**** Elections thread *****

[OngBonga]

Meanwhile, in Manchester...

Bunch of old dudes having a cowboy party in some local pub put up a Confederates flag, drinkers tear it down.

wtf next? Petitioning outside DVD stores selling the Dukes of Hazzard?

Media doing an oustanding job of getting morons to associate the Confederates flag with white supremacy, even in the UK.

The vast majority of people who think this have absolutely no fucking idea of the history of the American Civil War. My knowledge on that subject is very poor, which is why I don't sit here saying it's the same as the Nazi flag. I have no idea what the Confederates flag represents. I do respect the right of people to wave it about though. Just like morons can wave about a Nazi flag if they want to tell the world how moronic they are.

Flags will always offend someone. Fuck people who are offended by flags.

[wufwugy]

Meanwhile, in Manchester...

Bunch of old dudes having a cowboy party in some local pub put up a Confederates flag, drinkers tear it down.

wtf next? Petitioning outside DVD stores selling the Dukes of Hazzard?

Media doing an oustanding job of getting morons to associate the Confederates flag with white supremacy, even in the UK.

The vast majority of people who think this have absolutely no fucking idea of the history of the American Civil War. My knowledge on that subject is very poor, which is why I don't sit here saying it's the same as the Nazi flag. I have no idea what the Confederates flag represents. I do respect the right of people to wave it about though. Just like morons can wave about a Nazi flag if they want to tell the world how moronic they are.

Flags will always offend someone. Fuck people who are offended by flags.

People who like the Confederate flag like it because it represents freedom from tyranny. History is being revised such that people don't even remember that the union of states was originally a confederation. Many don't like the pseudo-unitary state it is becoming.

People who don't like the Confederate flag think black people are being held down by white people. They're half right. Black people are being held down by white and black Democrats.

[Jack Sawyer]

People who don't like the Confederate flag think black people are being held down by white people. They're half right. Black people are being held down by white and black Democrats.

Wuf ...

[wufwugy]

Wuf ...

Democrats have had total control of close to all black regions for many decades. Those regions used to not be destitute yet have become destitute. Economics explains in clear terms why that could happen. Investigate Thomas Sowell.

[JKDS]

Democrats have had total control of close to all black regions for many decades. Those regions used to not be destitute yet have become destitute. Economics explains in clear terms why that could happen. Investigate Thomas Sowell.

You say welfare, I say Republican president Nixon's war on drugs. I guess we'll never know.

[wufwugy]

You say welfare, I say Republican president Nixon's war on drugs. I guess we'll never know.

The war on drugs is misguided and often bad policy.

To note: if it's a war on drugs causing the urban black population problems, it's Democrats doing it. Republicans have barely existed in those areas for near half a century now. Republicans haven't been pushing the edge on putting the drugs in the hands of those they represent, but Democrats have been doing so for those they represent.

[wufwugy]

Republicans haven't been pushing the edge on putting the drugs in the hands of those they represent, but Democrats have been doing so for those they represent.

BTW I said this which was wrong. It was an editing mistake. I meant that Democrats have been putting welfare into the hands of those they represent, not drugs.

Republicans love their welfare too*. Yet when it comes to black communities, Republicans have little part in what goes on.

*Trump's support of a type of welfare and Cruz's emphatic stance against it was one of the big reasons I voted Cruz and did not like Trump much at the time.