Well then what happened? The last time I had a public discussion was at work in the late 1990's I had some newspaper meme on the wall in my maintenance office, it was up for a few years. This lady took it down and started screaming about it (it was Calvin and hobbs)
Are you referring to this post? "Trump is so toxic he attracts enormous crowds to see and hear him speak." If so, that's by poster Robert. I am not he.
Good point. But that's where 'religion' comes in, and that was always much trickier than politics. Once ideology is involved, rather than pragmatics (what politics is, and should always be), people get very weird.
Interesting.. 25 years later I still didn't get why she was so mad, like i was going to change after she ripped it down and started yelling at me.
You know what is weird ? You go to a grocery store or bar or museum, no one idetinfys as Democrats or Republicans, the normal people will help you and vise versa
Volkswagen mythology notwithstanding (there were never more than a few thousand produced before war production took precedence) most Germans didn't have cars. They came by public transport that was preempted totally to that purpose on those days and vast numbers were military, who came by truck. I would truly have HATED the job of whoever had to clean the bathrooms though.
When Hitler spoke there, to massive audencies, roads in Germany were mostly rather small and curvy. I can't recall where I parked but there were few people in or around the stadium the day I was there.
The day of my visit to the Stadium, it still had the enormous columns. The seating was also there. The swastika had been blown off in 1945. To grasp the size, this short film will explain it.
There's another kind of silence on political matters, in social/public settings. And that's the one born of the assumption that everyone thinks exactly as the listener does. You only know it's there when you say something that barely even deviates from their preferred orthodoxy (and may be merely disinterest in the orthodoxy), and they literally freeze .. mouths agape etc. It's like shocking old church ladies by accidentally saying 'bosom'.
I don't take politics to bed with me, and who ever is the president at the time has little bearing on my happiness. I do take politics with a lot of humor. I'm sorry, but I have to chuckle at those who come on here every day spewing out what ever hysteria they are in at the moment.
You know, you're right. I guess I am just uncomfortable knowing that I can't "go there" with liberals. I suppose there are limits to every relationship. One can't discuss old boyfriends or ex-wives with one's spouses either. I became good friends with a Bernie supporter a few years ago. The tension arose immediately . I remember saying Ï hope political differences won't keep us from being friends. And I admit that they haven't. Not really.
Had lunch with my lib/Dem gf yesterday and her first whine was about the stupid impeachment stuff on tv so she's missing 'her shows'. Before the subject turned to politics, she hurriedly added, "I'm not even voting next year, too disgusted." End of political discussion.
I started to help this old lady pick up a salami she had dropped on the floor of the supermarket. Then I found out she was a Democrat. "Your salami, your problem," I said.
Telling someone who can afford to pay more in taxes that they should just voluntarily do it is analogous to telling people who are against abortion that they should adopt children. Neither one is a useful argument
The remark above proves that they truly do not want to pay more taxes since clearly it would impact on their living style. Probably could not save nearly as much for their own support. The abortion analogy is false. Sorry you did that.
And I suspected that story would end in this way. Some Federal worker rushed over to pick up her dirty salami. Saved the day for the old lady.