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05 Feb 2017, 12:40 pm

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The difference is, there are peaceful Anti-Trump protesters, then there are anarchists who think they can cure any problem with violence and anarchy. There is a clear distinction.

I haven't seen much that looked all that peaceful. Even if there isn't outright vandalism and psychical stuff, there's lots of shouting and general commotion. They really plagued the airports, made things really difficult on everyone traveling. Total public nuisance stuff.

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And anything on the internet has as much credibility as something written on the inside of a men's room stall.

Anything? Like the ban, like the judge putting a stay on the ban etc? I'm talking about news feeds. I'm not stupid you know. Here:

Donald Trump protesters in Houston march toward Super Bowl Live downtown - Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Do ... 908735.php

Plenty of others.

I suppose you would complain about the civil rights marches in the sixties,all that shouting and commotion,people getting sprayed by hoses,bitten by dogs,beat down by cops.
I've seen footage of plenty of peaceful people marching,maybe you should stop googling violent protests.
Nothing wrong with protesting at airports,I beleive that was done before when the air traffic controllers went on strike.Nothing wrong with peaceful marches at the Super Bowl,not like it's sacred ground.
None of these actions are actually new,people have done this before.Yet you act like its the first time you have ever seen civil unrest.Oh yeah,it probably is.

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05 Feb 2017, 8:28 pm

My first march was urging the University of Texas to divest from apartheid South Africa. Weird that I'm the same age as Gorsuch, who at the time was calling me an idiot or something. We didn't have large numbers, and didn't run into much opposition. I did have some serious cognitive dissonance when a huge black linebacker stood up and told us that none of the white guys should talk about it, since he didn't care.

At some point, either right before or right after I started going along to marches, some committed folks took over the President's office, and became known as the UT 16.

My life was moving pretty fast at that time, and so were historical events. News of Stephen Biko's death was spreading around the world, so I just happened to be in the right place at the right time on the winning side.

Any moves toward an apartheid USA will definitely get me back out into the streets.

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05 Feb 2017, 10:06 pm

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Any moves toward an apartheid USA will definitely get me back out into the streets.

There's always been a social apartheid in the USA based on race. Now with Trump there will also be a class based distinction as well.

Donald Snr and his kids have never had to put in a hard day's work in their life. They live in a bubble of exclusion from Americans who aren't multi-millionaires with their gold plated toilets and coiffured lifestyles.What amuses me is the illiterate unemployed, uneducated, struggling rural white voters who think they have something in common with the Trump family.

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05 Feb 2017, 10:09 pm

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Anyone with a conscience who participates in making death threats, the rioting, the vandalism, the looting, the arson, spiting on police officers, attacking people and the like. They've blown their cover as supposedly being the good guys. Nobody but them believes that about them anymore.

There you go again tarring every anti-Trump person with the same brush

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05 Feb 2017, 10:13 pm

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

The difference is, there are peaceful Anti-Trump protesters, then there are anarchists who think they can cure any problem with violence and anarchy. There is a clear distinction.

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And anything on the internet has as much credibility as something written on the inside of a men's room stall.

The way the right had figured, the protesters were supposed to burst onto the field during the game. Nothing of the sort happened. Just citizens exercising their right to demonstrate.

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05 Feb 2017, 10:24 pm

cyberdad wrote:

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Any moves toward an apartheid USA will definitely get me back out into the streets.

Certain places maintain apartheid as long as possible, like that golf course in Georgia, but it's always been a localized phenomenon in the US. The first self made millionaire woman in the US was black. At that time, the apartheid was the rule, but the exceptions have grown over time. The Ole Miss political science department, or whatever, will probably hold out until the sun explodes.

I just want to do what's possible to help equality happen until the opportunity costs balance out. Trying to stamp anything out completely rarely ends well.

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05 Feb 2017, 10:25 pm

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Oh yeah sure, I'm the only person in the world commenting on it :roll:

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05 Feb 2017, 10:38 pm

cyberdad wrote:

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There you go again tarring every anti-Trump person with the same brush

According to what I've been told by their apologists, "they're all tainted". "Birds of a feather". Their words.

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The way the right had figured, the protesters were supposed to burst onto the field during the game. Nothing of the sort happened. Just citizens exercising their right to demonstrate.

They've certainly given themselves the indelible reputation of being a crazed disruptive mob. And that impression being limited to the right seems like wishful thinking.

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06 Feb 2017, 4:40 am

EzraS wrote:

According to what I've been told by their apologists, "they're all tainted". "Birds of a feather". Their words.

Yes indeedi! birds of a particular feather do flock together

http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.ph ... ump_becau/

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06 Feb 2017, 5:05 am

cyberdad wrote:

EzraS wrote:

According to what I've been told by their apologists, "they're all tainted". "Birds of a feather". Their words.

Yes indeedi! birds of a particular feather do flock together

http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.ph ... ump_becau/

The type of sites you browse explains a lot.

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06 Feb 2017, 7:18 am

SNL crushed Spicer.

It seems pretty pointless to continue talking to monsters, so having a discussion about how it's clear that your opponent is a monster makes no logical brain sense. I guess that anyone who can wrap their minds around that, should also have the ability to mutually stipulate monsterhood and drop the subject.

Pages of this in every thread is a threat to board hygiene.

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06 Feb 2017, 7:22 am

jrjones9933 wrote:

your math doesn't work, and even if it did, no one is interested and you just waste your time arguing stuff where the underlying principle is you trying to make out you are extremely intelligent.

whatever. doesn't work.

get a really good idea and then bank on that rather than just sprout .....

actually i better stop there .

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06 Feb 2017, 8:03 am

:hail:

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06 Feb 2017, 8:57 am

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There have been plenty of instances in history when refugees never returned home, but remained in the host countries to eventually become just another element among the citizenry. Case in point being the Palatine Germans in the 17th and early 18yh centuries. Fleeing from depravations of the French army that had invaded the south middle Rhine country of Germany, who had burned Protestant towns, and impressed the young men into the French army, the Palatine Germans first fled to England, and from there, many went to Ireland (Stephen Colbert had a Palatine ancestor hearkening back to this era). Others were diverted to America, becoming the Pennsylvania Dutch. Then during the Napoleonic era, the Russian Czar had opened new lands along the Black Sea to Palatine Germans (my ancestors, in fact), some of whom stayed there, even after many of them later left for America when the Russian welcome soured. The Palatine Germans were one such group of refugees who never returned home, and they were hardly the only group to do so.

There are examples of that yes. There are, however, also examples of poorly handled disasters, historical and modern. Why risk hurting the people you are trying to help? Why risk the stability of your nation? Although we haven't yet tasted the true scale of the European refugee disaster-in-progress, but anyone even at this juncture who still thinks Merkel's invitation was smart or moral is irredeemably foolish. Given the risks involved it is always better to err on the side of caution and help refugees in situ and send them home when you can rather than potentially cause an ethnic conflict within your own borders.

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06 Feb 2017, 11:01 am

EzraS wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

Oh yeah sure, I'm the only person in the world commenting on it :roll:

I didn't say or imply that.

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06 Feb 2017, 11:10 am

Misslizard wrote:

I didn't say or imply that.

That's no defense.

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