kurtster wrote:

This line of 'reasoning' is disingenuous. Especially since you did manage to get the quote back up and the sentiment holds just fine. Not even you thought that was a word for word quotation, and yet here you are building another strawman.  Your arguments suck, our reasoning sucks, your 'ideals' suck, your favorite band sucks, and the brand you can't do anything but defend sucks. 

 kurtster wrote:
Looks like an image of a giant straw man made out of fifty percent victim mentality and fifty percent virtue signalling.

"You made us do this."

Do you see this ?

 islander wrote:

That could be a cached image, but even those expire, too.

Doesn't justify you outright inventing quotes though, which is the takeaway from all of this.

You call me disingenuous all the time.

If inventing quotes is not a disingenuous thing then I do not know what is.

 kurtster wrote:

You are likely seeing a cached image. Facebook image links are notoriously fragile (like your ego) and unreliable (like your logic and reasoning). But go ahead and blame everyone else, par for the course.

 R_P wrote:

Yes, I know FB images expire.  It was sent to me yesterday and it has not yet expired.

I guess that this becomes another oh, nevermind

I have no idea what is going on with you people.  The image shows up on the legacy and the new website, for me anyway.

I am currently posting this on the new website.

Chrome   Windows 11

 kurtster wrote:

Do you see this ?

Posted on the new website.

 kurtster wrote:
Nothing shown here. FB images expire.

 kcar wrote:
I see it...  your view is more genuine. 

 kurtster wrote:

I'm just seeing an empty black box when you tried to re-post. 

You had an earlier post that was also an empty black box. 

If your posts don't show up, people are just going to wind up ignoring you entirely. 

 islander wrote: 
My garbage post disappeared ?  You mean this one ?

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 kurtster wrote: 
Just WTF are you on ?  You must be sucking your car's exhaust pipe.

You are just another trolling asshole.  Go away and troll somewhere else.

 kurtster wrote:

Well your garbage post disappeared, so it was from memory. Sorry if it wasn't memorable enough to repeat.  The "they" would be the "we" in that was in your garbage post.  And everything you post here is disingenuous bullshit meant to misinform from the start.

So Penelope, what are you going to do about us not playing by 'your' rules? 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
The thought that I posted was in regards to the US, not the rest of the world.

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islander wrote: 
A big whooooooosh to both of you.

And exactly who is the they that you refer to and when did they do it ?

My interpretation of the thought is that it is about very recent things, not things done long ago like you both seem to be inferring.

This is about DEI and all that entails.  The common sense 80 / 20 issues.  Both of you, based on your reactions. appear to be firmly entrenched on the 20% side of the issues.

And I love how you misuse the quotation marks in your comment.  That is not a direct quote which is what quotation marks mean and only mean for that matter.

You can paraphrase all you want, but what you did with your use of the quotation marks is deliberate misinformation.

You better get your act together, sonny boy.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Also, everything in that post was bullshit. "we don't care about race or the gays, just leave us alone", except that they made policies, laws and practices that disenfranchised, punished and penalized those people long before it was 'in their face'. 

 kurtster wrote:

yep, that sums it up brilliantly. You guys are so soft you can't handle criticism, which either means you don't have any suitable counter-arguments or the other side might just have a point or two that you don't want to hear. 
Your "patience and tolerance are gone"? 
Bullshit, you only ever had some as long as nobody ever challenged your world view.

C'mon put your big girl panties on. You can do better than this.
Democracy by definition means having a forum where everyone can air their different views. That is the whole point. And also the very thing that makes democracies by far the best-performing form of government out there. 

 Red_Dragon wrote:
Pardoned Jan. 6 PATRIOT Rioter Arrested for Plans to Kill Democratic Leader

Your bias is showing.