American democracy health thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by superdave, Mar 11, 2018.

  1. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

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    @Sounders78 and the Alarmists were right yet again.

    That division sounds very creepy.
     
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  2. Sounders78

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    Sounders and the Alarmists - is that the band name for a group that does grunge remakes of songs from the 1960s?
     
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  3. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    The Alarm already exists. I liked them in high school, but they didn't age well. Too anthem-y
     
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  4. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    6 million+ dead Jews. By design and construction. Hitler wrote a book about it, after all.
     
  5. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Jul 14, 1999
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    It started when Germany invaded Poland.

    Why did Germany invade Poland?

    Obviously we’re just talking the European theater since the war started either in Asia, or in Ethiopia. Not sure where the current historiography defines the start, but obviously neither was a religious war, nor was it a religious war when Germany (mix of Ps and Cs) invaded predominantly Catholic Poland, because they weren’t trying to eradicate Catholicism in Poland. QED.
     
  6. soccernutter

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    So a religious war only involves Christianity? :confused:
     
  7. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
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    What religion were the Nazis? What religion were their combatants? What religion were their allies?
     
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  8. roby

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    I'm moving to Texas as that is where I long to be! :thumbsup:

    Over a third of all Texas counties are now under disaster declaration
    From CNN’s Cindy Von Quednow



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    Vehicles in a body shop are seen amid debris the morning after a tornado rolled through on May 26 in Valley View, Texas. Julio Cortez/AP
     
  9. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
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    The steel in the bodies of that Mustang & Camaro both have more strength than that shitty red iron that gets used in metal buildings
     
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  10. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    It involves religion. By definition.

    In order for you to be right and not close minded, Germany would have had to invade Poland as part of an effort to wipe out Catholicism. Is that your argument?

    Or is your argument that Italy vs Ethiopia or Japan vs China were about religion?

    Dude you’re gonna take the L on this eventually. Nobody in the world (even you, once the fever passes) honestly believes Germany invaded Poland for religious reasons. Why prolong the agony?

    :D:eek:;):p

    This is how Tar Heels do it

     
  11. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

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    Got rear ended by one of those old cars and the damage done to my plastic escape was impressive as it was just a case of slipping on ice and couldn't brake in time.
     
  12. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    Apparently these questions should be Daily Doubles in the second half of Jeopardy cuz they’re so difficult. :D:D:D:D:eek::eek::eek::eek::whistling::whistling::whistling::whistling:
     
  13. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
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    If I have to use it, there won't be anything casual about it.
     
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  14. roby

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    Hey...we're talkin Texas. It surely was up to code! :unsure:
     
  15. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    Yeah, I was thinking, did he not see the context for your remark? Maybe you’re right and maybe you’re wrong, but there was nothing “casual” about it.
     
  16. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
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    Let me just say this: if you find yourself in a country run by a dictator, where the Constitution has been obliterated and all the levers of national power have been compromised by an authoritarian regime, resisting isn't going to be a hobby.
     
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  17. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    Yeah, nobody watches dystopian fiction and thinks, wow, those people running from zombies in the Walking Dead are really casual about it. Nobody thinks the French Resistance was casual. And the generation that watched Hogan’s Heroes, I think, is smart enough to know that wasn’t a documentary. (Plus they never killed anybody, just blew up trains and stuff.)
     
  18. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

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    he doesn’t have ideas, he has opinions. Those opinions are articles of faith that align him with his tribe. They are essential to what passes for his identity, so he doesn’t want a dialogue. He’s incapable of dialogue. It doesn’t make any sense to him. A dialogue would require that he not identify with these articles of faith. Doing that would deny his identity.

    so as you indicate, he trolls and doesn’t engage.
     
  19. soccernutter

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    The "if" the casual thing about it.
     
  20. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Alright, back on ignore, you're almighty. It was so much nicer to read when your posts were not popping up.
     
  21. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    Oh darn now we’ll never read your epic tale of how Germany invaded Poland for religious reasons.

    :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
     
  22. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

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    And thanks for saying I’m almighty…even my mom doesn’t have that big an opinion of me!
     
  23. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

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    1. Mostly a kind of neo-Wendish paganism, I think, with some superficial lip service to Christianity.

    2. Mostly Lutheran?

    3. Italy was Catholic, Rumania and Bulgaria Eastern Orthodox, and Japan a bushido infected brand of Shinto.

    But, y'know fascist expansionism was not without theological underpinnings here and there; it isn't nuts to see the war as partly caused, in Germany, Italy, and Japan, not by the effort to eliminate another population for heresy, but rather for the sake of a sort of spiritually "justified" lebensraum. And the Jews were not being punished for a wrong god, but for alleged treason, and being "Asiatic" and just generally icky...

    And to add another complication, the Catholic invasion of semi-Christian Ethiopia did generate the birth of Rastafari...

    So does all that make it a religious war, a political war, or a racial/ethnic one. After careful consideration my vote is "Yes."
     
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  24. The Jitty Slitter

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    Someone once rear ended my fiat 124 sport in a mazda 323 and the front of their car was destroyed whereas mine was fine - just some scratches on the bumper
     
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  25. taosjohn

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    I think it is my neighbor's pack of dogs...:cautious::whistling:
     
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