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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: ...her exact words were, "you have to have a public position and a private position" or something like that... Sorry, I got you mixed up with someone else. I hadn't had my morning tea. There are a couple of people here who wanted Bernie, but voted for Trump when they couldn't have him. |
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: Remind me how many arrests there were on the Women's March again? |
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: Cry babies crying about "cry babies". Except we're not the ones trying to pass laws that allow 'christians' to not have their feelings hurt by having to sell cakes to gay people. |
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: ...her exact words were, "you have to have a public position and a private position" or something like that... So you cut your nose off to spite your face? Hilary only behaved like politicians have behaved since forever (actually she wasn't as bad). The only mistake she made was being female so that her normal politicians behaviour suddenly became unforgivable. Being a sexual assaulting racist lying bully wasn't a deal breaker for you. |
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: I am so horrified watching this and painfully aware how it will effect decent good people who deserve better. Awful. The ban included people with green cards. How ill thought out and childish. Can you imagine this happening to you as you try to return to your legal home? People were pulled off flights and detained at airports. It really is like Nazi Germany. |
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The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear.
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: Thankfully someone has stepped in to halt this nightmare: Federal judge stays deportations under Trump Muslim country travel ban There may be some here who don't have friends or colleagues from these countries who can't see how awful what Trump has done is. That's their shame. I am so horrified watching this and painfully aware how it will effect decent good people who deserve better. |
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Posted 2 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: It won't be long before the theatre doors are closed. ...and we end up living in the world envisioned in the Handmaids Tale. |
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Posted 2 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: .... I know. |
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Posted 1 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: .. This. |
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(Message 1839456)
Posted 1 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post:
The long history of black voter suppression in American politics "The through-line was obvious in North Carolina: cite voter fraud as a problem, link early voting to increased voter fraud, cut back on early voting, see lower black turnout — and therefore Democratic turnout. A federal judge tossed North Carolina’s law, saying it intended to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision,†but after the law was repealed, counties were able to implement early voting as they saw fit. In one county, the New York Times reports, the number of early voting locations dropped from 16 in 2012 to one this year." Your discussion of voter fraud and ID seems so reasonable on face value, except when you take into account that there is very little actual voter fraud, so why such a severe cure for such a nonexistent problem? Texas’s voter ID chicanery "A federal court in Texas found that more than 600,000 residents lack the particular forms of ID now required of voters there. A federal court in the District in 2012 found clear evidence that many “working poor†residents would be unable to procure or afford an ID deemed valid, and that disproportionate numbers of them would be black and Hispanic. The evidence Texas produced to demonstrate the contrary was “unpersuasive, invalid, or both,†the court said, in an opinion by a panel that included two judges appointed by Democratic presidents and one appointed by a Republican." Now, when you read this, try to remember that I am not a Democrat. The only horse I have in this race is one of my sense of justice and fairness. The voter ID laws are clearly targeted at certain demographics. Coming from a demographic where people died to secure my right to vote, this is a sensitive issue for me. I am from one of those demographics that cannot afford to take my rights for granted. I am everyday aware that there are those that would take them from me. I am very aware that those very people were put in power in the US during the last election. I cannot afford to be complacent when I see the rights of those like me being eroded as I know those rights are fragile and I know what it cost to get them. If I call someone sexist, I know what I'm talking about, not only do I know what I'm talking about, I am painfully aware of the consequences on people like me of sexism. I am very aware of the attitudes that pervade our society and that there are many who refuse to see that they hold those attitudes. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I can un-see it. |
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(Message 1839440)
Posted 1 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: No his own, he pontificates as if his absolutist views are THE ANSWER to societies ills.Pontification seems to be a major component of this thread but is only vilified when coming from the Conservative viewpoint............ Considering that I know exactly how little anyone here is censored, I call out your nonsense and take extreme offense to it. Or are you going to call be a liar just because I am left wing? It's my left wing ideals that mean you and Eye get to spout the rubbish that you do. It also means that I have the right to call you out on it. That's what free speech means. If you don't want to be accused of saying racist, homophobic or sexist things, don't say racist, homophobic and sexist things. At the very least don't complain because you've been given enough rope to hang yourselves. |
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Posted 1 Jan 2017 by Es99 Post: Happy New Year one and all! |
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(Message 1839177)
Posted 31 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: .... WTF are you saying? Neither was a capitalist, nor left wing. They were fascists. No one that I have ever come across has tried to distort the terms left wing and right wing except you. The recent trend in America to define things as either pro government control or anti-government control is something peculiar to American politics and I suspect it's roots. Who benefits from loosening democratically elected systems control? Despite what people (read American, because this is purely an American view as far as I can tell) it's not the man in the street. The average poor white worker actually benefits from more government intervention. It protects the social safety net, it provides infrastructure, it provides policing, security, schooling, Healthcare and environmental protection when done properly. None of these things can be provided successfully by neo-liberal capitalism. Yet the very people that need government the most have been sold snake oil in the form of Trump. Trump and his team of ogliarchs will now go about cutting the very support systems designed to protect the average worker. They will cut their own taxes and any regulations designed to stop them doing too much damage in their quest for profits. Trump's business model has been one of screwing over the small guy and there is absolutely no reason that will stop now. I've watched the American talking heads on the news shows trying to guild this turd they've elected, and make the best of it. All this talk of left wing and right wing in America is nonsense. Just like you trying to portray Hitler and Mussolini as left wing and right wing. There is no left wing in America, and hasn't been for a long time. Reagan was actually left of Obama. Bernie Sanders was a genuine left wing candidate. The powers that be freaked out and thought America wouldn't have voted for such a blatant socialist. Maybe they were right, especially when you see what they did vote for. The problem is that you don't know what left wing is, which is why you are having trouble labelling it. To most Americans it's a mythical creature you can only speculate about, and mostly come up with pure flights of fancy. |
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(Message 1839172)
Posted 31 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: I think if we weren't all so hung up on party associations, a lot of the angst would stop, and some actual good things for everybody would happen. I wish the political party system would go away, and we could vote based on the actual candidate. A lot of effort was put in by Republicans to stop certain groups from voting at all. It was openly part of their campaign strategy. |
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(Message 1839171)
Posted 31 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: Mr. Eye, ES is not a Democrat."A rose(or a cabbage), by any other name....." Despite what you like to believe, your political system is not the centre of the world. Your insistence that it does reminds me of the old joke about a man who walks into a bar in Northern Ireland and is asked if he is a Catholic or a Protestant. He replies that he is a Muslim, so the bartender says, " yes, but are you a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant Muslim?" Thats how daft you sound when think anyone who is upset that Trump won must be a democrat. Perhaps as people outside looking in, we have a clearer perspective than you do? |
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Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: Or perhaps a necessary correction to the Dangerous, Anti-Tolerant, and Incompetent Left. What world do you live in where it's white men who are being attacked? I don't see white men being threatened with being put on a registry. I don't see white men panicking because they are about to have their health programs unfunded. I don't see white men being forced to undergo abusive sexual orientation conversion therapy. I don't see white men being targeted by police on a daily basis. So please explain to me how your fundamental liberties are being stripped from you because you are a white man. |
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(Message 1838933)
Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: And the Slavers were large land owners. Rentier capitalists. "Rentier capitalism is used to describe economic practices of monopolization of access to any (physical, financial, intellectual, etc.) kind of property, and gaining significant amounts of profit without contribution to society." The slave trade has simply moved to the privatised prison system. Disproportionately incarcerate black people and use them for cheap labor. Of course, 'inner city' is one of those code words for black people that Trump supporters and the alt-right like to use. |
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(Message 1838932)
Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: Is this the right wing Christian College that promotes anti-gay sentiment? Seems a strange choice to be holding up as an exemplar. So being homophobic isn't a deal breaker for you? |
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(Message 1838913)
Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: Brilliant words by a brilliant man. Is this the right wing Christian College that promotes anti-gay sentiment? Seems a strange choice to be holding up as an exemplar. |
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Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Es99 Post: http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/ Or another view, that it was designed to protect the slave states. |
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