Unity
- Thread starter Jarod
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Will you be a leader in the "roundup" of those you call Nazis? I'll sit at home and wait for you....locked, loaded and ready. Let's get it on.
TOP
Retired Teacher
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Why do you hate individuals more than you love this country?
If someone has committed a crime, they probably should be round up. If they have not, and hold abhorrent views, probably best to leave them under whatever rock they are hiding.
TOP
Retired Teacher
For a very long time....no end in sight.... It really has become their way of life....I've never seen anything like it...
Diesel
Well-known member
I'm neither a member of law enforcement nor a vigilante asshole. You won't find me plotting to kidnap and execute elected officials, overthrow the duly elected government of the world's most durable democracy, desecrate the historic legislative chambers of that same government, assault and murder police officers, loot businesses, nor light buildings on fire. You are what you hate, you prick. I am better than both of you.
You mistake our demand for accountability and justice as 'hatred'. It isn't. You've told us to get fucked for four years. Your whining about unity falls on deaf ears.
TOP
Retired Teacher
Well, I don't hate anyone...and love my country...
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Retired Teacher
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Why do you hate individuals more than you love this country?
Diesel
Well-known member
You mean like your bitching and crying that will continue until your last, gasping breath? You assholes abandoned unity decades ago. I don't speak for the incoming administration, but I don't want unity. I want Trump supporters to be purged from our society so that civilized people who can actually think and operate in reality can continue the US's great and enduring experiment without distractions from the lying, undereducated, racist conspiracy theorists who just wasted five years (and multiple generations) of this country's existence.
TOP
Retired Teacher
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Why do you hate individuals more than you love this country?
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Sooooo no unity unless you have the heads of Trump, Cruz, et al on a pike outside Congress? Dude, you just doomed Biden's call for unity.
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Retired Teacher
Why? Sure sounds like your full of hate to me.....but convince me otherwise....
TOP
Retired Teacher
Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King...
"But with patient and firm determination we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope, until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion, until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity, and until the crooked places of prejudice are transformed by the straightening process of bright-eyed wisdom.”
How will you honor him?
"But with patient and firm determination we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope, until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion, until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity, and until the crooked places of prejudice are transformed by the straightening process of bright-eyed wisdom.”
How will you honor him?
Diesel
Well-known member
Don't make disingenuous references to your ability to be "convinced" of anything that you don't already believe. It's a tactic of middle school debaters and Trumpists.
I will say that the US was founded on and relies on, in part, Enlightenment ideals. World civilization was transformed in a way that has not often occurred in humanity's history. Understandings in science, advancements in technology, and observations that could be made for the first time allowed us to develop a scientific method. We clarified the distinctions between fact, theory, opinion, and falsehood. We committed ourselves to logic, reason, liberty, equality, and freedom. We replaced god and superstition and conjecture with evidence-based data in the fields and areas that we could. That unprecedented advancement continued for hundreds of years. Scientists and researchers observed more about the natural world. They tested hypotheses. They drew deeper lines between what we do understand, what we can understand, and what we just don't know yet. It was a time when medicine could save lives that could never have been saved before, when human beings launched themselves into and then returned from space, when travel became convenient (sort of), and communication became instantaneous.
Cue the age of anti-intellectualism and its adherents: Populist right wingers with nationalistic and self interests. A group of people with no formal training, no contradictory evidence, and no logical explanations for anything who "don't agree" with science. They think education is at best, unimportant, and at worst, mind control that their philosophical opponents administer. They don't know what a fact is. They think that an "opinion" that purple means dinosaur and that 2 + 2 = 5 is just as valid and useful as admitting that purple is a color, dinosaurs are extinct, and 2 + 2 = 4. They believe in the wildest conspiracy theories that I think have ever existed. We no longer share a common language. I don't mean linguistically. I mean that Trumpists have no attachment to reality. It is as useful to involve a Trumist in an important consideration as it is to involve a 100-year-old schizophrenic with advanced Alzheimer's.
That is why Trumpists do not belong in a civilized society.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Another vote to kill off anyone who disagrees with the Democratic Socialist agenda. Awesome. Biden's bid for Unity is doomed to failure.