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Is it a bad thing that Tucker feels he cant take his family to dinner?

Is it a bad thing that Tucker feels he cant take his family to dinner?

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What if...? said:
And you learned to hate us where?
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I don't hate you. I think your ideology is wrong. You guys are the ones that think hate should be part of the political equation.
 
Parrish said:
It's past time to dial this back. After 45 is gone ( hopefully soon, imo) we still have a country to run and a Constitution to defend.
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I don't know.

Wouldn't that be just turning the fire under the frog pot down a bit so we'll stop acting like we might jump out?

We're still getting slowly, profitably cooked.
 
Acadia said:
Mobs invade restaurants to scream at Republicans and they're exercising their 1st amendment rights. Tucker Carlson gets paid to talk about his views and often times, demolish loony liberals on his show, and the thought police go after him AND HIS FAMILY.
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Looks like everybody is exercising their first amendment rights.

No state involved anywhere.
 
Serenity said:
Really good examples right there of how extreme people have become with their views. Almost orgasmic at the thought of violent conflict. So sickening.
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Pumped up on neurochemicals.

You know people got paid to get folks to feel that way, right?

People like Carlson.
 
trixare4kids said:
Turn the channel and be respectful enough to allow the rest of us to judge for ourselves.
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I don't watch anybody I catch trying to manipulate me.

And I weary of dealing with the world you are letting be built because you believe the nonsense you have been conditioned with.

Just like I weary of liberals who believe more gun laws will reduce gun violence.

Nonsense they have been conditioned with.
 
Serenity said:
Nonsense TD. You said



You're not laughing, you're hoping for a violent outcome. Your post is evidence of that.
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I am laughing at how stupid a threat it is. as one of the internet memes notes-

one side has a trillion rounds of ammo-the other side-the one that keeps talking about violence-doesn't even know what public toilet to use.

Yes I am laughing watching people scream about unleashing violence.
 
maxparrish said:
You would think answering the question of whether or not people should be harassed or harangued at dinner with family to be a no-brainer, OF COURSE NOT. Yet there are a minority of forum members who actually think it the kind of thing that people of good character do. Oh really?

There was a time wherein no one had to explain why dinner crashing of a citizen's family, especially those who are not government officials, was something Americans don't do. Sadly, the era of aspiring to middle-class civility and conduct are no longer virtues (can you imagine Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, or Walter Cronkite and their families hunted down by threatening dinner crashing mobs? No? Neither can I.).

And equally sad is the obtuse excuses (by a minority here) for the graceless and thuggish tactics of the likes of Antifa when even those with modestly endowed intellects should grasp its vile roots.

Was, for example, the demonstration outside the home of Tucker Carlson done for the purpose of political dissent on a particular policy or stand? Nope.

Were they attempting to sway Carlson or others on a position? Nope.

Were they there to disagree, dissent, or establish anything related to "the marketplace of ideas"...nope.

They were they were for a reason that any mob capo or their teamster soldiers would have understood - to threaten, to intimidate, to fan rage for "spontaneous" violence (as they are wont to do) and to chill their victims free speech rights. And while even the mafia has the moral code to leave their victims family alone, Antifa has no such reservations. A families fear and terror is part of their game. Hence, they also had little reservation in publishing his home address, inviting others to join in the totalitarian impulse to intimidate through fear.

Systematic harassment to make a family fearful or anxious, on behalf of pure malice, is not civil or commendable behavior - it is pure evil.

Apparently some here would be delighted to be a part of it.

Sick but true.
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One of the benefits of having aspergers is not being upset by what regular people think of me.

You should see how y'all look to me.

Doing your little instinct dances.
 
Acadia said:
Mobs invade restaurants to scream at Republicans and they're exercising their 1st amendment rights. Tucker Carlson gets paid to talk about his views and often times, demolish loony liberals on his show, and the thought police go after him AND HIS FAMILY.
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You can't make this stuff up; Oceania newspeak.
 
trixare4kids said:
There you go...
Best post of the thread today!

For some reason the What if(s) of the world are under the delusion that they KNOW what's best for the rest of us.
Control freaks all share this one main character flaw. They don't know how to mind their own business.
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I don't actually know what's best for you.

I do know you shouldn't be manipulated into deciding. Which is what billions are spent trying to do.

Nobody is being given the simple, objective truth.

Nobody.

And I reserve the right to point that out.
 
trixare4kids said:
I'd like to call it illiberalism wouldn't exist. Hear what Kamala Harris said today? She likened ICE to the KKK. What the hell is next? Are ICE agents and their families going to be verbally assaulted in public restaurants?

Generally speaking, even more moderate liberals are miffed by the incessant nannying and busy bodying coming from the far left.
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And those Migrants that the Left tends to assume will vote Democrat in perpetuity tend to take a dim view of this childish and abusive nonsense....this is NOT what they came to America for.....we were supposed to Be Better than this.....
 
Bullseye said:
LOL, got that backwards, big guy. We were called racists, and bible clingers long before we started talking back. And we STILL haven't go to the point of encouraging the acts I listed above.


Delusion, thy name is "what . . .if".
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Your memory is obviously shorter than mine.
 
Bullseye said:
The left is always pissed, you feel uncomfortable if you don't have something to be pissed about. You worry that somewhere someone is happy and getting along fine without you.
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Not me.

I'm more an anarchist than anything else.

Its y'all's penchant for deciding how I can and can't live my life that turned me off on conservatism.
 
Bullseye said:
I don't hate you. I think your ideology is wrong. You guys are the ones that think hate should be part of the political equation.
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Can't tell.

Maybe you should work on that
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Tucker Carlson...they have had as part of their family tradition going out to eat, even on major holidays. He does not feel like they can do it anymore because too often they get attacked (called confronted by those who like to minimize the problem).

He has four kids and a wife he has had since 1991, met her when they were both 15.

Is America wrong for making him feel this way.

Y/N, and yes I am judging you.
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Its a really bad way to run a country, if we are trying to bully our political opponents into hibernation, more successfully than our opponents can bully our allies. If I want a broad access to political views all across the spectrum, I better not force Tucker and his wife and kids to forgo dinner, movies, theater, a walk along the beach, Disneyworld, some window shopping in town, let alone a trip to the dentist, the pharmacy or a doctor's office.


This is not about Tucker. Its about me not punishing the very people I need to hear from, for providing me something more than an echo chamber. As a liberal who hates his ideas, I need this man and his family to feel comfortable in that restaurant more than conservatives do. Conservatives need Michael Moore to feel comfortable.
 
What if...? said:
One of the benefits of having aspergers is not being upset by what regular people think of me.

You should see how y'all look to me.

Doing your little instinct dances.
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Ummmmm...okay. :roll:
 
btthegreat said:
Its a really bad way to run a country, if we are trying to bully our political opponents into hibernation, more successfully than our opponents can bully our allies. If I want a broad access to political views all across the spectrum, I better not force Tucker and his wife and kids to forgo dinner, movies, theater, a walk along the beach, Disneyworld, some window shopping in town, let alone a trip to the dentist, the pharmacy or a doctor's office.


This is not about Tucker. Its about me not punishing the very people I need to hear from, for providing me something more than an echo chamber. As a liberal who hates his ideas, I need this man and his family to feel comfortable in that restaurant more than conservatives do. Conservatives need Michael Moore to feel comfortable.
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These same people will also preach to the students in grade schools that bullying is terrible, and that they need to be nice to each other OR ELSE! , and that any aggressiveness at all from the boys is toxic masculinity which must be crushed......Consistency they cant manage a bit of.

Kids learn that adults are full of **** at an early age.
 
What if...? said:
Both of your examples are better handled differently.
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You chose not to answer either of my questions. And I know why: You know perfectly well that you wouldn’t stand up and call the boss a “liar” in front of your coworkers, just as you know you wouldn’t accost your employee when he’s dining with his family and berate him about his job performance.

What if...? said:
And the people in question easily interacted with whenever.
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So it’s about “ease of interaction” then? Opportunity? No, it’s not. You have even more opportunity with your own boss and your employee.

What if...? said:
And neither of them are personally responsible in part for the very divide y'all are decrying.

Let me say that again.

Carlson and his ilk got rich fomenting this divide.
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You give far too much credit to talking heads. First, everyone is always free not to pay attention. Second, TV viewers aren’t necessarily mindless drones who are unable to think for themselves and make their own decisions.

What if...? said:
It is a tactic designed to prevent exposure to the other side's messaging in order to protect yours.
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That’s simply not true. You’re free to watch/listen to the opinions…or to not do so. You choose what you’re exposed to. Why do you have a problem with others expressing opinions with which you disagree?

What if...? said:
So a far bigger deal than a lying boss or a lazy employee.
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No, it’s not. Tucker Carlson isn’t more important to people than their bosses and coworkers.

What if...? said:
Carlson and his ilk are workers using the greatest tools for tyranny ever developed.
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If you don’t like his opinions, don’t watch him. Support the opinions of who you do like by watching them. Trying to silence contrarian opinion is not the American way, and this is what you want to do—suppress oppositional opinion. This is more than a little scary.

What if...? said:
They need to be made to feel uncomfortable in their misdeeds.
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Who made you judge, jury, and executioner? And “misdeeds”? Presenting opinions that you don’t like is a misdeed?

What if...? said:
Carlson knows exactly what he is doing. He has made a fortune doing it.

From people profitting from our divide.
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Talking heads make money expressing their opinions on TV and by writing books. What you apparently want is a nation “united” by monolithic thought. Again, scary.
 
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nota bene said:
You chose not to answer either of my questions. And I know why: You know perfectly well that you wouldn’t stand up and call the boss a “liar” in front of your coworkers, just as you know you wouldn’t accost your employee when he’s dining with his family and berate him about his job performance.



So it’s about “ease of interaction” then? Opportunity? No, it’s not. You have even more opportunity with your own boss and your employee.



You give far too much credit to talking heads. First, everyone is always free not to pay attention. Second, TV viewers aren’t necessarily mindless drones who are unable to think for themselves and make their own decisions.



That’s simply not true. You’re free to watch/listen to the opinions…or to not do so. You choose what you’re exposed to. Why do you have a problem with others expressing opinions with which you disagree?



No, it’s not. Tucker Carlson isn’t more important to people than their bosses and coworkers.



If you don’t like his opinions, don’t watch him. Support the opinions of who you do like by watching them. Trying to silence contrarian opinion is not the American way, and this is what you want to do—suppress oppositional opinion. This is more than a little scary.



Who made you judge, jury, and executioner? And “misdeeds”? Presenting opinions that you don’t like is a misdeed?



Talking heads make money expressing their opinions on TV and by writing books. What you apparently want is a nation “united” by monolithic thought. Again, scary.
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The notion that people with differing views "need" to be made uncomfortable is next-level anarchist b.s.
 
My Grand Parents were proud that they had learned how to compartmentalize disagreements on the direction of the Republic enough that they rarely ruined communal life, it was important to them to learn this because life is already hard enough without making communal life unnecessarily gross.

We cant manage anymore.
 
What if...? said:
Not me.

I'm more an anarchist than anything else.

Its y'all's penchant for deciding how I can and can't live my life that turned me off on conservatism.
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Good thing that falls under my libertarian side, I couldn't care less how you live.
 
Bullseye said:
Good thing that falls under my libertarian side, I couldn't care less how you live.
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If you vote Republican you vote for telling me how to live.

Not caring makes it worse, not better.
 
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