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Done Here For Awhile
#31
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 26, 2016 at 7:01 am)Vic Wrote: Perhaps not respect, but not rioting and fear mongering might be the more adult thing to do in this situation. You don't have to respect him, but you have to respect the result of the democratic election.

Well no one has to respect anything. Including democracy. Disrespect is not a thought crime.

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People have to stop fucking rioting because they don't like a result though, indeed. Violence is a piece of crap.

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#32
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 25, 2016 at 11:51 am)Whateverist Wrote: So MJ, what's up with your intolerance toward others having an emotional response to the election?  Have you slain your emotions along with the gods, or just your regard for reciprocity?

Intolerance towards the election? Have you seen the left lately? The protests, the petitions, the riots. How deliciously ironic and stupid of you to say. I'm intolerant of someone who wants the country to burn because their candidate didn't win? Yeah I'm intolerant to irrational points of view, good eye sparky. You're defending a guy who wants the US to burn for having a democratic election. Get lost you hypocritical regressive.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
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#33
RE: Done Here For Awhile
Damn, that's a serious icepick you've got up your ass. Do you really think he literally meant he wants to throw the country into a fire? Of course it's irrational, of course it's hyperbole.

Looks to me like you've spotted a neat-o chance to beat up on someone for ill-chosen words and are trying to make the most of the opportunity. Here, sit down, take a deep breath, and have a cup of coffee. No one gives a fuck if you're more righteously American than him.

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#34
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 27, 2016 at 12:48 pm)MJ the Skeptical Wrote:
(November 25, 2016 at 11:51 am)Whateverist Wrote: So MJ, what's up with your intolerance toward others having an emotional response to the election?  Have you slain your emotions along with the gods, or just your regard for reciprocity?

Intolerance towards the election? Have you seen the left lately? The protests, the petitions, the riots. How deliciously ironic and stupid of you to say. I'm intolerant of someone who wants the country to burn because their candidate didn't win? Yeah I'm intolerant to irrational points of view, good eye sparky. You're defending a guy who wants the US to burn for having a democratic election. Get lost you hypocritical regressive.


Yeah looks like your manners were another victim of your slaying.  Run along now.
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#35
RE: Done Here For Awhile
For all you atheist Trump supporters, there's an interesting factoid going around. It's being reported that Trump's original pick for secretary of education was Jerry Falwell Jr.

Let that one sink in.
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#36
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 27, 2016 at 7:56 pm)Faith No More Wrote: For all you atheist Trump supporters, there's an interesting factoid going around.  It's being reported that Trump's original pick for secretary of education was Jerry Falwell Jr.

Let that one sink in.

Why do you even think that's needed? Michael Pence tells the tale well enough. All the borderline fascists around the world intrumentalise religion for their goals. In Poland it's quickly moving into the direction of theocratic fascism. That's why I can't find any explanation for anyone being an atheist or belonging to some social minority rooting for that kind of scum.
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#37
RE: Done Here For Awhile
I don't really care either way, it's just 4 years, we'll manage... if we can at least act as sane adults ourselves.
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#38
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 27, 2016 at 11:12 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: I don't really care either way, it's just 4 years, we'll manage... if we can at least act as sane adults ourselves.


The election proved that isn't a realistic expectation.
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#39
RE: Done Here For Awhile
(November 27, 2016 at 8:37 pm)abaris Wrote: Why do you even think that's needed? Michael Pence tells the tale well enough. All the borderline fascists around the world intrumentalise religion for their goals. In Poland it's quickly moving into the direction of theocratic fascism. That's why I can't find any explanation for anyone being an atheist or belonging to some social minority rooting for that kind of scum.

As long as people support Trump, apparently it is needed. If I have to endure four years of an internet troll being president, I'm going to take every opportunity to point out how foolish it was for people to support him.

Besides, with Pence, atheists can at least dismiss it as necessary pandering to the religious right by nominating a fundie to a largely meaningless position. No amount of mental gymnastics, however, can ever justify putting a hardcore creationist in control of our education system.
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