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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM
I am an independent myself, but I figured to many would make the same claim that are actually far right nuts. To tell the truth they are the ones I expected to post here first. Glad it's you guys.
And again, just to prove that every post Jack directed at me based on the premise I'm a democrat is wrong. I posted this 8 years ago. And it's why I refer to him as Gilligan. He's not too bright. It's the third post in this thread.
Gilligan, I'm falling over laughing again!
You laugh all the time because you're a mindless hyena from The Lion King.
You may have once been independent before TDS rotted your brain.
In 8 years the only anti-Democrat Party stance you've ever actively voiced a negative opinion about is that they needed to take CRT out of schools. That is the ONLY single time you haven't either been in full lock-step with Democrats, or you just turned a blind eye to all the horrible shit they've done to Americans and America.
So if you're really Independent, here's your opportunity to list off all the things that YOU believe the Democrats did wrong that lead to the destruction of their party. Because make no mistake... The Democratic Brand is dead.
I'm all ears...
Still laughing Gilligan. You just can’t, on any level, deal with the truth. Which means what? You're wrong again. Way too funny...
T
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM
I am an independent myself, but I figured to many would make the same claim that are actually far right nuts. To tell the truth they are the ones I expected to post here first. Glad it's you guys.
And again, just to prove that every post Jack directed at me based on the premise I'm a democrat is wrong. I posted this 8 years ago. And it's why I refer to him as Gilligan. He's not too bright. It's the third post in this thread.
Gilligan, I'm falling over laughing again!
You laugh all the time because you're a mindless hyena from The Lion King.
You may have once been independent before TDS rotted your brain.
In 8 years the only anti-Democrat Party stance you've ever actively voiced a negative opinion about is that they needed to take CRT out of schools. That is the ONLY single time you haven't either been in full lock-step with Democrats, or you just turned a blind eye to all the horrible shit they've done to Americans and America.
So if you're really Independent, here's your opportunity to list off all the things that YOU believe the Democrats did wrong that lead to the destruction of their party. Because make no mistake... The Democratic Brand is dead.
I'm all ears...
Still laughing Gilligan. You just can’t, on any level, deal with the truth. Which means what? You're wrong again. Way too funny...
T
You say that, but I continue to be right about everything.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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I noticed you don't have a rebuttal to my post in "Winds of Change" about baked-in corruption in both parties, THGR. So you decided to bump more of your irrelevant opinions instead.
Typical.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM
I am an independent myself, but I figured to many would make the same claim that are actually far right nuts. To tell the truth they are the ones I expected to post here first. Glad it's you guys.
And again, just to prove that every post Jack directed at me based on the premise I'm a democrat is wrong. I posted this 8 years ago. And it's why I refer to him as Gilligan. He's not too bright. It's the third post in this thread.
Gilligan, I'm falling over laughing again!
You laugh all the time because you're a mindless hyena from The Lion King.
You may have once been independent before TDS rotted your brain.
In 8 years the only anti-Democrat Party stance you've ever actively voiced a negative opinion about is that they needed to take CRT out of schools. That is the ONLY single time you haven't either been in full lock-step with Democrats, or you just turned a blind eye to all the horrible shit they've done to Americans and America.
So if you're really Independent, here's your opportunity to list off all the things that YOU believe the Democrats did wrong that lead to the destruction of their party. Because make no mistake... The Democratic Brand is dead.
I'm all ears...
Still laughing Gilligan. You just can’t, on any level, deal with the truth. Which means what? You're wrong again. Way too funny...
T
You say that, but I continue to be right about everything.
1kiki
"Jack disagrees with, no matter how much evidence is provided, how much logic is used, how neutrally it's stated, he trolls the person rather than debate the subject? It happens every time."
I think I'll answer you by quoting 1kiki. What she says is your reputation here. Regardless of what or how many times you post. This is what people think and say about you.
too funny...
T
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Originally posted by THG:
I think I'll answer you by quoting 1kiki. What she says is your reputation here. Regardless of what or how many times you post. This is what people think and say about you.
too funny...
Yeah. Kiki was an emotional one.
We got along fine until she started chugging Covid Vaccine like it was Kool-Aid.
Meanwhile, this is yet another self-own on your part.
You've spent the better part of the last two days pouring through Kiki's post history and even making posts of your own in Troll Country disparaging Kiki and saying that she's completely full of shit. You hate her so much that you've actively celebrated her alleged death on several occasions since her absence over the years.
So why do you believe her when she says something negative about me then?
You really don't think things through much before you post, do you?
So how about you answer the question now and stop trying to hide behind your witless wit?
Here it is, in case you've already forgotten:
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You may have once been independent before TDS rotted your brain.
In 8 years the only anti-Democrat Party stance you've ever actively voiced a negative opinion about is that they needed to take CRT out of schools. That is the ONLY single time you haven't either been in full lock-step with Democrats, or you just turned a blind eye to all the horrible shit they've done to Americans and America.
So if you're really Independent, here's your opportunity to list off all the things that YOU believe the Democrats did wrong that lead to the destruction of their party. Because make no mistake... The Democratic Brand is dead.
I'm all ears...
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:Signym, there is a split between those parties. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have an emotional attachment to Capitalism. But one thinks that the customers will police the capitalists to not be too outrageous and the other thinks that government has to police the capitalists.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed you don't have a rebuttal to my post in "Winds of Change" about baked-in corruption in both parties, THGR. So you decided to bump more of your irrelevant opinions instead.
Typical.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Capitalism: The Nastiest of Men for the Nastiest of Motives Will Somehow Work for the Benefit of All
("Somehow" is where Democrats and Republicans disagree. Republicans leave "Somehow" vague and undefined. If "Somehow" does become solidified, Republicans try to vaporize it.)
Posted byquoteresearch February 23, 2011
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:Signym, there is a split between those parties. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have an emotional attachment to Capitalism. But one thinks that the customers will police the capitalists to not be too outrageous and the other thinks that government has to police the capitalists.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed you don't have a rebuttal to my post in "Winds of Change" about baked-in corruption in both parties, THGR. So you decided to bump more of your irrelevant opinions instead.
Typical.
Capitalism: The Nastiest of Men for the Nastiest of Motives Will Somehow Work for the Benefit of All
("Somehow" is where Democrats and Republicans disagree. Republicans leave "Somehow" vague and undefined. If "Somehow" does become solidified, Republicans try to vaporize it.)
Posted byquoteresearch February 23, 2011
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/
Oh puhleez!
Both Democrats and Republicans have an attachment to campaign contributions, insider trading, and pork barrel spending.
The only difference is who buys their loyalty. Dems since 1990 were typically beholden to finance, "free trade" for transnationals, globalist power structures (and the CIA)... think Bill Clinton and Obama. More recently big tech, big pharma, "clean energy" and Soros et al destabilization funds. And of course Israel and the MIC.
The Republicans were beholden to oil, gas, and coal (think Dick Cheney). And of course Israel and the MIC.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I think I'll answer you by quoting 1kiki. What she says is your reputation here. Regardless of what or how many times you post. This is what people think and say about you.
too funny...
Yeah. Kiki was an emotional one.
We got along fine until she started chugging Covid Vaccine like it was Kool-Aid.
So why do you believe her when she says something negative about me then?
You really don't think things through much before you post, do you?
Because she and I shared the same experience. Being trolled by you.
T
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:Signym, there is a split between those parties. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have an emotional attachment to Capitalism. But one thinks that the customers will police the capitalists to not be too outrageous and the other thinks that government has to police the capitalists.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed you don't have a rebuttal to my post in "Winds of Change" about baked-in corruption in both parties, THGR. So you decided to bump more of your irrelevant opinions instead.
Typical.
Capitalism: The Nastiest of Men for the Nastiest of Motives Will Somehow Work for the Benefit of All
("Somehow" is where Democrats and Republicans disagree. Republicans leave "Somehow" vague and undefined. If "Somehow" does become solidified, Republicans try to vaporize it.)
Posted byquoteresearch February 23, 2011
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/
Oh puhleez!
Both Democrats and Republicans have an attachment to campaign contributions, insider trading, and pork barrel spending.
The only difference is who buys their loyalty. Dems since 1990 were typically beholden to finance, "free trade" for transnationals, globalist power structures (and the CIA)... think Bill Clinton and Obama. More recently big tech, big pharma, "clean energy" and Soros et al destabilization funds. And of course Israel and the MIC.
The Republicans were beholden to oil, gas, and coal (think Dick Cheney). And of course Israel and the MIC.
A typical signym post. I understand the part directed at me in the beginning. It’s you acting like I ran away from your post. Fuck no, I just don’t respond to your subjective rants. 99% of the time I ignore it because it’s the same old shit, accusations, and never what's most important; solutions.
What we have currently is one party that needs a lot of work and another that is trying to pull off a coup and install a dictator. I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll worry about the pedophile who is involved in a coup.
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“How,” asks Trevor Jackson in our September 25 issue, “in conditions of runaway climatic disaster, can the future be recovered? What visions of a shared transformative future are possible, and what happens to emancipatory politics, and to democracy itself, without them?” Two new books—Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Overshoot, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton — offer wildly different answers: The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth. Klein and Thompson blame liberals and liberalism for the decline of an abundant future; Malm and Carton blame fossil capital for planetary destruction, and they do not hesitate to analogize oil executives to Nazis, slave owners, serial murderers, and arsonists. Klein and Thompson believe that we live in a post-material political world, one constituted by ideas, narratives, and verbal persuasion, where “policy is downstream of values” and “political movements succeed when they build a vision of the future that is imbued with the virtues of the past.” Malm and Carton believe we live in a world ruled by the profit imperatives of capital.
How to Blow Up a Planet
By Trevor Jackson
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/how-to-blow-up-a-planet-ab
undance-klein-thompson/
What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared transformative future since the early 1980s. Around the world, in party manifestos, inaugural speeches, and programmatic policy documents, principled statements about an open-ended future have given way to numerical targets like GDP growth achieved, emissions reduced, or people deported. The political right has been more interested in returning to an imaginary glorious past; consequently, the change has been most pronounced on the left, where the politics of an alternative liberatory future have ceded to the policies of technocratic governance and market discipline.
This story fits the interregnum of the 1990s and 2000s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the slide of social democratic parties into neoliberalism. When Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history,” he was looking ahead to a melancholy time when we would be “jaded by the experience of history.” The conflict over the best way to organize human society had ended, and liberal capitalist democracy would remain triumphant, but the future appeared to be an empty stretch, without passion, without struggle.
The financial crisis of 2008 did not recover the future so much as reveal that its absence was an ideological project. Writing in the aftermath of the crash, the radical cultural critic Mark Fisher diagnosed a phenomenon he called “capitalist realism,” meaning “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.” Elsewhere he wrote that the future had been “foreclosed,” and the metaphor was apt: we had been evicted from it, and now it belonged to the banks.
But nothing has depleted the future quite like climate change. As target after target has been passed and promise after promise broken, the time remaining to avert global catastrophe has been squandered. There is no noncatastrophic future left, and in fact it’s already here. How, in conditions of runaway climatic disaster, can the future be recovered? What visions of a shared transformative future are possible, and what happens to emancipatory politics, and to democracy itself, without them?
Abundance, by two American journalists, provides one answer. American liberals in positions of governance should commit to deregulation, which the authors believe will unleash the power of the market and of technology to provide cheap and plentiful housing
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