We disagree. You are not my enemy.

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Bow To The Robots, Jan 14, 2021.

  1. Esperance

    Esperance Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Especially when you have massive fraud involved.

    There was a hearing today in Henry County, Georgia about the counterfeit ballots used in Fulton County in November. You won't hear about this on CNN or MSDNC.

    Trump was able to develop the best economy in the history of the world.
    Trump negotiated new trade deals that actually helped the average US citizen see real wage advances.
    Trump restored the US military to now what is the strongest military in the history of the world.
    Trump helped strengthen Corporate America to where the US stock market reached new heights.

    And in a few days it will all be turned over to a Peewit and a Prostitute.

    Fortunately, I am financially secure and work for myself when I need to... But I do have concerns for those who will once again be painted into a corner by bad policy and arrogance.
     
  2. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't think it's okay but there's nothing the state can do while preserving rights and freedoms.
     
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  3. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    There, as much as it pains me to laws against firing people for having a differing opinion from one's self. And the musician would have been better off if they had fired him. At least then he could have taken his act somewhere else.
     
  4. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    An option would be for government to host a social media app and do all the moderation itself. This would make the moderation standard the same as the legal speech standard, else they violate the constitution.

    Not really a great idea though, government shouldn't be doing things like that.

    The only real solution is for freethinkers and defenders of the CULTURE of free speech to host their own servers and payment processors.
     
  5. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    That's not the problem here. The problem here is businesses believing they have the right to control an employee's political speech when said employee is off duty.
     
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  6. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I had a job where they scoured our social media accounts constantly. It was in the employment contract I freely signed.

    I left the company. Felt good.
     
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  7. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    No doubt, freedom feels good unless apparently one is a leftist. I'm sorry but my politics are none if my employers business.
     
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  8. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Unless you agree by contract that they are.
     
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    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Which I will never do. And I would strongly consider suing any employer who denied me a job because I would not accept such a rank invasion of privacy.
     
  10. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You have no grounds on which to sue them. Don't sign the contract.
     
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  11. ButterBalls

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    History of what? People being fooled by politicians? That's a problem in, and of itself, people actually agreeing with graphs that expose naiveté and it's not recognized as such ;)
     
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  12. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    The 87 criminal convictions are all documented, all by republicans. Maybe a couple by democratic administrations. that's it.

    That's what.
     
  13. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    Well, given the fact there are, to date, some 87 criminal convictions by republican administrations, and only a few on the left, we can say with certainty that Democratic administrations are far less criminal that republican administrations.
     
  14. Bow To The Robots

    Bow To The Robots Banned at Members Request

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    Well, sure. But those things you reference go beyonnd a mere difference of opinion.
     
  15. FatBack

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    And I bet you even believe they are just so very "innocent" too...
     
  16. Sanskrit

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    When dealing with Leftists, there is very rarely any honest difference of opinion. There is only dogma, and anything counter to that dogma is heresy that requires punishment, ostracism, inquisition, intimidation, censorship. The evidence of that is all over this forum currently, and it is disgusting and authoritarian to the point of being criminal and mentally unstable.
     
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  17. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    I got by data, not feelings.
     
  18. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Invasion of privacy is reason
     
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    That's quite a dogmatic opinion you're expressing there!
     
  20. Sanskrit

    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, one side of the fence here is constantly appealing to authoritarian brute force tactics on behalf of their dogma, and the other is not (including me), so get honest.
     
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  21. ButterBalls

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    You fail to see the picture, I suspect blind allegiance. What you fail to see is corruption be it large, small or not caught on all sides of government, and those that control it and profit by it.. Those are the folks that continue to support it, condone it and worst of all blame everyone but themselves and those that they align with ;)
     
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  22. Surfer Joe

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    Indeed. It's amazing how similar the trump cult and the isis cult is in their brainwashing of people with intransigent dogmatic rhetoric and lies.
     
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    Yeah, it's much safer for you to condemn corruption that hasn't been proven rather than the actual one.
     
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    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    The lie narrative in the above is exposed by limiting to actual Administration members, e.g. cabinet members and the like, and not consultants, related lobbyists, attorneys, contractors, etc.
     
  25. ButterBalls

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    Well there is the GRAPH the other poster supplied :roll:

    It clearly show corruption on both sides and clearly logic would dictate much more is never brought to light on every branch of Government..

    I know, not your side, right ;)
     

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