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anon's bickering: an opportunity

Posted by: Samuel Day Fassbinder ( Pomona Valley Greens, USA ) on October 12, 1997 at 17:32:37:

In Reply to: Re: Discovering Kevin's purposes in posting: an enigma posted by anon on September 10, 1997 at 16:14:01:

> There we go again. Kevin, some of McSpotlight's posters believe that anyone
> who disagrees just has to have a financial stake in McDonalds.

What are you talking about? Did I say ANYTHING about McDonald's? No. I was merely pointing out that, by capitalist logic, Kevin is running an opportunity cost. Kevin persuasively replied, BTW, that he was here to promote a truth, and not merely to make a buck. Unfortunately for him, Kevin's idea of truth does not persuade, it merely bickers. Personally, I think the folks like Kevin should keep it up; his efforts might re-unite the badly-divided Left in the US.

> Or in your case that would mean being paid by McDonalds. They don't think
> humans are capable of making up their own minds, which is why they cry for
> socialism.

As I said before, I'm trying to start a brainstorming discussion, to encourage people to make up their own minds. Of course, "pro-capitalists" consistently ignore the evidence against their claims that is staring everyone else in the face, adhering instead to Goebbels' maxim of propaganda, that "everything said three times is true."



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