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Whenever someone tells me that Columbus Day should be canceled so there can be room for Indigenous People Day, I tell them that as an Italian-American I am deeply offended by that, and they should cancel Martin Luther King Day instead.
The left-wing diversity SJW bullshit is one reason I stopped using Google ... I got tired of the "you suck if you're a straight white Christian male" cartoons.
Sun Nov 29 2020 21:03:37 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Whenever someone tells me that Columbus Day should be canceled so there can be room for Indigenous People Day, I tell them that as an Italian-American I am deeply offended by that, and they should cancel Martin Luther King Day instead.
The left-wing diversity SJW bullshit is one reason I stopped using Google ... I got tired of the "you suck if you're a straight white Christian male" cartoons.
Yeah... it is funny how the people who swear you shouldn't judge a person solely by their color, gender, religious belief or sexual orientation - consistently demonize people of a particular color, gender religious belief or sexual orientation. :)
Republican Claudia Tenney had been *ahead by 28,422 votes* on Election Day. But a few weeks later, Democrat Anthony Brindisi suddenly declared victory after overcoming that massive deficit to seemingly edge out Tenney by 13 votes after counting the absentee ballots.
You can throw out every other word from ATLAS SHRUGGED, because the following quote says it all:
>"We fear an outbreak of violence," the media kept repeating.
Sun Nov 29 2020 08:46:43 PM EST from ParanoidDelusionsThis. So 100% this:
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So you like Russian authors?
In a 1931 letter to Joseph Stalin, Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin adopted a respectful tone by way of introduction: “My name is probably known to you.” The author of We, the dystopian science fiction novel that influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, had written to Stalin to contest censorship and misrepresentation, and to request permission to migrate—accompanied by his wife—so he could write without the threat of violence or suppression: “
The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell
https://quillette.com/2020/12/01/the-heretical-impulse-zamyatin-and-orwell/
http://quillette.com/2020/12/01/the-heretical-impulse-zamyatin-and-orwell/
Wed Dec 02 2020 14:47:25 EST from zooer
Sun Nov 29 2020 08:46:43 PM EST from ParanoidDelusionsThis. So 100% this:
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I like sentiments. Hitler could nail a sentiment - and endorsing the sentiment doesn't mean I endorse Hitler.
If someone says something brilliant, and you dismiss it because of the rest of what that person believes...
You're the problem - not that person.
I get this on Facebook all the time, too...
"That article came from Breitbart! I reject it!"
But the sources are all cited and you can research the data and the data supports the claim. I don't care if it came from Breitbart, MSN, HuffPo or Sesame Street. Data is data. The source whereby you found the data doesn't corrupt the data.
Wed Dec 02 2020 03:56:11 PM EST from ParanoidDelusionsIf someone says something brilliant, and you dismiss it because of the rest of what that person believes...
I get this on Facebook all the time, too...
I have had this happen several times as well. On another forum we were talking about a career criminal, there are videos of him bullshitting people. Bullshitting the police right to their face. He had that gift to be able to lie straight to someone's face and talk himself out of trouble. I said that I was always amazed how some people have the ability to get away with it from bullshitting others. For some reason people took that as I sided with the guy and his criminal actions. People hated me, eventually for another mild infraction my posts were removed and I couldn't post anymore. Oh well.
What you are saying goes along with the Conservatives calling me a liberal and liberals calling me conservative. If you agree with some small point you will be attacked.
This is very true. I completely sympathized with you on the idea of this point when we were disagreeing about, having worn that shoe myself many, many times.
I do not walk a party line. To many people, there is no greater offense. Too many people live in an echo chamber.
Wed Dec 02 2020 20:36:00 EST from zooer
Wed Dec 02 2020 03:56:11 PM EST from ParanoidDelusionsWhat you are saying goes along with the Conservatives calling me a liberal and liberals calling me conservative. If you agree with some small point you will be attacked.
Yeah... it is funny how the people who swear you shouldn't judge a
person solely by their color, gender, religious belief or sexual
orientation - consistently demonize people of a particular color,
gender religious belief or sexual orientation. :)
It's how the elite take advantage of their useful idiots.
Consider this: 20-30 years ago it was a favorite hobby of the left to paint the Republican party as the party of billionaires and big business, and the Democrats represented the Regular Guy. With people from the Bush crime family constantly getting into office, they were to some extent correct about that.
What happened since then? The right also rejected the Bush types and brought out President Trump, who represents the Regular Guy like no one else has done in the last half century, and all of the big corporations and big businesses are firmly in the pocket of the Democrat party. So the "stick it to the man" crowd should all be on the right now? Of course not. Because they're hypocrites.
Similarly, the left was in favor of free speech in the 1960's when they needed to be free to express communist ideas. Now that they control the institutions, they're against free speech because it can also be used to express anti-communist ideas.
Where is Joe McCarthy now that we need him?
It wasn't a SCARE if it turns out McCarthy was right.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/red-scare-dominates-american-politics
" According to the subcommittee report, communist subversion of the Guild was merely one step in a larger effort to control the media of the United States—including radio, television, movies, and book publishing. "
Fri Dec 04 2020 12:42:23 EST from IGnatius T FoobarWhere is Joe McCarthy now that we need him?
Fri Dec 04 2020 12:42:23 PM EST from IGnatius T FoobarConsider this: 20-30 years ago it was a favorite hobby of the left to paint the Republican party as the party of billionaires and big business, and the Democrats represented the Regular Guy. With people from the Bush crime family constantly getting into office, they were to some extent correct about that.
If you search the ten wealthiest Americans nine of them are democrat/liberals.
If you look at the bluest sections on an election map, they are the centers of wealth.
I'm not sure how Democrats are consistently in denial about this. The people telling them how they're going to fix the economic inequality in America... are the SOURCE of the economic inequality in America.
Fri Dec 04 2020 14:27:03 EST from zooer
Fri Dec 04 2020 12:42:23 PM EST from IGnatius T FoobarConsider this: 20-30 years ago it was a favorite hobby of the left to paint the Republican party as the party of billionaires and big business, and the Democrats represented the Regular Guy. With people from the Bush crime family constantly getting into office, they were to some extent correct about that.If you search the ten wealthiest Americans nine of them are democrat/liberals.
If you look at the bluest sections on an election map, they are the centers of wealth.
If you look at the bluest sections on an election map, they are the
centers of wealth.
That was one of the MANY reasons Hitlery Cunton claimed she actually won the 2016 election. She claims (probably correctly) that she won in all of the wealthiest districts.
And that's the point. The people who said "Stick it to the Man" 50-60 years ago now ARE "The Man". But they also control the media so they're making sure no one notices.
The people who said "Anarchy in the USA," 35 years ago are now largely affluent suburban Democrats, too - telling me what a sell-out I am because I supported Trump.
This is what boggles my mind - so many punks are die-hard Democrats now. It is like somewhere along the line they got confused and thought it wasn't the ESTABLISHMENT and status-quo that we were opposed to, it was just the Republicans and Right Wing policies and politics.
80's punks are now the Establishment. Except Johnnie Lydon (Rotten). He still is hell bent on alienating his fans any way possible. I love that guy.
Fri Dec 04 2020 16:42:09 EST from IGnatius T FoobarAnd that's the point. The people who said "Stick it to the Man" 50-60 years ago now ARE "The Man". But they also control the media so they're making sure no one notices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbO-JyxRMqo
According to most reputable accounts and sources, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a mocking parody of what he saw as common and ignorant objections to socialism - "if this goes on", as envisioned by frightened white people stuck in some phantom fifties pipe dream of Randian individualism. If Vonnegut were alive today, I would hate to see him join along with so many other smart people and remain a true believer while defending the madness I'm seeing. I would hope that he would accept, however reluctantly, that many of the objections he raised were not only legitimate but depressingly prescient.