BANNED USER: Angry troll looking for a fight
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
I'm serious.
User ID: 267
Banned by: @Amadan
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
I wish we could have disposed of Trump in time to have a real conservative candidate this November.
GematriaUnlimited
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6mo ago
The beginning of the Imperial era in Roman politics led to civil war over the imperial seat which was the true cause of the fall of the Roman Empire.
Authoritarian dictators are an inherently incompetent and violent form of government, and anyone who aspires to return us to savage government is factually incorrect about an important section of human history.
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GematriaUnlimited
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6mo ago
I don't wish to add fuel to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election by engaging you in disagreement.
GematriaUnlimited
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6mo ago
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Content
- Avoid low-effort participation.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
I left because I was tired of being downvoted for expressing doubt about Trump. There is groupthink here and it's not necessarily good.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
That sounds to me like a laymen interpretation of the case. I trust the jurors to come to a decision about whether or not a crime was committed.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
It seems to me that it is better to set a precedent that criminals get convicted of crimes over a precedent that politicians cannot be convicted of crimes.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
I might even vote for the old rascal myself as I view this lawfare as both morally wrong and deeply destabilizing.
How can you restabilize a situation in which an active participant has committed to destabilizing it by propagating myths about a stolen election?
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
6mo ago
How can you tell the difference between overt political lawfare and the conviction of a felon by a jury of peers?
Wouldn't the assumption that any criminal punishment of a political candidate be considered 'lawfare' make it impossible to punish criminal politicians?
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
9mo ago
I suspect that there's overlap between people who accuse Trump of inciting the riot on January 6th despite his explicit call for 'peace' and people who believe that the 'bloodbath' comment is evidence that Trump is ready for a civil war even though he was clearly talking about the automotive industry.
I think that Trump should be in the past for the good of this country, but when we can't even agree on what words mean anymore, I don't know that I think there's a lot of hope.
Sometimes I think about how we got here. Something I've seen a lot of leftwing people talk about recently is: "The system is what it does." The left is what it does, not what it says it does. The postmodernism, the communism: there's this sense in which I just want to say we can see you. But there's always equivocation about 'the left.' They call it 'essentializing' the left even as they apply their reductive reasoning to Trumpism.
And I'm old enough to remember that Obama came in on backlash to the Bush administration. "Cthulhu swims left" is the sort of thing neophytes say on encountering politics for the first time: it follows that Cthulhu swims right in a great drumbeat. Much of the surveillance apparatus that creates our authoritarian present was built during the Bush administration.
I'm afraid of what people will turn to if Trump isn't enough.
Maybe there aren't firm conclusions in here, but there's no one else talking today, so here I am.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
The better question is if there's any allowance for humor here; how many of the people who upvoted you did so because of the logical point it contained? ;)
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
On Covid, scientists were unwilling to admit the lab theory because the labs running GoF experiments were doing the same thing in China as they were in the USA. It’s as simple as that. It could have happened in America, blaming “the Chinese” was nonsensical.
The above screed (that you're replying to) was written by someone who rather than consider just how difficult it is to tell the truth to an inflamed populace would prefer to lean into an ideological mistrust of 'blue tribe' targets.
To the extent that this place is attempting to be 'conservative' it's essentially lost all semblance of responsibility as a virtue.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
mixing the personal and political
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
I know, and I weighed the consequences of brevity in this instance, and decided that a correction in one sentence was sufficient. To fulfill dharma I cannot be obligated to address all dukkha incurred by another's attempt to teach.
It is also an intended read that if you are irresponsible enough to take spiritual training (is it the transfer of knowledge about the spirit?) over the Internet from someone's book report, you can be responsible for performing your own search.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
Most Republicans don't believe climate change is a problem at all, your optimism is incoherent
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
It is somewhat irresponsible to mention dharma without also covering dukkha.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
How many people here are "unfuckable messes" and would be comfortable being made a subject like this?
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
It sounds to me like you're resisting an obvious conclusion: you need religion. The choice is between tradition and its challenging but earnest calls to a better life and the degeneracy of rainbow churches.
You need religion because you boast about your sexual relationship with your wife online.
You need religion because instead of keeping your family business in the family, you make political hay of it to strangers.
Talk to the people you need to talk to, don't just vent helplessly.
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
When did we become so bleak?
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
Are you familiar with the phrase "business is pleasure when it's done right?"
This is a business place, where we discuss serious things seriously.
My question is genuine. Another phrase: "Put up or shut up."
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
WE ARE ALL SINNERS
IT IS KNOWN
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
Why not?
GematriaUnlimited
dependariat
1yr ago
One of the criticisms that stuck with me early on in Trump's presidency, don't know who said it, was that by embracing a politician whose action deliberately enraged the 'other side', we were furthering division in this country. I think that was undeniably true, and it was undeniably the sort of thing any proper conservative party should understand.
It is true that if it is a legitimate challenge to an election result, there would be ways of knowing this. The existence of people who believe false things does not mean those false things are true.
It is true that an illegitimate challenge to an election result is a threat to democracy. Illegitimate challengers are criminals, and they should be punished to the full extent of the law.
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