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I'll be back later - got to work - but I have to say that your misreading of Giordano gives me a lot of hope that similar misreadings of my comments are due to ideological blinders and not to my own lame writing style.
by rootless2 on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 01:42:08 PM EST
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The argument I see from him is "the system is broken, but it is too broken to fix itself, therefore we are screwed." Waste of time.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 04:23:22 PM EST
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Not at all. The argument is that the system is inherently broken, so partial reforms that actually help people are great and should not be discarded in the name of some supposedly "real" reform that will magically create an island of justice in the sea of exploitation. The idea that one can reform US health insurance as if the basic operation of the US economy did not favor corporate power is laughable.

Remember the context of the argument is that Moyers/Taibbi/Hamsher etc. are arguing that a health reform bill that improves lives of tens of millions should be discarded.

by rootless2 on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 04:32:51 PM EST
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