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05-02-2011, 11:46 PM | #1 |
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Y'all are so cute trying to sustain a rational dialog with UG!
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05-02-2011, 11:53 PM | #2 |
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Just testing the findings of a recent study in the UK that suggests people with right wing views have a larger area of the brain associated with fear.
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05-03-2011, 07:28 AM | #3 | |
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Interesting that you wish to "break" me, as opposed to convince me. Personally, I'd just like for you to learn a few things, and perhaps acknowledge a few truths, even if you don't come around fully to my way of thinking, politically. Why would you want to "break" me? That's not very respectful. How about let's not. This thread is about the death of Osama bin Laden. I'd say it's already been hijacked enough, wouldn't you? Quote:
Barack Obama was discussing the reason that so many people in "small town America" are bitter -- and they are, let's be honest. "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not."Do you deny this truth? Is this not an accurate depiction of many small towns throughout the Midwest, where jobs have dried up and nothing more than lip service has been paid to those who have been suffering through the demise of their livelihoods? And that, friend Guerrilla, is why Barack Obama then said, "And it's not surprising then they get bitter." It's not surprising, is it? It doesn't surprise me that people who've been "left behind" by technology and job outsourcing and politicians entering into treaties and working trade deals that have contributed to their towns crumbling around them, would be bitter. I'd be bitter! Wouldn't you? And what do people who have become bitter about how the government has in many ways orchestrated their devolution towards poverty do, when they don't have the political clout to effect change in the big ways that would rebuild their communities? "They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."That isn't even remotely how you depicted his statement, is it? I don't mind debating you on facts. You're certainly well within your rights to want to counter the assessment Barack Obama made, based on what he actually said. But it's impossible to have a reasonable debate with someone when they aren't debating realities, but made-up stuff. Quote:
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In the meantime, Osama bin Laden is still DEAD! And it was Barack Obama who orchestrated it. |
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05-03-2011, 04:31 PM | #5 | |
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Sooooooo when you made that post wishing to commit adultery with Anne Coulter [shudder] that was a shining example of your character? Alrighty then!!
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05-03-2011, 04:39 PM | #6 |
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