07-06-2020, 12:43 AM
(07-05-2020, 10:00 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-05-2020, 09:34 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:I don't know, you'll have to ask yourself the same question. I'll give you credit for trying to relate and trying to see things our way but you have shown me many times that you tend to resort or regress back to partisan ways.(07-05-2020, 08:55 PM)TnT Wrote: Well, if the pictures of the beer-gut wanna-bes that showed up at Gettysburg this weekend, having been gulled by the very cesspool of information that they subscribe to, have any credibility, I guess I'm not too worried about any "civil war" that these guys foment.
Just hanging around here, you have to wade through information and disinformation about obsessions with violence, astrology, 'xenophobia' and dogs. Is there a law that partisans can't have weird hobbies and beliefs too?
Dogs are more reliable than a gun-owner trying to locate a gun and figure out whether he must use it. One can call a dog back; one can't call a bullet back. Dogs, unlike guns, cannot be turned against their owners or loved ones by a criminal who gets a hold of it (actually, it is the dog that gets a nasty hold on a crook. Dogs are far safer than guns.
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.