Ten Reasons I am No Longer a Leftist

[Zipperfish]

I'd also like to add that I'm proud of our charters of rights legislated by Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

And I also fully support all government services and legislations to help lesser human races and genders.

It's hard competing agains white males for good jobs I understand.

Did you..ummm…eat a lot paint chips when you were a kid?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

This was uncalled for, you have kicked a little puppy, sangstrom ios a repected part of our diverse community.

I was agreeing with Angstrom, and saying it was sad that he had to say it. That's a comment on the body politic, not on Angstrom.

Turns out the puppy I've kicked is actually a beaver. One too dull to follow the conversation.

Yes, I'm proud to be a mix of French English and Italian.

Umm. . . that ain't the way it works. I have no doubt your French mama did an Englishman and an Italian at the same time, but only one sperm got to the egg that became the glory of Angstrom.

 

[Angstrom]

I was agreeing with Angstrom, and saying it was sad that he had to say it.



Umm. . . that ain't the way it works. I have no doubt your French mama did an Englishman and an Italian at the same time, but only one sperm got to the egg that became the glory of Angstrom.

L0L
one thing I'm sure ,

The most dominating of the two spermatozoid made it alive to the egg!.

 

[taxslave]

why do you have to put a negative spin on it...why can't everyone share...

why does it have to be those who want to share need an overseer? I don't need an overseer but I would like hungry kids to be fed, the sick to be cared for, the homeless to be sheltered, how does that make me a terrible person not wanting any responsibly for my miserable little life?

Why does someone who needs a hand up become less than human by needing a hand up?

I am truly curious as those who lean so far right...why do they stay in a country (best country in the world) where we do care for each other...and yes they want to take it all away.

What would you like to see removed; our health care, EI welfare...what else?

Hand up is one thing.
Hand out is a whole different ball of wax.
Most on the right believe in a hand up. Handout not so much.

 

[Corduroy]

The Chinese invented gun powder and firearms.

The Chinese invented freedom?

Yeah, OK. Reading back, you may just be correct.....this once.

Careful, you say that more often then you'd like to admit.

 

[Colpy]

The Chinese invented freedom?



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Naw, that required the industrial revolution and mass production of cheap firearms, which became common among the "common" man.............and suddenly, he could no longer be oppressed with impunity.

You see, back in the bad old days of bows and edged weapons, one had to practice constantly to gain and maintain a sufficient level of skill to stay alive in a fight. Only the rich elite could afford the time to train, and only they had the cash to hire professional men-at-arms to keep the peasants in line. European history is full of failed peasant revolts, as the elite and their pro fighters could handle a hugely disproportionate number of peasants.

Give me 30 minutes, and I can teach you how to use a musket, and you can hit a man at 40 paces. Then you can go back to earning your living, and in a month pick up the musket and you are ready. No outlandish amount of unavailable training time required.

At the introduction of firearms, they were simply too expensive for any but the rich....and their soldiers. So the problem stayed.

Then the IR put guns in the hands of American settlers. It is no accident that the first battle of the American Revolution was fought against British troops heading into the countryside to seize firearms from the people.

For the FIRST time, that didn't work out well for the elite.

This has been the Readers' Digest Condensed version, but you get the drift.

 

[Angstrom]

And finally a government for the people by the people was born!

We have the power now! Stop whining and Enjoy it for the time that it lasts.