This is rich...Republican Lawmaker calls for lynching of anti-confederacy supporters

[ch33zw1z]

Your comparison is not complex at all. Asserting a commonality that doesn't exist.

But please, use your supreme intellect to sway us. But be sure to put it in terms my simple mind can understand.

 

[mindless1]

^ I wrote ego, yeah?

Take the energy you have and put it into something constructive.

It's a crazy idea.

 

[trenchfoot]

No. I have no burden whatsoever. If the audience doesn't understand, that is a very common outcome when talking about something more complex than walking while chewing gum.

You have some kind of social misunderstanding going on when you suggest that truth needs me to sway others to share my point of view.

I do not place an ego upon internet forums.

Do you?

It is very simple. This is a discussion amongst ineffective whining people who don't know how to effect change, complaining as if blaming others is a solution.

You're in the matrix and you don't even know it.

I wonder if it would help you expand and sharpen your situational awareness if you were to reflect on the possibility that you may be in a matrix of your own design wholly within the matrix you're referring to and you don't even know it?

Or are you "The One"?

 

[mindless1]

^ You are free to act. Post? Means nothing. The world depends on those who act, not internet jockeys.

 

[ch33zw1z]

^ I wrote ego, yeah?

Take the energy you have and put it into something constructive.

It's a crazy idea.

So you got nothing.

My energy is placed in taking care of my family, and our various hobbies.

Your ego is getting in your way.

Keep on trucking.

 

[pmv]

I demand that someone tear the Pyramids down and it annoys me that anyone dare mention slavery in this day and age... just sayin', the past is a matter of fact and they could be considered monuments of shame that should be preserved, rather than something that needs censored.

Or they could be removed and put in a museum or warehouse somewhere.

Nothing lasts forever. Statues and monuments go up and come down depending on who has the political power at the time. There's no decree from God that says past victories can never be undone when the balance-of-power changes, or Eastern Europe would still be festooned with statues of Lenin and Stalin.

 

[pmv]

^ You are free to act. Post? Means nothing. The world depends on those who act, not internet jockeys.

You don't think this post is slightly self-defeating?

You are right, but I take consolation from seeing how "those who act" rarely manage to achieve anything much either.

 

[sandorski]

It's the old, telling someone on the Internet that they suck because they post things on the Internet.

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's the old, telling someone on the Internet that they suck because they post things on the Internet.

I'm sure he's on a plane right now to Egypt to have a discussion about the pyramids.

A real man of action

 

[jackstar7]

No. I have no burden whatsoever. If the audience doesn't understand, that is a very common outcome when talking about something more complex than walking while chewing gum.

You have some kind of social misunderstanding going on when you suggest that truth needs me to sway others to share my point of view.

I do not place an ego upon internet forums.

Do you?

It is very simple. This is a discussion amongst ineffective whining people who don't know how to effect change, complaining as if blaming others is a solution.

You're in the matrix and you don't even know it.

You could have just skipped all this espousing of your non-philosophy and summarized simply with:
Trollfacememe.

Then I can respond with sadfacememe.

 

[theeedude]

Strong case for why these have to be torn down.

 

[Paratus]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/statues-ms-lawmaker-lynching/index.html

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Apparently it's a facebook post, as opposed to let's say...an official statement or on-camera interview in official capacity. But seriously? Can he not see the issue? Of course the guy has already apologized, deleted the post, blah blah blah.

The local Republican party said "he does not represent us, nothing to see here, move along". At what point will republicans start calling out their own? For anyone who bothers to use the "we are the party of lincoln" line, modern day republicans are nothing like the party of lincoln. I'm tired of this shit.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

On the matter of the pyramids versus a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, I've had thoughts recently about buying the stars and bars online. Then I would tie it to the bumper of my SUV, and make a display of cleaning the streets with it.

But these defensive postures about the old statues is just one other small item that inclines me to revise my theory of Trump's election. In general, even going back to the McCain-Palin ticket, I began to suspect that GOP-ers wanted secretly to get even for Watergate -- as if Watergate was simply a political persecution.

Then, with Trump, I came to the conclusion that a mass-psychology of red-state f***-sticks wanted to get even for their "humiliation and suffering" under Obama, choosing the most disgusting "ginger" and "white person" they could imagine and applying the lipstick of justification that he was a "bidnessman" before they put lipstick on the pig at Inauguration. [They all expect us to give it a great big kiss, ya see, because they "elected" him.]

Now, I've come to suspect that they're still trying to get even for the Civil War.

If anyone has teenagers or precocious middle-schoolers ambitious to move their verbal and expression skills to a notch above the so-called President's, I've had two books and a film in mind recently.

The film only supplies an analog to what the book author is doing. In the sequel "Hannibal," the psychiatrist-turned-cannibal sets a table for Clarice and her FBI boss. He has cut the latter's skull-cap, to expose his brain, and the FBI man is still eager for dinner and oblivious to the exposed nature of his brain. Hannibal feeds him a sliver of brain after sauteeing it in a pan. The FBI man is saying "Oh, Clarice! You should try some! Delicious!"

That seems to be what Mark Twain was doing with his book "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Sir Walter Scott's chivalric novels were popular in the ante-bellum South. Twain asserted that it was Scott's drivel that encouraged the Confederates to fight the war. This, of course, would remind you of Susan Rice and the Benghazi attack -- she was merely speculating about multiple causes for it, and she was pilloried for "misleading the public.

So Twain publishes this book, which would have your high-schoolers (or anyone) laughing and rolling on the floor at the medieval characters. Perhaps the southerners might have been inclined to purchase the book, hoping it to be more of the same. And after making themselves sore with laughter, they reach the last chapter in which the main character mows down all the knights in armor with a Gatling gun.

The second book is also a Mark Twain work -- "Pudd'n'head Wilson." It is a murder mystery, with the plot beginning some decades earlier with two babies swapped by their Aunt Jemima nanny at birth. And, with the development of the characters, one could see that one of them has certain Trumpian attributes, but not that of being lily-white, as he would have imagined or -- for that matter -- as Trump imagines.

Mark Twain was at least 100 years ahead of his time. He was 200 or 300 years ahead of Donald Trump.

Anyway -- screw the Confederacy and all the simpletons that think their ancestors deserve such honor. Hannibal Lecter deserves more.