Is it racist to hate members of the Tea Party?

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guyver01

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It sounds like you're disputing the very notion of a "Sputnik moment." You know, it was the POTUS who used the term in the SOTU address, right?


No.. i'm disputing your very idiotic, very Tea Bagger statement:

USSR got an object into space (or orbit) long before the US did, when typical Americans had never thought about that kind of engineering challenge.


FOUR MONTHS... is NOT "long before the US" ... and the fact the US almost did it a year before the Russians shows americans were THINKING about that challenge long before the russians did. In Fact... the russians were scared the american test was a failed launch and they were lagging way behind.
 

Ichinisan

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No.. i'm disputing your very idiotic, very Tea Bagger statement:




FOUR MONTHS... is NOT "long before the US" ... and the fact the US almost did it a year before the Russians shows americans were THINKING about that challenge long before the russians did. In Fact... the russians were scared the american test was a failed launch and they were lagging way behind.

My statement was a lot more clear when I finished editing it:
The statement said "race to space." I hope you're not deliberately misinterpreting what she said. USSR got an object into space (or orbit) long before the US did, when typical Americans had never thought about that kind of engineering challenge. Everyone should know this.

You imply that she was talking about the resulting "space race" (race to the moon), which the US clearly won despite USSR's early lead. Are you seriously implying that she thought USSR reached the moon first?


Are Tea Baggers now participating in Revisionist History? A year before The Russians put an object in space, the Americans nearly did it first. Here is the HISTORY you SHOULD KNOW:

On 20 September 1956, Wehrner von Braun and his team did launch a Jupiter-C that was capable of putting a satellite into orbit, however the launch was used only as a suborbital test of nose cone reentry technology.

Word came that the Americans were planning to announce a major breakthrough at an International Geophysical Year conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., with a paper entitled "Satellite Over the Planet", on the 6 October 1957.

Serge Korolyev's fear was that von Braun might launch a Jupiter-C with a satellite payload, on, or around, the forth or fifth of October, in conjunction with the paper. On Friday, 4 October 1957, at exactly 10:28:34 p.m. Moscow time, the now named Sputnik 1 satellite lifted off the launch pad, and placed this artificial "moon" into an orbit a few minutes later.

Nearly four months after the launch of Sputnik 1, von Braun and the United States successfully launched its first satellite, on a modified Redstone booster, under the "civilian" name Juno 1 to differentiate it from the army's Redstone missile. The Juno 1 carried the Explorer 1 satellite, and the Explorer 1's flight data confirmed the existence of an Earth-encompassing radiation belt, previously theorized by James Van Allen.
It sounds like you're disputing the very notion of a "Sputnik moment." People use that term to mean: "You realize that you have a lot of catching-up to do." It was the POTUS who used the term in the SOTU address, right?

"People use that term to mean: "You realize that you have a lot of catching-up to do.""
Is it not correct that this is what people mean by "Sputnik moment?" I believe that's what our President meant. He was comparing the advancement of China to our crumbling infrastructure.

So you criticize Palin for describing the "Sputnik moment" our President described. Then you bring up a fact that's not widely known and criticize her for not mentioning that. I actually LOVE facts like that. I'm receptive to them...even with the insults and attacks (though I'd prefer if you left out the insults).
 
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guyver01

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My statement was a lot more clear when I finished editing it:


"People use that term to mean: "You realize that you have a lot of catching-up to do.""
Is it not correct that this is what people mean by "Sputnik moment?"

I would not consider FOUR MONTHS "alot of catching up"

i'd consider it... a wakeup call to stop fucking around and get back to work.

"alot of catching up to do" would be if the USSR launched Sputnik... and Four YEARS later we launched.
 

Ichinisan

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I would not consider FOUR MONTHS "alot of catching up"

i'd consider it... a wakeup call to stop fucking around and get back to work.

"alot of catching up to do" would be if the USSR launched Sputnik... and Four YEARS later we launched.

...
 

guyver01

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exactly.

Republicans.
Democrats.
TeaParty.

STOP fucking around with the party infighting.. and GET BACK TO WORK fixing the USA and everything that is broken.

Fix the economy.
Fix the country security.
Fix the jobless ratio.
FIX IT.
 

Ichinisan

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Somebody said:
This person is an IDIOT! This person doesn't know [little-known fact].
We should start a thread for little-known facts. Then viciously attack everyone who admits to learning something!
 
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guyver01

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i'm not a politician, TEA BAGGER.

i don't give a crap if anyone calls for toning down diversity rhetoric.
 

Zee

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Ichinisan

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i'm not a politician, TEA BAGGER.

i don't give a crap if anyone calls for toning down divisive rhetoric.
FTFY

Well...it's counter productive. Good luck getting people to understand your point of view if you can't say anything without using insults and attacks.
 

guyver01

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Good luck getting people to understand your point of view if you can't say anything without using insults and attacks.

I dont need them to understand my point of view.

Everyone knows the Tea Party is a bunch of liars and fact distorters.

There is nothing about this "point of view" when it's the truth.
 

zinfamous

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Did you think the flowchart was leftist? It's actually not. It's pointing out the flawed logic of the extreme left (and it's pretty damn obvious too).

It's why Greg Gutfeld ends every Greg-a-Logue with: "...and if you disagree with me, you must be a [..., ..., ...,] RACIST!"

don't know who the fuck you're talking about, in all honesty, but if it's some guy that takes that flow chart seriously, then he's obviously parodying an extreme POV--something that no one shares.


...king of like Glen Beck, right?

...:hmm:

I mean, that guy HAS to be a parody of something, right...I mean...no one fucking takes that guy seriously, right?

I'm just wondering, cause I watched his show once, and he actually confused Hitler with Mussolini with Franz Ferdinand in one paragraph. that's how nuts that guy is...well, his parody, anyway.

...it is a parody, right?

/shudders
 

zinfamous

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You do realise that the greatest prosperity of the US has been post-war? In other words, once the federal government was already large and pervasive?

lol. Mike Gayner knows more about US economic history than this TEAbagger!


(seriously, dude. you do.)

:D




I love how we try to force free trade on everyone, today--show how successful we became, how we "prospered" with free trade...but only 5 decades after heavy import tax, the exact same shit that we currently berate China for.

false inflation of our own currency. the same strategies...everything that we have done, the British Empire did with East India Company--we've since been the major industrial, technological, trade machine for nearly a century just prior to WW2, and now we want to force others to adopt our recent "open trade"


lulz
 

Ichinisan

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...this TEAbagger!
I'm libertarian. A liberal in the classic sense. I've never participated in a Tea Party protest and I don't think anyone would put me in that crowd. Still, you're not going to have a productive discussion if you throw that term around. That's what I wanted to say.

People ITT who use the term basically demonstrated that they are hateful and don't want a civil discussion.
 

zinfamous

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I'm libertarian. A liberal in the classic sense. I've never participated in a Tea Party protest and I don't think anyone would put me in that crowd. Still, you're not going to have a productive discussion if you throw that term around. That's what I wanted to say.

People ITT who use the term basically demonstrated that they are hateful and don't want a civil discussion.

dude, I read one comment. I was flying off teh handle...


BUT THEN! I noticed that you care way too much about chili in the other thread, (then made the logical conclusion that you piss on good fried chicken), and have since confirmed my original assumptions.


so, no worries, bro.
 

sourceninja

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I'm not sure I can hate a man just for teabagging. I myself teabag from time to time.

In all seriousness. Anyone who identifies themselves as a republican, democrat, etc is a absolute sheep and imho sub human.
 

tk149

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What you are is what I find most liberals to be; intolerant, self important, and absolutely chock full of hate. You people scare the hell out of me.

Don't forget elitist. The circle jerks that occur in P&N* are frightening.

*not all liberals in P&N are elitist, but many of the most prolific ones are
 

zokudu

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I proudly have a Tea Party flag hanging in my room. Does this make me a terrible person?