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Do liberals want to be right or do we want to fucking win?? (Original Post) MontanaMama Dec 2016 OP
If we win by being wrong, that means we are Republicans. Squinch Dec 2016 #1
once upon a time 6 million people held the moral high ground. they were exterminated msongs Dec 2016 #2
So you think Jews should have adopted SOME nazi-esque positions, and that would have made a Squinch Dec 2016 #3
I don't think anybody suggests MontanaMama Dec 2016 #4
Who is taking the Jesus road, and what does that look like? Squinch Dec 2016 #5
Plenty of libs take that road. MontanaMama Dec 2016 #6
lol somethingcool Apr 2017 #7
THAT is awesome. MontanaMama Apr 2017 #8

msongs

(70,268 posts)
2. once upon a time 6 million people held the moral high ground. they were exterminated
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:57 PM
Dec 2016

because they did not fight back

Squinch

(53,149 posts)
3. So you think Jews should have adopted SOME nazi-esque positions, and that would have made a
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 04:08 PM
Dec 2016

difference?

I won't stay in a party if it caters to white supremacists and racists in any way. For every rural bigot you gain, you will lose ten of the rest of us.

And PS, holding the high moral ground does not mean we do not fight back.

And your comment sounds an awful lot like blaming the victim. Jews etc were not exterminated because of their refusal to cede the high moral ground. They were exterminated because sick fucks chose to use them as scapegoats and no one ELSE fought against their extermination. If the REST of the German society refused to cater to the Nazis, the Jews would not have been exterminated. So really, the ceding of the high moral ground, which appears to be what you are advocating, is exactly what led to the holocaust.

I won't do it. You go ahead if that is how you are made.

MontanaMama

(24,087 posts)
4. I don't think anybody suggests
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 08:50 PM
Dec 2016

we should be Nazis. But we can sure toughen up and go on the offensive rather than being so passive in our assumption that the rethugs will play fair. The stakes are too high to take the Jesus road. Sorry. But I'm done with that shit.

MontanaMama

(24,087 posts)
6. Plenty of libs take that road.
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 05:28 PM
Dec 2016

The road of constantly reaching across the aisle in an attempt to bargain or reason with evil. Done with that. Done with trying to "understand" the anger of the white DFT voter. I love our president, but I cannot stand any more turning of our cheeks. We are frogs in a pot and the heat is slowly coming up to temperature. Enough is enough.

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