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anglagard
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Message 21 of 773 (886170)
05-09-2021 12:24 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by marc9000
05-06-2021 7:11 PM


Re: free speech
MARC9000 writes:
Big Tech has surpassed the label of "private platform". They've become a public trust. An electric company or water works can't refuse service to someone on a street because they don't like the political signs in their yard. Trump was demonized for what he said on January 6th, largely because most of the mainstream media cut out his words "peacefully and patriotically". When Maxine Waters was inciting riots and hatred against white people, Fox news showed every word she said. Peacefully and patriotically" weren't among her words. "Breaking rules"? Yes, if the double standards are big enough.
The ones who have no right to do something, are Big Tech.
This post is long on so-called observation and short of any solutions. So you want to nationalize big tech? I am a Democratic Socialist and even I have more respect for private ownership than apparently you yourself.
Now I am no friend to big tech but I feel I have a more elegant and effective solution. Every time a company obviously lies or knowingly spreads false information (along with pollution, labor violations, etc.) fine the company 1% of its total stock value. Not like normal fines are levied until now, any fine must be paid in stock by the largest shareholder. I figure various enterprises such as Facebook, Fox News, OAN, Brietbart, won't last a week before the majority of shares are owned by the federal government. Once that occurs, distribute the shares evenly among the employees as no government should own a media company. If the employee-owned company keeps lying, fine as usual until 50%+ and distribute the shares among the poor.
Yeah, I mentioned your precious Fox News as a source of lies, but as apparently your sole source of information, it is responsible for your continuous bearing of false witness in this thread.

The problem with knowing everything is learning nothing.

If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does, and do what they do.

Republican = death


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anglagard
Member (Idle past 837 days)
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From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
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Message 56 of 773 (886269)
05-12-2021 6:55 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Phat
05-11-2021 4:10 PM


Phat writes:
The problem comes when one political ideology decides on some ludicrous thing such as reparations and then adds that to the budget.
For one thing any reparations likely won't be paid by you, since I doubt you make enough money to *actually* pay federal taxes at all. Remember, sales taxes and property taxes are not Federal.
Also, white households have much more accumulated wealth due to racism and genocide.
quote:
In the 2019 survey, White families have the highest level of both median and mean family wealth: $188,200 and $983,400, respectively (Figure 1). Black and Hispanic families have considerably less wealth than White families. Black families' median and mean wealth is less than 15 percent that of White families, at $24,100 and $142,500, respectively. Hispanic families' median and mean wealth is $36,100 and $165,500, respectively. Other families—a diverse group that includes those identifying as Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, other race, and all respondents reporting more than one racial identification—have lower wealth than White families but higher wealth than Black and Hispanic families. The same patterns of inequality in the distribution of wealth across all families are also evident within race/ethnicity groups; for each of the four race/ethnicity groups, the mean is substantially higher than the median, reflecting the concentration of wealth at the top of the wealth distribution for each group.
Source
So we have the data showing different outcomes by "race." Now there are different explanations for this observable fact. Mine is that it is due largely to racism whereas Fox News viewers, sitting on their ass eating frozen pizza and chugging Budweiser "beer" in their underwear in the trailer park will likely say it is due to their "superiority" over all others.
No, any fees will largely be paid by the scumbag, racist, Nazi-backing billionaires. Now it seems according to your posts, your talking points display an unusual degree of swooning over the known liars Hannity and Carlson, so I think we can discern where you fit on the spectrum.
Well, if you prefer that Jeff Bezos use his fortune to purchase a $500 million yacht rather than return a single penny to the treasury, I think it is best you know the character of the person you are siding with. Bezos is only the second manager of a major company to time and fine for exceeding a bathroom break limits.
The first was SS General Odilo Globocnik who, while in charge of Operation Reinhard (Einsatz Reinhard) "employed" select Jewish individuals to act as timekeepers, IIRC the allotted time was two minutes. Unfortunately I don't remember the specific term they used for the position, but it was something like schizenmeister. My source perished in the housefire. At any rate, Bezos runs an Amazon fulfillment center just like Globocnik ran the death camps in regard to bathroom breaks.
So, you side with Bezos and Globocnik over the Africans who were denied life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness; over the natives whose land was stolen; and Hispanics who were denied basic human respect and justice.
So, how's that Matthew challenge going? Ever make it to the parable of the sheep and goats? Make it to the punchline, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." (Matthew 25:45)? Do you see the WWJD in thes words? Do you think Jesus sides with Bezos and Globocnik?
What would YOU do?

The problem with knowing everything is learning nothing.

If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does, and do what they do.

Republican = death


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anglagard
Member (Idle past 837 days)
Posts: 2339
From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
Joined: 03-18-2006


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Message 99 of 773 (886370)
05-17-2021 1:12 PM
Reply to: Message 96 by marc9000
05-17-2021 8:25 AM


MARCXXXX writes:
I'd guess you could come up with something like this for any Republican.
Well, if the shoe fits lardass, then it is the right size- Al Bundy
Republicans used to be the conservative voice, usually misguided but a necessary corrective to some old-school LBJ liberals, now they must kill to survive. The only difference between the Liz Cheney branch and the Donald Trump branch is the identity the sacrificial victim. The Liz Cheney branch feels the victims should not be US citizens while the Trump branch, being an accessory to the murder of 575,000 US citizens, is not as selective concerning the identity of the sacrificial offering.
Of course, the Abrahamic religions forbade human sacrifice in the guise of yup, that Abraham of the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an. A little detail that the modern Republican and centrist Democrats so conveniently like to forget.
Do you compare yourself with "The Squad" - AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Pressley?
Hell Yeah! they are among the few in Congress who understand the message Abraham exemplified. Not only that, AOC and Tlaib are active DSA, just as Mercury and I am, along with the great RAZD, who is sorely missed. We all share a rather uncommon belief, namely that no lives can ever be sacrificed in our names without sanction.
As for you, dirtbag, I know the identity of your false "god," which is known by their words and works -
No that is a fictional version.
This one:
As for the old English saying "for God and Country," looks like you are a traitor to both from my perspective.

The problem with knowing everything is learning nothing.

If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does, and do what they do.

Republican = death


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anglagard
Member (Idle past 837 days)
Posts: 2339
From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
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Message 130 of 773 (886518)
05-22-2021 11:17 PM
Reply to: Message 127 by marc9000
05-22-2021 7:53 PM


What a Dick
skidMARC writes:
Now I'm done in this thread.
Thank God almighty.
Well, if Stormfront is still offline, you still have Breitbart.

The problem with knowing everything is learning nothing.

If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does, and do what they do.

Republican = death


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anglagard
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From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
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Message 147 of 773 (886669)
05-30-2021 2:54 AM
Reply to: Message 144 by dwise1
05-27-2021 8:51 PM


Re: Why, Yes, Marc. Our sky is blue. What's yours?
One of the biggest problems with "defund the police" is that it's a lightning rod for GQP lies and propaganda, like some Democrats self-identifying as "democratic socialists" (despite their instead describing social democracy which is an improved form of capitalism).
As a member of the DSA, I beg to differ concerning this definition. The way I see it is the USA is currently 40% socialist (social security, medicare, medicaid, armed forces). Now, the social democrats have an economy that is 50% socialist and 50% capitalist (medicare for all, humane punishment of infractions, better standard of living, more happiness, vastly better educational systems, free college, fairer tax codes). What I posit is beyond Scandinavia, Canada, NZ, and Australia, 60% socialist, 40% capitalism. Water, clean air, non-toxic environment, assault weapon-free, Everyone has the right to 2500 calories, adequate clothing, 10 square meters of housing (with at least 2 meters height, I know about weasels). My inspiration for such measures comes from the purported words of Christ, Krishna, Muhammad, even Gandhi, Mandela, King, Malcolm, Kant, and Spinoza. I know, serious name-dropping, I am referring to content.
I understand how this definition of Democratic Socialist may not be more universal than the one commonly accepted in the USA. However, considering the Republicans are the new Nazis and centrist Democrats are Weimar Republicans, I consider my positions on political issues relative to the rest of the world rather mainstream when one considers the issues at large.
Just letting you know what this DSA member is about, so I am not falsely represented, either by accident or intentionally.

The problem with knowing everything is learning nothing.

If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does, and do what they do.

Republican = death


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anglagard
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From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
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Message 327 of 773 (887743)
08-21-2021 2:22 PM
Reply to: Message 324 by Phat
08-21-2021 12:45 PM


Re: Darker Future For USA
Phat writes:
Are you suggesting that the Republican Party is a White Supremacist party?
Ask me that question, I have an answer. The Republican Party is not only primarily a White Supremacist Party but also an anti-democracy party of traitors and seditionists, murderers of American citizens, pedophiles, and the certifiable.
Should be outlawed as a radical terrorist organization.

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