geeblock

On Mar 17, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 05:02 pm
posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

You’re fine geeblock.  Also, kudos for writing your response in Big Boy English vs. Middle School Student Textspeak.  😉


I guess if that’s how u feel .. I mostly post at stoplights so sorry if it offended anyone 



geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 10:26 am
posted by Devils Advocate

geeblock, I get that you get irritated by the conservative replies that you get from your posts. I agree with some of your posts, but You get suprised and you feelze hurt by the responses?

Logic does not apply,  stay on the subject at hand and realize that the people change the narrative to suit THEIR needs. Stop trying to prove your point from 3 days ago.  And as far as the cut and paste shit, dude look what you have posted. If you can’t see it, you can’t be helped.

I’m not mad or upset about anything. She dropped my name and threw a shot at me for no reason so I replied that’s it. 


On Mar 16, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 08:06 pm
posted by CenterBHSFan

Dude you can't even recognize when somebody is making specific points to specific people. You just demonstrated this inability with your prior post. 

Cool I can’t wait till u cut and paste ur next post  to look smart 
geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:15 am
posted by CenterBHSFan

If you don't care then don't reply and wait for a post that interests you.

OR

Better yet, post something that catches your attention. 

But if being as adept at conversation as geeblock is your intention, by all means, carry on.

lol your idea of having a conversation is posting long diatribes of something you read somewhere that usually isn’t relevant to the conversation or is about something that wasn’t said. But since you have this idea or conversation you want to have, you say it anyway… but carry on 


On Mar 13, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 10:16 pm
posted by CenterBHSFan

I'm waiting on Ptown to come and tell us that special investigator Hur is not a doctor and should not have took it upon himself to determine Biden's cognitive state in order to give him a free pass and therefore should have turned the whole thing over to be criminalized and prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law.

Sounds like u dismissed plenty of the testimony that didn’t fit ur narrative


On Feb 29, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 10:57 am
posted by jmog

This was a direct reference to how some people in the1600s-1800s justified enslaving black people. Your comment here was an indirect reference to how slavery was justified in North America from 1600s to 1800s. So you did bring up slavery, just didn't say the word slavery. You just mentioned how it was justified.


So yes, I said that no one alive today, including yourself, has been affected by slavery that ended almost 200 years ago now. I did not say racism, I did not say Jim Crow (which is basically the same as racism, it was legally allowed racism).


You made shit up, said that I said "no black person has been affected by racism" when I said "no one alive now has been affected by slavery" which, to be fair, isn't exactly true as there are still slaves across the world, I was obviously referring to the slavery practice specifically in the US from 1600s to 1860s.

First of all it was used way after slavery as the basis for segregation and other laws in this country so no i wasnt just referring to slavery, and Jim crow wasnt just "racism" it was actual LAWS on the books in many states.  You made that inference which was not correct.

 Second, we were discussing religion and government and how religion was at times used in government. The comment really wasnt about slavery or racism but rather religion and government.

 Why would you feel the need to jump in and say it never affected my life and where did i say it did?  How does that even remotely relate to the conversation?  ill answer for you .  It didnt.

Prohibition was also mentioned, I notice u didn’t feel the need to jump in and argue that no one alive today was effected by that so what made u so upset when the same point was made even if I was talking about slavery? U just like to argue with me 

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 10:04 am
posted by jmog

You still won't admit that NO ONE said "black people aren't affected by racism" will you? 


Be a man, admit you made shit up that wasn't actually said.


And "I didn't bring up slavery" is half hearted when you didn't say the actual word slavery yet you were talking about how the founding fathers used "god" to say black men weren't fully men/human which is the argument they made for the institution of slavery. 


You somehow took "slavery doesn't affect anyone's lives right now" to mean I meant "racism doesn't exist" which is about the dumbest take you have ever made, which is saying something.


You wrote 4 paragraphs of explaining away why you just plain made shit up, just admit you were wrong and move on. No one said black people aren't affected by racism. Take that statement back as an error made by you.

sure if you can explain why you said it then

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 07:42 am
posted by geeblock
this is where the thread went off the hinges when none of this was said.  Its like they just made up a whole conversation that didnt happen and everyone went with it.

justin mentioned prohibition and how it came and went and i mentioned the same with black people and cbhs lost her shit

then jmog never actually reading posts, and looking for a chance to argue comes of the top rope with his whole spiel that had nothing to do with what was actually said but he obviously has been waiting to pull out.

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 07:40 am
posted by CenterBHSFan

Are we seriously going to be bringing up slavery abolition incrementalism and the 2/3 compromise *again*?

Like those things weren't explained in minute detail countless times already?

Are we going to pretend that we don't have a clue again, all for the sake of appeasing feelings of events that none of us have personally lived through or witnessed in real time? 

Well, alright then. I suppose it won't hurt all that much and it will give this site a bump in traffic. 

this is where the thread went off the hinges when none of this was said.  Its like they just made up a whole conversation that didnt happen and everyone went with it.
geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 07:30 am

Ill Try to say it slower..

1. I never mentioned slavery or that it affected my life. Please go back and actually read my posts.  They never mention slavery, they never mention my life.

2. Posters jumped in and brought up slavery and said it never affected my life.  I have no idea why they did that.  The conversation was about being governed by god or man and the relationship with god/government and government using religion for their own purposes.  I said religion was often used for control or to oppress other groups and mentioned black people.  Never said slavery, never said i was talking about myself or anything that was happening or ever happened to me.

3.  Once it was brought up by others not me, i did wonder why it was brought up because it clearly didnt apply to the conversation and was actually never said by me.  So then I responded that the only reason it must have been brought up was to say that the lingering racism and effects of racism didnt have an effect on my life in some ways. So I mentioned a few ways that it did.  I never asked for anyone to feel sorry for me but tried to educate the relationship between slavery and years of oppression that followed.

4. You guys must have been just sitting on the 'no one alive has been affected by slavery' schtick and waiting for a chance to talk to a black person and bring it out, but not once did I mention slavery, not once was i talking about how slavery effected my life or anything even close.  I even clarified it several times that other examples like the crusades or manifest destiny would also apply.  Never played the race card , never brought up slavery, never brought up my life.  I did respond that I think that the statement is "low brow"  meaning very unsophisticated which it is.  Im sorry if you guys are that fragile and the conversation hurt your feelings.  Jesus Christ

On Feb 28, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Wendy's surge pricing" at 10:13 am

I feel like they will do this at 2am when you are drunk and hungry and will pay for the only thing open is my guess. probably the only time people would overpay for trash food.

geeblock replied to "Do you watch tv with subtitles on?" at 08:54 am

I actually prefer subtitles because I dont hear that well, especially british or foreign shows,  but my wife absolutely hates them and does not allow them when she is around.

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 08:40 am

"I promise slavery has not affected you at all, just like it hasn’t anyone who is alive right now."

This is a low brow statement that is used for a specific purpose and I disagree with it as do most people.  I understand the audience here and the argument you will use to justify the statement, even tho you admit (jim crow) otherwise.  so yes next topic

On Feb 27, 2024:

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 08:57 pm
posted by jmog

Care to admit you just made up the part about someone saying black people don’t experience racism, or however dumb way you said it?


When yiu say slavery hasn’t affected you at all that that is basically what you are saying. That slavery has no link to Jim Crow or other laws that did affect my life and it simply isn’t true. Half the country wanted to keep slavery. Changing the law didn’t change how people felt clearly. It is one of those statements while I’m sure you can find a way to defend it, it just never sounds very smart to me.  But I’m not going to argue about it. This seems to be a very strong tenet of yours which isn’t likely to change. Have a good night . 


geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 04:12 pm
posted by jmog

Care to admit you just made up the part about someone saying black people don’t experience racism, or however dumb way you said it?


If you will admit that saying s”no one was alive during slavery” is almost never a good point to make during any ar


geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:29 pm

My whole comment while once again hijacked by something that wasn’t the point was based on Justin’s comment that he wanted to be governed by god and not man. My point was that it is impossible because man will always and  have have always interpreted his will for their own purposes and control, on top of that  man is imperfect. It really had nothing to do with slavery or racism that was just an example, I could have used many others 

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:21 pm
posted by jmog

I didn't say no one alive has been affected by racism or Jim Crowe laws. So before you call someone else stupid, actually read what they typed.



Well if you actually read my post i never said slavery. I said religion was used to say black people were subhuman and inferior. 


geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:19 pm
posted by ptown_trojans_1

Slavery and racism aren't exactly the same as I think that is the disconnect. 

You are combining the two.

I also think you are being too general about slavery and religion in the Constitution. The founding fathers were all over the place faith wise, but all agreed in some sort of higher power. See Jeffersons Bible as one example. 

 If you have to condemn religion for slavery you must also acknowledge it had a big hand in its defeat here. The anti-slavery movement of the 19th century was mostly driven by Christians and people from the north. 

I get what you are saying, I think, but you are just combining a lot and making broad generalizations.


Technically I never mentioned slavery. That was cbsfan and jmog


geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 07:29 am

Side note. White people telling black people how they haven’t had to experience racism will never not be funny to me. 

geeblock replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 07:21 am
posted by jmog

I promise slavery has not affected you at all, just like it hasn’t anyone who is alive right now.


Well they had to bring the national guard to the schools so my father could attend a decent school and there were riots when he attended college, my parents were married 9 months after interracial marriage was made legal in 1968, so yea I wouldn’t have to mention slavery.  That argument about no one being alive when there were slaves has to be the top 10 dumbest arguments someone could make. Great job  .

 However the driving force behind much of the hatred was backed by religion which was more my point than anything having to do with my life but thanks for chiming in with something that wasn’t said. 

The whole point had very little to do with slavery but the fact that religion all over the world was often used for man’s objectives. Weather we look at Israel/palestine, the crusades, nazis, manifest destiny or *gasp*slavery. I wasn’t alive for most of those but see how easy it is to reference something I wasn’t around for? Do better. 


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