and mysterious figures of authority.
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