mc mark & glynch spontaneously combust [rquoter]The KOCH brothers must be stopped. They gave $40K to Scott Walker, the MAX allowed by state law. That's small potatoes compared to the $100+ million they give to other organizations. These organizations will terrify you. If the anti-union thing weren't enough, here are bigger and better reasons to stop the evil Kochs. They are trying to: decriminalize drugs, legalize gay marriage, repeal the Patriot Act, end the police state, cut defense spending. Who hates the police? Only the criminals using drugs, amirite? We need the Patriot Act to allow government to go through our emails and tap our phones to catch people who smoke mar1juana and put them in prison. Oh, it's also good for terrorists. Wikipedia shows Koch Family Foundations supporting causes like: CATO Institute Reason Foundation cancer research ($150 million to M.I.T. - STOP THEM! KEEP CANCER ALIVE!) ballet (because seriously: ****. THAT. ****.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Family_Foundations The Kochs basically give a TON of money (millions of dollars) to the CATO Institute. Scott Walker, $40K? HAH! These CATO people are the REAL problem. They want to end the War on Drugs. Insane, right? We know that the War on Drugs keeps us SAFE from Mexicans and keeps all that violence on their side of the fence. More than 30,000 Mexicans killed as of December! Thank God Mexican lives don't count as human lives. Our government is doing a good, no, a great job protecting us and seriously, who cares about brown people or should I say non-people? HAHAHA! Public unions are good, government is good, and government protects us from drugs and brown people. The Kochs want to end all that. Look, as far back as 1989 CATO has been trying to decriminalize drugs. Don't worry, nobody listens to them because they are INSANE. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=981 CATO also rejects the Patriot Act. How can you hate the Patriot Act? Are you not American? They made it easy for you to understand by putting the word "Patriot" in the legislation. That means you should vote YES. Giving up our civil liberties is not a big deal. We need our government. Whether it's Obama or Bush, we can all agree that the TSA is really good at what they do. God, those patdowns feel SOOOO good. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10599 The Kochs also support Reason Foundation. You don't know about that? Let me tell you. Basically, REASON Foundation is a bunch of cop haters. Last month, they did a "news" (as if we wanna know!) story on three cops that beat up an unarmed black kid. In the aftermath, the cops were suspended, sat around doing nothing and got paid (like that's a bad thing!). I don't know about you, but that puts a smile on my face for four reasons: I hate black people, I love the police, I love it when police beat up black people for no reason, I love that it comes out of taxpayers' money, because it's not like it's really my money. The Kochs are trying to end this. The Kochs must be stopped. http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/24/a-beating-in-pittsburgh CATO trying to cut defense spending: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/how-to-cut-military-spending/ Gay marriage. YUCK. That's just obvious. If the KOCH Brothers have their way, there will be homos getting married left and right. Here's another scary thought: gays raising children. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6379 Here are some videos from Glenn Greenwald, one of those "gays." He writes for the liberal Salon.com, but don't let that fool you. He's in the Koch Brothers' pocket. Here are some videos to prove my point: Here's Glenn Greenwald talking about drug-decriminalization at REASON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuvXdqKM0M&feature=related Yeah, he's that Glenn Greenwald that also defends WikiLeaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInz4i6AV8M If there's one thing I know about billionaires, it's that they only care about money. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and George Soros. They aren't fooling me. Bill Gates isn't fooling me with his vaccination campaign in Africa. He's just trying to make African children live longer so they will buy more copies of Windows. Wow. Not even trying to hide it. Now, I don't know why the KOCH brothers want gay people to have the right to marry. Everybody knows marriage is for a man and a woman. Even Obama believes that. Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve amirite? I haven't figured out the angle, yet. Maybe it's like this: legalize drugs legalize gay marriage sell drugs, oil and Koch napkins to gays at their weddings ???? PROFIT$ I don't know exactly how it would work, but we can all agree that they're evil. Think about it. CATO and REASON are the only institutions OPENLY advocating these positions. Who would do such a thing? Have they no shame? Minority opinions MUST BE SILENCED. Anyway, we must reject everything that the KOCH brothers do in Wisconsin and around the country. We will succeed as long as we stick to the GROUP-&-THINK. YES WE CAN. You're either with us or against us. [/rquoter]
TL;DR -also poorly punctuated, looks like a straight up freeper-rape. Shame on you, Goran Dragic does not approve: it's deadline day, asshat. Stop clogging up forum. Get to GARM and contribute.
the free market intervened to bring us a draft pick and mighty DRAGIC all hail the invisible hand of market forces!
the koch brothers would have gotten Perkins, not Ttttttthhhhhhabeet. they would have honored Battier's loyal service by trading him to a contendah.
I think this is a classic example of cherry picking. You only highlighted issues the Koch brothers financially support that would be viewed favorably on this board while ignoring others that would be viewed unfavorably. To the OP, I don't think this thread is helping your case.
Not mentioned in the previous article: http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/25/t...on/HitandRun+(Reason+Online+-+Hit+&+Run+Blog)
no one ever considered them neocons. i guess the point of your post is they are consistent, which is fine. the problem people have with the koch brothers is their spending money to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. nothing you posted contradicts that.
Spoiler You can argue all you want - but when a couple of wealthy people have this much influence over our supposedly 'elected' officials, then we're in an oligarchy. Good bye democracy, we hardly knew ye.
Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010 http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?type=A Koch #83 Top 20 contribute to Democrats by a enormous margin.
I see about 12 unions, 3 professional organizations and #1 is a political organization that aggregates the individual donations of liberal donors. uh...I don't think that's a couple of wealthy people. That's a huge number of average, working-class people, working under the auspices of fundamentally democratic (as in the system, not the party) organizations collecting money together so they can try to combat the influence of one or two wealthy patrons. But, as always, my suspicion of Goldman Sachs and their heavy contributions (as well as their entrenchment in Democratic circles) heightens.
