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 Frazzled wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
You're not anadian, Fraz, don't say "we".

OUR banks are colossally corrupt and have basically put both parties in their pocket.

(Looks at business card)
Sorry the "we " still stands. Thanks though.

Working for Honda doesn't make you Japanese.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
You're not anadian, Fraz, don't say "we".

OUR banks are colossally corrupt and have basically put both parties in their pocket.

(Looks at business card)
Sorry the "we " still stands. Thanks though.

Working for Honda doesn't make you Japanese.

Domo Arigato Mr. Robato?

No it doesn't

Frazzled, you're as Canadian as I am Republican.

 Melissia wrote:
No it doesn't

You have offended Mr. Robato. Now you must pay!

How is a 1999 cover listed as the original music video? If you're going to bring the Styx you must actually get Styx! Accept no substitute.

 Ahtman wrote:
How is a 1999 cover listed as the original music video? If you're going to bring the Styx you must actually get Styx! Accept no substitute.

My bad. I have the sound off at work.

 whembly wrote:

I'd love to see a mission statement, a 4 year plan, and a 30 year plan.

Wasn't that a Soviet thing?

Not sure. Not sure it was the Nazi thing either. Since someone on the Dem side compared the Republicans to the "Nazi" propaganda machine.

5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

hmmmmmm blueberry vodka in cranberry...
Yes... it was a soviet thang... so, are you saying businesses are hidden communist?

That sound like an Absolut load of Bolshevik to me! Its made me sick. I think I have the Trostskies.

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

Having a 5 year plan was a hallmark of many marxist revolutionary governments. Notably they still exist in China, the one remaining proven test case for a planned economy. A 5 year plan is relatively useless in a democracy as there is no way to keep the legislative process on that sort of time frame and no guarantee that anything written in the plan can move through the legislature.

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

Having a 5 year plan was a hallmark of many marxist revolutionary governments. Notably they still exist in China, the one remaining proven test case for a planned economy. A 5 year plan is relatively useless in a democracy as there is no way to keep the legislative process on that sort of time frame and no guarantee that anything written in the plan can move through the legislature.

Plus without all the flags and parade of tanks and tractors its not nearly as epic kewl.

 Frazzled wrote:

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

Having a 5 year plan was a hallmark of many marxist revolutionary governments. Notably they still exist in China, the one remaining proven test case for a planned economy. A 5 year plan is relatively useless in a democracy as there is no way to keep the legislative process on that sort of time frame and no guarantee that anything written in the plan can move through the legislature.

Plus without all the flags and parade of tanks and tractors its not nearly as epic kewl.

We still do a lot of parades with our fleet. Supercarriers are pretty boss.

Wait, people claim that socialism/communism doesn't work while at the same time claiming that the guys with the 5-year plans have a better economy than ours?


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 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

Having a 5 year plan was a hallmark of many marxist revolutionary governments. Notably they still exist in China, the one remaining proven test case for a planned economy. A 5 year plan is relatively useless in a democracy as there is no way to keep the legislative process on that sort of time frame and no guarantee that anything written in the plan can move through the legislature.

Plus without all the flags and parade of tanks and tractors its not nearly as epic kewl.

We still do a lot of parades with our fleet. Supercarriers are pretty boss.

Our parades are never quite as good though:

Wait, people claim that socialism/communism doesn't work while at the same time claiming that the guys with the 5-year plans have a better economy than ours?

Yes, welcome to being a republican. You just sort of ignore the fact that the party platform doesn't make sense and is purely contrarian.

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
5 year plans were a definite USSR thing. more tractor factories Comrade! And now I shall drink some vodka...

Having a 5 year plan was a hallmark of many marxist revolutionary governments. Notably they still exist in China, the one remaining proven test case for a planned economy. A 5 year plan is relatively useless in a democracy as there is no way to keep the legislative process on that sort of time frame and no guarantee that anything written in the plan can move through the legislature.

Plus without all the flags and parade of tanks and tractors its not nearly as epic kewl.

We still do a lot of parades with our fleet. Supercarriers are pretty boss.

True that. But there's something about a long line of lumbering T-55s to make one start belting out the Soviet anthem, drinking copious amounts of vodka, and invading Berlin.
"is that a IS-2 in your pocket Comrade or are you just glad to see me?"

They still hold a massive parade in Moscow every year by the military. Think our last US military ticket tape parade was after the first Gulf War.

Communism is very good at jump starting an economy but it is unsustainable in the long term, just in the same that a pure capitalist economy is unsustainable

 youbedead wrote:
Communism is very good at jump starting an economy but it is unsustainable in the long term, just in the same that a pure capitalist economy is unsustainable

Communism works quite the opposite. It almost universally destroys the economy of the state or community where it is implemented. There are case scenarios where it succeeded, but that's more attributable to the controlled embrace of the industrial revolution by an agrarian society as happened in both the Soviet Union and later China. Logically the redistribution of wealth (which doesn't occur without overall loss in wealth) in a poor country results in an overall reduction of wealth and a multi year recessionary period as new economic policies are implemented and take effect. There is no case scenario of an already wealthy country turning to communist or collectivist policies, and no case scenario of a poor country turning to communism and having its economy subsequently "improved". Chinas economy didn't recover until they embraced limited free trade and a totalitarian economic model that is certainly not collectivist. The soviet union collapsed.

 Jihadin wrote:
They still hold a massive parade in Moscow every year by the military. Think our last US military ticket tape parade was after the first Gulf War.

I demand abrams rolling down penn ave and f-18s overhead playing "America:F*** Yeah" followed by our troops in extra fancy uniforms

 Huffy wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
They still hold a massive parade in Moscow every year by the military. Think our last US military ticket tape parade was after the first Gulf War.

I demand abrams rolling down penn ave and f-18s overhead playing "America:F*** Yeah" followed by our troops in extra fancy uniforms

\m/ yeah!

We sorta do this... at sporting events we'll see the f-18s flying overhead or even the B-2 bombers!

Don't we do major Naval exercises every year???

 whembly wrote:

 Huffy wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
They still hold a massive parade in Moscow every year by the military. Think our last US military ticket tape parade was after the first Gulf War.

I demand abrams rolling down penn ave and f-18s overhead playing "America:F*** Yeah" followed by our troops in extra fancy uniforms

\m/ yeah!

We sorta do this... at sporting events we'll see the f-18s flying overhead or even the B-2 bombers!

Don't we do major Naval exercises every year???

at the very least i want gladiatorial games fought in the white house lawn

 Ahtman wrote:
How is a 1999 cover listed as the original music video? If you're going to bring the Styx you must actually get Styx! Accept no substitute.

YouTube is a cesspool of idiocy. never believe anything in a title there...
"Official" there is like "Pro Painted!!!11" on Ebay.

lovin' the Styx!

 Huffy wrote:

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 whembly wrote:

 Huffy wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
They still hold a massive parade in Moscow every year by the military. Think our last US military ticket tape parade was after the first Gulf War.

I demand abrams rolling down penn ave and f-18s overhead playing "America:F*** Yeah" followed by our troops in extra fancy uniforms

\m/ yeah!

We sorta do this... at sporting events we'll see the f-18s flying overhead or even the B-2 bombers!

Don't we do major Naval exercises every year???

at the very least i want gladiatorial games fought in the white house lawn

Oooooo... how 'bout UFC on the WH lawn!

Close enough?

There's a movement for the USMC to remove their sponsership in the UFC. I've done Division change of commands numerous of times....I've no desire to march down some street unless I'm paid TDY.

Parades are for pansies and wanna-bes.

Real countries invade other countries to show off their military toys.

Real countries invade other countries to show off their military toys.

 Easy E wrote:
Parades are for pansies and wanna-bes.

Real countries invade other countries to show off their military toys.

They then forget about them there for a decade.

 ShumaGorath wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
Parades are for pansies and wanna-bes.

Real countries invade other countries to show off their military toys.

They then forget about them there for a decade.

Extra proof about how 'ard they are. they can invade you, and then not even care about it afterwards. That's 'ard!