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No, he's a Libbo.
You should, insults is all he understands.
I do, but it requires some honesty to identify. Whether or not you agree with it is another matter, but I've stated my point several times.
When did I say there were only 4 racists in America? I said you found 4 racists and generalized. You found a few more in a tiny town in Ohio. There are 360 million people in the United States, your insistence on drawing conclusions from 4 individuals at a rally (note, not all racists in the world. I shouldn't have to make that distinction, but you seem to need the help) and some racists in Ohio about the entirety of a large segment of America's population is ridiculous. It's not unbelievable, the kind of irrational behavior your exhibiting is typical for one who is biased (see confirmation bias), but it doesn't excuse it. Apply some reason to yourself for a moment and temper your knee-jerk reactions.
And I never denied that. You implied that the entire right-wing follows this thinking, which is a generalization. You implied that this extreme minority somehow has a larger influence than the most powerful man in the free world, which is also ridiculous.
If all you're going to do is pull up another video where someone found some racists, don't bother responding. You can find 1,000,000 racists and that would still be less than .3% of the country.
I don't know, maybe they feel they would no longer be a special protected group with special protections, privileges and access to free stuff ?
Thats disgusting. She strikes me as the kind of woman that would put razor blades in the candy so it's probably for the best she doesn't give out candy to those she disagrees with.
It would have indeed....but they didn't.You are right, such intolerance towards little trick or treat kids is simply disgusting. And it would have been just as bad if it had been an Obama supporter had done it.
Well America hasn't been this much divided since pre Civil War 1800's..
It would have indeed....but they didn't.
If you really feel that way then perhaps you should have shown some intolerant democrat videos as well.No, but sadly intolerance runs rampant on both sides of the political sphere.
If you really feel that way then perhaps you should have shown some intolerant democrat videos as well.
I just watched it and I couldn't understand a word they said except "that was pretty harsh"...so I'll just have to take your word for it.I did post one and it was one of the worst ones. It was a democrat who said they should kill all republicans.
I just watched it and I couldn't understand a word they said except "that was pretty harsh"...so I'll just have to take your word for it.
the lady asks "do you support any of the republican NOT UNDERSTANDABLE"
To which the guy says "I don't think I support any of the republicans and NOT UNDERSTANDABLE I think all of them should probably be put to death"
And then his friend says "that's a little harsh"
To which the first guy responds "no, it isn't".
At least that is what I understood.
The guy kinda seemed like a Gay man, imo. I'm sure you're aware of how some conservatives feel about Gays, so I would take what he said with a grain of salt.
Free pass, no...but it's understandable considering what some conservatives had done to Gays.I don't think that gives him a free pass, does it?
I realize that if he is gay the RNC has royally screwed him but still...
I don't think that gives him a free pass, does it?
I realize that if he is gay the RNC has royally screwed him but still...
depends on what you mean by "screwed" in this context ...
More pomp-ASS poppycock-
July 1975, President ford visited us on 'The Rock' Ayers Kaserne FRG. 1stBde, 3AD. ALL arms locked in the arms room, ALL keys turned into BDE, ALL arms 100% accounted for. NO ONE allowed in the barracks lest they get a shot from an upper floor. It was our first and last BDE annual picnic. :roll:
I was unaware that Marines draw their weapons each and everyday, I guess even the clerks and jerks draw theirs and keep them by their lap tops???
And FYI our nation was divided severely during Vietnam, the great anti-trust fights, the great depression, entry into WWII, the farmer's movements in the 1880's...
it is very unsettling to see some go from coded messages like 'protect the Founder's DNA' to the racial taunts and the Muslim thing as a war cry of some sort
Just like they were every other day of the week? Minus those that were pulling guard duty around a motor pool or ammo dump at that isolated place? SOP in action. President or no President.
Face it, Obama is a "very unsettling" President. And don't even pretend that even as President he doesn't use "coded messages" and "racial taunts" to get his puppets fired up. It's just another reason why he is not fit to be President.
I said the very very right side of the republican party does this.
And it is not just racist, it is total intolerance of the other side.
Whether it is all this birther stuff,
all the socialist stuff,
all the muslim stuff.
It is very typical of the very right part of the republican party and because they hold a key demographic inside the republican party (together with the very very Christian section of the republican party) that main stream candidates have to go way over the the right to get primary votes from these parts of the republican party to even stand a chance to get the republican nominee.And after that they have to do a 180 degree turn to the middle to attract the voters that will make that candidate president. But due to all the comments he has had to make to placate the tea party and the Christian right, he has provided the democrats with a highlight reel that they can use against the republican candidate in the campaign.
They do not intend to, but the tea party and people like Rick Santorum are making it harder for republican presidential candidates to get elected.
Also, I agree that some of my posts have knee-jerk responses in there but please also see that what I get back in responses (not pointing the finger at specific people) also have a lot of knee-jerk responses in them. We all are guilty of that practice, especially when it comes to subjects like racism and partisan politics because we care and we have strong feelings about them.
Can't stop generalizing no matter what huh? I don't give a crap about the Republican party. Nothing in right-wing ideology implies racism.
Irony?
Started by Hillary Clinton supporters.
If people stop advocating for socialism, or just admitted that it is socialist, they wouldn't have it pointed out all the time.
Also an extreme minority.
Are you just regurgitating random talking points now? When did we start talking about Republican primaries?
Republicans make it harder for republicans to be elected because they constantly prove the adage of both parties being the same as true, and they refuse to break this idea that parroting the Democrats is somehow the moderate position, pushing a large segment of the American right into apathy or third parties, like the libertarian party.
That's why I said it was typical. Don't use others failings to justify your own though, you should know better than to judge an entire group of people by the minority. Or do you believe the "very very right" necessarily implies racism?
Congratulation, you have won a free Obama phone for defending an incompetent Commander and Chief who after 4 1/2 years still hasn't earned the respect of those who serve under his incompetent command.
I cannot point out every right wing republican by name now can I. And I am sorry, but thousand in the far right section of the republican party do have racist character trades. I am not claiming all extremely right republican voters are racists but some of them are. That is not generalizing but stating the obvious/facts.
I was referencing your rather sudden switch to "intolerance of the other side," something that you were previously engaging in through your generalization.Not ironic but a very deliberate train of thought that is also present in the far left voting block.
Yes, but grabbed on by the republicans who ran with it and ran with it and ran with it. Even after he shown his birth certificate, the birther crowd did not let it go but went on whining about it and whining about it till this day.
Wonder if the birther crowd will go after Ted Cruz as relentlessly as they did with Obama. The birther crowd kept suggesting that Obama had not been born in the US/Hawaii.
Of Ted Cruz we know that he was not born in the USA, he was born in Canada to an American mother. Or are democrats going to play the same stupid games with Cruz as the republicans did with Obama when citizenship/birth issues are concerned. I sincerely hope not but some might think turnabout is fair play.
Except that republicans claiming something is socialist and it actually being socialist is not the same thing.
I am a social democrat and I do not see the democratic party or Obama as socialists.
He is not socially aware enough to be in contention of becoming a social democrat and in virtually all other policies Obama is not close to social democracy so he is even further away from actual socialism.
Even I, a social democrat, cannot stomach true socialists because they are too extreme.
Yes, that is why the NC republican party introduced an anti-sharia law. Like there was any risk of sharia law being made legal in the US. And to show how some republicans work, they attached a bill to restrict abortions in the process.
No, I was just saying that in the current republican party the tea party and the religious right have taken the republican party hostage due to their importance during republican primaries.
In 1994 the president worked with the republicans on welfare reform and spending cuts to balance the budget. Obama has made it a habit to ask for way more than what he wants then demand a little less, and if he doesn't get it, you refuse to compromise. Of course, nothing you want will come to pass. So you can either give him what he wants without getting ANYTHING you want, or he'll eviscerate you through political posturing. He's the best at this sort of thing I've ever seen.Sorry, but this republican party is not the same party as the one in 1994 because they were able to cooperate with the democrats.
The democratic party as not moved far from where they were in the past,
Well, your opinion is uninformed. It has come to the point that nobody trusts Obama because he's demonstrated that's hes a two-faced liar whose more concerned with political posturing than getting things done.it is the republicans that are afraid to work with democrats IMHO.
I don't know why, it's typical for there to be disagreements withing a party in a two-party system.They are totally afraid of the tea party.
Even Mitch McConnell is being targeted by the tea party.
I am not judging a whole group by the minority but with such vocally extreme positions, there are some republicans that seem to over scream the silent majority of republican voters who want nothing to do with the extremist views of some tea party members. Most republicans are totally not racist.
A fame unearned.And sorry, but the far right is famous for being racist.
Social democrats are socialist. They just believe in achieving socialism through democracy as opposed to revolution.
Unless the Netherlands political system defines it differently.
So you define social democrat in a strange way, as I said was a possibility.No, you are totally wrong:
Socialism vs Social Democracy — What’s The Difference?
Socialism is about collective ownership of the means of production;
Social democracy about organic social solidarity with private ownership of production.
Socialism is restrictive;
Social democracy somewhat libertarian, they believe in freedom
Socialism is metaphysical (excessively abstract reasoning);
Social democracy the other empirical (demonstrable, verifiable reasoning).
Socialism is dogmatic;
Social democracy is reflective and scientific.
Socialism is very much emotional and all about feeling politically superior to others
Social democracy is much more cooperative and can work with others
Socialism is destructive, it destroys freedoms and societies
Social democracy wants to be and is mostly constructive.
Both are in pursuit of the greatest possible welfare for all.
– Socialism aims to establish equal happiness for all;
– Social democracy the other to enable each to be happy in one’s own way.
Socialism regards the State as a society that all most bow down to, the State reigns supreme and the leaders of the state have loads of perks.
Social democracy considers the State as an association like any other, generally managed no better and no more efficient than others.
Socialism proclaims the sovereignty of the State and wants to reform other societies in their own image and to take freedom away from the population.
Social democrats do not see the state as the sovereignty but as a necessary evil, there to protect freedom
Socialism wishes all monopolies to be held by the State;
Social democracy wishes the abolition of all/almost all monopolies (they believe in oversight rather than state monopolies).
Socialism wishes the governed class to become the governing class;
Social democracy wishes the disappearance of classes.
Socialism want total leveling of the salary structure of the society/aka full redistribution of wealth
Social democrats want some modest level of leveling/redistribution of wealth
Socialism wishes that there should be none but proletariats;
Social democrats wishes that there should be no more proletariats.
Socialism wishes to take everything away from everybody, no personal property of factories/farms etc.
Social democracy wishes to leave each in possession of its own.
Socialism says: Do as the government wishes;
Social democracy says: Do as you wish yourself, but respect the rights of others.
Socialism makes the citizen the subject of the State;
Social democracy makes the State the employee of the citizen, the state works for us and not the other way around
Socialism proclaims that labor pains will be necessary to the birth of a new world (read violence, poverty, inequality)
Social democracy declares that real progress will not cause suffering to any one, progress will come through working together
Socialism has confidence in social warfare, the battle of the proletariat against all others
Social democracy believes only in works of peace and by working with others not against others
Socialism aspires to command, to regulate, to legislate
Social democracy wishes to attain the minimum of command, of regulation, of legislation possible for a good and decent society.
One desires equality; the other seeks equity.
– Socialism by lowering heads that are too high;
– Social democracy by raising heads that are too low.
Socialism sees equality under a common yoke
Social democracy will secure equity in as much complete liberty as is possible in a society
Socialism is intolerant to all except their own
Social democracy the other tolerant to others
Socialism wishes to instruct everybody;
Social democracy wishes to enable everybody to instruct one’s self.
Socialism wishes to support everybody as an ultimate form of solidarity. They have taken solidarity to a ridiculous extreme.
Social democracy to enable everybody to support one’s self through modest solidarity.
At least that is how I have felt it and see it in Europe.
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