Speakers Corner and Divisiveness in general explained

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A group of people who perceive some danger as being relatively imminent and decide to change their lives in order to prepare for it and encourage others to do the same. Change their lives and ways of doing things in order to protect against a threat. Where do we see this??

People who see a climate change argument in everything. Where do we see that?

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As for me, I know plenty who are pessimistic and angry. Obama's whole first campaign fed on that. Hope and change exploits that very belief, doesn't it?

Hope is not a negative emotion. It's a subtle difference, but a real difference, between hope and fear. If you can't see the difference, then why are you so against climate alarmists? They aren't peddling fear, they're just hopeful.

- Dan G

[champu 1]

DanG

I've been to many parts of this country, and have yet to see that kind of community anywhere.

That's because they're all wearing ghillie suits.

[DanG 1]

Or are they?

- Dan G

[lawrocket 3]

Hope is usually a response to fear or some other uncomfortable situation. The President campaigned on hope. Why? Because people didn't want what they had. He campaigned on change. Because people wanted things to go differently.

Some hope for change. Some fear change. They are different shades of the same color. On that I agree.

But fear is a much more powerful motivator. Whether it be communists, terrorists, drugs, etc, we have the need to identify the wrongdoers and stand against them.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[DanG 1]

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But fear is a much more powerful motivator. Whether it be communists, terrorists, drugs, etc, we have the need to identify the wrongdoers and stand against them.

Sure, but part of the debate is figuring out who the wrongdoers are. ISIS is an obvious wrongdoer. Pot smokers? Less obvious.

- Dan G

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DanG

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But fear is a much more powerful motivator. Whether it be communists, terrorists, drugs, etc, we have the need to identify the wrongdoers and stand against them.

Sure, but part of the debate is figuring out who the wrongdoers are. ISIS is an obvious wrongdoer. Pot smokers? Less obvious.

Pot is bad. If you smoke pot, your babies will be born naked.

[NewGuy2005 53]

RonD1120

I believe our nation began a serious division and mutual distrust beginning around 1965. This divide has grown into passive aggressive rage. The Internet is the perfect medium to perpetuate our demise.

What happened in 1965?

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NewGuy2005

***I believe our nation began a serious division and mutual distrust beginning around 1965. This divide has grown into passive aggressive rage. The Internet is the perfect medium to perpetuate our demise.

What happened in 1965?

Blacks had civil rights starting 1964. Upset a lot of bigots.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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kallend

******I believe our nation began a serious division and mutual distrust beginning around 1965. This divide has grown into passive aggressive rage. The Internet is the perfect medium to perpetuate our demise.

What happened in 1965?

Blacks had civil rights starting 1964. Upset a lot of bigots.

And now we have a Negro A Day thread from them.

[lawrocket 3]

Amazon

*********I believe our nation began a serious division and mutual distrust beginning around 1965. This divide has grown into passive aggressive rage. The Internet is the perfect medium to perpetuate our demise.

What happened in 1965?

Blacks had civil rights starting 1964. Upset a lot of bigots.

And now we have a Negro A Day thread from them.

wow. The initial post was not meant as an experiment to see just how divisive and polarized it can get.

I also point to 1965-67 as the most long-term destructive Congressional session for future budgets. That was when Medicare and Medicaid got enacted.

No. Apparently there is no legitimate debate over those. Gotta be the coloreds

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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lawrocket

************I believe our nation began a serious division and mutual distrust beginning around 1965. This divide has grown into passive aggressive rage. The Internet is the perfect medium to perpetuate our demise.

What happened in 1965?

Blacks had civil rights starting 1964. Upset a lot of bigots.

And now we have a Negro A Day thread from them.

wow. The initial post was not meant as an experiment to see just how divisive and polarized it can get.

I also point to 1965-67 as the most long-term destructive Congressional session for future budgets. That was when Medicare and Medicaid got enacted.

No. Apparently there is no legitimate debate over those. Gotta be the coloreds

Ever seen a forest... for the trees?

[lawrocket 3]

What exactly is your problem with people being people? Yes, people prefer to watch good looking people in movies or television. This is no surprise. That many people think is should be different and that we should be above out based animal instincts is no different than some religious tori tht winger suggesting that we should be beyond the desire for sex and masturbation.

Yes. I happen to think my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. Do you seriously suggest that it is wrong for a husband to think that? You actually think it is a problem that I think that my wife is gorgeous? Please explain why you think I should think that my wife is anything but the most beautiful woman. She also has staggering intellect and warm personality and is highly educated.

Because to me beauty and hotness are more than physical beauty

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

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What exactly is your problem with people being people? Yes, people prefer to watch good looking people in movies or television. This is no surprise. That many people think is should be different and that we should be above out based animal instincts is no different than some religious tori tht winger suggesting that we should be beyond the desire for sex and masturbation.

My issue with that, is that it is one sided.

A male newscaster could wear the same suit for a year and it wouldn't get noticed.

A female newscaster would get absolutely fried for wearing a similar outfit too many times in a couple of months.

Neither has anything to do with their actual ability to do their job.

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SkyDekker

My issue with that, is that it is one sided.

A male newscaster could wear the same suit for a year and it wouldn't get noticed.

A female newscaster would get absolutely fried for wearing a similar outfit too many times in a couple of months.

Neither has anything to do with their actual ability to do their job.

I agree with the first part but on the "actual ability to do their job"

their job is to get ratings for the network. So I would say being good looking is part of their job

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[GeorgiaDon 379]

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wow. The initial post was not meant as an experiment to see just how divisive and polarized it can get.

Yep, that's the way it goes around speaker's corner these days. It's almost impossible to have an adult conversation about anything without some people turning everything and anything to a mindless attack on "liberals" or "conservitards" or whatever. Sad. I find it less than worthwhile to post any substantive response to threads these days. I can see why Nerdgirl and some others left.

It would be nice to have a blocker so that any post that uses certain words such as "liberals", "Republiscums", "Conservitards" etc are automatically deleted, and the author is blocked from posting for a day. It would also be nice if people wrote in complete sentences and made even a cursory attempt at spelling and grammar, but that would probably exclude too many people.

Don

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Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996)
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

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SkyDekker

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What exactly is your problem with people being people? Yes, people prefer to watch good looking people in movies or television. This is no surprise. That many people think is should be different and that we should be above out based animal instincts is no different than some religious tori tht winger suggesting that we should be beyond the desire for sex and masturbation.

My issue with that, is that it is one sided.

A male newscaster could wear the same suit for a year and it wouldn't get noticed.

A female newscaster would get absolutely fried for wearing a similar outfit too many times in a couple of months.

Neither has anything to do with their actual ability to do their job.

I don't think it is as one sided as you suggest. I can think of one newscaster with a beard. Wolf Blitzer. I can think of one guy with flashy suits. Don Cherry. Who has long hair in an anchor role?

Male anchors are vanilla. Matt Lauer isn't a fashion guru. Male anchors are in good shape, short hair, clean shaven, good voice.

The ones that don't fit that mold and have some character are called weathermen.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[RonD1120 62]

LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

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I don't think it is as one sided as you suggest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/17/today-anchor-same-suit-year-australia_n_6174708.html

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champu

***I've been to many parts of this country, and have yet to see that kind of community anywhere.

That's because they're all wearing ghillie suits.
Maybe im just to tierd but iv been laughing for 2 hours at this now.

[champu 1]

"Look at that [person wearing camo]" -> "Where? I don't see anything."

and

"Are you deaf?" -> "What!?!"

jokes will never get old.

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RonD1120

LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Yep, if only everyone would be conservative there wouldn't be any liberals left for you to hate, and then the country would be re-united.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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jakee

***LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Yep, if only everyone would be conservative there wouldn't be any liberals left for you to hate, and then the country would be re-united.

Generally speaking, conservatives do not hate anyone
That is another liberal problem
Too much projecting

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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rushmc

******LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Yep, if only everyone would be conservative there wouldn't be any liberals left for you to hate, and then the country would be re-united.

Generally speaking, conservatives do not hate anyone
That is another liberal problem
Too much projecting

You are right! Conservatives tend to be very inclusive. I mean, just look at Indiana.

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RonD1120

LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Wellll except for the many thousands of Vets who got a very good look at that "man behind the curtain" and joined the protests as Vets against the Vietnam War.

Here are a few pictures from that era in case the old memory is bein a bit muddied by time..
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pics+of+vets+against+the+vietnam+war&qpvt=pics+of+vets+against+the+vietnam+war&qpvt=pics+of+vets+against+the+vietnam+war&FORM=IGRE

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rushmc

******LBJ started and escalated the Vietnam War with a false flag. Drugs use became common and hippies started protesting the war. The hippies then harassed the vets when they returned home. The country divided and it has grown worse over the last fifty years.

Yep, if only everyone would be conservative there wouldn't be any liberals left for you to hate, and then the country would be re-united.

Generally speaking, conservatives do not hate anyone
That is another liberal problem
Too much projecting


You sucked down the worm at the bottom in that bottle didn't you

I am sure you believe that white, blonde, and blue eyed Jesus was a conservative but please regale us with the volumes of information of how our country has been bettered in so many way by all that ultra-conservative love and light.