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07-09-2018, 12:28 PM
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Like it or not, the pejorative "fascist" belongs to your Dear Leader, his sycophants, cultists and enablers. Maybe get out of the wingnut echo chamber, read a bit of history, and travel the world a bit. In the words of Mark Twain,
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
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I agree with Twain. Maybe YOU need to spend time traveling to areas of THIS county that don't share your perspectives.
And, sorry to burst your little bubble, but folks who don't agree with your are not by default sycophants, cultists, enablers, bigoted, prejudiced, fascists, etc. Those types of labels are required by you in order to label folks who you don't agree with, because you can't seem to debate based on facts or ideas. Or maybe folks who don't share your opinions are anathema to you because you're a snowflake. Either way, "broad, wholesome, charitable views" are not welcome here, and folks like you continue to prove that.
Certainly the protesters you approve of, who follow and threaten elected officials, don't have "broad, wholesome, charitable views". They simply wish to shout down opposition or threaten individuals with whom they have disagreements. Therefore, its ironic that you'd post that particular Twain quote when you support folks who obviously don't agree with it.
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07-09-2018, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by whell
I agree with Twain. Maybe YOU need to spend time traveling to areas of THIS county that don't share your perspectives.
And, sorry to burst your little bubble, but folks who don't agree with your are not by default sycophants, cultists, enablers, bigoted, prejudiced, fascists, etc. Those types of labels are required by you in order to label folks who you don't agree with, because you can't seem to debate based on facts or ideas.
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You're the one who first used the pejorative "fascists" and "brownshirts" to describe those who hassle Trump's goons and enablers, not me.
BTW, I've been to all 50 states and over 60 foreign countries. Heck, I was in West Virginia just yesterday.
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07-09-2018, 02:13 PM
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You're the one who first used the pejorative "fascists" and "brownshirts" to describe those who hassle Trump's goons and enablers, not me.
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Hassle is one thing. Threaten is another. You just don't seem to get that.
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BTW, I've been to all 50 states and over 60 foreign countries. Heck, I was in West Virginia just yesterday.
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Sadly, it appears you learned nothing from those experiences.
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07-09-2018, 02:34 PM
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Hassle is one thing. Threaten is another. You just don't seem to get that.
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You seem oddly quiet about your Dear Leader's constant threats and those of his MAGA thugs.
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Sadly, it appears you learned nothing from those experiences.
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I've learned that those who object to racism and fascism aren't racists and fascists, something you don't seem to have learned yet.
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07-09-2018, 05:18 PM
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Anybody who wears a MAGA t-shirt in public is out looking for trouble. It appears this guy found it.
Would I go to a Trump rally in Lubbock wearing my "I'll have the salad." t-shirt? Not unless I'm just looking for trouble.
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07-09-2018, 06:09 PM
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07-09-2018, 10:39 PM
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Prosecutor who said on social media that Maxine Waters should be shot is placed on leave
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According to images published in the San Bernardino Sun newspaper, Selyem recently attacked Waters after she called for Trump administration members to be harassed in public.
“Being a loudmouthed . . . in the ghetto you would think someone would have shot” her by now, he wrote, in a much more explicit manner, according to the Sun.
Selyem also posted a fake picture of Michelle Obama holding a sign that said “Trump grabbed my penis,” the Sun wrote. The notion that Michelle Obama is man is a smear that has grown in some conspiracy-theory-minded circles on the right.
Beneath a Breitbart article, he reportedly wrote: “I am all for white males immigrating here legally and starting a business. It is the terrorist a–holes sneaking in here wanting to kill me an[d] my family that I am opposed to.”
He also posted a picture of a man in a large sombrero with the caption: “Mexican word of the day: Hide.”
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This guy should quit his public sector job and become a writer for Infobaffoons or Brietfart.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.65bb1c092fe2
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07-09-2018, 11:39 PM
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BTW, I've been to all 50 states and over 60 foreign countries. Heck, I was in West Virginia just yesterday.
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I spent the day with my female coworker from India, and two female Salesforce reps, also both from India. All incredibly well educated, very smart, far better at digging into and solving technical challenges than pretty much any white male I've ever worked with.
My coworker speaks five languages fluently, one of the Salesforce reps speaks three fluently, the other (who had an incredibly alluring British accent), demurred, but said she understood "multiple" languages, having grown up with diplomatic parents who travelled the world.
The Whells of the world take one look, see that they have Brown skin, and dismiss them as "inferior", ignorant, job-stealing immigrants. His kind of ignorance and bigotry is dug in deep, and his type refuse to learn from others who are different from him. Sad.
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07-10-2018, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Anybody who wears a MAGA t-shirt in public is out looking for trouble.
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In your world maybe.....
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07-10-2018, 07:42 AM
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You seem oddly quiet about your Dear Leader's constant threats and those of his MAGA thugs.
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Where are the forum police with howling about false equivalencies?
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