Just another day in this Evil Empire
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 15:08
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Quote:THIS, from the person who just made this "so personal"!
Troll - you make everything so personal. Can't we just talk about the issues?- HSTRING
But by all means, let's talk about the issues ... if you can manage.
How about this: A contest, between you and me, across all threads. First one to veer off-topic into the personal (and that means ascribing POV ie stramanning and name-calling) loses.
Shall we begin?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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ON TOPIC
Quote:Or 40 years from now.
please tell us your ideas... My only stipulation is that they aren't pie in the sky ideas. "Wouldn't it be great if our breakfast cereal made us smarter??"
Real practical possible options that deal with TODAY and not 40 years ago.
Well, first of all ... we have to get to a point of discussing the issues honestly and objectively, which means accepting facts as facts, keeping events in proportion (i.e, not blowing small things out proportion while at the same time ignoring larger events) and responding to the points made, and not to the person making them.
So.
WISHY - The reason why I keep bringing up the past is not because you or I can do anything about it now, but indicates what the source of the problem is ... or at least, what the source of the problem isn't.
I assume that we both agree on what we mean by "Evil Empire" but if you think this needs further clarification now is the time to get that done.
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Assuming that we both mean the same thing ... If we see the same pattern ("Evil Empire") repeating itself over 60 years, whether a Democrat or Republican President is in power, that indicates that the problem isn't with Democrats or Republicans per se, which means that changing Democrats for Republicans ... or vice versa .... isn't going to be the solution. Agreed so far?
And if not, why not?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:THIS, from the person who just made this "so personal"!
Troll - you make everything so personal. Can't we just talk about the issues?- HSTRING
But by all means, let's talk about the issues ... if you can manage.
How about this: A contest, between you and me, across all threads. First one to veer off-topic into the personal (and that means ascribing POV ie stramanning and name-calling) loses.
Shall we begin?
You're a Russian booger.
Ok, now we can start.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
How about this: A contest, between you and me, across all threads. First one to veer off-topic into the personal (and that means ascribing POV ie stramanning and name-calling) loses.
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
You're a Russian booger.Ok, now we can start.
Well, GEEBERS just lost. You see, he wakes up thinking about how far he can go being an asshole without getting sued. It's his goal, his raison d'être. Same with THUGGER and RF.
Now, normal people don't do that. But they're not normal. They're sadists who couldn't even try to be normal if their lives depended on it.
SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
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Well, so far, I have not seen any ON TOPIC responses by CC to this, or other, threads.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Wildlife is dying out due to habitat destruction, overhunting, toxic pollution, invasion by alien species and climate change. But the ultimate cause of all of these factors is “human overpopulation and continued population growth, and overconsumption, especially by the rich”...
Do you ever woc daytime trash TV? Splooj monkeyz & nasty baby factoryz. It can make you consider the possibility that the NRA, tobacco industry, drug industry, etc are the good guyz.
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"woc"
wass? woek? woess? wuss? wak? wuhss? wawss? wawk?
What IS the word?
SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
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Jeez. She needs you to spell it out for her what the word is before "daytime television?? No...it was just a jab.
Rather pointless one, at that.
Oh and Sig, I don't know if I would pass...but I'm pretty sure YOU WOULDN'T.
Once they got the chapter on not being manipulative you'd have to leave.
Seriously, if you want to stop being called Russian, stop posting shit a Russian Bot would post. I think most of us see the news and can lay pretty damn good odds on what you'll post by now and it's ALWAYS in line with their ideology...
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Seriously, if you want to stop being called Russian, stop posting shit a Russian Bot would post. I think most of us see the news and can lay pretty damn good odds on what you'll post by now and it's ALWAYS in line with their ideology...
And exactly what they all say, at the same time.
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Seriously, if you want to stop being called Russian, stop posting shit a Russian Bot would post. I think most of us see the news and can lay pretty damn good odds on what you'll post by now and it's ALWAYS in line with their ideology... - WISHY
And exactly what they all say, at the same time. - RF
Like YOU would know what "they" say?
Maybe you could try reading Glenn Greenwald, or Matt Taibbi*, or Seymour Hirsch, or Jeremy Scahill once in a while. Yannop, get out of your comfort zone. Altho I have to say, if you had been around in the 60s, your heads would have collectively exploded!
*He once described Goldman Sachs as
Quote:What an awesome quote!
"The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
In the meantime, it was you, WISHY, who described the United States as the Evil Empire. What do YOU suppose is the source of this, and what is the solution (besides total annihilation of the human species, that is)?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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