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     1313 |
Froggy,  You're in Suches. You - and the rest of the crew there - are supposed to be riding. Make us proud... 1313 | ||
| Crusty |
 Bush. Sanders. Bloomberg. Carson. Rubio. Curley. Personally, I think Curley was the best choice, but I can accept the Donald. He's a hell of a lot better choice than the grifter. | ||
| Ourdee |
You're in Suches. You - and the rest of the crew there - are supposed to be riding. Brankin, Posting on BabWeb does not mean Froggy is not riding. | ||
| Froggy |
Hey, I very well may be multitasking, bumping old threads while on Wolf Pen.  | ||
| Griffmeister |
OMG, Froggy can time travel in Suchs. It's 5/27/11 there now. | ||
| Ourdee |
He is probably setting John up with a wifi hot spot mid corner. | ||
| Aesquire |
More questions on politics. This jerk, for example. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/11/24/tw itter-trolling-lands-jail-dallas-case-tests-limits -free-speech I'm 110% for free speech. especially if it makes you upset. There'e no need to defend speech that you like. Now, I'm a bit of a fan of trolls like Milo yana-something, but he doesn't threaten people. Frankly, I can easily blow off the mild anger from being called dirty names. Do it all the time in the real world and occasionally on line. But "#LetsKillAesquire" or the like would bother me. And I'm from an older tradition that tells me that "sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me".... meaning when you threaten me with sticks and stones I now have your explicit permission to break your bones to stop you. In the real world, on the street, Being sworn at, is annoying. I've been called various things, like slang words for female body parts. No big deal. I'm a adult even if the 30+ year old yelling at me isn't. However, if someone comes up to me and tells me he's going to kill me? I read that as a simple statement, and feel free to respond simply. ( run away, of course, is the first choice ) To quote a comic book character. "When you open the door to violence, what comes through that door is your fault" | ||
| Aesquire |
http://nypost.com/2016/12/02/new-york-citys-traffi c-is-intentionally-horrible/ Bloomberg & the current commie mayor want you peasants to suffer. I bet they care nothing of the dead & injured in their wake. They are better than you. Smarter than you. More righteous than you. More holy than you. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. | ||
| Glitch |
When my ex-wife left me and married a convicted rapist. He beat her, and when she had had enough, she left him and went back home to her mom. He would call her and threaten her with more beatings, and even to kill her. She recorded some of his rantings and went to the cops with it, and ultimately to court. He served five years in prison for terrorist threats. I don't see why twitter should be any different. Trolling is different, until it crosses over to threats of violence. Milo got his twitter account shut down for trolling/hate speech. That was uncalled for, because he never threatened anyone. My 2¢ | ||
| Blake |
I voted for the ultra-coifed orange guy. I'm liking him more and more. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Me too. My desire to make sure that Hillary did not win overwhelmed my desire to cast a protest vote. I too, am liking him more as the days pass. | ||
| Court |
As a wise man once said . . .
I am among those "I don't think he's great but he's damn sure better than Hillary" voters. My hope . . for months . . that, like me, there was a silent majority, composed of good old-fashioned Americans, who had the Trump sticker under the seat to keep their car from being vandalized and them from being beaten by the "peace loving" Democrats who, we later learned, were paying folks $1,500 each to incite violence. As I sat . . . 4 monitors going . . watching those needles on the New York Times (perhaps the only good thing they have done in 15 years) whirring and their "Hillary has a 98.1% chance of winning" graph suddenly start spinning the other day . . . . I was ecstatic. It wasn't until I saw camera shots of snowflakes crying their eyes out that my joy was made complete. I think Trump has plenty of faults. My long-time, and stated hope, was that the media, owing largely to their own disdain, would hold his feet to the fire and that his stature as a businessman would allow him to attract and retain some really good people. To date, I am happy with what I am seeing and optimistic (as is Forbes which has revised it's predictions for economic growth in the coming year) with his choices and actions. While folks criticize his "strong arming" of Carrier . . . I applaud and say "it's about time someone told one of these companies, leave at your peril" and if the promised tax code changes result in a better manufacturing environment their will be across the board improvements. One thing I've been saying throughout the election . . . if you want to see the tide of sentiment change . . . . wait until young minority unemployed folks in the manufacturing wasteland of Detroit start seeing factories reopen, start getting $28/hr job, pensions, vacations and benefits . . . America is great and it's high time we reassert our talents, pride and abilities on the world stage. Just a thought . . . | ||
| Aesquire |
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/giants-cooperate-removal -extremist-content-235718358--finance.html Why am I so sure this is not the good news they want me to think it is? Oh, yeah. Experience. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://theweek.com/articles/665562/why-are-many-de mocratic-operatives-cynical-soulless-hacks This is a complaint from a leftist ideology scum. No remorse for lies. No conscience for hatred. Not a second for truth. Screw actually helping people. Just how to take more power. Strategy to lie better. Learn from this. Please. Still not a Donald fan. Still against hate for power, lie for power, a demonic philosophy that is the baseline lie that is Progressive. Or Communist to use the older words. They change the label when it doesn't sell but the rot goes to the core. | ||
| Macbuell |
How is that not a violation of the 1st amendment? | ||
| Hootowl |
The constitution limits the powers of the federal government, and the bill or rights lists the things that government can't do to us. It doesn't mention private enterprise. | ||
| Macbuell |
This is true but is it really "private enterprise" when it is multiple institutions getting together to decide what is allowed and what isn't. They are basically deciding what speech is allowed on the largest, most widespread social media web sites that are used by many organizations for information dissemination. That's different than one private corporation, IMO. Obviously if the content is designed to provoke violence, that is one thing. But if it just upsets some special little pampered millennial, than tough shit and deal with it. This might be just another tool to use to shout down and turn off differing opinions. That doesn't sound like a good thing to me. | ||
| Aesquire |
Let's put it this way.... Anyone not stupid has known we are at war with Obedient Islam since 2001. It's 2016. The social media moguls, super rich men with similar political leanings have done very little to nothing to stop terrorists from using their web sites to communicate and plan mass murder. Suddenly, among a flurry of propaganda about fake news, ( the Left always accuses their enemies of doing what they do. Partly to defuse public anger at themselves, partly because they can't imagine anyone thinking any different than they do. ) Multiple social media companies decide to get together to combat "hate" with the obvious intention of fooling you into thinking they mean terrorism...... but within the context of their FURY at the 2016 election, can only mean they want to crush free speech. Any view except their own. How? Simply by erasing anything they don't want. They have total power over their own scams, their own little universes, and there is no one to tell them they can't. There are no laws to protect you from this. They're smart people. Rich people. Insanely rich people, and they have and will spend as much in bribes to get what they want as entire nations could. After all, these are the people who created the alt-right out of thin air. A boogie man to scare the peasants. The fact that a bunch of idiots have claimed to be the alt-right doesn't change the fact that it's a fake movement. That's the power of lies. And the easiest lie is to keep the enemy from telling the truth. And if this sounds paranoid..... Ask Hillary about wiping her server with a cloth. ( now that we know her minions erased govt. documents after they were subpoenaed. ) And how much did the the Old Media report on these felonies? | ||
| Hootowl |
"That's different than one private corporation" Irrelevant. They're not the government. | ||
| Hootowl |
...and everything Pat said above. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Like anything though, the "media" stands to lose out. Just like the dems lost out. People get sick and tired...and they move on. Once people get sick of being censored on the "social media" sites, those sites will start to see a decline. Then the fat cats won't be so fat anymore. | ||
| Sifo |
I "deleted" my Facebook account some years ago. I have no need to support a company that restricts free speech. Won't use most other social media for the same reason. My biggest feeling of loss is with companies that seem to use Facebook exclusively for their public interface. Maybe I'm just old school, but I think a web page is far better than Facebook anyway. If you expect me to search for info on you on Facebook, you loose my business. Don't like that? Provide a different path for business. When enough people take this sort of stand, you will see change. If you are unwilling to take such a stand, then I hope you are willing to have free speech stifled by a consortium of private businesses. It would be just as wrong to ask the government to force them to allow speech they don't like, as it would be to force a Christian baker to cater a gay wedding. | ||
| Hootowl |
Badweb is as close as I get to social media. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/12/a_fasc inating_peek_into_the_mentality_of_the_liberal_bub ble.html | ||
| Sifo |
I can't agree with the American Thinker article Aesquire posted strongly enough. I've been trying to figure out the thinking of the left since I met my wife, and her bat-shit-crazy left leaning family. I've tried to get a gleam of what's inside their heads from any source willing to have a discussion. For myself, who made a living putting together the binary logic of computer code, it has at times, been a somewhat terrifying journey. I've come to realize that there is no foundation to their thinking. This allows for incredible flexibility (read that as conflict) as they move from one issue to the next. It's why when Hillary says that illegal immigration is a problem, they agree, but when Trump says virtually the exact same thing, he is demonized for his intolerance. They literally don't recognize the conflict in their position. For a very long time, I was in denial that they could walk through life this way. I've come to realize that somehow, they do. I've accepted it. It still terrifies me when I think about it. | ||
| Blake |
Tom, On a related note: http://theweek.com/articles/665446/how-conservativ es-outintellectualized-progressives | ||
| Arbalest |
I realize that all the alt.right and far right folks are overjoyed at the election results. I fear the dog has caught the car. I can't wait to see what he does with it. He will either bring the car to a grinding halt, chew on it for a while and then piss on it, or, with his teeth imbedded in the tire, he will be pounded to a bloody pulp in short order. The right now controls both houses of congress and the presidency. They will appoint several Supreme Court justices. Either the country will become wildly prosperous, and I'll be wrong, but very happy, or my fears will be justified and the country and the environment will spiral into the toilet, from which the country will not recover for a generation. I hope you will prove me wrong. | ||
| Aesquire |
Your analysis on how Donald will do biting the tire of the government may be correct. Great metaphor, btw. You are wrong about the "right" taking over. At best, the Republican establishment is left of center..... heck, Donald is left of center. He's not a Communist like Bernie, but to expect social conservative attitude from him is stupid. He's pragmatic & certainly attracted the conservatives. .... where the heck else could they turn? Jeb? I'm pretty sure the alt right is imaginary. A dozen netball bloggers don't make it real. It's mostly a made up boogeyman created by the DNC/Hillary campaign. Yep, some folk grabbed the fake flag & ran with it, but they are notable cretins. There's always going to be a tiny number of wacko racists losers who desperately want to believe they are the enlightened ones. They're wrong. Just as wrong as the Obama blessed BLM. If you magically gathered the real racists in America and put them in the Superdome, I'd be interested to see the percentage of race breakdown. But I'd bet there'd be room left over to fill the stands and fit a marching band on the field next to the racist jerks. Don't buy the doom & gloom propaganda of CNN. Don't buy the Pollyanna crap from the rightish pundits either. The left has increased it's grip on government for a century. Millions believe their lies. This struggle will not be swift or easy. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/442931/democr ats-dumbest-complaint-senate-electoral-college-unf air Funny. Factual. ... darn, out of appropriate F words.  | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/wo men_and_islam_a_twofront_war.html |
