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Paul K's avatar

I think Truth Seeking Missle hit the side of a mountain. I think you have a problem with reading comprehension. I am not saying that to be mean. I'm a literacy expert. Why in the name of fat-bloody-baby-jesus would I think you're trolling for Putin or Trump? I only wrote this piece because I am so exasperated at people like you who start talking about Trump - and I understood your sentence - in comments on a post that has ZERO to do with Mango Caesar. Compris? Claro? Capice?

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

I stand by my statement: Trump did nothing to roll back the surveillance state. In fact magatards have been hellbent on making it even more pervasive. If you think I'm a Trump or Putin troll you are mistaken.

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Paul K's avatar

I swear to fat bloody Jesus - and this is not me being mean - I'm a literacy expert: you have a reading comprehension problem. Why would I think you're defending or trolling for Trump & Putin, for fuck's sake? Why even mention them? The only reason I wrote this is that I am exasperated with people commenting on Trump, which you did, in posts or notes that have nothing even remotely to do with Mango Caesar. Capice? Compris? Claro?

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Paul K's avatar

You have trouble with reading comprehension and I'm not being mean. I'm a literacy expert. Nothing you have said makes sense and it is clear you understand nothing I wrote. I accused you of nothing other than discussing Trump -- for some bizarre reason -- in a post that had NOTHING to do with him. I am neither angry nor do I care about what you think of me or my posts, I am just perplexed. If you respond quickly enough, I may read it, but I gotta block you, man. I don't get this, and it's a waste of time.

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mary-marg swift's avatar

You go, man! Love your thinking and writing. Also love your use of critical thinking “fallacies” which very few writers/thinkers seem to use or even be aware of today-

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Paul K's avatar

Hey, Mary. Thanks. I can't say that I'm not extremely fearful at this point. No one seems to understand what's happening outside of a few thousand of us on the real left who haven't been disappeared or censored yet, like Chris Hedges. I take that back, I have had 4 posts censored in the last 2 days. The liberal class has lost the ability to perform any sort of logical thinking or abstract reasoning. Every bureaucracy in the country is collapsing and inefficient, and we're turning into Brazil, the Philippines. We're just moving from one bloodthirsty representative of the Oligarchy to another. Marco Rubio is our Secretary of State, a man with the mind of a child, a fearmonger and an idiot about as sophisticated as a 12-year-old in a student council race. You're the only person from that shit to job way back when to show any balls politically, so thanks. Those ELP creeps were the worst, and they went in and got caught perjuring me during the trial because everyone is terrified of speaking up or demanding the most basic of rights. I think we'll see more darkness before the light shines. Americans are uneducated, propagandized, and will definitely turn to a fascist strongman before they trust an anti-imperialist or anyone critical of capital. The Dems proved, unequivocally, that they fear socialism more than fascism, proved it when they sunk Bernie, twice.

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