Joe Bagadonuts
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You're off the deep end. And @Red, remember when you said that you were unaware of people who were comparing Trump to Hitler in the literal sense?
America is great and everything is NOT Pres. Trump's fault thread
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Why wouldn't you compare Trump to Hitler in the literal sense? I'm interested in your response.
That depends on the situation. It's one thing to be an iconoclast, it's another to make veiled threats. Putting up a Nazi flag as the lone Nazi in a Jewish neighborhood is a statement, putting up the same flag when there is one Jewish family on a block of otherwise white people can be threatening.
Just checking...you have have never heard Trump tell people to hit protesters at his rallies, and that he would pay their legal bills?
He meant "BLM" as "Black Lives Matter", the "the BLM" as "the Bureau of Land Management".
The progressive tax rates are often "worked" by CPA professionals who know all the dodges. People worth billions, with nine-figure annual gross incomes, actually pay less taxes as a percentage than greasy-spoon waitresses. Dems even do it.
100k-200k/yr professionals probably pay the real highest percent of annual and also as class probably pay over half the income tax revenue.
The Man on the Street, as I hear it, has a lot to say about bad jails, disproportionate sentencing, and no way out. The uppity up organizers of BLM are just street thugs working the issue. Put them on ignore and don't blame black kids. Their cause is just, they are just being exploited. Doesn't mean we should not listen.
Alfalfa
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10% of a billion is a whole lot more than 30% of 200k.
lauriandres
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One Brow, does the same argument applies also to China, Russia and Hutu persons? I.e one flag is a statement, a bunch of them is threat? I guess that if those Idaho teachers had masked themselves as a hutu warriors with similar clothes etc which were common in 1994 in Rwanda or made a small replica of Lhasa in 1950 and dressed as chinese soldiers, then i presume, that Democrat party fans and other anti-Trump persons would not have noticed it at all.
gandalfe
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You're kidding about not hearing Trump tell his followers to misbehave, right? There's video of him telling people at his rallies to beat up protesters.
Joe Bagadonuts
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Yeah, forgot about that until after I wrote my post. Definitely not okay.
Joe Bagadonuts
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I was up way too early when I wrote that post. My brain was not yet functioning. My bad.
I do not think I completely understood your post, but I will try to respond appropriately. Please let me know if I missed the point.
I am not sure what Democrats did or did not notice in 1994, and what liberals (who could have been Republican or Democrat) did or did not notice in 1950, but I think one of the ways our culture is changing is in our understanding that words and symbols themselves can be used as threats in some circumstances, and even more so as statements that certain people are unwelcome.
I have those days as well.
Heathme
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Trying to stay positive in this thread is quite difficult.
The Trump/Hitler comparison is ridiculous. I am surprised that liberals and anti-Trump people (that's for you people that are offended that I say you are liberal) still use this stupid argument.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-comparisons-are-only-helping-president-trump
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/393049-the-strategic-blunder-of-trump-as-hitler
"But overwrought comparisons to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep. The president’s critics have crossed a rhetorical line from which there can be no turning back.
That the Trump administration would be compared with Nazi Germany is not surprising. Accusations of “Republicans-as-fascists” long predate this administration. A Democratic congressman accused President Ronald Reagan of “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.’ ” In more recent times, recall Keith Olbermann’s tarring of President George W. Bush as a “fascist” in an on-air segment in 2008, an appellation also bestowed upon other members of the Bush administration.
Perhaps memories of the unfair accusations of fascism experienced by her husband explain Laura Bush’s decision to break ranks and instead go with a tortuous comparison of separating families of illegal border-crossers with the internment of Japanese-American citizens, keeping with the World War II theme but without resorting to outright accusations of Nazism.
Others, however, have no such compunction. Members of Congress, former officials, reporters and TV commentators have tweeted comparisons of U.S. detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps or issued none-too-subtle invocations of gas chambers in their tweets about children being led away from their parents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Reporters have peppered administration officials with questions about their “Nazi” tactics."
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funny link here..….
Of course the CFR flagship journal has to "watch for signs of creeping authoritarianism" continually...… defining "authoritarianism" as dissident voices and calling them "reliably wacky".
big ha ha bro.
I know you're an addict. you'll be back tonight.