#707652 - 10/01/11 10:37 PM
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and don't forget encourage you to invest in the system Wall Sreet provides and then raids when they get short on profits. Of course if you don't like it you could always move to Yemen and become a target..
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#707682 - 10/02/11 01:59 AM
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[quote=Rooselk]no surprise that dipshits ... support dipshits. Congrats? Is that the best you can do? Must say I've heard far worse from far better. And that's the hypocricy of conservatives. When their Teabagger allies acted like brownshirts by disrupting town meetings a couple of years back, they applauded just as Fox News and the right wing talking heads told them to do. But let students and workers do a little protesting against corporate power then the wingnuts suddenly get all indignant and self righteous on us. I've probably participated in a couple of hundred protests in my time, starting in 1967 when I was freshman in high school. I've actively actively opposed conservatives and conservatism my entire life. I detest right wing ideology and everything it stands for. And, yes,I'm damn proud of it. So thanks for the congrats.
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#707693 - 10/02/11 07:50 AM
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And that's the hypocricy of conservatives. When their Teabagger allies acted like brownshirts by disrupting town meetings a couple of years back, they applauded just as Fox News and the right wing talking heads told them to do. But let students and workers do a little protesting against corporate power then the wingnuts suddenly get all indignant and self righteous on us.
The difference should be obvious. If townhall meetings were disrupted, that's all that was disrupted. No police, no disruption of commerce or the lives of the general populace. Not so with the protests in NY and elsewhere. of course the tea party wouldn't disrupt commerce... the corporations and billionaires funding the tea party wouldn't allow that. i for one cannot believe that anyone would be opposed to the protests at the scene of the crime of the financial meltdown. if only they were building a mosque in the area around wall street... then we'd have some acceptable protests.
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#707706 - 10/02/11 01:16 PM
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You probably would have said the same thing about slavery protests, womens suffrage, and civil rights protests. Of course yer an idiot, but I digress.....
True. History shows conservatives have opposed every single movement or legislation that has fought for the recognition or expansion of civil rights. Indeed, conservatives have contributed absolutely nothing to social progress and have always served as its obstacle. From its founding the history of our country is the history of the struggles to expand civil and democratic rights to all our citizens. And conservatives have acted as the opposition every step of the way.
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#707736 - 10/02/11 07:27 PM
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True. History shows conservatives have opposed every single movement or legislation that has fought for the recognition or expansion of civil rights.
You may want to read up on some of your history about which political party opposed civil rights the most.
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#707741 - 10/02/11 07:42 PM
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Is that a "flock" or a "herd"? It's a group of Americans that are sick of YOU.
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#707742 - 10/02/11 07:48 PM
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You may want to read up on some of your history about which political party opposed civil rights the most. He didn't say Republicans... he said Conservatives. At the time of the Civil Rights movement, most of the aforementioned bigots and simple-minded human detritus were southern members of the Democratic party known as "Dixiecrats". Equating all liberals as Democrats and all Republicans as conservatives is a fairly recent phenomenon. Especially considering that 2 of our most famously progressive presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were members of the Republican party... and two of our most racially bigoted Senators, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond were both Democrats initially. Social conservatives ARE the reason we still are where we are in this country... and the quicker we can have them sterilized so they can't breed anymore... the better!
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#707745 - 10/02/11 09:04 PM
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True. History shows conservatives have opposed every single movement or legislation that has fought for the recognition or expansion of civil rights.
You may want to read up on some of your history about which political party opposed civil rights the most. At various times in our history there have been progressives and conservatives in either or both of our political parties. For instance you can read about the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, and you will quickly earn that he faced stiff opposition from conservatives within his own party. At the same time, though, the Republican party was also the home of the Progressive movement. So it can truthfully be said that the liberal/conservative divide did not always break cleanly along clear party lines.
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#707776 - 10/03/11 01:01 AM
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History shows conservatives have opposed every single movement or legislation that has fought for the recognition or expansion of civil rights. Indeed, conservatives have contributed absolutely nothing to social progress and have always served as its obstacle.
Did you know conservative icon Barry Goldwater was at one time a member of the N.A.A.C.P.? Did you know that while he was on the city council, he actively fought segregation in the Phoenix public schools? You paint conservatives with a brush that's too broad. There are many who are not the demons you make them out to be. then make a list.
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#707781 - 10/03/11 02:02 AM
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Did you know conservative icon Barry Goldwater was at one time a member of the N.A.A.C.P.? Did you know that while he was on the city council, he actively fought segregation in the Phoenix public schools? You paint conservatives with a brush that's too broad. There are many who are not the demons you make them out to be. You might want to check Barry Goldwater's votes on the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts of 1964. On the other hand it is certainly true that later in life he spoke out openly in favor of gay rights. But today's GOP is no more the party of Goldwater than it is the party of Lincoln or Roosevelt.
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