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There are many who speak loudly against capitalism, all the while still enjoying its benefits. To illustrate this point, just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez texting from her iPhone, wearing a Movado watch, and drinking a Starbucks coffee. A democratic socialist, who thinks of capitalism as an immoral system, seems to enjoy the goods provided by big corporations. It is not only Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, however; this is common behavior in Western societies.

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The Surly Libertarian@TheSurlyLibert1
The iPhone that @AOC is texting on, the Starbucks coffee under her arm, and the Movado watch she is wearing were all made by "greedy corporations."

https://fee.org/articles/alexandria...sm-a-recently-taken-photo-suggests-otherwise/
 
Ricky Fandango said:
Your righteous indignation is hilarious.
How far back does your family go?
https://www.behindthename.com/name/henry
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According to family tradition (as in, what my father told me, backed up by a hand-sketched family tree), the Henry part fled France after the 1685 revocation of the 1598 Edict de Nantes (which meant that Protestants were no longer protected by the French King) and settled in Ireland with British royal approval as a side-battle of the English/British religious wars. My ancestry.com research starts when descendants entered America, including English colonies in what is now Canada. They provide access to overseas documents, but I have never thought it worth the added cost.

Some of those old records contradict each other, or just engage in obvious falsehoods. For example - the Corliss family tree book states that the original Corliss came from Belgium in the 1600s, but there was no Belgium as we know it today until the 1830s, when the Flemings and Walloons revolted and separated from Dutch rule and selected a German Prince to be their King. The Corliss aunt who wrote the book included a picture of King Albert I with a caption hinting at "family resemblance". She deserves a "coocoo".
 
espola said:
The daughter of one of my direct ancestors up the Corliss chain was Mary Neff, nurse to the children of Hannah Duston, well-known to any New Hampshire school child. In 1697, during King William's War (one of the first of the French and Indian Wars) the women were captured by an Abenaki raiding party from Canada. One night, while the captors slept, Hannah and Mary and a young boy captive named Samuel killed them all, men, women, and children, and took their scalps back as proof.

Mary was a house servant, not a slave or slave owner.

More here -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Duston
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In case you missed the implication there - my ancestor's daughter, faced with life as a slave to the Indians who had captured her, killed them all in their sleep. Thus begins the family tradition of anti-fascism.
 
espola said:
According to family tradition (as in, what my father told me, backed up by a hand-sketched family tree), the Henry part fled France after the 1685 revocation of the 1598 Edict de Nantes (which meant that Protestants were no longer protected by the French King) and settled in Ireland with British royal approval as a side-battle of the English/British religious wars. My ancestry.com research starts when descendants entered America, including English colonies in what is now Canada. They provide access to overseas documents, but I have never thought it worth the added cost.

Some of those old records contradict each other, or just engage in obvious falsehoods. For example - the Corliss family tree book states that the original Corliss came from Belgium in the 1600s, but there was no Belgium as we know it today until the 1830s, when the Flemings and Walloons revolted and separated from Dutch rule and selected a German Prince to be their King. The Corliss aunt who wrote the book included a picture of King Albert I with a caption hinting at "family resemblance". She deserves a "coocoo".
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The oldest Corliss in my ancestry.com family tree is my 8th great-grandfather Thomas, born in 1603 in in Exeter, Devon, England and died in 1683 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
There are many who speak loudly against capitalism, all the while still enjoying its benefits. To illustrate this point, just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez texting from her iPhone, wearing a Movado watch, and drinking a Starbucks coffee. A democratic socialist, who thinks of capitalism as an immoral system, seems to enjoy the goods provided by big corporations. It is not only Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, however; this is common behavior in Western societies.

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The Surly Libertarian@TheSurlyLibert1
The iPhone that @AOC is texting on, the Starbucks coffee under her arm, and the Movado watch she is wearing were all made by "greedy corporations."

https://fee.org/articles/alexandria...sm-a-recently-taken-photo-suggests-otherwise/
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There are many who speak loudly against Democratic Socialism, all the while still enjoying its benefits. To illustrate this point, see Izzy putting his trash on the curb each week, sending his kids to public schools, playing soccer in public parks, drving on public roads, enjoying less crime, breathing fresh air and drinking clean water, enjoying safe food and prescription drugs,...etc.
HYPOCRITE!!!!
 
Booter said:
There are many who speak loudly against Democratic Socialism, all the while still enjoying its benefits. To illustrate this point, see Izzy putting his trash on the curb each week, sending his kids to public schools, playing soccer in public parks, drving on public roads, enjoying less crime, breathing fresh air and drinking clean water, enjoying safe food and prescription drugs,...etc.
HYPOCRITE!!!!
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Tell me how those items are a taking over of the factors of production....bootspola
 
Booter said:
There are many who speak loudly against Democratic Socialism, all the while still enjoying its benefits. To illustrate this point, see Izzy putting his trash on the curb each week, sending his kids to public schools, playing soccer in public parks, drving on public roads, enjoying less crime, breathing fresh air and drinking clean water, enjoying safe food and prescription drugs,...etc.
HYPOCRITE!!!!
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Do YOU know BI personally....I'll bet YOU don't....
Do YOU have an issue with him posting the TRUTH....Yes YOU do....

Hey Boot Butt ....describe " Democratic Socialism "...........
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Tell me how those items are a taking over of the factors of production....bootspola
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Poor guy can't speak English either, so the government makes signs for him to read in Huli Huli.

"Tell me how those 'items' (note: presumably he refers to roads and schools and parks and water delivery to your tap as "items") are a taking over of the factors of production."

(Note: this last phrase is not in any English that can be understood, but he pasted it out of a book without context).
 
messy said:
Poor guy can't speak English either, so the government makes signs for him to read in Huli Huli.

"Tell me how those 'items' (note: presumably he refers to roads and schools and parks and water delivery to your tap as "items") are a taking over of the factors of production."

(Note: this last phrase is not in any English that can be understood, but he pasted it out of a book without context).
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So basically you donʻt know what socialism is. Lol! Classic messpola
 
messy said:
Poor guy can't speak English either, so the government makes signs for him to read in Huli Huli.

"Tell me how those 'items' (note: presumably he refers to roads and schools and parks and water delivery to your tap as "items") are a taking over of the factors of production."

(Note: this last phrase is not in any English that can be understood, but he pasted it out of a book without context).
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LAUSD
 
messy said:
There you go again. Are you mad because minorities choose the Democrats?
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Why is it when liberals like you are cornered you all sound the same? Peel back your eyelids and witness the "minorities" leaving your racist party. Soon you will be left standing there all alone holding your White Hood. Well maybe a few Clintons will be standing proudly next to you and you can't forgot, Espola and Rat Patrol as well.
 
Torros said:
Why is it when liberals like you are cornered you all sound the same? Peel back your eyelids and witness the "minorities" leaving your racist party. Soon you will be left standing there all alone holding your White Hood. Well maybe a few Clintons will be standing proudly next to you and you can't forgot, Espola and Rat Patrol as well.
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Oh, the "minorities" are leaving the party? Sure they are. What were the percentages in the '18 election? You can't be this blind. But I guess you can be this dumb.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
So basically you donʻt know what socialism is. Lol! Classic messpola
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What I do admire about you is that, since you did not go to college (obvi), you read a bunch of academic stuff so that, even though none of it has anything to do with the real world, so you're up to about college sophomore in comprehension!
 
messy said:
What I do admire about you is that, since you did not go to college (obvi), you read a bunch of academic stuff so that, even though none of it has anything to do with the real world, so you're up to about college sophomore in comprehension!
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Not even.
 
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