The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(09-03-2020, 01:27 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 08:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 03:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 02:59 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 02:32 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'm an American who has spent years battling with ideologues and showing ideologues what Americans can do...

No, you are a yapper.

Guess what, you are a yapper too. You're not nearly as good of a yapper and you lie a lot and make mistakes as you're yapping and you aren't as able to relate to as many people or able stress the importance of things and defend the importance of things that most view as important to them or see as important with all the yapping you do here.

The important things?

Owning an arsenal?

Saluting the flag and the national anthem?

Not having to pay reasonable taxes instead of getting off easy? Seeing others as loafers just because they need government assistance?

Keeping immigrants out?


The important things?

I'd say owning a gun today with all that's going on and so many cities (government) refusing to uphold the law and defend property is even more important today.

I'd say the American flag and the national anthem are as if not more important today.

I'd say money to make ends meet and money to make lives better is more important than paying taxes to fund a bureaucratic establishment that doesn't want to do shit and a bunch of corrupt Democratic politicians that don't seem to know who they're supposed to working for these days.

I'd say keeping illegal immigrants out and rounding up the ones who are here is important as well.

You will need something to defend your gun because you cannot be with it all the time. A hint: this fellow



is just above us in the food chain. All that keeps him from being a man-eater is good behavior: yours and his. You might trust an animal built like a tiger or bear but that is ordinarily as docile as a lamb  with your children and even kittens. (He may treat the kittens as if they were puppies). But if someone threatens him, you, your spouse, her puppies (if I got the gender wrong), your children, or the kitty-cats, then he (she if I got the gender wrong) -- then that person is meat. Or at least he can create that impression. A man's home is his castle and his dog's jungle. Stuck with an angry dog in an enclosed area?

I have gotten hospital treatment for an inadvertent dog scratch. I watch dog paws closely. 

There is not much worth a severe mauling by this super-predator. Not the cash lying around. Not your coin collection. Not a signed Ted Williams rookie card. Not your wife's jewelry. Not even the violin that you play in the symphony orchestra. Certainly not your gun. After all, a crook might not get to sell the loot before he gets treated in the prison ward of the county hospital. 

Oh, so one kills the dog during the burglary? That adds a cruelty-to-animals charge, and that may be enforced consecutively with other charges. It's just not worth it.    

Should America go fascist I might prefer this flag and this national anthem:



  

No concentration camps, torture chambers, or shooting pits for me.

Oh... maybe you expected North Korea!

...You may not like bureaucrats, but they are one cost of civilization. Bureaucracy is an alternative to despotism... it may be what ensures that nobody steals public funds. 

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I have a modest proposal, perhaps a modification of one that Jonathan Swift offered. You let illegal aliens stay in the country if they show that they are competent parents (well, that is the origin of good citizenship, is it not?) on terms that they take in and raise the children of meth fiends. The kids would grow up in a sanitary culture, and they would get the benefit of learning two languages. Spanish is highly useful. Mexican-American culture is richer than what meth fiends can offer. The kids will not grow up seeing Mommy and Daddy taken away by the 'blue meanies" for their 'chemical experiments' and 'business dealings'. 

Well, what about it?