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DFW

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36. It can indeed.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:15 PM
Tuesday

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Stalin

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"--Stalin

“Education is a weapon, the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.”—Stalin

“"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed"—Stalin

"The idea of a concentration camp is excellent"—Stalin

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs"—Stalin

“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”—Lenin

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”—Lenin

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”—Lenin

“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.”—Lenin

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”—P.J. O’Rourke

“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...Capitalism has learned nothing from recent events and wants to learn nothing, because it places its own interests ahead of those of the other millions.”—Göbbels

“Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch”—Göbbels

“To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.”—Göbbels

“Life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.”—Göbbels

“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”
― Benito Mussolini

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Ultra extremism can make strange bedfellows. John1956PA Sep 15 #1
It can indeed. DFW Tuesday #36
what exactly IS "far left" Skittles Sep 15 #2
Can you post some far left quotes? leftstreet Sep 15 #3
"From the river to the sea". " Down with the pigs" marybourg Sep 15 #4
Anarco syndalists say that? Communists? leftstreet Sep 15 #5
"Down with the pigs?" vanlassie Tuesday #25
I consider the "far left" to be those who are true extremists - Ocelot II Sep 15 #7
Party for Socialism and Liberation are out there. Along with some anarchists and Black Bloc LeftInTX Sep 15 #8
The extremes of both sides can come full circle and result in totalitarianism. Ocelot II Sep 15 #6
It's hard to get more far right than Netanyahu and genocide. I don't know anyone on the left Gaugamela Sep 15 #9
There is a radical left in the US, but it's small and inconsequential and none are violent, Ocelot II Sep 15 #10
Of course, I'm well aware of the SLS and the Weather Underground, but they dissolved Gaugamela Sep 15 #12
I remember as a college student dating a poli. sci. major AllyCat Sep 15 #11
I'm not a poli sci, but politics is at least two-dimensional and probably more Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #24
Makes sense too. It definitely doesn't seem linear to me AllyCat Tuesday #37
I think a lot of the resemblance is superficial Mosby Sep 15 #13
The far left and far right would agree that "government-run child protective services" should be abolished Justice Brandeis Sep 15 #17
Not sure if you understand what "far left" is, then muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #35
Raw milk is also very popular on the far left and far right Justice Brandeis Sep 15 #18
Sounds serious Torchlight Tuesday #33
40 years ago a Professor of mine said... WarGamer Sep 15 #14
Right and left ideologies markodochartaigh Sep 15 #15
To a MAGA - the far left is Obama's tan suit. KentuckyWoman Sep 15 #16
No they are not Locutusofborg Sep 15 #19
They's just too lovey-dovey with their white skin. And Fuentes, sheesh dude, you're sounding a little like Jim Jones! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 15 #20
Neither did I until today...watch this explanation, makes a lot of sense!!! BigmanPigman Tuesday #21
The anti Israel and anti Jewish thing and conspiracy theories JI7 Tuesday #22
I think of it as "extreme right" and "fringe left" Blasphemer Tuesday #23
Hell no....................... Lovie777 Tuesday #26
No. They've co-opted "Antifa" and call people "Nazi" as an ironic projection and groupthink underpants Tuesday #27
This message was self-deleted by its author ZDU Tuesday #28
I think the issue is meme culture... regnaD kciN Tuesday #29
Insightful ZDU Tuesday #30
MINO MAGA In Name Only no_hypocrisy Tuesday #31
Sounds like some stay the course yargle bargle. GreenWave Tuesday #32
Fuck no. marble falls Tuesday #34
Agree. Smells somewhat of B.See Tuesday #38
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