Trumped

[Lhalo]

1 minute ago, Spin Rate said:

I remember using this argument when I was 16.

It was a different time buddy. People were harsh. There weren’t blue haired idiots crying in the streets because their lattes were too cold. 

[Taylor]

8 minutes ago, calscuf said:

So you’re admitting you used rational arguments before your wife told you how to think?

You're a weird one.

[Blarg]

2 hours ago, Spin Rate said:

Hitler and Stalin were no different than other dictators, so we shouldn't judge their actions.

You are truly the product of your education.

[Blarg]

Judging past civilizations while living in today's times and thinking everyone should have been this enlightened is true idiocy. 

[Blarg]

She makes him take her to Taylor Swift concerts. 

[Tank]

Howard Zinn writes about Columbus. He talked about how Columbus put quotas on the natives for how much gold they needed to find each day. There were minor revolts here and there. Some natives had their hands cutoff as punishment. He also says there were women with newborns who drowned them rather than let them grow up under these conditions. 
 

fwiw.

[failos]

26 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Judging past civilizations while living in today's times and thinking everyone should have been this enlightened is true idiocy. 

I mostly agree, but Columbus was still a bad hombre 

[Lhalo]

9 minutes ago, Tank said:

Howard Zinn writes about Columbus. He talked about how Columbus put quotas on the natives for how much gold they needed to find each day. There were minor revolts here and there. Some natives had their hands cutoff as punishment. He also says there were women with newborns who drowned them rather than let them grow up under these conditions. 
 

fwiw.

Tank is a nice guy so I won’t use the crude words to describe how I think Howard Zinn should have been thrown out of a helicopter. 

[Blarg]

1 minute ago, failos said:

I mostly agree, but Columbus was still a bad hombre 

The Spaniards that followed him made him look like Jesus but in their time period there were no international laws on how you treated indigenous people of a conquered land. Your job was to secure riches for the crown, not embark on a quest for fair trade and social justice. And this was no different from settled lands that were taken and taken back across Europe and the middle east. This spoils were for the victor, the people's were under the mercy of the conquerors. 

[Tank]

4 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Tank is a nice guy so I won’t use the crude words to describe how I think Howard Zinn should have been thrown out of a helicopter. 

I haven’t seen his info on Columbus from anyone else. I’m well aware that Zinn isn’t embraced by everyone. I’ve only read part of his book and found it interesting. 

[Lou]

Thou Shalt Not Kill.

I'm pretty sure that came before the 1400's.  I don't judge people relative to what others are doing. I judge them on their actions. 

Some of you guys are going with the, "but mom, everybody's doing it!" argument.

[tdawg87]

Tbh, I didn't see an argument about whether or not Christopher Columbus is a murderous c*nt or not happening in this thread, but alas.

[Lou]

32 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Tbh, I didn't see an argument about whether or not Christopher Columbus is a murderous c*nt or not happening in this thread, but alas.

I did. 

[Redondo]

Twitter employees openly rip Trump, praise Biden: 'Trump must be defeated'

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

Tbh, I didn't see an argument about whether or not Christopher Columbus is a murderous c*nt or not happening in this thread, but alas.

That's because you're not all that prescient. @Loudid, as mentioned previously. 

I did, too:

 

[Jason]

57 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Twitter employees openly rip Trump, praise Biden: 'Trump must be defeated'

Shocking 

[tdawg87]

52 minutes ago, fishbulb said:

That's because you're not all that prescient. @Loudid, as mentioned previously. 

I did, too:

 

This is bullshit! I'm technically a "mod" why can't I edit posts like that.

Fuck this forum again.

[RallyMo]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

This is bullshit! I'm technically a "mod" why can't I edit posts like that.

Fuck this forum again.

Hey, uh, that's my post.

[St1ck]

15 minutes ago, Jason said:

Shocking 

I'm not shocked either because Donaald Trump is an extremely vile human being. 

[tdawg87]

33 minutes ago, Jason said:

Shocking 

I'm gonna steal a page out of Lou's book and ask why anyone would care what people are saying on Twitter? Yes they're employees and theyre stupid and biased. 

You know how many of Trump's twitter followers are actual, real people? I'm going to say 50%.

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

Twitter employees openly rip Trump, praise Biden: 'Trump must be defeated'

“GET HIM OUT,” posted a senior site reliability engineer on Aug. 18. “What a f–king baboon.”

[St1ck]

5 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm gonna steal a page out of Lou's book and ask why anyone would care what people are saying on Twitter? Yes they're employees and theyre stupid and biased. 

You know how many of Trump's twitter followers are actual, real people? I'm going to say 50%.

Fox News is basically the conservative version of the Huffington Post at this point with these stupid articles. 

[Adam]

If you get a W-2 from a Tech company apparently you’re not allowed to have opinions

[Jason]

20 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm gonna steal a page out of Lou's book and ask why anyone would care what people are saying on Twitter? Yes they're employees and theyre stupid and biased. 

You know how many of Trump's twitter followers are actual, real people? I'm going to say 50%.

They have over 300 million subscribers. That's a very large audience and that is why it matters.  Not so much employees opinions but Twitter's censorship

Edited October 18, 2020 by Jason

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

They have over 300 million subscribers. That's a very large audience and that is why it matters.  

Less than 50 million of those are from the US. Though you'll notice, oddly, that there are a lot of uh, foreigners who support Trump. Like people from India and shit.

I agree that social media "matters" in that it impacts people's opinions on basically everything. But....wait for it.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both sides.