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To: MrB
I like to ask "what are you progressing TOWARDS, Communism?"

Yep - that's my favorite, although I prefer to draw 'em out a little more and give 'em a little more rope. So I ask, "Towards what, exactly, are you progressing?" Often as not, there's no coherent answer. But if they answer something like "social justice," then I ask them what that means. That ususally leads to some stupid and indefensible definition. To which I raise an eyebrow and ask, "At whose expense?"

Yes, I know - it's something akin to pulling wings off flies, but it's good sport.

97 posted on 04/15/2004 1:33:24 PM PDT by Noumenon (There's nothing wrong with the Left that can't be cured with a rope or a .45)
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To: Noumenon
"At whose expense?"

Next question:
"And just how are you going to make people pay for that?"
A:Taxes
"So you condone using the legal lethal force of government to force people to pay for your pet ideas? Sounds more like fascist totalitarianism than 'progressivism'."

188 posted on 04/16/2004 5:24:27 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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