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June 25th, 2021 at 9:45:26 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978	Quote: rxwine Keep making fools of yourselves with this argument. You're doing a good job of that. It is not our argument, it is the media argument. The truth of it is what's really bothering you. You don't usually stoop to name-calling If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

June 25th, 2021 at 10:29:31 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22939	Quote: Evenbob You don't usually stoop to name-calling I got a bad knee. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.

June 26th, 2021 at 4:20:41 AM permalink

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Quote: rxwine
That's the human condition. Some things never mean much of anything to some people, and many things go from fresh or interesting to routine.

I'm not sure if trying to induce artificial appreciation where none is felt is a good aim. Or maybe I'm being too cynical. Parents usually want to set a good example for their kids, so that may involve some acting on their part at times. Is that a good thing? Or should you always be honest as possible?

As honest as possible, but I don't really understand your post. I was satirizing the notion of Juneteenth being a, "Remembrance," of slavery by pointing out that Fourth of July does not put me in a negative mood thinking about when the inhabitants of this land were British subjects.

That said, I do legitimately enjoy fireworks. Who doesn't like fireworks?

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman

June 26th, 2021 at 5:11:31 AM permalink

rxwine

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As honest as possible, but I don't really understand your post. I was satirizing the notion of Juneteenth being a, "Remembrance," of slavery by pointing out that Fourth of July does not put me in a negative mood thinking about when the inhabitants of this land were British subjects.

That said, I do legitimately enjoy fireworks. Who doesn't like fireworks?

Oh?

Because I didn’t understand your post either. My bad. I haven’t used “perfunctory” in awhile. That’s what I was getting at in a one word explanation.

"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.

June 26th, 2021 at 5:40:13 AM permalink
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 1061	Quote: AZDuffman What liberal position are you talking about? Preservation of slavery and Jim Crow segregation were conservative positions in their day. I am not saying that the modern conservative movement holds those same views, but in its time opposition to them was liberalism. A government of laws and not of men. - John Adam’s

June 26th, 2021 at 9:38:34 AM permalink
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 160 Posts: 5494	Quote: JimRockford Preservation of slavery and Jim Crow segregation were conservative positions in their day. I am not saying that the modern conservative movement holds those same views The current Republican efforts to limit voting are yet another example of a political party "trying to keep the black man down," so I'd say they hold, at minimum, congruent views.

June 26th, 2021 at 10:00:37 AM permalink

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Quote: JimRockford
Preservation of slavery and Jim Crow segregation were conservative positions in their day. I am not saying that the modern conservative movement holds those same views, but in its time opposition to them was liberalism.

Uh, no. What do you base this on?

They were both positions of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party honored a former KKK member in its Senate delegation in the 2000s. Today they have one proud to be a member of an all-white country club.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

June 26th, 2021 at 10:01:56 AM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195	Quote: missedhervee The current Republican efforts to limit voting are yet another example of a political party "trying to keep the black man down," so I'd say they hold, at minimum, congruent views. Other than people alive who are the GOP trying to limit voting to? War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

June 26th, 2021 at 1:21:43 PM permalink
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 160 Posts: 5494	Quote: AZDuffman Other than people alive who are the GOP trying to limit voting to? They don't want Democrats to vote.

June 26th, 2021 at 2:35:46 PM permalink
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530	Quote: missedhervee They don't want Democrats to vote. Only the dead ones. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin

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