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Post by Holly Gail on Aug 25, 2020 22:54:47 GMT
people who claim to be religious Me? You don't mean you believe I voted for him, do you? I've said before that I'm religious. I vote! I did NOT vote for him! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop lumping all people who are religious into one shitty category! We are not mono-anything. I've asked you before, numerous times, and I think I've been polite, and I've been less polite, and now I'm not being polite. If you persist in continuing to insult me like this, I'm going to have to leave this thread altogether. I do not threaten; I state. I can't believe you're as narrow-minded as you sometimes come across. Just fucking stop saying all religious people suck; we don't.
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Post by finreporter on Aug 26, 2020 0:05:02 GMT
Holly Gail , i think you keep taking what birdgal is saying as though it is against you. she is not talking about you. none of us are. when we talk about the religious people who do act hypocritical we are not talking about genuinely loving and caring people who also happen to hold a very deep faith. my mom is highly religious, prays daily, goes to church every sunday (well, pre covid anyway), volunteers and helps organize fundraisers and drives for the catholic charities in her area for helping homelessness and other at risk groups, etc. and she and i even talk about the religious nuts who use it to hide behind when all the while they really don't mean any of it even if they think they do. if that doesn't apply to you, then don't worry about it and don't take it to mean you since you know it's not how you are. editing to add, she and i never mean all religious people are shitty. give us a little credit here we aren't generalizing everyone into one category of "oh if you're religious you are automatically part of team trump." my mom is as religious as they come and yet she is highly progressive and thinks trump needs to go suck an egg. she's team democratic socialist. so obviously, the things birdgal says about religious people who take it as far as many of the "he's my 2nd coming messiah here to save us all" folk do would not apply to anyone but those types of people.
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Post by birdgal on Aug 26, 2020 1:16:44 GMT
Fin, thank you. Thank you for understanding who I'm talking about when I say people who CLAIM to be religious.
Religious people and spiritual people are, imho, not the same.
I am probably going to keep posting how I feel about that unless the mods ask me to stop.
Holly Gail, years ago I was on a chat room where a guy on there was brutal and cruel. He really got to me. I decided to SOB his posts and replies. Every time I saw his name I wouldn't read them. Simple solution.
If I enjoyed chatting with people in a chat room, and did not like the things one poster wrote, I would stop reading her posts or replies instead of picking up all my marbles and leaving a chat room I enjoy.
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Post by Holly Gail on Aug 26, 2020 4:16:02 GMT
Okay, ladies. Adios.
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Post by birdgal on Aug 26, 2020 4:42:34 GMT
Luanne, that picture is scary. Very scary. I hope you and yours are safe.
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Post by finreporter on Aug 26, 2020 5:24:44 GMT
Wow did what I say really make no sense? Well ok. Best wishes to you.
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Post by DotRen on Aug 26, 2020 12:11:41 GMT
The WTF moment of the night:
"Melania Trump: We deserve total honesty from our President"
What planet is she drinking the koolaid on?
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Post by luanne on Aug 26, 2020 15:46:09 GMT
Luanne, that picture is scary. Very scary. I hope you and yours are safe. Thanks. We are fine, just suffering from the smoke and bad air quality. The Medio fire (the one I had the picture of) has spread a bit more, but it is also more contained. They think it will take time to get it fully under control. I haven't read much about the other fire. We are also getting smoke from some of the fires in Colorado. This is fire season, but this year it has also been extremely dry and we're not getting the monsoon rains we normally get.
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Post by luanne on Aug 26, 2020 15:46:50 GMT
The WTF moment of the night: "Melania Trump: We deserve total honesty from our President"What planet is she drinking the koolaid on? Very pretty words Melania. But actions speak louder than words.
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Post by birdgal on Aug 26, 2020 16:05:10 GMT
Lol. Maybe she was joking because that really made me laugh.
What we deserve and what we get are two different things. The thing in the WH lies so much I don't think he has any truth in him. If his lips are moving he's lying.
Her words are both insulting and insincere. She's as bad as him.
I know longer see this train wreck of an admimistration as a joke. Nothing funny about it. I see it as a horror show.
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Post by finreporter on Aug 26, 2020 16:52:10 GMT
melania is taking her payment and just rolling with it. it was more important to her to get a fat paycheck for life than to have integrity.
the funny thing was a fact checking of the DNC and RNC showed dozens of outright lies by the speakers at RNC including the dumpster fire himself, and found 2 items with the DNC: 1 was deemed "improbable" not necessarily an outright lie since it was a statement about the future state, and 1 was michelle obama referencing children in cages. the fact checking said that they would not call the kids detained at the border being detained in cages per se, that they are chain link enclosures that the obama admin had used when detaining unaccompanied minors seeking refuge at the border.
personally to me, that is still a cage. just because it's not a small cage, doesn't make it any less a cage like structure.
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Post by birdgal on Aug 27, 2020 16:58:22 GMT
The monster in the WH really is causing small business owners to close down at an alarming rate. Very alarming!
Yesterday we passed a strip mall and were more than alarmed at all the stores that were boarded up and out of business. It seems like overnight.
We've lived here for 20 years and those stores, mostly mom and pops, have been here the whole time. A card store, dry cleaners, a hardware store, barber shop, a coffee shop, a bakery, a pub. No BIG name stores either. Small neighborhood stores where everybody reallly does know your name as well as what you need. Most of them are out of business! The pub is the only one still open and a Baskin and Robbins that's been there for a couple of years.
Liquor and ice cream stores still standing. We need our sweets and our booze to get through these troubling times. Lol.
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Post by finreporter on Aug 27, 2020 17:18:40 GMT
i know and if he'd just done his job and allowed the science to guide the decisions rather than his huge ego and weird need to push true covid impacts under the rug, those businesses could be back open today. i see the same in areas here in los angeles that had tons of small businesses. many boarded up and closed for good. he ruined people's lives and doesn't even give a fuck. and then this image today was so powerful and hit me like a ton of bricks. if people can honestly see this and say there is no difference between how black people are treated in this country by police and others in power and how white people are treated (everyone on the far right just loves their new golden boy 17 year old murderer), then there is literally no hope for you.
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Post by finreporter on Aug 27, 2020 17:19:19 GMT
the image doesn't seem to be working for me. can anyone else see it? normally i can insert images with no issues.
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Post by birdgal on Aug 27, 2020 17:42:11 GMT
I can't see it either, Fin.
We are such a stupid people. So proud of our killing machines.
I've noticed how we have completely given up on any discussion about gun violence. Killing machines are as American as Mom and apple pie. Hey, you never know. There could be a Red Coat hiding in a bush ready to attack you with his musket.
We are such a violent people. Stupid and immature too. It's easy to see how the thing in the WH got there and probably will stay there for a few more disastrous years.
We have more people killed by guns than any other free country. Yeah! Don't it make you proud? God, guts, and guns! That's what makes America great. Especially the gun part.
Foolish people.
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