The Army taught me anatomy and physiology to heal injured bodies.
The martial arts school I attended taught me the exact same thing though for the exact opposite reason.
Sculpin Beauregard (643 posts)
The divide and conquer posts are out full force
Things to think twice about wasting time on:
Obama's speaking fees (a total non-issue, who cares)
Warren said this or that (note that there is a billionaire backed GOP smear campaign aimed at her right now).
Bernie's purity (enough pixels wasted on this to sink a ship).
It's Hillary's fault for XYZ issue (so tired of these - and they are so unproductive).
Feel free to add to this list, but know that the trolls are out to divide and distract.
* people care about Obama's speaking fees because he's being paid an outlandish amount of money for producing no goods or services. Yet, you assholes vilify people who earn honest money while creating consumer products and employing people. It speaks to your abject hypocrisy and crass partisanship.
* Warren is another hypocrite but she's still playing the holier-than-thou gambit. If she doesn't call out Obama she risks losing what little sway she has. Yet, to call out Obama is to bring divisiveness and to diminish the last "successful" Dem candidate.
Of course, if Obama cared about anyone besides himself he wouldn't put his party's rearguard into this position.
Just sayin'
* Bernie's purity is a problem. He's an idiot socialist but he's a reminder of everything the cronies in your party are not. And after the purge of '16 his followers were 30% of your base that you chased away, demanded they never come back, then damned for having left.
Dumb asses.
* If you want to believe you can run your 2020 campaign exactly the way Hillary ran her 2016 campaign without a moment's introspection or self-education...PLEASE!
TheDebbieDee (9,963 posts)
2. The Russian TROLL bots are still at work - dividing
Us in preparation of the 2018 elections. Some of us will fall for this crap no matter how many times we are warned!
All we can do is keep on reminding boardmembers as to what is going on...
Never forget: all of your problems can be traced back to sources other than yourselves. You have never done anything wrong. Change nothing about how you operate. You should keep doing exactly what you're doing now.
And you're a beautiful soul that I greatly admire.
ck4829 (18,145 posts)
3. K&R. The right is relying on us being more divided than they are
Their opposition to Obama was built on obstructionism and absolutism, that can not function when they have the government.
They are hoping their links to Putin get forgotten about.
Their support from the Adam Lanza and Dylann Roof Wannabes that is the Alt Right has been far from completely normalized.
We can't wait until 2018 to begin working against them, and there are things we can do here, today, but as long as we are divided against ourselves, we are not as effective.
frankieallen (485 posts)
4. Yes, kill all discussion, agree or else.....
gratuitous (55,771 posts)
6. Gee, nobody said that
You want to take a position? Fine. Others are going to take another position, just as defensible as yours. What's the point? Frommy observation, these topics aren't discussed; it's vitriolic flaming that degenerates into "No, you're the REAL poopyhead!" Engender a lot of enmity and mistrust among Democrats? Whose interest does that serve?
Who takes precedence: blacks, women or gays and what role do whites have to offer?
MrScorpio (67,163 posts)
22. I find it fascinating to see DUers down-playing gawd damned white supremacists in Trump's WH
Oh no, they can't be appropriating common symbology in order to give notice to other white supremacists that their ideology has a place in the Executive Branch now.
It's all just a joke, right?
Never mind that most symbols and signs that white supremacists use are actually appropriated from elsewhere and repurposed, in order to present some semblance of legitimacy.
(Who knew that the original creators of ancient runes and the swastika were themselves the Nazis of antiquity?)
All you have to do is disregard the intent of the people using them.
If a non-white supremacist is seen using the same common gesture or symbol, it's all just the same. Never mind.
^ got burned by an internet joke, decides to double-down
AtheistCrusader (30,887 posts)
24. Is there some sort of ranking or apportionment schedule here?
If I'm ok with 1-3, but 4 bothers me when it comes up in the context of 'we don't need to change the message/shore up platform, Russia Russia russia', how much of a troll does that make me?
Sculpin Beauregard (643 posts)
27. When your choices are:
1. Full-on fascism (no more voting! Ever!)
2. Continuing democracy
the choice is pretty clear. Things are becoming more alarming by the day. This is not a hard choice.
TRANSLATION: Everyone who isn't me is a fascist! So stop being divisive!!1!
liberal N proud (56,523 posts)
39. Part of the fascist dictators playbook
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029002415
