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10 Nov 2010, 11:43 pm

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You know, I never even knew that dude existed until now. But I do find it interesting that this kind of character assassination sketch is often used against any source of information or opinion which another happens to disagree with on some point or another or in general. It kind of side steps anything they say in order to make the focus be upon them personally.


'Kay, see, he is from Sweden, like me. Actually, this thread fùcking bores me and infuriates me, and I have no interest in participating in it, anymore. It is leading nowhere, and since I know this ALWAYS is the case, I do not know why I bothered saying anything at all. Of course, maybe my comments, and those of others, similar to mine, have made some impact to someone - made someone rethink a few things - and I suppose my time in this thread wasn't a waste, then, after all.



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11 Nov 2010, 12:20 am

Beauty_pact wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
You know, I never even knew that dude existed until now. But I do find it interesting that this kind of character assassination sketch is often used against any source of information or opinion which another happens to disagree with on some point or another or in general. It kind of side steps anything they say in order to make the focus be upon them personally.


'Kay, see, he is from Sweden, like me. Actually, this thread fùcking bores me and infuriates me, and I have no interest in participating in it, anymore. It is leading nowhere, and since I know this ALWAYS is the case, I do not know why I bothered saying anything at all. Of course, maybe my comments, and those of others, similar to mine, have made some impact to someone - made someone rethink a few things - and I suppose my time in this thread wasn't a waste, then, after all.


Aside from this post and the previous one, I haven't seen any other posts of yours. What are we supposed to rethink exactly? How a person's thoughts are irrelevant if they associate with sinners or espouse taboo thoughts themselves, or perhaps we're suppose to rethink the usage of vowels to override the language filter here?



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11 Nov 2010, 12:37 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Aside from this post and the previous one, I haven't seen any other posts of yours. What are we supposed to rethink exactly? How a person's thoughts are irrelevant if they associate with sinners or espouse taboo thoughts themselves, or perhaps we're suppose to rethink the usage of vowels to override the language filter here?


Gee, now those are some harsh words, there. :)

I've made many posts in this thread, as have others with similar views to mine. My first one is at page 6. Do enjoy reading them, if that is what you desire.



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11 Nov 2010, 4:07 am

Beauty_pact wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Aside from this post and the previous one, I haven't seen any other posts of yours. What are we supposed to rethink exactly? How a person's thoughts are irrelevant if they associate with sinners or espouse taboo thoughts themselves, or perhaps we're suppose to rethink the usage of vowels to override the language filter here?


Gee, now those are some harsh words, there. :)

I've made many posts in this thread, as have others with similar views to mine. My first one is at page 6. Do enjoy reading them, if that is what you desire.


Ah, sorry, I tuned out at page 3 for the most part but just have been occasionally reading this since it shows up in my inbox. Harsh words? Perhaps yoữ rightly think so, but then again the last thing I saw was an ad hominem.



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11 Nov 2010, 11:52 am

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Proves at least HIS total lack of empathy.


I have discovered empirically that empathy plus $3.15 will buy me a regular coffee and one Old Fashioned donut at the local Dunkin' Donuts (tm) shop.

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11 Nov 2010, 2:15 pm

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It's funny: I'm a working, tax-paying American who thinks that Obama is center-right, and I just moved out of a situation where my housemate was "disabled" (in scare-quotes b/c the degree of her disability depended largely on what needed to be done at any particular moment), living *completely* on the state and federal governments (and me), and was constantly complaining about 'welfare queens' and 'illegals' using up all of the resources. She loved Palin.


And who the heck do you consider is center-left, Barbara Boxer? Nancy Pelosi? Al Frankan?



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11 Nov 2010, 4:12 pm

Yes.
I got to help vote Boxer back into office recently. :)



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11 Nov 2010, 10:52 pm

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Yes.
I got to help vote Boxer back into office recently. :)


YAY 8)
i got to help vote the tennis shoe wearer back into office recently.



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12 Nov 2010, 12:01 am

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Yes.
I got to help vote Boxer back into office recently. :)


That explains the why you think center is so far left...



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12 Nov 2010, 1:10 am

Actually, I'm moderate to conservative for the county that I live in (Humboldt).



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12 Nov 2010, 1:17 am

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Actually, I'm moderate to conservative for the county that I live in (Humboldt).


Since FDR the center move toward the Left. Even Republicans are busy formulating "programs". The Republicans are busy making socialism for the corporations a cottage industry in the U.S. and the Democrats are busy pretending to help People of Color and other "minorities" such as women who are 53 percent of the population.

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12 Nov 2010, 1:25 am

Oh, bull. The center has swung so far rightward that Republicans now are now decrying Republican programs from the Clinton years as 'socialist.'

If we'd gone leftward from FDR, we'd be communist by now.



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12 Nov 2010, 1:27 am

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Oh, bull. The center has swung so far rightward that Republicans now are now decrying Republican programs from the Clinton years as 'socialist.'

If we'd gone leftward from FDR, we'd be communist by now.


You might be right. Perhaps the rightward correction occurred during the Ronald Regan years.

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12 Nov 2010, 1:29 am

ruveyn wrote:
LKL wrote:
Actually, I'm moderate to conservative for the county that I live in (Humboldt).


Since FDR the center move toward the Left. Even Republicans are busy formulating "programs". The Republicans are busy making socialism for the corporations a cottage industry in the U.S. and the Democrats are busy pretending to help People of Color and other "minorities" such as women who are 53 percent of the population.

If Obama was anything like FDR (or even LBJ for that matter) in terms of "leftness", all the conservatives in this country would spontaneously combust. Heck, Dwight D Eisenhower was a flaming stinky-pinky by your standards.



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12 Nov 2010, 2:02 am

Inuyasha wrote:
LKL wrote:
Yes.
I got to help vote Boxer back into office recently. :)

That explains the why you think center is so far left...

Well, he is from California, after all.



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12 Nov 2010, 7:47 am

psychohist wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
LKL wrote:
Yes.
I got to help vote Boxer back into office recently. :)

That explains the why you think center is so far left...

Well, he is from California, after all.


If the country were tilted on its southwest corner all the Fruits and Nuts would soon be in Kalifornia.

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