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originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: RickinVa
Surprised to see you Rick.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
These days the average American is beholden to their political party first, then their country.
I don't agree. It's just that the party loudmouths get all the press.
And that is still a dangerous thing because what people hear/see eventually becomes their reality.
People today are having a harder and harder time distinguishing reality from fantasy. People think reality TV is real. People turn on the news and see all these partisan talking heads and assume everyone is like that.
"Well if I'm not like that I better become like that since everyone else is..."
Do you not see the danger?
People's perception of reality eventually becomes the reality they manifest for themselves.
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: Konduit
Or the problem could be that this is not facebook and memes are annoying in serious forums.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: RickinVa
Actually, it turns out that most of what I have been saying turned-out to be spot on.
I'm not big on gloating or rubbing it in people's face, but I believe all the conversations we have had on this issue and the crap I have had to deal with has earned me the right to say:
originally posted by: RickinVa
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: RickinVa
Actually, it turns out that most of what I have been saying turned-out to be spot on.
I'm not big on gloating or rubbing it in people's face, but I believe all the conversations we have had on this issue and the crap I have had to deal with has earned me the right to say:
Actually no it does not... you have done nothing but spread mis-truths for the last year.
Are you going on record saying his exonerates Hillary? Or can you admit the truth that the FBI report is a very damning report and should be the end of Hillary 2016?
People: America comes first -- we don't always like our leaders, but we work within the framework of the system we have in place. If we don't like it, then we decide to run ourselves for office or get jobs within the government to make the change we want to see.
Simply complaining and electing the same partisan people isn't going to change anything. We have to make change from the ground up, not the top down. Run for local assembly or mayor of your town. Get involved in state-level politics yourself.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established,
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly,
all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer
while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to
reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for
their future security." Thomas Jefferson
There's still an investigation in process of the Clinton Foundation being used by the former Secretary of State to grant favors.