"SEND HER BACK!" Will they defend this?

theprestige said:
He didn't get banned for inciting violence, as far as I know.
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Maybe not. I think he got banned for pornographic postings of some kind. That said, I am pretty sure I reported him for something like incitement to violence before I put him on ignore many years ago.

What do you think about police officers making jokey comments about how elected representatives deserve a bullet?
 
Trump Tweets

The “Squad” is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart. They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left, and were against humanitarian aid at the Border...And are now against ICE and Homeland Security. So bad for our Country!
 
Cavemonster said:
I take the poll with a grain of salt, even within that article, they're clear that other polls show much lower Republican acknowledgement of global warming as a serious problem and willingness to enact solutions.

And here's the kicker, even if the poll is accurate and more than half of Republicans acknowledge the issue of global warming and support legislative solutions, a far higher percentage approves of the current administration which has struck talk of global warming from government websites, muzzled government scientists. According to Gallup, Trump has a 90% approval among Republicans.

You might say "Well, they approve of the other stuff he's doing even if they disagree with his climate policy".

That means that even if they care about climate in their heart of hearts, they don't care enough about it to say "disapprove" on a survey much less vote for politicians who might do something.

I find the notion that a lot of Republicans care about climate change, just not enough to say or do anything about it kind of uncompelling.
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I have been fighting the climate change fight for years. So I get your point. It is changing though. And most that change must come from within. As soon as a democrat pushes the issue, the pushback means peoples position just becomes more entrenched.
Actually this lady and hundreds more like her, including myself BTW, are gradually having an effect.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The “Squad” is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart. They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left, and were against humanitarian aid at the Border...And are now against ICE and Homeland Security. So bad for our Country!
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Republican fans, please explain how the Squad are “very Racist” but Trump and his supporters are not.
 
Trump Tweets

The Amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total Fake News. They said “Advisors wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.” Now really, does that sound like me? What advisors, there were no talking points,....

....except for those stated by me, & “reams of paper” were never given to me. It is a made up story meant to demean & belittle. The Post had no sources. The facts remain the same, that we have 4 Radical Left Congresswomen who have said very bad things about Israel & our Country!
 
theprestige said:
Hell, fuelair used to wish pain and death on people all the time. I don't recall anyone here worried that he might be inciting violence.
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That propensity was what made him one of my early entries to my at the time shiny new Ignore list.

Prior to that action I was ... maybe worried isn't the right term ... offended enough that I suggested he cut it out.

He didn't seem inclined to entertain that suggestion.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
I have been fighting the climate change fight for years. So I get your point. It is changing though. And most that change must come from within. As soon as a democrat pushes the issue, the pushback means peoples position just becomes more entrenched.
Actually this lady and hundreds more like her, including myself BTW, are gradually having an effect.
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Please don’t blame Democrats for your side’s ignorance. If Republicans have a knee-jerk reaction to everything that Democrats say or propose then there is something wrong with them.
 
angrysoba said:
Republican fans, please explain how the Squad are “very Racist” but Trump and his supporters are not.
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Because most racism in the world is directed against white people, they face by far the most discrimination in the US. That is fundamental to understanding the republican view of race. White people are terribly oppressed in the US.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
Neoliberals
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I'm quite capable of doing my own online research, and as it happens it was exactly that article which led me to state in my post that the term's definition seemed somewhat malleable, as well as having changed substantially and more than once since it was first coined.

This is why I specifically asked if "... you mind providing the definition you are using ...".

You haven't answered that question with this response.

Should I take that as an indication that you would mind sharing with the rest of us just exactly how you intend the term to be interpreted?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The “Squad” is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart.
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Ah, yes. The other guys are the real racists!

They're also not stable geniuses.

They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left
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Yeah, if he's refering to the Democratic party when it was on the right, I'm not sure "segregation is good" is part of the implication the Republicans would want to make.
 
RBF, if you have the sense that the GOP moved away from William Weld's conservatism towards neoliberalism, do you agree that the same happened to Elizabeth Warren?
 
quadraginta said:
I'm quite capable of doing my own online research, and as it happens it was exactly that article which led me to state in my post that the term's definition seemed somewhat malleable, as well as having changed substantially and more than once since it was first coined.

This is why I specifically asked if "... you mind providing the definition you are using ...".

You haven't answered that question with this response.

Should I take that as an indication that you would mind sharing with the rest of us just exactly how you intend the term to be interpreted?
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Neoliberals in the real world are very similar to libertarians, with some important differences though.

its an hour lecture, skip to 33 minutes in if you want a good example of how it is effecting the climate debate and policy.
 
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plague311 said:
Huh? What does affirmative action have to do with this at all?
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this was written by someone else. But it answers your question fairly well. It's a much more popular answer than my own I posted yesterday.
Matthew Bates answer to What do right wing people consider racist?

Or instead ask Pondering Turtle to explain.
ponderingturtle said:
Because most racism in the world is directed against white people, they face by far the most discrimination in the US. That is fundamental to understanding the republican view of race. White people are terribly oppressed in the US.
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Red Baron Farms said:
I write for a couple conservative spaces at Quora. Here is an example:

What do right wing people consider racist?
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You define "racist" in a way that says virtually everyone on the planet is a racist.

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... but not the least bit useful, much less the "intelligent discussion" I expected about Trump's race-baiting demagoguery.
 
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