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Are the majority posts in this forum generally based on....

  • Emotion

  • Reason


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Steeplerot

Lifer
Mar 29, 2004
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Ignorance, misinformation and poorly thought out talk radio/foxnews/koch bros/mises think tank libertarian ideologues with a few corporate mainstream msnbc/huffpo bourgeois liberals who mainly sit on the fence occupy this forums debate. It's pro-wrestling hollywood entertainment commenting area for the regurgitation of think tank talking points.

You can sum up P&N as a 2 sided chant rooting for the same team of apathetic nonsense of US corporate funded politics nowadays -a projection of our sad state of media collusion with government.
 

Brigandier

Diamond Member
Feb 12, 2008
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Ignorance, misinformation and poorly thought out talk radio/foxnews/koch bros/mises think tank libertarian ideologues with a few corporate mainstream msnbc/huffpo bourgeois liberals who mainly sit on the fence occupy this forums debate. It's pro-wrestling hollywood entertainment commenting area for the regurgitation of think tank talking points.

You can sum up P&N as a 2 sided chant rooting for the same team of apathetic nonsense of US corporate funded politics nowadays -a projection of our sad state of media collusion with government.

/this.

Any issue's crux will be missed, and instead the focus will be on how bad one side is. The truth is that we all have wool over our eyes and we are all unwilling to confront those that pull it over our heads. P&N is where reason goes to die.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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the current voting public is exactly what the current politicians want. P&N is a nice sample of that.
 

Zebo

Elite Member
Jul 29, 2001
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Most every thing we do is emotion. Why do you go to work? Basics can be provided on welfare. No instead you want things to satisfy emotional needs.
 

Hayabusa Rider

Admin Emeritus & Elite Member
Jan 26, 2000
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Most every thing we do is emotion. Why do you go to work? Basics can be provided on welfare. No instead you want things to satisfy emotional needs.

Somewhat different perspective. Everything we do has an emotional component. That's what drives us to have an interest in a particular subject. That doesn't mean that responses have to be based on irrational thinking. While opinions may vary about a topic, an appeal based on facts is far different than purposefully being misleading (or being mislead) because it suits one's worldview better than reality.
 

Steeplerot

Lifer
Mar 29, 2004
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Many of the users seem to be racist or bigoted.

Although I do not disagree it's more of a benign stupidity of some folks here in USA who don't get out much.

People tend to blame one another instead of the very powers that are feeding them the divisional propaganda when they are socially isolated. Talk radio and Fox have become the friends of a very lonely America in this age. (and buying into the garbage only isolates them more from fellow real people sadly)

This is a product of people being raised by tee-vee, now that they are older it's the only thing that has been there for their whole lives consistently. And it tells them they are the "good people fighting the good fight" everyone likes validation of their existence even if it means joining the club means saying some silly things they probably do not mean if they were confronted about the stuff they said in real life.

I wouldn't get upset about haters, they are people having a rough time understanding others still at this point in life and being taken advantage of. Be mad at the assholes who do this to folks on purpose. (hate the game not the playa)

You CoW, I do not know why you hate Europeans so much. Why hate people? It's the ones in power who want to divide everyone against one another. Not individuals.
 
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CanOWorms

Lifer
Jul 3, 2001
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You CoW, I do not know why you hate Europeans so much. Why hate people? It's the ones in power who want to divide everyone against one another. Not individuals.

I don't hate Europeans. I hate their crazed governments and their policies. If someone criticizes Bush for the Iraq War, that is not hating Americans.

The problem is that many people are not capable of handling a minority criticizing a country they deem to be the homeland of some supposed superior race. I'm not white and I'm criticizing the policies of several European nations, countries you and your band of thugs deem to be the white homeland. Why can't you realize that the world has gone beyond racial nationalism?
 

Infohawk

Lifer
Jan 12, 2002
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I don't hate Europeans. I hate their crazed governments and their policies...

You also constantly attack whites in America claiming that they are more loyal to Europe, which is especially ridiculous since almost all white conservatives dislike Europe because they're perceived as being liberal.

And saying that RedUnderYourBed practices racial nationalism is preposterous.