(04-21-2020, 02:39 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-20-2020, 11:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:I don't have a problem with posting here despite all the anti-white, anti-conservative, anti-libertarian, anti-Trump, anti-American rhetoric that's been written all over this place, I know that you think your innocent, think your better, think your more intelligent and more loving and all that than evil, fascist, racist, deplorable old me.(04-20-2020, 06:45 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-20-2020, 03:51 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Suggesting that people deserve violence against them should get one in hot water. Just think of this: someone in a bar who says "someone out to plug the President right between the eyes" might find that after someone sends a message to the Secret Service he gets a stern warning from the Secret Service. The local gun stores get warnings not to sell guns or ammo to one because such would be bad for their image if something went wrong. This applies just the same when the President is Obama or Trump.
But if it is about any potential for a mass shooting, then perhaps the FBI or the relevant State Troopers start asking some questions and giving some warnings such as "We know what you are thinking, and you had better not carry it out".
I leave my discussion of bad things happening to Trump to unlikely scenarios (such as a military coup) in which I could never be a participant... or to Divine Retribution.
Dude, for all you know, I could be an FBI agent.
Dude, if you were an FBI agent you wouldn't be posting here.
There are programs to detect key words suggesting a blow-up. You may have used some of those words.
Why don't you take a time-out from posting and discover something that can enrich your life -- like classical music?
Obviously the context matters with words with the potential to offend, as The Seven Words You Can't Say on Radio of the late George Carlin shows. Said without context and without emotion they lack their ability to offend. That is the point of the joke. The word bomb is harmless if in reference to the cinematic version of CATS but use it in the context of a building that has people in it, then the BATF would be interested -- so interested that you might get a visit with such warnings as "We know what you are up to, and we are watching you. If you do something suspicious an agent will arrest you."
If anything deserves no loyalty it is 'race'. Doing bad things to people because of 'race' is an abomination. As for my opposition to conservatism I am quite conservative on drugs, child protection, educational content, and law and order. Any conservatism that protects oppression is abominable. As with other ideologies, libertarianism is open to scrutiny for its philosophical basis and its political results. Just think of Fyodor Dostoevsky in his veiled criticism of the radical movements of Russia circa 1880; he proved correct. Nothing says that vile people cannot hijack libertarianism to enact something cruelly inhuman.
Donald Trump seems to me a man with few redeeming values. His only defense is that "something else is really worse". OK, so he is better than some Grand Dragon or an admirer of a cause with a huge body count behind it... It is easy to find fault with him, and I would advise Trump supporters to remind us of the tolerance that they showed for Barack Obama. We would be better off with Mitt Romney seeking re-election and with the near certainty of such than the one disastrous term of Donald Trump. Trump is a lesson on how not to choose a President, and how not to behave as President. Such happens when settling scores against a predecessor who needled a fragile ego matters more than does meeting the worst disaster in American history.
Prepare yourself for the defeat of Donald Trump in November. There's more to life than hero-worship, especially when the hero is suspect.
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.