Conservatives Believe Their Lives are More Meaningful Than Liberals...

[Leonhard]

I think my parents and grandparents worked to hard and too much to have the time to be neurotic or navel gaze. They survived the depression and a World War (two world wars for my grandfathers) so what was there to be unhappy or depressed about?

Having a job is a God given blessing. Job, friends, health and something in your life you find meaningful to do (which can be related to your job). If you have that then its pretty hard to slide into depression. It can still happen, but its harder. I've seen some of my jobless friends slide into depression one and off, just too much free time on their hands. I was the same after my education when the economy had tanked and no one needed a physicist. I retooled, and began my current career and now I have a full time job that I love.

But man in between those times it was rough going. I definitely had a major depressive episode, though the circumstances about is not something I'm willing to talk about. However just not having a job was ... I had nothing to get up for. To struggle with. To better myself through. I'm not good at setting my own goals. I like getting something to work with and tinker with.

And I have that now. Its a world of difference.

My family has a pretty strong work ethics. I don't go to work if I have a fever, since I don't wanna infect others, but I have to be pretty sick to call in sick. As far as I'm concerned the ideal number of sick days in a year is zero.

[Tassman]

Your little hate-filled dark heart is really pumping it out this morning --

My “little hate-filled dark heart”... Really?

no, if they're Muslim and/or asylum seekers coming in legally, I have no objection.

Trump called for a total ban on Muslims entering the US, during his campaign and his supporters cheered. Isn’t that one of the reasons why you voted for him?

And asylum seekers from Central America were stopped from entering legally, so drop the sanctimonious cant.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rced-to-a-halt

Furthermore, the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which led to the separation of children from adults, has still not been effected despite court orders.

[Cow Poke]

My “little hate-filled dark heart”... Really?

Yes, and your goofy loose rolling around head, too.

Trump called for a total ban on Muslims entering the US, during his campaign and his supporters cheered. Isn’t that one of the reasons why you voted for him?

You have the attention span of a gnat. I have, on multiple occasions, made it very clear why I voted for him...

A) Hillary won't be POTUS
2 SCOTUS won't be Hillary's

Success on both counts

[Tassman]

Yes, and your goofy loose rolling around head, too.

So, in your loving Evangelical mind I have a “little hate-filled dark heart”. So funny!

You have the attention span of a gnat. I have, on multiple occasions, made it very clear why I voted for him...

A) Hillary won't be POTUS

As per Putin’s agenda! Well done!

2 SCOTUS won't be Hillary's

And I have made it very clear on multiple occasions that you Evangelicals have sold your soul to get your way re LGBT rights and Roe v Wade.

Success on both counts

At the cost of putting into office a lying moral reprobate and probable traitor! Not good on the big picture, you lot.

[Sparko]

So, in your loving Evangelical mind I have a “little hate-filled dark heart”. So funny!



As per Putin’s agenda! Well done!



And I have made it very clear on multiple occasions that you Evangelicals have sold your soul to get your way re LGBT rights and Roe v Wade.



At the cost of putting into office a lying moral reprobate and probable traitor! Not good on the big picture, you lot.

Troll harder.

[Cow Poke]

So, in your loving Evangelical mind I have a “little hate-filled dark heart”.

You're not here for the fellowship, Tass... you're here to be a royal pain in the butt, because that's who you are. So, yeah.

[Sparko]

You're not here for the fellowship, Tass... you're here to be a royal pain in the butt, because that's who you are. So, yeah.

If we viewed tolerance like Tassy and most liberals do, Tassy and his crew would have been banned long ago from tweb.

[Tassman]

If we viewed tolerance like Tassy and most liberals do, Tassy and his crew would have been banned long ago from tweb.

Well. what a happy little mutual admiration society you would have left then.

[Cow Poke]

Well. what a happy little mutual admiration society you would have left then.

You're worth keeping simply for the entertainment value on rainy days.

[Sparko]

Well. what a happy little mutual admiration society you would have left then.

Exactly. Which is why we tolerate different view points. What a boring place the world would be if everyone thought the same. Maybe you liberals should take a lesson from that instead of trying to ban every viewpoint you don't like while pretending to be tolerant.

[Cow Poke]

Exactly. Which is why we tolerate different view points. What a boring place the world would be if everyone thought the same. Maybe you liberals should take a lesson from that instead of trying to ban every viewpoint you don't like while pretending to be tolerant.

I don't think they even pretend anymore.

[Leonhard]

I don't think they even pretend anymore.

The majority of liberals, even university students support freedom of speech. I know this is a very right-wing forum, but you guys seriously need to get out of your echo chamber.

[Sparko]

The majority of liberals, even university students support freedom of speech. I know this is a very right-wing forum, but you guys seriously need to get out of your echo chamber.

They "support" free speech, as long as it doesn't hurt their feelings, or disagree with them.



TRENDING: College students protest against the First Amendment
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25086/

Cal Poly Students Protest A Free Speech Wall for Having Free Speech
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1108/...-aaron-bandler

Students protest pro-free speech display at UMich
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25047/

Mizzou student government VP is ‘tired of hearing’ about First Amendment protections
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25054/


A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.3869aa854bf8

Colleges, the First Amendment isn't protection from offensive speech
http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rig...from-offensive

[Leonhard]

They "support" free speech, as long as it doesn't hurt their feelings, or disagree with them.



TRENDING: College students protest against the First Amendment
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25086/

Cal Poly Students Protest A Free Speech Wall for Having Free Speech
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1108/...-aaron-bandler

Students protest pro-free speech display at UMich
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25047/

Mizzou student government VP is ‘tired of hearing’ about First Amendment protections
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25054/


A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.3869aa854bf8

Colleges, the First Amendment isn't protection from offensive speech
http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rig...from-offensive

And all of those are individual cases. But surveys show the opposite, most liberal students support freedom of speech. https://theness.com/neurologicablog/...on-vs-reality/

For balance I can give you what it looks like from the other side.

There's plenty of Alt-Righters who have hounded and bullied journalists and leftists, as well as sent bomb threats to make professors and speakers cancel their talks. That has happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/o...ing-media.html

"At Texas A&M, Tommy Curry, a black professor, was driven from his home with his family after his controversial remarks on violence and race drew the attention of American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher" https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-tommy-j-curry

Have introduced bills meant to make protests harder to do under Trump. Including giving "civil immunity for the driver of an automobile who injures a protester who is blocking traffic in a public right-of-way if the driver was exercising due care", which comes right in the wake of the Alt-Right who drove his car into a crowd of protesters in Charleston. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-protest-bills

Deplatforming, if you're critical of Trump. https://m.facebook.com/AnaKasparianO...99281830094290
Deplatforming for using the word 'Vagina' to southerners. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...agina-comments
Alt-Right deplatformed Sam Seder by Mike Chernovich fans, they eventually got him fired after putting on enough pressure https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...lt-right-smear
Trump in a rather Orweillian turn told the CDC that could not use the following seven words: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...now-forbidden/
Jamele Hill called Trump a racist, and conservatives wanted her shut down and called for her getting fired https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/...te-supremacist

Conservatives, here (on this forum) and in the US in general just pretty much lost their minds about the NFL players holding a small peaceful protest.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...y-weekend/amp/
Even Dreher, ultra-right wing that he is, actually recognised that something was wrong. And thought the conservatives were being just a bit hypocritical with that action. http://www.theamericanconservative.c...ech-hypocrisy/

Alt-Righters have very successfully removed several left leaning videos from youtube by exploiting the flagging.


I've said on this forum that the idea that there's a specific and ongoing attack on free speech by leftists in the US is largely a media based spiel. There's nothing substantive backing it up. For every story I've heard of leftists doing something anti free-speech, I've seen the Alt-Right have another succesful campaign of threats shutting down leftists. FoxNews and Breitbart are silent about that, as they are silent about the Trump Administrations directions about what words to use etc... Because Fox News and Breitbart don't care any one bit about Free Speech.

They care about "Free Speech" if "Free Speech" is something they agree with, or they can use the cause to attack liberals.

[Sparko]

And all of those are individual cases. But surveys show the opposite, most liberal students support freedom of speech. https://theness.com/neurologicablog/...on-vs-reality/

For balance I can give you what it looks like from the other side.

There's plenty of Alt-Righters who have hounded and bullied journalists and leftists, as well as sent bomb threats to make professors and speakers cancel their talks. That has happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/o...ing-media.html

"At Texas A&M, Tommy Curry, a black professor, was driven from his home with his family after his controversial remarks on violence and race drew the attention of American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher" https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-tommy-j-curry

Have introduced bills meant to make protests harder to do under Trump. Including giving "civil immunity for the driver of an automobile who injures a protester who is blocking traffic in a public right-of-way if the driver was exercising due care", which comes right in the wake of the Alt-Right who drove his car into a crowd of protesters in Charleston. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-protest-bills

Deplatforming, if you're critical of Trump. https://m.facebook.com/AnaKasparianO...99281830094290
Deplatforming for using the word 'Vagina' to southerners. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...agina-comments
Alt-Right deplatformed Sam Seder by Mike Chernovich fans, they eventually got him fired after putting on enough pressure https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...lt-right-smear
Trump in a rather Orweillian turn told the CDC that could not use the following seven words: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...now-forbidden/
Jamele Hill called Trump a racist, and conservatives wanted her shut down and called for her getting fired https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/...te-supremacist

Conservatives, here (on this forum) and in the US in general just pretty much lost their minds about the NFL players holding a small peaceful protest.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...y-weekend/amp/
Even Dreher, ultra-right wing that he is, actually recognised that something was wrong. And thought the conservatives were being just a bit hypocritical with that action. http://www.theamericanconservative.c...ech-hypocrisy/

Alt-Righters have very successfully removed several left leaning videos from youtube by exploiting the flagging.


I've said on this forum that the idea that there's a specific and ongoing attack on free speech by leftists in the US is largely a media based spiel. There's nothing substantive backing it up. For every story I've heard of leftists doing something anti free-speech, I've seen the Alt-Right have another succesful campaign of threats shutting down leftists. FoxNews and Breitbart are silent about that, as they are silent about the Trump Administrations directions about what words to use etc... Because Fox News and Breitbart don't care any one bit about Free Speech.

They care about "Free Speech" if "Free Speech" is something they agree with, or they can use the cause to attack liberals.

When the conservatives were against the NFL players taking a knee, did they ever claim that they were against free speech? Did they ever, even once, riot and take over a football stadium? No.

But we have incident after incident of college students shutting down free speech over here. Rioting when a conservative speaker is invited to speak at a college. Burning things. destroying things. Demanding safe spaces so they don't have to hear speech that they disagree with. Or demanding that such speech be outlawed.

There is no comparison Leonhard.