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I'm not sure why you think my statement is a "strawman ".Yet another "what if" strawman argument scenario................wash, rinse, repeat.
You know what those people understand more than anything? If you go to work, treat your family good, don’t be a criminal, maybe even wave at your neighbor you will have a pretty good life. You won’t sit around and worry about all the “what if’s” and everyone else’s problems.Hey Highland, I think your wasting your time with a few of these guys. It's like talking to a 8th grader who quit school to pursue a HVAC career. He might be able to fix your AC but he sure as hell isnt educated enough to even begin to understand much about anything else.
Hey Highland, I think your wasting your time with a few of these guys. It's like talking to a 8th grader who quit school to pursue a HVAC career. He might be able to fix your AC but he sure as hell isnt educated enough to even begin to understand much about anything else.
Except, I think you advocate for some forced socialism, while out of the other side of your mouth, you condemn it.If you want to live in a socialist shithole, there are plenty of them available - no changes needed - fucking GO THERE.
Anything hypothetical in your posts, is strawman argument. That should cover it. You are trying to make your points with things that are not current reality, or hypothetical scenarios. I appreciate where you are coming from, but you make strawman arguments and then ask others to refute them.I'm not sure why you think my statement is a "strawman ".
Which part of what I said do you disagree with ?
AC dude is an important mofo!I'm a patient person and think it's never a waste of time to ask people to consider their actions and reflect on them.
Sometimes the messenger gets shot, but I don't take it personally. New information can be frightening to people who've been told two opposing things at once most of their lives.
My AC is running alot these days, gotta keep that canopy temperature down!
As is the auto mechanic, the roofer, the plumber, ect. when the dude with the PhD in gender studies needs someone with actual skills - they pay a LOT to get their Beamer fixed or the AC turned back on.AC dude is an important mofo!
Thank you for explaining your position. Here's mine...Anything hypothetical in your posts, is strawman argument. That should cover it. You are trying to make your points with things that are not current reality, or hypothetical scenarios. I appreciate where you are coming from, but you make strawman arguments and then ask others to refute them.
Unfortunately politics are allowing what’s happening in America right now...Thank you for explaining your position. Here's mine...
Most of this thread has a political undertone. People discuss politics as if it is an automatic default situation and must always exist. That's what people thought about when slavery was more commonly accepted too, yet that changed...some....sort off., well, a little. Sorry, my mind drifted off to prohibition and how that is one thing that makes me think at least some forms of slavery still exist.
Anyhow, people yack about their particular wish list for their favorite political team to do for them etc. and rant about the other persons team wish list as being bad etc. That's what people think of as "discussing politics", but I think there is more to it than that. I want to discuss the institution of politics itself, not which dipshit will be our overlord.
Politics itself isn't the solution, it is the source of most of the problems. I'm here to bring a different angle to "political discussion" , to examine and expose politics itself.
No secret, I am "anti politics" because politics primary operational means is violence or the threat of it. That's not hypothetical, it's a self evident fact, ie "reality" . If it were hypothetical you could show me where that's inaccurate. Good luck.
So, much of my posting won't revolve around the red versus blue false paradigm. It will revolve around pointing out and discovering the truth and letting the chips fall where they may. I'm not trying to strawman anyone's arguments, I'm asking those who advocate the political means to defend it and not run from discussion when contradictions are presented. I thought that was the purpose of a discussion forum ?
The human capacity for free thought is so small its unbelievable we even got this far. Monkey see,money do. Monkey hear, monkey repeat. Im really starting to believe there are outliers with the ability of non biased thinking and the rest of society just follows by design. So if I'm paying bills when I'm 15 and putting food on the table, I have the same opportunity as someone born into millions of dollars with tutors and servants etc? If I'm going to school for biochem while working full time I have the same opportunity as someone who gets chauffeured to school in a Bentley and doesn't have to spare a second to anyone? Cause his great great grandfather put sleeves and a vest and called it a tshirt or some shit he deserves that much more ? Yea everyone has the same opportunity. Anyone can succeed in a economic system literally incapable of producing those same results. The problem with the left is the system isnt right. You cant blend socialistic and capitalist ideologies and expect anything good to come of it. For some pigs to get fat some piglets have to starve. Just the way it is with this society of "winners". Survival of the fittest they say. I guess we all just have our own ideas of what's fit.You know what those people understand more than anything? If you go to work, treat your family good, don’t be a criminal, maybe even wave at your neighbor you will have a pretty good life. You won’t sit around and worry about all the “what if’s” and everyone else’s problems.
I’m a fucking chauvinistic pig, I don’t care if you’re rich or poor, successful or unsuccessful everyone has the same opportunity in life. Some choose to go to work or pursue wealth as it could be called. Some choose to be a piece of shit.
Also, that guy fixing your AC typically makes $70k a year here, I’m sure it’s higher in other areas. He probably coaches sports in the evenings and weekends with his kids. Just a hard working uneducated American. He has a lot to offer as a person. A lot more than someone standing in the street with a sign crying and bitching about someone else’s rights. Who is the better person there?
Believe in your radical left ideas, that’s fine. Don’t try to push them on the rest of America. Don’t be upset when your ideas get voted down. Suck it up and move on. Minnesota will probably be a red state this year come election time. Cities like Seattle, Atlanta, LA, Baltimore, Chicago are living proof these ideas just don’t work.
Exactly - and we aren't a fucking socialist country - move to one if that is your desire.You cant blend socialistic and capitalist ideologies and expect anything good to come of it.
"Paul was a poor little rich boy, he never had to cryI have the same opportunity as someone born into millions of dollars with tutors and servants etc? If I'm going to school for biochem while working full time I have the same opportunity as someone who gets chauffeured to school in a Bentley......
That's such a cliche'. I believe a large segment of people have looked at other points of view. Looking certainly does not equal agreeing, and in fact strengthens the disagreement more often than not.How about some of you expand your minds a little bit? Try to see all points of view other than your own. Is it that hard to do?
The problem is the media - and them getting to decide who bears what label - and they are the fucking far left.