Alexandria, The New Direction Of The Democrats

[Azalin]

6 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

 

 

The reason the Democrats continue to lose is not because they're too chicken to espouse their true ideology.

 

It's because their true ideology is hypocritical, disingenuous and otherwise laughable. It's because Americans aren't as stupid, lazy and dependent as liberals want them to be. It's because Americans need to feel their life has meaning beyond nutbags like Alexandria and Bernie telling them that the reason their lives suck is because of wealthy, rich, white men.

 

Perhaps if left would stop with the histrionics, stop with the blatant hypocrisy, stopping telling everyone they're a victim, and stop mocking successful individuals, and treat their fellow Americans with respect, they might get more than coastal elites, teachers and teenagers to believe their garbage.

 

 

Yes to everything above, plus one more point: TODAY'S DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERAL. Once upon a time they might have been, but they no longer champion individual rights, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc, etc, etc. They are socialists.

 

Socialists are not liberals.

 

Disagree? Go to the %$#$ing library and read a goddam %$#$ing book.

 

[4merper4mer]

4 hours ago, Azalin said:

 

 

 

Disagree? Go to the %$#$ing library and read a goddam %$#$ing book.

 

And you'd better hurry.

[3rdnlng]

4 hours ago, Azalin said:

 

Yes to everything above, plus one more point: TODAY'S DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERAL. Once upon a time they might have been, but they no longer champion individual rights, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc, etc, etc. They are socialists.

 

Socialists are not liberals.

 

Disagree? Go to the %$#$ing library and read a goddam %$#$ing book.

 

While I agree with your sentiment you probably shouldn't post from your Gran Torino. Similarly, local libraries and newspapers will soon be seen only in history books. As you take your dodo bird for its morning walk you might want to ponder this.

[row_33]

2 hours ago, 4merper4mer said:

And you'd better hurry.

 

prices solo

 

we must be insane

 

2 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

While I agree with your sentiment you probably shouldn't post from your Gran Torino. Similarly, local libraries and newspapers will soon be seen only in history books. As you take your dodo bird for its morning walk you might want to ponder this.

 

libraries will always be here

 

unless your bond rating locally is in the gutter

 

[Azalin]

2 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

While I agree with your sentiment you probably shouldn't post from your Gran Torino. Similarly, local libraries and newspapers will soon be seen only in history books. As you take your dodo bird for its morning walk you might want to ponder this.

 

 

The way I see it, if terms like 'book' and 'library' become too archaic for use in everyday conversation, then they become metaphors for "get your ass out there and $#%@ing learn something".

[3rdnlng]

12 minutes ago, Azalin said:

 

The way I see it, if terms like 'book' and 'library' become too archaic for use in everyday conversation, then they become metaphors for "get your ass out there and $#%@ing learn something".

Now you're talking.

[row_33]

still the same, you only learn something useful by heavy close reading for hours and hours on end in isolation

 

it's just that distractions from this process are more colourful and exotic

 

[keepthefaith]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

still the same, you only learn something useful by heavy close reading for hours and hours on end in isolation

 

it's just that distractions from this process are more colourful and exotic

 

 

There is great truth in that. 

[row_33]

30 minutes ago, keepthefaith said:

 

There is great truth in that. 

 

same as it always was, that chemical engineering stuff isn't going to enter your brain watching pron or arguing about the latest Trump scandal.

 

i wish i adopted a bit more of that book discipline, but accounting wasn't really worthy of that kind of study

 

 

maybe watching six videos and twitter feeds would help a reading of Finnegan's Wake a little better?

 

[3rdnlng]

40 minutes ago, row_33 said:

still the same, you only learn something useful by heavy close reading for hours and hours on end in isolation

 

it's just that distractions from this process are more colourful and exotic

 

I claim horseshit here. Do you mean to tell me that the kid touching the hot stovetop for the first time didn't learn a very important lesson in less than one second?

[row_33]

20 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

I claim horseshit here. Do you mean to tell me that the kid touching the hot stovetop for the first time didn't learn a very important lesson in less than one second?

 

i knew a few that touched that stove 20 times

 

i was distracted enough with 30 TV channels and newspapers up to the early 1990s, i don't know what i would have done for school studies with every imaginable whim of needless info at my fingertips like we have now

 

 

good thing it was just accounting and art history studies, and a few other electives, just had to read the textbook and apply a few hours a week of thinking to get through all that

 

 

[3rdnlng]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

i knew a few that touched that stove 20 times

 

i was distracted enough with 30 TV channels and newspapers up to the early 1990s, i don't know what i would have done for school studies with every imaginable whim of needless info at my fingertips like we have now

 

 

good thing it was just accounting and art history studies, and a few other electives, just had to read the textbook and apply a few hours a week of thinking to get through all that

 

 

Yes, but enough about Gleeful Gator.

[row_33]

15 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Yes, but enough about Gleeful Gator.

 

to paraphrase Mark Twain, one of my former cats touched the hot stove, now it won't touch even a cold one

 

back in residence when MTV took paralyzing hold, a few 3rd year engineering students sat in the commons room watching music videos all day

 

i don't think they saw getting the boot as worthwhile then or 30 years down the road either

 

 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

[TakeYouToTasker]

23 minutes ago, joesixpack said:

 

One of the great failures of the modern state is that it actively supplanted the moral responsibility of helping your neighbor and community involvement with passive assumed altruism at the barrel of a gun.

[Nanker]

Yep. Robbin’ Hood. 

[LSHMEAB]

22 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

 

 

The reason the Democrats continue to lose is not because they're too chicken to espouse their true ideology.

 

It's because their true ideology is hypocritical, disingenuous and otherwise laughable. It's because Americans aren't as stupid, lazy and dependent as liberals want them to be. It's because Americans need to feel their life has meaning beyond nutbags like Alexandria and Bernie telling them that the reason their lives suck is because of wealthy, rich, white men.

 

Perhaps if left would stop with the histrionics, stop with the blatant hypocrisy, stopping telling everyone they're a victim, and stop mocking successful individuals, and treat their fellow Americans with respect, they might get more than coastal elites, teachers and teenagers to believe their garbage.

 

 

 

 

You just used three negative adjectives without providing much rebuttal. It was encouraging to see wages rise slightly, but I think we all know that massive tax cuts, without exception, precipitate a collapse. It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when. 

 

Wealth redistribution (GASP!) and economic equally do not automatically connote victimhood. I think the left is asinine with SOME of the social issues. It's like they've concocted these little rules, put everyone in a box, and decided their roles in the play. The backlash against the PC police was pivotal in Trump's election. 

 

Trump was unafraid to voice bigoted garbage the right has covertly believed for many years. I actually respect him for that the same way I respect leftists who are unafraid to speak on some basic core issues.

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Nanker said:

Yep. Robbin’ Hood. 

 

Robbin Hood was a good guy.

[DC Tom]

59 minutes ago, LSHMEAB said:

You just used three negative adjectives without providing much rebuttal. It was encouraging to see wages rise slightly, but I think we all know that massive tax cuts, without exception, precipitate a collapse. It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when. 

 

Wealth redistribution (GASP!) and economic equally do not automatically connote victimhood. I think the left is asinine with SOME of the social issues. It's like they've concocted these little rules, put everyone in a box, and decided their roles in the play. The backlash against the PC police was pivotal in Trump's election. 

 

Trump was unafraid to voice bigoted garbage the right has covertly believed for many years. I actually respect him for that the same way I respect leftists who are unafraid to speak on some basic core issues.

 

 

 

 

 

Robbin Hood was a good guy.

 

Oh, hey, fresh meat...

[3rdnlng]

34 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Oh, hey, fresh meat...

Be careful, I think he's actually Tilapia, a fish raised in benjo ditches.

[Nanker]

14 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:

Robbin Hood was a good guy.

 

Robin Hood was a myth. 

 

 

It's people like these who are filled with envy, jealousy, greed, and anger that lack morals who want to take money that does not belong to them and give it to other people. 

That's a Robbin' Hood.