Possible terrorist attack - Orlando, FL 6-12-16

[billvon 3,031]

>If only one party did it, I think it would be a high chance they'd win the election and
>disband the party

At the next meeting of the Republicans:

"Mr. Chairman, I move we disband Republicans."
"I have a motion. Motion carries! Thank you, gentlemen. Now go away forever."

I think it would be easier to disband, say, US banks than a US political party. Make even the slightest motion in that direction and the party faithful - in many cases the same party faithful who are attacking Trump - would turn on you, lest they be rendered irrelevant.

[rehmwa 2]

if the poster child for the parties are Donald and Hillary, then it's now, or never (as you note)

one can hope, can't one?

the phrase "lesser of two evils" is particularly poignant this election
literal vs figurative is really in play

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[jakee 1,536]

rehmwa

DanG took the time for an honest answer without insult

I was being honest, and reality is not an insult.

You spend half your time holding yourself up as the only guy in SC who can see both sides of a story and bemoaning the fact that everyone else can only see things in black and white, and the other half making posts like the above, painting all liberals and Hillary supporters with the broadist of brushes as complete absolutists.

To be honest, severe oxygen deprivation would explain why you're unable to see it.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[rushmc 23]

jakee

***DanG took the time for an honest answer without insult

To be honest, severe oxygen deprivation would explain why you're unable to see it.

You are projecting again

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

[rehmwa 2]

jakee

***DanG took the time for an honest answer without insult

I was being honest, and reality is not an insult.

You spend half your time holding yourself up as the only guy in SC who can see both sides of a story and bemoaning the fact that everyone else can only see things in black and white, and the other half making posts like the above, painting all liberals and Hillary supporters with the broadist of brushes as complete absolutists.

To be honest, severe oxygen deprivation would explain why you're unable to see it.

bull - your only reason here is to hump people's knee's and troll out insults

I'll broadbrush the true-believers on both sides all the time. You just don't see it when it's against the wacky right because you believe in THOSE caricatures. You cry when it's anything else because you are outraged that people might have opinions you don't approve. get over it.

I'm not even sure if you are just blinded by a false impression that you think you're the smartest guy in the room, or if you're just some crotchety old guy playing troll. It's an election year and people are moving strongly to mean spiritedness here, but for you, it's your normal SOP - you must be the happiest guy on the internet right now. It's amusing most of the time, but your prejudices are really over the top.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[jakee 1,536]

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bull - your only reason here is to hump people's knee's and troll out insults

If that were true it wouldn't mean my statement was bull. Those are two seperate issues.

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I'll broadbrush the true-believers on both sides all the time.

Conveniently forgetting that you just broad brushed everyone as a true believer. What would you be saying if someone else did that, hmm? You want honesty, be honest with your own self.

Come on, seriously, would you be getting so worked up about it if it wasn't true?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[rehmwa 2]

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Conveniently forgetting that you just broad brushed everyone as a true believer.

right on target that you consider 'everyone' to be just two positions - not three or four or even individual. you might just not be wired to understand

jakee

Come on, seriously, would you be getting so worked up about it if it wasn't true?

I would, the meanness in this forum is epic and I react to that regardless of where it comes from. always have. the hope is people try to be more like Wendy, but they are just getting more and more Funjumper-like

but hey, if you want, I'll stop responding and you can claim you won the internet - if that's all you have and what you desire and it makes your life better

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[normiss 818]

I just gave Quade credit for winning the internet today.
Great.
Everybody gets a trophy.

[wmw999 2,485]

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Everyone gets a trophy

Oooh -- which would I rather win -- the Internet or the Special Olympics? Ya know, more people participating in the second are probably nice people

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[normiss 818]

I'm having difficulty differentiating the two.

[jakee 1,536]

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right on target that you consider 'everyone' to be just two positions - not three or four or even individual. you might just not be wired to understand

Partly my fault there - I meant you painted everyone who would vote for Hillary as a true believer.

Typical of your self-blinkers that you didn't realise it though, right?

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I would, the meanness in this forum is epic and I react to that regardless of where it comes from

Indeed you do. Pretty much everything you post is either moaning about how other people are conducting a particular discussion or moaning about the state of the forum in general. So what is it you attempt to contribute here? It's incredibly rare that you are actually engaged in arguing a position or belief - you're mostly just in the business of ad hominem.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[wmw999 2,485]

Nah, Rehmwa gets into snarky mode sometimes (thanks autocorrect for changing snarly to snarky ), but he usually identifies it as such when he does so. Along with the much-missed Lawrocket, he often addresses the actual points in posts he replies to, rather than cherry-picking the one phrase that sets him up for the usual "so-and-so's are so stupid" diatribes.

That said, yeah, Rehmwa, there are lots of folks who wish Hillary weren't the Democratic candidate. I've posted repeatedly on how lacking I find her judgment to be on the server issue, never mind other stuff. And I even gave the thought of Trump some consideration (since Jesse Ventura didn't wreck Minnesota), but he's pandering so very much to people I'd rather not feel powerful (bigots etc), that I don't think I can trust him to turn into a human being. But hey -- in Myers-Briggs world, I'm a super-strong P -- nothing is over until its stake-in-the-heart dead
Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rehmwa 2]

wmw999

And I even gave the thought of Trump some consideration (since Jesse Ventura didn't wreck Minnesota), but he's pandering so very much to people I'd rather not feel powerful (bigots etc), that I don't think I can trust him to turn into a human being.

I recall that - and I've moved too, he's cross the boundary and I don't think he can do anything for me to even pretend he's worth listening to. The point that his rhetoric is attracting the worst of the worst - I agree there too. Sucks, the idea of an outsider was the best thing ever - but it matters WHO the outsider is.

As for people feeling powerful. He'll say anything to 'win' whatever moment he imagines himself in, but there are so many people that actually take it seriously enough that physical attacks are happening (bigots feeling empowered, or protesters getting violent, now a kid who felt driven to assassination, he brings out the worst in both camps). I'd rather not have any of them feel powerful about their shit either.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[TriGirl 319]

Um, did we all forget this is NOT the Trump vs Clinton thread? This is the Orlando mass shooting thread.

If the OP discussion has run its course (perhaps it's best it has), then personally I vote for this one to be locked down.

See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus

Shut Up & Jump!

[RonD1120 62]

No you don't. You haven't got a clue.

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.

[normiss 818]

You're going to wear out QED.
Likely without realizing nor understanding it.

[Coreeece 2]

DanG

I'm much more of a centrist (SC translation: liberal commie scum)

I too am a centrist, but of the knuckle dragging bigot persuasion. I contend that there is no room for the both of us on this fence - therefore I propose an easement between two fences where true centrists will reside!

Never was there an answer....not without listening, without seeing - Gilmour

[mistercwood 287]

wmw999

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Everyone gets a trophy

Oooh -- which would I rather win -- the Internet or the Special Olympics? Ya know, more people participating in the second are probably nice people

Wendy P.

Yeah but when I win the internet I still get to walk home after...

You are playing chicken with a planet - you can't dodge and planets don't blink. Act accordingly.

[DanG 1]

Special Olympics are for mentally challenged people. Paralympics are for physically challenged people.

Nice try though.

- Dan G

[rushmc 23]

normiss

You're going to wear out QED.
Likely without realizing nor understanding it.

Wear out a reply that is a dodge to begin with?

QED

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

[normiss 818]

In which case my reply clearly applies to you as well.

[rushmc 23]

normiss

In which case my reply clearly applies to you as well.

You have no sense of humor at all here

Go figure

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

[normiss 818]

Simply because your post wasn't actually funny has nothing to do with my sense of humor.

[turtlespeed 221]

mistercwood

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Everyone gets a trophy

Oooh -- which would I rather win -- the Internet or the Special Olympics? Ya know, more people participating in the second are probably nice people

Wendy P.

Yeah but when I win the internet I still get to walk home after...

And if you win the special olympics - at the end of the day, you are still retarded.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[normiss 818]

Apparently he was shunned by Latino men
He just wanted to cuddle.