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05 Sep 2021, 4:39 am

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If you have ever visited Planet Earth you would notice that folks on that planet tend to talk that way. Hyperbole.

Folks on this website ganged up on me one time just because I corrected someone's word usage, and called me a "grammar Nazi".

I wasnt putting the guy into an oven in a concentration camp. And the issue was vocabulary and not "grammar" anyway. But thats what folks called me.


Yup, and I call them out on it too, it was just your turn in the barrel for making a tired and overplayed joke that's been rubbing me the wrong way for a while.

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The Right would paint Hitler mustaches on to the face of Obama.


Which I called stupid at the time. To be fair, everyone paints Hitler mustaches on their opponents, Democrats just came off of four years of screaming that Trump was literally Hitler, while also having spent much of 2020 complaining that he wasn't being authoritarian enough, which was confusing.

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So if everyone else has the right to speak in hyperbole (hyperbole not based upon ANY reality like the two examples above) why cant I use a little hyperbole when it is in fact based upon certain realities?


No one's stopping you, I'm just going to make jokes at your expense if you do it in a dumb way and I happen to be around and in the the mood, it's not like I'm a mod or something.

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GOP, across the nation REALLY IS trying to snuff out democracy through voter suppression, and in this thing in Texas they REALLY are enacting a draconian new law - with roots in religion. And even recruiting citizens as informants. Nudging the nation toward religious based fascism. So we all (right, left, and center) should be calling them out in strong terms.


Ahh, we're back to that F word again... You do realize that at this point it's completely meaningless, right? That it pretty much just means "politics of which I do not approve", having been used as a political blunt instrument for the last 70 odd years regardless of whether it was appropriate or not? Let me give you a hint; a real fascist movement wouldn't be subtle, like making it a bit harder to vote, or passing gimmick laws that require citizens to enforce them because otherwise they wouldn't stand up to judicial review.


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05 Sep 2021, 10:21 am

I remember a thread comparing Trump to Hitler awhile back on this site. It was hilarious!


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05 Sep 2021, 4:10 pm

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Americans decide they're not worth engaging with and let them have their rural, mountainous, backwards theocracy? :chin:


Well, I meant the whole country being overrun in a matter of days as the regular army defects to the "American Taliban" (who do you think makes up our infantry?), but sure, why not.


:lol:


This is a fantasy. The regular army is not going to defect to the "American Taliban". You do realize, do you not, that the US military commanders made it clear to the outgoing Trump administration that they would refuse to carry out any orders to overturn the results of the election. Carry on!



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05 Sep 2021, 4:19 pm

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This is a fantasy. The regular army is not going to defect to the "American Taliban". You do realize, do you not, that the US military commanders made it clear to the outgoing Trump administration that they would refuse to carry out any orders to overturn the results of the election. Carry on!


You are aware that the officers who give the orders are very different from the troops who do the fighting, right?


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05 Sep 2021, 6:55 pm

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This is a fantasy. The regular army is not going to defect to the "American Taliban". You do realize, do you not, that the US military commanders made it clear to the outgoing Trump administration that they would refuse to carry out any orders to overturn the results of the election. Carry on!


You are aware that the officers who give the orders are very different from the troops who do the fighting, right?


Then maybe we ought to purge the rank-and-file (and no, I don't mean shooting them like Stalin!). Get a more agreeable and patriotic class of people.


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06 Sep 2021, 4:03 am

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There are kinds of crazy laws in the South. A few years back I learned that in at least one state it's illegal for atheists to hold public office.

That's unconstitutional. The U.S. constitution prohibits religious tests for office.


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06 Sep 2021, 4:11 am

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Also, I would require halal restaurants to serve pork products and alcoholic beverages, and require female employees of said restaurants to wear bikinis with skimpy T-shirts that say “I :heart: Sodomy”.

I hope you're just joking here.....

We need both freedom of religion and freedom from having religion imposed on us.


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06 Sep 2021, 10:18 am

Mona Pereth wrote:
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There are kinds of crazy laws in the South. A few years back I learned that in at least one state it's illegal for atheists to hold public office.

That's unconstitutional. The U.S. constitution prohibits religious tests for office.


Yes it is. It's not likely it would hold up if challenged in court, I don't imagine.

Still, it remains political suicide for a candidate to openly admit to being an atheist, especially in conservative areas.


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06 Sep 2021, 11:11 am



As Far As the Military Rebelling Against
Its Leading Officers Becoming A Modern
Version of the 'American Taliban' Perhaps

'Ya' Haven't Spent Much Time With the
Military; Although There Are More than
A Few 'Grunts' In 'Washington State';

It's Worth Noting

The Modern Military

Has Become More Soft

And Intelligent and Push
Button Drone Deadly; This

Ain't Afghanistan, A Land of Scarcity,
A Land of Frustrated Males Who Haven't
Even Ever Held the Hand of A Female Who
Is Not Related to them; This Is the United States,

Where There Are Unlimited Varieties of 'Pretty
Birds' Virginal Looking At Least At The Fastest
Speeds and Numbers than Ever before to

Download And Use Every Which

Way Folks Choose;

Of Course

And All You

Can Eat Buffets

Still Cheap Enough

Everywhere Ya Go;

Generally Speaking All
A Grunt Needs to Really
Get By on Almost Unlimited

Liberty

Tours

Now;

Change All of that
To Scarcity and You
Have A Different Kind of
Soldier Altogether Like the

Ones Who Are The Taliban

Controlled And Bred By Deficits of Human Nature;

It's True, i Actually Worked With the Military For A Quarter
of A Century Up Close and Personal With All Ranks and
Areas of Service; When the Young Pen Pushers Went to

The Desert

For Warfare

They Came Back

A Totally Different

Epigenetic Marker Human Being...

True, They Went to The Desert

And it Was Challenge Enough to
Change them more into a 'Super-Soldier Ant'...

Of Course Similar to What Happens in Boot
Camp Either Forced or Voluntarily Created
Always Changing Across the Lifespan Now...

(I'VE USED THIS POWER-UP CHALLENGE
JUST FOR FUN AND HAVE PLENTY OF
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO SHOW

IT WORKS AS WELL
IN THE EXTREME)

It's Not Necessary

When Push

Button

Drones

Are Doing
All the Dirty Work
And Hands And Nails
Stay Clean No Matter How Many

Other Innocent Folks May Be Literally
Nailed to Crosses in Rebuilding Countries for Profit...

That We

Tear

Down

As the Military
Industrial Machine
Continues to Burn our
Tax Money and Pad the
Contractor's Riches Some
Who are Ex-Military And Believe
They Deserve it for Fighting in the Last

Unjustified
War; Yes,

That's

The Business

Of Being Human,

Clean or Exposing All the Dirty Laundry;

Anyway, We Are Far Away from the Scarcity of
the Middle East; Both in External And Internal Human Environments Now...

Yes, There Are 'the Extremes' Training in Some Mountainous Dry/Cold/Snowy Areas
of the West; Yet They Are the Extremes; One Shot Wonders Who Fizzle Out After

The one

Failing

Shot of
A Generation
of Over-Throwing
Democracy is Thwarted
By Those Ants Who are
Indulged With Excess of

Instant Gratification and
Far From Super Soldier Ants
Who Will Even Commit Suicide to
Gain 72 Virgins; Who Are OtherWise 144,000 or
So Virtual Ones And More Forever now in the USA...

Plus the

All You
Can And
Will Eat Buffets
With Copious Amounts
Of Fats And Sugars and
All Kinds of Drugs to Change
The Inner Environment of Humanity too...

In Short Again, This Ain't 'Afghanistan' 'Yet'...

Which Means no 'American Taliban' Here in Large Numbers 'Until'....

Yawn, Just too Many Copious Numbers of Opiates Available for the 'Masses'...

And Push

Button

Drones

With Manicured
Pale Fingers at 'the Helm'...

How Do Ya Stop An Afghanistan

From Happening and A Modern American

Taliban; You Insure A Nation of Scarcity Does

Not Progress Any More Here in the United States;

Ya Do What Successful Countries Do; Ya Mix the
Free Market With Social Welfare For All In Need Or YOU FAiL...

AND IF YOU ARE SMART, YOU KEEP PORN IN 'USE' TO KEEP THE
FERTILITY RATE LOWER AND SCARCITY IN CHECK FOR THIS

NATURAL FREE BIRTH CONTROL

AND OPIATES
FOR THE

OTHERWISE

FRUSTRATED
MALE 'MASSES'; OF COURSE

It's Not Exactly Painting Lip
Stick on A Pig and MaKinG iT
Pretty Yet So Far Proven to Work Here Enough...

To Keep Some Level of 'Bonobo Gratifying Peace'...

Just my Opinion of Course; A Philosophy Always in 'Progress'

Where Every Word is A New Testament of my Opinion Now

Never Heard Before

Exactly this way...

As We

All Do

Some Shorter

Some Longer too...

As We Mold Our Human
Realities Next For Real Now...

Every Inhale of Peace
And Exhale of Love a
New Testament Now
And Yuck Every Inhale
of Fear And Exhale of

Hate more oF an 'Old Testament Brain'
Way of Reptile Violence And Raping Lust...

In Short, Change Happens;

If Ya Can And Will Now, A
Sunny Side UP IS A Best Egg First...
And Lasting Eternally Now... For Real...



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