Kavanaugh ... now what?
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Quote:I'm gonna read your mind and tell you what is going inside there based upon what I know about real people who think the Democrats should "Throw away identity politics". They hate identity politics because they hate those separate identities. They think everybody should strive to be as similar as their psychology allows and everybody has got the same history and problems, approximately, taken from a curated and approved list that all humans have in common. They don't want to know about your odd language, your accented English, your peculiar culture, your crazy family, your religion, your unique problems, your idiosyncratic goals. They think Americans should have a common purpose that we can all agree on. They want everybody to strive to become Bland-Americans, no other kind of hyphenated-American. Democrats are not gonna throw away Identity Politics to please white Americans that hate those identities like they hate niggers, or chinks, or gooks, or spicks, or mex-skins, or queers, or dykes, or Jehovah's Witnesses, or Muslims, or foreigners, or Liberals, or what-have-yous.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Are Trump voters seriously considering not voting for Trump a second time? But only if Democratic politicians stop opposing Trump’s decisions?
I didn't say anything about Trump.Quote:
I don’t think Democrats should change themselves to please Trump voters, to get them to switch sides.
I agreeQuote:
I don’t think Democrats can change themselves enough to make a Trump voter switch and, most importantly, stay switched for two or more elections in a row.
You need to stop looking at this is a Trump thing, or about "Trump Voters".
A lot of people who voted for Trump are independents and even former Liberals that had enough with the Democratic Party as it is in 2016 onward.
How many? I don't know. But as you like to bring up often, Trump lost the popular vote.
The Democratic Party doesn't need to change so much that it would steal 60 Million votes away from Trump in 2020.
It would absolutely destroy Trump if it stopped being the party of division though.
As I've said many times before, it needs to throw away identity politics as a message. You seem to be getting this. You're the only person in here with negative things to say about Kavanaugh that were based off of facts instead of feels.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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You could have just said. You are a racist, sexist, blah blah blah.
If we're going to go back to insulting each other, just say the word, Second.
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You Democrats just gave the GOP their long time wet dream in the Supreme Court.
I'm not a Dem, fart head. MATH and the GOP - the people who wouldn't stop to p*ss on your shoes if they were on fire - gave all of US Kavanaugh. You're too busy worrying about who's calling you names to see anything larger.Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Just think about how much worse it could be if Donald Trump was at least a little likable.
I mean REALLY think about that one.
I'd rather think about reality - ever think about that? I mean REALLY think about that one?
You're an extreme Left winger. I agree that you shouldn't be in the Democratic party either. It would be much better off without you.
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Quote:That's over an 800 page book for a mere 200,000 words, the minimum number that counts as 'hundreds of thousands'. That's like reading 'Middlemarch' (Eliot) or 'Bleak House' (Dickens). Or 2,000 pages for 500,000 words.
Originally posted by second:
Signym, I've read hundreds of thousands of words you have written
First of all, I doubt Signy has typed that many words. And second of all, I SERIOUSLY doubt you've even read a tenth of them. If you did, you wouldn't have such an abysmal lack of understanding of what Signy posts. You wouldn't be constantly arguing with the voices in your head.
WAIT.
Are you having a HISSY FIT? You ARE, aren't you!
Well then! You can go stomp your widdle feet in the time-out corner widdle boy! And btw, I didn't bother reading the rest of your post.
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Quote:You people are weird. I never even heard about a curated list until just now.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Once again, you're arguing with the voices in your head. That's a REALLY bad habit which promotes a tremendous amount of misunderstanding and ill-will, and I wonder why you - or ANYone- would do that here.
I'm gonna read your mind and tell you what is going inside there based upon what I know about real people who think the Democrats should "Throw away identity politics".Quote:The funny thing is, I see a lot of people on the so-called "left" who feel the same way. They're all about tolerance, until someone tells them that they voted for Trump, or that their religion dictates that being gay is wrong, or that Americans should have a common identity, or that they want and need manufacturing jobs, or that men are indeed different than women, or that Russia is a rival not an enemy ...
They hate identity politics because they hate those separate identities. They think everybody should strive to be as similar as their psychology allows and everybody has got the same history and problems, approximately, taken from a curated and approved list that all humans have in common. They don't want to know about your odd language, your accented English, your peculiar culture, your crazy family, your religion, your unique problems, your idiosyncratic goals.
NOPE! Once somebody brings up a problem or identity or goal that is off the LIBERAL'S curated list (and BTW it's liberals who're always talking about their "curated" lives, not Trump supporters) tolerance goes right out the window and violence becomes the accepted response. Just look at the slavering liberals here.Quote:Having a common purpose doesn't mean being bland.
They think Americans should have a common purpose that we can all agree on. They want everybody to strive to become Bland-Americans, no other kind of hyphenated-American.
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Quote:I'm not convinced. Your post represents about 100 words per inch on my palm device.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:That's over an 800 page book for a mere 200,000 words, the minimum number that counts as 'hundreds of thousands'. That's like reading 'Middlemarch' (Eliot) or 'Bleak House' (Dickens). Or 2,000 pages for 500,000 words.
Originally posted by second:
Signym, I've read hundreds of thousands of words you have written
First of all, I doubt Signy has typed that many words. And second of all, I SERIOUSLY doubt you've even read a tenth of them. If you did, you wouldn't have such an abysmal lack of understanding of what Signy posts. You wouldn't be constantly arguing with the voices in your head.
WAIT.
Are you having a HISSY FIT? You ARE, aren't you!
Well then! You can go stomp your widdle feet in the time-out corner widdle boy! And btw, I didn't bother reading the rest of your post.
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I have seen far more than 10 inches of post from Sigs, many times. That's 1,000 just in one post. Sometimes returning later, Rereading what was quoted to discern which portions are being debated, etc. I've seen threads where she has posted numerous times over 10 inches.
Only 200 of those? I cannot imagine she has not posted that. Over the past 11 years, maybe even I have, and I'm not nearly as prolific as her. And surely not as riveting in topic or cadence.
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Quote:I DID mention a particular word in the first sentence ... it begins with a 'b', and there's one contraction, two words, and a number in front of it.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I'm not convinced. Your post represents about 100 words per inch on my palm device
It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, 250-300 words per page. Therefore, a 55,000 word book should be about 200 manuscript pages. A 100,000 word book would be about 400.
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1872, 880 pp.)
Eliot was a world-builder in the classic sense; her fictional Middlemarch is an English town like many others, exemplary of bourgeois mores and the site of many parallel plots. The epic is made ordinary, and vice versa.
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JSF you never heard of a curated life? Clearly, you don't listen to NPR!
The latest thing which just drills into my brain is when one of the hosts says, in an "oh poor you" tone of voice "sometimes the news feels like a train heading way too fast, destination unknown" and then goes on to explain how NPR will coddle you thru the day.
Yeesh! It just gives me the creeps.
*shudder*
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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But hey I just had a great idea! How about, after Kavanaugh, we agree to post without the words Democrat or Republican, man or woman, white or not, gay or straight, or any of the other words that divide us. The only valid description is American.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Quote:Why would any partially intelligent person intentionally listen to NPR, let alone somebody of my caliber?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF you never heard of a curated life? Clearly, you don't listen to NPR!
The latest thing which just drills into my brain is when one of the hosts says, in an "oh poor you" tone of voice "sometimes the news feels like a train heading way too fast, destination unknown" and then goes on to explain how NPR will coddle you thru the day.
Yeesh! It just gives me the creeps.
*shudder*
There ARE more than a few choices of which to listen, watch, rewatch. I have a lifetime of awesome music to listen to, perhaps more than I could fit into my remaining spare time. I would much rather rewatch Firefly or Rogue One than try to get myself brainwashed by NPR. They are not even very useful in terms of opposition research - it takes them forever to try to make a point, assuming all of their audience are dullard lemmings with nothing to do all day, such as go to work.
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