US Politics Thread

[SebastianBlue]

You do realise hell isn't a thing? It's part of a very old story designed to scare people into compliance with authority. A bit like the boogeyman man, or describing someone as the 'next hitler'.

I am an atheist, so I do not believe “hell” exists.

But that reference is called a metaphor.

And the fact you have replied with that non sequitur is exactly why you deserve to be called a Good German.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I am an atheist, so I do not believe “hell” exists.

But that reference is called a metaphor.

And the fact you have replied with that non sequitur is exactly why you deserve to be called a Good German.

My grandad was a good german

 

[SebastianBlue]

My grandad was a good german

Then it runs in the family.

 

[bluesteel]

You do realise hell isn't a thing? It's part of a very old story designed to scare people into compliance with authority. A bit like the boogeyman man, or describing someone as the 'next hitler'.

I realise it, and that’s our opinion, but I think we’re in the minority here, which neither makes us wrong nor right.

You need to open up to the fact people base their whole being on their beliefs, try to see it from their angle, despite the inherent differences.

Until someone proves otherwise, nobody knows a thing.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

You need to open up to the fact people base their whole being on their beliefs, try to see it from their angle, despite the inherent differences.

Yeah, I really don’t need to do any such thing.

What are your qualifications to offer your opinion on Trump winning, dissolving NATO, China being a responsible power, etc. in the first place?

Where’s your PhD in international economics from?

This is a forum and you can offer your opinion and then say prove me wrong . . . but every time someone has done that here in past the response to those who offer patient, thoughtful explanations is never, “You’re right; I didn’t think it through.”

So why are you going to be any different?

You won’t be would be my guess.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I realise it, and that’s our opinion, but I think we’re in the minority here, which neither makes us wrong nor right.

You need to open up to the fact people base their whole being on their beliefs, try to see it from their angle, despite the inherent differences.

Until someone proves otherwise, nobody knows a thing.

Indeed, apart from a couple of zealots who police the US politics forums like their view is sacrosanct.
Calling me a 'good German' because I won't join in the hate with them. It seems lost on some that there is more totalitarian behaviour and abuse on this thread than any trump rally.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Then it runs in the family.

It didn't do him any good.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It didn't do him any good.

Well then, learn from his mistakes.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Well then, learn from his mistakes.

I have. I've never fallen out of a watchtower after a Christmas party and been bitten by my own Alsatian

 

[SebastianBlue]

Indeed, apart from a couple of zealots who police the US politics forums like their view is sacrosanct.
Calling me a 'good German' because I won't join in the hate with them. It seems lost on some that there is more totalitarian behaviour and abuse on this thread than any trump rally.

This is absolute nonsense and, once more, I know you are intelligent enough to know it is.

I don’t call you a Good German because you won’t “join in on the hate”, whatever that even means.

I call you that because you meet the definition, staying “neutral” (even though you are actually taking a side) in the face of the rise of an increasingly dangerous and inhumane movement in the US and Europe. You’ve chosen a side, whilst trying to disingenuously claim you haven’t.

And to say there is totalitarian behaviour and abuse in this thread because people call you out on your constant ignorant takes (that you never acknowledge were wrong even after being conclusively shown to be) and intentional trolling bullshite is utterly pathetic. Especially coming from someone that constantly says that all opinions should be welcomed in the thread and responses are why the forum exists.

The irony is you spend more time in the US politics threads than most any of us, and could easily be accused of “policing” them.

And you are as much an “activist” as I am, just for a very different cause.