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Topic: Biden Our Time: All things Joe Biden
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: You don't think writing
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They're idiots for considering Trump.
might be a bit off-putting?
To many of the people who read my posts, that would be pretty mild. Anybody who is off-put by it was probably going to vote for Trump anyway. You sound like the fat man who's offended when people notice that he's fat.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Re: The enemy of my enemy IS my friend?
Sarah Bellum writes: So your argument is that Vice President Biden said a bunch of stuff in the past but now he's changed his mind and will do something different and that's why we should vote for him?
No. My argument is that you should vote for him because he isn't Trump.
Sarah Bellum writes: You'd laugh at me if I told you to vote for Trump if I said, "He can change, in his second term he'll do things in ways more to your liking."
But we don't know that Trump can change. We're pretty sure he can't.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 100 of 271 (880187)
07-30-2020 12:29 PM
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Reply to: Message 97 by Phat
07-30-2020 11:18 AM
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Re: Dollars, Taxes
Phat writes: If the music stops, only the top quadrents will have anything worth saving..(real estate, material goods, gold, and perhaps armed security which they will have to pay)
As long as the top quadrants buy stuff, they'll be paying people to make stuff, take orders for stuff, deliver stuff and yes, guard stuff. The money never stops moving.
Phat writes: Your inner socialist knows that he cant get money out of the proliteriat any more than blood out of a turnip so he wants the rest of us to become comrades.
Nonsense. Everybody pays taxes.
Phat writes: Why should I become a fellow comrade?
Why not?
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Luke 12:48 For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Phat writes: Why the heck should I be poor just because the comrades want me to join them?
The comrades won't make you poor. It's the rich who will do that, the anti-comrades.
Phat writes: The humanist kum-ba-yah crowd wont make a better world in and of themselves.
We already have.
Phat writes: Everyone will simply be forced to join together in some weird societal communion...
Yes, that's what Jesus taught.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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a Servant of Christ writes: i have never loathed a politician as much as I loathe joe b.
God is loathe. 
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: going up to someone like, say, Representative Jerry Nadler, and saying, "Hey, you're fat!" (even though I suspect he knows he is) would indeed be insulting, and wouldn't help to persuade him to your point of view.
If he's going to judge my point of view based on whether or not I noticed he was fat, he's not the man for the job. Instead of trying to persuade him, I'd try to get rid of him.
Sarah Bellum writes: I do like the "probably" in your post, though. Does that mean you think I might vote for Vice President Biden...
I'm not convinced that you're stupid enough to vote for Trump.
Sarah Bellum writes: ... but you think yourself incapable of persuading me...
I don't think anybody is capable of persuading you. As my father used to say about some people, "Don't confuse them with facts."
Sarah Bellum writes: ... so you stick to nice, comfortable insults?
I do try to stick to nice,comfortable insults. The truly stupid people don't understand them anyway. 
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Re: The enemy of my enemy IS my friend?
Sarah Bellum writes: The last few elections haven't been very inspiring, have they?
Obama's elections were pretty inspiring.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: Would it inspire you to work harder at political persuasion....
I said I wouldn't try to persuade YOU.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: Would you prefer that I vote for President Trump....
My preference is irrelevant.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: You could prefer to try to persuade me, possibly moving me off the fence.
You're making my point. I have said that I don't think you can be reasoned with. It doesn't look like you're even reading my posts.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: ... in your opinion (combining Trump voters and undecideds) fifty-one percent of the US population are idiots!
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"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative."
-- John Stuart Mill
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: And not even your own insults but copied from someone else?
Just to demonstrate that I am not alone in my assessment. And I think I have mentioned before that a fat man doesn't really have a right to be "insulted" if somebody notices that he's fat.
Sarah Bellum writes: "A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head." Benjamin Disraeli
Note that Disraeli was a Conservative.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Sarah Bellum writes: Do you really believe that if you're at some social gathering and in your conversation you make a point of mentioning to someone that they are fat, they would have no reason to take offense?
Who's talking about social events? But no, he would not have any right to be "offended" by reality - no more than he would have a right to be "offended" if somebody said that evolution is real or that the world is round.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Hyroglyphx writes: ... or we can stop this binary nonsense that falsely insinuates that a criticism of one is de facto an endorsement for the other.
But of course it IS a binary situation. You DO get one or the other. And it isn't just a choice between a horrible person and an equally horrible person. It's a choice between a horrible person and a horrible person who also has a track record as an incompetent President.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Hyroglyphx writes: Because of our stupid two-party system. Most nations have multiple choices because that's the sensible thing to do.
We're talking about reality here. The choice you have IS one or the other.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo
Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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proudly roman catholic writes: God hates abortion.
Strange that He never mentioned that in the Bible.
"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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