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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 1:22 pm
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(August 21, 2017 at 1:06 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (August 21, 2017 at 12:53 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I think that a big problem, that seems to be getting worse on both sides was captured in the following
It is getting more and more difficult to have actual discussions, it's easier and lazier to just label the other side, and avoid it all together.
Also, appreciate the link... I didn't realize Scott Adams had a blog, and it looks like I would enjoy following it.
Says the guy who refused to discuss things in his last thread, lol.
If you would like to go back and check, I offered a number of times, for someone to create a thread to discuss (to the point of pleading for someone to do so). And I do plan on making one myself as time permits (we'll see how that goes). So you are mistaking refusing to discuss, for refusing to discuss in a thread, that I did not wish to turn it into a debate. As I told you before, I am happy to discuss, I just didn't want to do so in that thread.
Just a reminder - I'm not getting into this again with you.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 1:43 pm
How is Trump a branding expert again?
Also, people ascribing the economy to Trump is laughable. Similarly, North Korea 'blinking', especially since Trump brought us closer to outright warfare with them than any other president in the last 50+ years. The SCOTUS should've had a new judge under Obama (there was never any legal precedent for not at least having hearings on Garland), and ISIS being on the ropes is highly debatable.
Meanwhile, Trump's administration is a mess, with people either quitting or being fired every week. Moreover, he has yet to fill many important positions. Need to hope (or pray, lmao) that a natural disaster doesn't strike us soon, because there's no one in position to handle it. His handling of foreign affairs is embarrassing, as various transcripts have illustrated. He's more worried about looking good than doing anything, and has a knee-jerk reaction to any of Obama's policies, even if they're beneficial.
The guy is a clown. He's a wannabe mob guy whose fortune largely came from his father. He's used to bullying others in order to get his way because of the leverage his personal fortune provides him, leverage which simply doesn't exist in public office. His brand has been a laughing stock to anyone with a functioning brain... of course, we're not the ones who signed up for his university and we certainly weren't the ones buying his steaks at The Sharper Image. We weren't suckered by a shitty reality TV show thinking that, wow, he's an amazing business man.
Is he a racist? Well, I've always thought that people were responsible for the company they keep. Given he's surrounded himself with Nazis and wannabes (Bannon, Gorka, etc.), it seems like, yes, he's a racist. It's telling that it took him a couple days to reluctantly denounce the Nazis at Charlottesville, but mere hours to come out strongly against a similar attack in Barcelona. He claims the delay was to "get all the facts," yet he still has them wrong (the counter-protestors did have a permit (like a lack of one excuses fucking vehicular homicide)).
Sorry Scott Adams, Wooters, RR, and others: Trump is a racist idiot who's bumbling his way through the Presidency. His entire being is below the dignity of the office, and I, for one, cannot wait until he's out of the White House.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 1:43 pm
I say we build a statue to commemorate the statues.
That should do it.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 3:05 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am so glad I have Neo on ignore, cant imagine what nonsense apology and playing false victim he is posting.
Are you sure you have him on ignore or is it just coincidence that your post came right after his did.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 3:06 pm
Or maybe they should just re-name statues like it's sometimes done. For instance in Swiss town of Bern there is a statue called Kindlifresserbrunnen which was erected back in 16th century and represents a Jew eating Catholic children. But as time passed and those history hatin' Antifa guys came along there was a sudden pressure to remove it, so people just started referring to it as an Ogre, not a Jew.
So people could also re-name Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues as Cowboys. "But what about their Southern uniform?" So what? Kindlifresserbrunnen wears Jewish hat and yet people call it Ogre.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 3:08 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 3:05 pm)A Theist Wrote: (August 21, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am so glad I have Neo on ignore, cant imagine what nonsense apology and playing false victim he is posting.
Are you sure you have him on ignore or is it just coincidence that your post came right after his did.
No, I've had him on ignore for months now.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 3:12 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (August 21, 2017 at 3:05 pm)A Theist Wrote: Are you sure you have him on ignore or is it just coincidence that your post came right after his did.
No, I've had him on ignore for months now. Great timing, then.
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Non racists remove shameful monuments to thugs and confederate apologists freakout
August 21, 2017 at 3:37 pm
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Wooter and road like Scott Adams that's very telling . And as for discussion so far we kicked the pro statue sides ass . As for hysteria I'm sorry which sides raving about Stalinism and the erasing of history . And calling their opposition Al Queda in America. Oh and labels I think apply here too.
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 4:41 pm
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(August 21, 2017 at 1:22 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: (August 21, 2017 at 1:06 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Says the guy who refused to discuss things in his last thread, lol.
If you would like to go back and check, I offered a number of times, for someone to create a thread to discuss (to the point of pleading for someone to do so). And I do plan on making one myself as time permits (we'll see how that goes). So you are mistaking refusing to discuss, for refusing to discuss in a thread, that I did not wish to turn it into a debate. As I told you before, I am happy to discuss, I just didn't want to do so in that thread.
Just a reminder - I'm not getting into this again with you.
Whatever you say, RR. Meanwhile, I'll be waiting for that thread with bated breath. 😉
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RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 21, 2017 at 4:49 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 3:12 pm)A Theist Wrote: (August 21, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No, I've had him on ignore for months now. Great timing, then.
No it isn't idiot. If you put someone on ignore, their name shows up without the post and says something like, "You cannot read this person's post because you have them on ignore." I saw his name between posts, just not the post itself.
It was reading, no magic to it.
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