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KASPAROV ON BERNIE SANDERS: SOCIALISM CORRODES THE HUMAN SPIRIT
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| 3/2/2016
| Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 03/02/2016 7:57:10 PM PST by Beave Meister
Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov lived in the USSR and he is not feeling the bern.
I'm enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016; berniesanders; burn; capitalism; communism; communist; democrats; election2016; feelthebern; garrykasparov; kasparov; liberals; marxism; russia; sanders; socialism; soviet; ussr
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Burn baby Bern....It's over for you Bernie.
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
03/02/2016 7:58:39 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: Byron_the_Aussie
"A world become one>
With salad and sun.
Only a fool would say that.
-- Steely Dan
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:07:04 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:07:47 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Trump supporters aren't bought and paid for, Cruz supporters aren't establishment shills, okay? Good)
To: Beave Meister
Kasparov is Rubio-loving
garbage. A shame, since as a chess player, I admired how he demolished the Soviet chess machine and their stooge Karpov throughout the 80s and 90s.
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:11:18 PM PST
by
Objective Scrutator
(All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
To: Beave Meister
Sanders is a knee slapping , belly laugh CLOWN. the few that would vote for this communist are simply parasites and want the property of others that own it!Free college, my A$$!
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:14:49 PM PST
by
WENDLE
(Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
To: Beave Meister
Well Bernie’s campaign is kinda corroded away too. Shouldn’t that old man be enjoying his retirement already? The senate is like a country club and a hospice as well. The perks must be outstanding because they all want to leave in the stiff, horizontal position.
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:15:09 PM PST
by
tflabo
(truth or tyrrany)
To: Beave Meister
“The problem with socialism, Marxism, fascism and communism is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm.... Capitalism is that kind of a system.”....Milton Friedman
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:20:35 PM PST
by
Beave Meister
(Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
To: Beave Meister
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:27:41 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: Beave Meister
In other words, Do Not Feed The Bears.
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:27:50 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The Supreme Court is a joke being played on the American people.)
To: Byron_the_Aussie
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:28:35 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: BeadCounter
Post 5 I have a link from his own website where he more or less endorses Rubio, at least as the “least offensive” candidate.
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:31:42 PM PST
by
Objective Scrutator
(All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
To: Beave Meister
I think Kasparov is a relic of a bygone era. He is still mired in the 1980s. The rest of the world has moved on. People today, especially young people, have no recollection of Socialism or its offshoots. It just sounds good to them. Kasparov is a nobody to them...
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:37:30 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: Beave Meister
Sanders is a neanderthal. His unflinching support of a failed, 175 year-old economic philosophy that has literally failed everywhere is like believing the earth is flat.
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posted on
03/02/2016 8:47:32 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: nwrep
I think Kasparov is a relic of a bygone era. He is still mired in the 1980s. The rest of the world has moved on. People today, especially young people, have no recollection of Socialism or its offshoots. It just sounds good to them. Kasparov is a nobody to them...But why is it that someone who calls America "racist" and points to slavery in the 19th century or Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century is not likewise dismissed as a "relic?"
Regards,
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:20:34 PM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
But why is it that someone who calls America "racist" and points to slavery in the 19th century or Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century is not likewise dismissed as a "relic?" Because those are trendy and popular positions. That is what schools and colleges today teach. Saying such things is perfectly fine...
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posted on
03/02/2016 9:51:25 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: Beave Meister
-Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely.- ???
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posted on
03/02/2016 10:08:41 PM PST
by
mom.mom
To: Beave Meister
Yes when I look at Bernie, I see an empty shell.
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posted on
03/02/2016 10:13:49 PM PST
by
Crucial
(At the heart all leftidsts is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
03/02/2016 10:27:39 PM PST
by
aquila48
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