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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]iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)105. labeling folks who want action
against someone gassing children 'pro war' is a joke .... and just as bad/stupid as someone making the phrase 'peace purist'
I guess you know of a way to talk them out of gassing women and children?
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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