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