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Re: Culture Wars

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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:06 am
kalm wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 7:12 am

So more rooting for the killing of innocent lives? You’re on a roll this morning.
-It was tongue in cheek.
-Radical Islamist extremism is at war with the US, whether we like it or not.
Kind of like how radical Christofascist nationalist extremism is at war with freedom and the US Constitution.
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UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:10 am
BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:06 am
-It was tongue in cheek.
-Radical Islamist extremism is at war with the US, whether we like it or not.
Kind of like how radical Christofascist nationalist extremism is at war with the US Constitution.
No, something you made up Isn’t at war with anything.
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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:13 am
UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:10 am

Kind of like how radical Christofascist nationalist extremism is at war with the US Constitution.
No, something you made up Isn’t at war with anything.
Then how can something trump made up be Americans' greatest enemy? The Democratic Party is left and incompetent but they're hardly radical, certainly less radical than MAQA.
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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:13 am
UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:10 am

Kind of like how radical Christofascist nationalist extremism is at war with the US Constitution.
No, something you made up Isn’t at war with anything.
MAGA hates America and is currently waging a Cold War with religious fanatical overtones against it.

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kalm wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 10:53 am
BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:13 am
No, something you made up Isn’t at war with anything.
MAGA hates America and is currently waging a Cold War with religious fanatical overtones against it.

I'm pretty sure that's blasphemy.

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A YUGE win for free speech and common sense. :nod:

https://cbn.com/news/us/former-indiana- ... r-pronouns
Now repeat this all over the country. :nod:
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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:17 pm A YUGE win for free speech and common sense. :nod:

https://cbn.com/news/us/former-indiana- ... r-pronouns
Now repeat this all over the country. :nod:
Yay! I get to antagonize the kids I teach based on my politics. I’m an educator. I sure did learn them!
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kalm wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:54 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:17 pm A YUGE win for free speech and common sense. :nod:

https://cbn.com/news/us/former-indiana- ... r-pronouns
Now repeat this all over the country. :nod:
Yay! I get to antagonize the kids I teach based on my politics. I’m an educator. I sure did learn them!
Of course you’d rather him intentionally use incorrect English (referring to a boy as a girl, and vice versa, and using plural pronouns for individuals. That would really ‘learn them’.
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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 8:51 am
kalm wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 7:48 am Hitler much?

I’ll go with Trump’s assessment, but I’d put the media 2nd, and the donk party 3rd. :coffee:
I forgot to add that you're a raging hypocrite if you say/post incendiary sh!t like this and then complain about the other side inciting violence.

Show some class and lead by example if you want to tone down the rhetoric.
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UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 5:56 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 8:51 am
I’ll go with Trump’s assessment, but I’d put the media 2nd, and the donk party 3rd. :coffee:
I forgot to add that you're a raging hypocrite if you say/post incendiary sh!t like this and then complain about the other side inciting violence.

Show some class and lead by example if you want to tone down the rhetoric.
Other side has been inciting violence for years. This is just tit for tat.
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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 6:03 pm
UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 5:56 pm

I forgot to add that you're a raging hypocrite if you say/post incendiary sh!t like this and then complain about the other side inciting violence.

Show some class and lead by example if you want to tone down the rhetoric.
Other side has been inciting violence for years. This is just tit for tat.
Right. So rise above and take responsibility for supporting your side’s actions.
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Preach it, Brother Ben! :notworthy:

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BDKJMU wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 6:03 pm
UNI88 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 5:56 pm
I forgot to add that you're a raging hypocrite if you say/post incendiary sh!t like this and then complain about the other side inciting violence.

Show some class and lead by example if you want to tone down the rhetoric.
Other side has been inciting violence for years. This is just tit for tat.
So has MAQA so the childish "they did it first" argument doesn't work.

And the right has been guilty of more political violence this century than the left so it looks like you're justifying the increase in leftist violence since trump was reelected. After all, it's just "tit for tat".

Or we could take stand against all political violence incendiary rhetoric rather than lamely attempting to justify/defend violence/rhetoric by the side you agree with.
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The left has always tended to be more violent

deal with it
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Caribbean Hen wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 7:57 am The left has always tended to be more violent

deal with it
The data tells a different story ...



Dealt with. It sucks when facts get in the way and other posters won't let you just redefine reality to sweep them under the rug like you can in MAQA yahoo echo chambers.
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UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:02 am
Caribbean Hen wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 7:57 am The left has always tended to be more violent

deal with it
The data tells a different story ...



Dealt with. It sucks when facts get in the way and other posters won't let you just redefine reality to sweep them under the rug like you can in MAQA yahoo echo chambers.
In today’s political environment, not linking jihadist with the left is :dunce:
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BDKJMU wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:46 am
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:02 am

The data tells a different story ...



Dealt with. It sucks when facts get in the way and other posters won't let you just redefine reality to sweep them under the rug like you can in MAQA yahoo echo chambers.
In today’s political environment, not linking jihadist with the left is :dunce:
Still in today's political environment, jihadist is neither left nor right. It's very much outside of the US political spectrum.
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BDKJMU wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:46 am
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:02 am
The data tells a different story ...



Dealt with. It sucks when facts get in the way and other posters won't let you just redefine reality to sweep them under the rug like you can in MAQA yahoo echo chambers.
In today’s political environment, not linking jihadist with the left is :dunce:
Ganny is right - "jihadist is neither left nor right. It's very much outside of the US political spectrum."

Jihadists are interesting - they're more likely to be defended by the left but ideologically/philosophically they have more in common with the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others).

Regardless, even if you add the left and jihadists together they're less than or equal to the rightists when it comes to political violence until 2025 when rightist violence dropped significantly (I wonder why and I wonder what the numbers would look like if ICE/CBP violence was included with the rightists in 2025).
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UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:34 pm the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others)
This is why you suck in 2026.
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89Hen wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:48 pm
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:34 pm the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others)
This is why you suck in 2026.
Leave your wet dreams out of this. :D

Where am I wrong?

There is plenty of evidence of Christofascist attempts to push their religion on others - requiring the display of the 10 Commandments in classrooms, requiring the bible be incorporated into school curriculums, etc.

And as far as pushing for a return to subservient roles for women, the Fascist Heritage Foundation carries the water for me ...

The Heritage Foundation’s New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life
But despite its focus on the hated welfare state and alternative family structures, “Saving America”’s underlying bugaboo is panic over the low domestic birth rate and the fact that people in the U.S. are having fewer and fewer babies.

And who is to blame for this dastardly development? You guessed it: a pervasive female focus on “career and financial independence over family and marriage.” Indeed, instead of a shared marital life of “duty and virtue,” the report concludes that uppity women have sought “personal fulfillment.” Moreover, rather than saying ‘yes’ to a man they do not love, many have opted for an “emotional connection to the person,” or even a soulmate.

The Heritage Foundation finds this appalling and thinks it knows how to squash these trends. In addition to slashing public benefits, the authors of the report advocate ending no-fault divorce and limiting college enrollment. According to Heritage, ending easy access to PLUS loans and reducing financial aid awards will derail “over credentialing” and “pointless debt” and encourage women to procreate early and often.
I have no problem with women voluntarily choosing this life but telling them they should and/or making it policy is an American Taliban version of woke.
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UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 1:06 pm
89Hen wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:48 pm

This is why you suck in 2026.
Leave your wet dreams out of this. :D

Where am I wrong?

There is plenty of evidence of Christofascist attempts to push their religion on others - requiring the display of the 10 Commandments in classrooms, requiring the bible be incorporated into school curriculums, etc.

And as far as pushing for a return to subservient roles for women, the Fascist Heritage Foundation carries the water for me ...

The Heritage Foundation’s New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life
But despite its focus on the hated welfare state and alternative family structures, “Saving America”’s underlying bugaboo is panic over the low domestic birth rate and the fact that people in the U.S. are having fewer and fewer babies.

And who is to blame for this dastardly development? You guessed it: a pervasive female focus on “career and financial independence over family and marriage.” Indeed, instead of a shared marital life of “duty and virtue,” the report concludes that uppity women have sought “personal fulfillment.” Moreover, rather than saying ‘yes’ to a man they do not love, many have opted for an “emotional connection to the person,” or even a soulmate.

The Heritage Foundation finds this appalling and thinks it knows how to squash these trends. In addition to slashing public benefits, the authors of the report advocate ending no-fault divorce and limiting college enrollment. According to Heritage, ending easy access to PLUS loans and reducing financial aid awards will derail “over credentialing” and “pointless debt” and encourage women to procreate early and often.
I have no problem with women voluntarily choosing this life but telling them they should and/or making it policy is an American Taliban version of woke.
Is any of that about the Heritage Foundation true? I've seen you show the soundbites and links from folks who do think that's what the Heritage Foundation is saying, but rather than relying on those folks to do the critical thinking for us, what does the source material from the Heritage Foundation actually say? I'll admit that I don't know, just a quick stop to the Heritage Foundation page says they don't say those things, but I also don't see the policy guidebook either. Just curious.
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GannonFan wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 2:09 pm
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 1:06 pm
Leave your wet dreams out of this. :D

Where am I wrong?

There is plenty of evidence of Christofascist attempts to push their religion on others - requiring the display of the 10 Commandments in classrooms, requiring the bible be incorporated into school curriculums, etc.

And as far as pushing for a return to subservient roles for women, the Fascist Heritage Foundation carries the water for me ...

The Heritage Foundation’s New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life

I have no problem with women voluntarily choosing this life but telling them they should and/or making it policy is an American Taliban version of woke.
Is any of that about the Heritage Foundation true? I've seen you show the soundbites and links from folks who do think that's what the Heritage Foundation is saying, but rather than relying on those folks to do the critical thinking for us, what does the source material from the Heritage Foundation actually say? I'll admit that I don't know, just a quick stop to the Heritage Foundation page says they don't say those things, but I also don't see the policy guidebook either. Just curious.
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They "couch" it to make it more palatable for the general public but it's in there for interpretation.
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89Hen wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:48 pm
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:34 pm the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others)
This is why you suck in 2026.
Shut up and make us a sammich.

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UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:34 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:46 am
In today’s political environment, not linking jihadist with the left is :dunce:
Ganny is right - "jihadist is neither left nor right. It's very much outside of the US political spectrum."

Jihadists are interesting - they're more likely to be defended by the left but ideologically/philosophically they have more in common with the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others).

Regardless, even if you add the left and jihadists together they're less than or equal to the rightists when it comes to political violence until 2025 when rightist violence dropped significantly (I wonder why and I wonder what the numbers would look like if ICE/CBP violence was included with the rightists in 2025).
And I wonder what the #s would look like if you included the illegal aliens violence with the left in 2025. After all that is a product of the left, and they love defending criminal illegal aliens.
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BDKJMU wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 4:29 pm
UNI88 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:34 pm

Ganny is right - "jihadist is neither left nor right. It's very much outside of the US political spectrum."

Jihadists are interesting - they're more likely to be defended by the left but ideologically/philosophically they have more in common with the right (subservient roles for women, belief in the righteousness of their religion and willingness to force it on others).

Regardless, even if you add the left and jihadists together they're less than or equal to the rightists when it comes to political violence until 2025 when rightist violence dropped significantly (I wonder why and I wonder what the numbers would look like if ICE/CBP violence was included with the rightists in 2025).
And I wonder what the #s would look like if you included the illegal aliens violence with the left in 2025. After all that is a product of the left, and they love defending criminal illegal aliens.
Immigration is a product of all of us. Including you and Trump.
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