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applegrove

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6. I meant that the left sometimes wants people to hate world trade. Not all people who want universal

Reply to villager (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 05:28 AM

Jan 2012

health care think that world trade is bad. It isn't that I'm saying the left is wrong. Cause god knows I'm to the left of people here on many issues. I'm saying the fact that people have to be concerned with a list of certain things if they hang around the left is unnatural. It would be normal for everyone to have their own priorities on said lists. And their lists should vary.

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I've figured out why Occupy rocks! Psychopaths will force one single reality on all the people. [View all] applegrove Jan 2012 OP

Awesome post! Thanks Applegrove for expressing it so well. freshwest Jan 2012 #1

"The left" has been "forcing a narrative on people?" In America? villager Jan 2012 #2

I can't answer for applegrove but I can say they've put forth "we must compromise with Fire Walk With Me Jan 2012 #3

this is a new definition of the left G_j Jan 2012 #4

But that's not "the left." Those are "Democrats." villager Jan 2012 #5

I agree. That is an example too. I think there are dueling narratives on the left. Each of these applegrove Jan 2012 #8

I meant that the left sometimes wants people to hate world trade. Not all people who want universal applegrove Jan 2012 #6

thanks for the discussion - I don't think "the left" is nearly as monolithic as the actual "right" villager Jan 2012 #13

I don't think the left is as bad as the right either. applegrove Jan 2012 #15

I changed the op to: applegrove Jan 2012 #7

I know EX-ZACTLY unionworks Jan 2012 #9

Reality and Identity are symbiotic Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #10

Bump ananda Jan 2012 #12

I believe you've touched on an important truth. Uncle Joe Jan 2012 #14

Someone posted a quote here from Noam Chomsky the other day woo me with science Jan 2012 #16

I like this OP very much MrCoffee Jan 2012 #17

Psychopath often make their followers take on a paranoid stance against their enemies. applegrove Jan 2012 #18