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True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
2. This isn't Twitter.
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 10:31 PM
Aug 2014

The OP is 1 page long. Moreover, you don't get to say "TLDR" and then follow up by expressing an opinion on what you didn't read.

Either you read it and want to say something about it, or you limit yourself to saying that you find a single page to be a Tolstoy-esque intellectual challenge. Or you just don't respond at all, and not waste my time or anyone else's.

But since that common sense eluded you, I guess we can just move on to the opinion you did express. Namely, that lots of people voted for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush.

Guess what? Lots of people voted for Richard Nixon. We elected him twice, and if not for the Kennedys' mob influences in 1960, it would have been that psychopath with his finger on the button during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We've elected segregationist Presidents, we've elected fascist assholes who made it official policy to wipe out Indian tribes in the 19th century, and we've elected people who pursued murderous imperialism in the Philippines in the early 20th.

See, knowledge like that comes when you read things. Consider doing so as an alternative to not reading things, since the former is generally a better way to know what you're talking about.

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TLDR, honestly RobertEarl Aug 2014 #1
This isn't Twitter. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #2
Sorry to hurt your feelings RobertEarl Aug 2014 #3
Worry more about your credibility than my feelings. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #7
While I agree with everything you have written, I have know one area I believe is worse off Bandit Aug 2014 #14
That's an example of what Obama's talking about. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #16
Everything Just Looks Better: A Lot Is Being Hidden daredtowork Aug 2014 #4
How is any of that new, let alone worse than before? True Blue Door Aug 2014 #5
It's not perceptive surface if it's treated as "noise" daredtowork Aug 2014 #6
I claim that it does both - one because of the other. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #8
When you are on welfare daredtowork Aug 2014 #10
I am on Social Security disability. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #12
Not the same thing daredtowork Aug 2014 #22
And the hierarchy of suffering rears its ludicrous head. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #23
You're the one who turned it into a hierarchy of suffering daredtowork Aug 2014 #24
I've more than argued my point. True Blue Door Sep 2014 #25
You're arguing from propaganda daredtowork Sep 2014 #26
Ah, so objective history is "propaganda." True Blue Door Sep 2014 #27
Objective History - more like Objectivist History daredtowork Sep 2014 #28
Well argued, and a thoughtful OP muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #9
Climate change is a problem that arose from earlier successes. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #11
Excellent post. k&r n/t Laelth Aug 2014 #13
What, me worry? Crunchy Frog Aug 2014 #15
Nasty, filthy humanses! Nasty, filthy worldses! True Blue Door Aug 2014 #17
There have been many darker periods in world history. conservaphobe Aug 2014 #18
Indeed. Especially when seen from a global perspective. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #19
"Damn, you, Al Gore" bigwillq Aug 2014 #20
Ehhh... True Blue Door Aug 2014 #21
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