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Why yes. Yes, that is far, far worse than killing thousands of people by purging your own ruling elite. Why would we ever think any different?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link

bethune go read THIS already and stuff a sock in it, you moron.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Milosevic dead of a "heart attack.". Sure, that's no surprise. Stand up to cheney-rove and you end up dead in a dutch jail. Now watch the demonization begin of another duly elected leader who darted to stand up to cheney-rove and his E.U. puppets.

― bethune, Monday, 13 March 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

you stinky pair of shoes, you

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean seriously, the guy told his lawyer he'd been poisoned...which the autopsy CONFIRMED. After how many years and $200 million and they couldn't prove anything? I mean, get real. This is another cheney-rove affaire gratis his lap dog, the European Commission.

― bethune, Monday, 13 March 2006 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.slimeworld.org/cloister/cd/graphics/cdm055.jpg

― alger hess, Monday, 13 March 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link

After how many years and $200 million and they couldn't prove anything? I mean, get real.

The prosecution rest their case nearly two years ago and whole trial has been riddled with breaks for Slobo's health. It hardly seems their fault that the case wasn't over yet.

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

He's got a point; the average Stalinist show trial took what, a day?

― 31g (31g), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link

What's becoming clearer every day--to the chagrin of so-called "progressives" and others on this board-- is that the EU, especially the commission, is just an extension of cheney-rove. It's getting so blatant--and not just because of the illegal poisoning of President Milosevic. The whole cartoon episode has been carefully orchestrated by cheney-rove--throught the European Parliament--to further his adventures in the near east. The emirates see this very clearly now.

― bethune, Monday, 13 March 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU CAN"T MAKE THIS STUFF, UP!!

― polio sanctuary, Monday, 13 March 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks for the support, polio. One other sensible poster. You'd think everyone would see how obvious the connection is. They literally think it's made up. And then there are the actively hostile people on this thread. Not that I care anymore.

Another thing mostpeople don't realize is that cheney-rove actually pays people to post sympathetic comments on boards like this. Usually through third parties, of course. Impossible to say for sure, but look at TOMBOT's posts carefully.

― bethune, Monday, 13 March 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

You just jumped the shark, mate.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Seriously though if you read the news coverage of the past six years you can see that "cheney-rove" is very capable of "orchestrating" things, "carefully."

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 March 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

not just because of the illegal poisoning of President Milosevic

As opposed to legal poisoning?

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

THOUGHTCRIME. Please report for interrogation, TOMBOT.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

A few years back Sky TV ran an autumn promotion under the banner "The October Revolution", with adverts featuring stock footage of Stalin doing a speech that had been dubbed with a squeeky Yorkshireman making "witty" remarks about scratchy underpants, among other things.

They ditched it after Spitting Image ran a series of spoofs, first with Uncle Joe himself saying, in comedy voice, "Did you know I killed more people than Hitler?" and following it up with the likes of Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and so on wittering on about underpants and genocide.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

But Spitting Image was funded by Cheney-Rove Nash & Young!

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

ok is it wacko day on ILX or something? I mean, more than normal?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

One wacko, many names.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

It's been interesting to watch the legacy-states, China and Russia standing up to cheney-rove over Iran and all of cheney-rove's adventurizing in the near-east. This is the kind of partnership that the leadership of the S.U.always dreamed of. This partnershp of equals was of course undermined by cheney-rove's predecessors--remember Korea?--just as it is today.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

are you still here?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Clearly China is in shambles, totally abandoning correct principles along the seaboards, all the while enforcing them on the rapidly depopulating interior. Russia is not completely orthodox any more either, economically, but closer to the spirit od 1917 than china. More importantly, russia is moving back into the fold, china is completely hypnotized by the glitter of cheney-rove's western world. It won't end nicely.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

have you been smoking crack-ski?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Why?

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link

There's so much more going on than you people seem to realize.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm intrigued by how bethune almost never capitalizes "cheney-rove," even tho he capitalizes words like China and Milosevic.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes. Clearly coastal China is one big fucking Potemkin village, every last fake skyscraper.

― polio sanctuary, Friday, 24 March 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

No one said the buildings were artificial, rather that the so called "development" in the coastal zone is coming at the expense of a depopulating interior. And ultimately along with an abandonment if corect principles and thinking which will ultimately lead to chaos. Only a centrally-planned effort will be able to manage an economy as complex as china's. Although now with the general availability of inexpensive laptop computers, some of the planning functions can be pushed down to regional levels.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link

One day you will die.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link

one bethune dying is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Interesting how all normal rules of civilized conversation are abandoned as soon as your facile, uniformed opinions are exposed as the filth they are. Primary school pupils in the S.U. knew more about economics and geography than you lot. Sad for those of you who spend so much time around books and know so little about what lies between their covers and absolutely nothing about the outside world.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, cheer up tovarisch -- let's just drink some stoly and sing a few rounds of "the song of the happy tractor driver."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

YSI?

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

in soviet russia, THEY ysi YOU.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/design/13.commie.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img19.photobucket.com/albums/v58/i_collect_it/Kool-aid-Commie.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the way that Bethune is convinced that the solution to all of communism's failings is: cheap laptops. Clearly he/she has never worked in IT.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Solo_drink_Australia.jpg/150px-Solo_drink_Australia.jpg

― paradox, Friday, 24 March 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Only a centrally-planned effort will be able to manage an economy as complex as china's.

i love it!

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Did someone get hold of a bit of Enver Hoxha's DNA and clone him?

― Dadaismus, the Male Poster (Dada), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the way that Bethune is convinced that the solution to all of communism's failings is: cheap laptops.

Hardware is only one of the keys to successful implementation--software remains embargoed by cheney-rove. It's harder to reverse engineer. But this is beside to point. As clearly explained above China has abandoned orthodoxy. As a result, the people suffer.

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"clearly explained"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

bethune how come you never want to regale me with stories of your grand times in the Soviet socialist paradise, rubbing shoulders with the comrades and apparatchiks you obviously so clearly identify with and love? Also looking forward to hearing about your wonderful years spent in the Chinese countryside.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

have you ever even talked to an actual factual person that lived under the communist regimes of China or Russia?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

As I've acknowledged, there were occasional rough patches--but nothing that compares to the cheney-rove nightmare we're all labouring under (sometimes via cheney-rove's satellite lapdog, the EU).

― bethune, Friday, 24 March 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

the cheney-rove nightmare we're all labouring under

I'd like to hear more about your struggle. Plz. be specific.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~vbonnell/images/da_zdrav.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.xeni.net/images/boingboing/sars_thumb.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.liter.kz/files/Tovarish.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

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