General Politics Discussion (III) [ARCHIVED] • Page 680

I wanted to learn more and then this happened.

 

Isn't that broadly saying the same thing? Give the workers what they are due.

 

I am unsure how I feel about this: 1) Holy shit people are interested and this is awesome for movement, or 2) Shit this is going to lead to even more "entertainment" and "politics as theatre" bullshit that helps/bolstered Trumps success.

 

ShhhhH!!

 

I mean, I've saved my replies to stuff before, but it isn't a daily ritual or anything. That's what gets me about that whole thing. Then again, I've argued about the election for the past six months everyday, so...

 

It was not my intention to undermine. Just thought sharing the image would be funny.

 

For the record, I hate everyone

 

I feel badly that the prolonged media attention has ruined her life
I also can't wait for him to go to hell

 

Yeah, I don't think I have either.

I may have a note somewhere with neoliberal jokes.

I just kinda laughed at the whole making fun of people for posting on twitter thing when we all post so much. I caught myself feeling hypocritical as fuck as I was reading that and being like "what ...."

Something something Stein something

 

There's a joke about the Book of Kevin in here but I can't figure it out.

 

Can't watch the video. I don't see what Aslan said that was out of line in the tweet, though. Also, I liked his book Zealot.

 

The characterization of him does make him seem desperate or something. But yeah, never log off. Sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night and smoke a cigarette, I'll come on here. I'll see David quoted me with some liberal retort to an argument, laugh to myself because I'm like, "I know how I'll reply", then I fall asleep and it's all gone. Haha.

 

Just like how he's 100% willing to release his tax returns when he's done being audited!

 

I'd like to say "Aslan gets unnecessary hate for converting back to Islam" but I fear the liberals here will tell me to stop bringing religion into this....

 

Uh, because he abandoned Narnia for years while the White Witch took over, returning only after his people had been oppressed for decades?

 

what they did to India is just...no words

 

No one here is your goddamn enemy. Holy fucking shit. You want people, in this setting, to take seriously what you say and the issues you have brought up, all of which are important, but you're consistently shitty, both in tone and content, and in a manner that completely refuses to hear anyone out. It isn't working, because this isn't how you do dialogue. All of this, of course, would be understandable, given the oppression that exists for Christians, but you even lash out at people who genuinely are trying to learn, who are sympathetic, because the metric by which you're measuring their commitment is marching in lock-step with you. I'm done with this. Done @ me.

 

Hahahahahaha. Me too.

This is what shame feels like.

 

I will definitely be reading what you linked me. Nothing pisses me off more than Britain, USA, and France superpowers don't have to pay reparations for any of their historical atrocities or plunder. I'd include Spain if they had any money to give and Germany if they werent the most socialist humanitarian superpower in the world right now.

 

Is this the tweet in reference?

What would you do if foreign country dropped a bomb on your apartment building killing your wife and children. Seriously, what would you do?

Hasn't that question been at the forefront of writers like Chomksy and Zinn and the creation of groups/war/terror for like at least two decades?

 

of course. If there was someone who argued with you on that..it wasn't me

 

FTFY

 

OK, so if that's the tweet, and the question posed ... I think the "defense" of the tweet would be all of the writing on how terrorism creates more terrorism.