by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 02/25/2017 at 08:48
by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 02/25/2017 at 08:48
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But this picture sums up my feelings post-election.
Here’s the story in today’s WSJ.
I think I am not alone.
"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
02/25/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 2
le sigh. The more things change...
But on the other hand, I see this development as a good thing. The people—the actual people—doing its best to effect their change their way; getting what they want, because they go get it themselves.
The only real challenge is to make sure they want the right things, like sustainable development, judicious use of the environment, a push to drastically decrease discrimination across the board, and a recognition that there’s bullshit that actively harms more people than it helps, and it has to be controlled so that any harm that may arise from action that stems from bullshit can be mitigated properly.
Evil is a unique affliction in that eradicating it can sterilize the world, and if it’s removed and suppressed for a long time with no education, generations will not be able to see any wrongs being done. This is why Germany is doing its best to educate its youth about WW2. This is why the youth have to know what evil looks like; why atrocious activities from history have to be retold. Because if you know how evil works, even if you never know what face evil takes form next time, you will know it’s evil and must be stopped.
It’s good that we’re getting what we want these days. But should we want what we’re getting?
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/25/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 2
I enjoyed reading your comment. You never know in this forum what you are going to get, but it’s frequently excellent.
I react a little bit, and I am having a hard time putting a word to describing the reaction, a little bit repelled, a little bit defensive, when anybody says “the right things.” Yes, I agree with you that the things you enumerate in your second paragraph are worthy and constructive and helpful for long term mortal existence and I would fight for any of them. But if we are to seek to be unified as a people, we must examine our diction carefully so as to be inclusive.
I am an educator and my credibility and experience with social and restorative justice is about as strong as any White man’s is going to be. And yet, as a Democrat, and I was not a Berner, I can look at the liberal elite, and I watched the election closely, and I say that the left got what it earned and deserves in Donald Trump. And education — chiefly the teachers’ unions — got what they earned and deserve in Betsy DeVos. Unions, while necessary in my view to protect workers’ rights, are absolutely corrupt and drunken with political power in their leadership, and seek to enslave their membership. Labor unions in the United States will either change their ways or be destroyed. When Donald Trump called out that union local president at Carrier, he was absolutely correct and went straight for the soft underbelly.
The DNC threw that election to Donald Trump as sure as you and I are sitting here typing to each other. I called it
from the beginning
that HRC was going to be a disaster of a candidate, and my liberal family cried, “But Donald Trump!” and here we are.
Anyhow, I’m with you 100%, but my messaging focuses on other areas.
"fintail" (fintail)
02/25/2017 at 11:08, STARS: 2
If the opposite of pro is con, what’s the opposite of progress? :)
The Dems need another Obama like there’s no tomorrow. Too many dopes have been conned by the newly-filled swamp.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/25/2017 at 11:40, STARS: 1
The Dems have a complete leadership vacuum.
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
02/25/2017 at 13:36, STARS: 0
Lets go overthrow a government. there are enough of these out there to go around...
JK. I feel we are to the point of a major political shakeup. But i also fear that means socialist/communist people riding on our countries laziness
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/25/2017 at 13:57, STARS: 0
I like firearms, but as a people, we seem to be obsessed with the AR-15.
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
02/25/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 1
yea seriously the AK-47 is better and a larger round!
I think it has to do with many people dont like the look of it so that makes other people want it more. Also when someone pulls it out at the range it just look so cool
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
02/25/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 0
The people who seriously talk like never think that they don’t have enough of these.
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
02/25/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
yea. i need to stock up on body armor
"fintail" (fintail)
02/25/2017 at 14:39, STARS: 1
And at possibly the worst time in history for it.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/25/2017 at 16:58, STARS: 0
They have helped create the worst time in history. And I see zero end in sight because the Nancy Pelosi people of the world are too deeply intrenched.
"fintail" (fintail)
02/25/2017 at 17:04, STARS: 1
That’s the most amusing thing, the deplorables aren’t the only ones who own this shitstorm. And now we have at least 4 more years of living in an Onion story. Sadly, neither side has any history of taking responsibility for their actions.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/25/2017 at 17:10, STARS: 0
Imagine if any of the current allegations came out against HrC over the past two or three years... There’d be investigations for years.
"fintail" (fintail)
02/25/2017 at 17:19, STARS: 1
They’d never end. And new ones would be brought up within 2 weeks of an election, too.
I’m just glad to know the swamp is being drained, that Russia has no involvement in anything, and that we’re being protected from fake news via alternative facts.