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impartialobserver

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  1. Had folks not given him the benefit of the doubt.. his aftermath would have been far lesser. As a counterpoint.. Stephen Paddock (the las vegas shooter) was an atheist. He also was largely apolitical. Folks gave him the benefit of the doubt because he was largely anonymous and spent lots of money.
  2. I do but if you could read.. you would understand that the point was that you need to know more information about someone than just if they are religious or not. My paternal grandfather would bounce from town to town after coming to North America. It all started in Swift Current, Saskatchewan strangely enough. Each time, folks giving him the benefit of the doubt because he was a Priest and white.
  3. Well, you appear to be the exception. Every poster that I encounter on political chat forums blames the teachers and no one else. Parents, administration, society are all supposedly doing their best but are being undermined by them darn liberal teachers. Funny how it is only teachers in CA, OR, WA, NY, and NM that earn this wrath. Teachers in ID (who may or may not be liberal) seem to get off the hook just a bit.
  4. I do not assume that all Christians are like this.. It simply taught me that you have to really get to know someone. Just finding out that they are religious does not by default tell you that they are moral, ethical, or any positive attribute. Conversely.. someone being atheist does not tell you the full story. Much like Christians.. you have to get to know them
  5. Two subjective opinions... neither is better than the other. X says that Y is anti-semitic and then Y says X is anti-semitic. Again.. subjective opinions. After having seen this play out a few hundred times... like any reasonable human being, I become numb to it. It is difficult to take someone serious who 1) makes assumptions aka .. including the word False and 2) who says the same thing over and over again in hopes of gaining affirmation.
  6. From my experience.. most blame those darn liberal teachers and their unions. By proxy.. id10t liberal teachers and their braindead unions and therefore the administration that hires them are to blame for everything. What is both sad and perplexing is that the parents NEVER get any of the blame.
  7. Teaching has always been a tough and demanding profession. But now with the internet and the rise of the know-it-all (opinionated types who actually know nothing).. they are under the microscope more than ever before. In politics.. they are just convenient whipping boys. Every time that there is an issue.. one side or the other blames it on the teachers.
  8. I equate being religious with liking jazz. Liking jazz or whatever genre says nothing about your true character. From my experience, being religious is the same. My paternal grandfather was a Catholic priest from France who just happened to be a pedophile and sadist. At the end of his life.. he admitted that he became aroused by perceived pain and suffering on the behalf of his victim. He could not get erect unless they were crying or in visible and obvious pain. Hence, why he preferred girls that were between the ages of 9 to 12.
  9. 15.6 Billion in revenue is better than 99% of brewing operations will ever do. Yes, it has cost them sales but my guess is that it will recover. Folks will forget about it and move back to drinking widely available, relatively cheap, yellow colored water (otherwise known as Bud or Bud Light)
  10. You should venture over to Liberalforum.org... lots of adamantly Conservative posters that are holocaust Deniers. Do you know what is interesting.. I never used the word, "False"... I said that posters make accusations. Do you notice that there is no adjective in front of the word, "accusations".. You would be a terrible analyst
  11. Interesting how the troll does not realize that the water rights agreements where CA gets Colorado River water were negotiated in the 1950's... When the state was relatively Conservative. Also.. the other states did not have their water taken. They agreed to this arrangement.
  12. Hitler had different motivations than Trump and MAGA types for undermining the legitimacy of the republic. Part of the story that always gets left out conveniently is that Germany was not unified until 1866. Only 50 years before WWI. Before that it was a series of independent, isolated duchies that were only loosely connected. This was what Hitler wanted to revert back to. Militarily, they would unite and dominate but on a day to day existence, they would live simple, quaint, but isolated lives. Technology, modern academia, and increased economic fortunes were not only to be feared but they were wrong. They were to be avoided and hated because it only acted as a distraction for the main goal... Germany's dominance and Aryans leading the way.
  13. Going off topic again... The point is that your schtick is tired. I have seen it thousands of other times. The other side is always going to make accusations of the other.. you know this, everybody knows this.. but apparently only I can be so bluntly honest.
  14. Actually.. the opposite. I question everything and assume from the start that politicians are lying and their supporters are too zealous to ever have the ability to step back and see something for what it really it is... as opposed to what it should be. Sorry but the two consequences are not even close in severity. Being banned from facebook is nowhere near as punitive as to what they did in 1933 Germany. Today.. you are banned on facebook and you simply move on to one of thousands of other outlets.
  15. Been on political chat forums since 2008 and guess what? I have seen both sides claim that the other is anti-semitic, racist, homophobic, etc. at least a thousand times. Guess what? the side making the claim always says that the other has no evidence. Sound familiar?
  16. Comparing someone getting banned on facebook (when there are thousands of other outlets) to 1933 Germany when there were 2 or 3 outlets at most is comical.. Wow... the comedian strikes again. I am a realist who does not buy into hyperbole.. unlike you.
  17. When it comes to Hitler.. here are the four essential reads. The first two give you his true intentions before politics muddled them. The second two show how he followed through with his intentions laid out in Mein Kempf 1. Mein Kempf by Adolf Hitler 2. zweites buch by Adolf Hilter (this was written at the end of his time) 3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer 4. The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
  18. The US is not a true comp for early to mid-30's Germany either. It is laughable that you discount the different levels of technology. The reason that Hitler had such control over the media is that there was far fewer outlets. Wait.. no way. Oh... and the motivation behind doing so were 100% different from anything that you think that CNN does. Your obsession with CNN is both sad and comical. You have watched more CNN in the past month than I have my entire life.
  19. It is interesting how it is the Republicans in NV and UT who support measures taken by cities to siphon water from the rural areas.. It is those rural areas that get them elected. Siphon away their water and you make their once small towns into ghost towns.
  20. So by your logic.. no need to read the article when you can simply read the headline and blast away. I must be living the movie, "idiocracy".. next thing you will say is "Ow my Balls".
  21. Be on a political chat forum long enough and you will see one side claiming that the other is anti-semite, racist, etc. Pure tribal nonsense.
  22. Yes.. your entire schtick is a false equivalency. Your point is that they are one in the same and so we should be able to see the similarities and learn from it. Well.. when it is pointed out that they are more dissimilar than not and hence comparison made invalid.. you go apoplectic. The pride of Crappensburg state shows his worth again.
  23. The sheer amount of different aspects IMHO makes comparing modern America to Hitler-era Germany. Sure.. you can point out a few general similarities.. both land areas are occupied by humans and such. But when you really get into the nitty gritty of each situation.. they share almost nothing in common. Where it is most obvious is if you read the defacto manifesto of Naziism.. Mein Kempf and its distant cousin Zweites Buch. The words written by Hitler are not even close to what most modern day American/Canadian Liberals espouse. BTW... if you want examples of governments influencing the media/press... you could look at every nation at any point in time.
  24. Every state that sees population growth has locals that want the new people to stay out. With population growth comes a different way of being. Its inevitable no matter the politics of the place before hand. My hometown, Boise, is not the quaint, small town it used to be.
  25. So by your logic.. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is exactly the same as America's response to Covid... Both instituted wide ranging controls so hence because they share one aspect.. they are exactly the same. You are quite the comedian.
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