On 20.02.2016 18:37, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> This reminds me so much of this infamous west german thought-terminating
> cliché to counter any kind of criticism towards the free (as in "free
> software"?) market economy:
>
> "Geh' doch in den Osten, wenn's Dir nicht passt!"
Actually, I've just heared this pseudo-argument yesterday, when somebody
tried to defend the nato's anti-russian aggression - mind that an I *am*
at what formerly was that "east" (cental germany).
Seems that method is still in use.
> There is another famous saying, I think originally by Rosa Luxemburg:
>
> "Freedom" is always the freedom of the opponent.
Hah, try that agument with socialists or communists and have fun.
By the way, sometimes I wonder whether Lennart and Comrade Iljitsch
could have been good friends ...
--mtx