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In reply to the discussion: Wow! The new slur against the anti-war faction on DU is "peace purists" [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)117. just look below
"war perverts"
just like being pro Big Brother for thinking some information should stay classified and that those who know about it with real problems would at first use the channels created in the WPA.
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Wow! The new slur against the anti-war faction on DU is "peace purists" [View all]
MNBrewer
Aug 2013
OP
I remember that. The great writers that I attracted me to the site back then.
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#279
Average Joe 90, how is it that the USA possesses the moral authority at this point
truedelphi
Aug 2013
#291
Sadly, our "moral" authority is derived purely from that concept that might makes right. n/t
xocet
Aug 2013
#292
See I was thinking it was a tired retread in a moment where new rhetoric would really help them
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#224
That show was brilliant. I was gung-ho to join the Navy at 15 and watched MASH from then until 18..
rwsanders
Aug 2013
#249
All of our military interventions in the last decade are sold to the American people
Maedhros
Aug 2013
#149
It was a legitimate point of view until they got to the "peace purists" part.
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#73
God how out of place is that emoticon on this thread. War, chemical weapons, 'rofl'.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#64
"Peace purists" ignore all the good things that have come from our recent wars....
Bigmack
Aug 2013
#15
Nice words for nasty things: "stress positions", "renditions", "collateral damage", "friendly fire"
leveymg
Aug 2013
#186
I think the incumbent will carry out the same policy, even if he doesn't want to.
leveymg
Aug 2013
#218
You must understand...that wars fought with good intentions aren't really wars.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#21
Yes. it is no surprise that warmongering RWers would call DU progressives "peace purists".
Zorra
Aug 2013
#27
Why not debate the original poster instead of starting yet another thread on the subject?
randome
Aug 2013
#29
Did you look at that thread? Plenty of people not only debated but insturcted the OP in historical
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#68
Don't sweat it. All this means is that this kind of thing bugs the crap outta them,
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#34
I know-- it's sickening. They've become indistinguishable from the Bush Bots of yesterday.
Marr
Aug 2013
#37
I don't see any of the other pro war folks calling out the bullshit that is that OP
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#70
And yet it is not just one person on that thread advocating military action. 'Just one' you said.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#130
Wow. 'what I love about this'. I find nothing lovable or admirable in any of this, not the story
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#144
Children being gassed, children ripped from incubators, he gassed his own people blah blah blah
MyNameGoesHere
Aug 2013
#163
I take it you will be one of the first ones to put your comfortable boots on the ground?
idwiyo
Aug 2013
#261
Oh, is that what went out in today's memo? I wondered what happened to the
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#52
I mean the piling on, shitstirring, and vicious attacks against good, longstanding DUers
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#61
Fine with me. I am not referring to legitimate outrage against legitimate transphobia.
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#65
And in doing so you are claiming to be the standard bearer and judge of what is 'legitimate' and
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#78
You forgot to mention your unconditional support for LGBTQ rights and how all them mean
idwiyo
Aug 2013
#266
Well, I guess we should be like the "Real Democrats" here and be for even more foreign wars, that
RC
Aug 2013
#129
No one is advocating a new war, but that is how EXTREME your position is...
DontTreadOnMe
Aug 2013
#164
"what is this all about" -- taking out the capability to use chemical weapons
DontTreadOnMe
Aug 2013
#210
You do know we're not going to hit the chemical weapons themselves, right?
neverforget
Aug 2013
#248
Well, at least that's one of the things I actually support, so it's something of an improvement. n/t
winter is coming
Aug 2013
#60
Um, hate to break it to you but we used napalm on Vietnam and white phosphor
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#209
Oy vey. What part of 'We have no moral standing to lecture other nations about chemical weapons'
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#316
Napalm is not a 'chemical weapon'? OK. I'm sure the Vietnamese girl running down
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#338
I am a "peace purists" and have proudly advertized that fact for a long, long time.
RC
Aug 2013
#104
*ONE* poster used that term, and should've has his OP hidden for it....
scheming daemons
Aug 2013
#124
Labels and Propaganda. Misinformation and Disinformation - From the Toolkit of the Ruling Class.
Octafish
Aug 2013
#133
Is it me, or have more and more Democrats started moving to the right of the Tea Party?
Savannahmann
Aug 2013
#138
I suppose this should not come as a surprise - who would have thought a D would put SS
DrDan
Aug 2013
#306
Well, as one of the "lackeys" and "apologists", I'd say the name calling is about even
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#148
It is the same Authoritarian Apologists. They don't need any other label.
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2013
#188
they're already preparing "paper towels" for us peaceniks when we have "egg on our faces"
MisterP
Aug 2013
#169
Good, now I have two things that I am not afraid to admit and am even proud of.
A Simple Game
Aug 2013
#179
Peace purist here! The last 61 years of my life have been spent in a state of war.
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2013
#187
I call it 'neo-McCarthyism,' since its subtext is (to varying degrees) anti-semitism and
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#193
How many here remember when the Bush Bastards claimed Saddam wasn't going alone...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#217
I fight with the far Left often. But I oppose military action against Syria. The USA
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#232