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POTUS: 45.37: The Earth is Flat and the Babies Are Crying

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alfablue said:
If you can't see the difference, and you think the both sides are equally bad, the end result is that you will just be on the side lines and *****ing up a storm without any ways to solve the problem. Which is exactly what you do. ***** and moan about political issues, but proudly proclaim that both sides are equally bad, therefore you don't vote. That's pretty sad.
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The "both sides are bad" numbnuts sitting on the sidelines are the reason why we have Trump. Thanks Brent.
 
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BassAle said:
The "both sides are bad" numbnuts sitting on the sidelines are the reason why we have Trump. Thanks Brent.
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Brent is in MN. MN went to Hillary. Thank him all you like, he can't be the reason we're in this mess today.
 
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St. Clown said:
Brent is in MN. MN went to Hillary. Thank him all you like, he can't be the reason we're in this mess today.
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I live in WI and voted for Hillary, and I could probably have done more. No, could certainly have done more. And it did matter.
 
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rufus said:
So I guess we're ok then for hating Trumpy and his administration for throwing kids into concentration camps?
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You're a big boy. I'm not here to tell you what emotions you can or cannot have.

Let's take a white supremacist, for instance. Someone asked the question whether it's ok to hate a white supremacist.

When I see a white supremacist, I don't hate them. I'm not going to waste my emotions, or cause myself to act in response to hatred I might then build up in my own mind.

What I see when I see a white supremacist is someone who, for reasons unknown to me, hates another person because of the color of their skin. Now, if they had just kept that hatred confined to their own minds, I might never have known about it, or that they are a white supremacist.

But that's what hatred does. It makes a person act irrationally, like going out and lighting crosses, marching in parades, attacking minorities physically, saying hurtful things, etc... That's why hatred is especially bad, because it makes people act in evil and non-positive ways.

So I'm not going to allow myself to "hate" a white supremacist, because that hatred might cause me to act in a way that I'll later wish I hadn't, or in a way that will affect my life adversely. For example, and in the extreme, maybe it causes me to go out and shoot a white supremacist.

So again, we're all free to think as we choose. But if someone were looking for advice from me, my suggestion would be to resist the urge to "hate" and instead channel those emotions into having a positive impact on the world.
 
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Drew S. said:
Its really hard to understand why some people just can’t get excited about either party right now.
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If you don't like what your party is doing, as you claim every time you post ion here, it's hard to fathom why you aren't excited to do everything you have to do to get them out of office.

But you just sit back here, like Hovey and Brent, above it all, but too disinterested to actually do anything about anything. But you just know that your position is superior.
 
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SJHovey said:
You're a big boy. I'm not here to tell you what emotions you can or cannot have.
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But you were just here, lecturing us that we shouldn't hate unless someone actually does something hateful toward us.

If that's not telling us what to do...…………………………….
 
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I can picture Brent, Drew, and Hovey sitting in a café in Berlin in the 30's saying "yeah, really don't like those Nazi concentration camps but Hitler and crew sure do make the trains run on time. Besides, the opposition is just full of too much rage over all that Final Solution mumbo jumbo".
 
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I wonder what Mike Godwin thinks of the internet and Twitter today?
 
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Drew S. said:
Its really hard to understand why some people just can’t get excited about either party right now.
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Knowing you, that was intended to read "Its not really hard . . . ," right?
 
SJHovey said:
I wonder what Mike Godwin thinks of the internet and Twitter today?
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He's said it's ok to call Nazis, "Nazis."

Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) Tweeted:
By all means, compare these ****heads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you. https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320?s=17
 
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SJHovey said:
When I see a white supremacist, I don't hate them.
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Fine people, on both sides. We know.

SJHovey said:
So I'm not going to allow myself to "hate" a white supremacist, because that hatred might cause me to act in a way that I'll later wish I hadn't, or in a way that will affect my life adversely. For example, and in the extreme, maybe it causes me to go out and shoot a white supremacist.

So again, we're all free to think as we choose. But if someone were looking for advice from me, my suggestion would be to resist the urge to "hate" and instead channel those emotions into having a positive impact on the world.
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I know this might be more nuance and gray than your conservative heart can handle, but just because you hate something doesn't mean you will go out and act in a negative manner. You can hate something and use that as motivation to make a positive impact on the world.
 
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unofan said:
He's said it's ok to call Nazis, "Nazis."

Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) Tweeted:
By all means, compare these ****heads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you. https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320?s=17
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That's a good link. I was thinking about my question last week, but didn't follow up on it. I see that he literally just wrote a column on it just a couple of days ago.

https://www.rstreet.org/2018/06/25/godwins-law-in-the-age-of-trump/
 
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burd said:
I live in WI and voted for Hillary, and I could probably have done more. No, could certainly have done more. And it did matter.
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Yep. I'm not making that mistake again. Even in MN. I'm going to become far more active.
 
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