(06-15-2017 04:50 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote: (06-15-2017 02:47 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
I will calmly and firmly nail this list to your door:
Because you refuse to accept the Left has openly declared war on you and your supporters, either through ignorance or arrogance.
Because you had your chance to show the adults are back in charge back in February, and to firmly clamp down on their shit, and to show disrespect and violence will not be tolerated, and have utterly-failed in that regard.
Because you believe that if you're 'nice' to the Left, they'll come around, because you think their minds are still capable of being swayed by Objective Reality, when Leftist Educators, particularly since Obama, have deliberately programmed most of the Millennial Generation to only experience Reality Subjectively and to be charged with acting as Agents of Change.
Because your Christianity reads like an Insincere, Manipulative Prop, and your recent Bill on religious freedom - signed with much theatricality - upon closer inspection, still offered them no protections from the deliberate targeting tactics of the Left.
Because you dragged out the same series of minority props during the State of the Union address Hillary would have, and believed telling their stories would make you sympathetic to the Left.
Because you think the solution is 'American Jobs!' supplied by Multi-national Corporations, failing to realise that Capitalism itself was first converged by Anti-Authoritarian Marxism (see Jonathon McIntosh), which was then itself converged by traditional Marxism (see how Anita Sarkeesian was originally the former and flipped to the latter), and we're now reaching the tipping point of Capitalist Companies being wielded as an Socialist tool of silencing and oppression.
Because the problem isn't just the public bureaucratic class.
Because you refuse to fight back when your 'close' friends and supporters are attacked.
Because you refuse to fight back when your supporters are deliberately-silenced and openly-discriminated-against by Silicon Valley, to the degree that I have to note the change only happened after your big meeting with them, which makes me suspicious that you don't want a politically-informed, high-information voting populace any more than the Left does.
Because doing what is Right is rarely the same thing as what is Easy, so I'm always been wary of being manipulated by promises of prosperity and comfort for my allegiance.
Because you can't be All Things to All People, so need to accept some of those Right Choices will make you deeply-unpopular.
Because you can't always fix something by throwing money at it, and it's obviously the spiritual infrastructure of the country - not the physical - that needs repairing.
Because tweets like this or about being portrayed as a clown in a rap video read as impotent whining from an embittered school child about how things 'are not fair!', rather than as 'Winning'.
Because tweets like this read as insulting to your followers, since they lack both your power or privilege to remain insulated from the physical, psychological and economic violence of the Left.
Because the level of political discourse has fallen enough that Empty Twitter Drama is taken seriously as any kind of lasting, damaging blow.
Because, complacency and concession has no place in War, and I believe your supporters thought they were voting for General Trump, not Businessman Trump.
Because the Unquestioning Idolatry and Faith of your followers strikes me as blasphemous, since every man is flawed and humble before God, and we all have to be vigilant in our capacity for sin or to be swayed by evil.
Because your followers constantly talk about '4D Chess' when I'd rather you play traditional chess: Make your move, and take your opponent's piece off the table.
Because you're arrogant enough to think being smarter than 99.99% of the population will keep you safe, when I'm smarter than 99.98% of the population, but can still see how easily the 'little people' could remove you from power, due to their inability to perceive Objective Truth.
Because, despite what everyone says, I suspect you won't see it coming.
I very much hope I'm wrong, but if the deliberate, targeted assassination yesterday doesn't wake you up to the hard reality of the battle ahead - and your statement on the matter was business as usual - I'm not sure what will.
(06-15-2017 05:15 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote: (06-15-2017 03:15 PM)Matrixdude Wrote:
So, basically, "She did it first!" You'd think an 'Alpha' would know by now that Men and Women are held to different standards for the exact same act, let alone worse ones. I fucking learnt that by the second grade, and accepted it as the reality. No point whining about it.
This is exactly the type of Empty Twitter Theatrics I was talking about above.
We already know all of this, and have known it for a long time.
If it's a threat, well, he suggested he'd jail her for her crimes in the debates. Yet no action was taken after the election, and he talked about 'moving on'.
Yes, he bitches about her now and again on Twitter, but a whiny tweet like this is not action, and I see no reason to celebrate it.
Either nut up and start the formal FBI prosecution to see justice through, or STFU about it.
If the former happens, then I'll celebrate. Otherwise, it's just the pre-break 'coming up on...' hook on any reality show, hoping that you'll stay and sit through the commercials by selectively editing upcoming footage to make it look like something huge, exciting and dramatic is about to happen, only to be revealed as The Inconsequential, over-inflated.
This shit is escalating quickly. It's time to shit or get off the pot.
Although you are technically correct that the left is behaving completely outrageously and need to be smacked down, you are incorrect about how President Trump should react.
The most important thing Trump needs to do is keep the moral high ground as the leader in case of a Civil War. Civil Wars are not fought the same way as conventional wars when the enemy is clearly defined.
In a Civil War, things usually break down into 1/3 on Side A, 1/3 on Side B, and 1/3 undecided. Winning over the neutral and undecided elements is by far the most important thing to do to be victorious in a war.
So while partisans like us, on the ground floor should be calling for retribution, the leader at the top needs to appear impartial and righteous as possible to win over more support.
Not only did America defeat the British this way, but it was how Lincoln defeated the Democrats the last time around. When Lincoln delivered his first inaugural address, he already had scores of Southern infringements against the North to talk about. Republican Congressmen had been attacked. Southerners were murdering Northerners all over the border states. Most of the South had already seceded from the Union. And yet, did Lincoln call for war on his first day in office? No, he kept the moral high ground:
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html
Quote:Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that—
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
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I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration. I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause—as cheerfully to one section as to another.
He made no calls for war, and instead insisted on the lawfulness of his positions (of not allowing Slavery to spread) as well as the illegitimacy of the South's secession.
The war came anyways, of course, but because Lincoln appeared the more reasonable leaders compared to Jefferson Davis, the North ended up with the support of most border states. The moral high ground gave the North an overwhelming advantage which was impossible for the South to overcome.
Likewise Trump is doing the same thing, very carefully, with the shooting of the Republican Congressmen, making sure to appeal to everyone's humanity and need to avoid violence. The Democrats, understanding that they could easily lose the moral high ground, responded to the shooting by condemning all forms of political violence, standing with solidarity with Republicans during the baseball game, etc.
Democratic politics is a game for the undecided middle, at all times, so Trump's posturing over the shooting prudently reflects that. Trump is making the right moves to keep power on his side and forcing the Democrats to defend Republicans or find themselves forsaken as violent power hungry maniacs.
And if the Dems really want to go the distance with a Civil War II, then we'll enter it with the majority of the populace on our side because our President was not a social autiste with zero understanding of how mass politics works.