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I do think we should respect one another's time enough not to insist on public comments every time a congressional backbencher says something stupid.
It is a terrible precedent. You're saying that I could bring up any bad thing that people here didn't talk about and use that to malign the board liberals. I don't think that would be fair, but that is the argument when you're blasting people for silence rather than what they've actually said.
I will certainly disagree with your view of conservatives in general, but if you want conservatives to respond to stuff, you would want more conservatives. If you don't want more conservatives, then don't ever suggest that they should spend more time on this forum.
Biden's lead has generally been quite consistent. He's been about nine points ahead since last year.
I will still suggest Cancel Culture is real, in that ordinary people face serious professional repercussions for pissing off sensitive left-wingers. Sometimes they'll bounce back in different capacities, but they're still cancelled from one subset.
It's also worth noting that what works in one field might not work in another. A fired progressive analyst might get a job at a centrist organization, and a commentator cancelled from PBS could get a job at Fox News, but that only applies within the political/ media ecosystem. Many won't have those options.
It's fine to argue that cancel culture is good, although some of the situations go beyond people expressing regressive views.
Many people are perfectly fine cancelling those they disagree with politically.
It is obviously better if people could be open about this, although they may often be unaware of their hypocrisy.
I'd imagine most of us are aware of this, and eager to see the exact numbers and evidence about this.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
I'm unaware of any time I have mocked someone who was assaulted.
That is the type of person you are. I hope it is not the type of person I am.
Let's take a look at the chain of posts.
WBE mocked Rand Paul for getting attacked by his neighbor.
To this I responded, that we shouldn't mock victims of violence or blame them for being assaulted.
To this you responded...
And to that I said...
In the same post to which you responded, I made clear that I was responding to the portion of WBE's post in which he referred to the time Rand Paul was assaulted by a neighbor.
You removed that portion from the comment when you quoted me, which is weird because that should have indicated which aspect of any earlier post I was responding to.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Says the man who told us Democrats are for open boarders because somebody wore a T-Shirt.
But it is only conservatives that have made "Cancel Culture" an election issue.Many people are perfectly fine cancelling those they disagree with politically.
It is obviously better if people could be open about this, although they may often be unaware of their hypocrisy.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
First off, Rand Paul wasn't assaulted for his politics. He was assaulted because he's a committed ***hole and terrible neighbor.
But since you claim you're 100% against people being mocked for getting assaulted, do you think it's wrong that myself and others mock Richard Spencer for getting punched?
Care to go to bat for why it's wrong for me to mock a Nazi being punched in the face, Mets?
Or are you still "consistent" on this?
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I'll be frank, mocking someone who gets beat up because they're an ***hole is acceptable.
Mocking someone being assaulted for their politics is wrong.
However, if your politics are, simply, "Well, I'm an ***hole, and my politics are to award poverty, hunger, death and suffering upon my opponents", it becomes acceptable to mock them for it.
And honestly, the GOP aren't very far from making that their party platform right now.
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While it's your call?
At least be straight with yourself about that you are laying brick on a wall of "Let's See If We Can Keep This All About As 'Wrong' As Possible..." when you are doing it.
Standing right there shoulder to shoulder with a lot of the folks you say you oppose laying brick on a wall of wrong that other folks are going to have to try to knock down.
Objectively?
Well, since apparently now we have to compare/contrast Rand Paul to a Neo-Nazi, get ready to get uncomfortable, because there's a lot of unsettling things in his political history that I've documented before:
- Sought out and hired known Neo-Confederates to work on his political campaigns rather than distance himself from them.
- Rand also once told Rachel Maddow in an interview that he wouldn’t have voted for the Civil Rights Act.
- Rand’s also discussed conspiracy theories like the Bilderberg Group, the American Union, the Jade Helm conspiracy theory, and even some 9/11 Trutherism, like his father. All are based in Anti-Semitic roots.
- In 2014 when he blamed “political correctness” on people being afraid to declare a travel ban because of the Ebola Virus outbreak in Africa
- Rand Paul once sponsored a Personhood bill that would apply the 14th Amendment to fetuses, as well, showing he’s not exactly the libertartian “hands off” type he portrays himself as.
- After a long pattern of Rand Paul shushing female journalists emerged and was noted by political commentators as evidence of sexist behavior, Paul responded by telling critics that it was “sexist to call him sexist”
- In June 2017 he compared National Health Care, that keeps people alive, to “the gulag”. (Which is amazing, because the gulag is where Stalin sent millions to DIE whereas healthcare does the EXACT OPPOSITE FOR PEOPLE).
- Voted against the permanent approval of The Zadroga Act, which would literally leave the first responders from 9/11 without the ability to get medical treatment for all the toxic debris they subjected themselves to while working "the Pile".
- Talking about getting rid of the Postal Service
- Voting to make sure anyone found to be on a terror watch list during a background check should still be allowed to purchase a firearm or explosives (which they could use to carry out a terror attack)
- Introduces his own Personhood bill, the “Life at Conception Act”, which would grant Constitutional rights to zygotes from the moment of fertilization (while again, opposing the Civil Rights Act that would grant them to actual living, breathing people of color).
- Voted against disaster relief for Houston after Hurricane Harvey.
- In mid-February of 2017, the Trump administration had its first, and not last ties to the Trump campaign being tied to Russia, after General Michael Flynn resigned after it was revealed he failed to disclose several meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign and the transition. And while the Democrats thought that warranted an investigation and several Republicans like Sen. John McCain agreed… Rand Paul deemed such a move “excessive” and “it makes no sense for Republicans to investigate Republicans”, proving that he views oversight as a partisan matter completely.
- After Trump’s “s***hole countries” remarks in January of 2018, Sen. Paul actually chastised people for calling the president a racist because “it hurts immigration talks”.
- He literally has hand delivered letters to Vladimir Putin from Donald Trump (really) that the public don’t get to ever learn the contents of, while claiming that the Mueller investigation and people upset about Russians hacking the 2016 election are just “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. H
- is support of smaller government principles flew right out the window after a member of the Trump administration wrote an anonymous opinion editorial in the New York Times in July 2018, when he demanded that White House staff should have to begin taking lie detector tests to determine who actually wrote it.
- During the Trump/Ukraine scandal that led to impeachment, Sen. Paul tried to root out the identity of the CIA whistleblower who revealed Trump tried holding up military aid to Ukraine in exchange for their assistance in smearing Joe and Hunter Biden, indicating he has no issue with Trump openly breaking the law.
- Contracted a potentially lethal and extremely contagious viral infection AND WENT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GYM.
- Unilaterally blocked an anti-lynching bill.
This guy doesn't blink about conducting his professional career so people literally die. His hypocrisy knows no bounds. He supports Neo-Confederates. He defends his party openly breaking the law. He spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
So if he gets his ribs broken by his REPUBLICAN neighbor for dumping yard waste on his neighbor's property, and it's just kind of an ***hole getting come-uppance?
Forgive me if I don't cry and tears for poor Rand. Because for the past decade his professional career has been about promoting death and suffering on anyone who isn't him.
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Meanwhile, here's you being a hypocrite 100% silent when the McCloskeys point guns at protesters and are given a platform at the RNC about how THEY are the victims.
Two nights later, a little white nationalist who's seen that example, Kyle Rittenhouse guns down the same sorts of protesters, kills them, and right-wing groups defend him, celebrate him, and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for him having murdered people based on their political views.
I remind everyone that Rand Paul got just beat up by an elderly neighbor years ago over yard waste, and while we're discussing how he lied about being "assaulted" on his way back from the RNC the same night and THIS offends you all?
This is why no one sympathizes with you. Right here. Not just the hypocrisy. The disingenous call for "civility" when it's convenient politically. People on the left are murdered, silence. Guy on the right has his ribs broken by his Republican neighbor, and its brought up and you all pretend to be offended and say, "whatever happened to civility"?
Y'all are a running joke I've grown tired of.
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.
Gotta say, between the contents of a given 30 post in these times, and whatever that avatar is supposed to be, I can't help but feel I'm trying to read a yeeeears long Sleestak hiiiiiiiss until the Sun finally comes up to banish all this. Maybe just for that Sun to then finally kill us all with climate change, hopefully not.