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gungasnake
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 05:52 pm
@layman,
Grant could be viewed as a heroic figure; Neither Truman nor Jackson qualifies. The two national banks were the main factor involved in the United States rising from poor colonies to major industrial state status within a space of three or four decades; Jackson wanting to eliminate that second national bank because it was in private hands was an extreme case of looking at something the wrong way, the only meaningful question in that picture was how the bank was being used, not who owned it.

Truman's entire presidency was a kind of a disaster, culminating in the Korean war which Ike immediately shut down upon taking office.
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reasoning logic
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 07:18 pm
@layman,
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They want to legislate cowardice and force you to RUN if you're threatend, just like they would, eh? They want to make YOU the criminal if you ward off a criminal. Fuckin candyass cheese-eaters.


Ethics seem to be a type of rocket science that we all get wrong.

We all have prejudices and perceive reality differently.

Some people may see your own mother of father as a threat because they see them as different than themselves.
layman
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 08:32 pm
@reasoning logic,
Do you have a point, RL?
reasoning logic
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 08:35 pm
@layman,
Quote:
Do you have a point, RL?


Do you mean one that has value to you?
layman
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 09:02 pm
@reasoning logic,
reasoning logic wrote:
Quote:
Do you have a point, RL?

Do you mean one that has value to you?


What would I have to do with it? It's your point (whatever it is), not mine.
reasoning logic
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 09:06 pm
@layman,

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Do you have a point, RL?


Do you mean one that has value to you?

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What would I have to do with it?


You could value it, ignore it or maybe discredit it.
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glitterbag
 
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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 10:00 pm
@revelette1,
I loved it. Although it could have used a few 'tremendous' and many more 'very's'.
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izzythepush
 
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Tue 4 Jul, 2017 12:50 am
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North Korea says it has successfully tested a long-range "intercontinental" missile.
Earlier the US said North Korea had fired a missile towards of Japan.
It is the first time North Korea has claimed to have successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which could potentially have the range to reach the US mainland.
North Korea has recently increased the frequency of its nuclear and missile tests, raising international tensions.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40491138

North Korea knows Trump is full of ****.
Builder
 
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Tue 4 Jul, 2017 01:13 am
@izzythepush,
It's laughable that you don't know NK's role in the situation.
izzythepush
 
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Tue 4 Jul, 2017 01:15 am
@Builder,
What's laughable is that you still think people believe your mad bollocks.
izzythepush
 
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Tue 4 Jul, 2017 01:33 am
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The "CNN beating" video posted by US President Donald Trump came from a Reddit account with a history of posting racial slurs and calls for violence against Muslims.
On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a short video showing himself wrestling a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. It's an altered version of a famous World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) appearance by Trump from 2007 - where he took on wrestling royalty Vince McMahon.
It's not known exactly how Trump found the video, but it was posted Wednesday on a section of Reddit (or "subreddit") called r/The_Donald. It has more than 440,000 subscribers and describes itself as "a forum for serious supporters of President Trump", and "not politically correct".
It's also been associated with the alt-right - a disparate group of conservatives opposed to political correctness and which includes strains of white nationalism.
The creator of the video goes by a crude username we can't repeat in good taste - so we'll just remove the expletive in the middle, and call him "HanSolo". In previous posts he described himself as being 37 years old and from Tennessee. He has posted a huge number of messages with anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-black slurs, including posts encouraging violence.
For example, Trending found a thread from 8 May where HanSolo repeatedly uses a racial slur during a heated exchange with a black man on another subreddit. It's one of many posts which feature such slurs.
In another, HanSolo posted a meme showing CNN employees, each with a Star of David next to their head.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/18251/production/_96779889_han1.jpg
In a number of posts, HanSolo also called for the mass murder of Muslims - in some cases encouraging or celebrating attacks using vehicles, guns or nuclear bombs.
When the person behind the account found out that the president had shared his meme, he told his fellow Redditors he was "honored":
But HanSolo also apparently tried to scrub the most potentially offensive messages after the tweet became breaking news - many of his posts were altered or taken down soon after.
Some The_Donald subscribers were enthused by Trump's use of a Reddit meme - and speculated that he may be checking out the group himself.
It's not the first time that alt-right memes have surfaced on Trump's Twitter account. In July 2016, during the US presidential campaign, Trump tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton superimposed on a pile of money and a Star of David with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!". The picture was traced to an extreme message board.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40483914
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