sharkyvilla Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 38 minutes ago, Jon said: The random violent acts of a few idiots does not = "the left". The act of violence and intolerance by its very nature is not left wing. There is no murder in paradise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Those violent dickheads are far left. Reminds me of a strange line I read recently: Quote who was assassinated by a fanatical vegan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 1 hour ago, RimmyJimmer said: This is what gets me. Lefties are always very keen on letting people know how accepting they are of other people, whatever their views/ethnicity/religion/nationality etc. Tell them you vote tory, and you're the scum of the earth and immediately stereo typed. I don't 'do' politics, but this is how I feel about it. Most of my friends are very in to it and I just have to sit there on my phone while they go at it. Terror attack happens somewhere. Righty friends "Bet it's a Muslim. Lefty friends "You don't know that, you're just using racist stereotypes" Terror attacker turns out to be a Muslim Lefty friends more worried about the Muslim attacker being stereotyped than they are that he's just killed a bunch of people, he becomes the 'victim'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 24 minutes ago, coda said: Reminds me of a strange line I read recently: Quote who was assassinated by a fanatical vegan Surely it would only be strange if the vegan had, for instance, beaten him to death with a moccasin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyShears Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 6 hours ago, mjmooney said: Would that make you a cool dude? Hey, I'm a cool dude! I bet you could have named all the Osmonds back in the day though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 2, 2017 Moderator Share Posted February 2, 2017 1 hour ago, snowychap said: Surely it would only be strange if the vegan had, for instance, beaten him to death with a moccasin? It's strange that the vegan had the energy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 2, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2017 2 hours ago, BOF said: Not by it's nature maybe. But there's an awful lot of people sure doing a great impersonation of it. Tolerance indeed. And I speak as a leftie. Hundreds of thousands of people only a few days ago turned out worldwide to show disdain for Trump. And seemed rather peaceful. I think you're over emphasising a few words removed. Of which both sides have their share, true enough. The Right seems to have its own violent groups with more variety than the Left I find. Funnily enough I think Milo rather enjoys that he riles the Left, he'll have got off on the Berkeley stuff. A lot of the 'alt right' is like that. I could see more 'alt right' meeting violence because they more than a little interested in the wind up. Not everyone will turn the cheek. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Sporadic street violence is the least they should expect when the trajectory this administration is setting the world on could very well end at Armageddon. They want to ban abortion, gut climate accords, spurn clean energy, deregulate Wall Street, intimidate the press, and provoke world leaders. People are going to die. His street level enablers and mouthpieces should be vigilant, because people are angry, and sometimes it'll get out of control, especially in cities, which are typically left leaning. That said, The vast majority of street level dissent in this country has been peaceful, witness the Jan 21 marches. I condemn these attacks, but I understand the anger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 31 minutes ago, maqroll said: Sporadic street violence is the least they should expect when the trajectory this administration is setting the world on could very well end at Armageddon. They want to ban abortion, gut climate accords, spurn clean energy, deregulate Wall Street, intimidate the press, and provoke world leaders. People are going to die. His street level enablers and mouthpieces should be vigilant, because people are angry, and sometimes it'll get out of control, especially in cities, which are typically left leaning. That said, The vast majority of street level dissent in this country has been peaceful, witness the Jan 21 marches. I condemn these attacks, but I understand the anger. It pisses me off, but you have to weigh it up against the fact he got voted in to do all this shit. I blame the American people, left or right, for letting it happen as much as him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 2, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2017 2 hours ago, BillyShears said: I bet you could have named all the Osmonds back in the day though Sort of. I could identify Donnie, Little Jimmy and Marie, obviously. The others were called, er.. Jay, Merrill, and...maybe another one. Alan? Couldn't tell which was which, there. Jackson 5 - just Michael. Couldn't identify Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and... the other one by sight. Bay City Rollers - Les McKuen and 'the others'. Point taken though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Pangloss Posted February 2, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) Leftwing politics are in the absolute gutter. I'd class myself as leftwing but I'd certainly not want to associate with modern day left wing groups, if they are not crying about something they are engaging in ridiculous identity politics. Edited February 2, 2017 by Dr_Pangloss 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 6 hours ago, Jon said: The random violent acts of a few idiots does not = "the left". The act of violence and intolerance by its very nature is not left wing. Half a half like .. i agree with your first point not so much your second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 5 hours ago, tonyh29 said: Half a half like .. i agree with your first point not so much your second Indeed. It's just an example of the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy: 'No true Scotsman is a kind of informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample. [. . .] Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again". Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again; and, this time, finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion, but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says: "No true Scotsman would do such a thing."' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 3, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2017 "As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) I appear to have lost a very close friend. Not only does it piss me off (it was due to a disagreement), as it should, it also upsets me immensely Edited February 3, 2017 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: "As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017". That does piss me off. I haven't really used them much for a number of years, and my last act on there was to report a particularly horrific instance of racist abuse, but the pretense that destroying millions of user comments, many of them added by dedicated users over a decade or more of membership, in order to 'enhance the customer experience' is corporate bullshit of the worst order. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: "As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017". Is that real? Why? i always read the comments after watching film to see if others agreed/disagreed with my opinion and also to clear up any questions i may have had. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 3, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Xela said: I appear to have lost a very close friend. Not only does it piss me off (it was due to a disagreement), as it should, it also upsets me immensely On the plus side, by your first sentence I thought you meant they had died, so could be worse! Hope you sort it out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 4, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2017 On 03/02/2017 at 20:50, mjmooney said: "As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017". I've had some erm...interesting exchanges on there down the years. To be honest, 99% of it is a cesspit BUT it is interesting to read other people's theories re.the more head**** movies that I watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted February 4, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2017 My ex has just messaged me on Facebook with a huge rant of how we're not friends anymore and we don't keep in touch and she's deleting me from FB etc. It's 6 years since we broke up and we were together for about 2 months. Women be crazy. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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