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In the discussion thread: We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't. [View all]

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:30 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

18. Bravo, Taverner. Great rant!

"Arguing with one who has abandoned reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine

I've reached my Popeye Point with these dimwits, addlepates, nincompoops and god-botherers: I've had all I can stand and I can't stands no more! I refuse to even attempt to make common cause with people who would happily destroy me.

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183 replies	Author	Time	Post
We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't. [View all]	Taverner	Jun 2012	OP
K&R +1	bupkus	Jun 2012	#1
.	WilliamPitt	Jun 2012	#2
I have an awful writing block just now. I'm so happy you do not.	EFerrari	Jun 2012	#3
Long walk with headphones listening to 'My Favorite Things' by Coltrane	WilliamPitt	Jun 2012	#4
Hey, I think you'd like these.	Gregorian	Jun 2012	#29
who is the dwarf pianist?	HiPointDem	Jun 2012	#147
Michel Petrucciani	M0rpheus	Jun 2012	#154
thanks. i was suprised because his hands don't look so flexible.	HiPointDem	Jun 2012	#156
That is	Johnny Noshoes	Jun 2012	#159
Good article! nt	abelenkpe	Jun 2012	#45
+1.000	freshwest	Jul 2012	#177
+ 5 brazillion	kestrel91316	Jun 2012	#5
Nonsense. The Ruling Class creates wars the rest of us fight	leftstreet	Jun 2012	#6
Look - I'm a Socialist and I understand this	Taverner	Jun 2012	#7
Don't fret. Half the eligible people don't vote	leftstreet	Jun 2012	#10
However, since the Glenn Beckkks and Rushes out there have stirred them up, they vote now	Taverner	Jun 2012	#13
There are a lot of people out there who don't listen to them	leftstreet	Jun 2012	#39
Better cover up	whistler162	Jun 2012	#8
Good. Let it shine, let it shine	Taverner	Jun 2012	#9
Indeed! Don't Cover Up A God Damn Thing	HangOnKids	Jun 2012	#14
I hate what they do and they can change or not, but it's gotta stop.	Tigress DEM	Jun 2012	#31
It is folly to try to divorce hatred of them from hatred of their acts.	Chan790	Jun 2012	#98
I'm with you on all points. One quibble...	JNelson6563	Jun 2012	#100
Sounds to me like you hate everything	Meiko	Jun 2012	#126
I love, I hate, I dream, I think - I'm human	Taverner	Jun 2012	#157
We might define hatred as self-defense. Better writers than I can define the difference in the two..	freshwest	Jun 2012	#12
We need a lot more hate then.	Autumn	Jun 2012	#142
Excellent! K & R.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#11
Well said - rec'd - nt	Ohio Joe	Jun 2012	#15
Divide and conquer no more.	girl gone mad	Jun 2012	#16
+1	Tigress DEM	Jun 2012	#33
As a Marxist, I agree. HOWEVER.......	socialist_n_TN	Jun 2012	#68
Responsibility	Zultra	Jun 2012	#138
I don't take responsibility for the perversions of Stalinism......	socialist_n_TN	Jun 2012	#165
Not all Marxists are Bolsheviks.	baldguy	Jun 2012	#166
+1	Zorra	Jun 2012	#148
Whoa! This is the least bipartisan post I've seen all week.	hay rick	Jun 2012	#17
True	Tigress DEM	Jun 2012	#34
Bravo, Taverner. Great rant!	hifiguy	Jun 2012	#18
+100	Taverner	Jun 2012	#21
I wish we could like posts. This one deserves it!	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#74
Thanks, Odin!	hifiguy	Jun 2012	#92
Brilliant The Popeye Point	HangOnKids	Jun 2012	#93
Excellent. I agree. nt	TBF	Jun 2012	#145
I have said that we are in a cold civil war	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#19
It's going to be horrible for all parties involved, but it has to happen	Taverner	Jun 2012	#20
Some of these issues go back to 1776	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#22
No it wasn't. The South was never made to realize that it	hifiguy	Jun 2012	#25
Not sure you have it...	Taverner	Jun 2012	#79
BTW...I have no idea what I was trying to say here	Taverner	Jun 2012	#103
Ironically, it was the 19th Century's version of Bush v. Gore	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#89
It may never BE fully resolved, as in the losing side accepting reality.	Tigress DEM	Jun 2012	#38
General Sherman didn't lay waste to enough.	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#75
Forget 'liquidation.' If I had been Sherman, I would have gone all	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#90
What a horrible statement	Art_from_Ark	Jul 2012	#182
Ah yes, the ever popular "coming second civil war" rhetoric	kctim	Jun 2012	#28
Except that I am not basing this on your fantasies	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#30
That is not what is happening at all	kctim	Jul 2012	#174
I guess we all have imagined Right Wing Radio	nadinbrzezinski	Jul 2012	#180
Agreed.	I Love a Mystery	Jun 2012	#78
Welcome to DU	treestar	Jun 2012	#125
Thanks, treestar!	I Love a Mystery	Jul 2012	#169
lol I love the stupid right-wing dummies, such as those on militia websites -	Dash87	Jun 2012	#116
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Zultra	Jun 2012	#139
Did you get lost on your way to that other web site?	Comrade Grumpy	Jun 2012	#143
I think it hit too close to home. lol	Dash87	Jul 2012	#171
I'm with Nadin. Right now a 'cold civil war' (but with its	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#87
The extreme can't do a thing right now.	Dash87	Jun 2012	#119
We have had a very slow up tick in violence	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#153
It would be Hitler all over again	Taverner	Jun 2012	#158
So we are at war and can't be one country again	kctim	Jun 2012	#23
You really NEED to pick up a history book	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#40
Sigh - it seems like too many Americans want to hide behind their teddy bears	Taverner	Jun 2012	#50
It's not about fomenting change	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#57
+1	LiberalLoner	Jun 2012	#81
Nadin, hate to burst your bubble about "Holocaust survivors and the Germans	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#91
I am not talking of good germans or bad germans	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#107
Ah, got you. I agree that the Holocaust would have been	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#111
Yup, read it	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#113
That's still a hotly debated question	RZM	Jun 2012	#117
It wouldn't be academia without 'critics'. I must confess I have	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#121
Well by the 1940s there were still Germans who did not know	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#123
You raise a very interesting question about Abu Ghraib. I was	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#124
So you were in the somewhat aware group	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#129
It reminds me of some things I studied in college on political violence.	Chan790	Jun 2012	#104
Exactly, and that is something that	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#109
Since most of the organized mass killing was going on in Poland and not in	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#122
A professor in college who is an expert in the field.	Chan790	Jun 2012	#141
Well, you raised an interesting point in your first post, that	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#163
"The King can do no wrong!"	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#131
I understand history quite well	kctim	Jul 2012	#172
We are as exceptional as Rome, Spain, Britannia, France, the Netherlands	nadinbrzezinski	Jul 2012	#173
It's been a long struggle and some people are fully tired of being nice.	Tigress DEM	Jun 2012	#52
Yeah, "read a book!"	zappaman	Jun 2012	#58
Hmmmm.......	socialist_n_TN	Jun 2012	#65
what in the hell are you talking about?	Doctor_J	Jun 2012	#134
BS	kctim	Jul 2012	#176
oh, man	Doctor_J	Jul 2012	#178
Oh, brother	kctim	Jul 2012	#179
The only possible way there could be common ground	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#24
Sounds like a plan n/t	Taverner	Jun 2012	#48
I think it would take 3-4 year 2008 style electoral thrashings in a row.	stevenleser	Jun 2012	#51
I agree with you. Dems would need full control of all 3	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#94
Yeah, that's what I heard.	Igel	Jun 2012	#59
I hope you will work some of your thoughts here into an original post. I'd love	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#95
Peace comes from within	Herlong	Jun 2012	#133
I'm in 100% Agreement with you on this	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2012	#26
Watched a teacher complain once.	Igel	Jun 2012	#61
I'd like to see a link	pscot	Jun 2012	#130
me too. i would like to see a link.	ret5hd	Jun 2012	#160
Your thread means to me that we need a new Congress that will take care of the	DhhD	Jun 2012	#167
recommend	phantom power	Jun 2012	#27
I love that last line.	skydive forever	Jun 2012	#32
Phew. It's sobering to see reality. But at least we see it now.	Gregorian	Jun 2012	#35
People who are at war don't vote in common elections.	former9thward	Jun 2012	#36
.	pintobean	Jun 2012	#44
LOL!	MineralMan	Jun 2012	#84
BRAVO!!!	AynRandCollectedSS	Jun 2012	#37
There is a bullshit truism	agent46	Jun 2012	#41
What's your plan	pintobean	Jun 2012	#42
Don't give up one inch, that's my solution	Taverner	Jun 2012	#47
They're already	pintobean	Jun 2012	#49
Full-Auto Baby!!! nt	greytdemocrat	Jun 2012	#66
That's not really a plan, you know.	MineralMan	Jun 2012	#83
OH, I get it.	HALO141	Jun 2012	#43
Your not alone in your thoughs...	Mockingjay	Jun 2012	#46
There are those who are saying we will always lose as long as it is okay with us to allow	patrice	Jun 2012	#53
Stop, Hey what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.	Lint Head	Jun 2012	#54
This thread sponsored by	deaniac21	Jun 2012	#55
Our side is at war with	Jamaal510	Jun 2012	#56
Well said, Jamaal.	freshwest	Feb 2013	#183
sadly, I have to agree	magical thyme	Jun 2012	#60
I am very sorry to hear of this - makes the 'civil war' alluded to in the OP and	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#99
Do you know what these people think of you?	abelenkpe	Jun 2012	#62
We have to kill it nt	Taverner	Jun 2012	#63
I'm very sorry to hear about this familial civil war. When the price of maintaining	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#106
Wish we could get along	abelenkpe	Jul 2012	#170
You're describing what has happened in a lot of families!	LongTomH	Jun 2012	#149
"Negotiating with terrorists" is an accurate analogy.	TrollBuster9090	Jun 2012	#64
Fast and Furious is a great example.	rufus dog	Jun 2012	#67
No, we instead must fight the enemy, not ourselves.	chknltl	Jun 2012	#69
I agree.	Laelth	Jun 2012	#82
Then it is up to us on the left to open his eyes.	chknltl	Jun 2012	#168
ironically, they are all being brainwashed by the corporate media they call 'liberal'	Ghost of Huey Long	Jun 2012	#88
The same tactics used to conquer the right, worked against the left too!	chknltl	Jun 2012	#164
Reminds me of this quote-	Snarkoleptic	Jun 2012	#70
The nativist "Know Nothings" applied a name that fit Mr. Asimov's quote.	gordianot	Jun 2012	#80
That is one hell of a quote. Thanks - n/t	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#108
The blue is still blue but the gray has turned red.	Kablooie	Jun 2012	#71
The Civil War	DonCoquixote	Jun 2012	#72
A-FUCKING-MEN!	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#73
Not sure if we have ever been one country.	tblue	Jun 2012	#76
Here's one of the main causes of our polarization:	flamingdem	Jun 2012	#77
I think you need a slogan:	MineralMan	Jun 2012	#85
The 6 Walton heirs between them control as much wealth as the bottom 30 million Americans. Stop	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#86
The Walton "heirs" should be strung up	hifiguy	Jun 2012	#96
Gates himself did not invent Windows. Aside from its origins	coalition_unwilling	Jun 2012	#102
This post is utterly disgraceful	mythology	Jun 2012	#161
This is what the powers that be want. You are starting a war w/o an end like	Dustlawyer	Jun 2012	#97
I DO like your thinking and I'm VERY glad that you were able..........	socialist_n_TN	Jun 2012	#101
So if the working class does not agree with you, it's war on their behalf anyways?	randome	Jun 2012	#112
I'll repeat. Fascism is NEVER an option.........	socialist_n_TN	Jun 2012	#128
Most of the ignorant Republicans are in complete denial where they are	Taverner	Jun 2012	#137
+1. I bet you didn't start out by telling him he was ignorant & brainwashed & didn't know his own	HiPointDem	Jun 2012	#150
I thought this was an interesting article...	RevStPatrick	Jun 2012	#105
bravo	heaven05	Jun 2012	#110
We need to stop playing the game they set up for us.	woo me with science	Jun 2012	#114
There should be common ground among us.	DearAbby	Jun 2012	#115
HUGE K & R !!!	WillyT	Jun 2012	#118
This is the classic mistake of the American liberal . . . it's 'American exceptionalism' in reverse	RZM	Jun 2012	#120
K & R!	lonestarnot	Jun 2012	#127
Damn!!! That just about said it all, right there!	Homer Wells	Jun 2012	#132
How underground does this democratic underground go?	Herlong	Jun 2012	#135
Oh I'm sorry. Every time we extend our hands, they get chewed on mercilessly.	Taverner	Jun 2012	#136
I'm saying I want a HIGHER ground from them	Herlong	Jun 2012	#144
I don't want common ground with these people.	Autumn	Jun 2012	#140
!	Phlem	Jun 2012	#146
Where?	dtom67	Jun 2012	#151
the other side needs this, we don't	Enrique	Jun 2012	#152
Why play nice with a bunch of terrorists?	Rex	Jun 2012	#155
This message was self-deleted by its author	Herlong	Jun 2012	#162
K&R	B Calm	Jul 2012	#175
K&R	Herlong	Jul 2012	#181

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