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TexasTowelie

(117,468 posts)
Sun May 27, 2018, 05:09 AM May 2018

Capitalist taking over commie billboard


A billboard near I-70 Exit 298 says "Manhattan: The next best thing to communism."


The infamous “communism” billboard on I-70 is about to go away.

The company that rents the top portion of the billboard has signed an agreement to take over the space on the bottom, effective June 1. Dave Dreiling, owner of that company, said Wednesday that a new sports bar in Junction City called “JC’s” will be advertising in that space.

The board that went up last week in that space says: “Manhattan: The next best thing to communism,” accompanied by the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the former Soviet Union.

That sign was the work of Ron Ford, a Manhattan man who got into a dispute with the city government 17 years ago about zoning rules. Ford has refused to talk to The Mercury. Former city officials and others say they figure that dispute is his beef with the city.

Read more: http://themercury.com/news/local/capitalist-taking-over-commie-billboard/article_fbf900fb-969f-5802-a180-8c68291e3040.html
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Capitalist taking over commie billboard (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2018 OP
Yet another example TimeSnowDemos May 2018 #1
(not just crappy schools...) lastlib May 2018 #2
Yep TimeSnowDemos May 2018 #3
Paid for by the Ford's what ? eppur_se_muova May 2018 #4
 

TimeSnowDemos

(476 posts)
1. Yet another example
Sun May 27, 2018, 05:26 AM
May 2018

Of an American that can't define the word 'communism'.

And that is neat universal on the right AND left in the US.

Something about crappy US schools brainwashing generations of children.

lastlib

(24,982 posts)
2. (not just crappy schools...)
Sun May 27, 2018, 05:36 AM
May 2018

Plenty of right-wing orgs like John Birch Society make up their own definition of it and slap the label on anything they don't like.

 

TimeSnowDemos

(476 posts)
3. Yep
Sun May 27, 2018, 06:02 AM
May 2018

And the media can't define it either...

On the left it means libraries and roads, on the right it means totalitarian dictatorship.

Neither is vaguely correct.

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