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hightor
 
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 01:28 pm
@coldjoint,
Well, wait a second. You said,
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The WH praised kids for using their 1st amendments rights.

What "kids" were those? I don't think the WH praised "kids", in general. It praised a specific grouping of kids. Who happened to be exercising their 1st amendment rights by demonstrating to bring awareness to the problem of gun violence.
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You lost the argument, don't make a fool of yourself.

There's no "argument". I'm trying to help you understand an aspect of the English language. Imagine that a group of sport fishermen organize to prevent a dam from being built because it would ruin a prized trout stream. A town official could praise them for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and it would not be incorrect to report that "Fishermen protesting dam win praise of town official."
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 02:06 pm
@blatham,
I'm not going to play dueling links.

Take me seriously or don't. It doesn't matter much to me which you choose.
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 02:11 pm
@hightor,
The author didn't select that particular black hat description as an example of a Manichean view, he chose it to describe a group of people he takes issue with,
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jcboy
 
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 02:11 pm
I predict that 60 Minutes with Stormy Daniels will be the most watched 60 Minutes in its history. You heard it here first.

And this is hilarious! Razz

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Blickers
 
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 10:20 pm
@oralloy,
Yes, the students' sadistic pleasure in trying to make the Graduation Day saying, "Well, I survived high school" back into a light-hearted comment instead of an up-to-the-minute casualty report.
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farmerman
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 12:18 am
Listening Trumps most recent words re; DACA, hes now claiming ,in his novel "lets turn reality upside down" form, that its the DEMS who are against DACA.

blatham
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 02:39 am
@farmerman,
Yes. And how typical for him.

I've been thinking about Arendt's "banality of evil", that it comes much closer to this Trump phenomenon than Orwell's 1984 where the antagonists had a sort of dignity in their totalitarian ideology that is completely absent with Trump and many of his supporters. 1984's main antagonist, O'Brien, believed in the totalitarian arrangement of the social order he was helping to maintain. He was neither stupid nor uneducated and Orwell made no suggestion that O'Brien was motivated for selfish reasons.

Trump, on the other hand, demonstrates no discernible ideological stance whatsoever. He is entirely concerned with how his power can benefit himself and that is the only consistent feature in the man's behavior. He is cheap and he is tawdry and far more likely to be pushing shitty vacuum cleaners door to door than reading John Rawls or Thomas Jefferson. Trump is as banal as it gets.
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blatham
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 03:16 am
This seems rather important, doesn't it.
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If only gun owners had voted in the 2016 election, then Donald Trump would have won every single state save Vermont. If only people who don’t own guns had voted, then Hillary Clinton would have won every state, save West Virginia and maybe Wyoming.
Vox

Understanding this incredible divide gives us a way to measure the importance of yesterday's marches.
blatham
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 03:43 am
Why does Trump have his tendency to draw so many key staff like Bolton from Fox? Obviously, that's what and who he watches. But I think the more important point is that he trusts those voices because he simply does not know any better. Being as unstudied, incurious and lazy as he is, he has no means of ascertaining who is knowledgeable and rational.
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Olivier5
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 03:47 am
@blatham,
It's important to save lives, period.
Olivier5
 
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 03:55 am
@oralloy,
Could you be more ridiculous?
 

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