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Thread #146309 Message #3399368
Posted By: MGM·Lion
03-Sep-12 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
We are rather at cross-purposes, Pete. I do not disagree with much you say.
But I have had no answer to my point that those on the left seem incapable of 'fighting their corner' without making an actual fight of it: they cannot discuss, ever, in a rational, mannerly fashion, but resort constantly to abuse, insult, obscenity, and general unpleasantness.
Socialism, I have always understood, to be based on a concept of love and respect for one's fellow-men. But it has always led in practice to aggressiveness, intolerance...; and where it has succeeded in winning power, to Stalin & Pol Pot style massacres of the opposition, Moscow Trials...
Alas!
Couldn't we make a start here with some of the Owens & Jims & Steves trying at least to be civil occasionally?
I won't hold my breath.
~M~