I can’t remember if it was here or somewhere else, but someone pointed out
Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes is itself an absolute. Was Obi Wan a Sith this whole time.
Welp, it's been a great 3 years.......
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Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes is itself an absolute. Was Obi Wan a Sith this whole time.
First, appreciate your service, sir.
2nd, definitely agree with the identity part. Politics should be policy based. Crazy right? Nope. But it's ever further than that now. Most people are generally dissatisfied with Congress and other elected leaders. I don't think most of us generally don't like any of them. I think we just identify the side that repulses us more and say "well I'm not having any of that" and slap ourselves the label of the other party and feel better that we aren't supporting the ungodly left or nazi right.
I'll own it. I voted 100% republican until Trump. I couldn't and still can't stand the man or the politicians that have turned themselves into human pretzels to explain the guy. That made me want to support the other guys simply bc they were the opposition. Found some things I agreed with in the process and some things that blow my mind. Now I just feel homeless politically and wish we could all just call good things good, bad things bad, and stick to arguing on how to make good things better and bad things go away. You can do that without making it a matter of eternity, life/death, and labeling those you disagree with as evil.
Right there with you. You have to follow the company line 100% or you hate America or are obviously an evil Lib Or MAGA. I am legitimately a moderate. The thing about moderates is we don’t scream our opinions, so we don’t get much news coverage. Both sides are right about some things. Both sides are wrong about some things. My opinion changes frequently about what those things are as the situations change. Liberals are supposed to be the dreamers. Conservatives are supposed to be the responsible ones. They are supposed to work together to make this country work. Instead they are trying to kill each other and seem to be enjoying every minute of it. I hate everything about it.
Whenever I take those political tests I get labeled a centrist. I usually voted 75/25 Republican In the past just because I identified with their views a bit more. Now I don’t really have a party. If you aren’t lockstep with Trump then you’re just basically a liberal in their mind which is dumb and makes it more difficult to be electable on a national stage. The loons in both parties have a lot of pull now where in years past they were kind of sideshow that would pop up every once in a while. Now they’re the show runners and that’s dangerous.
We need another party for the moderates. We’ll be the only adults in the room.
Been getting a good laugh out of all of the talking heads calling for the need to tone down the rhetoric ..... with a straight face. Keep thinking, great idea, why don't you start things off and stick to it.
They won't. It's how they are programmed to run campaigns. They don't have actual ideas to share aside from "Dey took our jerbs!" Or "you're racist!" Yet we reward them with multiple terms. Sigh.
If you even have to ask that, you should reconsider some things. That's like asking if Biden has ever made a verbal gaffe.
Good stuff, but maybe ditch the bolded part. That's more personal preference on your part than reality.
That’s why I said supposed to. If it was reality I would have said that’s what they are.
You do understand that, don’t you? Pro-lifers were labeled as “domestic terrorists” recently in some military training slides.
It's reprehensible. I hope you also call out the rhetoric on the other side as well. Please and thank you.
Charlie Munger’s take was that an elaborate political and media system was our less violent surrogate for warfare, but that’s humans wanted to fight
No doubt but was more referring to the "news anchors" and commentators (now arguably also part of the campaigns). "Everybody hates" negative campaigning but as they say, they do it because it works. Up there with all of the shouting ESPN/FS1 shows that "nobody watches".
Sigh indeed to just about all of it.
I’d like to see video of elected Republicans or Fox News personalities using the same rhetoric.
For the third time: Not saying it doesn’t exist. I just want to see the video.
If this is true, then you aren’t voting based on policy. You are just voting anti-Trump, which is the opposite of what you say you want.
No offense here, but to me, Republicans who get on this moral trip about Trump are hard to respect, and irritate the shlt out of me. There’s only one real option, and if it’s the lesser of two evils, so be it. Trump’s America was better than Biden’s America, that can’t really be debated, regardless of if you like Trump.
Give me a break man. You totally ignore where I specifically acknowledged that. "I'll own it..."
Would be nice to find politicians I feel speak for me. Haven't really found many good ones at the national level.
Apparently you never learned the meaning of rhetorical. Thst 2.5 minute Ms was not rhetoric. It was instructions from the left on how to intimidate and threaten conservatives. But since you agree with the left on "everything", then I see no helping you.
By what metrics? If it's so nondebateable, show me in the numbers. It should be very clear and easy for you to provide, given your statement, right? Or maybe there's bias at play?
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