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  dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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  watch putin in this video force this guy to sign... and then watch both their responses afterwards.
  
  this has to be seen to be believed O_O

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    oh, and putin asks for his pen back!! lol!

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      Candida5 months, 1 week ago

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      Don't forget though that deep down Putin is a KGB man. It sounds good that he stands up for workers' rights, but ultimately he is a dictator.

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  calitennflo5 months, 1 week ago

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  Putin Humiliates many men that only pretend to be men...I recall when he made man of the year...and was selected by Time Magazine. George Bush really looked stupid at that time or at that very moment.

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  kobzikov5 months, 1 week ago

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  Putin made a veiled threat to expropriate the plant? That doesn't sound right. Wasn't it Putin who was warning US against socialism?
  
  Let me guess, that was one of those do what Putin says not what he does moments, correct?

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    earthlingerer5 months ago

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    I think what you are forgetting is that the plant was the property of Russia, and privatized under certain conditions. If you don't meet the conditions, you lose the property.
    
    Much like in the US, the government is the actual owner of everything. Ask GM.

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      kobzikov5 months ago

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      I know that the plant was built during Soviet era and that it belonged to the government. I am on the other hand unaware of the conditions in privatization agreement or contract you are referencing. So can you tell me where your information about the "privatization conditions" is coming from? I can read Russian so a link would be helpful.
      
      As far as I know the factories in Pikalyovo were privatized 16 years ago under the same garage sale "everything must go" mantra as other enterprises. There have been a number of plant closures in Russia since the Yeltsin years, none of them facing a threat of nationalization, at least to best of my knowledge.

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    you've extracted all this from what little i've said which is, at best, suggesting only the observation of human behavior? well here's an observation on your behavior... you're sub-human and what you extracted came not from my comment but your butt. please kindly shove it back up there and spare us

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    Candida5 months ago

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    rally-monkey,
    Keep in mind that your comments say a lot more about you than about the person you are insulting. What your comment tells me is that you still have a lot of growing up to do.

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    earthlingerer5 months ago

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    REALLY?monkey doesn't realize that capitalism just died and new paradigms are being laid globally right now.
    
    REALLY?monkey will be sorry when his wife's children grow up and he can tell them of when idiots like him were sent to reeducation camps, since they were too stupid to see the forest for the trees.

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    ah, well that explains your idiocy. ellis wyatt? lol!!
    
    you know nothing about anything except what you think is the world that you've learned about while living in the simple-minded fantasy of a paperback writer! how to take your foolishness to the the nth degree? be an uptight anal fixated ayn rand kook like rally-monkey and his childish name calling
    
    i know your type. what a sad pathetic lot. forever angry young men with their fists in the air and their heads in the sand, to borrow from billy joel. you suffer from borderline certifiable paranoia believing that anything that doesn't jibe with your narrow, rigid and unrealistic cult-like beliefs (and let's face it, that's 99.9% of the living, breathing world), must be an elsworth toohey conspiracy! lol!! what a precious piece of self-delusion you are, rm.
    
    your tenous adolescent grip on reality hasn't yet grasped that ellis wyatt is a fictional character from an overly simplistic make-believe world that functions as right-wing propaganda for an industrial boom time that has long since passed. it has little to do with the real world and never really did.
    
    it does however have uncanny parallels with mussolini's fascism, emerging at roughly the same time, or the early 20th century's artistic movement known as futurism, (also born from italian fascism), except it is flavored for an american palate in its sprouting the usual banal jingoism. it was largely discredited 40 years ago only to undergo some revival under reagan and again under bush, the fiscal management of both regimes we are paying for today. ironic isn't it? that those who worship money just can't seem to handle it.
    
    rand's popularity is rekindled on college campuses mostly among pretentious, upper-middle class kids who've never done a day's work in their lives. further evidence of the disconnect the philosophy of objectivism has from reality. more irony. you'll come to realize at least part of this once you move out of your mother's basement if you ever do
    
    ayn rand was a dated, paranoid elitist who is long dead after having spent her years p*ssing off anyone who gave a sh*t about her only to fade away with alzheimer's disease. how ironic once again for someone with such a delusional superiority complex.
    
    she did however enjoy being as perverse as much as you seem to be, although she was far more eloquent and interesting at it. you're no ayn rand hero rm. just another loser wannabe
    
    as for putin, i've expressed no opinion either way. i know the russians (the ones that matter most here) mostly hold him in high regard because he is, generally, keeping a fragile country together. what he's done here is only a far more melodramatic, theatrical one-on-one version of what obama and congress are doing today.
    
    russia has taken a few hard knocks these past 20 years, including our broken promises, betrayals and lack of assistance, starting with gorbachev. we've given putin and russia no reason to ever trust anything we say or do. if anything, russia is in a better position for the future then we are. and as for its leadership under putin, it has shown more resilience and vision than anything bush did or has left on the table, to use his hackneyed metaphor. stick that in your arrogant ayn rand pipe and smoke it, fool.

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    good comeback.... not

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    Candida5 months ago

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    rally-monkey,
    
    I see you are back and you haven't matured a single day since you disappeared last time. Keep this up, and I'm sure you can manage to get yourself banned again.

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    well, well... to think someone else read this at that obscure seldom seen little source -- the bbc.

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    dissent5 months, 1 week ago

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    are you still actually trying to hold my attention? and with this drivel? sad.
    
    get back to your 1950's paperbacks, son. go play john galt in front of the mirror. and leave global current affairs to the grown ups. oh, and ask your mom to install net nanny. no more for you from me today. buh bye

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  earthlingerer5 months ago

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  REALLY?monkey adds a lot with comments relevant to an "I eat viagra with Rush" story.

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