Normalizing a military coup?
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Democrats are. Jimmy Carter said some time ago we can't run an election through the post office.
preserving existing rules - most should vote in person, some absentee alleviate this. so stop trying to ruin an election
They're all protestants to me.
Are you a flavor of Christian?
They're all the real heathens, to me.
how cute, a cross groveling goyim using Yiddish
Goyim, or shiksa? lol
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The American version of christian bible thumping in just over 100 years old and spread fast among the least educated
The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born
World War I had brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers home. Cars were rolling off the assembly lines. New forms of music, like jazz, were driving people to dance. And science was in the ascendant, after helping the war effort. Women, having done so much on the home front, were ready to claim the vote, and African-Americans were eager to enjoy full citizenship, at long last. In a word, life was dazzlingly modern.
But for many other Americans, modernity was exactly the problem. As many parts of the country were experimenting with new ideas and beliefs, a powerful counterrevolution was forming in some of the nation’s largest churches and Bible institutes. A group of Christian leaders, anxious about the chaos that seemed to be enveloping the globe, recalibrated the faith and gave it a new urgency. They knew that the time was right for a revolution in American Christianity. In its own way, this new movement — fundamentalism —
The men and women at the conference were all white. On questions of race, fundamentalists defended the status quo. African-American and Latino Christians, even when they shared the same theology as their white counterparts, were systematically excluded from fundamentalists’ churches and organizations.
Unlike more mainstream Protestants, fundamentalists did not expect to see a righteous and holy kingdom of God established on earth. Instead, they taught that the Holy Spirit would soon turn this world over to the Antichrist, a diabolical world leader who would preside over an awful holocaust in which those true believers who had not already been raptured to heaven would suffer interminable tribulations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/the-day-christian-fundamentalism-was-born.html
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
People. Now let's ask WHY they're doing that.
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
and to this day we see the kookery still lives with trumps hoards
Airstrip One
Completely Effed
Are you a flavor of Christian?
They're all the real heathens, to me.
The flavour of wine!
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
True, but like it takes two to Tango, it takes everyone to make peace and only one to make war. Outside agitators happen. They are matches to a fuse. It's very important to realize that agitators can't light anything that doesn't exist. IMO, the best solution is not to worry about the "outside agitators" but figure out why that fuse exists and what can be done to resolve it while preserving "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
LV426 is blaming me for advocating Biden for weeks on another thread (he can't prove it). Elsewhere PmP is calling me a "demmycrat" (he knows I'm not). They can scream lies all they want but it doesn't change who I am and I don't have to become violent or upset over it as they often seem to indicate people should do because that's what they want to do. Both seem to have a lot of frustration in their own lives in order to express to much emotion. Since it's mostly likely simple displaced aggression (kick-the-cat syndrome) I try to not take it personal, but sometimes I fail.
Dutch Uncle
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Like every group has their assholes, every group has their fanatics too. It's human nature for some people to take a good thing and fuck it up by taking it to an extreme one way or another.
This is why.
Stench and the rest of the anti-BLM ppl may not be old enough to remember the riots of the 1960s, but I do. Nothing they say about the protesters is new. Heard it all before from the Reichwing. Yet nothing has really changed for racial disparity, has it?
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
This is why.
Stench and the rest of the anti-BLM ppl may not be old enough to remember the riots of the 1960s, but I do. Nothing they say about the protesters is new. Heard it all before from the Reichwing. Yet nothing has really changed for racial disparity, has it?
Obviously there are problems. There extremists see only two solutions; crush the dissent or burn it all down and start over. Neither one is good for the nation. It's better to just fix the problem. The hard part is how to fix cultures. It's not easy and it takes a lot longer than the over-anxious care to give it. There are no single, simple solutions. Saying "Stop being racist" doesn't do a damn thing.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
This is why.
Stench and the rest of the anti-BLM ppl may not be old enough to remember the riots of the 1960s, but I do. Nothing they say about the protesters is new. Heard it all before from the Reichwing. Yet nothing has really changed for racial disparity, has it?
While I'm not saying this is ok, people have always gotten killed by police. It generally doesn't lead to riots and looting across the county. Sometimes it did, like with Rodney King, but that's the exception.
Dutch Uncle
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Why do you think some lead to civil disobedience and some do not? As for the looters, those exist anytime there's a breakdown in civil order regardless if it's human action or a natural disaster. There will certainly be a few looter scumbags scouring the smoldering ruins of houses burnt in California.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
If I had to guess, I would say the rioting is a result of a mix of Multiracialism, Trump's recession, and the pandemic.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Economy and fear are often good ingredients. I had to look up "Multiracialism".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracialism
Multiracialism is a conceptual framework used to theorize and interpret identity formation in global multiracial populations. Multiracialism explores the tendency for multiracial individuals to identify with a third category of 'mixed-ness' as opposed to being a fully accepted member of multiple, or any, racial group(s).[1] As an analytical tool, multiracialism strives to emphasize that societies are increasingly composed of multiracial individuals, warranting a broader recognition of those who do not fit into a society's clear-cut notions of race. Additionally, multiracialism also focuses on what identity formation means in the context of oppressive histories and cultural erasure.[2]
Sounds like assimilation, the Great Melting Pot. Works for me. Why that is a problem for others is a mystery to me.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
It's a problem because it never actually works. Notice how the only ethnic groups that assimilated are the white ones.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
It does work. So well that the United States has kicked the ass of anyone who challenged it to date. The problem that our people are becoming lazy and looking backwards at what "used to be" instead of working hard like our foreparents and earning it by being the best.
This right here. I dare anyone to refute it.