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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    How does being angry invalidate what TMB has to
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Speaking of charter schools, they’re a pretty textbook case of cost-shifting. Privately owned schools get to tap into all that juicy taxable real-estate, taxpayers get to pay them on top of trying...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    At least two of those books were written by long-time conservatives. But whatever … Speaking of charter schools and school choice, It might be interesting to see if there’s any mention of the...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not sure how a documentary on public school education proves anything about the evolution of Republican policy proposals, unless it says something about the fact that “conservatives” have been...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    In other words, it means exactly what I first proposed: this claim to be the party of Lincoln is purest fantasy. Still haven’t seen a Republican policy proposal that benefits anyone but themselves....
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I am well aware of the Republican Party agenda. It benefits no one but themselves. As I said,
  9. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    In other words, you cannot point to a single instance when republicans advocate for the benefit anyone but right wing religious extremists, big business and white upper class republicans. QED So...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The short form: “All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm). Not a surprise that you don’t understand that … right-wing doublethink has been...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I wasn’t referencing civil rights only, but Google voting rights, to start. Then move on to gay marriage (equal protection of the law), anything related to transgendered people (ditto, plus the...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I’m referring primarily to their efforts to block civil rights, among other benefits, to others in general, not just
  13. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    No question that democrats can be and are racists. See my edit, above. Interesting that you keep citing one of the main propositions of CRT to support your implication that democrats are just as...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Written in 1956 to appease the southern racists later claimed by the Republican Party. ETA: once again invoking CRT, I
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A decision, I might add, that some thinkers believe was a primary trigger leading to the current polarization of our
  16. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    And promptly decided to claim the democrats’ southern majority by appealing to their
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    And yet, the civil rights legislation passed and has been a thorn in the side of right wing extremists ever since. Interesting, too, that you are willing to assert that the legislation was passed...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The Republican Party sold out the “party of Lincoln” when they embraced the southern strategy, cozied up to right wing religious extremists and decided to pursue Carl Rove’s “permanent...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    That link was posted just after I challenged another user who insisted that he had no idea what I was talking about. I assumed that your post was intended to support her. Add to that the fact...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Google “Southern
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Pretending to be unaware of the Charlottesville riot while posting repeatedly in a thread on current events just doesn’t pass the smell test. Neither does your attempt to draw a false equivalence....
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    As I said -
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    Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

    heron replied to Ado Annie's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    It’s not about discussion - it’s about trying (unsuccessfully) to pwn the libs. I read those quotes and I don’t think they mean what she thinks they
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    What you’re describing is not CRT. Sounds more like a kind of “beginner’s syndrome”. It’s not like white folks in America have been encouraged to actually think about racism. I’ve noticed...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Unfortunately, many consider teaching the truth about slavery or the attempted genocide of the indigenous population as “teaching