The Crazy Left Keeps Coming...Please. Don't Stop.

[LadyForCamus]

Where's Neo? Oh, yeah. He doesn't participate in his own threads. Doesn't that qualify as trolling?

[The Grand Nudger]

To be expected.  The last one bombed too.  Looking to bitch about leftist over-reach in inclusivity.... he inadvertently stumbled into a pile of christer shit.

[Aroura]

LOL @ "weekly"  If you have to exaggerate to make your point your point is faulty. 40% of millennials are anti free speech? Where are the hell are you getting this shit? And how do you even conduct a poll to get that result?If that's even a real number, it's most likely the result of a push poll. Majority of millennials aren't even college students! 2/3 of millennials age 25 to 32 don't even have a degree!

I go to a very liberal state college. A student organization against Planned Parenthood had a table set up in the quad two weeks ago giving out info about how they sell fetus parts. Surprise surprise, people acted like mature young adults and just ignored them.

Posts like these really just make me sad. Think for a minute, will you?

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...inorities/

Weekly is not an exaggeration. It's normal to hear several stories like this over the course of one week. I pay attention to this stuff and look into it every few days to see what's up.

Look at the rest of the same poll. College education reduces the number. The higher the education, the less likely to support limiting speech. Or did you only look at the data that reinforced your preconceived notions. Equating millenialls with college foot soldiers, or however you phrased that earlier, is disingenuous. Cherry pick your data much?

[Pat Mustard]

Was that for me? If you're shocked by the 40 % number when it comes to millenials being anti-free speech and find it hard to believe, I don't blame you. I found it very hard to believe too at first.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...inorities/

I heard the same figure used recently during a round table discussion on NPR concerning the political right and free speech on campuses. Assuming the polling is solid, it's a disturbing development.

40%?!? Hell, 1% is too damn high.

Nothing wrong with criminalising hate speech. Most of Europe does it and it has no impact on the quality or range of political discourse over here (except possibly improving it).

[A Theist]

Generation X whippersnapper. You damn kids nowadays.

[Haughty pedant’s voice]: That’s Mr. Generation X, if you please. I didn’t go through a decade of big hair and women in shoulder pads to be called Whippersnapper.

Ha! I remember that decade! The '80s! I was in my 30s. My daughter went through that whole shoulder pads, big hair thing. You could tell that a song was going to be a hit if it was played in the background of a Miami Vice episode. Not a bad time. Even for baby boomers.

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I certainly hope you understand the difference between free speech and hate speech, FF.

There is no difference. The term hate speech is BS. There is hateful speech, and that is not nice, but they get to be as hateful as they like in a society that cares about free speech.

Also, do away with free speech and see how long it takes until your government is trying to pull shit like this

Next thing you know, Canukistan will be fining people for singing while driving

[Crossless2.0]

[Haughty pedant’s voice]: That’s Mr. Generation X, if you please. I didn’t go through a decade of big hair and women in shoulder pads to be called Whippersnapper.

Ha! I remember that decade! The '80s! I was in my 30s. My daughter went through that whole shoulder pads, big hair thing. You could tell that a song was going to be a hit if it was played in the background of a Miami Vice episode. Not a bad time. Even for baby boomers.

The '80s encompassed the latter half of my teens and my early twenties. It was a strange time for me. I was in it but never felt of it.

Among my cultural blind spots and raging, psychotic hatreds from those days:

1) I never saw a single episode of Miami Vice.

2) Somehow, I never got around to seeing Ghostbusters despite being a Bill Murray fan.

3) To this day, I seethe to hear Phil Collins on the radio.

4) The sound of big, reverb-y drums (a ubiquitous production trope from those days) practically makes me queasy.


We now return you to Neo's abandoned thread.

[Amarok]

The  80 s were just as divided and tense as now . Take your fucking nostalgia glasses off Ahole

[Mystical]

Republicans like you give tried and true Patriotic Republicans a bad name. Hop off your propaganda machine and see what's really happening.......


.......You're an empty shell, and I can't wait for it to implode. 

Oh wait.. it already is.

(Edit above, mine)

 

Did you.. just censor what I said in a conversation about censorship?!  0.o

Here's the quote again. Try reading it this time and instead of deflecting, why don't you use that enormous mind brain that you have and find something to respond to. 

Republicans like you give tried and true Patriotic Republicans a bad name. Hop off your propaganda machine and see what's really happening. Your political party is an imploding mass of hate, bigotry, and a pittance of what was once the basis of American standards based upon the Constitution. The day you swallowed the white supremecists into your fold is the day you took on a cancer that will kill your party, just as it has already killed your footing in society and your values. You're an empty shell, and I can't wait for it to implode. 

Oh wait.. it already is.  

For example you could watch the speech from one of your most conservative conservatives, the poster child of the conservative movement, QUIT as he explains how he values the Constitution over the political coup and degredation of Democracy that's occurring right now, and why he cannot stand with it. Then explain to me why you stand with Trump.

The Dems aren't faring any better. There's also infighting between the more far left wing of the democrat party and the old establishment members of the democrat party. The establishment seems to be imploding in both camps...

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Nancy Pelosi shouted down by far left zealots and illegal immigrants at a Town Hall meeting

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"I know I am but what are you?!"

Deflection aside, you are correct, the Democrats are imploding as well. I'm glad of that. 
However, it's the party in power making these democracy shattering decisions that I'm worried about. Personally I don't give 2 shits whose in what party so long as they do their jobs, represent their districts, and aren't corporate puppets. I'd vote for a Republican over a Democrat any day if they were better suited and qualified and had a better voting record. As it stands the LEast qualified, and actually the worst possible candidates are being placed in charge of administration's they have NO business running, and they seem to have the agenda opposite to prosperity or progress. It's like someone wrote up as a joke, a worst case scenario list of appointments and Trump found it and said "Great!".
 
As for party over country, that's exactly what's going on and as long as I have the free speech to say so, I will yell it above the tree tops. I also think that it's not a bad idea for the parties to all split. and that multiple parties of differing views is a good thing. Australia has just that, along with requisite voting. I dont think that in an ideal government there even needs to be parties. NO PARTIES AT ALL, just do your goddamn job how about that?!

It's appaling to me that our congressmen and women have to work phones like they're some telemarketer or televangelist. They get a salary, they shouldn't have to fight for the jobs they were elected to because their opponents have the Koch brothers bankrollin their candidacy and agenda. Money out of politics is the only way!
Instead of curing the nation you all decided for all of us to take a cancer pill and are in denial about it as it eats us away one god awful day at a time.

[Neo-Scholastic]

We now return you to Neo's abandoned thread.

I said all I had to say. Nothing wrong with letting others have the last word is there?

[Silver]

I said all I had to say. Nothing wrong with letting others have the last word is there?

Awww, how kind of you for letting me have the last word.