Page 32 of 56 FirstFirst ... 2228293031323334353642 ... LastLast
Results 466 to 480 of 831

Thread: It Begins: Journalists start admitting Trump-Russia conspiracy was a fabricated lie

  1. #466 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Posts
    52,291
    Thanks
    77,752
    Thanked 23,568 Times in 17,849 Posts
    Groans
    38,677
    Groaned 3,238 Times in 3,042 Posts
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default SOLTZHENITSYN

    Some of the "useful idiots" (a reference to American liberals by the old USSR leaders) denied that the Gulags were places of obscene horror, torture and deprivation.

    They, in effect, perpetuated their existence by their denials. The suffering continued.

  2. The Following User Says Thank You to Earl For This Post:

    Darth Omar (01-06-2019)

  3. #467 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Read carefully:

    "When the words "stupid and uneducated" are flung my way, I respond with my resume and ask for theirs, old timer."

    They were flung my way on another thread on this forum.


    You addressed that remark to me...IN THIS THREAD.

    Learn to say, "I made a mistake" when you make a mistake.

    Do you have a problem with Vanderbilt or just higher education in general?
    Neither.

    I have a degree in economics...with additional majors in Philosophy and Religion. Didn't have much in the way of financial resources, so I went to a less expensive Lutheran College (on the GI bill)...rather than university. Did graduate work at at university in psychology. (My interests were eclectic.)

    I understand that Vanderbuilt is an excellent engineering school albeit a bit pricey. It does seem always to be fighting charges of having racist and homophobic tendencies.

  4. #468 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Perhaps there are too many polysyllabic words in his books. Lol
    There aren't. That is not the problem.

    You gotta do much better with the insults...or you are not going to make the grade here.

  5. #469 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Some of the "useful idiots" (a reference to American liberals by the old USSR leaders) denied that the Gulags were places of obscene horror, torture and deprivation.

    They, in effect, perpetuated their existence by their denials. The suffering continued.
    Fuck American liberals.

    The gulags were disgusting...places of horror.

    I do not remember any American liberal ever suggesting they were not.

    If in fact, Soltzhenisyn meant "American liberals" when he talked about "useful idiots"...perhaps you can dig up something he said to that effect.

    If that is merely something you manufactured...perhaps you can quote an American liberal denying they were horrendous places.

    By the way, today's Russians seem to think American conservatives...and Donald Trump in particular, are useful idiots.

  6. #470 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Posts
    52,291
    Thanks
    77,752
    Thanked 23,568 Times in 17,849 Posts
    Groans
    38,677
    Groaned 3,238 Times in 3,042 Posts
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    You addressed that remark to me...IN THIS THREAD.

    Learn to say, "I made a mistake" when you make a mistake.



    Neither.

    I have a degree in economics...with additional majors in Philosophy and Religion. Didn't have much in the way of financial resources, so I went to a less expensive Lutheran College (on the GI bill)...rather than university. Did graduate work at at university in psychology. (My interests were eclectic.)

    I understand that Vanderbuilt is an excellent engineering school albeit a bit pricey. It does seem always to be fighting charges of having racist and homophobic tendencies.
    I haven't heard those charges.Vanderbilt was ranked 13th overall recently by Forbes, I believe. They are a very liberal university. My father and all seven (7) of my siblings have degrees from there.

    One of my three brothers joined the Communist party while there. We convinced him that he could either tear up his membership card or eat it. He tore it up.

    My Son-in-Law has almost completed his PhD in Econ. He only has his dissertation to defend.

    Good for you...if true.

  7. #471 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Posts
    52,291
    Thanks
    77,752
    Thanked 23,568 Times in 17,849 Posts
    Groans
    38,677
    Groaned 3,238 Times in 3,042 Posts
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Fuck American liberals.

    The gulags were disgusting...places of horror.

    I do not remember any American liberal ever suggesting they were not.

    If in fact, Soltzhenisyn meant "American liberals" when he talked about "useful idiots"...perhaps you can dig up something he said to that effect.

    If that is merely something you manufactured...perhaps you can quote an American liberal denying they were horrendous places.

    By the way, today's Russians seem to think American conservatives...and Donald Trump in particular, are useful idiots.
    Elinor Roosevelt was one...there were many more.

  8. #472 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Posts
    52,291
    Thanks
    77,752
    Thanked 23,568 Times in 17,849 Posts
    Groans
    38,677
    Groaned 3,238 Times in 3,042 Posts
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Fuck American liberals.

    The gulags were disgusting...places of horror.

    I do not remember any American liberal ever suggesting they were not.

    If in fact, Soltzhenisyn meant "American liberals" when he talked about "useful idiots"...perhaps you can dig up something he said to that effect.

    If that is merely something you manufactured...perhaps you can quote an American liberal denying they were horrendous places.

    By the way, today's Russians seem to think American conservatives...and Donald Trump in particular, are useful idiots.
    Well, old timer, desayuno calls. I believe that we are having my favorite...fried pork tenderloin, grits and biscuits and gravy.

  9. #473 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Posts
    52,291
    Thanks
    77,752
    Thanked 23,568 Times in 17,849 Posts
    Groans
    38,677
    Groaned 3,238 Times in 3,042 Posts
    Blog Entries
    8

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Fuck American liberals.

    The gulags were disgusting...places of horror.

    I do not remember any American liberal ever suggesting they were not.

    If in fact, Soltzhenisyn meant "American liberals" when he talked about "useful idiots"...perhaps you can dig up something he said to that effect.

    If that is merely something you manufactured...perhaps you can quote an American liberal denying they were horrendous places.

    By the way, today's Russians seem to think American conservatives...and Donald Trump in particular, are useful idiots.
    I said the the old USSR leadership referred to American liberals as useful idiots, not Solzhenitsyn.

  10. #474 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    I haven't heard those charges.Vanderbilt was ranked 13th overall recently by Forbes, I believe. They are a very liberal university. My father and all seven (7) of my siblings have degrees from there.

    One of my three brothers joined the Communist party while there. We convinced him that he could either tear up his membership card or eat it. He tore it up.

    My Son-in-Law has almost completed his PhD in Econ. He only has his dissertation to defend.

    Good for you...if true.
    I understand all that earlier stuff...if true.

  11. #475 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Elinor Roosevelt was one...there were many more.
    You must mean Eleanor Roosevelt.

    You have a quote from her saying the gulags were not terrible?

    You have a quote from any American liberal (since you say there were many) saying the gulags were not terrible?

  12. #476 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Well, old timer, desayuno calls. I believe that we are having my favorite...fried pork tenderloin, grits and biscuits and gravy.
    Eat well!

  13. #477 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Central New Jersey
    Posts
    23,253
    Thanks
    13,544
    Thanked 12,185 Times in 7,629 Posts
    Groans
    0
    Groaned 1,051 Times in 998 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    I said the the old USSR leadership referred to American liberals as useful idiots, not Solzhenitsyn.
    You did, indeed.

    I was totally wrong...you are correct.

    I apologize.

    I would appreciate any links you can offer with American liberals saying the gulags were not terrible.

  14. #478 | Top
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Location
    Steeler Nation
    Posts
    64,534
    Thanks
    65,163
    Thanked 38,094 Times in 25,664 Posts
    Groans
    5,815
    Groaned 2,614 Times in 2,498 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    I did not infer that this is formal debate. I merely pointed out that using the Rubric Template, the score would be very low.

    I have graded formal debate at the collegiate level and the parameters merit a quick perusal. Informal debate would be improved by a quick study of those parameters.
    You didn't "infer", you implied.


    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
    ― Charles Dickens

  15. #479 | Top
    Join Date
    May 2018
    Location
    Anchorage, AK. Waikoloa, HI
    Posts
    18,757
    Thanks
    6,479
    Thanked 11,419 Times in 7,538 Posts
    Groans
    17
    Groaned 270 Times in 253 Posts
    Blog Entries
    25

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    The only problem with that is that this isn’t a formal debate. The rules don’t apply.
    So "Adolf Hitler" is considered a valid response to you people. Pathetic.

  16. The Following User Says Thank You to anonymoose For This Post:

    Earl (01-06-2019)

  17. #480 | Top
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Posts
    2,178
    Thanks
    741
    Thanked 1,448 Times in 965 Posts
    Groans
    4
    Groaned 45 Times in 42 Posts

    Default

    Without reading the entire thread...by "journalists" was it just the one or far more?

Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 12-17-2018, 08:38 AM
  2. Was the Trump-Russia investigation politically motivated from the start?
    By Tranquillus in Exile in forum Current Events Forum
    Replies: 64
    Last Post: 06-19-2018, 03:39 PM
  3. Replies: 69
    Last Post: 04-23-2018, 10:31 AM
  4. Replies: 19
    Last Post: 04-22-2018, 03:40 PM
  5. Hillary's latest conspiracy theory - Russia is rigging the election for trump
    By Text Drivers are Killers in forum Current Events Forum
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 09-07-2016, 10:35 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Rules

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •