2016 elections - because it's never too early

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Martinus


garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

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Quote from: garbon on April 08, 2016, 03:15:31 PM
You are getting racist now too?

They are behaving like thugs. They are loud, obnoxious, have no interest what he (still, a former POTUS) has to say. What's race got to do with it?  :huh:

Razgovory

Martinass finds new ways to be repulsive!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Perhaps you are unaware but in an American context, there if a definite racial connotation to the word thug. Particularly if you use it directly to refer to black people.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

Quote from: garbon on April 08, 2016, 03:19:34 PM
Perhaps you are unaware but in an American context, there if a definite racial connotation to the word thug. Particularly if you use it directly to refer to black people.

I don't care. As I said, they are behaving like thugs. I have used the same word in the past to refer to white hooligans as well.

Eddie Teach

As an Indian American, garbon is offended by the cultural appropriation.
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garbon

Quote from: Martinus on April 08, 2016, 03:21:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 08, 2016, 03:19:34 PM
Perhaps you are unaware but in an American context, there if a definite racial connotation to the word thug. Particularly if you use it directly to refer to black people.

I don't care. As I said, they are behaving like thugs. I have used the same word in the past to refer to white hooligans as well.

Well that's great but a strange stance if you want to discuss American issues. :mellow:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 08, 2016, 03:22:40 PM
As an Indian American, garbon is offended by the cultural appropriation.

It is really funny how people like him or Solmyr react virtually like Pavlov dogs to these things. It's like they are their own caricatures. It's really amazing.

garbon

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 08, 2016, 03:22:40 PM
As an Indian American, garbon is offended by the cultural appropriation.

Definitely - though these days (post being Dominican in New York), I'm apparently now Middle Eastern.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Martinus on April 08, 2016, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Jaron on April 08, 2016, 12:44:58 PM
Bernie invited himself to the Vatican and suddenly declared himself pro Catholic and a big fan of the Pope.

Isn't the Catholic church's ANTI WOMAN, ANTI GAY platform at odds with Bernies supposed inclusion platform?

That ship has sailed when the progressives started to support Islam.

They only want to throw you off a roof because they are poor and misunderstood. Embrace the love.
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"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

derspiess

The union thugs I vilify are usually white.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 08, 2016, 03:29:02 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 08, 2016, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Jaron on April 08, 2016, 12:44:58 PM
Bernie invited himself to the Vatican and suddenly declared himself pro Catholic and a big fan of the Pope.

Isn't the Catholic church's ANTI WOMAN, ANTI GAY platform at odds with Bernies supposed inclusion platform?

That ship has sailed when the progressives started to support Islam.

They only want to throw you off a roof because they are poor and misunderstood. Embrace the love.

Also because of global warming.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Solmyr

Quote from: Martinus on April 08, 2016, 03:24:03 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 08, 2016, 03:22:40 PM
As an Indian American, garbon is offended by the cultural appropriation.

It is really funny how people like him or Solmyr react virtually like Pavlov dogs to these things. It's like they are their own caricatures. It's really amazing.

Speaking of caricatures, you are in danger of becoming a wee bit predictable yourself. ;)

Jaron

I learned recently that some people - not out of malice, but ignorance - still use the word "colored" in Utah.

I was talking to a co worker, really sweet guy, and he was telling me about the comic book character Green Lantern. And he commented that its not always the same guy who is the Green Lantern - once it was Hal Jordan and another time it was a "colored fellow". My jaw nearly hit the floor.
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