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I suspect that that's not what Hume meant. Let's see if he responds to my question.
I am further along in working on my over optimism problem than you are.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is shorthand for “I’m a stupid fucking MAGAT”
Have you noticed among the MAGAT cult, that everyone that doesn’t toe the line is a “them”? An outsider. The enemy.
Immigrants
Democrats
Gays
Trans
Any dissenter
Elite universities
Blue cities and states
Judges who rule against them
Canadians
Then, there are the rest of us. The reasonable ones. Take me, for instance. I’m not gay, trans, an immigrant, Canadian or live in a blue state. I don’t always agree with judicial decisions, but accept them. I have never attended a protester rally. On and on.
But, in my mind, NONE of those people are “them”. They are “us”. Not the enemy.
“Them” vs “Us” is merely one of the trademarks of a cult. You’re in one.
Horseshit. You’re lying through your teeth. You are one of the main Trump apologists.
Yakuda
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We could agree on that but that's never been the lefts MOCould we agree that as long as both sides are trying to understand why they disagree with each other, they're on the right track?
I took a look at the 3 dictionary definitions I could find on wordnik.com for homophobe:
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from Wiktionary Creative Commons
- noun A person who fears sameness or men.
- noun A person who is opposed to homosexuals and homosexuality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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- noun a person who hates or fears homosexual people
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Would you say that you don't fit any of these descriptions?
I would say I don't fit any of those descriptions. I'm opposed to homosexual marriage not not homosexuals. The inability to
I.can agree but but that's not his the left worksCould we agree that as long as both sides are trying to understand why they disagree with each other, they're on the right track?
I took a look at the 3 dictionary definitions I could find on wordnik.com for homophobe:
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from Wiktionary Creative Commons
- noun A person who fears sameness or men.
- noun A person who is opposed to homosexuals and homosexuality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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- noun a person who hates or fears homosexual people
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Would you say that you don't fit any of these descriptions?
I.dont fit any of those descriptions. I'm opposed to gay "marriage" not gays. The inability of people to distinguish between the two speaks to the limited intellectual capabilities of those people.
Yakuda
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That has very little to do with what I said but I agree. The thing is the left rarely desires to have a thoughtful discussion about anything thats why I smash most of them in the mojth here. I have very little regard for most of the leftists on this site.
Yakuda
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Not with people who don't think they could be wrong.I think there's some wiggle room to find some agreements, but I also think it takes time. I hear you about the massiveness of the thread though. I'm currently taking a little break from it while I respond to posts here.
Yakuda
Verified User
That's not just wrong it's retarded
Yakuda
Verified User
Prove it. Please don't say something juvenile like, we just have to read your posts. Copy and paste where I've apologized for trump. Do you know what be specific means dick mouth?
You prove my point about you MAGAT cultists. And yet you proclaim you’re a “compromiser”.
PRICELESS!
Your track record of posts prove it, cunt. And every fucking sane person on this forum knows it, MAGAT.
And no, cunt, I’m not going to waste my time trudging through your fucking cultist texts to placate you.
You’ve already been awarded the Stupidest Motherfucker on the Forum and continue to prove it with your ignorance of what an apologist is.
Fucking moron.
Freddy Figbottom
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yes. it's a problem when people are unwilling to consider they are wrong and are impolite and censorious about it.
the lockdowns, mandatory injections, and censorship about different points of view about the vaccine and virus came close to destroying the country.
just as the libertarians ready to kill people over protecting fascism are quite terrifying.
Freddy Figbottom
Was it me?
where were you on vaccine/covid information censorship?
Your line reminded me of a line from one of Star Wars' Yoda's more pessimistic lines of thought:
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny"
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Ofcourse, anyone who's seen the original trilogy knows that Vader proved him wrong in the end.
I have to couch that by saying that I've never been a fan of Trump- I just don't think that everything he's done has been bad.
I took a look at the 3 dictionary definitions I could find on wordnik.com for homophobe:
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from Wiktionary Creative Commons
- noun A person who fears sameness or men.
- noun A person who is opposed to homosexuals and homosexuality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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- noun a person who hates or fears homosexual people
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Would you say that you don't fit any of these descriptions?
I'm glad to hear that you don't "fit the description", as it were. Out of curiosity, why are you opposed to homosexual marriage?
I think you're stereotyping those on the left. I think that a leftist like Chris Hedges does quite a good job at understanding some of the root causes for the right's support of Trump. I think this article he wrote shortly after Trump's win in the last federal election is evidence of this:
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
scheerpost.com
In these days of intense political divisions in the U.S. and elsewhere, it can be pretty hard to have civilized rational discussions on why the various sides disagree withi each other. Yet I think those discussions are the only real way forward.
I think that people here, on both the left and the right, have the capacity of admitting they could be wrong about some things. But in order to tap into that capacity, I think that civilized discussions have to take place. The more discussions start turning into insult fests, the less I see that happening.