Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[viper37]

[dps]

Big rock candy mountains and lakes of soup.  Real Americans promise nothing but blood, sweat, and tears. 

Brits add toil.

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

Lame.

[Duque de Bragança]

Zedong was the worst, worse than Mao.

So sad that Pol Pot is forgotten nowadays by meme makers.

[Darth Wagtaros]

"He makes Joe Stalin look like Pol Pot!"

[Syt]

[Barrister]

On both the left and the right - why is it always that people need to "lose their jobs"?

[PDH]

What if they succeed in the indoctrination, not just try to indoctrinate?

[derspiess]

You'd know all about that, wouldn't you? 

[Tonitrus]

On both the left and the right - why is it always that people need to "lose their jobs"?

We do seem to have this odd idea that the way to improve people, if jail is not an option, is to make their lives even more terrible and desperate.

Though perhaps really it has just become the socially acceptable way of ostracizing undesirables.

[Malthus]

On both the left and the right - why is it always that people need to "lose their jobs"?

We do seem to have this odd idea that the way to improve people, if jail is not an option, is to make their lives even more terrible and desperate.

Though perhaps really it has just become the socially acceptable way of ostracizing undesirables.

It isn't at all about improving them, it is all about harming one's ideological enemies.

Left and Right share this - that those who think differently are not ignorant and in need of enlightenment, but wicked and in need of suppression and punishment.

[crazy canuck]

Great so the vast number of teachers who both embrace and teach the ideology of liberal democracy which is the US constitution should lose their Jobs and be replaced by...what?

On both the left and the right - why is it always that people need to "lose their jobs"?

We do seem to have this odd idea that the way to improve people, if jail is not an option, is to make their lives even more terrible and desperate.

Though perhaps really it has just become the socially acceptable way of ostracizing undesirables.

It isn't at all about improving them, it is all about harming one's ideological enemies.

Left and Right share this - that those who think differently are not ignorant and in need of enlightenment, but wicked and in need of suppression and punishment.

They do?

[Valmy]

Oh yes they do. We have only discussed this dozens of times.

[DGuller]

On both the left and the right - why is it always that people need to "lose their jobs"?

You can't take someone's life for having the wrong opinion, so taking their livelihood is the next best thing.  Obviously it's not an ideal outcome, but having people shot for political crimes wouldn't fly in the West, at least not in the near future.