Compromise

[Montmorency]

Heard from a Trump supporter minutes ago: "Ha ha, he's so wonderfully screwing them!"

Sums it up nicely.

(Could be X-post with the Trump thread, but it works either way.)

[a completely inoffensive name]

Heard from a Trump supporter minutes ago: "Ha ha, he's so wonderfully screwing them!"

Sums it up nicely.

(Could be X-post with the Trump thread, but it works either way.)

Better than reaching out to the other side over some ideal of "compromise" though right?
They got the right idea, destroy the other side at all costs, even if it destroys yourself.

[Montmorency]

Better than reaching out to the other side over some ideal of "compromise" though right?
They got the right idea, destroy the other side at all costs, even if it destroys yourself.

Think carefully: what are you trying to say here?

[Pannonian]

I would like to give you a friendly warning. As you attack the White population of Britain in your aims to gain Black Supremacy in this country, remember what happened to Jo Cox.

I AM NOT ONE OF THEM but there are those out there who would like to see you suffer the same fate. Be careful!!

NB. Jo Cox was assassinated.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Think carefully: what are you trying to say here?

I am poking fun at the original question you posed. We are living at a time when compromise is a nonstarter for one party's constituents. This mentality is clearly damaging our discourse and our institutions. Why again should we not praise compromise as a good in an of itself?

[Montmorency]

I am poking fun at the original question you posed. We are living at a time when compromise is a nonstarter for one party's constituents. This mentality is clearly damaging our discourse and our institutions. Why again should we not praise compromise as a good in an of itself?

So you're saying the problem with Trump supporters is that they aren't willing to compromise? Why would they compromise when they are in power, and believe that the opposition refuses to compromise, even as this attitude has itself been encouraged by the Democratic impulse to please Republican voters by drafting and voting for Republican policies?

The Trump movement shows exactly the failure of compromise as an ideal.

The problem is not a lack of compromise, I reiterate, but that bad and harmful policies are advanced in the first place. Compromising over bad policies still gets you bad policy. Compromise is the last resort to get good policy out of excellent policy.

Like this joke:

A man walks into a bar holding a pile of shit. "Look what I almost stepped in..."

[Montmorency]

Do you take it ironically though? It has all the signs.

I don't hate "them", there is nothing wrong with "them", but "they" will be the ruin of us. Classic propaganda.

That's what I mean; the far-right doesn't take it ironically, but deadly-serious. Why did so many left-leaning people like to safari in 4Chan, Stormfront, and explicitly racist, theocratic, etc. sites before 2015? It's certainly not as fun as it used to be.

[Strike For The South]

That's what I mean; the far-right doesn't take it ironically, but deadly-serious. Why did so many left-leaning people like to safari in 4Chan, Stormfront, and explicitly racist, theocratic, etc. sites before 2015? It's certainly not as fun as it used to be.

I think the past couple of years have shook the "just having a laugh" cohort. Sort of like how the GOP didn't think anti govt tea people could control their party circa 2010.

People who are convinced in their purpose can be tenacious.