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Message 193 of 440 (611124)
04-05-2011 4:09 PM


Open the pod door, HAL....
I prefer the HAL9000 model to this marc9000 one.
Perhaps someone can save the marc9000 from the pod people, but I doubt it. I wish I could find out how all these broken people are being created. Brainwashing from their own families? Our nation is being emasculated and stupified by them. We see better nations across the pond. We love our country and choose not to move to those better countries because, damn it, we are NOT deadbeat dads. Perhaps it's time for some of that Tough Love on these broken humans?
marc9000 we love you, but you have to do time for your crime of Insensitivity. If ya can't do the time, quit doing the crime.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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xongsmith
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Message 194 of 440 (611128)
04-05-2011 4:40 PM
Reply to: Message 193 by xongsmith
04-05-2011 4:09 PM


Republican Platform is brainwashing
Do Berserker Mass Murderer families have a right to brainwash their children to believe as they do? (See the Silver People.)
Do Fascist families who love Hitler have a right to brainwash their children to believe as they do?
Do those weird peculiar religious sects have a right to brainwash their children to believe as they do?
Do Republican families have a right to brainwash their children to believe as they do?
Does any family have the right to brainwash their children to believe as they do?
Is there a line?
Where is it? Why?
I'm thinking "NO!" to ALL and I'm trying to make the best effort that I can to let my children decide for themselves in a manner they came up with by themselves. If they conclude I'm an asshole, fine - so be it. They'd have to get in line behind me.
Isn't it a duty of parents to teach their children how to detect bullshitters, charlatans, scammers, liars, brainwashers and such as best they can? They need to know not only how to see, but how to quantify the relative egregious activities in this country. There is no one on earth who has not at one time bullshitted, performed some kind of charlatan act, scammed, lied and such. The question is who has been the most egregious at it.
But - ALAS! - "most egregious" is something that is unique to each family.
To answer your question, Taq, my answer is an emphatic NOT IN ANY WAY AT ALL.
Edited by xongsmith, : fix answer to Taq's OP

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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xongsmith
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Message 299 of 440 (611462)
04-08-2011 2:25 AM
Reply to: Message 231 by arachnophilia
04-06-2011 9:40 PM


Re: Republican Platform is brainwashing
arachnophilia writes:
crashfrog writes:
In that case, the US Supreme Court ruled that children are persons under the Constitution and therefore entitled to Constitutional rights.
presumably, not entirely. for instance, children generally lack the right to vote. and probably the right to bear arms.
But I will say this in regards to personhood:
Children >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Corporations.
In fact it is a HUGE GINORGAMOUS BLOWOUT. Equivalent to a SHUTOUT in the NBA!

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 300 of 440 (611464)
04-08-2011 2:42 AM
Reply to: Message 248 by crashfrog
04-07-2011 1:25 PM


Re: Republican Platform is brainwashing
crashfrog writes:
Do you think that the Winnepeg man would have lost custody of his daughter if he had drawn smiley faces on her, instead? Of course not.
Is this with Sharpie pens? Repeatedly after they fade and get washed away? Years on end?
I say YES he SHOULD, but sadly WOULD NOT, lose custody.

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Message 301 of 440 (611466)
04-08-2011 2:50 AM
Reply to: Message 259 by crashfrog
04-07-2011 4:27 PM


Re: Republican Platform is brainwashing
crashfrog writes:
Am I the only one who can perceive the difference?
Hi! ....the answer is No here.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 342 of 440 (611788)
04-11-2011 12:07 AM
Reply to: Message 321 by ZenMonkey
04-08-2011 5:07 PM


Re: Republican Platform is brainwashing
ZenMonkey writes:
Find me a case in which Nazi or Mormon or Green Party parents kept their child in a closet, denied him meals, and subjected him to hours and hours of coersive lectures about their beliefs, then you'll have valid case of brainwashing.
Perhaps I am mistaken - but isn't that what the Republican Party has been doing?

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Message 396 of 440 (613149)
04-21-2011 11:34 PM
Reply to: Message 395 by ZenMonkey
04-21-2011 9:30 PM


Zen Monkey notes:
The fact remains, in comparison to other industrialized countries, the US spends the most for health care and gets the least for it. We're below just about everyone else in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality, to name two actual indicators of how we're doing in taking care of our citizens.
The Outrage should be absolutely Visigothian!!!! Attilla!!!
continuing....:
So who's benefiting from all that productivity, if the middle class isn't? 58% of real income growth in the US since 1976 has gone to the top 1% of households. What does that tell you about the middle classes ability to get ahead or even keep even in this country?
YES but this is just statistical evidence that the rich are fucking us over. The BIGGER thing is the MORAL issue. They have been doing this for years, and frankly we have let them do that. The rich are genetically unable to see the moral depravity they operate with. They CANNOT have a sense of shame in what they do. They either learned it all in Business School or had Business School advisors. Business School is the fuck. Business School is anti-American.
It is time to KILL the rich owners and the business schools.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 397 of 440 (613150)
04-21-2011 11:41 PM
Reply to: Message 396 by xongsmith
04-21-2011 11:34 PM


oooge
Come to think of it, Business Schools got no reason to live. May they all DIE. They only teach homo sapiens into how to become ASSHOLES. Fuck them. Die. They are morally vicious. Fuck them.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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