Progressive Party **Official Thread**

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
I saw the bar and stools where those people were sitting!
It was at the civil rights museum in Memphis. The museum was built around the Lorraine Motel where MLK was shot. It is a "must see" if you're in the area.
They also have a metro bus similar to the one that made Rosa Parks famous.

SIDENOTE:
I've been to a lot of museums but never one that had metal detectors at the entrance.
They took my pocket knife -- and it was small (2" blade). :-(
Another weird thing was that they didn't allow pics in the first gallery. I put my phone away and never brought it out again because nobody else was taking pics, even when it was OK to do so.
I mean, just look at that group of soon to be Republicans. It boggles me that st0 would criticize their opposition. "Let's talk about this". "Teach them and they will change". As if it's the fault of people who ended segregation using the law and federal officers to enforce it that racism continues to this day.

And what do bernie bros say? "kick sjw to the curb", "people are tired of political correct rhetoric", "That doesn’t fly in the real world"

It most certainly does and is the only reason businesses no longer can exclude black people from doing business with them based upon skin color.

That sounds like a trip worth taking. Awesome description of the museum and the effect it had on visitors. I heard that the area where you were told to refrain from taking photos in respect for the families of their descendants was the slave quarters and exhibits. Appropriate to give the same respect throughout.
 
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UncleBuck

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If he did care about racism and the people it hurts, he’d work to change it. He’d engage people showing racist tendencies and show them why they’re wrong using facts and logic. He’d acknowledge that it’s learned behavior and try to help people unlearn it.

ok, you try reaching out to @Flaming Pie with facts and logic then. tell me how that works out for ya.

congrats on getting likes on your post from a woman who calls jews "dirty lying jew rats", calls black women "primates", argues against freedom of religion for muslim people, a man who is so desperate to get laid that he will ignore all that just to get with her, and a naive child who says he has to work harder just because he is white, calls people "f****ots", says black people have a herd like mentality, and is an aficionado of duct tape anal rape porn.
 

SneekyNinja

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ok, you try reaching out to @Flaming Pie with facts and logic then. tell me how that works out for ya.

congrats on getting likes on your post from a woman who calls jews "dirty lying jew rats", calls black women "primates", argues against freedom of religion for muslim people, a man who is so desperate to get laid that he will ignore all that just to get with her, and a naive child who says he has to work harder just because he is white, calls people "f****ots", says black people have a herd like mentality, and is an aficionado of duct tape anal rape porn.
To be more accurate it was "West African Primates".

Just for added woosh to the dog whistle.

I bet she couldn't even name a single West African country off the top of her head.
 

ttystikk

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Curious as to how you know what he does when he is not on RIU ?
More curious to hear what you do to combat racism. Do you use the same approach as @ttystikk ?? Don't talk about it and it will go away. That is tty answer. Do you have any stories on how you combated racism in hockey...oh wait...
Must be your preferred tactic; after all, you NEVER talk about the thread topic, you just shitpost all day.
 

ttystikk

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The thread topic is the "Progressive Party".

The Progressive Party is the Democrats...we're Democrats and we're talking.

How is he off topic?
... About anything but the topic.

Democrats aren't progressive. They just want to co-opt the term so they can keep delivering conservative results to their corporate owners.
 

SneekyNinja

Well-Known Member
... About anything but the topic.

Democrats aren't progressive. They just want to co-opt the term so they can keep delivering conservative results to their corporate owners.
Bullshit dude, that's just bullshit.

You've lost your mind.

Progressives don't fraudulently get bank loans, collapse colleges and then take big golden parachutes.
 

dagwood45431

Well-Known Member
... About anything but the topic.

Democrats aren't progressive. They just want to co-opt the term so they can keep delivering conservative results to their corporate owners.
It's official. Your ilk is as big a danger to progress as the trumptards. Kill yourself, please. Thanks.
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member


You just lap up anything the reaffirms your confirmation bias, don't you?

Did that pew research article, you supposedly read, really open your eyes? Because he didn't post a pew research article, he posted a Capital Research Center article. Since you don't like to actually read, let me help you unpack that.

He posted this.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/party-one-percent/
Which Party Is the Party of the 1 Percent?

The pew research article you think you're talking about, is here.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/02/04/most-americans-say-government-doesnt-do-enough-to-help-middle-class/
Most Americans Say Government Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Middle Class

Odd how different the titles sound, right? Let's look at what Capital Research is and does, and see if we can figure out why. First. lets stop by wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center

Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson "to study non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism.

I'm sure you are saying to yourself, they sound like wonderful people, but let's dig a little deeper. Who do you suppose this Willa Johnson is? The great thing about computers is, we don't have to wonder.

CRC was founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson, former Senior Vice President of the Heritage Foundation, Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in the first Reagan administration

I don't know about you, but I wonder where they get there money from.

Politico reports that the CRC has received millions of dollars of funding from conservative philanthropies over the years. The philanthropies include foundations run by the Koch family, the Scaifes(these guys sure don't like Islam), and the Bradleys

As of 2005 CRC had received $115,000 from ExxonMobil

Wiki even has a section that shows if they've been involved in any controversies. Let's check that shit out.

The Capital Research Center came under fire in the 1990s for publishing studies highly critical of charities which engaged in anti-tobacco lobbying efforts. These charities include the
American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society. It was later revealed that tobacco giant Philip Morris provided $50,000 in funding to the Capital Research Center.

I don't know about you, but that does seem kinda fucked up to me. I know you like to get your information from youtube and hostile foreign governments, and might be saying to yourself, what's wikipedia, and can I trust it.

Well friend, I'm here to tell you, you don't have to. Let's look around some more.

The Capital Research Center (CRC) is a right-wing "think tank" whose stated mission is to do "opposition research" exposing the funding sources behind consumer, health and environmental groups. CRC is an associate member of the State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom.

"Defund the Left" Campaign
As part of the conservative campaign to 'Defund the left' the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting 'liberal' causes.

Dangerous Documentaries
CRC creates what the organizations calls "Dangerous Documentaries". A separate "dangerousdocumentaries.com" website says that Dangerous Documentaries "serves as the media arm of the Washington, D.C. based Capital Research Center," "with the mission of spreading the ideas of liberty, including free speech, free markets, individual rights, and open and fair-minded political discourse.

CRC Hosts State Labor Reform Conference The list of participants is a “who’s who” of anti-union activists and organizations funded by Bradley
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center

Need More?
The Capital Research Center’s GreenWatch.org website collects information on non-profit environmental advocates, and is heavily biased against climate science. In reaction to peer-reviewed study that found a 97% consensus among scientists that climate change is a real phenomenon and primarily caused by human activity, the CRC called the authors “alarmist.”

As of 2017, the CRC continues to oppose international treaties that countries have entered in order to mitigate the impact of climate change.

In 2016, the CRC criticized the U.S. Military for incorporating climate change into its strategic planning, blaming President Obama.

In 2015, the CRC described global climate treaty negotiations as “the culmination of decades of work by the anti-democracy Left, by power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats, and by greedy business people.”

In 2014, CRC posted an article called, “Global Warming: How to persuade those idiots who don’t agree with you.” The article is a retort to reporters covering the challenge of communicating climate science to a public that disproportionately distrusts the consensus among scientists.

CRC cited a rebuttal to the 2014 National Climate Assessment, signed almost exclusively by scientists with a history of payments by the fossil fuel industry or groups financed by fossil fuel interests, many of whom lack [advanced] degrees in science, or have not published any [recent] scientific research.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/capital-research-center-crc/

More still?
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/capital-research-center/

I don't think that article meant what you thought it did.
Okay, I'll happily concede that the CRC isn't the kind of outfit I'd like to see getting ahead.

But is the article itself actually, factually wrong? Nowhere above did you address the substance of their claims, preferring instead to shoot the messenger.
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
Bullshit dude, that's just bullshit.

You've lost your mind.

Progressives don't fraudulently get bank loans, collapse colleges and then take big golden parachutes.
But Democrats will defend the wholesale dispossession of millions of primary voters.

AND take the money.

AND lie about supposed scandals.

Since when has the Democratic party done much for you, unless it benefited corporations even more?

Exhibit A; Obamacare = Romney care = right wing insurance plan designed to protect health insurance company profits.
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
ok, you try reaching out to @Flaming Pie with facts and logic then. tell me how that works out for ya.

congrats on getting likes on your post from a woman who calls jews "dirty lying jew rats", calls black women "primates", argues against freedom of religion for muslim people, a man who is so desperate to get laid that he will ignore all that just to get with her, and a naive child who says he has to work harder just because he is white, calls people "f****ots", says black people have a herd like mentality, and is an aficionado of duct tape anal rape porn.
Shit post.

Can't argue on the merits, has to resort to slender.

Can't stand losing, can you, hater?

You have a serious problem. Seek help.
 
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