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Patrick says

I don't know. I like discussing politics at work. If the person I'm talking with gets upset with my opinion, I explain my reasoning for reaching that opinion. If they continue to get more angry, THEN I disengage, realizing I'm not really talking to a person that has justified their own opinions yet.

The only time I EVER feel angry discussing opinions, is that I've shown to have contradictory opinions. Many people get angry at the person that has pointing out their hypocrisy, but I recognize that in myself, and realize I've been just given a favor. I think I decidedly enjoy having people point out my hypocrisy at this point. When I hit that, it's just showing an error in my logic or knowledge.

richwicks says

Patrick says

I don't know. I like discussing politics at work. If the person I'm talking with gets upset with my opinion, I explain my reasoning for reaching that opinion. If they continue to get more angry, THEN I disengage, realizing I'm not really talking to a person that has justified their own opinions yet.

The only time I EVER feel angry discussing opinions, is that I've shown to have contradictory opinions. Many people get angry at the person that has pointing out their hypocrisy, but I recognize that in myself, and realize I've been just given a favor. I think I decidedly enjoy having people point out my hypocrisy at this point. When I hit that, it's just showing an error in my logic or knowledge.

I think it's a different kind of fight than that. If the left never acknowledges their hypocrisy, they win really.

WineHorror1 says

I think it's a different kind of fight than that. If the left never acknowledges their hypocrisy, they win really.

No, they won't. We all lose.

In 2005, I was trying to wake up the "hard right" to the fact that George W. Bush lied us into a war in Iraq, and passed the Patriot Act that would be used against US citizens. When HOMELAND Security came up I was DESPERATELY trying to get them to understand that was Nazi language. Bush's "you're either with us or against us" was very troubling. When intelligence agencies could submit requests for user's information from websites, under a SEALED order, so that the user couldn't even tell they were being targeted, I screamed about that, and this idea that was endlessly paraded around "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about!" - which is utter BS - if you point out where the government lies, how they lie, and their actual motivations for say - some war - you have PLENTY to worry about. Just ask Julian Assange.

Well, we lost that battle - initially - now (that it's too late) people see it. If we had the same media landscape, if there was no internet, there would be no hope of ever winning that battle. It is remarkable we have remained such a vibrant nation for so long when we only had single source information for so long. Our government could have easily enacted basically fascism (under another name) 75 years ago. We are fortunate they began to really try AFTER the Internet was created.

When the useful idiots realize they are wrong about Biden - again, it's going to be too late. Fortunately, they are a minority which is why the election had to be stolen. That is hopeful. I would be a lot more devastated if Biden actually had won.

There is progress being made, but it's SO SLOW, and I don't know what kind of solutions are available still.

richwicks says

Our government could have easily enacted basically fascism (under another name) 75 years ago.

Nah. Guns and lots of em. That mattered more back then. These days even the mafia doesn't go around killing people (nearly as much) and have found other ways to meet essentially the same ends. There are a plethora of other weapons being used these days.

My son sent me this one.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe4ckMM9/

richwicks says

When HOMELAND Security came up I was DESPERATELY trying to get them to understand that was Nazi language

This was screamingly obvious to me as well, but I thought maybe it was just because I had studied German.

RC2006 says

My son sent me this one.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe4ckMM9/

That is Hi-liar-y-ious

https://notthebee.com/article/a-vox-writer-got-harpooned-for-criticizing-ron-desantis-posture

Patrick says

richwicks says

When HOMELAND Security came up I was DESPERATELY trying to get them to understand that was Nazi language

This was screamingly obvious to me as well, but I thought maybe it was just because I had studied German.

At 50, I'm kind of at the point where I feel like I tried. Maybe Americans just deserve their slavery. Should I still continue spending time trying to explain to short sighted sheep what is inevitable if they don't take a stand?

You want to know the REAL reason I didn't want kids? I rather expected this result. People are too brainwashed to save, and too stupid to be worth saving.

Black "teacher" mental case going off on Mexican cop.

She also called and filed complaint on officer.

https://youtu.be/xqJUoMeKqe8

RC2006 says

Black "teacher" mental case going off on Mexican cop.

She also called and filed complaint on officer.

https://youtu.be/xqJUoMeKqe8

She's doing a very good job raising her son to become the next Trayvon or Michael Brown.

RC2006 says

Black "teacher" mental case going off on Mexican cop.

She also called and filed complaint on officer.

https://youtu.be/xqJUoMeKqe8

Ho Lee Fuk. She called him a fuckin' rapist and a murderer, too.

Yeah he should have arrested her for the night.

The trifecta of womynx plus black (muh minoritay!) plus teacher directly maps to the trifecta of entitlement, inflated ego and victim mentality.

Diddling minors is grounds for divorce.

https://babylonbee.com/news/23-of-galaxy-believes-they-are-more-unified-since-palpatine-became-emperor

First hitler is insulted now Palpatine with biden comparison. Biden couldn't even play a part in Cacoon 3 if it came out.

Oh man, putting Michelle Obama's head on Biggus Dickus was an inspired move.

https://youtu.be/A6_M8Q2Ko8s

CIA Replaces Waterboarding With 12-Hour Lectures On Intersectional Feminism

https://babylonbee.com/video/56 (paywall)

RC2006 says

https://youtu.be/A6_M8Q2Ko8s

I wish they would make the point more clearly in that cartoon because there are definitely a lot of people who would not get the correlation between that cartoon guy's enslavement and his own purchases from Amazon.

We should all be boycotting Amazon.

The Solution to America's Problems.