Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Eric the Green]

(03-13-2018, 02:47 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(03-13-2018, 10:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-13-2018, 03:16 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(03-13-2018, 01:08 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(03-12-2018, 10:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: That does seem like a racist post, Classic. And probably not as racist as you would like, considering the last statement. Or am I not correct? lol

I doubt you're correct.  He is talking about race, but it's you folks on the left that are the racists.

The left is loaded with racists. As long as you aren't white, you can say all the racist comments you want because BLUES don't seem to care about what the minorities are saying to us. I wonder if they care about what racist browns say about the blacks and what the racist blacks say about the browns.

Racism is real, but making everything about racism is stupid.  The same applies to gender, gender identity, nativism and heritage.  They're all the same overblown appeal to ones side in the conflict ... which is where this is headed unless calmer, saner minds prevail.

At least the cries of racism and sexism had a root in reality.  It's hard to argue that whites and Christians have been oppressed in a country they have ruled since its inception.  That this is changing now is no reason to act like the oppressed.  The truly oppressed are those of us NOT in the top 1%, which should be the basis for common cause across racial, gender and any other lines you might choose.  That the 1% have so successfully managed to keep the fires burning just makes them stronger.

Racism and sexism exists today. I don't deny it or pretend/ act as if they don't exist today. The Christians are/were being oppressed by blues in blue regions and areas. I'm not feeling it myself because I'm not all that much of a Christian and not all that deep into Christianity. I'm not feeling all that oppressed by the so-called one percent either because I'm not all that associated with them as a group and I'm not all that financially attached or financially reliant (reliant on their tax dollars for welfare programs or their financial contributions as individuals) on them. At times, I pointed to the blues who were doing all that they could do to oppress me at the time, that what they were doing was oppression. I didn't cry fowl or whine about it.. I just pointed it out so they understood why I was directly involved with defeating them and eliminating them. I don't see any blue bully's or the blue wimps who followed or went along with them posting and making the lives and the experience of posting miserable for others anymore. Hint: I'm a mean old son of a bitch. A formidable adversary to those who like to oppress and those get into oppressing and those who seem willing to go along with it.

That's fine Classic Xer, and I identify with that too to some extent; although it's really the politics of red America and not blue America that is the oppressor that I see. As David pointed out, it's mainly an economic oppression today, although racist appeals are used to further it. But this oppression is furthered by the red political side; the neo-liberal, classic-liberal, libertarian-economics, trickle-down economics, Reaganomics side. That is what keeps the 1% in power, and the rest of us more oppressed. It's not that all of us are suffering to an equal degree; it's still a pretty good country. But many people today, of all races, are feeling held back in an economy that is not providing opportunity as it used to. I think it can, again. But we need to have the government programs that help the people and provide what business and the so-called free (but largely corporate) market alone cannot provide, and the regulations that keep the 1% in line. Trump and Ryan et al wish to keep tearing these down, and think that makes the economy go faster. It doesn't. We also need to think outside the box of the traditional ways we have lived our lives. The conventional paths just aren't there for most of us anymore.

You are not oppressed if you have to pay taxes, of which a small portion goes to help others. That helps you too. Neo-liberal individualism just puts blinders on so people such as yourself have a hard time seeing that helping the less fortunate helps yourself too. Christians are not and have not been oppressed, just because others insist on having the same rights as Christians have in this society. And that's all that has happened.