Barak Obama is a Republican...

Graham2001

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Why, because only a member of the Republican Party would say something like this...



"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people.


If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because 'Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!"


That's enough," he said. "If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261
 
Graham2001 said:
Why, because only a member of the Republican Party would say something like this...






https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261
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No

That is just an example of your average sane person from both side of the political spectrum realising how stupid things have got when so many lefty/righty fringe identity politics groups get more and more exposure through social media.

The media themselves don't help, now that one tweet from an idiot nobody, can mean "Insert name - Receives death threats from insert right/left identity group!!!", or "Insert name - Hate group/Justice Group (left or right) growing in intensity about insert of victim group!!!"

And then we have 30 page threads about it on just this forum alone.
 
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cullennz said:
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That is just an example of your average sane person from both side of the political spectrum realising how stupid things have got when so many lefty/righty fringe identity politics groups get more and more exposure through social media.

The media themselves don't help, now that one tweet from an idiot nobody, can mean "Insert name - Receives death threats from insert right/left identity group!!!", or "Insert name - Hate group/Justice Group (left or right) growing in intensity about insert of victim group!!!"

And then we have 30 page threads about it on just this forum alone.
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I agree. Indeed and it's ironic that the thread starter is doing the exact thing Obama was talking about.
 
Graham2001 said:
Why, because only a member of the Republican Party would say something like this...
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Yes, he definitely must be! As we all know, Republicans are never judgmental about other people!
 
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Obama is a nice and intelligent man. Wish he was President.
 
dann said:
Yes, he definitely must be! As we all know, Republicans are never judgmental about other people!
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From what I have seen on this forum and others both sides come out about equal, when you ignore the fringe nutty ones on both sides, and just look at the mainstream.

Same as here, same as Aus, same as the UK....Only know about those, but guessing these days it is kind of global, in what Obama is talking about, as he has been to a **** load more countries to witness it.
 
uke2se said:
Obama is a nice and intelligent man. Wish he was President.
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You really shouldn't

You would end up with what we have.

It is all about swing votes

The Republicans would be forced to go more lefty to win (can't go more right as they lose votes from sane people), which would make the Dem's go more righty to match (can't go more left as they lose votes from sane people), which goes on and they end up in the middle and virtually the same straddling slightly either side of the middle.

And it turns out kind of nice and safe and nothing big is going to freak people out.

But stagnant.

Believe me. When you have a govt that can't make any sort of very major decision it sucks.

Edit: Don't know enough about it to be sure, but guessing I this might be similar to Brexit
 
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Wow! It's almost like it's impossible to describe anyone's political views simply by naming a political party.

It seems human beings are more complicated than that. Whodathunkit?!
 
It's funny how people read different things into the same remark. So far everybody seems to be concentrating on the "wokeness" aspect. I read it as Obama saying action is needed to effect change, not just talk. Which seems fairly uncontroversial to me.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It's funny how people read different things into the same remark. So far everybody seems to be concentrating on the "wokeness" aspect. I read it as Obama saying action is needed to effect change, not just talk. Which seems fairly uncontroversial to me.
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That's such a Republican thing to say!
 
TragicMonkey said:
It's funny how people read different things into the same remark. So far everybody seems to be concentrating on the "wokeness" aspect. I read it as Obama saying action is needed to effect change, not just talk. Which seems fairly uncontroversial to me.
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I just read it as fairly neutral and rather than finding hidden meanings in his words, just went with the words.

I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people.
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Nothing about a "Side"(which seems to mean a lot to Americans)

If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because 'Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!"


That's enough," he said. "If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."
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This could look a bit anti-left, but actually happens both ways.
 
Belz... said:
That's such a Republican thing to say!
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Not for the evangelical wing of the Republicans. It strays too close to the Catholic insistence that good deeds are required for salvation, rather than the Protestant "by faith alone" doctrine. Thinking correct thoughts doesn't seem like enough when it's not coupled with action.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Not for the evangelical wing of the Republicans. It strays too close to the Catholic insistence that good deeds are required for salvation, rather than the Protestant "by faith alone" doctrine. Thinking correct thoughts doesn't seem like enough when it's not coupled with action.
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Like this

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Sorry, I find it both humorous and shocking as a non American watching, you and others blatantly see things from such a one eyed partisan view point.
 
cullennz said:
Sorry, I find it both humorous and shocking as a non American watching, you and others blatantly see things from such a one eyed partisan view point.
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What's partisan about either of my remarks? What party do you think I belong to, and how do either of my remarks reflect that party?

I don't think you know US politics in general or the posters on this board well enough to make such judgments. You're not an informed onlooker seeing most of the game, you're an outsider making guesses based on limited information. You don't have the insight you think you do.
 
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