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plato's republic
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 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: Subway guys on the Itaewon line |
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| Who are those guys wearing the red caps, yellow jackets, black pants, white sneakers and carrying batons on the Itaewon subway line? What purpose do they serve? I don't recall seeing them on the other lines or maybe I just haven't noticed. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:33 am Post subject: |
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Were they strapped?
Sparkles*_* |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| They are Guides to help the capitalist pigs who are attending APEC, find their way around town during their stay. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| I believe they're mostly there to prevent people from jumping or getting pushed on the tracks. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
| They are Guides to help the capitalist pigs who are attending APEC, find their way around town during their stay. |
Nerd. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| I saw them today getting off the train. What a bunch of dickheads. I hope they get smashed. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| They've always been around the subway platforms, they just stand out now, because of the awful uniforms. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| they're actually a supplement to the usual subway dudes. they are there to prevent terrorists for the summit. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
| They are Guides to help the capitalist pigs who are attending APEC, find their way around town during their stay. |
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I'm organizing a champagne brunch in support of capitalism and free trade. Would you like to attend? Dress code is black tie, btw. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
| they're actually a supplement to the usual subway dudes. they are there to prevent terrorists for the summit. |
Whew. I feel better knowing the Seoul subway system is protected by a skinny guy in a red cap, a weird green shirt, taupe pants, and a flashlight.
Years and years ago there was a major break-in at a Canadian Forces warehouse. All kinds of automatic weapons were stolen. The warehouse was protected by a 70 year old security guard, armed with a flashlight and a Canadian Tire Mastercraft padlock. |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| I'm organizing a champagne brunch in support of capitalism and free trade. Would you like to attend? Dress code is black tie, btw. |
jaganath69, in all seriousness I think you should write a book about being an ex-trotskyist, ex-Cliffite, ex-Rintoulist, ex-ISOist, ex-sect builder or whatever you were/are.
You now mock communists, yet are not able to pinpoint the specific reason for your own unusual political development. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| I'm organizing a champagne brunch in support of capitalism and free trade. Would you like to attend? Dress code is black tie, btw. |
jaganath69, in all seriousness I think you should write a book about being an ex-trotskyist, ex-Cliffite, ex-Rintoulist, ex-ISOist, ex-sect builder or whatever you were/are.
You now mock communists, yet are not able to pinpoint the specific reason for your own unusual political development. |
Soviet Man, I've missed you.
Anyhow, his political evolution could be the 100,000,000 dead from the poison that you call an ideology.
And yes, I know your response. "Blah blah blah blah communism hasn't been really tried/the Soviet Union blah blah and others were not really communist". Save it.
No one cares. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm organizing a champagne brunch in support of capitalism and free trade. Would you like to attend? Dress code is black tie, btw. |
jaganath69, in all seriousness I think you should write a book about being an ex-trotskyist, ex-Cliffite, ex-Rintoulist, ex-ISOist, ex-sect builder or whatever you were/are.
You now mock communists, yet are not able to pinpoint the specific reason for your own unusual political development. |
Rintoulist, jeez, I didn't know old Ian had been deified and placed amongst the pantheon of 4th international gods. FYI, I spent a year with the Brisbane ISO in 1993 and very eagerly got out when I realized the futility of vanguardism. My political progression from there on was linear through the ALP and then to my current position, classical liberal. I approach my politics from a utilitarian perspective. You calling me weird in this context is chutzpah. You and your handful of mates selling newspapers and trying to compete with the Sparts and all the other sad little groups definately places you in the unusual camp. Hope you are doing well, be cautious of the national security law here, btw. |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| Rintoulist, jeez, I didn't know old Ian had been deified and placed amongst the pantheon of 4th international gods. FYI, I spent a year with the Brisbane ISO in 1993 and very eagerly got out when I realized the futility of vanguardism. My political progression from there on was linear through the ALP and then to my current position, classical liberal. I approach my politics from a utilitarian perspective. You calling me weird in this context is chutzpah. You and your handful of mates selling newspapers and trying to compete with the Sparts and all the other sad little groups definately places you in the unusual camp. Hope you are doing well, be cautious of the national security law here, btw. |
jaganath69,
As you know, I argue that both capitalism and 4th internationalism have failed.
I have never been a defender of anti-Moscow trot groups such as the ISO/SWP. Rintoul's brand of politics is exactly in that primitive, middle-class, small propaganda-group, sectarian mould that you have described. It could never lead to a mass-party or a revolutionary situation. Thus - the ISO could never be a viable alternative to capitalism.
That is a vastly different political quantity to supporting the mass-parties in the existing communist states and for communist interventions into developing states where capitalism can be overthrown. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| You are lame. Great!! Revolution!! One time and then it's death and suffering for all those who fall suspect to the politburo ruling members. Screw law and order, that is left for the mafia. Communism and command economies don't work. |
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