• MacN'Cheezus
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    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, liberals:

    2016: Trump
    2017: Racism (also Trump)
    2018: Russia (also Trump)
    2019: believe it or not, Trump again
    2020: COVID (also Trump)
    2021: COVID and Racism
    2022: Russia, again (also Racism)
    2023: believe it or not, Russia (also Trump)

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        10 months ago

        Trump living rent-free in the other party’s head is the reason he’s going to be re-elected.

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        10 months ago

        Yes because hatred cannot be overcome by hatred, only by Love.

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          Well said. So in World War II and the Civil War, we should have just talked the enemy down, right?

          Surest thou jest…

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            As long as atrocities in the past continue to justify atrocities in the present, there will be no end to atrocities.

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              Well if we did just try to talk them down we’d all be speaking German right now. Well, not me, my African American blood line would be extinct.

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                What’s wrong with speaking German? It’s the language of Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Einstein, Planck, Gauss, Leibniz, Hilbert, Marx, Nietzsche, Luther, Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein… the list goes on and on.

                Are you really gonna shit on all of that because of one failed Austrian painter with a funny mustache?

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        10 months ago

        No, I’m saying they generate fear about it. Which ironically leads to more hatred, not less.

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          It’s actually conservatives who play up fear as a tool; check out the article in today’s Tribune about it. Given that Utah’s majority lawmakers are gerrymandering conservatives, it’s remarkable to see an article openly and honestly criticize them as “the party of fear mongering.” Already they’ve passed bills targeting trans people using bathrooms and defining Utah as “sovereign with no ties to the U.S. government.” And it’s already early in the legislative session. A truly fucked up state.