02-06-2017, 01:50 PM
(02-06-2017, 12:02 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-06-2017, 09:49 AM)nihilist moron Wrote: Bill O'Reilly says Putin is a killer.
Trump replies "you think we're so innocent?"
FOX News having fits this morning.
I'm starting to like this president.
Others are not so fond of Trump bringing the USA down to Putin's level.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/...nd-russia/
I wonder what nihilist thinks about Trump's plan to send troops to Mexico to join its drug war.
https://youtu.be/VVox2frrW64
at about 3 min.
I am amazed that Bill O'Reilly sees what is wrong with comparing our national misdeeds about which most of us have some contrition to the thuggish deeds of President Putin that he orders without shame. This sort of moral relativism in which someone excuses the misconduct of others because 'yours' have erred, too, would be almost like seeing Hitler's persecution (and ultimate extermination) of the Jews is excusable because of American participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the annihilation of large parts of the First Peoples. The 'almost' qualification is to avoid hyperbole. Bill O'Reilly can rarely see anything wrong in a figure of conservative American politics, but this time he does.
...as for the drug war -- we need to be getting addicts off drugs so that there is no drug money to feed the horrors that that money finances.
But I'm not nihilist moron.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.