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Monday, May 20, 2019 7:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It looks as though somebody is on tilt again.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Don't laugh. None of the Republicans I fired laughed, but it was such a relief for all the other employees and me. Life got simpler and business got more productive. Trump won't laugh if he is fired, but it would be a relief for President Mike Pence and the White House staff. MAGA.

Cemeteries are full of indispensable men.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, May 20, 2019 7:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It looks as though somebody is on tilt again.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Don't laugh. None of the Republicans I fired laughed, but it was such a relief for all the other employees and me. Life got simpler and business got more productive. Trump won't laugh if he is fired, but it would be a relief for President Mike Pence and the White House staff. MAGA.

Cemeteries are full of indispensable men.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




I'm laughing because you're admitting to everyone here that you are pro censorship, and you're completely fine with ruining lives of people because of their "wrongthink".

We already knew you are a garbage human being, Second. Just one more piece of evidence.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, May 20, 2019 9:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm laughing because you're admitting to everyone here that you are pro censorship, and you're completely fine with ruining lives of people because of their "wrongthink".

We already knew you are a garbage human being, Second. Just one more piece of evidence.

I fired these people because I've got a policy of three strikes and you are out. Things like stealing a trunk-load of my power tools or selling my diesel fuel has gotten Trump-lovers fired. It's more than taking home a box of paperclips. 6ix, what did you do to get your career ended? Or do you blame "The System", the one that Trump is gonna overthrow?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, May 20, 2019 9:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm laughing because you're admitting to everyone here that you are pro censorship, and you're completely fine with ruining lives of people because of their "wrongthink".

We already knew you are a garbage human being, Second. Just one more piece of evidence.

I fired these people because I've got a policy of three strikes and you are out. Things like stealing a trunk-load of my power tools or selling my diesel fuel has gotten Trump-lovers fired. It's more than taking home a box of paperclips. 6ix, what did you do to get your career ended? Or do you blame "The System", the one that Trump is gonna overthrow?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




lol... are you insinuating that Trump voters steal from business owners and Clinton voters don't?

That's hilarious.

It's also not what you said before.

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Don't laugh. None of the Republicans I fired laughed, but it was such a relief for all the other employees and me.


Don't change your story and backpedal now, idiot.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

lol... are you insinuating that Trump voters steal from business owners and Clinton voters don't?

That's hilarious.

It's also not what you said before.

Quote:

Don't laugh. None of the Republicans I fired laughed, but it was such a relief for all the other employees and me.


Don't change your story and backpedal now, idiot.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

I'll give you an example of Trump voters thinking like thieves. They want to steal elections then claim it is not them. And in my experience limited to White Texans, they do steal whatever they think their employer won't notice.

Before the 2016 vote 84 percent of Republicans told pollsters they believed a “meaningful amount” of fraud occurred in American elections, and almost 60 percent said “illegal” immigrants would “vote in meaningful amounts” in the presidential election. A July 2017 poll showed that 47 percent of Republicans believed that Trump had won the popular vote, rather than losing it by nearly 3 million votes. Fifty-two percent of Republicans said they would support the president if he postponed the 2020 elections to “make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote.” This April, Trump returned to this theme, claiming that “in places like California,” millions of people vote illegally.

This is norm-breaking of a very particular kind. If it succeeds, it prevents elections from settling political conflicts, because agreement over their meaning has been destroyed. The Republican party is pressing this story because it needs to sustain minority rule — in the Electoral College against the popular vote, in a gerrymandered Congress against the national trend toward Democrats, in closely divided states like North Carolina and Wisconsin where voter suppression helps to sustain artificial majorities and supermajorities. And it is no coincidence who is in the ruling minority: the nearly 90 percent of Republican voters who identify as white, compared with not much over 50 percent among Democratic voters. Trump’s rhetoric of “places like California” is as racialized and nativist as tracing Obama’s birth to Kenya. On one level, the lies establish the rationale for voter suppression, on another, the possibility of openly rejecting an election loss. On yet another level, they rely on the idea that a non-white American majority is not really a majority at all. That is, they tend to switch the basis of political legitimacy from majoritarianism to ethno-national identity.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/normcore-trump-resistance-books-crisis
-of-democracy


White Texans voted for Trump, the crook, the thief, the liar. No surprise when the same White Texans are crooks, thieves, liars. It matches their politics. As a reminder that Trump is crooked:
www.ais-cpa.com/tax-fraud-by-the-numbers-the-trump-timeline/
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/donald-trump-scandals/474
726
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:29 PM

SIX, you may feel that you're making progress with SECONDRATE by engaging him endlessly, but SECONDRATE will twist and turn and slither around to avoid reaching any sort of negative conclusion, because he is, in a word, nuts.

He has an astonishing level of hatred against Texas Republicans, Republicans in general, Trump specifically, the apocryphal "Trump supporter" voice in his head, and anyone who refuses to get on the crazy-train with him.

The reason "why" you'll never get anywhere discussing anything with SECONDRATE is because the reasons "why" he hates that whole host of people (real or imaginary) aren't the reasons that he posts. I know this because it's obvious that he doesn't care WHAT he posts, as long as he's flinging poop. He'll shift arguments and even contradict himself from one moment to the next ("Republicans protect Trump/ Republicans secretly want to get rid of Trump" and "Republicans have to be secretive/ Republicans don't need to be secretive" are just two recent examples)... genuine opinions don't contradict themselves that frequently.

It's obvious to me that the posted "reasons" why SECONDRATE hates this whole host of people are mere RATIONALIZATIONS ... excuses as it were ... because they're entirely unthought-out and secondhand. Still, it's obvious from the sheer volume of posts that SECONDRATE flings against the wall that he's driven by a powerful emotion, sourced in something that even he can't admit to himself.

There is not a shred of honesty in there because SECONDRATE can't even be honest with hinself. He must be evil, or he must believe that he's evil, in order for such powerful denial, projection, and hate to be at work in there.

That's my $0.02 anyway.

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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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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

That's my $0.02 anyway.

Wasn't worth 2 cents. Russian troll, when are you suing me?

For the Russian version:
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&
;tl=ru&text=Russian%20troll%2C%20when%20are%20you%20suing%20me%3F


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:39 PM

To repeat:

The year 2016 brought the first genuinely post–Cold War election: the perennial carnage of American capitalism, intensified by forty years of growing inequality, prepared the ground for Bernie Sanders’s socialism, while the nativism and racism that had slunk just outside respectable politics returned full-throated. Trump is not an anomalous departure but rather a return to the baseline — to the historical norm.

The thing that really defined Trump’s political language was its nihilism about politics itself, the appetite it stoked for political bullshit that doesn’t even pretend to hold together, but just staggers from one emotional trigger to another. Trump essentially short-sold the high-minded political style of the late Cold War, betting that it would prove weaker than it looked under pressure — that people neither expected much from government nor thought it important enough to be well run; that a lot of voters despised their political class and the cultural and financial elites around it; and that recreational cruelty and you-can’t-bullshit-a-bullshitter snark would feel more authentic than any respectably sanctioned appeal to better angels. We are, he intimated, the barbarians we’ve been waiting for. His Trumpism is basically Reagan Republicanism without the California simulacrum of sunny goodwill.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/normcore-trump-resistance-books-crisis
-of-democracy


For the American right, Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a moment of political rebirth. Elements of American conservatism had long fostered a reactionary counterculture, which defined the push for civil rights as oppression, resisted the equality of women and the transgression of conventional heterosexual norms, pilloried the hegemony of the liberal media, and was suspicious of globalism and its corporate liberal institutions, including the UN and the WTO. Already in the 1950s this reactionary politics had secured a niche on the right wing of the GOP. It was reenergized by the Goldwater campaign and the conservative backlash against the social revolutions of the 1960s. Reintegrated into the mainstream GOP by Ronald Reagan, it then flared into the open in the ferocious hostility to the Clintons in the 1990s. With Trump it finally claimed center stage. For the right, the explosion of “truth-speaking” by Trump and his cohorts, the unabashed sexism and xenophobia of his administration, and its robust nationalism on issues of trade and security need no justification. His election represents a long-awaited overturning of the consensus of liberalism.
www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:55 PM

To repeat

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, you may feel that you're making progress with SECONDRATE by engaging him endlessly, but SECONDRATE will twist and turn and slither around to avoid reaching any sort of negative conclusion, because he is, in a word, nuts.

He has an astonishing level of hatred against Texas Republicans, Republicans in general, Trump specifically, the apocryphal "Trump supporter" voice in his head, and anyone who refuses to get on the crazy-train with him.

The reason "why" you'll never get anywhere discussing anything with SECONDRATE is because the reasons "why" he hates that whole host of people (real or imaginary) aren't the reasons that he posts. I know this because it's obvious that he doesn't care WHAT he posts, as long as he's flinging poop. He'll shift arguments and even contradict himself from one moment to the next ("Republicans protect Trump/ Republicans secretly want to get rid of Trump" and "Republicans have to be secretive/ Republicans don't need to be secretive" are just two recent examples)... genuine opinions don't contradict themselves that frequently.

It's obvious to me that the posted "reasons" why SECONDRATE hates this whole host of people are mere RATIONALIZATIONS ... excuses as it were ... because they're entirely unthought-out and secondhand. Still, it's obvious from the sheer volume of posts that SECONDRATE flings against the wall that he's driven by a powerful emotion, sourced in something that even he can't admit to himself.

There is not a shred of honesty in there because SECONDRATE can't even be honest with hinself. He must be evil, or he must believe that he's evil, in order for such powerful denial, projection, and hate to be at work in there.

That's my $0.02 anyway.



-----------
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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Monday, May 20, 2019 10:58 PM

Oh. I already know there's no changing Second. He's a despicable human being and a completely static character incapable of change.

I get a kick out of making him lose his shit, however, and putting him on blast for any of the hypocritical and terrible things he routinely has to say about others.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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