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You really wanna start shit? (Original Post) Soph0571 Oct 2019 OP
Hmmm I hear what he's saying but.... I think it's better to just laugh at them. SlogginThroughIt Oct 2019 #1
*obligatory Green Shirt guy gif here joost5 Oct 2019 #15
+1000000000000000000000 Initech Oct 2019 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2019 #2
And it is a good thing, too. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #3
+1. yonder Oct 2019 #13
THIS Lock him up. Oct 2019 #16
Thanks! Newest Reality Oct 2019 #17
You are spot on and Dyedinthewoolliberal Oct 2019 #20
Yeah! Newest Reality Oct 2019 #21
Well said. flying_wahini Oct 2019 #22
Thank you! Newest Reality Oct 2019 #24
What I'd REALLY like to see gelsdorf Oct 2019 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2019 #7
I'll gladly serve as loader or driver. Aristus Oct 2019 #8
Yeah, Franco lost... Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #5
thank you. I don;t like some of the stuff starting to appear here.. like M1A tanks! pangaia Oct 2019 #14
How about Castro? ... aggiesal Oct 2019 #18
The Romanovs held power for 500 years or thereabouts. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #25
The one thing the Civ-War wannabees always forget and every cop never forgets... NeoGreen Oct 2019 #6
Exactly, that also includes the secession advocates. gordianot Oct 2019 #10
I've never been in combat, but I've seen guys who have been. patphil Oct 2019 #9
Truth. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #11
The Confederates lost the War, but Jim Crow terrorists won the "peace". Marcuse Oct 2019 #12
I feel we weren't hard enough on the south after the war 47of74 Oct 2019 #19
The Compromise of 1877: The Betrayal of Black Lincoln Republicans Marcuse Oct 2019 #26
Actually they do and I fear that this is what they will perceive as their time. jimlup Oct 2019 #27

Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. And it is a good thing, too.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:12 AM
Oct 2019

Their ignorant projections of repressed emotions and traumas, combined with their tendency to lack empathy or compassion wrapped in a self-righteous, malignant style of individualism and a yearning for power and control over others would most definitely create some form of a nightmare dystopia for everyone else.

Their obvious need for an authoritarian Father figure to be in charge in order for them to feel "safe" not only reflects antipathy for true freedom, it is now antiquated and only useful for despots and Oligarchs who would foist a Neo-Feudalism on the world if given the chance. To preserve, strengthen and grow a health democracy, seeing that contrast is essential.

This is not acceptable and the remedy is to be vigilant, well-informed and to even understand them better than they are able to understand themselves. Not only does that surely distinguish us from their immature and dark world view, it gives us the power and ability to thwart their attempts to fashion the world in their unacknowledged shadow. Whether they do it by way of using ideology or religion, we will not be fooled and we cannot acquiesce to that.

Now is the time when the law, real justice and truth must be on our minds and held up high as the symbols of what we stand for in this time of great crisis.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,563 posts)
20. You are spot on and
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:38 PM
Oct 2019

if I could translate into words those folks would understand- "Hush now children, the adults are talking'

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
21. Yeah!
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:47 PM
Oct 2019

Where is a Babelfish when you need one?

Although, I don't know if they translate primitive subsets of a language

gelsdorf

(240 posts)
4. What I'd REALLY like to see
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:14 AM
Oct 2019

is the reaction to an M1A2 Tank crashing their party.
The Depends would be full in a heartbeat

Response to gelsdorf (Reply #4)

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
8. I'll gladly serve as loader or driver.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:49 AM
Oct 2019

That's really where I shone. I was only a mediocre tank gunner.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
25. The Romanovs held power for 500 years or thereabouts.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 01:09 PM
Oct 2019

But don't worry. The right always loses. I read about it on the internet.

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
6. The one thing the Civ-War wannabees always forget and every cop never forgets...
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:19 AM
Oct 2019

...the 'State' owns the pension system.

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
10. Exactly, that also includes the secession advocates.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:59 AM
Oct 2019

They scream about “socialism” but cannot escape it.

patphil

(6,169 posts)
9. I've never been in combat, but I've seen guys who have been.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:49 AM
Oct 2019

It's easy to glorify war, and look for a reason to take up arms.
But, the reality is far removed from the fantasy.
War truly is hell.
And a civil war is a special kind of hell...nothing civil about it at all.
No good can come from it as far as the nation is concerned.

However, Putin would be dancing with glee.

Patrick Phillips

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
19. I feel we weren't hard enough on the south after the war
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:35 PM
Oct 2019

I’m not saying we should have parking lotted everything g below the Mason Dixon line but I think we could’ve been a bit harder on the south after the war. We basically left their culture and institutions intact and let the leadership go with a slap on the wrist.

We didn’t make that mistake after World War II which is why Germany recovered and doesn’t idolize its past now.

Marcuse

(7,478 posts)
26. The Compromise of 1877: The Betrayal of Black Lincoln Republicans
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 05:34 PM
Oct 2019

Neither the Republican nor the Democrat won a majority in the Electoral College so the election went to the House of Representatives. They compromised by voting for the Republican in exchange for removing the troops occupying the South. Without the troops to protect them, African Americans were reduced to legal serfdom for the next century. [link:https://www.270towin.com/1876_Election/|

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
27. Actually they do and I fear that this is what they will perceive as their time.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:23 PM
Oct 2019

Maybe my hair's on fire but I'm afraid these shit for brains rightwingers will actually attempt to go there.

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