You should try asking maybe someone who actually lived in a Communist country what it was like. It's not that hard, anyone who could leave, did. Oddly though, and a constant thorn in the craw of people like you, there are precious few who emigrated TO Communist countries. Not even idiots like Chomsky who openly supported Pol Pot actually ever WENT there let alone moved to live among them.

I mean half the divas on the pop scene are known to be clinically insane and violent. R Kelly has repeatedly committed statutory rape and urinated on children, on camera. Why is this so different? It's not.

Why we twittered and blogged about it. What the hell else can we do? How do you like this biscotti?

Do they run another election? Does the Assistant Gov move up? Do they dance around a firepit with antlers on their damn heads?

I speak for half of America when I say you should die of nuclear AIDS in barrel of your own children's blood. Fuck you and the polar bear you rode in on.

The GDR knew it was collapsing. Hungary knew it was collapsing, Czechoslovakia knew it was collapsing. Poland did not understand it was collapsing and regardless of the Gdansk protests would have toppled soon anyway. Polish communists were never successful for instance in stamping out Catholicism. In the case of Romania, Ceaucescu was even more extreme than the Soviets. He relocated the rural population into cities, outlawed birth control and did a better job than the Soviets at managing the economy. In the Balkans; Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia were treated as strange cousins and since their economies were so non-industrial to begin with, the Soviets for the most part left them alone.

But it's telling that up until the end of the CCCP, the West ALWAYS got it wrong. They always believed that the CCCP was in better shape than it was. During the Kennedy administration the CIA estimated that the Soviet economy was 50% larger than it was and was growing twice as fast as the American economy. Even in the late 1960's official papers predicted that the CCCP would surpass the US economically as soon as 1989.

But in reality the Soviet economy it turns out was never more than 50% the size of the US economy and from the late 1950's onward never grew at more than 1% per year and often went negative. They made the classic Keynesian choice of guns or butter and chose guns.

So no, not everything we knew about Communism was wrong. In fact most of it was right. The problem was there's always been a persistent bunch of fools on both the left and the right who insisted on calling it Communism. It wasn't. It was just another variation of top down corruption and failure

Because no one but morons already sucked into its vortex pay attention.

It's not in English and it blames America.

Most of Salon would be praying (If God existed which she doesn't) for the day that the US is 10% as liberal and free as Iran.

We know you're the brains of the operation, but C'mon, man does not live by organizational wizardry and fund raising alone.

And the problem is.......what exactly? Would you prefer they drove around in 16 armored cars?

Just sell blogging licenses and tap into the hot air generated.

She doesn't eat your brains.

A flurry of letters condemning the crazy white male warmonger Biden. If only our sweet savior Obama were there to heal the lame.

I saw the picture and that young fellow is metro to the eyeballs. He spends a minimum of 60-80 minutes per day getting ready to be dressed for school. There is not a single thing he wears or shows that's 'accidental'.

Bullshit.

It's that, no matter when where why who how much or in what context, women will piss and moan and scream and bitch about it. And if you're in the room it's probably your fault.

Only retards inhabit facebook.

chicka bow wow.

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That will fix it.

to blame this on southern white republicans

Could be those fucking retards who think their pets are people. All of those people should be boiled.

The only thing that matters is who you are. If you are a member of the right group then by definition everything you believe is correct. Otherwise everything is your fault. I don't write the rules, I just report them.

It's both ideologically pure and simple.

The world would be perfect. Glenn Greenwald would be our good and Salon would be his minister of elders.

Immune to human foibles and weakness.

If there were no Israel, there would be transgendered pot smoking hookers elected to the government of Iran. And belief in god would be a capital crime.

So she's not interested in trying. Inside every nurse beats the heart of a tyrannical control freak with a martyr complex.

Third input girl?

whether she's disgusting or you're trying to teach her Mandarin, Vegan lifestyle and gay rights from birth either.

You are all tedious assholes, all of you.

Soon vegan won't be pure enough. Soon water won't be simple enough. All these people I hope they die on a pile of their own self righteousness.

Call them honorary Jews. Then saloniks will will slathering for their blood. Kill them all.

Cum dumpster? The town pump? Whore?

to Mark's bottom

I neglected to mention that my property taxes went up 87% in 2008. And now with a larger than average collection of homes in foreclosure, and the fact that those homes are new homes, priced above the market, and the fact that those prior owners were, at least on paper, shouldering the burden of future property tax obligations, that, my taxes are in the pipeline to be massively increased AGAIN, as a result to make up for the shortfall.

Once again, prudence gets gang banged.