I think you touched a nerve, Chap. Maybe he'll consider your question.Atlanticmike wrote: โSat Nov 27, 2021 3:20 pmHahaha. Good job! This is the first time you've made me laugh in a good way. I have nothing else for you. That cracked me up.Chap wrote: โSat Nov 27, 2021 2:48 pmNope. If I needed to kill people, I would certainly work hard get up to date on whatever kind of gun I was going to do it with.
But I don't need to kill anybody, so for me guns remain boring things that go bang and you have to keep cleaning. Has it never occurred to you that all the effort you put into machines that go bang would be better spent on having sex?
Videos that will help anyone suffering from the curable disease of progressivism!!
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Hi Canpakes/Marcus! This is Jerry!! What nerve did Chap touch?Marcus wrote: โSat Nov 27, 2021 3:24 pmI think you touched a nerve, Chap. Maybe he'll consider your question.Atlanticmike wrote: โSat Nov 27, 2021 3:20 pm
Hahaha. Good job! This is the first time you've made me laugh in a good way. I have nothing else for you. That cracked me up.
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https://youtu.be/0LFnH6Iin8w
Have I cured anyone from the disease known as progressivism? Oh well! Here's some more happy conservatives shooting guns
Have I cured anyone from the disease known as progressivism? Oh well! Here's some more happy conservatives shooting guns
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these are weak guns. .950 JDJ is a real gun; although it has a vented barrel.
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To me, progressivism is merely the opposite of regression or stagnation, and is very much preferable to the latter. There are very few things in our society or the status quo than cannot be improved upon, thus it behooves all reasonable and honest people to frequently, if not continually, reevaluate ourselves and how we do things with an eye to improving both. It appears to me that, conservatism, especially hard right conservatism, too often entails slavish adherence to the status quo and a paranoid fear of anything new. innovative or truly challenging. It is also my observation that, historically speaking, economic oppression, bigotry, intolerance of minorities, and tyranny are far more often (though admittedly not exclusively) associated with those who bill themselves as conservatives than with those who claim to advocate progressivism or liberalism. Only liberals or progressives who are fake or hypocritical are guilty of or associated with any of those things, as far as I am concerned!
This is not to say that there are no traditions or current ways of doing things that are worth conserving, but neither is it true that nothing we have or do (however traditional or long established) needs to be improved or discarded.
This is not to say that there are no traditions or current ways of doing things that are worth conserving, but neither is it true that nothing we have or do (however traditional or long established) needs to be improved or discarded.
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It is not well defined. There was a more defined progressive movement in US history, but itโs not that. I think of it as people who considered them selves at the left end of โliberalโ but not quite socialists. (Although some socialists may consider themselves progressive.) It generally includes folks who place importance on structural obstacles to equal opportunity. But, whether one is a progressive is pretty much a matter of self definition. It might coalesce into a more defined political group or even a party, or it might drift away on the breeze. Who knows?Chap wrote: โTue Oct 05, 2021 5:05 pmI'm not sure I have much of an idea either!
Is 'progressivism' a well defined and widely used term in normal US political discourse? I presume it's not just about thinking that 'progress' is a good thing, since given the associations attached to that term, 'progress' nowadays means little more than 'change of which the speaker approves', thereby rendering it more or less vacuous.
How do I tell whether I am a 'progressive' or not?
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It is increasingly apparent to me that hard right conservatives (especially Trumpists and QAnoners) have become determined to attempt to vilify virtually any political opponents (especially if they are even slightly to the left of their own position) as a progressive, or even worse, a Communist. They probably couldn't care less whether that characterization is really true or not, as long it succeeds in diminishing the number of votes for their opponents. It has become almost blazingly obvious to me that dishonesty and willingness to lie is or has become the most important defining or qualifying characteristic for many established or aspiring conservative Republican politicians.
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Absolutely. Republicans don't make arguments, they lie in leu of an argument. Lying, hypocrisy and assuming your constituents are idiots is the GOP playbook.
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https://youtu.be/UPLQNUVmq3o
To all the new readers. Check out the video above! It's our future if we let the insane Progressives take charge of our country!! Watch it, learn from it! If you're already suffering from the curable disease of progressivism, there's hope for you! Watch this video over and over until something finally clicks and you realize that PROGRESSIVISM is a cult.
To all the new readers. Check out the video above! It's our future if we let the insane Progressives take charge of our country!! Watch it, learn from it! If you're already suffering from the curable disease of progressivism, there's hope for you! Watch this video over and over until something finally clicks and you realize that PROGRESSIVISM is a cult.