Posted on 02/08/2016 7:51:33 PM PST by EveningStar
...In real life, expletives are often used as a form of aggression or cruelty. A co-worker who tells you to Trump yourself is usually being unpleasant. A co-worker who does this every day is often creating a hostile or demeaning work environment. Language suitable for decent company is a form of politeness, which is a species of respect, which is an expression of morality. And if I am the last holdout on this issue, so be it. I don't really give a damn.
Win or lose, Trump has brought the language and sensibilities of cable TV to presidential politics...
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Trust me,immigration, trade, and foreign policy will pale once this man gains control of the reigns.
He is a sick man, and sadly he is showing some of the state of our Country by the followers he has marching over the precipse with him.
You are all being warned.. don’t go there...
It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that some of these posters are paid trolls. Because it’s a known fact that the Russians have people working internet sites like this one, doing the sorts of things we see certain creeps here doing day in and day out. But I think in most cases it’s just people completely ignorant on how the Russians operate. They are probably laughing their rear ends off at how easily they have manipulated the minds of people here. Lenin of course had a name for these simpletons. He referred to them as Russia’s “useful idiots in the West”.
At least it is his suit and nobody bought it for him.
How very magnanimous of him to repeat it for the crowd.
You made me laugh, thank you.
Okay, let’s see a show of hands.
Who would rather be Donald Trump?
Who would rather be Ted Cruz?
Those that said that they would rather be Ted Cruz are either martyrs or liars. ;-)
Think sometime posters get caught up in the spirit of a thread and just VENT without taking into consideration how it sounds or will come across.
There are many, should say some, that I had great personal respect for their ability to state their position without the vulgarity we are seeing. They have the ability to do research, investigate and post those positions, yet revert to the crudities in a thread. To me it is sad.
In business, that used to be or was, have seen a company or organization and even churches take on the characteristics of leadership. Think that is what is happening here.
Lets see if we can raise the dialogue again.
Thanks!
NewYorkValues on display.
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Brilliant. Should be post of the day!
Why don’t you try reading the entire conversation between me and pilgrim before injecting your two cents?
Pilgrim,
I so agree.... We were taught early on in our home growing up that anything not uttered at home was NOT to be said outside the home.
I can honestly say that all eight of us children grew up with decency in what we say to everyone, enemies included.
This thread has really been revealing to me as many Freepers seem to be showing their true upbringing now.
I find that sad.
Well...with the cult of personality going on in this campaign? I think there will be a awful lot of the former as you suggest.
You’re welcome. I’m surprised he didn’t drag her up on stage and give her the microphone.
Yes it was.
Try to think the best of people until proven wrong. AND have been proven wrong before!!!!! :)
Hope that it was correct conclusion.
Take care.........pilgrim
Do I want to be so stuck on myself that I have to chase super models and ditch them at the first sign of wrinkles.
I don't need to put my name on everything I own.
I raised my kids rather than send them off or have a nanny raise them.
I'm pretty much the average American. I like it.
Would I like the bank account? Yeah. Would I trade my children's childhood for it. Nope, had lucrative opportunities that I turned down because Family is far more important to me.
Had opportunities in Politics but when one of our recently dropped candidates tried to convince me to say something I didn't support I gave that up.
No, I don't want to be like trump.
THEOLet me say that I believe it is much to late for Victorian prudery. A very large portion of our population will dismiss any statement that does not have the proper expletive to stress the point.
...You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, and machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, baled-out pilots, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods but Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They think you're weak, decadent! I thought so myself in 1919. Filthiness! That is their secret weapon!
CLIVE
I've heard all that in the last war. They played foul then. And who won it!THEO
I don't think you won it! We lost it! But you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago, you have to pay the school fees again! Some of you will learn quicker than others. Some will never learn it. You have been educated to be a gentleman and a sportsman - in peace and in war. But, Clive, my dear fellow, dear old Clive, this is not a gentleman's war. This is a life and death struggle, with your backs to your cliffs against the hordes of barbarism. This time you are fighting for your very existence against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain - Nazism. And if you lose there won't be a return match next year, perhaps not even for a hundred years!You mustn't mind me, an alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten - and is now immune?
A lot of BS has been said at times. I do not agree with a lot of it. People like Mitt Romney and GW Bush tried to be polite and elevate the discussion, they never attacked or even defended themselves when viciously attacked. It did not do them much good because the opposition is interested only in demonizing our side as they absolutely cannot discuss their ideas honestly. It is probably not all bad to have somebody who can and will respond in kind when attacked instead of just curling up into a little ball under the shrill democrat attacks like civil and polite republicans usually do.
Well said FRiend
It really is sad. The coarsening of society is really sad.
As a believer I WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for my words. And if one looks at my posts.............sorry to say......do not always succeed in being Christlike.
I see posters with a Christian sounding screen name and the posts are rife with ‘stuff’. Have privately asked some about it and a couple have been positive in their reply. Others Bug Off, who cares, etc.
It is will get worse before getting better.
Thanks for the reminder!! We all need positive nudging! LOL!!! If (not if/when) you see me popping off PLEASE call me on it!!!!
Take care.........pilgrim
People who would be appalled if their children acted like Trump
are the very people holding him up to be leader of our country.
I would rather have Donald Trump babysit my kids than creepy Ted Cruz.
Severe TDS effecting people posting is entirely possible too. It is probably more likely than a the presence of a plethora of paid, Putin loving, Russian trolls reacting to Trump threads.
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