As you are well aware, I said that being harsh and insulting is part of American culture, especially in business and politics. You keep deliberately mischaracterizing what I said by using the terms "cruel and nasty" which I never used, and also by pretending I said harsh and insulting "should be part of American culture" rather than simply stating the fact that it is part of American culture.
Deliberately mischaracterizing someone's points and/or arguments is a trait of bad Americans. You are scoring and trending negative on that, towards Bad American.
I haven't mischaracterized anything.
First, there isn't that much difference between "harsh and insulting" and "insulting, cruel, and nasty". Maybe just a matter of degree?
Second, I wasn't the one who came up with "insulting, cruel, and nasty". I think it was agip, but I don't remember.
Third, I prefixed my statements with "if". For example:
If you are neutral on the subject of whether being insulting, cruel and nasty should be a part of American culture, then you are a bad American.
You have had every opportunity to clearly state your position. You could have said, "I am not neutral. Being insulting, cruel, and nasty should not be a part of American culture."
But you never would bring yourself to say that.
So which is it? Do you think being insulting, cruel, and nasty should be part of American culture or not?
If you think it should, you are a bad American.
We may have found the source of your problem. You are not very literate. There is plenty of difference between those terms.
Being harsh and insulting is a significant part of American culture, particularly in business. That is a fact. Wishing the world was a better place has nothing to do with anything in this conversation.
heh. I appreciate your self-awareness as much as I appreciate Flagpole's correction.
but hey man I think we should encourage with all deliberate energy good behavior such as correcting ourselves when we mess up. This thread, this website, nay this entire interweb, would benefit from a little support for good behavior.
Oh yeah, I agree. I just agree with doing that with WORDS, not popularity contest mechanisms.
heh. I appreciate your self-awareness as much as I appreciate Flagpole's correction.
but hey man I think we should encourage with all deliberate energy good behavior such as correcting ourselves when we mess up. This thread, this website, nay this entire interweb, would benefit from a little support for good behavior.
Oh yeah, I agree. I just agree with doing that with WORDS, not popularity contest mechanisms.
And really "low N" and inaccurate contests, at that.
A man who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term of imprisonment so far among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions. Mark Ponder, a 56-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., said he "got caught up” in the chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, and “didn't mean for any of this to happen.” “I wasn't thinking that day,” Ponder told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, asking her for mercy before she sentenced him to five years and three months in prison.
....and THE biggest criminal of the Trump administration still hasn't even ever been QUESTIONED about anything he did as president.
Yep, NO ONE is above the law in THIS great country !!!
Families of victims who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks condemned golfers planning to compete in a Saudi-backed tournament at former President Trump’s golf club, accusing participants of taking “blood money.” “I...
A man who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term of imprisonment so far among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions. Mark Ponder, a 56-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., said he "got caught up” in the chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, and “didn't mean for any of this to happen.” “I wasn't thinking that day,” Ponder told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, asking her for mercy before she sentenced him to five years and three months in prison.
....and THE biggest criminal of the Trump administration still hasn't even ever been QUESTIONED about anything he did as president.
Yep, NO ONE is above the law in THIS great country !!!
The teen sprung after allegedly attacking a cop in a bloody caught-on-video altercation was released three days prior for a violent robbery and has a previous bust for gun possession.
I've heard several Trumpers say they are willing to die for him.
But libs are the cultish ones.
Yep. The ones wearing M*A*G*A hats and shirts and carrying a Ramboesque Trump over top of an American Flag, yeah, THOSE people aren't in a cult (sarcasm), but those of us who voted for Biden, who don't fly silly flags or engage in boat rallies and who hardly even went to any traditional political rallies, WE are members of a cult.
Gary is an idiot.
I've heard several libs, Bidenettes, threaten the lives of conservatives over Roe V. Wade. The ones wearing Bidenette Hats, the ones who can't think for themselves (see Flagpole, biggest lib lover on this site, LOL!!!!!!!!!). Flagpole doesn't believe in God, so if he lives till 150, he'll still have hell to pay for.
He may sound drunk to you. Actually--and I realize that you may know this already--Joseph Biden, like Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi (and me!), does not drink at all.
He is a Stepford husband. Look at that empty look on his face. Nothing is going on in that brain.
Stepford husband, indeed.
Count how many times Joe Biden blinks in this video.
Stupid, moron, idiot, etc. are words that have meanings. I will use them when warranted. Sally, you have turned into a Karen.
Flagpole, I love going to church each Sunday because it reinforces my belief that everyone should be treated kindly. That just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean that you should be angry with you. Allow everyone to have his or her views and be happy that everyone has the opportunity to express his or her views. Not sure which church you go to but when you insist on calling people who disagree with you "mother-f&ckers" it makes me question if that is a good church for you.
1) I can call people morons and not be angry at them. You, for example, are a Trumper and therefore a moron, but I am not angry at you about that, you are just a moron. Some people are rubes who are easily fooled...morons. You are one of those. I am, however; focused on doing whatever I can to not allow Trump to ever be in office again, and I will call morons like you out at every opportunity. By the way, I'm not really into calling people MOTHER f*ckers, so you are wrong there. Usually I just call them "f*ckers" and leave the "mother" out of it.
2) You Trumpers have gone off the deep end and can't see the difference between fiction and reality. I'll comment on that as needed, and I will use the correct words to describe that delusion/idiocy. Stupid is as stupid does, so if you ever come to your senses and stop defending/supporting Trump, then you will cease to be a moron. Until then, you carry a HUGE scarlet "M" on your shirt.
3) I do not go to any church. I am not a believer in the Christian myth. Jesus was a cool guy and all (who never answered to "Jesus" in his life), but he was no deity and was not the Son of God as there is no God. Christianity in the United States has devolved in my lifetime into magical "take the Bible literally" nonsense, and it has gone from helping the poor and the needy to don't take what's mine and let's keep those foreigners and anyone who is different than me out of here. A person CAN use the tenets of Christianity to help guide their life in a positive way, but too often today, Christianity is used to separate people, to demonize people, to justify abhorrent behavior, to show NO grace. So, no thanks.
4) From what I have seen on these message boards, my values cling much more closely to Christian values than yours do. You have a LOT of changing to do starting with not berating your wife just because she is Chinese and then bragging about that on a message board. I mean, seriously, WTF?!
Yep. The ones wearing M*A*G*A hats and shirts and carrying a Ramboesque Trump over top of an American Flag, yeah, THOSE people aren't in a cult (sarcasm), but those of us who voted for Biden, who don't fly silly flags or engage in boat rallies and who hardly even went to any traditional political rallies, WE are members of a cult.
Gary is an idiot.
I've heard several libs, Bidenettes, threaten the lives of conservatives over Roe V. Wade. The ones wearing Bidenette Hats, the ones who can't think for themselves (see Flagpole, biggest lib lover on this site, LOL!!!!!!!!!). Flagpole doesn't believe in God, so if he lives till 150, he'll still have hell to pay for.
1) Unfortunately there are extreme people on both sides of the aisle. I do not support threatening the lives of conservatives over ANYTHING. I understand that elections have consequences.
2) No, I do not believe in God. I am assuming with that one comment that you DO believe in God. Which God is that? Currently in the world people pray to and believe in about 3,000 different Gods, and throughout human history, there have been about 18,000 different Gods/animals that were worshiped. I will go out on a limb here and assume you don't believe in any of those other Gods, so, of the current 3,000 or so Gods that are believed in in this world, you and I are in agreement that 2,999 of them do not exist. We just disagree on ONE of the 3,000 total. Maybe you should ponder on that a little bit.
3) The God you believe in (again, I am assuming a Judeo Christian God) is pretty damn hard to please. For one who is all powerful, he surely gives us a lot of grief in this world...hunger, disease, children dying of cancer. What the hell did a 3 year old ever do to deserve to die of cancer? Ah yes, God works in mysterious ways. If I suddenly were all powerful, I would be an a$$hole if I didn't make the lives of people better. A being who is all powerful can STILL do that and STILL give people purpose and a need to work and on and on and yet make their lives better. Killing 3 year olds with disease or natural disasters or killing ANY innocent person by ANY means or maiming them in any way is not something that is worthy of praise.
4) When I die, I will be returned to the ground where I will fertilize the soil, and that will be it.
I've heard several libs, Bidenettes, threaten the lives of conservatives over Roe V. Wade. The ones wearing Bidenette Hats, the ones who can't think for themselves (see Flagpole, biggest lib lover on this site, LOL!!!!!!!!!). Flagpole doesn't believe in God, so if he lives till 150, he'll still have hell to pay for.
1) Unfortunately there are extreme people on both sides of the aisle. I do not support threatening the lives of conservatives over ANYTHING. I understand that elections have consequences.
2) No, I do not believe in God. I am assuming with that one comment that you DO believe in God. Which God is that? Currently in the world people pray to and believe in about 3,000 different Gods, and throughout human history, there have been about 18,000 different Gods/animals that were worshiped. I will go out on a limb here and assume you don't believe in any of those other Gods, so, of the current 3,000 or so Gods that are believed in in this world, you and I are in agreement that 2,999 of them do not exist. We just disagree on ONE of the 3,000 total. Maybe you should ponder on that a little bit.
3) The God you believe in (again, I am assuming a Judeo Christian God) is pretty damn hard to please. For one who is all powerful, he surely gives us a lot of grief in this world...hunger, disease, children dying of cancer. What the hell did a 3 year old ever do to deserve to die of cancer? Ah yes, God works in mysterious ways. If I suddenly were all powerful, I would be an a$hole if I didn't make the lives of people better. A being who is all powerful can STILL do that and STILL give people purpose and a need to work and on and on and yet make their lives better. Killing 3 year olds with disease or natural disasters or killing ANY innocent person by ANY means or maiming them in any way is not something that is worthy of praise.
4) When I die, I will be returned to the ground where I will fertilize the soil, and that will be it.
4)Correction: You will be tossed into the Lake of Fire after the Great White Throne Judgment. You don't want that to be your ultimate fate.
No wonder the Biden administration is effing up the country, Harris is having a very important meeting with world leaders and she is most worried about using the proper pronouns and the color of her suit. Just embarrassing. Does her wokeness trump everything else?
No wonder the Biden administration is effing up the country, Harris is having a very important meeting with world leaders and she is most worried about using the proper pronouns and the color of her suit. Just embarrassing. Does her wokeness trump everything else?
She needs to be more concerned about our 9% inflation and gas prices spiralling out of control than the proper pronouns and the color of her suit.
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