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Fuck Civility (Original Post) Cha Jun 2018 OP
love you cha stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #1
Love you back, stonecutter! Cha Jun 2018 #2
. stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #5
I like Florence and the Singing Machine! Cha Jun 2018 #12
+1. Fuck.That.Shit. dalton99a Jun 2018 #3
Exponentially. Cha Jun 2018 #9
They denied a SCOTUS seat. They stole an election. Initech Jun 2018 #4
And they are going after Social Security and Medicare dalton99a Jun 2018 #6
this 1000000000000 civility got us no where. This time-WE FIGHT demtenjeep Jun 2018 #7
Absolutely dalton99a Jun 2018 #8
The Paradox of Tolerance, demtenjeep.. Cha Jun 2018 #14
Yes fuck being civil! Initech Jun 2018 #16
Civil enid602 Jun 2018 #102
I hope something happens before then to get this Cha Jun 2018 #136
We could go ON and ON and ON. This is just Cha Jun 2018 #10
+1. A timely reminder dalton99a Jun 2018 #18
#I'mWithMaxine Cha Jun 2018 #20
Perfectly said... fuck these assholes!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #34
Good luck. Most people don't give a damn. They will not fight for what is right. olegramps Jun 2018 #106
2000 was stolen by SCOTUS, 2004 was stolen in Ohio, 2016 was stolen by the Russians ... OMGWTF Jun 2018 #110
YES! The only Prez we were able to get was Cha Jun 2018 #120
Nope, not going to be civil to monsters njhoneybadger Jun 2018 #11
#IStandWithStephanie&Maxine Cha Jun 2018 #21
Yea, Chik Fil A/HobbyLobby/anti-GayBakers are real civil in their hearts. UTUSN Jun 2018 #13
Deplorables' Hypocrisy is Bottomless. Cha Jun 2018 #27
Fuck civility. !!!!!!!!! SamKnause Jun 2018 #15
"EVIL FUCKING LIARS" and WORSE, Sam! Cha Jun 2018 #30
Some of us regard civility as right and moral mythology Jun 2018 #90
Making nice with the oppressors only emboldens the oppressors which Solly Mack Jun 2018 #17
Exactly, Solly Mack! Making nice and rolling over Cha Jun 2018 #32
Perfect graphic! Solly Mack Jun 2018 #37
Yeah, the Deplorables and Fraud Get Out the Cha Jun 2018 #42
Oh, yeah. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #45
Serial child molester, loser don the con. mulsh Jun 2018 #19
Yeah, the "meanest man" alive in charge of Cha Jun 2018 #44
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2018 #22
Mahalo, Scurrilous! Cha Jun 2018 #61
... Scurrilous Jun 2018 #62
Now, now... Bigots need nice, welcoming places to eat their meals in pieces, er, in peace so... lambchopp59 Jun 2018 #23
That sounds like a tasty feast right up the Vicous LIARS' alley, Cha Jun 2018 #57
Done being civil! Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #24
I never was much civil to Cha Jun 2018 #70
They Never Gave a shit About Civility Leith Jun 2018 #25
A very important point. dalton99a Jun 2018 #28
+1 uponit7771 Jun 2018 #36
Way to put it in perspective, Leith! Cha Jun 2018 #72
Thank. You. Cha! (n/t) FreepFryer Jun 2018 #26
You're Welcome and Thank You, FreepFryer! Cha Jun 2018 #48
You say it so well! Add another FU civility for me. nt jrthin Jun 2018 #29
Yeah, we're suppose to be polite while Cha Jun 2018 #117
Agree! mountain grammy Jun 2018 #31
Mahalo, mountain grammy Cha Jun 2018 #91
There's a time and a place for everything. lpbk2713 Jun 2018 #33
Precisely, lpbk! Cha Jun 2018 #40
Civility.... Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #35
Fraud is a Stupid Small Little man.. tragic example Cha Jun 2018 #50
Indeed! Speaker to the Yanks Jun 2018 #38
Mahalo, Speaker to the Yanks Cha Jun 2018 #113
Pretty much Hekate Jun 2018 #39
I stand with Maxine Waters. I don't want these monsters around me. AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2018 #41
I stand with Maxine Waters BlueJac Jun 2018 #82
#IStandWithMaxine! Mahalo Cha Jun 2018 #135
YES. Bettie Jun 2018 #43
I agree. dottie66 Jun 2018 #92
Deplorables should be the last to complain about the level of venom. nt oasis Jun 2018 #46
Rabid jackal Hypocrites can't help themselves.. Cha Jun 2018 #56
Cha! Cary Jun 2018 #47
Aloha, Cary! Cha Jun 2018 #69
Aloha darlin. Cary Jun 2018 #71
Hunter S. Thompson had it right, following the assassination of JFK Tarc Jun 2018 #49
Fuckin' A! Heartstrings Jun 2018 #51
Aloha, Heartstrings! Cha Jun 2018 #73
I'm going to speak up for civility - but by that I DO NOT mean summer_in_TX Jun 2018 #52
I agree. We've got to quit walking on eggs around these people. PatrickforO Jun 2018 #53
Agreed Gothmog Jun 2018 #54
+1 dalton99a Jun 2018 #58
Thanks for posting that here, Goth.. Cha Jun 2018 #77
LOL! That just hits home at how incredibly FUCKING STUPID this smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #99
Not ready to make nice with baby stealing nazis with their dog kennel gulag, Cha...NEVER! workinclasszero Jun 2018 #55
Poor little Pobrecita.. in the last pic.. :( Cha Jun 2018 #65
After all the hateful evil things Trumpanzees and their criminal con man leader have done workinclasszero Jun 2018 #84
I hear everything you're saying.. how dare Cha Jun 2018 #85
YES Cha! workinclasszero Jun 2018 #86
Being "civil" in the face of this evil is pretty fucking UNCIVIL. SunSeeker Jun 2018 #59
We'd be Fucking sad little Doormats like Fraud's Cha Jun 2018 #60
Bingo. Being neutral to oppression is enabling oppression ck4829 Jun 2018 #75
The time for being civil is gone Meowmee Jun 2018 #63
Yes, Fascists expect Doormats like those in Cha Jun 2018 #123
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Meowmee Jun 2018 #128
Good! I got it on another site Cha Jun 2018 #129
Got that right vercetti2021 Jun 2018 #64
Indeed, fuck it. But let's not turn on each other in the meantime. VOX Jun 2018 #66
Well no.. not turning on anyone who knows Cha Jun 2018 #67
K&R ck4829 Jun 2018 #68
+++++++++++ HAB911 Jun 2018 #74
We are engaged in a war for our democracy... N_E_1 for Tennis Jun 2018 #76
K&R ismnotwasm Jun 2018 #78
They think it's uncivil to ask a Propaganda Pusher Cha Jun 2018 #80
I could not agree more! mcar Jun 2018 #79
Fraud Kicked Civility out the Door Cha Jun 2018 #83
uncivil? kiri Jun 2018 #95
That is a must now! BlueJac Jun 2018 #81
Anything we do to protest is Cha Jun 2018 #115
K&R greatauntoftriplets Jun 2018 #87
Thank You, greataunt! Cha Jun 2018 #119
K&R! nt R B Garr Jun 2018 #88
Mahalo, RB.. Cha Jun 2018 #121
Mahalo to you, Cha! R B Garr Jun 2018 #124
This what I'm talking about. Let's get this train rolling! Bonx Jun 2018 #89
I want to K&R handmade34 Jun 2018 #93
Sorry about that, handmade.. I Cha Jun 2018 #94
+200,000,000 nolabels Jun 2018 #96
EXACTLY!! niyad Jun 2018 #97
Mahalo, niyad! Cha Jun 2018 #118
K&R and Mahalo Cha! BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #98
Gracias, BRDS! Cha Jun 2018 #125
Hear, Hear! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #100
Mahalo to you, smirky! This still GOES! Only More So! Cha Jun 2018 #130
Mahalo Cha! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #131
Mahalo to you, Smirky! Cha Jun 2018 #132
Getting harder and harder! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #133
#i'mwithmaxine ploppy Jun 2018 #101
Proud to be orangecrush Jun 2018 #103
Fugg them. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #104
#StandWithMaxine Cha Jun 2018 #122
They got here by incivility. Incivility is what's for dinner. Fuck these motherfuckers. ancianita Jun 2018 #105
yeah, sink to their level... so what is it that makes us better than them, since apparently all our TheFrenchRazor Jun 2018 #107
What Cha said. debsy Jun 2018 #108
We went high and they went full-on Nazi -- fuck them indeed! OMGWTF Jun 2018 #109
actually, the nazis claimed they only did what they did because they had no choice, due to the TheFrenchRazor Jun 2018 #134
Intend to vote and do all the things a civil person does and MORE hydrolastic Jun 2018 #111
From my twitter feed Gothmog Jun 2018 #112
No None of them Should but since they're LYING SOCIOPATHS Cha Jun 2018 #127
I used to insist on civility in political discourse. Where did it get us? Still In Wisconsin Jun 2018 #114
Exactly, Cha! herding cats Jun 2018 #116
#IStandWithMaxine! Cha Jul 2018 #137
RWers should never talk about being civil, ever. Iliyah Jun 2018 #126

Initech

(100,102 posts)
4. They denied a SCOTUS seat. They stole an election.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:25 PM
Jun 2018

They are abusing their power and rolling every civil right we have back to the fucking stone ages. They're destroying the economy. They're kidnapping and torturing children. They shot a pizza parlor over a baseless conspiracy theory. They are attacking freedom of the press.

And I'm supposed to be civil? Go shove your civility up your ass, assholes!

enid602

(8,652 posts)
102. Civil
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jun 2018

How civil will the tRump supporters be when they discover that all of this drama is just meant to divert attention away from the gutting of SS, Medicare and Medicare.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
10. We could go ON and ON and ON. This is just
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:34 PM
Jun 2018

the beginning of their Attempt at a FASCIST TAKEOVER of our Country and we're suppose to be Civil?

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
106. Good luck. Most people don't give a damn. They will not fight for what is right.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jun 2018

I am too damn old to give up much fight and from what I see there isn't anybody that will. Times have changed dramatically. The guys that stood toe to toe and slugged it out with strike breaking company hired goons are a thing of the past. I don't believe that there is any one with the balls to actually challenge these bastards. Its lets all play and be nice and they bend over and get it shoved to them again. We saw what Obama got by trying to be civil. Republicans are the scum of the earth. They are the enemy. I sure am glad that I didn't have on of those turncoat bastards in the fox hole with me. They would sell you out for a buck.


You can see what being civil and respectful got the Jews. Nazis packed them up and sent them to the gas chambers. I think for a moment that these ghouls won't do the same if they are not challenged. Its about time someone challenged this bastard bully.

OMGWTF

(3,975 posts)
110. 2000 was stolen by SCOTUS, 2004 was stolen in Ohio, 2016 was stolen by the Russians ...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:39 PM
Jun 2018

that means that THREE SCOTUS seats have been stolen from the Democrats. Godfkingdamnit!!!

Cha

(297,655 posts)
120. YES! The only Prez we were able to get was
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:19 PM
Jun 2018

President Obama this century because of the massive GOTV!

Mahalo, OMGWTF

SamKnause

(13,110 posts)
15. Fuck civility. !!!!!!!!!
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:49 PM
Jun 2018

We must stand up for what is right and moral.

The Republicans have no morals.

Republicans can not distinguish between right and wrong.

They are EVIL FUCKING LIARS !!!!

Solly Mack

(90,785 posts)
17. Making nice with the oppressors only emboldens the oppressors which
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:51 PM
Jun 2018

only serves to make worse the oppression.

They get off on behavior they view as weak. So if they kick you and you're the one that says "Excuse me", they'll smirk and kick you harder next time.

Oh, they'll whine about those who fight back and they'll hit harder for that too.

Point is, they will hit harder no matter what, so why bow down to them?

If I'm dead either way, I'm going out standing on my feet and fighting back.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
32. Exactly, Solly Mack! Making nice and rolling over
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:48 PM
Jun 2018

while letting SFS eat peacefully in your restaurant is Bullshit!



Solly Mack

(90,785 posts)
37. Perfect graphic!
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:53 PM
Jun 2018

Yep - it's bullshit.

They want to harm everyone they can and then whine when people fight back.

Gee, I can't imagine where that sense of entitlement comes from....

Snort.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
44. Yeah, the "meanest man" alive in charge of
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:11 AM
Jun 2018

Kidnapping Children torn from their Parents' arms.

Fuck That Shite.



Mahalo, mulsh

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
23. Now, now... Bigots need nice, welcoming places to eat their meals in pieces, er, in peace so...
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:08 PM
Jun 2018

I’d like to welcome Dwonald Drumph, Sarah Phuckabee Sanders and all the deplorables to my new bistro, specializing in Atropa belladona apertif, cottage cheese ketchup soup, carrot okra cheeto salads, fried pidgeon Filet, cat kibble sauerkraut surprise, pimento tuna jello casserole and top off your evening with a slice chocolate ExLax tapioca pineapple date cake.
Or drive to the Chick Fil A where your bigot card gets you a 10 percent discount.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
57. That sounds like a tasty feast right up the Vicous LIARS' alley,
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:28 AM
Jun 2018

lambchopp. Don't forget to add borstrumputin for brainwashed foxIdiots to your menu.

Mahalo!

Leith

(7,813 posts)
25. They Never Gave a shit About Civility
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:09 PM
Jun 2018

until some of us stopped being civil.

As long as the orange chump is tweeting, they don't have a leg to stand on when they whine about civility. Fuck all of them until they learn manners and apologize for the shit they threw at us for the past several decades.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
117. Yeah, we're suppose to be polite while
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:54 PM
Jun 2018

trump is caging babies and taking away our rights.

Ain't gonna happen.

Mahalo, jrthin

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
33. There's a time and a place for everything.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:49 PM
Jun 2018



This aint the time. And this aint the place. Trump and
everyone like him can bend over and kiss my ass.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
40. Precisely, lpbk!
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:57 PM
Jun 2018

This ain't no time or place for that "civility" that some in the M$M are calling for.. because.. poor SFS couldn't eat in peace.

Like trump has made it impossible for millions in the USA to not be able to eat in Peace knowing what he's doing to our Country.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
35. Civility....
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:51 PM
Jun 2018

Hmm. Like he's the paragon of civility. Worse yet...he can't even spell his nasty tweets. Not sure what makes me madder. I make mistakes...but...I didn't ask for the job or pres. He did. If he's going to insult people...please 'be better'.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
50. Fraud is a Stupid Small Little man.. tragic example
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:38 AM
Jun 2018

of Rich Stupid Trash in power.. thanks to the Russians and their Enablers.

Bettie

(16,124 posts)
43. YES.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:10 AM
Jun 2018

Fuck civility.

There comes a time when being civil is a weakness. When it does more harm than good.

This is that time. Fuck Civility...being "nice" doesn't work with this crowd.

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
49. Hunter S. Thompson had it right, following the assassination of JFK
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:33 AM
Jun 2018
This is the end of reason, the dirtiest hour in our time. I mean to come down from the hills and enter the fray. ... From now until the 1964 elections every man with balls should be on the firing line. The vote will be the most critical in the history of man. No matter what, today is the end of an era. No more fair play. From now on it is dirty pool and judo in the clinches. The savage nuts have shattered the great myth of American decency. They can count me in - I feel ready for a dirty game.


Substitute 1964 for 2018, and a single assassination to the wholesale disassembly of American decorum by this fascist administration.

We are in the shitrain, but good.

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
51. Fuckin' A!
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:42 AM
Jun 2018

Monster in chief, Asshole of all Assholes, Not my president, Never, ever my president....I could go on all night but he's not worth using up brain cells....

Keep on keepin' on, Cha!

summer_in_TX

(2,752 posts)
52. I'm going to speak up for civility - but by that I DO NOT mean
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:52 AM
Jun 2018

being passive or "nice." I think in a larger sense civility includes disobedience against immoral laws. Martin Luther King's tactics didn’t include what I think of as incivility. He didn’t denigrate or put down. But he didn’t hesitate to confront immoral, unjust laws.

There are pragmatic reasons to not take the approach of asking someone to leave. It becomes a cudgel used against the one who did it, and it hardens the attitudes of those who could be allies. Bill K, David Frum, George Will, Steve Schmidt, and others show it’s possible. It also hardens the attitudes of the media, who will not let it be forgotten.

I personally believe this situation calls for massive protests, churches and others calling out the immorality of these policies, and a dialogue with individual Trumpistas with conveying the moral authority and passionate conviction about the unrighteous policies as the focus. It may not change their minds, but some of those who witness it may be changed.

MLK’s approach changed many hearts and minds. The sit-ins and protests in the face of police dogs, fire hoses, and beatings by law enforcement — carried on TV and brought into homes all over the country — were powerful because they had right on their side.

I'm in my mid-60s and so my experience includes watching (and admiring) Martin Luther King’s leadership, and that of other civil rights leaders not all of whom believed in civil disobedience, Vietnam-era protests, the ‘68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Seattle G8 protests, and Occupy. Those experiences gave me a pretty good idea of the approaches that are most effective and ones that are counter-productive.

I fully expect with all the emotions running high to have my opinions savaged. I notice no one else has disagreed with the OP. I completely understand and sympathize with the emotions. But I have to disagree because I am convinced that following Maxine Water's urgings will be a terrible mistake and will be enormously counter-productive. I think violence is not beyond the realm of possible responses from Trump's cultists: violence, vandalism, threats. They may come anyway. But if people admire our restraint and sense the nobility of our cause, we are more effective in making our case than we could be if people think we brought it on ourselves and deserve what we get.

PatrickforO

(14,587 posts)
53. I agree. We've got to quit walking on eggs around these people.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:58 AM
Jun 2018

Until we roll over them in November, we'd best be very, very vocal.

The Trump administration is guilty of crimes against humanity.

I'm feeling a bit Dutchy...as in, International Tribunal in the Hague. Trump and his minions would all look good in orange jumpsuits shaded by bars.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
77. Thanks for posting that here, Goth..
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:56 AM
Jun 2018

It's about the size of it.. Goebbels would be jealous of SFS I bet. The GasLighiting Sociopathic Fascists are having a sad. How dare the people upset them by asking them to leave their restaurant?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
99. LOL! That just hits home at how incredibly FUCKING STUPID this
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:01 PM
Jun 2018

whole SHS republican snowflake whining is! Perfect!

Cha

(297,655 posts)
65. Poor little Pobrecita.. in the last pic.. :(
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 06:07 AM
Jun 2018

The iconic pic for trump's baby-snatching from their Mamas and Papas. Need to get them back to their Las Familias

As for the stupid "fuck your feelings" duo.. right back at the Idiots Exponentially.

Good, they got all the times Fraud calls for Violence in a Vid(I can't watch) Who does that but a monster.. Is that another thing he picked from hitler's playbook?



Not Ready to Make Nice
Dixie Chicks


Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting

I'm through with doubt
There's nothing left for me to figure out
I've paid a price, and I'll keep paying

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time
To go 'round and 'round and 'round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I know you said
Why can't you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it


I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets, and I don't mind saying
It's a sad, sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
That she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how…

Mahalo for The Dixie Chicks.. Natalie Maines has such a beautiful voice, working!



 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
84. After all the hateful evil things Trumpanzees and their criminal con man leader have done
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:32 AM
Jun 2018

the media comes down hard on the VICTIMS because we aren't being nice to our nazi/GOP overlords!

It's institutional, systemic, built in racism I believe. That and a deep hatred of the poor, the sick, the 'other' that infects this country.

From the so-called "liberal" MSM as well, not just Trump's state propaganda organ, Fox "news" and hate radio.

So they council us to once again bend over for the right wing and take our beatings with a polite smile.

F them, I will not stand by with a polite smile while these nazi bastards destroy this country and make war on PoC and BABIES FFS!

Who is the biggest monster? The head scumbag Trump, his minions that try to normalize evil every day like Hungry Sarah or the MSM that comes down hard on the victims for not taking their beatings with a smile like usual?

Cha

(297,655 posts)
85. I hear everything you're saying.. how dare
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:43 AM
Jun 2018

the WaPo board tell us to let SFS eat in peace. I thought they would know better than to pull that shite. Hope they can notice all the Blowback. They jumped the gun and fell flat on their collective face.

I think articles and Editorials like that have made real non-brainwashed people like ourselves even more determined







Mahalo, working
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
86. YES Cha!
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:52 AM
Jun 2018

We must resist these evil bastards in every way possible, big and small, F the damn media that wants us to put on chains of fascism politely with a smile!!!

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
63. The time for being civil is gone
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:29 AM
Jun 2018

They expect a doormat to lay down for fascism and worse. Civility is not the response to a fascist lunatic who is destroying the country. How much more of this insanity will be tolerated in the name of civility?

Cha

(297,655 posts)
123. Yes, Fascists expect Doormats like those in
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:39 PM
Jun 2018

Congress who comply to every wish of the Fraud's.



#RESIST Mahalo, Meowmee

VOX

(22,976 posts)
66. Indeed, fuck it. But let's not turn on each other in the meantime.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:02 AM
Jun 2018

There HAS to be some discipline and a full understanding of the stakes involved. This is it, probably our last best shot at saving democracy. And that is NOT hyperbole, but rather the sad truth.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC! Kong

Cha

(297,655 posts)
67. Well no.. not turning on anyone who knows
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:07 AM
Jun 2018

who the enemy is.. hint.. it's NOT The Democratic Party.

Anyone who says they are gets it.

I know it's NOT Hyperbole, VOX.. Mahalo!

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,775 posts)
76. We are engaged in a war for our democracy...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:48 AM
Jun 2018

This is not about a disagreement about taxes
This is not a qualm about getting roads fixed.
This is not a petty fight about climate change
This is not about a scrap over funding a cause

This is about an all out war on our democracy, about our rights that are disappearing as fast as a winter sunset. This is a war we are fighting to protect our way of life. This is a war we did not start but was thrust upon us. This is a war to preserve our Constitution. This is a war that has no rules, has no decency, has no morals. This is a war we have no idea how to wage but fight we must
This is a war for survival.


We have to remain as moral as we can, we should not allow ourselves to descend into the sticky morass of lies and deception to further our cause. We must remain vigilant in this war to uphold a certain measure of decency. But we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of being told we cannot hold our oppressors to, at very least, the same standards that we set for ourselves. We must be allowed to be able to call them out. If that action uses stronger words than we are used to, so be it. If it takes to using terms we may be a little uncomfortable using, so be it.

This is war and the usual rules of discourse should be amended.

ismnotwasm

(42,008 posts)
78. K&R
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:01 AM
Jun 2018

Because I’m not going to be civil to fucking Nazis or fucking Nazi enablers. This is not a difficult decision

Cha

(297,655 posts)
80. They think it's uncivil to ask a Propaganda Pusher
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:13 AM
Jun 2018

to politely leave Stephanie Wilkinson's restaurant.. hers is the High Road.

Mahalo, ism

Cha

(297,655 posts)
83. Fraud Kicked Civility out the Door
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:28 AM
Jun 2018

when he stole the election.

I am Grateful to Stephanie Wilkinson for her bravery in asking SFS to leave her restaurant after her crew voted for it Democratically.

An international shot across the bow. If they don't like being asked to leave Morally Superior restaurants.. go to trump's grill.

Mahalo, mcar!

kiri

(796 posts)
95. uncivil?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:29 PM
Jun 2018

I suppose welcoming them in, then poisoning them, would be judged uncivil.

But not unjust. Trump & Cronies have been poisoning our government, our language, and our civil justice for months.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
115. Anything we do to protest is
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:28 PM
Jun 2018

exponentially more civil than what these fascists are doing in taking over our country.

Mahalo, BlueJac

handmade34

(22,757 posts)
93. I want to K&R
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:18 PM
Jun 2018

but I abhor opening any post and being subjected to a picture of DT... the tweet is good!

Cha

(297,655 posts)
94. Sorry about that, handmade.. I
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:26 PM
Jun 2018

abhor it, too.. I have look at it every time I click on this OP.. I feel your pain!

Mahalo for the KR

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
100. Hear, Hear!
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:02 PM
Jun 2018

Fuck civility and fuck that ugly, evil looking face. I can't stand the sight of him. Seeing him just makes me feel all stabby.

Mahalo Cha!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
133. Getting harder and harder!
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 01:15 AM
Jun 2018

I have been looking for comedy on You Tube lately. Let me know if you have any good suggestions!

 

TheFrenchRazor

(2,116 posts)
107. yeah, sink to their level... so what is it that makes us better than them, since apparently all our
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:19 PM
Jun 2018

principles depend on what repugs do?

debsy

(530 posts)
108. What Cha said.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:24 PM
Jun 2018

I say the same. Fuck Trump, his administration, the GOP, and all the MORONS who support them.

 

TheFrenchRazor

(2,116 posts)
134. actually, the nazis claimed they only did what they did because they had no choice, due to the
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 03:22 AM
Jun 2018

mortal threat faced to the existence of germany, coming from their various enemies, who would stop at nothing to destroy them. "the end justifies the means" sound familiar to anybody? i'm skeptical when i hear it here as well.

hydrolastic

(488 posts)
111. Intend to vote and do all the things a civil person does and MORE
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jun 2018

But since Trump has been elected He has insulted Me. He has pushed people to rise up that insult me. He has run the republican party in a way that intends to take away social programs this insults me. He has spoken poorly of my wife by showing disrespect for women this insults me. He has threatened to cut funding for disabled people and children. This insults me. He promoted the Tax reform bill and did the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in world history. This insulted me. He then bragged to his rich friends what he did. This insulted me. He went after the immigrants in a way that insults me. Writing this i can think of a lot more things i haven't even spoken about. Guns,tariffs or anything in the Steele dossier. Just waiting for the word from Indivisible to hit the streets and i intend on bringing several people from work and any friend i can get to go. Then i will protest everyday until he is gone. Maybe by then trump will be insulted.

Cha

(297,655 posts)
127. No None of them Should but since they're LYING SOCIOPATHS
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:52 AM
Jun 2018

they continue to spew their GasLighing Filth.

Thanks, Goth.. I'm glad they're are peeps out there creating Truth Graphs like this.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
114. I used to insist on civility in political discourse. Where did it get us?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:22 PM
Jun 2018

-TRUMP elected President
-Republican majority in House of Representatives
-Republican majority in Senate
-Neil Gorsuch on SCOTUS
-Racism and misogyny normalized in US society
-White supremacists rallying and killing

-And here in Wisconsin, 8 years of Scott Walker as Governor, a decimated public education and University of Wisconsin system, and destruction of both public and private sector unions.

So, yeah, pretty much fuck civility.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
126. RWers should never talk about being civil, ever.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:47 AM
Jun 2018

Bullies that they are.

Side note, tho

NY 14, Crowley, class act. He made me more proud. The Democratic Party in this case was real life wonderful.

The Democratic Party encompasses diversity and always has.



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