Recent content by Politesse

I've never said anything remotely in support of "violent thugs outside Berkeley". In El Cerrito, I presume?

I do not. You are knowingly and directly telling lies about me at this point. Why? Do you think it helps your "cause" to tell obvious lies about other people? Do lies become truths if you say them enough times, in your worldview?

What does "support" mean, here?

I mean, it's definitely true that the sky is not always blue. But not that I am some cruel villain who disagrees with whatever you say. In this very thread, you denounced slavery and I thanked you for doing so. Tres simple.

You know what disagrees with you? The national federal Constitution, and the state constitutions of twenty US states. If slavery in the prisons isn't slavery, why would it need an exception clause? And why is there fervent opposition to correcting the law, if it wouldn't change anything to...

Tomás de Torquemada was what passed, laughably, as a legal authority in his time and place, whose reforms resulted in the Spanish Crown putting at least 2000 people to death and dehoming hundreds of thousands. I have never put anyone to death. Or even tried to. I'm just a dude on the internet...

I haven't missed your point, I just disagree with it. If you don't want to talk about an important issue, don't bring it up. If someone asks a follow up question and you don't want to answer it, ignore them. But you're not a "persecuted citizen" because you brought up slavery and then people...

Then your knowledge is perilously wrong. Yes, chattel slavery for general commercial purposes is illegal, but not slavery as punishment for a crime. The constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery included this as an explicit exception case, and in many states this was used as an excuse to...

Then why did you bring them up? If you bring up cock fights, I'm going to talk about cock fights. Even if you insist that it was just a joke or a metaphor or irony or an illustrative point or whatever bullshit conservatives vomit out when they realize they are in over their head. Do you oppose...

Very true. We are indeed countrymen. That which you are apparently ignorant about, but about which I've gone to the capitol itself and certainly logged in the phone hours campaigning to end: the exception clause. With some success, I might add. I was involved one way or another with the...

I, of course, do not. Nor even the "violent thugs" inside Berkeley.

Unwise. I'd be inclined to let parking enforcement handle it. It is not. It is most certainly not. And again, coming from a warhawk and frequent genocide apologist, even the sentiment is hypocritical. You are often in the position of trying to explain why you think a given war shouldn't...

I'm not obliged to find Republican "jokes" funny. In fact, they rarely are. You ever see a Trumper trying to do stand-up?

That is one hell of a thing for an American to type. Slavery is conditionally legal in your country and you don't do jack shit about it. But fine, if you don't want to talk about slavery, you shouldn't lightly introduce it as an Orwellian metaphor or whatever either. Slavery is a serious issue...

Without question.