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SmokeyTheBear

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  1. 1 hour ago, GRHorn said:

    Pseudonymous handle toting internet tough guy calls somebody a coward. 🙄

    Happy to meet face to face and call any Trump supporter a coward. Do better. And that's a general statement, not just pointed to this exact situation. 

  2. 1 hour ago, GRHorn said:

    Who? The author? I mean I get your point, but you’re also one of the most inflammatory rabble rousers on this site full of pseudonymous posters, so maybe we should all take a look in the mirror on that one. 

    I don't consider myself inflammatory or a rabble rouser, but happy to call you a coward despite being one of the last Trump supporters to post on the CR. 

  3. 1 hour ago, EMAWesome said:

    Are you saying that system is still in place?  If it is it is the most piss poor racist system any racists on the face of the earth have ever conceived.  The  same system that has produced the Congressional Black Caucus which has been in place as long as I can remember, an African-American on the Supreme Court for every year I have been alive, a country today in which Africans are the fastest rising sector of immigrants, a country four years removed from the second term of an African-American president.  If only our system was as bad at spending tax payers money as it is at being racist.

    And that isn't even what I am railing against.  I am railing against the idea that dissenting opinions and ideas must be wiped off the face of society.  I am railing against the idea that anything, anywhere in the world in the form of a statue, a television program, a movie, the name of a sports team, the name of a band, any plant, animal or mineral that may possibly, theoretically, conceivably, if you go 85 million degrees of Kevin Bacon have dinged any one of the seven billion people on earth's feelings must be removed from society and from history.  This is absolute stupidity and anyone that can't see it are morons.  Go ahead call me a racist all you want.  You're wrong but I will never convince you of it and frankly I don't give a fuck.  If I have to pick one over the other I would rather be considered a racist than a moron.  At least there are examples in history of racists accomplishing something (hello Woodrow Wilson, D.W. Griffith, and, in your eyes, probably everyone that ever signed the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution).  What have morons ever accomplished?

    What you need to understand is that you are now defined as the fringe. You may beat your chest at the thought of being fringe, equating it somehow to being a rare person to really know what it going on in the world, but no, you are the extreme. You admittedly frequent spaces with others who reenforce your fringe ideas but when exposed to dissenting opinion, your ideals collapse. Think about it for more than 10 seconds and you should find that maybe your ideals aren't based on reality. 

    But again, rail against those who see the holes of what you stand for. Complain and obfuscate. Run off to your safe space to feel better about your false reality. No one here will put up with it anymore. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Sweet lord....can you imagine a Donald Trump-drafted party platform?  I mean, that's what we're going to get - there is no party but for Trump, so whatever he says the platform is, that's what it will be.

    The platform may just be a series of tweets, with lots of exclamation points.  I truly have no idea.  But I do know this...

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    Totally can appreciate a government party platform in short form.

    "Whites good. Money good. Bad people, bad." 

  5. Just now, Sbbruin said:

    I have noticed this as well about @EMAWesome.  He quick hits and then disappears.  I would honestly like to hear a clear explanation of his position.  But that shit in the OP was cryptic and nonsense. What is the issue he’s pushing back on?  I’ll just assume it was NASCAR banning the Confederate flag.  And does that mean “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns will be banned too?  Then I’d be pissed not being able to see Cathy Bach in dem daisies.

    No, it's not one thing, it's that we shut him down quickly every time in ways he can't comprehend. He's admitted to prefer the feeling of his safe spaces much better than here. Yes EMAW, it's very comforting to be around those who think like you. It's called group think. Know why I like this place? Cause I'm a bleeding liberal and I can freely engage with the new Right (like you) anytime I choose, to challenge my ideas/beliefs/philosophy. Helps you grow as an adult. Try it. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

    It’s just more grieving. 

     

    A real leader representing real people who all are fighting for real values. Not tag lines. Core constitutional values. 

    Who can name Trumps values? 

  7. 17 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    I'm getting my baby seal club oiled up because that has to be just around the corner.

    Better use that whale oil. Bring back all that old American greatness. 

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  8. It can't be a coincidence, so must be done on purpose. Add it to the list of shitty things he does to try and be Presidential. He'll say he has done more for African Americans than anyone else, including Lincoln; with the backdrop of the massacre. And he won't even get the irony. 

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  9. On 6/8/2020 at 5:00 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    I will pay, up to $500, any reporter who starts a question to him in a press conference with "Senator Ladybug."  

    I'll pay $500 to someone to hit me upside my head until the image of Ol Ladybug on all fours is out of my head. 

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    28 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    There's something you need to know about Hank. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    He puts all of his food in his ass before eating it. 

    I hear you get a stronger reaction that way. Sounds like he did things right. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    This is one of my favorite right wing narratives:  that the ideology of communism is responsible for more genocide than the Nazis, and therefore communists are much worse than Nazis. 

    Yes, I am aware Stalin was a brutal dictator and communism is a failed ideology but I missed the Karl Marx chapter on “how to starve your population to death and get away with it.”  

    It’s one of the more insidious lines of thought going on with the right.

    Csb: when I was in Jamaica and Tucker Carlson had his whole family there for his kids wedding, the one thing I heard them say on the beach was trying to justify this exact point to some gay friends attending the wedding. "the Right is so much better than the socialist left. Look at the body count. Pol Pot, Stalin, etc!" "Democrats aren't tolerant, they wanted slaves!" 

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    13 hours ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

    Holy shit. Ya we usually only get the really cold rain in the city this time of year. Hail was a decent size on Saturday.

    We were in Winter Park in late February. Beautiful area.

    This morning

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  11. From March :

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/russian-interference-race.html

    The Russian government has stepped up efforts to inflame racial tensions in the United States as part of its bid to influence November’s presidential election, including trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups and to stoke anger among African-Americans, according to seven American officials briefed on recent intelligence.

     

     

    In no way am I saying that the current issues are solely happening because of Russia, but it looks like they are trying to make it worse. 

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    7 minutes ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

    Must be the rain we’re about to get all night in Denver. Great view in that photo.

    Storm hit about an hour ago. Wicked winds that I thought for sure would tear down some trees (we had 110 mph winds a couple days ago, had to sprint to the car on a hike when it hit. Trees falling everywhere). We now are getting a steady snow as the temp dropped to 22. We have seen all the possible weather events in the past 2 weeks. 

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