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If I had a friend who’s rabidly anti-gay and I invited you to dinner with him, I think you might react negatively, and I think it might reflect badly on me.
I’m sure I could intellectually, philosophically and morally argue him into his soup bowl.
Besides, we know what rabidly anti gay people really are…closeted homosexuals. c.f. Brooklyn Couch.
Some kind of jackpot to irritate two …hmm..how to put it gently…posters?…in one day. Where’s my tiara?
>Each one of them was constructed to sound like the majority is beholden to a fringe element;which, by the way, is the definition of tolerance,
Definition of tolerance?!!! If I had a friend who’s rabidly anti-gay and I invited you to dinner with him, I think you might react negatively, and I think it might reflect badly on me.
Tolerance does not mean a free-for-all.
Left wing excesses are demonstrably less ‘of the mainstream’ and demonstrably less ‘tolerated’ by the establishment. You might point to one ‘fuk bush’ sign of the past, I can point to 20 instances of racist behaviour towards Obama. By the Republicans.
and dave i am not one bit surprised by your neighbors. maybe if you grew a dirty beard and rode around on a pee wee herman bike they might start saying hi to you?
*rob*
rob, actually i couldn’t give a shit whether the hipsters said hi or not. i was just making an observation that they have absolutely no social skills. In the words of paulie Love, they are LOSERS.
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
cmu,
your reasons come off as uninformed and intolerant because they are either hasty generalizations or ad hominem attacks.
do you have any philosophical substance to your objections?
obviously, even you must admit,
there is another side to the story.
Actually, one of the things I love most about my extended nabe — Brooklyn Heights / Cobble Hill / Carroll Gardens — is the number of people I see every day, at all times of day and night, ranging from friends whom I know well to people I recognize by sight (if not by name) to business owners, and I love the fact that we greet each other and, if time allows, stop and chat. It’s what makes it a real nabe for me, infinitely more than any nabe in which I lived in Manhattan, and one of the main reasons I’m so resistant to looking at houses outside my current nabe.
i am SO not a democrat!!! all they say is gimme gimme gimme spend spend spend and buy poor people’s votes. fuck that.
im not a republican either
im an Aquarius
and dave i am not one bit surprised by your neighbors. maybe if you grew a dirty beard and rode around on a pee wee herman bike they might start saying hi to you?
RE: the healthcare bill…I dare any one of you to say that it will not wind up costing far, far more than currently anticipated…any one of you. have at it.
Gem, there is a tough, Italian guy (Benson don’t get upset)
who traded/sometimes trades metals on the floor of one of the Exchanges. Let’s call him Paulie. (Exchange has changed post electronic trading). He is also a native of Williamsburg (maybe his grandparents were from Italy).
I had a drink with Paulie recently and he broke out of his normally sort of taciturn, somewhat old fashioned tough quiet guy thing when I asked him “so, it seems like you must have witnessed first hand the transformation of Williamsburg into a pretty trendy place”. Whoa. That really PULLED OUT THE CORK.
He became really animated telling me stories about how he was being profoundly aggravated by stuff (mixed up deliveries, i.e. organic foods in front of his door “WHAT IS THIS SHIT?” etc) but he pretty much hit the nail on the head when he said:
These people don’t have (no?) social skills!!!! Nobody looks at you in the eye!!!!! They just slink around looking down!! Then, these people are LOSERS!!!
They call him Paulie Love. I had a Paulie Love moment walking around down the street the other day.
“I don’t want to be associated with a party that…”
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
— I could go on and on, and I didn’t even get to the Bush era yet
Holding your nose yet? I am.
Every single one of theose reasons you post shows a certain level of close-mindedness, intolerance and racism on your part. Each one of them was constructed to sound like the majority is beholden to a fringe element; which, by the way, is the definition of tolerance, something you seem to have lost the ability to do in describing a group by the elements at the fringe.
If I had a friend who’s rabidly anti-gay and I invited you to dinner with him, I think you might react negatively, and I think it might reflect badly on me.
I’m sure I could intellectually, philosophically and morally argue him into his soup bowl.
Besides, we know what rabidly anti gay people really are…closeted homosexuals. c.f. Brooklyn Couch.
>OH PLEASE. COME DOWN OFF YOUR TAJ.
Some kind of jackpot to irritate two …hmm..how to put it gently…posters?…in one day. Where’s my tiara?
>Each one of them was constructed to sound like the majority is beholden to a fringe element;which, by the way, is the definition of tolerance,
Definition of tolerance?!!! If I had a friend who’s rabidly anti-gay and I invited you to dinner with him, I think you might react negatively, and I think it might reflect badly on me.
Tolerance does not mean a free-for-all.
Left wing excesses are demonstrably less ‘of the mainstream’ and demonstrably less ‘tolerated’ by the establishment. You might point to one ‘fuk bush’ sign of the past, I can point to 20 instances of racist behaviour towards Obama. By the Republicans.
and dave i am not one bit surprised by your neighbors. maybe if you grew a dirty beard and rode around on a pee wee herman bike they might start saying hi to you?
*rob*
rob, actually i couldn’t give a shit whether the hipsters said hi or not. i was just making an observation that they have absolutely no social skills. In the words of paulie Love, they are LOSERS.
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
cmu,
your reasons come off as uninformed and intolerant because they are either hasty generalizations or ad hominem attacks.
do you have any philosophical substance to your objections?
obviously, even you must admit,
there is another side to the story.
Actually, one of the things I love most about my extended nabe — Brooklyn Heights / Cobble Hill / Carroll Gardens — is the number of people I see every day, at all times of day and night, ranging from friends whom I know well to people I recognize by sight (if not by name) to business owners, and I love the fact that we greet each other and, if time allows, stop and chat. It’s what makes it a real nabe for me, infinitely more than any nabe in which I lived in Manhattan, and one of the main reasons I’m so resistant to looking at houses outside my current nabe.
i am SO not a democrat!!! all they say is gimme gimme gimme spend spend spend and buy poor people’s votes. fuck that.
im not a republican either
im an Aquarius
and dave i am not one bit surprised by your neighbors. maybe if you grew a dirty beard and rode around on a pee wee herman bike they might start saying hi to you?
*rob*
RE: the healthcare bill…I dare any one of you to say that it will not wind up costing far, far more than currently anticipated…any one of you. have at it.
Gem, there is a tough, Italian guy (Benson don’t get upset)
who traded/sometimes trades metals on the floor of one of the Exchanges. Let’s call him Paulie. (Exchange has changed post electronic trading). He is also a native of Williamsburg (maybe his grandparents were from Italy).
I had a drink with Paulie recently and he broke out of his normally sort of taciturn, somewhat old fashioned tough quiet guy thing when I asked him “so, it seems like you must have witnessed first hand the transformation of Williamsburg into a pretty trendy place”. Whoa. That really PULLED OUT THE CORK.
He became really animated telling me stories about how he was being profoundly aggravated by stuff (mixed up deliveries, i.e. organic foods in front of his door “WHAT IS THIS SHIT?” etc) but he pretty much hit the nail on the head when he said:
These people don’t have (no?) social skills!!!! Nobody looks at you in the eye!!!!! They just slink around looking down!! Then, these people are LOSERS!!!
They call him Paulie Love. I had a Paulie Love moment walking around down the street the other day.
Just LOOK UP.
“I don’t want to be associated with a party that…”
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
— I could go on and on, and I didn’t even get to the Bush era yet
Holding your nose yet? I am.
Every single one of theose reasons you post shows a certain level of close-mindedness, intolerance and racism on your part. Each one of them was constructed to sound like the majority is beholden to a fringe element; which, by the way, is the definition of tolerance, something you seem to have lost the ability to do in describing a group by the elements at the fringe.
Lechacal is right.