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Since I stated that nobody was morally superior, my guess would be C: none of the above.

Try to keep up.

Did you think we could just silently back out of the age-of-apologies?

True, Trump rides his twitter machine fast and furious. It's cringe-worthy, but nothing that requires a shared responsibility.

And what "mess" do we really have?

We have an angry media and an outraged liberal base that are berating and guilting the progressives to agree with them about Trump. And too many are acquiescing. Which shouldn't be a surprise after the last 8 years.

Perception is an important component to politics. But you and I disagree on HOW important.
Obama was all about perception. Trump lacks the desire to care one iota about it.
We need to be in the middle.

Ok, I like your line about guilting progressives into agreeing. Unfortunately I do not see that happening, so enlighten me. I see a lot of accusations, but that certainly has no ramifications on what I think.

Yea most folks aren't as centered as you.

you need new friends.

plural?

He explained that the Secret Service was called to investigate him after he spoke at the NRA convention in April 2012.

"We need to ride onto that battlefield and chop their heads off in November," Nugent said at the convention, referring to the election.

"They concluded, absolutely conclusively, I did not threaten anybody's life," Nugent said. "Yet Kathy Griffin and the whole left ... just repeats the lie that I threatened the president's life. Never happened."

Eboni Williams pointed out that Nugent also made incendiary comments about then-Democratic presidential candidates Obama and Clinton while holding two machine guns during a 2007 onstage appearance.

"Obama, he's a piece of s***. I told him to suck on my machine gun," Nugent said. "Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless b****."

Nugent acknowledged that he made an "outrageous metaphor" to attack the candidates' gun control policies, but he nonetheless never threatened anyone's life.

"It's good to see that everyone is condemning Kathy Griffin's action, because it is nasty," Nugent said. "This is a world of terrorism, where beheading is a reality. ... She actually referenced that to the president of the United States."

He said likening his comments to Griffin's photo is like comparing "apples and grenades."

"I did nothing to harm anyone. She came out with symbolism that was truly vile," Nugent said. "This kind of conduct is absolutely reprehensible and unacceptable."

Griffin was clearly way over the edge...nobody with any sense offers a reasonable defense....but, I was sorta taken aback watching Eric Trump last night. I had a fair amount of respect for him and generally liked him in the past....but he seemed awfully whiny ....Your dad's the fn president...there's gonna be spotlights, slams, death threats, jokes, etc....shut your mouth, rub some dirt on it and suck it up, ****

I didn't see him, but if he whined then I agree 100%.
You're in the big leagues now. You're gonna get your skirt dirty. Deal with it.

you are churning out metaphorical phrases at a break-neck pace.

what..?? Because she's acts like a dumbass I have to evaluate myself for thinking so..??

the more I think about this there is no comparison to Nugent.. Nugent said somethin stupid.. he didn't plan it.. he didn't discuss the ramifications it may have on his career and do it anyway.. and he sure as hell didn't cry about being bullied over it...

Butthole...

A man having a nice linear butthole is apparently important to opel...

I would have emphasized the angularity a little less... but then again I've been told my deek has a wicked left hook.

Only left turn corners...

Honestly I had no idea... till a girl who'd been sent to have sex with me and report back included it in the report...

But hey... it looks good to me.

do you **** your head to view it?
Cuz that might make a difference.

... certainly gives new meaning to the term.

I'm so glad you never did tat to Sarah Palin Victor....

Lighten up, Francis.

You can dislike self importance or keyboard tough guys all you want. But the usee of the term "SJW" as an insult literally means you find the idea of someone fighting for social justice as a negative. This isn't a debate. People use the term, unchanged, as an insult. This means they find it insulting in the same way I find the word "idiot" or "ignorant" insulting.

One can pretend it's talking about a specific type of person... but they could have chosen a different term to insult that specific group with. The choice of words is meaningful.

But you can go on being defensive about it. I don't care. I'm just stating I judge people based on their choice of words. I'm not telling you to stop using whatever words you want.

... tail.

You are correct. An insult implies differences. Otherwise you're just insulting yourself. SJW is a term. While you may believe it has some meaning other than the 3 words it's composed of, there was a first time that it was used in which it contained no additional connotation other than the 3 words it was composed of. Someone may claim they are using it as an insult based on the additional "unspoken" connotations around the term however to do so ignores the blatant fact that at the origin it was based on the idea that fighting for social justice is an insult.

To put it simply. All the words exist in the English language to insult someone for being phoney or pretentious or a blowhard etc. Everything people want to claim they are trying to say when they use SJW as an insult can be done using English and not resorting to that phrase. That can only mean that there is something additional they find insulting about that term. I dunno... maybe it's the social justice part... eh?

I don't even know or care if you use that term as an insult tail. I was just using it as an example. And my panties aren't in a bunch like you want to imply. I simply pointed out that the types of terms an individual uses as an insult says a lot about that individual. That's the same with anything in life... don't try to justify yourself, take a little personal responsibility and own up to whatever you're trying to say rather than trying to justify these terms as really meaning something else. Jeez... party of personal responsibility my well formed azz.

Dubno... never worn panties.

And for the record, I do use the term SJW as an insult.

I find the vast majority of SJW's to lack conviction and fortitude. They "attack" merely because of a difference in opinion and realize it's easy and lazy to do so over social media.

It's like the union up the street from me at work.
On sunny days there are dozens holding signs and preventing trucks from delivering.
On the recent cold and rainy days, I've seen as few as 1.

No conviction.
Zero credibility.

And actually... I'm gonna call b.s. on your statement "they mean what the author intended". That's simply not correct.

The point of communication is to get information from the speaker/author to the listener/ reader. Both parties are under a reasonable expectation that the words they use have a common meaning. You may have personally decided that the term "kike" means "attractive and intelligent man with an enormous p3nis" but Frank may not take it that way.

And the idea that the author is the sole arbiter is laughable. You can use whatever term you want wherever. But you have to learn to two personal responsibility for the words you use. People will always judge you based on the terms you choose to use. To think you can exempt yourself from that judgement simply because you "mean something different " when you use terms specifically chosen for their connotations (see my post above, there are other existing terms one could have chosen)... that's weak and screams of a lack of personal responsibility and maturity.

Tail can tell him during his weekly date.