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04 Dec 2016, 12:40 am

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Dox says he's not a conservative, so... HAH!! ! !
Tell me something I don't know.

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And what you said about half the people in need not deserving help proves my point about "certain" conservatives.

I'd be happy to be one of those "certain" conservatives in your book.

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Trying to explain myself is not backpedaling.

It is what it is...

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Now, why don't you try to squeeze back into that Nazi uniform your dad used to spank you for dressing up in as a kid (No, I didn't forget about the WWII photo from your previous post).

Don't need to wear that old one I have a new and better one for next year and beyond. President elect Donald Trump has offered me the office of Reichsprotektor of Washington and Oregon and I have accepted.
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04 Dec 2016, 12:52 am

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Dox says he's not a conservative, so... HAH!! ! !
Tell me something I don't know.

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And what you said about half the people in need not deserving help proves my point about "certain" conservatives.
I'd be happy to be one of those "certain" conservatives in your book.

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Trying to explain myself is not backpedaling.

It is what it is...

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Now, why don't you try to squeeze back into that Nazi uniform your dad used to spank you for dressing up in as a kid (No, I didn't forget about the WWII photo from your previous post).

Don't need to wear that old one I have a new and better one for next year and beyond. President elect Donald Trump has offered me the office of Reichsprotektor of Washington and Oregon and I have accepted.
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Just remember, the guy who held that title for Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, was severely injured after a failed assassination attempt by Allied sponsored resistance fighters. When it was found that part of the car seat he was in during the attack had been lodged into his abdomen, it was too late, and he died of infection. Might want to consider that before taking the job.


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04 Dec 2016, 12:56 am

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- Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.

But he was right about this.
My ancestors got off the boat poor and without any nanny state handouts but managed just fine as did many others.


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04 Dec 2016, 1:09 am

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Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Dox says he's not a conservative, so... HAH!! ! !
Tell me something I don't know.

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And what you said about half the people in need not deserving help proves my point about "certain" conservatives.
I'd be happy to be one of those "certain" conservatives in your book.

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Trying to explain myself is not backpedaling.

It is what it is...

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Now, why don't you try to squeeze back into that Nazi uniform your dad used to spank you for dressing up in as a kid (No, I didn't forget about the WWII photo from your previous post).

Don't need to wear that old one I have a new and better one for next year and beyond. President elect Donald Trump has offered me the office of Reichsprotektor of Washington and Oregon and I have accepted.
:twisted:


Just remember, the guy who held that title for Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, was severely injured after a failed assassination attempt by Allied sponsored resistance fighters. When it was found that part of the car seat he was in during the attack had been lodged into his abdomen, it was too late, and he died of infection. Might want to consider that before taking the job.


Just remember that as a reprisal the Czech village of Lidice (sp) where all the men and older boys were shot and the women and older girls shipped off to Ravensbruck. I could put that into a more meaningful perspective for you but to do that would be borderline if not outright trolling so I won't.
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04 Dec 2016, 1:16 am

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- Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.

But he was right about this.
My ancestors got off the boat poor and without any nanny state handouts but managed just fine as did many others.


Yes, but the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century poor lived literally in hunger, worked long hours at the most dangerous jobs, had no social respect, and didn't live particularly long. When those poor workers tried to organize, they found their lives under threat by gun bearing thugs hired by employers, or were used as a bargaining chip, then betrayed by the skilled workers unions. So much for trying to reach for prosperity. Then there were blacks and Chinese, and other racial minorities who were kept down by force of law. America was never the paradise for all those who reached for the brass ring.
My family on my dad's side, after getting off the boat and heading west, had been both farmers, and frontier labor with affiliation to the radical IWW.


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04 Dec 2016, 1:20 am

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Dox says he's not a conservative, so... HAH!! ! !
Tell me something I don't know.

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And what you said about half the people in need not deserving help proves my point about "certain" conservatives.
I'd be happy to be one of those "certain" conservatives in your book.

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Trying to explain myself is not backpedaling.

It is what it is...

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Now, why don't you try to squeeze back into that Nazi uniform your dad used to spank you for dressing up in as a kid (No, I didn't forget about the WWII photo from your previous post).

Don't need to wear that old one I have a new and better one for next year and beyond. President elect Donald Trump has offered me the office of Reichsprotektor of Washington and Oregon and I have accepted.
:twisted:


Just remember, the guy who held that title for Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, was severely injured after a failed assassination attempt by Allied sponsored resistance fighters. When it was found that part of the car seat he was in during the attack had been lodged into his abdomen, it was too late, and he died of infection. Might want to consider that before taking the job.


Just remember that as a reprisal the Czech village of Lidice (sp) where all the men and older boys were shot and the women and older girls shipped off to Ravensbruck. I could put that into a more meaningful perspective for you but to do that would be borderline if not outright trolling so I won't.
:jester:


Just the same, we would die in satisfaction that we got you. :skull:


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04 Dec 2016, 1:38 am

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Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
- Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.

But he was right about this.
My ancestors got off the boat poor and without any nanny state handouts but managed just fine as did many others.


Yes, but the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century poor lived literally in hunger, worked long hours at the most dangerous jobs, had no social respect, and didn't live particularly long. When those poor workers tried to organize, they found their lives under threat by gun bearing thugs hired by employers, or were used as a bargaining chip, then betrayed by the skilled workers unions. So much for trying to reach for prosperity. Then there were blacks and Chinese, and other racial minorities who were kept down by force of law. America was never the paradise for all those who reached for the brass ring.
My family on my dad's side, after getting off the boat and heading west, had been both farmers, and frontier labor with affiliation to the radical IWW.


Yeah right; my family actually perished from famine in the early 20th century here which means I'm not really here.
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04 Dec 2016, 1:51 am

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Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
- Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.

But he was right about this.
My ancestors got off the boat poor and without any nanny state handouts but managed just fine as did many others.


Yes, but the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century poor lived literally in hunger, worked long hours at the most dangerous jobs, had no social respect, and didn't live particularly long. When those poor workers tried to organize, they found their lives under threat by gun bearing thugs hired by employers, or were used as a bargaining chip, then betrayed by the skilled workers unions. So much for trying to reach for prosperity. Then there were blacks and Chinese, and other racial minorities who were kept down by force of law. America was never the paradise for all those who reached for the brass ring.
My family on my dad's side, after getting off the boat and heading west, had been both farmers, and frontier labor with affiliation to the radical IWW.


Yeah right; my family actually perished from famine in the early 20th century here which means I'm not really here.
Next... :roll:


Striking union members were often fired on and killed by hired gunmen working for corporations as late as the nineteen-teens. Plenty of poor farmers fleeing from the dust bowl in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and elsewhere never made it alive to start over in California and the Pacific Northwest. Before the New Deal relief, plenty of people left without work, or couldn't keep up their farms, were left destitute, and with that, faced hunger, untreated illness, illness brought on by stress from anxiety, and so forth.
Your dismissive attitude toward my previous post has earned you :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P .


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04 Dec 2016, 3:14 am

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Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
- Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.

But he was right about this.
My ancestors got off the boat poor and without any nanny state handouts but managed just fine as did many others.


Yes, but the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century poor lived literally in hunger, worked long hours at the most dangerous jobs, had no social respect, and didn't live particularly long. When those poor workers tried to organize, they found their lives under threat by gun bearing thugs hired by employers, or were used as a bargaining chip, then betrayed by the skilled workers unions. So much for trying to reach for prosperity. Then there were blacks and Chinese, and other racial minorities who were kept down by force of law. America was never the paradise for all those who reached for the brass ring.
My family on my dad's side, after getting off the boat and heading west, had been both farmers, and frontier labor with affiliation to the radical IWW.


Yeah right; my family actually perished from famine in the early 20th century here which means I'm not really here.
Next... :roll:


Striking union members were often fired on and killed by hired gunmen working for corporations as late as the nineteen-teens. Plenty of poor farmers fleeing from the dust bowl in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and elsewhere never made it alive to start over in California and the Pacific Northwest. Before the New Deal relief, plenty of people left without work, or couldn't keep up their farms, were left destitute, and with that, faced hunger, untreated illness, illness brought on by stress from anxiety, and so forth.
Your dismissive attitude toward my previous post has earned you :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P .

Dismissive? All you ever do is read and regurgitate from the party handbook. What's not to dismiss?
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04 Dec 2016, 3:25 am

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Until you know the conservatives I know, I don't think you an speak intelligibly about them. One of them in fact boasted how he had raised himself from poverty (he was from a farm in South Dakota) to a successful businessman, and he said that those who were poor were as such because of bad choices he had no responsibility for.


Where is the hatred and contempt there? That's pretty bog standard conservative personal responsibility politics, the belief that anyone can make it if they put their mind to it; you can disagree with that or call it unrealistic (or, if you're Marshall, the Just World Fallacy), but turning that into hate or contempt is beyond a stretch. When you argue with these people, is that what you tell them, that they hate the poor and hold them in contempt, or do you use different words while privately judging?


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The fact that I specified which conservative I was speaking of at the very start is what's important.


You switched from specific to generalized, much as if I'd been speaking of my liberal friends, but then pivoted to a point about liberals generally. Also, you appear to have mischarcterized the beliefs of the specific conservatives you mentioned as well, so it's kind of moot.


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04 Dec 2016, 3:33 am

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You seem to lump all conservatives into one pile then try and backpedal into something like this when called out on it. By "those conservatives" you might as well just said all. Hardly matters any more since I'm past the point where I believe you can be successfully corrected. You can still be run up a tree with ease, just not permanently set straight.


That is kind of his pattern, isn't it? I can't think of another poster here who dissembles or makes excuses for his posts so frequently, whether it's that he was drunk, that someone pissed him off so he was trying to troll them in revenge, that he didn't care in the first place and had to go catch some wrestling, etc. I still don't think he's used to having to defend his beliefs, in his bubble they're so self evidently correct that only someone who was stupid or malicious could possibly disagree, so he's caught off guard when called out on the nastier stuff he lets slip.
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04 Dec 2016, 3:38 am

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Maybe they aren't motivated by outright contempt, but it isn't really a stretch to say many lack empathy for people less fortunate than themselves.


I disagree, I think a lot of people incorrectly view the conservative antipathy towards what they see as handouts as a lack of charity or empathy, when really it comes down to differing opinions on how to help the less fortunate. Personally, I'm for a more robust safety net with less red tape, as I'm less concerned with fraud than I am with creating massive bureaucracies to prevent fraud, and less concerned with creating dependency than I am with getting people off the street where we waste way more money in emergency services on them.


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04 Dec 2016, 3:40 am

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Dox says he's not a conservative, so... HAH!! ! !


Regardless of what I say, it's my stated positions and beliefs that make me not a conservative, not that any of that seems to matter to you.


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04 Dec 2016, 3:44 am

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Franklin also thought Palatine Germans and Swedes should not be allowed to come to America, because they weren't white enough. Just because old Ben said it doesn't mean it's always of much use.


Notice that you didn't actually address the argument, you merely mentioned some unrelated opinions of Franklin's and used them to justify dismissing everything else he'd ever said; lazy, but true to form.


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04 Dec 2016, 4:24 am

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I don't think conservatives are inherently racist fascists, but are motivated by their hatred and contempt of the poor.


Bill, one of these days you're going to have to realize that you have no idea what motivates conservatives, and most of the trouble you get yourself into on here comes directly from the delusion that you do.

Maybe they aren't motivated by outright contempt, but it isn't really a stretch to say many lack empathy for people less fortunate than themselves.


Ben Franklin sums up the conservative perspective ....

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Benjamin Franklin was an elitist SOB. This is just a BS excuse to justify not giving a s**t. Capitalism works through competition. There are a set number of "poor" by design. If everyone could climb out of poverty who would be doing the minimum wage jobs? Why not eliminate poverty by paying all people a wage they can actually live on comfortably?



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Maybe they aren't motivated by outright contempt, but it isn't really a stretch to say many lack empathy for people less fortunate than themselves.


I disagree, I think a lot of people incorrectly view the conservative antipathy towards what they see as handouts as a lack of charity or empathy, when really it comes down to differing opinions on how to help the less fortunate.

I don't believe they intend to help at all. They persist in their ideas even when confronted with the fact that private charity doesn't work as well as government. You're not a traditional conservative so I don't think you can speak for them.