why would anyone want to go there just to start fights? wouldn't it just be incredibly aggravating to not only read that stuff, but to engage with the type of person who posts there?
But who's worse? The "type of person who posts there" (I'm guessing that would be right-wing deplorables that wear MAGA hats?) or someone that goes there simply to troll?
read between the lines in my first question.
My question was rhetorical. The person that goes to troll is worse. I suspect there are people that have that sort of mentality online (I'm going to go there to fuck with them!), may also do that sort of thing in real life (i.e. wait outside a Trump rally and throw shit at his supporters). "Sad!"
I'm so sorry you guys feel this way. And your analogy is "sad", unsupported. You think someone posting counter points to the lunacy is the same as throwing feces at a supporter?
I won't comment on the "throwing shit", but you said you go there just to start arguments. isn't that the very definition of trolling?
Why yes it is. Surprised he doesn't just own it.
Hey I'm right here! Why speak indirectly? Trolling is baiting, I don't bait. I speak directly. As a contrast, one might say that you are trolling right now.
Sorry. Yes, going to a website to start arguments for fun is trolling. It is what it is. I kinda feel like they likely deserve it
No it isn't. Trolling is act of bad faith. If someone likes to argue that doesn't make them a troll. If they argue in bad faith, that makes them a troll.
I keep seeing that statement...maybe its just from you over and over but I don;t remember.
"When you support a racist in any way shape or form that makes you a racist as well"
I disagree with this. So - if I help out an older relative who is racist by buying them groceries or something I'm racist? I really hate how people try to draw a line and make something Yes/No or Black/White (no pun intended) when there is a lot of gray.
Yup that's me Borrowed and paraphrased from the Buddhists who say that when you support evil you are evil as well. Are there gray areas? Maybe I, for one, will not associate with anyone, family or otherwise, who is a known racist or anti-semite. No place for fear, hate, or ignorance in my life.
Not something I’d search out, but if someone I knew said something racist I think we’d talk about it instead of me cutting them out of my life.
Seems like a waste of breath, but you participate in AMT a lot, so I suppose you're accustomed to that.
I keep seeing that statement...maybe its just from you over and over but I don;t remember.
"When you support a racist in any way shape or form that makes you a racist as well"
I disagree with this. So - if I help out an older relative who is racist by buying them groceries or something I'm racist? I really hate how people try to draw a line and make something Yes/No or Black/White (no pun intended) when there is a lot of gray.
Yup that's me Borrowed and paraphrased from the Buddhists who say that when you support evil you are evil as well. Are there gray areas? Maybe I, for one, will not associate with anyone, family or otherwise, who is a known racist or anti-semite. No place for fear, hate, or ignorance in my life.
Not something I’d search out, but if someone I knew said something racist I think we’d talk about it instead of me cutting them out of my life.
Seems like a waste of breath, but you participate in AMT a lot, so I suppose you're accustomed to that.
Ouch! That was a hilarious post. Double burn with humor! I like it
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If you knew your "older relative" was a racist and was running for office, would you vote for him or her?
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If you knew your "older relative" was a racist and was running for office, would you vote for him or her?
Stephen Miller is a waste of human flesh.
Hell no, I wouldn't vote or promote them in anyway. We've several Republicans in our family but as far as I know we have no racists in our fsmily.
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I keep seeing that statement...maybe its just from you over and over but I don;t remember.
"When you support a racist in any way shape or form that makes you a racist as well"
I disagree with this. So - if I help out an older relative who is racist by buying them groceries or something I'm racist? I really hate how people try to draw a line and make something Yes/No or Black/White (no pun intended) when there is a lot of gray.
Yup that's me Borrowed and paraphrased from the Buddhists who say that when you support evil you are evil as well. Are there gray areas? Maybe I, for one, will not associate with anyone, family or otherwise, who is a known racist or anti-semite. No place for fear, hate, or ignorance in my life.
Sadly, I feel that people have a tendency to be around like-minded people. If you have an opportunity to associate with a known racist or anti-semite, and don't take that opportunity to try to inform someone better, then you're letting them walk away safely with their racism and anti-semitism. That's not acceptable to me.
I've been in an Uber where the driver went on a rant about media concentration and how seven Jews in the basement run it all, and I proceeded to explain how and why that's offensive and what the harm has been, as well as the likely origin story of how Jews started handling wealth professionally (point one: regularly oppressed people cling to what they have and consider security paramount; point two: in the days of sects like calvinism where wealth handling was dirty, someone had to do it - and Jews weren't morally opposed).
I've also been travelling with people who refused to step into a mosque to see its beauty, and have shamed them into entering when I pointed out there's no justification for their opposition (which was derived from racism).
Letting a racist remain racist, to me, is far more dangerous than putting in an effort (no matter the odds) to change or at least inform a person. There was a great interview with an ex-KKK member on a podcast (can't remember which), who had started an organization to introduce KKK members to black people. He said that close to 100% of KKK members he convinces to sit down and with him and a black person, shortly thereafter leave the KKK. His point was that exposure to the truth that racist concepts only exist in a person's head (and that there really aren't many, if any, racist realities that your standard WMA has to experience), is usually enough to sway a mind or start a journey of information leading to being reformed in some way.
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if I chose not to associate with anyone, family or otherwise, who is a known racist/bigot/etc or whatever, that would cut out half my immediate family. I choose to try to promote tolerance to them when it comes up, and love them unconditionally when it doesn't.
This is just so fucking delicious, couldn't ask for better witness testimony. With that said - I expect nothing significant to come out of anything because the world is garbage.
This is just so fucking delicious, couldn't ask for better witness testimony. With that said - I expect nothing significant to come out of anything because the world is garbage.
This is just so fucking delicious, couldn't ask for better witness testimony. With that said - I expect nothing significant to come out of anything because the world is garbage.
What, nobody believes in truth, justice and the American way anymore? Country’s gone to shit.
This is just so fucking delicious, couldn't ask for better witness testimony. With that said - I expect nothing significant to come out of anything because the world is garbage.
What, nobody believes in truth, justice and the American way anymore? Country’s gone to shit.
Why should they? The so-called "president " clearly doesn't
Everything this idiot touches turns to corruption! Nothing he does is with integrity or honesty at all .. President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
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Everything this idiot touches turns to corruption! Nothing he does is with integrity or honesty at all .. President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
trump is Shit Midas. everything he touches turns to shit.
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Everything this idiot touches turns to corruption! Nothing he does is with integrity or honesty at all .. President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
trump is Shit Midas. everything he touches turns to shit.
This is sadly true yet I can't help but laugh out loud at Trump as "Shit Midas"!
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Everything this idiot touches turns to corruption! Nothing he does is with integrity or honesty at all .. President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
trump is Shit Midas. everything he touches turns to shit.
This is sadly true yet I can't help but laugh out loud at Trump as "Shit Midas"!
i have not heard a more appropriate description for him. failed at casinos. bankrupt multiple times. failed marriages. country club(s) and hotels bleeding money. broken many laws. divided an entire country. pretty much everything associated with him has been turned to shit.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
Everything this idiot touches turns to corruption! Nothing he does is with integrity or honesty at all .. President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
trump is Shit Midas. everything he touches turns to shit.
This is sadly true yet I can't help but laugh out loud at Trump as "Shit Midas"!
i have not heard a more appropriate description for him. failed at casinos. bankrupt multiple times. failed marriages. country club(s) and hotels bleeding money. broken many laws. divided an entire country. pretty much everything associated with him has been turned to shit.
And he's parented at least three greedy, soulless children.
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Stephen Miller is a waste of human flesh.
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
And I'm very disappointed in Haley..
I can't fathom how someone, with a straight face, can say that many is "truthful."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I've been in an Uber where the driver went on a rant about media concentration and how seven Jews in the basement run it all, and I proceeded to explain how and why that's offensive and what the harm has been, as well as the likely origin story of how Jews started handling wealth professionally (point one: regularly oppressed people cling to what they have and consider security paramount; point two: in the days of sects like calvinism where wealth handling was dirty, someone had to do it - and Jews weren't morally opposed).
I've also been travelling with people who refused to step into a mosque to see its beauty, and have shamed them into entering when I pointed out there's no justification for their opposition (which was derived from racism).
Letting a racist remain racist, to me, is far more dangerous than putting in an effort (no matter the odds) to change or at least inform a person. There was a great interview with an ex-KKK member on a podcast (can't remember which), who had started an organization to introduce KKK members to black people. He said that close to 100% of KKK members he convinces to sit down and with him and a black person, shortly thereafter leave the KKK. His point was that exposure to the truth that racist concepts only exist in a person's head (and that there really aren't many, if any, racist realities that your standard WMA has to experience), is usually enough to sway a mind or start a journey of information leading to being reformed in some way.
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The so-called "president " clearly doesn't
President Lesenski comes into office as anti corruption what is the 1st thing this thug does? You guessed it try’s to corrupt him what an American ha!
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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Everything he has done has been to benefit in this order....
Himself
His brand
His kids
His family
The Russians
The gop
In no way has anything he has done has been to benefit America or Americans.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14