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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:15 AM

REAVERFAN


It's just a bunch of recycled self-help pablum, anyway.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


All the more reason not to start book burning.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 3:55 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)



It's funny ironic how people who clearly don't understand English complain about books in bookstores.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)



It's funny ironic how people who clearly don't understand English complain about books in bookstores.



You're going to have to clarify that statement.


Let me help you out...


Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
"the regulation imposes censorship on all media"
2.
(in ancient Rome) the office or position of censor.
"he celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly"




The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship, which is what you apparently seem to be mistaking here.

Censorship is censorship.




I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that there are three major problems with your sentence as well.

1. Devoid of any punctuation, it would seem that you originally had posted that it was funny, but then you went back in to edit it to put ironic in there, but subsequently forgot to remove funny.

2. You are abusing the word irony. https://www.dictionary.com/e/ironic/

3. The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.



BTW....

IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:29 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)


It's funny ironic how people who clearly don't understand English complain about books in bookstores.


You're going to have to clarify that statement.

Let me help you out...

Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
"the regulation imposes censorship on all media"
2.
(in ancient Rome) the office or position of censor.
"he celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly"


The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship, which is what you apparently seem to be mistaking here.

Censorship is censorship.


I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that there are three major problems with your sentence as well.

1. Devoid of any punctuation, it would seem that you originally had posted that it was funny, but then you went back in to edit it to put ironic in there, but subsequently forgot to remove funny.

2. You are abusing the word irony. https://www.dictionary.com/e/ironic/

3. The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.


BTW....

IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Have you forgotten that Fascist Socialists love their fellow Fascist Socialists?

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:00 AM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you forgotten that Fascist Socialists love their fellow Fascist Socialists?

Fascism is the opposite of socialism.

I know English isn't your first language, comrade, but you should be able use words correctly if you're paid to troll.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:51 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


Your brain overheats pretty quickly, doesn't it? Some bookstore in New Zealand doesn't want to carry someone's book and you go on full outrage. Talk about FEELZ, "they're not carrying a book I just heard about in New Zealand!! Whaaaa....!"

A private business can choose what to sell and what not too - UNLESS... maybe you want the government making those choices? Are you against private businesses being free to decide what they sell?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)

Let me help you out...

Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
"the regulation imposes censorship on all media"
2. (in ancient Rome) the office or position of censor.
"he celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly"

The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship, which is what you apparently seem to be mistaking here.

Censorship is censorship.




Let me help you (even though it's a pointless exercise): Censorship is obviously not censorship - obviously there are different meanings depending on context and how it's used. In fact, you just proved that by offering up different definitions. You went out of your way to say that this case, the one you are so inflamed about, had nothing to do with government actions: "The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship" So are you just an angry fan?

Let's talk Banning. Are you for or against pedophiles being able to hang out in chat rooms trying to engage with minors? Or would you ban them from your forum if you owned one? You shouldn't have to think this through, but go ahead, take your time and let us know.

Sorry, censorship and banning in their most common use - at least in the way that would explain your outrage - almost always has a government component, usually in regards to gov overreach. See: Russia, Barr Report.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that there are three major problems with your sentence as well.

1. Devoid of any punctuation, it would seem that you originally had posted that it was funny, but then you went back in to edit it to put ironic in there, but subsequently forgot to remove funny.



Devoid of any understanding or knowledge, it would seem, as usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
2. You are abusing the word irony. https://www.dictionary.com/e/ironic/



Oh, how about:
It is NOT ironic that you would think so.
It IS ironic, that someone who purports to care so much about words has so little understanding of their meanings. You mean like that?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
3. The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.



So all private bookstores should be forced to carry all books? By government mandate or is this a new religious thing? You see how that sounds, right?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.



It's not ironic - it's called Freedom. Look it up.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:45 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Your brain overheats pretty quickly, doesn't it? Some bookstore in New Zealand doesn't want to carry someone's book and you go on full outrage. Talk about FEELZ, "they're not carrying a book I just heard about in New Zealand!! Whaaaa....!"

A private business can choose what to sell and what not too - UNLESS... maybe you want the government making those choices? Are you against private businesses being free to decide what they sell?



Who's crying?

I'm just pointing out blatant censorship. The company said as much.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)

Let me help you out...

Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
"the regulation imposes censorship on all media"
2. (in ancient Rome) the office or position of censor.
"he celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly"

The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship, which is what you apparently seem to be mistaking here.

Censorship is censorship.




Let me help you (even though it's a pointless exercise): Censorship is obviously not censorship - obviously there are different meanings depending on context and how it's used. In fact, you just proved that by offering up different definitions. You went out of your way to say that this case, the one you are so inflamed about, had nothing to do with government actions: "The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship" So are you just an angry fan?

Let's talk Banning. Are you for or against pedophiles being able to hang out in chat rooms trying to engage with minors? Or would you ban them from your forum if you owned one? You shouldn't have to think this through, but go ahead, take your time and let us know.

Sorry, censorship and banning in their most common use - at least in the way that would explain your outrage - almost always has a government component, usually in regards to gov overreach. See: Russia, Barr Report.




Censorship is censorship. It doesn't matter if it's a Government or a Business doing it. As I've stated before, there were no laws broken here. Americans are the only people in the world with a Constitutional right to Free Speech. Even if it were New Zealand's government that banned the book, that would be legal. Does that make it right?

Your "pedophile" argument is a false equivalency.

Even Marcos says that Peterson's book is nothing but self-help pablum.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that there are three major problems with your sentence as well.

1. Devoid of any punctuation, it would seem that you originally had posted that it was funny, but then you went back in to edit it to put ironic in there, but subsequently forgot to remove funny.



Devoid of any understanding or knowledge, it would seem, as usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.




OK. Then it is just another example of your shitty grammar. I accept that. You just need to accept that people will continue to be confused by what you post until you learn how to write.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
2. You are abusing the word irony. https://www.dictionary.com/e/ironic/



Oh, how about:
It is NOT ironic that you would think so.
It IS ironic, that someone who purports to care so much about words has so little understanding of their meanings. You mean like that?




Yes. Just like that. You are still abusing the word. Thank you for two more examples.



Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
3. The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.



So all private bookstores should be forced to carry all books? By government mandate or is this a new religious thing? You see how that sounds, right?




Not at all. But the bookstore in question made a big public announcement about what they were doing and why they did it. It's called virtue signalling.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.



It's not ironic - it's called Freedom. Look it up.




Hey... maybe it is both.

But it definitely is ironic.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:50 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Your brain overheats pretty quickly, doesn't it? Some bookstore in New Zealand doesn't want to carry someone's book and you go on full outrage. Talk about FEELZ, "they're not carrying a book I just heard about in New Zealand!! Whaaaa....!"

A private business can choose what to sell and what not too - UNLESS... maybe you want the government making those choices? Are you against private businesses being free to decide what they sell?
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Large bookstore chain in New Zealand bans Jordan Peterson's book. (ie: Censorship)

Let me help you out...

Censorship

1. the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
"the regulation imposes censorship on all media"
2. (in ancient Rome) the office or position of censor.
"he celebrated a triumph together with his father and they held the censorship jointly"

The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship, which is what you apparently seem to be mistaking here.

Censorship is censorship.


Let me help you (even though it's a pointless exercise): Censorship is obviously not censorship - obviously there are different meanings depending on context and how it's used. In fact, you just proved that by offering up different definitions. You went out of your way to say that this case, the one you are so inflamed about, had nothing to do with government actions: "The actual definition of censorship makes no mention of GOVERNMENT censorship" So are you just an angry fan?

Let's talk Banning. Are you for or against pedophiles being able to hang out in chat rooms trying to engage with minors? Or would you ban them from your forum if you owned one? You shouldn't have to think this through, but go ahead, take your time and let us know.

Sorry, censorship and banning in their most common use - at least in the way that would explain your outrage - almost always has a government component, usually in regards to gov overreach. See: Russia, Barr Report.
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that there are three major problems with your sentence as well.

1. Devoid of any punctuation, it would seem that you originally had posted that it was funny, but then you went back in to edit it to put ironic in there, but subsequently forgot to remove funny.


Devoid of any understanding or knowledge, it would seem, as usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
2. You are abusing the word irony. https://www.dictionary.com/e/ironic/


Oh, how about:
It is NOT ironic that you would think so.
It IS ironic, that someone who purports to care so much about words has so little understanding of their meanings. You mean like that?
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
3. The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.


So all private bookstores should be forced to carry all books? By government mandate or is this a new religious thing? You see how that sounds, right?
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.


It's not ironic - it's called Freedom. Look it up.

The genius of the G-String Troll:
Censorship is obviously not censorship.

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Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:50 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


Way to not answer much.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your "pedophile" argument is a false equivalency.



Wait - you said yourself censorship is censorship. Changing your mind? You're in favor of banning a pedophile's speech, right? Or maybe not? Which is it?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Even Marcos says that Peterson's book is nothing but self-help pablum.



Ok?

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OK. Then it is just another example of your shitty grammar. I accept that. You just need to accept that people will continue to be confused by what you post until you learn how to write.



Sorry I confused you so much.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.



^Repeated because it's just damn funny. I'm going to call Chick-fil-a and complain that they don't have hamburgers. "Why are you censoring food!"

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not at all. But the bookstore in question made a big public announcement about what they were doing and why they did it. It's called virtue signalling.



So it's not censorship - great, we agree.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.



Ok, it's a tad ironic. Presumably, the books are pretty different. Guess that's what you call Freedom to sell what you want. Pretty awesome right.

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Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Way to not answer much.



Speak for yourself. I'm still awaiting an intelligent reply from you.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your "pedophile" argument is a false equivalency.



Wait - you said yourself censorship is censorship. Changing your mind? You're in favor of banning a pedophile's speech, right? Or maybe not? Which is it?




A pedophile has protected free speech rights. I never said they didn't.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Even Marcos says that Peterson's book is nothing but self-help pablum.



Ok?



That's the disconnect here.

If a Pedophile wrote a book about raping children, not only wouldn't it be published, but they'd be investigated and if they had actually raped a child they'd go straight to the pokey and probably be murdered in prison.

Jordan Peterson wrote a self help book.


Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OK. Then it is just another example of your shitty grammar. I accept that. You just need to accept that people will continue to be confused by what you post until you learn how to write.



Sorry I confused you so much.



Your horrible grammar is to blame. Don't feel bad. I don't blame you. I blame the public school system and the Democrats that put it in place.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The "people" which you're claiming have no knowledge about the English language aren't complaining about the books they have in bookstores, but about the books that a particular bookstore doesn't have.



^Repeated because it's just damn funny. I'm going to call Chick-fil-a and complain that they don't have hamburgers. "Why are you censoring food!"



Holy shit with the false equivalency. I'm going to stop even replying to you if you can't make a legitimate argument. Being annoying is not how to win a debate, unless you're a troll.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not at all. But the bookstore in question made a big public announcement about what they were doing and why they did it. It's called virtue signalling.



So it's not censorship - great, we agree.



No. We don't agree. It absolutely was censorship. It was a business decision to censor a book to win virtue signalling points for the SJW retard crowd.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
IRONICALLY, despite the best efforts of New Zealand bookstore chain Whitcoulls attempt at censoring material that it has deemed dangerous to society, you can still purchase a copy of Mein Kampf through their outlets.



Ok, it's a tad ironic. Presumably, the books are pretty different. Guess that's what you call Freedom to sell what you want. Pretty awesome right.




I guess we'll just see if Trump becomes that Fascist dictator you crybabies are always whining about and you start seeing Facebook and Twitter start shutting down any Liberal talking points. Then we'll see if your attitude about this remains blase.

Hey... It could happen. There's a LOT of hate for CNN and MSNBC right now.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, May 9, 2021 10:49 AM

JAYNEZTOWN



Brief: ‘Stop Social Media Censorship Act’ stalled in Senate
https://thecurrentla.com/2021/brief-stop-social-media-censorship-act-s
talled-in-senate
/

Student journalists shouldn’t be censored
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/05/student-journalists-shouldnt-be-cen
sored-opinion.html


The second wave of “cancel culture”
https://www.vox.com/22384308/cancel-culture-free-speech-accountability
-debate


Nobody Wants to Cancel the Classics — Except Academic Elites
https://news.yahoo.com/nobody-wants-cancel-classics-except-103021885.h
tml



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Originally posted by second:
You can find Jordan fucking Peterson in wiki, too. Nowhere does the article mention he is a right-wing nut job teaching psychology at a University.



Jordan Peterson: Winston Churchill 'Exactly Right In His Diagnosis' On The Death Of Our Civilization
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cQz7nQKdGZNt/

Jordan Peterson Reacts to Red Skull Parody of Him
https://www.newsweek.com/jordan-peterson-red-skull-parody-captain-amer
ica-comic-1581325

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Sunday, May 9, 2021 11:57 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


You've heard of "coddled eggs", right?

That's what's happened to the liberal American mind.

There were some nice liberals here once upon a time. NIKKI and MAGONS and TONYT for example. But the moment that some of their ideals were challenged, they wilted and disappeared. Now all that's left are liberaloid fascists who post hate speech 24/7/365.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Sunday, May 9, 2021 8:12 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


There are still a lot of good Liberals out there.

The problem is that they're just as afraid to state their opinions on anything as most conservatives and independents are.


That's why I don't like it when JSF calls people he doesn't like Libtards. The Liberals aren't the problem. It's the Leftist extremists that have co-opted the party.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Sunday, May 9, 2021 9:44 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There are still a lot of good Liberals out there.

The problem is that they're just as afraid to state their opinions on anything as most conservatives and independents are.


That's why I don't like it when JSF calls people he doesn't like Libtards. The Liberals aren't the problem. It's the Leftist extremists that have co-opted the party.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.



I disagree about the source of the Liberal's cowardice. It's not the fascist-liberaloids who scared them away. They ran away long before Trump, long before TDS, and long before SECONDRATE, REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, THUGR and the rest got on the crazy-train and started spewing lies and hate nonstop.

In fact, they ran away during Obama's second term. And that was when I started criticizing Obama ever so gently, and they behaved like snowflakes and melted.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Monday, May 10, 2021 12:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There are still a lot of good Liberals out there.

The problem is that they're just as afraid to state their opinions on anything as most conservatives and independents are.


That's why I don't like it when JSF calls people he doesn't like Libtards. The Liberals aren't the problem. It's the Leftist extremists that have co-opted the party.

--------------------------------------------------

Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.



I disagree about the source of the Liberal's cowardice. It's not the fascist-liberaloids who scared them away. They ran away long before Trump, long before TDS, and long before SECONDRATE, REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, THUGR and the rest got on the crazy-train and started spewing lies and hate nonstop.

In fact, they ran away during Obama's second term. And that was when I started criticizing Obama ever so gently, and they behaved like snowflakes and melted.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.




I'm not talking about Liberals that posted on this website specifically. I'm talking about all American Liberals.

I didn't put any date on it either, but it certainly started before Trump.

I think it goes way back before Obama too. I'd date it when Al Gore lost the election, but won the popular vote.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Monday, May 10, 2021 6:30 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The problem is that they're just as afraid to state their opinions on anything as most conservatives and independents are. That's why I don't like it when JSF calls people he doesn't like Libtards. The Liberals aren't the problem. It's the Leftist extremists that have co-opted the party.

--------------------------------------------------

Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

SIX: I disagree about the source of the Liberal's cowardice. It's not the fascist-liberaloids who scared them away. They ran away long before Trump, long before TDS, and long before SECONDRATE, REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, THUGR and the rest got on the crazy-train and started spewing lies and hate nonstop.
In fact, they ran away during Obama's second term. And that was when I started criticizing Obama ever so gently, and they behaved like snowflakes and melted.

SIX: I'm not talking about Liberals that posted on this website specifically. I'm talking about all American Liberals. I didn't put any date on it either, but it certainly started before Trump. I think it goes way back before Obama too. I'd date it when Al Gore lost the election, but won the popular vote.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.



Well, I guess I have a couple of questions.

Let me see if I understand what you're posting. So you think that liberals became scarce during GWB's reign? Are you saying that his Presidency frightened many liberal into silence? Bc I was here at the time, and I'd say that liberals were more or less apoplectic about his wars of choice, and about the mass surveillance that began under his direction.

Or are you saying that the traditional antiwar Democratic liberal became polarized?

And I guess my second question is: How reflective is this board of the USA in general? While I don't think there are as many nut-bags "out there" as there are over here, people HAVE become polarized. Yanno, if you sound an alarm long enough SOME people become traumatized. AURAPTOR was completely traumatized by IRAQ!WMD!MUSHROOMCLOUD! just as JO became traumatized by RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSIA! and that level of emotional warping takes years to overcome.

As for ppl like REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, SECONDRATE, and THUGR ... well, Trump's election just let the hate out that was already there. CAPTAINGSTRING is a different case: He shows all the hallmarks of being a paid liar: he was always triangulating his lies to look "reasonable" compared to the spittle that was flying here. But, he always lied. Now, I don't know of this was one of his paid gigs or this was just a hobbyist's extension of his work, but he was definitely a pro.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that I can't imagine many old-fasioned liberals out there anymore. The M$M has put a HUGE number of ppl thru the spin cycle continuously over the past 40 years or so, and it needs a certain mental toughness not to be warped by that treatment. I can't imagine people like NIKI and MAGONS staying true to their values if they couldn't articulate them even while Obama was President. I don't even know if THEY even know what their core values are. It would be interesting to find out, but I doubt we would read it from them.


But I agree with you: JSF is extremely hidebound, and calling anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest on any issue a "libtard" is counterproductive, at best.

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SIX: I'm not talking about Liberals that posted on this website specifically. I'm talking about all American Liberals. I didn't put any date on it either, but it certainly started before Trump. I think it goes way back before Obama too. I'd date it when Al Gore lost the election, but won the popular vote.


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SIGS: Well, I guess I have a couple of questions.

Let me see if I understand what you're posting. So you think that liberals became scarce during GWB's reign?



No.

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Are you saying that his Presidency frightened many liberal into silence?


No.

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Bc I was here at the time, and I'd say that liberals were more or less apoplectic about his wars of choice, and about the mass surveillance that began under his direction.


So was I. At least around late 2005/early 2006 when I joined the site.

It's one of the thing that angers me about the Democratic Party today, or at least their loudest voices. I literally hate them for pushing me so far to the right today, when 15 years ago I was arguing along side of them. I was one of GWB's largest critics here. Frem and I talked at length about the Patriot Act.

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Or are you saying that the traditional antiwar Democratic liberal became polarized?


No. I'm not saying that either.

What I'm referring to when I say that Al Gore losing is where I place the Genesis of where the Democratic Party seems to be today is that was the time that gave rise to the "new" Democrats. The Millennials who had just started graduating college through the strongest wave of Marxist indoctriation this country has ever seen (I mean, until now... It gets worse every day so you can say that phrase every day and it would be true every day).

Al Gore losing the election while winning the popular vote, and all of the controversy surrounding it like the hanging chads in Florida gave rise to the By Any Means Necessary Democrats. The pink haired Twitter weirdos. The hypocrites today that are putting John McCain, GWB, John Bolton, Mitt Romney, the Cheney family and other filth on a pedestal because they've already forgotten how absolutely terrible any of them were for the citizens of this country because they once said something shitty about Trump.



The true Liberals didn't didn't go that way. Or at least, the vast majority of them didn't.

But they got bullied, just like conservatives did. But it was even worse for them because it was by the very party they've identified with their entire life.

As bad as it was for me to see everything get flipped on its head over the last 2 decades, I never had or ever claimed any political affiliation. I've always said that both sides suck. It's just a different side that sucks less than the other one in 2021 than did in the mid 2000's.

But I feel bad for "classical" Liberals who have had to face the prospect of being cast out of their party, or even worse... cast out of their circle of friends and even family for speaking up. It's that, or just shut up and pretend you're on board with them. Or doing the unspeakable and just walking away.

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And I guess my second question is: How reflective is this board of the USA in general? While I don't think there are as many nut-bags "out there" as there are over here, people HAVE become polarized. Yanno, if you sound an alarm long enough SOME people become traumatized. AURAPTOR was completely traumatized by IRAQ!WMD!MUSHROOMCLOUD! just as JO became traumatized by RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSIA! and that level of emotional warping takes years to overcome.


I don't think this board in particular is at all indicative of the USA in general. Probably even less so than Twitter, and that's because there are so few of us left here. I think, at best, when this site was still roaring it was about as good of a barometer of the USA in general as Twitter is today. (Which still is to say, not very good).

Most people really don't care. Roomba would call me a Nazi when I used the term "normies", but that's what most people are. They're low info, and they choose to be low info. We live in a world now where there are so many pointless yet enjoyable distractions from real life that unless they're starving and their back is against the wall one could hardly blame them for not caring. The normies are the vast majority. The normies don't care.

Add up all the percentages of Americans that watch news on any given day. That number is in the single digits, sometimes in the low double digits if something truly "exciting" is happening.

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As for ppl like REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, SECONDRATE, and THUGR ... well, Trump's election just let the hate out that was already there. CAPTAINGSTRING is a different case: He shows all the hallmarks of being a paid liar: he was always triangulating his lies to look "reasonable" compared to the spittle that was flying here. But, he always lied. Now, I don't know of this was one of his paid gigs or this was just a hobbyist's extension of his work, but he was definitely a pro.


See this is where I disagree.

It let out the hate, sure... but an entirely new team of "highly educated" college kids came out since 2005 and infiltrated everything from the news to sports to politics to video games and comic books.

None of these people are classical Liberals. They're among the most racist and sexist people who ever lived. They are essentially a hive mind. They put very little value on the individual, and go about their lives throwing as many individual people into boxes they call "communities" as they can. Their entire mode is dividing everybody up by the most superficial characteristics that are completely out of any individual's control since they were born that way, and then riling them all up and getting them to attack each other.

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Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that I can't imagine many old-fasioned liberals out there anymore.


Hey... I'm supposed to be the Nihilist here, remember?



I think there are a lot more of them out there than you could imagine.

Look at any of those polls that ask the question "do you feel comfortable talking about your political beliefs".

Sure, because of today's climate you'll find that a majority of Republicans don't feel comfortable doing it. But you'll also surprisingly find that there are a great deal of Democrats who don't feel comfortable either.

Don't believe anybody who tells you the reason for that is because those Democrats are afraid of Republicans. Why on earth would they be? They have almost zero reason to be afraid of that. We live in a culture where saying something "Stunning and Brave" is neither stunning nor brave anymore. It's just what you're expected to say.

Look up the term TERF if you haven't heard about it before. Not only are these women the ones who used to be considered on the fringe of the Left from anybody who was in the center not too many years ago, but TERF itself is a derogatory statement about them by the mainstream news who claims that they are radicals on the left. Meanwhile, anybody near the center would think they're far closer to the center than the entire Legacy Media is.

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The M$M has put a HUGE number of ppl thru the spin cycle continuously over the past 40 years or so, and it needs a certain mental toughness not to be warped by that treatment. I can't imagine people like NIKI and MAGONS staying true to their values if they couldn't articulate them even while Obama was President. I don't even know if THEY even know what their core values are. It would be interesting to find out, but I doubt we would read it from them.


I'm not going to discount the mental toll of all of this. I'm sure there are Classical Liberals who have been swallowed up by the new regime. Stockholm Syndrome does exist. And when one of your party's new slogan's is "Silence is Violence", I'd imagine it's hard to try not to have a political opinion amongst friends, collegues and family when all they ever do is think about politics and try to goad you into having an opinion... and would love nothing more than to be the one who outed you for wrong think and cast you out of their club.

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But I agree with you: JSF is extremely hidebound, and calling anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest on any issue a "libtard" is counterproductive, at best.


I view it in only a slightly better light than the Roomba going around calling everyone a Nazi or a Russian. I used to think it was far less bad than Roomba doing that everyday, but at this point Chicken Little syndrome has kicked in and nobody should even give a shit when somebody calls somebody else a Nazi or a Russian.

But when JSF says Libtard, I'm just as likely to tune out any post he makes with that word in it as I would have tuned out any post from the other side claiming Muh Nazis!

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



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SIX: I'm not talking about Liberals that posted on this website specifically. I'm talking about all American Liberals. I didn't put any date on it either, but it certainly started before Trump. I think it goes way back before Obama too. I'd date it when Al Gore lost the election, but won the popular vote.

SIGS: Well, I guess I have a couple of questions. Let me see if I understand what you're posting. So you think that liberals became scarce during GWB's reign?

SIX: No.

SIGS: Are you saying that his Presidency frightened many liberal into silence?

SIX: No.

SIGS: Bc I was here at the time, and I'd say that liberals were more or less apoplectic about his wars of choice, and about the mass surveillance that began under his direction.

SIX: So was I. At least around late 2005/early 2006 when I joined the site.
It's one of the thing that angers me about the Democratic Party today, or at least their loudest voices. I literally hate them for pushing me so far to the right today, when 15 years ago I was arguing along side of them. I was one of GWB's largest critics here. Frem and I talked at length about the Patriot Act.

SIGS: Or are you saying that the traditional antiwar Democratic liberal became polarized?

SIX: No. I'm not saying that either.
What I'm referring to when I say that Al Gore losing is where I place the Genesis of where the Democratic Party seems to be today is that was the time that gave rise to the "new" Democrats. The Millennials who had just started graduating college through the strongest wave of Marxist indoctriation this country has ever seen (I mean, until now... It gets worse every day so you can say that phrase every day and it would be true every day).

Al Gore losing the election while winning the popular vote, and all of the controversy surrounding it like the hanging chads in Florida gave rise to the By Any Means Necessary Democrats. The pink haired Twitter weirdos. The hypocrites today that are putting John McCain, GWB, John Bolton, Mitt Romney, the Cheney family and other filth on a pedestal because they've already forgotten how absolutely terrible any of them were for the citizens of this country because they once said something shitty about Trump.

The true Liberals didn't didn't go that way. Or at least, the vast majority of them didn't.

I think I see what you're saying. The formation of MoveOn.org and the rise of "clicktivsim" at the end of Clinton's 2nd term and the beginning of GWB's. But I have to say that the DNC (establishment) lost it's way long before the liberal electorate.
Despite what SECOND and other anti-GOP and TDSers believe, the Democrat party was NEVER an antiwar party.

Vietnam? JFK and LBJ.
Funding jihadists in Afghanistan? Carter.
Destroying Yugoslavia? Clinton.
Syria, Libya, Ukraine? Obama.

SOME of the party faithful and SOME Dem politicians were anti-war, but the establishment always decided otherwise.

AFA selling Americans downstream, de-industrializing the USA, fostering communication and tech monopolies, coddling the banks, and getting onboard with the NWO? Clinton was all about that, just as much as GWB afterwards and Pappy Bush before him.

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But they got bullied, just like conservatives did. But it was even worse for them because it was by the very party they've identified with their entire life.
The bullying ocurred as a result of 9-11. Everyone was stampeded into a reign of terror about terorism. I think THAT'S when liberal Dem voters tossed whatever remaing values they had overboard.

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SIX: As bad as it was for me to see everything get flipped on its head over the last 2 decades, I never had or ever claimed any political affiliation. I've always said that both sides suck. It's just a different side that sucks less than the other one in 2021 than did in the mid 2000's.

But I feel bad for "classical" Liberals who have had to face the prospect of being cast out of their party, or even worse... cast out of their circle of friends and even family for speaking up. It's that, or just shut up and pretend you're on board with them. Or doing the unspeakable and just walking away.

SIGS: And I guess my second question is: How reflective is this board of the USA in general? While I don't think there are as many nut-bags "out there" as there are over here, people HAVE become polarized. Yanno, if you sound an alarm long enough SOME people become traumatized. AURAPTOR was completely traumatized by IRAQ!WMD!MUSHROOMCLOUD! just as JO became traumatized by RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSIA! and that level of emotional warping takes years to overcome.

SIX: I don't think this board in particular is at all indicative of the USA in general. Probably even less so than Twitter, and that's because there are so few of us left here. I think, at best, when this site was still roaring it was about as good of a barometer of the USA in general as Twitter is today. (Which still is to say, not very good).

Most people really don't care. Roomba would call me a Nazi when I used the term "normies", but that's what most people are. They're low info, and they choose to be low info. We live in a world now where there are so many pointless yet enjoyable distractions from real life that unless they're starving and their back is against the wall one could hardly blame them for not caring. The normies are the vast majority. The normies don't care.

Add up all the percentages of Americans that watch news on any given day. That number is in the single digits, sometimes in the low double digits if something truly "exciting" is happening.

SIGS: As for ppl like REAVERBOT, TWITCHY, SECONDRATE, and THUGR ... well, Trump's election just let the hate out that was already there. CAPTAINGSTRING is a different case: He shows all the hallmarks of being a paid liar: he was always triangulating his lies to look "reasonable" compared to the spittle that was flying here. But, he always lied. Now, I don't know of this was one of his paid gigs or this was just a hobbyist's extension of his work, but he was definitely a pro.

SIX: See this is where I disagree.

It let out the hate, sure... but an entirely new team of "highly educated" college kids came out since 2005 and infiltrated everything from the news to sports to politics to video games and comic books.

None of these people are classical Liberals. They're among the most racist and sexist people who ever lived. They are essentially a hive mind. They put very little value on the individual, and go about their lives throwing as many individual people into boxes they call "communities" as they can. Their entire mode is dividing everybody up by the most superficial characteristics that are completely out of any individual's control since they were born that way, and then riling them all up and getting them to attack each other.

SIGS: Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is that I can't imagine many old-fasioned liberals out there anymore.

SIX: Hey... I'm supposed to be the Nihilist here, remember?



I think there are a lot more of them out there than you could imagine.

Ican't see how, and I live in what used to be a very "liberal" state, which has since become completely deranged.

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SIX: Look at any of those polls that ask the question "do you feel comfortable talking about your political beliefs".

Sure, because of today's climate you'll find that a majority of Republicans don't feel comfortable doing it. But you'll also surprisingly find that there are a great deal of Democrats who don't feel comfortable either.

Don't believe anybody who tells you the reason for that is because those Democrats are afraid of Republicans. Why on earth would they be? They have almost zero reason to be afraid of that. We live in a culture where saying something "Stunning and Brave" is neither stunning nor brave anymore. It's just what you're expected to say.

Look up the term TERF if you haven't heard about it before. Not only are these women the ones who used to be considered on the fringe of the Left from anybody who was in the center not too many years ago, but TERF itself is a derogatory statement about them by the mainstream news who claims that they are radicals on the left. Meanwhile, anybody near the center would think they're far closer to the center than the entire Legacy Media is.

I think we may be talking about two different groups of people. The liberals I'm thinking of (NIKI, MAGONS) are people who don't want to change the system, they just want to make it "less bad" so that it can continue on as before, and in general trust government to get that done.

They keep hoping for a reincarnation of FDR.

But people "in the middle" are those who haven't followed this fascist-leftist ("cultural Marxist) ideology to the extreme that we see today; I don't think they're "liberals" in the true sense bc they prolly don't trust government as much as a liberal would.

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SIGS: The M$M has put a HUGE number of ppl thru the spin cycle continuously over the past 40 years or so, and it needs a certain mental toughness not to be warped by that treatment. I can't imagine people like NIKI and MAGONS staying true to their values if they couldn't articulate them even while Obama was President. I don't even know if THEY even know what their core values are. It would be interesting to find out, but I doubt we would read it from them.

SIX: I'm not going to discount the mental toll of all of this. I'm sure there are Classical Liberals who have been swallowed up by the new regime. Stockholm Syndrome does exist. And when one of your party's new slogan's is "Silence is Violence", I'd imagine it's hard to try not to have a political opinion amongst friends, collegues and family when all they ever do is think about politics and try to goad you into having an opinion... and would love nothing more than to be the one who outed you for wrong think and cast you out of their club.

SIGS: But I agree with you: JSF is extremely hidebound, and calling anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest on any issue a "libtard" is counterproductive, at best.

SIX: I view it in only a slightly better light than the Roomba going around calling everyone a Nazi or a Russian. I used to think it was far less bad than Roomba doing that everyday, but at this point Chicken Little syndrome has kicked in and nobody should even give a shit when somebody calls somebody else a Nazi or a Russian.

But when JSF says Libtard, I'm just as likely to tune out any post he makes with that word in it as I would have tuned out any post from the other side claiming Muh Nazis!

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On that we agree.

I used to be a classic liberal, until I finally got the message that our centralized government is like the One Ring, and that's it's been taken over by Sauron. I think that's why there are so few liberals left. The situation hs changed so drastically that it would be impossible NOT to respond in some way: either go full AOC/BLM or back out of the globalist agenda.

BTW, love your signature!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think I see what you're saying. The formation of MoveOn.org and the rise of "clicktivsim" at the end of Clinton's 2nd term and the beginning of GWB's. But I have to say that the DNC (establishment) lost it's way long before the liberal electorate.



Yeah, but not just that. It comes with other things like pushing cultural Marxism in schools and every single corner of our culture. And with the internet, being able to out people who disagree and attempt to destroy their lives for it.

I honestly believe that we'd be living in a completely alternate timeline right now had Al Gore won instead of GWB.

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Despite what SECOND and other anti-GOP and TDSers believe, the Democrat party was NEVER an antiwar party.

Vietnam? JFK and LBJ.
Funding jihadists in Afghanistan? Carter.
Destroying Yugoslavia? Clinton.
Syria, Libya, Ukraine? Obama.

SOME of the party faithful and SOME Dem politicians were anti-war, but the establishment always decided otherwise.



You're not going to hear an argument out of me. The Establishment has their claws firmly in each party.

I'm trying to keep this discussion as little about the party and politicians and more about the American People.

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AFA selling Americans downstream, de-industrializing the USA, fostering communication and tech monopolies, coddling the banks, and getting onboard with the NWO? Clinton was all about that, just as much as GWB afterwards and Pappy Bush before him.


Yup. See Above. See Also any time I've ever said that Bush/Clinton/Obama/Biden are exactly the same.

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The bullying ocurred as a result of 9-11. Everyone was stampeded into a reign of terror about terorism. I think THAT'S when liberal Dem voters tossed whatever remaing values they had overboard.


I don't know about that. I think the amount of people who were "terrified" was pretty small. Just like Covid, the Media made that a much bigger deal than it was. In reality, it should have been a few weeks mourning process, then we should have just let the worldwide Muslim community know that they'd better reign in their fringe elements or else the next time anything like that happened to us at their hand we would nuke Mecca and turn the desert into glass. No need for a forever war over it.

And besides, the internet was still nothing but random blog pages all over the place, with half the adults in the country not even using it yet. There was no real bullying going on in the early 2000's. That didn't actually really start until MySpace was dead and everybody's grandma was on Facebook.

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I can't see how, and I live in what used to be a very "liberal" state, which has since become completely deranged.


I think you're focusing way too much on TV and the News, and what they say the world is like.

Whenever I step outside, it's an entirely different world than the News would have me believe it is. Located where I am, when I work the jobs available to me, I am a minority. When I go shopping, half the time I am the minority being a white dude. Everywhere I shop, white employees are the minority. I've forced myself to make small talk at the registers as an adult since I was always so quiet when I was younger. I'd told an Asian woman around my age a month earlier that I'd been buying the garbage microwave food while I was working on stripping and sanding cabinets, she asked me just last week how my kitchen was looking. That was really cool, and I thanked her for remembering that. I love to flirt with the black girls at the big box hardware store and make them giggle.

That kid who went out of his way to help me get the drain in my car the other day? He's at least half Mexican. Without any reward in mind, and without me even having to look his way or flag him over, he shouted "hey! you want some help with that?". He could have easily just turned his head and pretended he didn't see me struggling and I wouldn't have even noticed he had been over there watching me. Now I'm filling out a comment card and letting the front end manager he should be employee of the month.

All I see on the news is how bad racism is today. If that were my only exposure to other races, I'd probably believe it. But it's just not true. It's not reality.

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I think we may be talking about two different groups of people. The liberals I'm thinking of (NIKI, MAGONS) are people who don't want to change the system, they just want to make it "less bad" so that it can continue on as before, and in general trust government to get that done.

They keep hoping for a reincarnation of FDR.



I don't know if anybody knows what a reincarnation of FDR means at this point. That was so long ago that believing what the books say about him is like believing what the books say about the founding fathers.

But yeah, I think we're definitely talking about different people. I'm not talking about people who trust the government to get anything done. I'm not talking about anybody who has blind devotion to a party flag. Those people are robots and idiots on both sides.

One should always be questioning the actions and motives of their government, and even more importantly they should be calling out the bad behavior on their own "side" with more ferocity than they do the other side so they don't look like absolute hypocrites when they do.

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But people "in the middle" are those who haven't followed this fascist-leftist ("cultural Marxist) ideology to the extreme that we see today; I don't think they're "liberals" in the true sense bc they prolly don't trust government as much as a liberal would.


No. I'm not saying that the normies are Liberals just because they are normies. Some of them are. Some of them are Conservatives who have tuned out as well. Most of them just never cared in the first place.

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On that we agree.

I used to be a classic liberal, until I finally got the message that our centralized government is like the One Ring, and that's it's been taken over by Sauron. I think that's why there are so few liberals left. The situation hs changed so drastically that it would be impossible NOT to respond in some way: either go full AOC/BLM or back out of the globalist agenda.



I think we're crossing each other's wires here.

When I gave the TERF example above, I was kind of alluding to the fact that making sure that women have the same rights as men was a noble goal, and was a very long time coming.

But people who have been fighting so long don't know how to take a win and just enjoy it. Then need something else to fight for.

So we're now living in a world where the new Feminists are going to fight for the rights of men getting their wiener's chopped off and injected with god knows what to compete against women in sports for records, scholarships and whatever other accolades come their way... And not have the big, fat asterisk over those "wins"* when they win everything. A world where Bruce Jenner wins Vanity Fair's 2015 "Woman of the Year" award.

I'm 100% in favor for women having all of the rights and legal protections as men. But that's moot now. They already have it.

If you're somebody in 2021 that still believes that women get paid 70 cents on the dollar to men and that boys who get their penises chopped off should be able to steal all of the athletic college scholarships away from high school girls who have worked hard and made sacrifices to rightfully earn them, we've got a problem here.



In the instance above, the TERFs are now being bullied, doxxed and otherwise torn down on Twitter and in the Legacy Media. I won't argue against the fact that they ARE very much sexist people, but the reasons that we're being told why they are sexist today are fucking insane.

And this example kind of sums up the entire culture now that we've gone all in online. You either accept and parrot the narrative, no matter how inaccurate, outright false, dangerous, and/or insane it is, or we will literally do everything within our power to destroy your life.


And THIS is why I believe that there are many, many more legit Liberals out there today than you believe there to be. It's a simple matter of ROI. They're just afraid to speak their minds. Possibly, because for fear of being outcast from their social circles, they're even more afraid than Conservatives to say what they think.

At least if you lose your job as a Conservative for wrong think, it's highly unlikely that you're going to lose any friends or your family over it. (Well... you COULD eventually lose your family if you can't get another decent job to keep up with the bills, but that's indirect and not immediate).

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