Halli:

I just wonder who keeps reading the gateway pundit's site and submits this crap. The guy makes Sarah Palin look like a rocket surgeon.

I'm guessing either a True Believer who doesn't care about the facts as long as he gets in a shot at the Other Team, or a Fark admin applying the "any page click$ is good page click$" rule.

atomsmoosher: Lt. Cheese Weasel: unlikely: Charles Lindburgh was a nazi.



'No, no...that can't be right. I've just flown across the atlantic ocean TO Paris.'

He was clearly an anti-semite and an isolationist, but he decidedly didn't support the Nazis. Show me a WASP in 1930s America who WASN'T an anti-semite.

And he liked Eugenics...OK, so he wasn't a boy scout...something of a dick, actually.

Two Gateway Dumbass greenlites in one day Fark? Really?

Taitz'd in the Weeners:

"I would have published that list without the Hon. before the name. Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)

The Hon. Neil Abercrombie is part of the eligibility coverup."

Hasn't the US been a socialist country for decades? The government has collected taxes and used them to provide programs to the citizens - Police, Roads, Fire Department, Social Security, Medicaid, Army, Navy, Subsidies to Farmers, Unemployment Insurance, Disaster Relief, Federal Parks, FBI, CIA, etc.

Regardless, as someone had provided above, the list is BS. I just wish people would see that they've been living in a socialist country for decades.

kronicfeld: The American Socialist Party is not the Socialist Party USA and the Socialist Party of America has not existed since 1973 after it had a three way split. This page is about the Democratic Socialists of America which is not a party but rather a PAC, political action committee.

So are the Socialist Democrats complaining about the Democratic Socialists?

Socialism isn't a bad thing, it's all in the execution.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been implemented without a lot of executions.

carmody: As a socialist, I can assure you there's not one Democrat anywhere near Congress that might be considered a "card-carrying socialist." Most of today's Dems are to the right of Nixon.

This. There is no Eugene Debs for my generation.

cram_hole: I really think that they need to concentrate on their common enemy, the Judean People's Front!

+1 Internets for you!

/Was thinking the same thing :)

Lost Thought 00: kronicfeld: Gateway F*ckstick

Perhaps the most accurate name for that asshole yet. I'm pretty sure he has achieved the Bill Kristol levels "If he said the sky was blue, I'd look up to double check" truthiness

I just want everyone to know that not all St. Louisians are like this asshole and are good and decent people for the most part.

/St. Louisian

Mrtraveler01: Two Gateway Dumbass greenlites in one day Fark? Really?

and both are trips down memory lane - one on something from the 2008 campaign, and this from nearly a year ago.

no one expects derp to be honest, but you'd expect the daily outrage to be like...current. or at least have a Best If Derped By date.

atomsmoosher: Socialism isn't a bad thing, it's all in the execution.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been implemented without a lot of executions.

Hehe, good jorb

Needs more Socialists.

THERE ARE NO SOCIALISTS IN THE US CONGRESS

70? I wish.


Actually, I wish there were a lot more than that...

Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)

c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker!!!

TheSpaceAdmiral: What's up with the "honorable" title for the senators and representatives? Did they all get appointed to the Canadian cabinet or something?

/seriously don't know if that's a title members of congress get, but it looks weird.

Is there an honorable member of congress?

Gato Negro: Wait a minute... this CAN'T be true.

Color Animal is right for the first time in his life. Someone take a picture.

kronicfeld: Oops, you're a retard. (new window)

This quote is from the very first "source" linked to by Gateway F*ckstick:

"Quote: The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.

The problem here is the Socialist Party of America does not exist.

The second problem is the newsletter of question/statement also does not exist. Here is the DSA newsletter for the Fall of 2009 and here is the SP-USA's newsletter which never published an October 2009 edition.



The American Socialist Party is not the Socialist Party USA and the Socialist Party of America has not existed since 1973 after it had a three way split.

This page is about the Democratic Socialists of America which is not a party but rather a PAC, political action committee.

The list of 70 names does not belong to any socialist organization. It was quoted from the Progressive Caucus which to any right-winger is too liberal. For socialists it is too liberal in the other direction. "

Splitters!!

Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)



That me lol.

DonnyBaker: Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)



That me lol.

English speak I.

God damn people are stupid.

And is it illegal to peaceably and freely associate with others in this country?

I swear, the Republican party wants every section of the first tossed out

lol they can keep their socialist party cards right next to basil marceaux's freemen's bureau card.

Racht: There appears to be a "Socialist Party USA" that runs presidential candidates - I recall them being very upset that conservatives were saying Obama was one of them.

The SP-USA does run candidates and Obama is certainly not one of us. The SP-USA in no way supports either of the two capitalist parties, their candidates or their causes.

/Card-carrying socialist, but I didn't bother reading enough comments to see if I'd get a kick out of them or not.

meat0918: And is it illegal to peaceably and freely associate with others in this country?

I swear, the Republican party wants every section of the first tossed out

is it illegal to report stuff?

hurdboy: shivashakti: Communism != Socialism

The former is a means to the latter.....

Only for a Communist.

Two braindead gateway pundit blog entries (as if there's any other type of entry from GWP), a Moonie Times article, and the Washington Examiner.

Somebody at FarkHQ has had way too much farking coffee this morning.

skullkrusher: meat0918: And is it illegal to peaceably and freely associate with others in this country?

I swear, the Republican party wants every section of the first tossed out

is it illegal to report stuff?

Only if it paints Obama in a good light.

kronicfeld: Oops, you're a retard. (new window)

This quote is from the very first "source" linked to by Gateway F*ckstick:

"Quote: The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.

The problem here is the Socialist Party of America does not exist.

The second problem is the newsletter of question/statement also does not exist. Here is the DSA newsletter for the Fall of 2009 and here is the SP-USA's newsletter which never published an October 2009 edition.



The American Socialist Party is not the Socialist Party USA and the Socialist Party of America has not existed since 1973 after it had a three way split.

This page is about the Democratic Socialists of America which is not a party but rather a PAC, political action committee.

The list of 70 names does not belong to any socialist organization. It was quoted from the Progressive Caucus which to any right-winger is too liberal. For socialists it is too liberal in the other direction. "


looks like we're done here.

Gato Negro: Wait a minute... this CAN'T be true.

It's not. Republicans don't apologize.

CitizenTed: Marx and Engels were quite clear that a Communist revolution was best suited to an industrial economy (Germany, France, UK, etc) and would not work well (or at all) in an agrarian economy (Russia). Lenin tried to shoe-horn Marxist revolution into an agrarian economy anyway, mostly because Lenin was an a-hole. The result was a bunch of economic and social disasters, as well as some surprising (and short-lived) gains.

Lenin was aware that a socialist revolution didn't make sense in an agrarian economy. What he wanted to do is use Russia as a base to spread the revolution to Germany (which at the time had no effective government). This failed largely because they lost the Polish-Soviet war and couldn't actually get to Germany. After that the Bolsheviks decided to create "Socialism in One Country". Their main achievement was turning Russia from a backwards, rural state to an industrial world power within a few years.

JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

derp

Halli: El_Swino: This will be one of those useful threads where one can build a list of people who are too retarded to investigate this claim further.

I just wonder who keeps reading the gateway pundit's site and submits this crap. The guy makes Sarah Palin look like a rocket surgeon.

So true. And his commenters are even more deranged. He's like the Pied Piper, but instead of attracting children, he attracts the lower quartile of the IQ pool.

TheSpaceAdmiral: What's up with the "honorable" title for the senators and representatives? Did they all get appointed to the Canadian cabinet or something?

/seriously don't know if that's a title members of congress get, but it looks weird.

IIRC, "The Honorable" is only for representatives; senators just get "Senator."

DonnyBaker: Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)



That me lol.

Cornelius Fudge married an American muggle politician? Doesn't that seem risky to anyone else? What if secrets leaked? How do they even keep the marriage together over such a distance?

JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

actually you have a lot of private military in the middle east. more than the regular military if I recall. and they make more money. plus they don't have to stay if they don't want to. they have shorter rotations. and are basically free agents with little to no rules to hinder them.

JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

It worked for Milan.

skullkrusher: JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

derp

I'm pretty sure that was the point, actually. Though, who knows, this IS Fark, after all.

Emposter: skullkrusher: JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

derp

I'm pretty sure that was the point, actually. Though, who knows, this IS Fark, after all.

see Hobo's response to his sarcasm

skullkrusher: Emposter: skullkrusher: JRoo: When are we going to end the socialist US Military?

We need to privatize the military so we can pay them lower wages and strip their benefits in order to provide tax-cuts for businesses.

derp

I'm pretty sure that was the point, actually. Though, who knows, this IS Fark, after all.

see Hobo's response to his sarcasm

*Casts Spell: Poe's Law*

meat0918: And is it illegal to peaceably and freely associate with others in this country?

I swear, the Republican party wants every section of the first tossed out

If that happened, you'd have to start calling Obammy a liar instead of a mis-speaker. Or did his father really visit all 57 states when he was in WWII?

Hoopido: meat0918: And is it illegal to peaceably and freely associate with others in this country?

I swear, the Republican party wants every section of the first tossed out

If that happened, you'd have to start calling Obammy a liar instead of a mis-speaker. Or did his father really visit all 57 states when he was in WWII?

Yawn.

Tell me, are Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers in the queue for in September and October? I expect to see the same tired old chain emails with new dates to make it seem like the outrageous claim happened yesterday instead of a decade ago.

Old talking points are old.

OH NOES
Democratic SOCIALISTS!!1

German Social Democrats

British Social Democrats

Democratic Socialists were vehemently anti Nazi and Anti Soviet totalitarianism. They fought and died for a lot of the rights that we enjoy today. People need to get some historical perspective.

I consider myself a socialist. From what I've seen of their policies the progressive caucus would be social democrats in most other countries and only eschew the S-word because Americans fall victim to red-baiting far too easily.