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In reply to the discussion: Can people here have an adult conversation? [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)133. Our system of justice would never bring a just criminal verdict. And I
say that as a criminal defense attorney.
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No...he's not effective. The people who were tortured deserve better OPs....not schtick that comes
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#40
And do these people deserve better speeches than Obama's speech about "real patriots"
Vattel
Dec 2014
#41
President Obama presented us with hard truths that quite a few Americans seem unwilling
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#46
Hard truths....like we'd all like to pretend that there wasn't a time in America when
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#52
He lauded no one...he just reminded those who like to pretend they were always
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#54
Well, Manny...did not Bush and our media portray them as such? Did not Bush's
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#59
You keep spinning Obama's words. Obama praised the torturers by calling them "real patriots."
Vattel
Dec 2014
#63
Obama praised no one...he just reminded us that not everyone was so pure in retrospect.
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#74
I defend no torturer. But damn...America bears the responsibility for torture, don't we? nt
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#111
You know....that's kind of like saying that only the Nazis killed Jews. Lots of good Germans, and
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#126
You get my point..which is why I'm happy tax dollars paid for Japanese internment
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#131
2004....elected. 2003....Iraq War. Do we all not owe something to the victims
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#115
nope, that was the watermelon debacle. still playing the martyr over that huge gaffe, eh?
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#64
Perhaps you could saunter over to the African American group and explain how "low" they all are
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#68
context: after many threads about POC offended @ fried chicken and watermelon issue- your response:
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#92
Very fucking seriously Manny. You KNOW you offended people and apologized, but the apology
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#100
there are three in this thread- here is the "apology" and it contains a link to the original...
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#120
satire doesn't use reverse racism to argue with POC that their feelings are wrong, LOL...
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#154
got three alerts so far- no hides. one imagines that I alerted for calling someone else stupid.....
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#171
hundreds of posts exist on DU calling attention to your racial gaffes, watermelon, Mike Brown.....
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#112
The discussion in the AA group over the racial offensiveness of some of your OPs.
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#83
stupid? like not aware that fried chicken and watermelon have been used to slur blacks stupid?
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#89
no comment on that amazing exchange- where you learn for the very first time in your life......
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#97
brilliant- they missed that I did supply links, and was subject to a direct personal attack.
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#114
You certainly didn't link to your characterization of what the post would contain.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2014
#118
the thread made fun of AA's for not getting over fried chicken and watermelon jokes.
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#122
Yeah, the gefilte fish thread was full of people who it never occurred to that the OP was an
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#144
the "reverse racism" card been played once too often for it to be a mistake-
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#153
he called me a liar for referencing a thing he did and apologized for- how more full of shit can
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#158
Please explain his "Apology" in the context of his current denial. Thanks. n/t
1StrongBlackMan
Dec 2014
#193
My comment has nothing to do with the OP, but why I don't participate in the jury system on DU.
still_one
Dec 2014
#159
yep, some people can get away with anything, yet those who challenge them get swarmed with
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#160
I understand your point. Things were much more fair when moderators made the
still_one
Dec 2014
#162
posted it twice, but I'd also love a link to your well received OP about Mike Brown-
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#129
what set me off is this "woe is me, falsely accused of racist posts bullshit.
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#145
I am literally DYING laughing. This mess is so transparent, so pitiful and so bizarre that it simply
Number23
Dec 2014
#147
yeah, the nasty insults and phony outcry - for links already posted- seems to have actually fooled
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#149
I didn't alert on it- but apparently there are minions who know I alerted on the direct insult to
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#170
I'm sorry...did you not post a thread about "gefilte fish" and then apologize for
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#99
Oh...I think those two threads are priceless, given the context of the watermelon/chicken thread.
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#102
you APOLOGIZED over it- not that it was credible, but you apologized, LOL....
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#127
It's already posted- with CONTEXT- that thing you find soooo very inconvenient.
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#95
I posted two links- canpost a dozen more to show you are completely aware how offended POC were....
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#98
You're referring to your post, a post you called racially insensitive, but not racist?
CreekDog
Dec 2014
#209
The Irish who died of famine probably also deserved better than Jonathan Swift's
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#106
Holy Crap...I needed that laugh! No....there's another Swift work that is more apropos....
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#109
I think I saw a Twain comparison here- and I had to stop myself before asking
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#123
It is news to me that any corporation can sue to overturn local or federal rules and
djean111
Dec 2014
#16
As to your first point....yeah. Go read the sick chicken case where 4 butchers took on FDR's
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#19
love your GIFs! I can't believe we are having the denial about mocking POC concerns again here..
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#110
UNCTAD rule like all rule is bad because we at least aspire to be self governing
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#70
It is astounding to me how so many people who fancy themselves as being politically savvy
YoungDemCA
Dec 2014
#72
I thank you. I find a firm grasp of civics tends to win arguments around here. nt
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#75
You know....as misanthropic as I am, I have not been able to engage in sarcasm yet. I'm
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#17
I quoted Caddyshack to Third Way Manny, and got some posts hidden, so I don't want to participate in
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#11
Well...Third Way Manny tends to be pretty thin-skinned, for a fictional character.
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#205
the best we can do is some hand-me-down, fourth-rate buffoonery masquerading as pasquinade.
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#18