190 replies to this topic

[Argus]

thats true. rick i worked hard planting trees not for my own good but for the good of every human of the global village. im not a millionaire so my contribution means nothing to the pigs. this is a disgusting world when i get riduculed for planting earth saving trees and others make millions for building bombs.

Hmm. I don't think you're being ridiculed for planting trees. You're being ridiculed for using out of date Socialist cant that even the European Socialists tossed away decades ago. I'm not even sure you're a serious poster since no one with serious political interests talks that way any more. It sounds almost like a cliche, or like someone pretending to be a Socialist in order to discredit the whole philosophy.

[Argus]

It was dirty back breaking work from dawn to dusk. You ever work doing physical labor from dawn to dusk. No. You should try it.

Didn't Marx say "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"?

If hard, manual labour is all you have the ability to do, then by all means, do it. Some of us are considerably more skilled, or are paid to think and decide. And according to Marx, that's as it should be, right? Yet here you are trying to pretend your work is somehow more noble than that of others? Tsk, tsk.

[Argus]

I plant trees every year while keeping my carbon footprint low.

I just bought a nice, big, roomy car, with powerful AC and leather seats.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right?

I need heated, power seats and satellite radio!

[Argus]

You know, I saw one of those CBC panels this afternoon and they talking about the student strike. Basically, and this is the CBC here, the panelists couldn't figure out what Charest could possibly ever do that would actually satisfy this disjointed group of young people. No matter what he offered, they seemed to agree, it would not be enough. So this is more protest for the sake of protest, and people in Quebec are getting tired of it. They want the children to go play now and stop making noise.

[Derek L]

Canadian Forces, and you are 100% right, I was born with a silver spoon, In a communist nation. My parents moved to Canada and have worked like dogs to provide for their kids. Everything I have since I was 18 I have earned through a series of factory and warehouse jobs and service in the Canadian Forces. Everything I have I have paid for with labour, I have been hurt multiple times, torn ligaments, muscles and fractured bones and yet I still managed to do my job. You can cry to me about your hurt leg but you seem like an inexperienced little kid who cannot last 5 minutes in the real world without complaining about the big bad conservatives.

Don’t sweat it, sit back and enjoy the:

[socialist]

You don't earn the right to vote by being 'considerate', whatever that means. You earn it, or should earn it, by contributing to that society, as in paying taxes, for example. It sounds, from what you say, that you are not a contributor, but in fact, that you are a net loss, as far as society goes. I.e., society must support you. Which means those who pay taxes, those you are sneering at and name-calling, must support you and pay for the food you eat.

It doesn't sound like you're all that considerate, actually.

You're good at making assumptions. I contribute way more to society than you.

[Derek L]

You're good at making assumptions. I contribute way more to society than you.

How do you know that? Clairvoyance?

[socialist]

How do you know that? Clairvoyance?

I can make assumptions too.

[Derek L]

I can make assumptions too.

I just knew you were going to say that......

[socialist]

I just knew you were going to say that......

Wow, aren't you something special.

[Derek L]

Wow, aren't you something special.

I know.

[Signals.Cpl]

I can make assumptions too.

You make nothing BUT assumptions.

[Rick]

So this is more protest for the sake of protest, and people in Quebec are getting tired of it.

No they're not. The number of supporters keeps growing on a daily basis.

The only ones tired of it are Charest's Conservative friends...

[Signals.Cpl]

No they're not. The number of supporters keeps growing on a daily basis.

The only ones tired of it are Charest's Conservative friends...

You mean the people who pay taxes? Damn straight we are pissed.

[Claudius]

No they're not. The number of supporters keeps growing on a daily basis.

The only ones tired of it are Charest's Conservative friends...

You have numbers to support this? Of course you don't, because it's not true. They've been in the minority since day one.

Les répondants, à 66%, sont pour la décision du gouvernement de recourir à une loi spéciale, et 34% sont d'avis contraire. Les Québécois sont aussi, généralement, davantage d'accord avec le gouvernement qu'avec les étudiants. Quand on leur demande de choisir entre l'offre de Québec (hausse des droits de scolarité étalée sur sept ans) et celle des étudiants (le gel), 68% des répondants appuient le gouvernement et 32% seulement se rangent du côté des étudiants. On observe que 53% des gens de la région de Québec sont «totalement» d'accord avec la position de Québec. C'est bien plus que la moyenne québécoise de 44%.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201205/18/01-4526881-sondage-crop-la-presse-les-quebecois-en-faveur-de-la-ligne-dure.php

And if you don't speak french:

And it is with Monsieur et Madame that the solution may lie. The real strength in numbers resides with the “silent majority.” According to the latest CROP poll, 66% of Quebecers support the government’s new law; 68% support the tuition hike; and 60% believe the government’s general position is justified. Another poll by Leger Marketing found public support for the new law is divided, but that a majority of Quebecers still support the government’s position in the crisis.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/23/tasha-kheiriddin-quebecs-silent-majority-needs-to-make-some-noise-about-protests/

Edited by Claudius, 25 May 2012 - 08:29 PM.