Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
7 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,815 Year: 3,072/9,624 Month: 917/1,588 Week: 100/223 Day: 11/17 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Who's the bigger offender: Conservatives or Liberals?
xongsmith
Member
Posts: 2578
From: massachusetts US
Joined: 01-01-2009
Member Rating: 6.8


Message 331 of 773 (887794)
08-22-2021 10:28 AM
Reply to: Message 330 by dwise1
08-22-2021 2:57 AM


Re: Darker Future For USA
excellent, dwise!

"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside."

- xongsmith, 5.7d


This message is a reply to:
 Message 330 by dwise1, posted 08-22-2021 2:57 AM dwise1 has not replied

  
Percy
Member
Posts: 22391
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
Member Rating: 5.2


(7)
Message 332 of 773 (887800)
08-22-2021 1:04 PM
Reply to: Message 330 by dwise1
08-22-2021 2:57 AM


Re: Darker Future For USA
Another positive of food stamps is that improved nutrition leads to improved health, so food stamp recipients are better able to work and provide for their families. Poverty and poor health often go together because the cheapest foods provide a great deal of calories but not much in the way of nutrition.
We all, liberals, conservatives and the entire spectrum in between, want our nation to be strong and prosperous, which requires that the individuals making up our nation also be strong and prosperous. Wishing some portion of our citizens ill only makes the nation as a whole weaker.
--Percy

This message is a reply to:
 Message 330 by dwise1, posted 08-22-2021 2:57 AM dwise1 has not replied

  
Sarah Bellum
Member (Idle past 595 days)
Posts: 826
Joined: 05-04-2019


(1)
Message 333 of 773 (888126)
09-05-2021 12:03 PM
Reply to: Message 247 by ringo
08-03-2021 12:10 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
On the other hand there's the James Carville philosophy that the only thing in the middle of the road is yellow lines and dead armadillos.
There's something to that: thinking that there's some sort of ideal "third way" somehow splitting the difference between opposing ideas often runs into gridlock (or worse). Imagine Abraham Lincoln "compromising" with Jefferson Davis, or Lyndon Johnson "compromising" with Ho Chi Minh or Ronald Reagan "compromising" with Mikhail Gorbachev or Joe Biden "compromising" with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 247 by ringo, posted 08-03-2021 12:10 PM ringo has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 334 by ringo, posted 09-05-2021 2:13 PM Sarah Bellum has replied
 Message 335 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 4:31 PM Sarah Bellum has replied

  
ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


Message 334 of 773 (888127)
09-05-2021 2:13 PM
Reply to: Message 333 by Sarah Bellum
09-05-2021 12:03 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Sarah Bellum writes:
On the other hand there's the James Carville philosophy that the only thing in the middle of the road is yellow lines and dead armadillos.
If the armadillos stayed on the yellow line, they'd still be alive.

"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing

This message is a reply to:
 Message 333 by Sarah Bellum, posted 09-05-2021 12:03 PM Sarah Bellum has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 343 by Sarah Bellum, posted 11-21-2021 1:16 PM ringo has replied

  
AZPaul3
Member
Posts: 8513
From: Phoenix
Joined: 11-06-2006
Member Rating: 5.3


Message 335 of 773 (888129)
09-05-2021 4:31 PM
Reply to: Message 333 by Sarah Bellum
09-05-2021 12:03 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Too often, there is the right way and the compromise way. Wisdom is knowing which is which.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.


Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 333 by Sarah Bellum, posted 09-05-2021 12:03 PM Sarah Bellum has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 336 by jar, posted 09-05-2021 6:55 PM AZPaul3 has replied
 Message 344 by Sarah Bellum, posted 11-21-2021 1:17 PM AZPaul3 has not replied

  
jar
Member (Idle past 394 days)
Posts: 34026
From: Texas!!
Joined: 04-20-2004


Message 336 of 773 (888132)
09-05-2021 6:55 PM
Reply to: Message 335 by AZPaul3
09-05-2021 4:31 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
If we had been honest and abided by the free elections held in Vietnam and cooperated with Ho tens of thousands of lives would have been saved, Vietnam would have prospered and become the major trading partner it is today decades earlier.

My Website: My Website

This message is a reply to:
 Message 335 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 4:31 PM AZPaul3 has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 337 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 7:10 PM jar has replied

  
AZPaul3
Member
Posts: 8513
From: Phoenix
Joined: 11-06-2006
Member Rating: 5.3


Message 337 of 773 (888133)
09-05-2021 7:10 PM
Reply to: Message 336 by jar
09-05-2021 6:55 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
This is one of the occurrences I was referring to. In this case, and not just in hindsight, the honest position would have been so much better.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.


Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 336 by jar, posted 09-05-2021 6:55 PM jar has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 338 by jar, posted 09-05-2021 7:29 PM AZPaul3 has replied

  
jar
Member (Idle past 394 days)
Posts: 34026
From: Texas!!
Joined: 04-20-2004


(2)
Message 338 of 773 (888134)
09-05-2021 7:29 PM
Reply to: Message 337 by AZPaul3
09-05-2021 7:10 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
The big takeaway is that had we cooperated with Castro back in the late 50s and Ho around the same time the benefits in terms of lives saved and suffering averted would have been even greater.
And imagine what it would have been like if we as defenders of democracy had accepted the results of the free elections in Iran instead of putting a puppet Shah in place or accepted the free elections in Nicaragua or Brazil or ...
Edited by jar, : hit wrong key

My Website: My Website

This message is a reply to:
 Message 337 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 7:10 PM AZPaul3 has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 339 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 7:58 PM jar has not replied
 Message 341 by PaulK, posted 09-05-2021 11:59 PM jar has replied

  
AZPaul3
Member
Posts: 8513
From: Phoenix
Joined: 11-06-2006
Member Rating: 5.3


Message 339 of 773 (888135)
09-05-2021 7:58 PM
Reply to: Message 338 by jar
09-05-2021 7:29 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Are you trying to say we are rather poor (or some other epithet) in our national decision making?

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 338 by jar, posted 09-05-2021 7:29 PM jar has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 340 by xongsmith, posted 09-05-2021 8:42 PM AZPaul3 has not replied

  
xongsmith
Member
Posts: 2578
From: massachusetts US
Joined: 01-01-2009
Member Rating: 6.8


Message 340 of 773 (888136)
09-05-2021 8:42 PM
Reply to: Message 339 by AZPaul3
09-05-2021 7:58 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
AZPaul speculates:
Are you trying to say we are rather poor (or some other epithet) in our national decision making?
oh yes, We are.

"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside."

- xongsmith, 5.7d


This message is a reply to:
 Message 339 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 7:58 PM AZPaul3 has not replied

  
PaulK
Member
Posts: 17822
Joined: 01-10-2003
Member Rating: 2.2


Message 341 of 773 (888139)
09-05-2021 11:59 PM
Reply to: Message 338 by jar
09-05-2021 7:29 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Leaving Mossadegh in power would have been a good idea, too.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 338 by jar, posted 09-05-2021 7:29 PM jar has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 342 by jar, posted 09-06-2021 6:24 AM PaulK has not replied

  
jar
Member (Idle past 394 days)
Posts: 34026
From: Texas!!
Joined: 04-20-2004


(2)
Message 342 of 773 (888140)
09-06-2021 6:24 AM
Reply to: Message 341 by PaulK
09-05-2021 11:59 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
If we had diverted only a small percentage of what we spent in utterly stupid wars since WWII (including the stupid War on Drugs and War on Terror) into productive foreign aid; roads, health care, infrastructure; we and the whole world would have benefited.

My Website: My Website

This message is a reply to:
 Message 341 by PaulK, posted 09-05-2021 11:59 PM PaulK has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 608 by Phat, posted 03-08-2022 2:15 PM jar has replied

  
Sarah Bellum
Member (Idle past 595 days)
Posts: 826
Joined: 05-04-2019


Message 343 of 773 (889377)
11-21-2021 1:16 PM
Reply to: Message 334 by ringo
09-05-2021 2:13 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
That's the misconception from the movie The Program that got some real people killed Not Like the Movie: A Dare Leads to Death - The New York Times

This message is a reply to:
 Message 334 by ringo, posted 09-05-2021 2:13 PM ringo has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 345 by ringo, posted 11-23-2021 11:15 AM Sarah Bellum has replied

  
Sarah Bellum
Member (Idle past 595 days)
Posts: 826
Joined: 05-04-2019


Message 344 of 773 (889378)
11-21-2021 1:17 PM
Reply to: Message 335 by AZPaul3
09-05-2021 4:31 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
True

This message is a reply to:
 Message 335 by AZPaul3, posted 09-05-2021 4:31 PM AZPaul3 has not replied

  
ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


(1)
Message 345 of 773 (889392)
11-23-2021 11:15 AM
Reply to: Message 343 by Sarah Bellum
11-21-2021 1:16 PM


Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Sarah Bellum writes:
That's the misconception from the movie The Program that got some real people killed
There are several movies called "The Program". You'll have to be more specific.
And your link "Not Like the Movie: A Dare Leads to Death (Published 1993)" won't let me in.
Would it kill you to put some effort into your posts?

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"
-- Lucky Ned Pepper

This message is a reply to:
 Message 343 by Sarah Bellum, posted 11-21-2021 1:16 PM Sarah Bellum has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 346 by xongsmith, posted 11-24-2021 9:24 AM ringo has seen this message but not replied
 Message 551 by Sarah Bellum, posted 12-27-2021 6:50 PM ringo has replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024