Boston Tea Party
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Does anyone else find cognitive dissonance with the recent conservative Tea parties when contrasted with the Boston Tea Party, which apparently is the model? The Boston Tea Party was a protest against a Corporate tax cut. Essentially the India Tea Company received a tax cut where they paid 0% instead of 30 which the local smaller companies and individuals were required to pay. So the protest was against this corporation receiving tax cuts that individual citizens weren't entitled to. Now, how is this relevant to the current movement? When conservatives have continually requested further tax cuts for corporations. Reagan gave many while increasing taxes on working people. Something smells a little funny, I think it might be the tea.
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Wow. Thats the most amazingly stupid historic revisionism I've ever encountered. Is that what the left has been reduced to? The most mercatile society on the planet in 1776 (New England) was fighting against a corporation? Amazing.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Nope, your right. It was Rob that asked if I could fit any more buzzwords into my post. My mistake.
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Synaptrik wrote:
It was Rob that asked if I could fit any more buzzwords into my post
Wrong again. You should be able to tell the difference between Rob and I by now - I'm the good looking one. :laugh:
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'Scuse please? Don't recall that. Perhaps I didn't say it quite that way...
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Synaptrik wrote:
It was Rob that asked if I could fit any more buzzwords into my post
Wrong again. You should be able to tell the difference between Rob and I by now - I'm the good looking one. :laugh:
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Too bad my correction appeared before your cap. Look, I'll admit to shooting from the hip here. I'm not a democrat nor a republican. I didn't vote for Obama nor Bush. I'm merely struggling through the haze of propaganda on this board and ask questions and posit scenarios in the hopes of learning more. But it does appear that this is completely futile. So I think I'm just moving on. Enjoy, you all had a true opportunity to teach someone without a party of your viewpoints, but everyone seems to be more interested in those same buzzwords you accused me of. So, enjoy, this fish is wriggling off the hook. I tangle with the contradictions and propaganda elsewhere. But hey, slowly but surely you'll all be left with those who agree with you and you can slap each other on the back all you want.
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Too bad my correction appeared before your cap. Look, I'll admit to shooting from the hip here. I'm not a democrat nor a republican. I didn't vote for Obama nor Bush. I'm merely struggling through the haze of propaganda on this board and ask questions and posit scenarios in the hopes of learning more. But it does appear that this is completely futile. So I think I'm just moving on. Enjoy, you all had a true opportunity to teach someone without a party of your viewpoints, but everyone seems to be more interested in those same buzzwords you accused me of. So, enjoy, this fish is wriggling off the hook. I tangle with the contradictions and propaganda elsewhere. But hey, slowly but surely you'll all be left with those who agree with you and you can slap each other on the back all you want.
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Memory failure, I just went back and searched and actually it was Oak. Oh well. I'm not going to post for a while since I'm not getting anything right. Enjoy your conservative forum. I think I'm done.
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Synaptrik wrote:
Enjoy your conservative forum.
I don't think Stan & Mike would regard me or Jon as proper conservatives. Not full fledged pinko liberals perhaps, but at least mislead libertarians...
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Good luck to you in all your endevors. Maybe, once you know what you are talking about, you'll come back and actually be able to learn something.
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Nice to see you stick to form and offer a poke in the ribs as a parting gesture. I did learn one thing. Sharp pokes to the ribs by cantakerous old sores like yourself don't teach anything but "keep your distance". Wanna go for another cheap pathetic insult?
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Synaptrik wrote:
Enjoy your conservative forum.
I don't think Stan & Mike would regard me or Jon as proper conservatives. Not full fledged pinko liberals perhaps, but at least mislead libertarians...
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Nice to see you stick to form and offer a poke in the ribs as a parting gesture. I did learn one thing. Sharp pokes to the ribs by cantakerous old sores like yourself don't teach anything but "keep your distance". Wanna go for another cheap pathetic insult?
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Synaptrik wrote:
Sharp pokes to the ribs by cantakerous old sores like yourself don't teach anything but "keep your distance".
You keep telling us that we are going to be denied the chance to teach you something, as if that should make us sad. It's been my experience in life that I am much more likely to be saddened by a lost opportunity to learn, than to teach. I was willing to give you a couple of history lessons, of course, because I am a bit of a showoff, but ultimately, I'll enjoy myself far more matching wits with Stan or Christian or any of the other regs, than simply doing a quick brain dump to bring you up to speed on a subject you started posting about. By the way, you keep mentioning my age as if that should hurt my feelings. Just to set the record straight, I'm quite proud of surviving this long and I am quite sure that it beats the alternative. Every time you call me old, it reminds me how clever I am to have gotten this way. ;) To quote the darling of the far left, Ms. Streisand: "Go or stay/I don't care/very much"
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Synaptrik wrote:
Enjoy your conservative forum.
I don't think Stan & Mike would regard me or Jon as proper conservatives. Not full fledged pinko liberals perhaps, but at least mislead libertarians...
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Synaptrik wrote:
Sharp pokes to the ribs by cantakerous old sores like yourself don't teach anything but "keep your distance".
You keep telling us that we are going to be denied the chance to teach you something, as if that should make us sad. It's been my experience in life that I am much more likely to be saddened by a lost opportunity to learn, than to teach. I was willing to give you a couple of history lessons, of course, because I am a bit of a showoff, but ultimately, I'll enjoy myself far more matching wits with Stan or Christian or any of the other regs, than simply doing a quick brain dump to bring you up to speed on a subject you started posting about. By the way, you keep mentioning my age as if that should hurt my feelings. Just to set the record straight, I'm quite proud of surviving this long and I am quite sure that it beats the alternative. Every time you call me old, it reminds me how clever I am to have gotten this way. ;) To quote the darling of the far left, Ms. Streisand: "Go or stay/I don't care/very much"
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I guess I underestimated your need to insult and stroke your own ego. Well done. You may be clever. Really I was looking for a clever way to call you a jerk. Jerk.
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I'll enjoy myself far more matching wits with Stan or Christian or any of the other regs, than simply doing a quick brain dump to bring you up to speed on a subject you started posting about.
And who forces you to respond to my posts besides some apparent need to look smart? Whatever.
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Too bad my correction appeared before your cap. Look, I'll admit to shooting from the hip here. I'm not a democrat nor a republican. I didn't vote for Obama nor Bush. I'm merely struggling through the haze of propaganda on this board and ask questions and posit scenarios in the hopes of learning more. But it does appear that this is completely futile. So I think I'm just moving on. Enjoy, you all had a true opportunity to teach someone without a party of your viewpoints, but everyone seems to be more interested in those same buzzwords you accused me of. So, enjoy, this fish is wriggling off the hook. I tangle with the contradictions and propaganda elsewhere. But hey, slowly but surely you'll all be left with those who agree with you and you can slap each other on the back all you want.
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Synaptrik wrote:
I'm merely struggling through the haze of propaganda
pick up the book, "The 5000 Year Leap" - then you'll understand where most of us are coming from, the principles of the founders in a fairly concise format.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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Synaptrik wrote:
I'm merely struggling through the haze of propaganda
pick up the book, "The 5000 Year Leap" - then you'll understand where most of us are coming from, the principles of the founders in a fairly concise format.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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I guess I underestimated your need to insult and stroke your own ego. Well done. You may be clever. Really I was looking for a clever way to call you a jerk. Jerk.
Oakman wrote:
I'll enjoy myself far more matching wits with Stan or Christian or any of the other regs, than simply doing a quick brain dump to bring you up to speed on a subject you started posting about.
And who forces you to respond to my posts besides some apparent need to look smart? Whatever.
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And I don't think that pedantic responses to obviously frustrated crap posts on my part mean much. But, by all means...
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Damn, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be pedantic there. Guess I should have added a smiley or the joke icon. It was just an observation, not a corrective remark.
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Damn, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be pedantic there. Guess I should have added a smiley or the joke icon. It was just an observation, not a corrective remark.
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Synaptrik wrote:
Really I was looking for a clever way to call you a jerk.
This is hardball, son. You want to play in the major leagues, expect to get beaned. Otherwise - hang out in Soapbox 2.0
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Oakman wrote:
This is hardball, son.
OK, Asshat. Care to attempt some more meaningless pedantry?
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Synaptrik wrote:
Care to attempt some more meaningless pedantry?
ROFL - yesterday you wanted to learn. Today you're on the warpath against tyrants. Tomorrow, what? You'll set yourself up as a savant? Anyway, this exchange has become boring to me. I'll give you the last word. Bye
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Synaptrik wrote:
Care to attempt some more meaningless pedantry?
ROFL - yesterday you wanted to learn. Today you're on the warpath against tyrants. Tomorrow, what? You'll set yourself up as a savant? Anyway, this exchange has become boring to me. I'll give you the last word. Bye
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