BasmntMadman wrote:
Yeah, those are something that somehow have always bugged me to an odd degree.

The political realm is so toxic now that it's virtually impossible for anyone to avoid sneering at opposing factions.  I'd be semi-content if it's just avoiding direct ad-hominems and handle-mangles. 

As amusing as it might be to watch Hippiechick try and justify her hatred for Republicans, in fairness I have to say that there is another, deeper problem evidenced here. And it's not just her.

We have a problem in the US with one-dimensional political thinking. There is the good guys and the Other Guys. Our media tends to reinforce this, looking at all issues as if there were only two sides and mapping every type of thought onto a left-right axis. The left end is good and wholesome and peace and love, the right end is seething with ethnic and religious intolerance, ignorant savages one AM radio sermon away from lynchings and witch burnings.

I'm on the receiving end of that snide condescension maybe once a day here, and I'm not even a Republican. But I'm not in the left corner of the political universe, and the only label available is "Republican" so I'm automatically a fundamentalist christian, a conservative, and stupid because those are the scary things in the bottom of the box I've been tossed in.

I'd like out, please. But even more I'd like everybody to abandon the idea that there are good and bad guys. Get out more, meet some people who aren't like you. The world will look like a different place!

But it won't be. It'll be the same place it was all along. You'll just see more of it for what it is instead of what you're afraid it is.

Huh? that would be all republicans.
have a nice real life experience.

Just like in Jamaica. I suspect it has something to do with drugs.

 

Well, "those people" are just strange - who has a steering wheel on the right side of the car?

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Just marking this post of yours for further attention a bit later.

Your ongoing mistake - the lesson you have never learned in all these years - is in repeatedly making this personal.  And for that, I will continue to allow you no ground. 

That's harsh, man. Bird. Whatever.

don't allow him to have any pecan pie after lunch either

All this spewing says much more about the spewer than the spewee.

If we can't even play nice in a silly little internet thread, (on a great music website) it doesn't bode well for our future. Let it go, people! Name calling, threats? IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!

 

I wrote this about a year ago in the run up to election season:

Islander wrote: 

It was good advice then, it's good advice now. Especially the bolded parts. Read, do. Try interacting with people who are 'different' than you and you'll find out that they are not so different after all.

As amusing as it might be to watch Hippiechick try and justify her hatred for Republicans, in fairness I have to say that there is another, deeper problem evidenced here. And it's not just her.

We have a problem in the US with one-dimensional political thinking. There is the good guys and the Other Guys. Our media tends to reinforce this, looking at all issues as if there were only two sides and mapping every type of thought onto a left-right axis. The left end is good and wholesome and peace and love, the right end is seething with ethnic and religious intolerance, ignorant savages one AM radio sermon away from lynchings and witch burnings.

I'm on the receiving end of that snide condescension maybe once a day here, and I'm not even a Republican. But I'm not in the left corner of the political universe, and the only label available is "Republican" so I'm automatically a fundamentalist christian, a conservative, and stupid because those are the scary things in the bottom of the box I've been tossed in.

I'd like out, please. But even more I'd like everybody to abandon the idea that there are good and bad guys. Get out more, meet some people who aren't like you. The world will look like a different place!

But it won't be. It'll be the same place it was all along. You'll just see more of it for what it is instead of what you're afraid it is.

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Just marking this post of yours for further attention a bit later.

Your ongoing mistake - the lesson you have never learned in all these years - is in repeatedly making this personal.  And for that, I will continue to allow you no ground. 

Well, "those people" are just strange - who has a steering wheel on the right side of the car?

Again.  BULLSHIT.

You are either fucking stupid or a liar.  Which is it?  Twice now you have made the claim that I have defended in some way the actions and attitude seen in the vid you posted.  Twice now, I have called you out for misrepresenting REALITY. What's next?  Will you threaten or attempt to contact my employer and advise them of my hard right extremism, kind of like when you threatened to do similar to another RPeep?

The entire point (not the one on your head) I made in my initial response was that your creation of this thread and continued postings to it are perpetuating the hatred and venom found on the RP forum.  Your incendiary posts, combined with your TOTAL inability to retract your false and defamatory allegations of my own  views from that of your far left fantasy world, suggest clearly that YOU are the instigator here. 

Which came first Brandon?  Your post in this thread or my response to your insistence on continuing to post incendiary crap?  Feel free to call a friend or ask the audience if you have difficulty with this.

Brandon, its time for last call.  Retract your bullshit fabrications of my views and actions or face the consequences.

The Repugs I refer to are the members of the Republican Party, not the public in general.

I'm going to do things irl now, so peace and harmony can now return to the valley.

A spunky elite nihilist reaches out to a libertarian anarchist...

you stated it. I asked if you meant all republicans and you said yes. all republicans. repugs you call them. You've typed repugs so many times, finding that quote is a needle in a haystack. but I remember it distinctly. It left me speechless.

I'm not excusing anyone. my beef is with intolerance and hate on both sides. you don't seem to recognize when it's coming from the left or yourself. seriously. step out of yourself and look at what you're saying. It's hardly peace and love.
Comparing Hitler to anyone looks wrong to me. it was wrong when it was done to Bush as well.