Why the Left is so dangerous
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 14:10
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Quote:Well, yeah, there's ExxonMobil exploration with it's 9%. Then they sell the lease rights to ExxonMobil production, with it's 9%. Which sends it via ExxonMobil shipping, to the ExxonMobil refineries, and then the ExxonMobil gas stations, chemicals, lubricants and specialty products. Poor ExxonMobil. It's being gouged by... itself.
But at a profit margin of around 9% , they're doing far better than many other industries.
www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/About/what_we_do.asp
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Quote:Pretty much like the Las Vegas and Snohomish power plants that were specifically taken offline during a critical energy shortage to allow Enron to jack up energy futures through the roof.
Every March-to-May, there's a cluster or rash of "incidents" resulting in astonishingly little harm or damage, and a nice fat price spike - every single year.
www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3641541/c_5434995/
www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/8796
www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/enron.tapes/
Or the "planned refinery turnarounds" that seem to occur JUST before any major regulations are adopted.
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Hey everyone, American corporations are first and foremost AMERICAN! They would never do anything illegal or imoral or dangerous. They are made up of patriots and citizens who want the best for us all!
Why would they knowingly hurt their own country in the name of profits when they have to live right here in the same country with us?????
...well, not EXACTLY "with" us, but, you know, penthouses and beachfront properties NEAR us...or maybe not so near...actually in Italy, and the Virgin Islands...Hawaii....
...never mind Chrisisall
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Originally posted by citizen:
I mean, surely the CIA has cut off their funding by NOW?
That really is one of the bottom line benchmark realities with all of this isn't it? A tiny example of the architects of the War on Terror's almost absolute inablity to do anything, or at least anything right. For the billions spent in Iraq we could have put a one million dollar bounty on every single Al Qaida maniac killer in the world, and mercenaries all around the globe would have come a'callin with glee. Aren't there some crazy Hessians descendants around somewhere, or at least some KKK skinheads, Dogg Chapman-type hunters and trackers, or maybe Armies of Dirty Dozen types...death row swells with the promise of commuatation for killing Al Qaida killers?...And why not turn it all into entertainment at least?...Put it all on TV live as it happens...Richard Dawson-type to host ala Running Man...our bad guys versus their bad guys so to speak. Now that would be a reality show I know I'd watch. If this report is true, and there is no evidence that it is not, it is an absolute indictment of ineptitude, and gross negligence resulting in continued vulnerability to attacks and thousands of wasted lives. I also can't stop thinking that just a mere ONE of these billions that have been spent could have instead given, for example, every kid with cancer or abused kid in America their own Make A Wish-type dream experience.
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...well, not EXACTLY "with" us, but, you know, penthouses and beachfront properties NEAR us...or maybe not so near...actually in Italy, and the Virgin Islands...Hawaii....
The Caymans... Switzerland...
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"Why the Left is so dangerous"
Because they always want to start wars for less than honourable reasons- they lie to start 'em, spin to keep 'em going, and care nothing for our troops after they come back wounded. Those Lefty scumbags... I just wish they could be in the trenches to see and feel what they always promote!!!
Chrisisall
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"Why the Left is so dangerous"
Because they're media moguls, oil tycoons, energy traders, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and Board Members and they're all so bloody rich they control everything
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Really? I thought the Left was dangerous because they extrapolate from one word uttered by one person with connections to the American Left (which by no means constitutes THE left), into being indicative of 'the Left', and thus everyone who can be identified as having left leaning politics, as being dangerous. I thought the left was dangerous because they would then take these extrapolations and bundle them all up into a silly inflammatory nonsense thread (I assume that's what Finn means when he goes on about the 'inflammatory nonsense' in the RWED), with a title eerily reminiscent of something Heinrich Himmler would have chucked out on 'Das Reich'.
Or maybe Dick Cheney on 'Das White House'.
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Originally posted by citizen:
Really? I thought the Left was dangerous because they extrapolate from one word uttered by one person with connections to the American Left (which by no means constitutes THE left), into being indicative of 'the Left', and thus everyone who can be identified as having left leaning politics, as being dangerous.
Does America even have a political "left" as we understand it in European politics? I mean the Democrats would be considered a center-right party in a lot of southern European states?
I've often wondered in the so called "left-leaning" actors in the US speak out like they do because there really isn't a political outlet anywhere else. In the UK we don't really care what actors political thoughts and affiliations are because their opinion tends to fit somewhere in the spectrum of political discourse that's taking place anyway. In the US if a Martin Sheen speaks out it's big news, possibly because what he's saying doesn't map so easily into political space....
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Quote:Not really no.
Originally posted by Fletch2:
Does America even have a political "left" as we understand it in European politics?
That's probably why so many Americans seem to think Europe is horribly skewed to the left.
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