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Originally posted by Sam View PostThat is not what I wrote.
I do believe that the damage someone causes elsewhere should impact decisions of friendship, however. I've dropped friends I discovered were abusive or discriminatory to others, for example. In part because my association with such people harmed others who are themselves victims of abuse or discrimination.
George Bush did enormous damage, domestically and internationally. And he did it intentionally and for political gain. People are responsible for their actions and decisions about association are part of being held accountable.
--Sam
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Originally posted by QuantaFille View PostSo what you're saying, is that people should only hang out with people they agree with? Interesting.
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Originally posted by QuantaFille View PostSo what you're saying, is that people should only hang out with people they agree with? Interesting.
By the way --- the sunrise at my house this morning...
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(Sorry about the slightly "off level" - I'm on drugs due to my knee)
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Originally posted by Sam View PostIn order to win re-election in 2004, George Bush and the RNC worked to include a marriage amendment that banned same-sex marriage on the ballots of battleground states. If Bush had gotten his way, not only would DeGeneres be prohibited from marrying her partner, millions of LGBT+ Americans who see her as a rights leader would be prohibited from marriage.
He also reintroduced torture to American military strategy and knowingly misled the nation into a war that cost hundreds of thousands of Iraqis their lives and continues to destabilize the entire region to this day.
No, I wouldn't be pal'in around with G.W. Bush if I were her.
--Sam
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Originally posted by QuantaFille View PostSo what you're saying, is that people should only hang out with people they agree with? Interesting.
I do believe that the damage someone causes elsewhere should impact decisions of friendship, however. I've dropped friends I discovered were abusive or discriminatory to others, for example. In part because my association with such people harmed others who are themselves victims of abuse or discrimination.
George Bush did enormous damage, domestically and internationally. And he did it intentionally and for political gain. People are responsible for their actions and decisions about association are part of being held accountable.
--Sam
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Originally posted by Sam View PostIn order to win re-election in 2004, George Bush and the RNC worked to include a marriage amendment that banned same-sex marriage on the ballots of battleground states. If Bush had gotten his way, not only would DeGeneres be prohibited from marrying her partner, millions of LGBT+ Americans who see her as a rights leader would be prohibited from marriage.
He also reintroduced torture to American military strategy and knowingly misled the nation into a war that cost hundreds of thousands of Iraqis their lives and continues to destabilize the entire region to this day.
No, I wouldn't be pal'in around with G.W. Bush if I were her.
--Sam
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
He also reintroduced torture to American military strategy and knowingly misled the nation into a war that cost hundreds of thousands of Iraqis their lives and continues to destabilize the entire region to this day.
No, I wouldn't be pal'in around with G.W. Bush if I were her.
--Sam
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