Just... wow. Wtf?

Sadly, that's the norm these days. Threatening emails and social media messages targeting the roots of any given politician, if they're not coming from the red blooded mainstream. Third generation migrants with turkish or Palestinian background as well as jews. The extraordinary thing about this story is that it's obviously coming from the more primitive membership of the own party. Usually it's other party affiliates attacking them.

The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

(September 3, 2016 at 11:18 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

I don't really accept that at all. I mean we are only a couple decades removed from the cold war. That's a polarized world. Only a few decades removed from segregation and apartheid, that's a polarized world. Only a couple generations removed from a time when you never knew when France and Germany would be at war with one another. That's a polarized world.

I think by any decent definition of the word, people get along better today then they ever have in history. It's just that if you choose to focus on the negative, that is all you are going to see.

(September 3, 2016 at 11:18 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

Because those fucking republicunts are bastards!

(September 3, 2016 at 12:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(September 3, 2016 at 11:18 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

Because those fucking republicunts are bastards!

This isn't even about Republicans.

Corbynites are basically commies.

(September 3, 2016 at 12:05 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't really accept that at all. I mean we are only a couple decades removed from the cold war.

I case you haven't noticed, but we're smack in the middle. At least the ones in power do their best to give that appearance. And believe someone who grew up in the last one. It has that specific ring already. Minus the tight borders. But I guess, we're getting there too.

(September 3, 2016 at 12:05 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:

(September 3, 2016 at 11:18 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

I don't really accept that at all. I mean we are only a couple decades removed from the cold war. That's a polarized world. Only a few decades removed from segregation and apartheid, that's a polarized world. Only a couple generations removed from a time when you never knew when France and Germany would be at war with one another. That's a polarized world.

I think by any decent definition of the word, people get along better today then they ever have in history. It's just that if you choose to focus on the negative, that is all you are going to see.

The cold war was a period of relative political stability and mainly restricted to governments but the polarisation is now personal. the rise of the right across Europe and another bout of isolationism from the US seeming likely. I've seen it myself with people who for years I thought of as nice people allowing their intolerance to surface, it's been sudden and rather taken me back.