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[The Ronz]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

"Defend the interests". Maybe that's what they mean by Defense after all.

Read "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler.

[Motown Bombers]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

By the way, this general notion that Democrats are waiting to fall madly in love with their candidates in the same way Republicans do with Trump remind me of the gainsaying that used to take place on the old board about religion and atheism.

Posters there who professed to be Christians used to insist that atheism is itself a religion, with its own worship structure and everything. Those posters could not possibly conceive of the idea that atheists could not need something or someone in their lives they are compelled to worship, as though worshiping were a basic human function like breathing, eating, or ****ting. This is a patently ignorant idea, of course, since atheism is definitionally the absence of religious worship.

Same with the idea that Democrats must be waiting for someone to fall madly in love with, as the red hats have fallen explicitly in love with Trump. There may be a sliver of the current Democratic base that is like that, but there is no way that sliver is not way, way, way smaller than the large swath of the current Republican base who have fallen madly in love with Trump.

So I am not buying it when I hear anyone opine that Democrats are en masse falling madly in love with this horribly-flawed politician or that, simply because Republicans have fallen so madly in love with Trump. That sounds like something MAGA is trying to sell us to denigrate Democrats as being nothing more than puddles of emotional goo and/or to cover for MAGA's own unrestrained emotionally-gooey horniness for Trump.

Wasn’t Bill Clinton who said Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line? The same apparatus supporting Platner is the same one that got Fetterman elected. 

[chasfh]

29 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Wasn’t Bill Clinton who said Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line? The same apparatus supporting Platner is the same one that got Fetterman elected. 

Any quotes from Bill Clinton about this that are more recent than 22 years ago?

[VegasTiger]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

By the way, this general notion that Democrats are waiting to fall madly in love with their candidates in the same way Republicans do with Trump remind me of the gainsaying that used to take place on the old board about religion and atheism.

Posters there who professed to be Christians used to insist that atheism is itself a religion, with its own worship structure and everything. Those posters could not possibly conceive of the idea that atheists could not need something or someone in their lives they are compelled to worship, as though worshiping were a basic human function like breathing, eating, or ****ting. This is a patently ignorant idea, of course, since atheism is definitionally the absence of religious worship.

Same with the idea that Democrats must be waiting for someone to fall madly in love with, as the red hats have fallen explicitly in love with Trump. There may be a sliver of the current Democratic base that is like that, but there is no way that sliver is not way, way, way smaller than the large swath of the current Republican base who have fallen madly in love with Trump.

So I am not buying it when I hear anyone opine that Democrats are en masse falling madly in love with this horribly-flawed politician or that, simply because Republicans have fallen so madly in love with Trump. That sounds like something MAGA is trying to sell us to denigrate Democrats as being nothing more than puddles of emotional goo and/or to cover for MAGA's own unrestrained emotionally-gooey horniness for Trump.

As I recall: "Atheism is a religion like not playing baseball is a sport."

[pfife]

Falling in love with a candidate is also what got us obama if we are going to not cherry pick

[Tigeraholic1]

NY is about to go from “Never forget” to Socialism.
 

 

[Hongbit]

Kind of like turning Chili into Borscht 

[pfife]

11 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

NY is

Your party is literally defunding the police. And covering up for pedos.  Sick **** to support

[Tigermojo]

2 minutes ago, pfife said:

Your party is literally defunding the police. And covering up for pedos.  Sick **** to support

They are also white supremacists who want monarchy and slavery.

[romad1]

Accepting that we want the people to be paid who have jobs and who can’t seek work while employed….wtf is up with an anonymous donation to pay the military but leave everyone else hanging.  

[pfife]

Can we please ban them again?

[Tigeraholic1]

I suggest every federal essential worker to call or write your senator who blocked this.

 

Edited October 25 by Tigeraholic1

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

NY is about to go from “Never forget” to Socialism.
 

 

I don't how "defund the police", as though that were even a real thing, qualifies as socialism, since the whole idea contemplates spending less government money, not more.

In any event, everyone knows that Trump is the real socialist. 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Amazed a person who speaks like this will get elected in NYC after 911. 
 

 

[pfife]

20 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I

Doesnt matter.  House of Reps is closed because the GOP and also MAGA and also the Republicans are covering up for pedos, which you support.

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[oblong]

I remember when these rednecks killed a Sikh after 9/11 because they were too ignorant to know the difference. 

[gehringer_2]

America is wierd place. It's like we're a nation where time has stopped and no-one moves on from anything. Nobody in the US was still bringing up Pearl Harbor to Japanese Americans 25 yr after Pearl Harbor. 

[Tigerbomb13]

25 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

Islamophobia is fun 🙄 

[oblong]

I didn’t understand the point there. Is it to justify Islamophobia after 9/11?  Like if a Muslim says they had a hard time afterwards we just say “shut up”?  That’s the bigotry so I guess we can add that to the list of adjectives.   
I certainly don’t anticipate a response because the right on this site are intellectual cowards.  

[Tigerbomb13]

12 minutes ago, oblong said:

I didn’t understand the point there. Is it to justify Islamophobia after 9/11?  Like if a Muslim says they had a hard time afterwards we just say “shut up”?  That’s the bigotry so I guess we can add that to the list of adjectives.   
I certainly don’t anticipate a response because the right on this site are intellectual cowards.  

Exactly. It’s meant to delegitimize and real thing that happened because…Muslims. It doesn’t take much empathy to both know that 9/11 was an atrocious tragedy, as well as know that legit threats against people of middle eastern descent was a legit fear. 

[GalagaGuy]

Both sides are way too worried about the election of a mayor.  It has nothing to do with the lives of 97% of the people in the country and yet it's all we seem to hear about these days. 

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Both sides are way too worried about the election of a mayor.  It has nothing to do with the lives of 97% of the people in the country and yet it's all we seem to hear about these days. 

and even more fundamentally, no-one voting for a mayor should give a damn what he thinks about international affiairs - that's not what you are hiring him to do. Mamdani is running on a platform of making things work. That's the judgement that the people who vote for or against him need to make. There may be nothing in American today more destructive of functioning democracy than voter inability to focus on the nuts and and bolts of what they are voting for instead of the faux reality TV aspects of the modern political contest.

[Tigeraholic1]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

America is wierd place. It's like we're a nation where time has stopped and no-one moves on from anything. Nobody in the US was still bringing up Pearl Harbor to Japanese Americans 25 yr after Pearl Harbor. 

I see that a lot with J6 too.

[Deleterious]

35 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Both sides are way too worried about the election of a mayor.  It has nothing to do with the lives of 97% of the people in the country and yet it's all we seem to hear about these days. 

Ain't that the truth.

We were in the Hamptons for a few weeks in August, and NYC for a couple of nights.  We heard about the election less there than we do in Michigan.  It just doesn't matter to me.