Why are leftists so obsessed with taking things from the American people?

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That's all I can figure. I mean, I could never get any joy from making other people unhappy. I'm just the opposite. I guess that's why I'm a conservative.

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Go figure!








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[Ray From Cleveland]

Not only keep it there. Try depositing 30K cash. My bank needed a days notice in order to accept the money.

Hell, after I got done with working I had a shitload of pennies I've been throwing in this big plastic jug for decades, so I finally decided to get rid of them. I took them to my bank that I've been dealing with for many years. The teller told me that they will only accept ten rolls a day. Anything after that, they'll charge me 50 cents a roll. Well, 50 cents a roll is all pennies are worth. So I spent a couple of weeks going back and forth to the bank to get rid of them.

Years ago if you walked into a bank with rolled coins, you were the most popular customer in the bank.

 

[Mac1958]

This isn't exactly a big mystery.

The Left's ideology says the country is better off when some resources are shared. In practice, this would include "taking" or withholding or manipulating access to resources for some to save for others. The Right's ideology says the country is better off when the largest net producers/owners are rewarded and incentivized for more production by having less of their production touched. The end purpose of both ideologies is a better net overall economic environment for the most Americans.

Unfortunately, the glaring weakness of most ideologies is that most ideologies become too focused and binary and lose sight of any value of any opposing ideology. Or new ideas, for that matter. The net result is that they end up going too ******* far. They believe their own hubris, become rigid, incurious, arrogant, chauvinistic and dogmatic.

Anyway, that's just one take. Back to the regular poo flinging.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

All garbage.

Typical leftist generalization when they can't debate what's posted.

 

[j-mac]

Why? You don't hate dumb questions, smiley.

Not sure what you’re asking here….Try English….

 

[j-mac]

This isn't exactly a big mystery.

The Left's ideology says the country is better off when some resources are shared. In practice, this would include "taking" or withholding or manipulating access to resources for some to save for others. The Right's ideology says the country is better off when the largest net producers/owners are rewarded and incentivized for more production by having less of their production touched. The end purpose of both ideologies is a better net overall economic environment for the most Americans.

Unfortunately, the glaring weakness of most ideologies is that most ideologies become too focused and binary and lose sight of any value of any opposing ideology. Or new ideas, for that matter. The net result is that they end up going too ******* far. They believe their own hubris, become rigid, incurious, arrogant and dogmatic.

Anyway, that's just one take. Back to the regular poo flinging.

That sounds more like self description.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

you mean the right to abortion or the right for women to decide their own health care?

how about social security and medicare? that is under attack by whom?

how about the right to vote...seems gop thinks woman might not need to vote?

Really? I never heard any GOP member say that outside of perhaps somebody here. SS and Medicare are both going broke because they are both Ponzi schemes. If Republicans are considering ways to try and fix it, it's not under attack. Where is this "right" to abortion written anyway?

 

[Mac1958]

That sounds more like self description.

Then it should be easy for you to point out the issues on which I display those characteristics.

Health care? Immigration? Abortion? Trade? Race? Taxation? Energy?

Go ahead and list 'em out. It'll be easy, I'm sure.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The Democrats have also been hinting at taking away your steaks and hamburgers, and replace them with bugs.

Excellent point.

 

[initforme]

The simple answer is the Dems have moved so far left it's unrecognizable. They've allowed the fringe wackos to control the party. Therefore they'll never get my consideration for support. That is the easy answer. If the gop could run even a decent candidates I could consider voting for them but right now no way no how. Bunch of crazies in their own right. No pun intended.

 

[zaangalewa]

When somebody pulls a gun to take your car, try shooting a paint ball gun at him.

I know not anyone personally - nor knows anyone of my friends anyone personally - who had been in such an absurde situation. And as far as I know pays my insurance a new car in such a case.

The problem with you foreigners is you don't live here.

The good luck of a foreigner like me is it not to have to live where you live.

You read shit they want you to read and think you know everything.

Much more better: I know someone who knows everything. And he decides sometimes for me what's better not to know. I remember how I tried two years long ... but that's another story.

If you did live here,

Shocking. Is Santa gone?

you'd realize two things:

Only two?

First one is criminals will always get guns.

No wonder in the USA.

Recreational narcotics have been illegal all of my life, yet we have a worse problem now than we did 40 years ago.

No idea what are "recreational narcotics" but drugs are always a problem. Not to be able to win 100% against drugs makes it not superflous to fight against drugs. And weapon addicts are also no reason not to fight against dangerous weapons.

Secondly is because of that, Americans use their guns over a million times a year to stop crime or for self-defense.

Germans nearly never use a gun to stop a crime and for self defense. That's why about 50% of all Germans are in prison (all men) and only one man is in prison in the USA.

So what you propose is creating a society where only the criminals and police have the guns. How do you think that would work out for us?

What I suggest is much more simple. Take a gun - throw it into a scrap press - take a look at this wonderful result - and be happy. One more murderous instrument less on this planet.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I know not anyone personally - nor knows anyone of my friends anyone personally - who had been in such an absurde situation. And as far as In know pays my insurance a new car in such a case.

Which supports my point, you people that don't live here have no idea what's going on in our country. Your solution assumes the criminal will leave you alone if he gets what he wants. Not so. People have been murdered even when they did comply with the criminal. In fact it happened at a gas station right around the corner from me. The guy demanded money, the clerk opened the cash register, backed away with his hands in the air, and the lowlife killed him anyway for $50.00.

No idea what are "Recreational narcotics" but drugs are always a problem. Not to be able to win 100% against drugs makes it not superflous to fight against drugs. Weapon addicts are no reason not to fight against dangerolus weapons.

The point that flew over your head is when criminals want something, they always find a way to get it. Make guns illegal, and then we are all victims of armed criminals because they will have the guns and we won't.

What I propase is much more simple. Take a guen - thrwo it ointo a scrp press - take a ook at the result - and be happy. One more murderous instrument less on this planet.

We know the result, that's why we don't do it. But back to the OP, it's what Democrats want to do, take away our guns.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

This isn't exactly a big mystery.

The Left's ideology says the country is better off when some resources are shared. In practice, this would include "taking" or withholding or manipulating access to resources for some to save for others. The Right's ideology says the country is better off when the largest net producers/owners are rewarded and incentivized for more production by having less of their production touched. The end purpose of both ideologies is a better net overall economic environment for the most Americans.

Unfortunately, the glaring weakness of most ideologies is that most ideologies become too focused and binary and lose sight of any value of any opposing ideology. Or new ideas, for that matter. The net result is that they end up going too ******* far. They believe their own hubris, become rigid, incurious, arrogant, chauvinistic and dogmatic.

Anyway, that's just one take. Back to the regular poo flinging.

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Blah-blah-blah-blah-*******-blah, as usual.







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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I know not anyone personally - nor knows anyone of my friends anyone personally - who had been in such an absurde situation. And as far as I know pays my insurance a new car in such a case.



The good luck of a foreigner like me is it not to have to live where you live.



Much more better: I know someone who knows everything. And he decides sometimes for me what's better not to know. I remember how I tried two years long ... but that's another story.




Shocking. Is Santa gone?



Only two?



No wonder in the USA.



No idea what are "recreational narcotics" but drugs are always a problem. Not to be able to win 100% against drugs makes it not superflous to fight against drugs. And weapon addicts are also no reason not to fight against dangerous weapons.




Germans nearly never use a gun to stop a crime and for self defense. That's why about 50% of all Germans are in prison (all men) and only one man is in prison in the USA.



What I suggest is much more simple. Take a gun - throw it into a scrap press - take a look at this wonderful result - and be happy. One more murderous instrument less on this planet.

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As my late Japanese husband always said in the ancient tongue of his ancestors, kuru'uresu.









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[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

It's always been my contention that a leftist is not a true leftist unless they are making other people miserable. I still hold that stance. Leftists are by nature miserable people and there is no sense being miserable alone I guess.

In light of the gas stove issue, something also crossed my mind: leftists are always trying to take things away from American people.

Leftists want to take our guns, or at least make it near impossible to own one or have the legal authority to use it.
They want to take away our reliable cars and replace them with golf carts that couldn't possibly withstand the limitations of our grid.
They wanted to take away our police until outrage came from their likely constituents, the poor and people of color.
In the past they've tried to take away happy meals at McDonald's for kids.
Moochelle Obama took away tasty food in schools and replaced it with crap no normal kid would eat.
Her husband instituted his healthcare plan that took employer sponsored plans away from millions of American workers.
They made tobacco products so expensive many could not afford them any longer so they took that away as well.
In some Democrat led places they took away our plastic shopoping bags, suggesting we use dirty cloth bags to carry our groceries home in.
They've taken away our historic statues that stood the test of time for generations without problem.
And as I led with, now they floated the idea of taking away our natural gas stoves to cook with.

People on the right have said liberalism is a mental disease. I never subscribed to that, but what else would explain this obsession of taking things away from fellow Americans?

If you would like to add to the list, feel free to do so. These were just off the top of my head.

Control. That's why.

 

[Leviticus]

I always used a gas stove when I was younger. It cooks better, but after my son was born, I found out that the fumes from gas stoves could cause all sorts of health issues, especially in children, so I chose to get an induction stove instead.

I wouldn't support an outright ban on gas stoves, but they should definitely require that the manufacturers clearly warn their customers that there is a danger of certain health issues..

 

[22lcidw]

Matt Gaetz and Joe Scarborough represented the same conservative district. There is a Progressive Socialist infection in many areas of this nation. It exists everywhere.

 

[zaangalewa]

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You are wrong.

Demoncrats are more Nazi than the original Nazi ever were.
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The Nazis had not been democrats at all. They had been enemies of all democrats (including republicans). And they also not had been demons - not even Hitler had been a demon. The shocking thing is that the Nazis had been totally normal human beings. The best description of the Nazis is what Hanna Ahrendt called "the banality of the evil". She had to laugh very loud when she found this out. Narrow-minded idiots. They murdered people in industrialized dimensions how others sold and bought apples.

 

[Resnic]

It's always been my contention that a leftist is not a true leftist unless they are making other people miserable. I still hold that stance. Leftists are by nature miserable people and there is no sense being miserable alone I guess.

In light of the gas stove issue, something also crossed my mind: leftists are always trying to take things away from American people.

Leftists want to take our guns, or at least make it near impossible to own one or have the legal authority to use it.
They want to take away our reliable cars and replace them with golf carts that couldn't possibly withstand the limitations of our grid.
They wanted to take away our police until outrage came from their likely constituents, the poor and people of color.
In the past they've tried to take away happy meals at McDonald's for kids.
Moochelle Obama took away tasty food in schools and replaced it with crap no normal kid would eat.
Her husband instituted his healthcare plan that took employer sponsored plans away from millions of American workers.
They made tobacco products so expensive many could not afford them any longer so they took that away as well.
In some Democrat led places they took away our plastic shopoping bags, suggesting we use dirty cloth bags to carry our groceries home in.
They've taken away our historic statues that stood the test of time for generations without problem.
And as I led with, now they floated the idea of taking away our natural gas stoves to cook with.

People on the right have said liberalism is a mental disease. I never subscribed to that, but what else would explain this obsession of taking things away from fellow Americans?

If you would like to add to the list, feel free to do so. These were just off the top of my head.

Because they do very little now. They used to get hands on with problems and issues. Now they don't actually do much but want the perception they do things. They remind me of the boss we've al had at some point. The one that walks around with their hands in their pockets all day and tells everyone how much they do because they don't do anything but want everyone to think they do everything.

Guns for instance. Common theme is to ban guns. Well even if you got rid of every gun all of the nutballs and criminals are still here. The problem isn't fixed at all. Banning something is easier than actually solving the problem and going after the source.

They want all of the praise for doing none of the work.

 

[Vastator]

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Wow! That's insane! Really?

And you couldn't find another bank that actually wanted your money?









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Yes really. And it was my bank, so no. I couldn’t use another bank as I was writing a check against that account.