Shout out to the people who say I only am against "white" colonialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQV_DKQkT8o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQV_DKQkT8o)
It's been fun, Pax Americana.
China realises the value of having allies across the world and is pumping out billions of dollars in public works and loans to buy friends, like the U.S. did after WW2. Meanwhile we are tearing our alliances apart, between the U.S. and the U.K. distancing themselves from their allies or outright trying to turn them into enemies and destabilizing NATO and the EU.
Be careful what you wish for, I suppose... I wonder how much these people who seem to hate Western culture so much that they want to tear it apart will enjoy being subservient to Eastern culture. If the Chinese are anything like we were to their puppet and factory states, I'm guessing it won't be pretty.
Though unlike the old fucks who have spearheaded tearing our society apart by voting in regressive, isolationist candidates... I will actually have to live with consequences. I realise that's life, but I don't think the inevitability of it means I cant tell those people to go fuck themselves.
Are the American ideals so lofty to begin with?
Quote from: Sal1981 on August 01, 2018, 11:23:51 AM
Are the American ideals so lofty to begin with?
No. Let the US fuck you, don't let the Russians or Chinese fuck you. Also let our European friends fuck you. That is only lofty if you are with the Mile High Private Jet Sex Club with Bill Clinton and his closest friends.
The Chinese have been very active in Africa for over 50 years (and even earlier to Huang Ho). Their influence started with the Cultural Revolution period. But only in non-Muslim Africa ;-) China needs to buy up every natural resource on the planet, and develop it in place, and get the output sent to China, to supply the needs of their large population. Either that or India will get it.
I literally made an an essay about this:
European and United States did more damage then helped Sub-Sahara Africa. Through colonization, slave trade, and investments re mainly for their own benefit which like a vampire sucked Sub-Sahara Africa dry. Even in modern day setting Europe and the USA have tried to revamp Sub-Sahara Africa but mostly with political and social change which seems less attractive to Sub-Sahara Africa. China on the other hand promotes the economy of Sub-Sahara Africa with jobs and circulating money seems better to the society of Sub-Sahara Africa. China’s policy is to help build Sub-Sahara Africa’s infrastructure with the possibility of having their resources mined because according to an article I found online, Sub-Sahara Africa specifically Congo’s resources are worth “24 trillion dollars.†That could boost both China and Congo’s economy as well as Sub-Sahara Africa’s. The reason why China is doing better than the USA and European modernly because they are giving Sub-Sahara Africa people living essentials: jobs, better economy, better quality life than the slums. My opinion is that while crated jobs and making the economy better is good social and political reform is needed for a better society. So I’m more medium when decided who is right.
"How China is building the future in sub-Saharan Africa â€" and why the US needs to rethink its approach." South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940036/how-china-building-future-sub-saharan-africa-and-why-us. Accessed August 1, 2018.
Quote from: Sal1981 on August 01, 2018, 11:23:51 AM
Are the American ideals so lofty to begin with?
I would like to think that American colonialism at least can be curbed and "fixed" thanks to the democratic nature of our government vs the more autocratic regime of Xi Jinping, but I am not overly optimistic about that anymore. Besides becoming an oligarchy to evil corporate interests with lobbying and acts like Citizens United, we are apparently becoming an oligarchy where Russian interests have a more significant voice in our politics than the American people as well.
I cant even judge China for supporting dictators (which is the go to reason why people say it's terrible that China is expanding into Africa) because that is literally just taking a page out of our playbook for the last 75 or so years. And I do believe that a good autocrat is better than a bad democracy (or oligarchy), so while China's system is not so great now... who knows what direction it could go? Democracy is not inherently good, nor autocracy inherently bad. In 50 years, China could be the moral lighthouse for the world and the United States might be... well, whatever we are becoming.
Quote from: Shiranu on August 01, 2018, 05:30:07 PM
I would like to think that American colonialism at least can be curbed and "fixed" thanks to the democratic nature of our government vs the more autocratic regime of Xi Jinping, but I am not overly optimistic about that anymore. Besides becoming an oligarchy to evil corporate interests with lobbying and acts like Citizens United, we are apparently becoming an oligarchy where Russian interests have a more significant voice in our politics than the American people as well.
I cant even judge China for supporting dictators (which is the go to reason why people say it's terrible that China is expanding into Africa) because that is literally just taking a page out of our playbook for the last 75 or so years. And I do believe that a good autocrat is better than a bad democracy (or oligarchy), so while China's system is not so great now... who knows what direction it could go? Democracy is not inherently good, nor autocracy inherently bad. In 50 years, China could be the moral lighthouse for the world and the United States might be... well, whatever we are becoming.
The US invented the Church of Satan ... in San Fran. We are sooooo virtuous.
Quote from: Baruch on August 01, 2018, 07:19:22 PM
The US invented the Church of Satan ... in San Fran. We are sooooo virtuous.
To be fair Satanism is not what it's cracked up to be. I visited and became a member of a satanism forum and had many discussions and research on Satanism. More often that none many satanists are LaVeyan Satanists, those whom don't believe in ANY gods and do't worship the actual Satan but an ideology like it. It's Ironic because it's very Christian like.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 01, 2018, 03:44:29 PM
I literally made an an essay about this:
European and United States did more damage then helped Sub-Sahara Africa. Through colonization, slave trade, and investments re mainly for their own benefit which like a vampire sucked Sub-Sahara Africa dry. Even in modern day setting Europe and the USA have tried to revamp Sub-Sahara Africa but mostly with political and social change which seems less attractive to Sub-Sahara Africa. China on the other hand promotes the economy of Sub-Sahara Africa with jobs and circulating money seems better to the society of Sub-Sahara Africa. China’s policy is to help build Sub-Sahara Africa’s infrastructure with the possibility of having their resources mined because according to an article I found online, Sub-Sahara Africa specifically Congo’s resources are worth “24 trillion dollars.†That could boost both China and Congo’s economy as well as Sub-Sahara Africa’s. The reason why China is doing better than the USA and European modernly because they are giving Sub-Sahara Africa people living essentials: jobs, better economy, better quality life than the slums. My opinion is that while crated jobs and making the economy better is good social and political reform is needed for a better society. So I’m more medium when decided who is right.
"How China is building the future in sub-Saharan Africa â€" and why the US needs to rethink its approach." South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940036/how-china-building-future-sub-saharan-africa-and-why-us. Accessed August 1, 2018.
And I live in Africa.
Lets see...
China supported all the Dictators in Africa when they, the black leaders, destroyed their countries.
They then gave them loans to "Help" to survive, which in a totally destroyed socialist country means, they cant pay back the money.
China then take over the mine, electrical company, farming, industry and create Jobs.
Who gets the jobs?
30% of all these companies, or state owned institutions must have Chinese employment.
Guess who will now get the money?
Then comes the spineless liberals in the US, and they "help" these countries with hospitalization, medicine, and money to support this vicious cycle!
In South Africa the ANC Government, which is socialist communist, pushed out every intellectual white manager and replaced them with uneducated Black socialists by deliberate racism.
They called this BEE, Black Economic Empowerment.
They claimed that the country needs laws to ensure that there are equal rights in businuss for all races.
Over 25 years the ANC Government could achieve 300 000 job opportunities. (well 2 million, but 1.7 million jobs was lost in the private sector)
Guess where it was created?
In government positions.
The government jobs are now the biggest employer with incapable people not knowing what they have to do.
First thing that broke down was the municipalities.
All the money allocated for housing, infrastructure, roads, hospitals etc. was simply lost by false contracts and unauthorized payments.
At this stage, only 5% of all municipalities achieve some degree of an audit with reasonable accountability.
All the other are totally dysfunctional and billions of dollars lost in corruption.
Then followed the great Government institutions to its demise.
Escom, the electrical supplier of SA, built 3 Power plants for an amount of 100 billion Rand, About 10 Billion dollars at that time, and the total cost ran up to 1400 billion Rand. Now 100 billion dolars.
The result, due to inferior engineering only 60% delivery capacity can be achieved.
This government institution employed 3 times the amount of people needed to run the company, and can today, including the new plants, deliver only 70% of what the previous government could achieve at 36% of the cost.
Every year they get about 15 billion dollars from the Government on the claim that they cant make a profit.Every year they get it.
Every year they increase the electrical bill with 25% to the consumer, now the 6th year.
Now they started to borrow from the Chinese.
They have to reduce the headcount by 50% and employ about 1200 Chinese.
Good, so far the Socialists destroyed the following.
the National budget for more than 12 years.
The Municipalities. All bankrupt.
Infrastructure.
Railway company and system.
SAA, Govt airline. Totally bankrupt.
Universities, school system is now equal to 3rd world status.
Post office
Water and sewerage systems, the worst contaminated water in Africa, and propaganda will tell you how clean the water in SA is, but people are dying from diarrhea, and other water infestations.sewerage systems are now non existent and water recovery plants do not even have operational pumps resulting in Sewer flooding the premises in more than 500 plants and it is simply released into the rivers.
Roads are changed into sand by removing the pieces of tarmac making it safer than travelling through potholes.
Lets look at the police force.
7 times more police than 15 years ago, and no one works.
Top ranking officers are found guilty of armed robberies, lower ranks are many times found guilty of theft, house break ins, rape, murder etc.
My brother was hi jacked, and when he reported it to the police, the offender was the captain on the other side of the counter.
People, especially white farmers, are attacked to be brutally tortured with clothes irons, to be disemboweled when still alive, or shot for no reason at all.
The Government gets its votes by giving government grants to the poor. They do not have the capability to create jobs, or to create confidence in the country to gain investors to start companies, but speak about Nationalizing every thing.
The final straw is the land grab by the ANC government from whites now constitutionally enforced to allow expropriation without compensation.
Guess against who this law is made?
Whites with bonds, who bought their properties and paid with hard work over years.
Good, China knows that SA is the next cow to dry out.
And the US who can change the situation for the better of the whole continent of Africa, are anchored by Liberal socialists who want to send America into the drain with the exact rubbish Africa did.
Free education, hospitals, grants, open borders, etc.
In stead, force the African leaders to practice Democracy, eliminate socialism, arresting dictators and despots, stopping nationalization of companies and property, and forcing these lazy damn socialists to lift their arses to go and work for a change.
This is how you fight Chinese imperialism, get rid of these stupid black idiots who poses as leaders of African countries that are treated as intellectuals in the west!
Replace them with Black men that have the capability to nurture the economy.
They do exist, seek them and support them, and boicot and sanction fools such as Mugabe, Zimbabwe.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea
José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola
Omar Al-Bashir, President of Sudan
QuoteIn stead of forcing the African leaders to practice Democracy, eliminate socialism, arresting dictators and despots, stopping nationalization of companies and property, and forcing these lazy damn socialists to lift their arses to go and work for a change.
Taking out the dictators and socialism cannot be done so easily. When dealing with absurd practices of government and dictators its best up to the public who have their own ways and look at foreign country's help as toxic when trying to give social and government reform. An example of this would be the Joseph Rao Kony 2012 incident in which Americans tried to help reform the government to stop child soldiers from being produced and to arrest Kony. But Lo and behold the citizens told these Americans "this our problem not yours" and the whole thing remains mainly unsolved even today. The public wouldn't rise because their used to the this sort of problem.
I'm learning more and more about Africa and even I don't know if it's best for capitalism to come into Africa because even capitalism has a bunch of flaws . Socialism too but government reform should happen after economical stations atleast a little better for any country.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 02, 2018, 02:03:54 AM
To be fair Satanism is not what it's cracked up to be. I visited and became a member of a satanism forum and had many discussions and research on Satanism. More often that none many satanists are LaVeyan Satanists, those whom don't believe in ANY gods and do't worship the actual Satan but an ideology like it. It's Ironic because it's very Christian like.
Exactly ... not real atheist, just mock anti-Catholic.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 02, 2018, 06:20:41 AM
Taking out the dictators and socialism cannot be done so easily. When dealing with absurd practices of government and dictators its best up to the public who have their own ways and look at foreign country's help as toxic when trying to give social and government reform. An example of this would be the Joseph Rao Kony 2012 incident in which Americans tried to help reform the government to stop child soldiers from being produced and to arrest Kony. But Lo and behold the citizens told these Americans "this our problem not yours" and the whole thing remains mainly unsolved even today. The public wouldn't rise because their used to the this sort of problem.
I'm learning more and more about Africa and even I don't know if it's best for capitalism to come into Africa because even capitalism has a bunch of flaws . Socialism too but government reform should happen after economical stations atleast a little better for any country.
The Ugly American is a gift that keeps on giving. The post colonial period in Africa has been just as disastrous as the prior colonial period. The new cadre that took over after de-colonization were Western trained, after all. Illiterate tribal people would have done better without the college educated apparachniks.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 02, 2018, 06:20:41 AM
Taking out the dictators and socialism cannot be done so easily. When dealing with absurd practices of government and dictators its best up to the public who have their own ways and look at foreign country's help as toxic when trying to give social and government reform. An example of this would be the Joseph Rao Kony 2012 incident in which Americans tried to help reform the government to stop child soldiers from being produced and to arrest Kony. But Lo and behold the citizens told these Americans "this our problem not yours" and the whole thing remains mainly unsolved even today. The public wouldn't rise because their used to the this sort of problem.
I'm learning more and more about Africa and even I don't know if it's best for capitalism to come into Africa because even capitalism has a bunch of flaws . Socialism too but government reform should happen after economical stations atleast a little better for any country.
I thought it might be needed to give authority to the UN to take ovr countries where human rights are violated, dictators and idiots are ruling, but then again, they will have too much power and might even destroy the countries that are democratic.
But, how do we solve the problem of Communism and socialism rule in Africa where the elite sucks the blood out of their people, where China manage to succeed in colonizing the wealth to pay for the Chinese economy?
Simple!
Free trade!
The politicians in Europe and US should counter bargain.
Do not allow the Chinese to be better business men that you!
Get those spineless liberals in your governments to stop dumping billions into Africa without any payback!
They owe the US everything they have.
Force the Bastards to work for a change, instead of having guys like Gates to give to the Blacks in africa everything as a gift.
They dont realize you are giving it to help, they expect you to pay them for nothing, because they perceive themself as poor, and you as rich.
Did the Chinese philosophy not yet sink into the common sense of the US and Europe?
Teach them to fish, and they will have food forever!
Come into Africa, take them behind their necks, in Trump fashion, tell them what is expected, tell them you will help, but the US will have their own people looking at what they do, force the lazy arses to work for their wealth.
They might not like to get up and to bend their backs a bit, but once they see the results, they will follow suit.
Now they sit under a tree and dink beer while the women work in the fields to feed the children.
Tribal society has low expectations. People don't like to work. Tribal people on average work less per day than modern people do.
Free trade wouldn't solve Jack. Free trade would just make the class gap wider.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 02, 2018, 06:04:56 PM
Free trade wouldn't solve Jack. Free trade would just make the class gap wider.
That is what happens when you play King Of The Hill ... fellow loser.
Quote from: Baruch on August 02, 2018, 07:49:42 PM
That is what happens when you play King Of The Hill ... fellow loser.
Thomas Friedman can suck my dick. I rather dig Richard Florida's
Spiky World than anything else.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 02, 2018, 06:04:56 PM
Free trade wouldn't solve Jack. Free trade would just make the class gap wider.
I always thought this was the case, until now.
The fact is that the more richer people you have in a country, the better for the poor.
Someone told me the following and I would love to know who it was.
"Socialism is a wonderful thing...until the rich dont have any money left!"
I am a witness to this sad situation.
When the socialists took over the RSA, many business people realized that investment in this country is really a huge risk.
They took their money elsewhere, Europe, Russia, US, South America, and Australia and even Canada.
This left a huge gap in the industry, and only the basic companies were still staying.
Then the socialists composed the largest collection of labor laws, which makes it almost impossible to dismiss any worker, no matter how lazy, how much he steals, how arrogant he is against an instruction by a manager etc.
Then they made laws to remove the "White" ownership and "White" Managers, and the ANC replaced them with laws that forced companies to give shares to their friends who just had parties and holidays, until these companies were bankrupt.
I lost my previous top management position to a black man who never even worked in this industry after the government spent 2 Billion rand to take ownership. 6 months later they lost another 4 billion rand, but the money kept on flowing. The director will take holiday for 5 weeks, bringing back an account if 700 000 rand and claimed it from entertainment expenses.
No, I think it is best to have the Western mind in control of countries in Africa, and to keep them accountable for the money they waste.
Capitalism does create a rich and poor class, but until as proven in the USA, if you create an environment where the rich can profit, they will create jobs.
If there is jobs, there is less crime and poverty.
I will rather be working poor, with food and education for my children, than jobless poor facing hungry children and them growing up illiterate.
ANC - agent of the Soviet Union Result - state failure Lesson - ignore the Russians next time
Venezuela - agent of the Soviet Union Result - state failure Lesson - ignore the Russians next time
Quote from: Mousetrap on August 03, 2018, 02:52:21 AM
I always thought this was the case, until now.
The fact is that the more richer people you have in a country, the better for the poor.
Someone told me the following and I would love to know who it was.
"Socialism is a wonderful thing...until the rich dont have any money left!"
I am a witness to this sad situation.
When the socialists took over the RSA, many business people realized that investment in this country is really a huge risk.
They took their money elsewhere, Europe, Russia, US, South America, and Australia and even Canada.
This left a huge gap in the industry, and only the basic companies were still staying.
Then the socialists composed the largest collection of labor laws, which makes it almost impossible to dismiss any worker, no matter how lazy, how much he steals, how arrogant he is against an instruction by a manager etc.
Then they made laws to remove the "White" ownership and "White" Managers, and the ANC replaced them with laws that forced companies to give shares to their friends who just had parties and holidays, until these companies were bankrupt.
I lost my previous top management position to a black man who never even worked in this industry after the government spent 2 Billion rand to take ownership. 6 months later they lost another 4 billion rand, but the money kept on flowing. The director will take holiday for 5 weeks, bringing back an account if 700 000 rand and claimed it from entertainment expenses.
No, I think it is best to have the Western mind in control of countries in Africa, and to keep them accountable for the money they waste.
Capitalism does create a rich and poor class, but until as proven in the USA, if you create an environment where the rich can profit, they will create jobs.
If there is jobs, there is less crime and poverty.
I will rather be working poor, with food and education for my children, than jobless poor facing hungry children and them growing up illiterate.
Freetrade would leave you jobless poor facing hungry children and them growing up illiterate. You are already in a corrupts society with colonization, fr trad will make that worse, in fact it already sort is..
Free trade = business tycoons get to screw people on multiple continents at the same time!
Quote from: Baruch on August 03, 2018, 06:41:55 PM
Free trade = business tycoons get to screw people on multiple continents at the same time!
It's basically Slave Lobster.
Quote from: Mousetrap on August 02, 2018, 09:11:37 AM
I thought it might be needed to give authority to the UN to take ovr countries where human rights are violated, dictators and idiots are ruling, but then again, they will have too much power and might even destroy the countries that are democratic.
Just as small groups surrendered some local rights to larger groups, and those moved to nations, it is likely that humankind will only survive and advance by becoming a single organized politic.
I'm not sure I actually want to be there when it happens, but I think we have only 2 choices. Fight as separate nations or merge in order to advance.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 02:27:47 AM
Just as small groups surrendered some local rights to larger groups, and those moved to nations, it is likely that humankind will only survive and advance by becoming a single organized politic.
I'm not sure I actually want to be there when it happens, but I think we have only 2 choices. Fight as separate nations or merge in order to advance.
Wrong. There will always be conflict.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on August 04, 2018, 04:18:28 AM
Wrong. There will always be conflict.
As long as there is conflict, we will never succeed in space. And if we don't do that, we will obliterate ourselves in some way.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 02:27:47 AM
Just as small groups surrendered some local rights to larger groups, and those moved to nations, it is likely that humankind will only survive and advance by becoming a single organized politic.
I'm not sure I actually want to be there when it happens, but I think we have only 2 choices. Fight as separate nations or merge in order to advance.
Yes, it is called utopia. Marx predicted it, that people there would never work, because machines would do all the work, and the products of the machines would be distributed evenly. This is also what we see in The Jetsons. George just has to push a button all day, the computer does all the work.
So I choose to fight, because I don't want myself of my daughter to be social insects in the Hive of Queen Hillary.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 04:29:18 AM
As long as there is conflict, we will never succeed in space. And if we don't do that, we will obliterate ourselves in some way.
Good riddance. A in-Humanity made up of mostly cloned sterile worker females ... ruled by one fertile queen who produces all the eggs, based on sperm provided by one male, out of competing males, the males being temporary fertile testosterone products of what would otherwise be those same sterile worker females ... sounds like utopia to me. There was an Outer Limits on this.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 08:14:02 AM
Yes, it is called utopia. Marx predicted it, that people there would never work, because machines would do all the work, and the products of the machines would be distributed evenly. This is also what we see in The Jetsons. George just has to push a button all day, the computer does all the work.
So I choose to fight, because I don't want myself of my daughter to be social insects in the Hive of Queen Hillary.
I didn't say it was utopia, just spreading into space to avoid elimination on one planet. More planets, harder to die all at once... Are you still obsessed with Hillary Clinton? You poor sap. Were you also raging against Al Gore in 2002? Oh wait, maybe you were. "Never Mind".
My world is not 'The Jetsons". Though I might go for Kim Possible. Better than Rick and Morty.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 08:14:24 AM
Good riddance. A in-Humanity made up of mostly cloned sterile worker females ... ruled by one fertile queen who produces all the eggs, based on sperm provided by one male, out of competing males, the males being temporary fertile testosterone products of what would otherwise be those same sterile worker females ... sounds like utopia to me. There was an Outer Limits on this.
There was probably an Outer Limits (or Twilight Zone) about everything. None of which will ever be real...
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 08:28:32 AM
I didn't say it was utopia, just spreading into space to avoid elimination on one planet. More planets, harder to die all at once... Are you still obsessed with Hillary Clinton? You poor sap. Were you also raging against Al Gore in 2002? Oh wait, maybe you were. "Never Mind".
My world is not 'The Jetsons". Though I might go for Kim Possible. Better than Rick and Morty.
Only Elon will colonize space, as a corpse shot into space, in the last Tesla. Sorry, I didn't vote for Hillary, ever. I did vote for that sex maniac, Bill, one time. No, I am not anti-Al Gore. I feel kind of sorry for him, like Dukakis in 1988 (an idiot I did vote for). See, if you don't bow down to Messiah Obama or Queen Hillary, then you can't be a true DNC Democrat, not even in the past (thanks to the "memory hole" technique from "1984").
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 08:31:16 AM
There was probably an Outer Limits (or Twilight Zone) about everything. None of which will ever be real...
You must hate all TV and movies ... because they are fictional. Outer Limits and Twilight Zone (original version) were thinking-persons TV back in the day. Of course you were still a cub back then. I was too, but a precocious cub.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 08:33:19 AM
Only Elon will colonize space, as a corpse shot into space, in the last Tesla. Sorry, I didn't vote for Hillary, ever. I did vote for that sex maniac, Bill, one time. No, I am not anti-Al Gore. I feel kind of sorry for him, like Dukakis in 1988 (an idiot I did vote for). See, if you don't bow down to Messiah Obama or Queen Hillary, then you can't be a true DNC Democrat, not even in the past (thanks to the "memory hole" technique from "1984").
Baruch, I'm impressed! Dukakis? There is hope for you yet.
But I never considered Obama a messiah, nor Hillary Clinton a Queen. I just considered them both a "best choice" for President. Obama did well. Clinton would surely have done better than Trump. *I* could have done better than Trump. *YOU* could have done better than Trump. Everyone here (well not the nutsos) could have done better than Trump.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 08:58:33 AM
Baruch, I'm impressed! Dukakis? There is hope for you yet.
But I never considered Obama a messiah, nor Hillary Clinton a Queen. I just considered them both a "best choice" for President. Obama did well. Clinton would surely have done better than Trump. *I* could have done better than Trump. *YOU* could have done better than Trump. Everyone here (well not the nutsos) could have done better than Trump.
You are not a true Scotsman or a true Democrat. But they will take your money and your votes (same as they did with Bernie). I did do better than Trump, I voted for Gary Johnson. But for people here, if you vote for anyone other than Hillary, then you vote for Trump.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 09:09:54 AM
You are not a true Scotsman or a true Democrat. But they will take your money and your votes (same as they did with Bernie). I did do better than Trump, I voted for Gary Johnson. But for people here, if you vote for anyone other than Hillary, then you vote for Trump.
You are correct, I am neither Scots (where did THAT come from) nor truly Democrat. I'm me. And no one has taken my dollars. Votes yes. But I supported Goldwater in 1964 and John Anderson in 1980.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 09:23:42 AM
You are correct, I am neither Scots (where did THAT come from) nor truly Democrat. I'm me. And no one has taken my dollars. Votes yes. But I supported Goldwater in 1964 and John Anderson in 1980.
You are a traitor then ... only traitors didn't support LBJ, the Great White Father. John Anderson might have been a better pick in 1980, but I got swayed by Reagan's aw-shucks routine ;-) That and the Democrats were trying to double down on the McGovern campaign in 1984, so voted for Reagan again. President Carter is a decent human being, and therefore unqualified for high office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
A logical fallacy, you fallacy you.