Roy Moore And The Dangerous Rise Of Christian Nationalism

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  1. Derideo_Te

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    Why must you always blame your fellow Americans who are less fortunate than yourself?
     
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    NAFTA was Bush sr's baby that Clinton was duped into signing.
     
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    That is funny. The illiberals of today have no resemblance to the real liberals of the 19th century who were for freedom of speech - all of it.
     
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    That's hilarious. Clinton took credit for NAFTA which has indeed been beneficial for the US consumer.

    It's high comedy that Bill Clinton who is the economic hero of the D party and who applied supply side policies (the era of big gov is over) is not characterized as so naïve that he was duped into signing off on all these policies.
     
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    Misquoting the Bible isn't helping your cause in the least.
     
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    I thought it highly beneficial that a number of industries fled south for cheaper, less regulated labor (indeed working under conditions that if done in the US would hearken to borderline slavery) took tens of thousands of US jobs with them and left such towns like Detroit full of abandoned homes.

    Seriously, just WHAT is Trump's problem in condemning NAFTA?
     
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    Actually, Islam is the religion that has antisemitism wrapped in its teachings. That's why it's Muslims - and not Christians - that keep up with the antisemitic terrorist attacks in places like Israel and France. The Jewish shop in Paris was not shot up by a Christian. Open your eyes.

    Please don't lecture people about what Christianity teaches when you've never lifted a finger to study the Bible.
     
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    A disproportionate amount of math comes from white men, specifically higher trigonometry, calculus and higher. The "me too" historical movement is heavily laden with therapeutic narratives.

    Rather than berating a poster here for saying things you disagree with, try providing some evidence for yourself next time?
     
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    Do you mean equal rights for homosexuels?

    Or gay marriage?

    I et they would think you were insane
     
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    The victim of what?

    Their own stupidity and bad personal chices is what makes 99% of them poor
     
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    Clinton did more than just sign NAFTA

    he and algore pused it through congress
     
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    Because they do not have to remain poor except for their own irresponsable actions
     
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    The liberals have been shown to be wrong time after time after time. One problem is that the modern liberal doesn't study history, or believe that it has anything to do with "modern day problems". (You can see this in those who believe that the Soviet Union's or North Korea's communism don't implicate socialism in any way.) Second problem is that when a society becomes overwhelmingly liberal, as many of them have, they end up being replaced by a society that is overwhelmingly conservative, primitive, and barbarian. (You can see the process in action in Europe today.) And so the future generations of liberals learn nothing from their dead predecessors.

    I started to read a history of Asia many years ago, but the book became rather monotonous after six or eight rounds of the rise and fall of civilization. Round 1: A strong and competent general consolidates territory and power and establishes a new kingdom on the ashes of the old one(s). Round 2: His successors expand the empire until peace reigns throughout the land. Round 3: Peace enables economic prosperity to create a wealthy kingdom. Round 4: The liberals take over, ushering in a new age of tolerance of immigrants, homosexuality, and transgenderism. Round 5: There's an explosion of art and culture in the liberal kingdom. Round 6: The civilization collapses and the kingdom is burned to ashes under the onrush of barbarians from outside because the culture has become too feminized to withstand the barbarians. Repeat from the beginning. The length of time between the collapse of civilization and the rise of a new kingdom can be hundreds of years, and the time between Round 1 and Round 6 can vary from 100 to 1000 years, but so far, no civilization has managed to avoid Round 6. The book noted that the most collectible artwork of every civilization came just before the end of that civilization but failed to draw the obvious conclusion that a civilization that focuses more on art than on war is destined for collapse.


    Mehehehehe. I suggest you actually pick up a history book that WASN'T written by a liberal professor and LEARN something. It's called the Dark Ages because literacy and learning shrank from the general population (or at least the elite males) to just a few monks scribbling in far off monasteries. Most of the most significant advances that were made during the Dark Ages were in the realm of war, but those advances didn't help the peasants or even the elite live better lives.
     
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    That is a very astute observation

    I fear America is at Step 5 1/2
     
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    Algebra

    The word “algebra” comes from the title of a Persian mathematician’s famous 9th century treatise “Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala” which roughly translates into “The Book of Reasoning and Balancing”. Al-Khwarizmi introduces the beginnings of the algebra. It’s important to understand just how significant this new idea was. In fact, it was a revolutionary move away from the Greek concept of mathematics, which was essentually based on geometry. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.
     
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    Dying out doesn’t mean literally dying duh!
    I guess all those people that took part in the holocaust were Muslims...And they just went to the Christian churches on Sunday to fool people . I don’t have to read a Bible I rather read other fiction.
     
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    The white christian "kulture" is dying , not to be the predominant culture. A new better inclusive culture is arising
     
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    Funny thing about companies going to the south for cheap labor in the 80's , they found unskilled semi literates and had to import technical assistance from the liberal blue states, , that's how a lot of us wound up in the south. Some of us were smart and keep their first home in the northeast. When companies started to move to mexico and overseas after 2000 from the south, there was a lot of whining and crying !! LOL
     
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    Mac-7 said:
    I dont have an easy answer to this

    America used go make almost everything we consume

    and most Americans had jobs making those things here in America

    But we began to lose that in the 90’s thanks to free trade

    Americans want to make a great Living which raises the cost of Manufactured Parts however they want to buy at Walmart prices.

    Can't suck and blow at the same time.

    Car makers and a lot of Manufactures design in house the buy sub assemblies in Mexico or Canada.

    They might do the final build in the states to meet content laws.

    So Americans have these jobs ( pay taxes ) and cars are somewhat affordable. They are competitive with other manufactures.

    They used to build a Cabo Rico model in California.

    To consolidate operations they moved the build to North Carolina to another Corporate facility.

    They made a profit in California ( Mexican workers ) supposedly they lost money on every boat in North Carolina.
     
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    Detroit is not an economic mess because of NAFTA. And NAFTA is net beneficial to the US consumer and economy due to the lower prices of goods because of comparative advantage. Trump is not condemning NAFTA - he wants to reform to remove trade restrictions on US imports.
     
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    I imagine so considering the south has a far higher percentage of black populace.
     
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    False argument.

    You - like countless other secular liberal apologists of Islam - haven't studied the Bible to understand there's nothing in the teachings of the Jewish Christ to promote antisemitism and fail to discern the difference between the teachings of the Christian faith and your perception based on superficiality in assuming the people who committed crime X were acting due to a faith you think they had. Making sweeping assumptions about a faith's teachings based on the deeds of people who claim the faith or that you perceive are of the faith are not evidence against that faith.

    And by the way, Hitler had an all-Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS brigade.

    The question is why you choose to blindly defend a faith you've never studied. I would say it's the usual reason: You're a liberal and you have internalized a need to knee-jerk blindly defend minorities, especially if they're brown.

    You also display a glaring historical blind spot regarding what the Muslims have done in their 1400 year murderous rampage from Morocco to Vienna to India.
     
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    Yes, you're pretty much coming out of the closet as a Christophobic Jewish snob. Congratulations. If living in a country founded and majority populated by white Christians is so grating to you, why not make Aliyah rather than cheering its demographic decline?
     
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    That's quite a dupe because Bill continued to celebrate how wonderful it was for years and then Obama extended it.

    Maybe Democrats are just more corrupt and in the pocket of corporate bandits than you're willing to admit?
     

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