The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Classic-Xer]

(01-14-2021, 04:46 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-14-2021, 02:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't think that you recognize or grasp the values that we represent that are directly attached and related to your own life and whatever rights and freedoms that you have left today. Like I said, if we have to go to war with the Democratic party, we won't be going to war to keep slavery or Jim Crow laws in place. Like I've said, you aren't thinking straight anymore. Your thinking more along the lines of a lowly partisan hack. I don't know what the rest of world was doing while America was busy settling its differences during the American Civil War. I don't know what kind of a fool or lunatic or dirt bag would go along with empowering government to take away the Constitutional rights and protections of millions of American citizens.

We seem to be at a WEIRD crossroad as a nation. We have a Constitution that says its illegal for the US government to do what Facebook and Twitter and several other corporations are doing these days. How is that possible with the Democrats in power? It goes against everything you've claimed to be opposed to and associated with me for years. So, how much value do you place on Biden/Harris Presidency? Does it have to succeed or can it fail miserably? I don't place any value on it whatsoever. I don't place any value on the Democratic government of yours either. So, what do you have to do to fix that because I know of seventy some million Americans who could begin withdrawing their money and stop paying their taxes and destroy your government. Is that what you anticipate? You probably should because we live a free country. Welcome to the 4T.

I recently got up from a dream / nightmare.  I was putting up another post about one of Trump’s big lies.  It was about that guy at the capitol wearing a Camp Auchwitz shirt.

Ugh.

As I see the crisis issues, they include the virus, saving lives, fighting the Trump big lie that the bug will magically go away with no effort.  They include BLM, the racial violent police, systematic racism, and the Republican obstruction of legislation to treat minorities better.  They include now the big lie that there was a systematic voting fraud in the 2020 election.  I’ll include the science denial on global warming as another Trump big lie.

With the exception of the bug keeping me away from much human contact, the big lies don’t much effect me.  I’m white.  The elections in Massachusetts are not controversial.  I just dropped my ballot in the mail a little early to avoid the Republican obstruction.  The hurricanes are mostly way south, the fires way west.  So I’ll deny that this has a lot to do with me.  Still, the deaths, the racial oppression, the climate disasters, the messing with the mail, the attacks on our electoral system, these big lies and effects on the people add up.  I would have them stop.

Planning criminal activity has nothing to do with protected free speech.  Now many of the social media companies are over reacting.  That is not uncommon.   You have something as big as an insurrection, the instinct is to over react, to make it stop right now. On Xenakis’s site, someone made the comparison of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  They will shut down whole companies that are providing legitimate services as well as a platform to plan criminal activity.  They are not giving the victim companies time to institute policies that block the bad conversations and allow the good.  

Then again, the companies hit seem to be working to provide the criminal services again.  Meanwhile, those seeking to hold legitimate conversation can go to many a place to hold them.  There is no lack of ability to exchange ideas.  For example, you are still here.  Open a thread about actually implementing one of your criminal schemes and see what happens.

I doubt people will stop paying taxes.  The government provides a bunch of services.  Stop paying taxes and you lose the services.  That is another of your daydreams.

I can see that you're delusional at the moment. I'll give you some time to clear your head and regain composer. I'm going to give you a chance to prove that you're not related to Adolf Hitler and any members of his tribe.