04-22-2019, 05:43 AM
(04-21-2019, 05:15 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-20-2019, 11:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: You are reported for a vile insult. I do not report people for the mere use of the F-word, but I do when the second-person accusative pronoun follows.I'm sorry, I forgot to take you and your sensibilities into account and conform to your rules again. I should have said, SCREW YOU LIBERAL INSTEAD. I guess, I'm going to have to final a complaint management and demand that all offensive material that liberals post that may upset anyone for any reason be eliminated from here on. We can't have two set of rules. BTW, that wasn't directed at you. That was directed at your leadership and your elites and those who may be connected to them. It's their asses that are going to be on the line one way or another. It's a pity that innocent people may have to suffer and deal with crap they shouldn't have to deal with as their leadership and elites go through the process of being taught and subjected to the pain of learning to respect the values of others the hard way.
I would be wary of saying that you want the freedom to shoot someone. I excuse literal self-defense and defense of loved ones from murder and other violent crime, but for offenses not posing the threat of death or serious injury?
Murder, kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery merit lethal force as a response. Mere theft? No. Pulling a gun on a burglar? OK. But all in all, your gun creates danger to yourself and loved ones should the criminal wrest it from you.
The F-bomb is unacceptable in polite discourse, and that has nothing to do with your political views. Children could be reading some of this material.
...We liberals are not so easy to herd as Trump supporters are. We believe in freedom of conscience, the rule of law, and a long heritage of responsible government. Most of us have the sort of education that makes deceit, demagoguery, and despotic rule unacceptable. We have tests of character, and we have can contrast what someone says in two different places and at two different times. I excuse differences of emphasis, but if what is said in two different times and places together make a logical contradiction, then either someone has changed his mind or the world has changed -- or the person who said those very different things is an unreliable fool or liar.
Donald Trump has taken over conservatism, and he has poisoned it badly. That is the tragedy.
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.