Posts made by sutieday

Why does the right wing love witch hunts? First Salem, then Hillary, now pppucci. Sad!

@Frederick:

Keep going with your delusional fantasies moonbats.

I should play your game.. where's the proof?

To use the words of #45, "You know it, I know it, everybody knows it." There's your proof.

@strangeloop:

What evidence do you have that "globalization is great".  How has globalization made Europe a better place in any way shape or form?

I think the user was referring to free trade and open markets, which are part of globalization. Globalization is typically broken down into the: Free movement of people; Free movement of information; Free movement of goods and services.

Many European countries have benefited from globalization, for example Germany did after its reunification. However, there are winners and losers in globalization.

If your argument is that globalization is inherently bad and produces no benefit to people, then you would have to prove that.

I don't know about the tendency of Hamburg leftists to be violent, strangeloop, can you share any info on that? Since it is the subject of your primary post.

@strangeloop:

@sutieday:

Anarchism isn't a left only thing. It is actually found on both the left and the right. So to claim that they are all far-left, without any evidence, is disingenuous.

My intention wasn't to be disingenuous.  I thought because it was so well documented, it wouldn't need additional confirmation.  Thank you for correcting that misconception.

Here is a reuters article on the riots.

For the 1,000 hard-left militants who wreaked havoc on the streets of Hamburg, German Chancellor Angela Merkel could not have chosen a better location to hold the G20 summit.

BBC article.

So who are the anarchists?
Far-left extremism has become a feature of protests in recent years, and Hamburg - known for its squatter scene, which developed in the 1980s - is not stranger to violent protests.

But the city was not just on alert for extremists within its bounds. Police were expecting them to be joined by left-wing extremists from other German cities, including Berlin and Rostock, with others coming from further afield.

I am curious if you still think there is no issue with left-wing violence and extremism?

When have I implied that extremism is acceptable? I have said that it is a problem on both the left and the right. The radical left causes the radical right to come out and vice-versa.

@strangeloop:

Is there anything more ironic than a German man accusing a reporter of being a nazi?

Are you trying to say that all Germans are Nazis? If so, you're wrong. Yes, the Nazis/Nazi Party was German, but it did not comprise all of the German people at that time nor at the present date.

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

@raphjd:

Liberals like to whine about posts, yet not a single liberal reported a post that clearly violated the rules by a person who jumped in to the thread solely to flame me.

Where are the 40 reported posts I'd get if the same thing was done to a liberal?

I don't know which post you are talking about but why would someone report a post about the moderator to the moderator?

Because your an idiot.. that keeps badgering the moderator, and trying to cause problems.  You also continue to flood the forum with your off-topic spam.

While this message of mine is also off-topic, I just got done posting a lengthy, illuminating, repudiation of the topic at hand  in this thread.

It appears someone is back to their ad hominem logic again.

Oh, and I believe the rule popping into a post just to flame was just broken, no? Oh moderator!

Anarchism isn't a left only thing. It is actually found on both the left and the right. So to claim that they are all far-left, without any evidence, is disingenuous.

Ivanka Trump is not my president!

Ivanka Trump sparked accusations of nepotism after she stepped into her father Donald Trump’s shoes for a brief period at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.

In a move that has rankled many of the Trump administration’s critics, the president’s daughter sat between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Chinese President Xi Jinping during her father’s temporary absence from a working session of world leaders titled “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health.”

A Russian official tweeted a photograph of Ivanka Trump sitting in between the duo and it immediately went viral.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-g20_us_5960dab0e4b0615b9e91c8dc?n1g

House Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is less popular than more than a dozen major bills spanning nearly three decades, according to analysis from Massachusetts Institute of Technology political science professor Chris Warshaw.

Using historical data from the Roper Center’s polling archives, Warshaw found that the American Health Care Act’s average approval numbers lagged significantly behind polling on everything from Bill Clinton’s failed 1993 attempt at health care reform to the 2008 bank bailout.

“It’s rare for Congress to move ahead with legislation when the signs are this clear that the public doesn’t want it,” Axios’ David Nather and Lazaro Gamio noted.

Recent polling on the GOP’s health care plans have reported feelings ranging from tepid to dismal. The most positive surveys, from Morning Consult and Politico, show favorable opinion of the proposals hovering near 40 percent, with most other polling putting it well below 30 percent. By contrast, average support for Obamacare currently stands at 46 percent and never fell below about 38 percent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-gop-health-care-bill-is-a-historically-unpopular-piece-of-legislation_us_595fd9e9e4b0d5b458ea4376?5zc

No surprise, government is usually bad with IT security. Ironically, the US invests a lot in spying and digital surveillance, so you'd think we would have a more high tech government.

I think this decision, like all Trump administration decisions, was handled poorly and keen states will likely not submit any data.

I still have no idea why a topic about a man attacked by "liberals" turned into a discussion about Islam…

As G-20 leaders gathered at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany for a live performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on Friday evening, police moved to disperse thousands of protesters during a second day of violent clashes.

Masked demonstrators smashed shop windows and torched parked vehicles on Friday, and other groups attempted to block G-20 delegates’ routes to the summit. An estimated 100,000 demonstrators acted peacefully, Reuters reported.

The extent of the damage remains unclear at this time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/half-the-city-is-burning-hamburg-rocked-by-violent-anti-g-20-protests_us_595ff5bde4b02e9bdb0cbd3c?lx8

@raphjd:

@Devken:

@raphjd:

Why don't we ever see peaceful protests by the left?

Yeah, like those goddamn pride marches, they always end up in violent clashes…

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wait for it...

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in Russia and Turkey.

Turkey is a "religion of peace" nation.    You know, those loving people you want to come to the west.

I do want to also point out the irony of conservatives "defending free speech" when you attack people of a specific religion on a regular basis. Even when a post/topic has nothing to do with Islam, your hatred of the faith is astounding.

@raphjd:

Who defends free speech?  conservatives

Who hates free speech?  liberals

@raphjd:

@Devken:

@raphjd:

Why don't we ever see peaceful protests by the left?

Yeah, like those goddamn pride marches, they always end up in violent clashes…

...

wait for it...

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in Russia and Turkey.

Turkey is a "religion of peace" nation.    You know, those loving people you want to come to the west.

I take it you cannot defend your asinine statement?

@raphjd:

Why don't we ever see peaceful protests by the left?

@raphjd:

Who defends free speech?  conservatives

Who hates free speech?  liberals

BTW, "punch a Nazi in the face" was a chant from the peaceful left.

Such blanket asinine claims without any strong evidence. I don't think we can get any where with raphjd as his unconscious anti-liberal bias is astounding.

I wonder whether this was intended to cause a media stir and distract from Trump's failing agenda/foreign policy.

@raphjd:

All over social media, you will see liberals defending "punch a Nazi".   When you ask them to clarify, they tell you a Nazi is anyone you disagree with.

1. These "people" could be trolls or bots. And just because someone hold an opinion online doesn't me they would share it irl.

2. You can be on the left, but not be a liberal. You'd just be called a "leftist".

Lastly, it is pretty asinine to use comments made by individuals online to smear a whole group of people just to further your own agenda.

Vice President Mike Pence apparently couldn’t help himself.

He caused concern on Thursday by blatantly ignoring a safety sign during a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Pence was shown some critical space flight hardware, including a piece covered by a sheet of paper with the instruction “DO NOT TOUCH.” But as this snap by Reuters photographer Mike Brown shows, he totally disregarded the warning.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-do-not-touch-sign-nasa_us_595f2ba4e4b0d5b458e96898?0ic