Everyone in DC, and everyone in your party (whether they realize it or not) are worshiping the same god. You're not any better or any different.

That god is of course the almighty dollar. Don't pretend that you don't already drop down to worship him, and don't pretend that your party isn't driven by the principle of worshiping him at every opportunity and praising him above all others.

... obviously, he must know what he's talking about if he was able to post his monologue to YouTube, right? After all, you can't put anything on the internet that isn't true, right?

But in what way are you qualified to call something crap when you haven't actually read it? Granted, that hasn't stopped you in the past, but nonetheless it is rather absurd. I don't discard the conservative books that you keep trying to sell me through Amazon as crap if I haven't read them, what qualifies you to discard pieces that you haven't read as crap?

Again, nothing that you have written since claiming to have started reading it would have been impossible for you to have written two weeks ago when you were still bragging about having never read it. If you are actually reading it, why are you intentionally doing such an awful job of reading it? You clearly are not learning anything from the text, you might as well be reading more conservative blogs instead.

I haven't seen you write anything that you couldn't have written two weeks ago. Your complete absence of comprehension leaves me to strongly question whether you are reading it at all.

I'm not going to read it for you. If you don't want to read it, then don't. However when you choose not to read it you have no right to call yourself knowledgeable on Communism. Similarly if you read it at such a level of proud non-comprehension, you don't have any right to claim to have really read it, either.

It sounds like you would have been just as well to have downloaded a scan of the original document in German, as a PDF, and tried to read the raw file in notepad.

Actually, in the comment that got this part going the author said

In MN the word "garage" has a rather specific meaning; a minimum of 4 walls (one of which has a door that a car can drive through) and a ceiling. Now, a garage in MN may - or may not - be heated or insulated depending on a wide variety of factors. Many are also attached to houses (or even tucked under houses) which generally makes them a bit less expensive to regulate temperature in.

But nonetheless the poster did specifically mention having a garage.

That does not in any way sound like a perspective from someone who is reading for comprehension. If someone said that about the Bible when trying to understand Christianity I expect you would come down quite hard on them. You're reading the capstone work of Communism but attacking it with such fervor as to make it highly unlikely that you will get anything from it. It sounds like you would have done just as well to spend that time reading comic books and celebrating your ignorance instead.

You have a valid point. However, slashdot is not intended as a forum for middle management to trade buzzwords. Slashdot is supposed to be for technical discussions. Arguably even if we can't permanently strike "gelling" from the English Language it should be reasonable to present an argument against using it here.

If you can't be bothered to put any thought into what he has said up to that point (beyond your vaporous attempt to discredit his opening thesis), you might as well give up now. That may mean that you gave it your 10 minutes of effort, but if you approach a text with such utter disdain as what you are showing you might as well have just skipped it entirely. You don't seem to want to learn anything from this text.

I am really, really, tired of that word. It is pitifully overused by management from one end of our continent to another. I just got used to being on a constant watch for paradigm shifts and now I am told I need to make sure that my team is gelling sufficiently. We need to campaign to have that word striken completely from the English language; gel should not be a verb for that sense.

Wow, did I finally manage to persuade you to actually read and learn? I'm not quite on par with these guys but with the great wall of resistance you have constructed to keep learning away, I feel like I (may) have made a great breakthrough here.

That said, I'll have to wait and see if you show any understanding of the text or if you give up on it.

I'm quite sure I mentioned a few times that you can read it for free.

Would you consider someone who has not read the Bible in any way, shape, or form to be a qualified expert on Christianity? You keep trying to claim yourself to be an expert on Communism without reading the most important text on the subject.

I figured it would be too much to expect you to try to go in to it with an open mind.

... and back to snarkiness we go. If slashdot supported the blink tag I expect you would have used it there.

Ahh, yes. That joke just never gets old. It works even better as a catch-all response when someone dares to suggest that your statement is lacking factual basis.

Is that your standard response to any sourced material? I will say that the Communist Manifesto is short but does take more than 10 minutes to read through. That might also explain how you manage to occasionally post links to material that actually refute your preferred conclusions, if you give up on them after only 10 minutes of reading.

Most of what I see there is the same kind of nonsense that reaffirms for me that it is a good idea to not use facebook. I didn't see anything on there in the first page's worth of listings that actually relates to Wisconsin.

So then how does that fit in to his global domination strategy that you are so convinced he is on the cusp of rolling out?

No. Getting people excited over a slick presentation is a completely different matter than actually doing something useful for them. That said, I haven't seen any growth in "centralization" lately.