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Posts posted by Anastasis
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3 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:
Perhaps. But it’s a foundation that leads to a potentially positive outcome. The foundation is important. Critical actuallly.
I feel like we are coming full circle. The foundation that this country was built upon was slavery and genocide. You told me that stuff was centuries ago and we can look past it, but tell me now that it is crucial. I think we agree.
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Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:
America was never and will never be a perfect union. But we are supposed to work towards making it one.
One cruise missile at a time.
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Just now, JimmyJames said:
So you believe the founding fathers were not unique? Have I got that right from you? Because they didnt’ have to create the country they did. It could have been Brazil.
I think that they were brilliant and brave individuals. And their brilliance resonates very little in our modern culture and political environment.
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Just now, JimmyJames said:
Well that is definitely a glass half empty way to look at it. Another way to look at it would be that if it wasn’t for the principles the country was founded on we wouldn’t have ever had the opportunity to assert global hememony on a globe that was clearly asking for it by trying to destroy itself.
That's not another way to look at it. That's another way to delude yourself.
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Just now, JimmyJames said:
Good point. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the faults of the past, but to attempt to project values on today on people 250 years before is asinine. The founding fathers of this country were flawed like we all were, and would today being even considered more flawed, but back then when they lived they were fucking visionary saints compared to the rabble in the rest of the world. And created a great country that certain people are now trying to destroy. And that’s what ultimately matters.
We had the happy fortune to be on a relatively isolated and protected continent during one of the more recent darker periods of warfare during the last century. We parlayed that into global hegemony in the aftermath of that conflict. We did so largely by undermining the principles that we claim serve as the foundation of our "great nation", namely democracy, freedom, and self determination of people endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. We occupy no moral high ground. And these are not actions from distant centuries. American exceptionalism is a nationalistic mythology, one that we find convenient when it reassures of us our unique place in the history of the world, a land founded by visionary saints walking amongst the rabble of the rest of the world. When in reality we are just collection of people looking out for their own interests, more fortunate than most only cause we have better aircraft carriers and cruise missiles to reassure us of our goodness and morality.
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Uh. Sorry. I’ll see my self out.
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I like reading the gamble plays. Keep me coming.
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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
By all means, share with me your thoughts on what I missed.
You’ve voted for more Republicans than I have.
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Just now, Brisketexan said:
Oh. It seems you missed this.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?453960-1/president-trump-delivers-remarks-immigration-policy
You seem to have missed reading comprehension.
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24 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
A Republican bitching about declining discourse is like a wifebeater bitching at his wife for bleeding on him when he hits her.
You know better.
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3 hours ago, Bat Guano said:
What you're missing about this board is that the snark, snide, and insults - sometimes good-natured, sometimes not - are part of what keeps this place interesting. Sure, it can get out of hand, but it would be a lot less entertaining without them. So a good one-liner (you've got to work on that) about BT's physical and chemical hygiene is by no means out of place. Just be sure you can take it as well as dish it out.
This is of course correct. As are many of the observations that Aphelion has made regarding the general decline in the discourse here, and across the political space generally.
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^ That sounds fun.
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29 minutes ago, tantric superman said:
Birthrate is a problem in terms of the continuing existence of the planet.
Mildly racist?
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i bet i could make that work.
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3 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

Our Republic just crumbled.
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Just now, cactusflinthead said:
the next time aphelion/escriva

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28 minutes ago, Cacti said:
The first choice one should use to get their point across is a gif—no words at all.
Do you even fucking [serious] threads bro?
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Our birthrate is far from a problem.
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Just now, hayden_horn said:
I really think it's called #bothsides.
as it well should. over any period of inspection, immigration definitely trends towards a both sides clusterfuck.
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Just now, hayden_horn said:
Lulz, so now yall agree with Reid? The weirdest appeal to authority is when people do it to people with whom they disagree generally.
I think that's called "But [insert political name i don't agree with here]"
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Just now, cactusflinthead said:
All any of us can do is deal with the next fucking minute.
I'll cheers to that.
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2 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
@Anastasis what up? do I need to recaliibrate the sarcasm meter?
Not sure. I mix sarcasm with seriousness frequently.
But America has always been largely deplorable. We genocided the indians while enslaving africans. Even during the period we call our greatest generation we ground the heel. We make steps to make things better, but the reality is that we are what we are. Hey, we've advanced as a people to the point that we've figured out how to outsource most of our atrocities. Cheers. It's really just a matter of a constant recalibration.
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Don Lemon has a bit of a PR pickle
in Cloak Room
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I mean come on. Who doesn't want to talk about Don Lemon's purple pickle.