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The only people we hate more than the Romans are the #%!^* Judean People's Front... (Original Post)
DanTex
Mar 2015
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. more like this.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)2. blessed are the cheese makers! nt
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. even American cheese?
How about Velveeta?
Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)4. You keep using that word, cheese...
I do not think it means what you think it does.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)6. obviously it's not meant to be taken literally
It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Some DU threads these days.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)7. It's inspired by 1970s British communist and socialist parties
Just look at part of the Wikipedia entry for one party to get a flavour:
Splits
Appeal Group
Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity
Communist League
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)
Communist Workers' Party
Fife Socialist League
New Communist Party of Britain
Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain#External_links
Appeal Group
Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity
Communist League
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)
Communist Workers' Party
Fife Socialist League
New Communist Party of Britain
Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain#External_links
And then there was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_%28Britain%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Revolutionary_Party_%28UK%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_tendency
and many more.