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In reply to the discussion: It sounds extreme, maybe even crazy, but it's very true. Americans need to wake the hell up.... [View all]SidDithers
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It sounds extreme, maybe even crazy, but it's very true. Americans need to wake the hell up.... [View all]
Playinghardball
Sep 2015
OP
The NSA is not supposed to tap .GOV packets, but they can .COM like HDR22@clintonemail.com
LiberalArkie
Sep 2015
#3
NSA Taps Are Specifically Used For Leverage Against Politicians, Attorneys, Judges, Journalists
billhicks76
Sep 2015
#41
The Joint Chiefs are really the fifth branch of Gov't. Certainly, the most powerful.
leveymg
Sep 2015
#176
Gun control? THREE HUNDRED MILLION guns and gun control is the problem???????????????
randys1
Sep 2015
#127
Exactly. They are using the same methods the Third Reich did to keep their people indoctrinated
Cleita
Sep 2015
#4
The 6 million VICTIMS of the Holocaust were not "indoctrinated", they were slaughtered!
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#64
I'm saying that the meme in the OP, which uses the number 6 million, is dead wrong and offensive.
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#70
If it does not refer to the victims, then why isn't the number anywhere CLOSE to actual population
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#75
It is confused. I agree. But the gist is clear to me. The DUer is talking about the
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#170
It's not "confused", the OP grabbed a right wing Tea Party graphic that intentionally blames the
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#173
I'm sorry, but I don't think having the "best intentions" excuses letting an egregious error stand.
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#177
Yes it is. The author connects the number 6 million with the Holocaust and does not know
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#171
But the victims did not follow what was going on in the majority of the country.
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#168
Whatever Cali. You have dug in your heels and no amount of facts will sway you.
Cleita
Sep 2015
#142
shameful. pointing out how offensive and sick the op is, is not endorsing Fox news.
cali
Sep 2015
#96
OP could have used better wordsmithing but the intent is obviously not to besmirch
Cleita
Sep 2015
#110
The problem is that it isn't wordsmithing by the OP author, it is the poster that
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#132
Agreed. Comparing Fox to the Holocaust is an offensive and ABURD overstatement
whathehell
Sep 2015
#141
The six million were victims. The question is how did they get ordinary Germans to go along.
Arugula Latte
Sep 2015
#6
That was a magnificent thing they asked them to join. It was love. Did you not see the movies?
jtuck004
Sep 2015
#17
I see what you are saying, it is incorrect. Conflates victims and perpetrators. n/t
jtuck004
Sep 2015
#32
Then why is the verbiage about the Holocaust and not about the Nazi regime or territorial
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#106
I freaked town librarian out by reading many of those books on my own at about 10 or 11. She kept
Mnemosyne
Sep 2015
#83
I'm on the autism spectrum myself - dx'd Aspergers ten years ago - which explained everything..
hifiguy
Sep 2015
#147
It is way past "just" fox news - Billions are being spent covertly to influence the masses
newthinking
Sep 2015
#40
Follow "blindly" is a stretch. Following what one thinks is self interest is a cultural trait that
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#18
My apologies, Blanche. It should be 'cluborlov.com', i.e. without the first period. You
Joe Chi Minh
Sep 2015
#101
The big difference is that the Nazis started assassinating political opponents.
Kablooie
Sep 2015
#28
Well, the text on the original post is a bit strange as there were 66 million people in Germany in
PatrickforO
Sep 2015
#50
yes, it's almost certainly ignorance, but I'm shocked that so many duers are this ignorant
cali
Sep 2015
#62
I agree. I think the reaction in this thread is aimed at the idea that some in the USofA
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#117
Life aways seems to advance in cycles, forward some, and then backward some ...
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#53
Godwin can go fuck himself. He made up a fake law to see how fast it would spread.
merrily
Sep 2015
#153
summed up briefly (summary of last 2 large paragraphs from my entry) *slow applause* n/t
w0nderer
Sep 2015
#175
fox is the visual icing on talk radio's lie turd pie- talk radio's idiot little brother
certainot
Sep 2015
#71
Holy Shit. The 6 Million were Jewish victims of that Holocaust not blind followers, the German
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#103
Funny, the only place I've ever seen this meme is in the status updates of my right wing and
Brickbat
Sep 2015
#108
Thank you. I wish the OP would return to this thread and understand that the graphic he grabbed
scarletwoman
Sep 2015
#160
I don't see that reaction toward Fox News but I didnt read every post either. The consternation
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#118
Rex, this OP is more like FoxNews than FoxNews. Those of us who oppose this OP also oppose FoxNews
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#152
Did you recognize that the poster is referring to the 6 million Jews that were victims of the
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#120
We are having a discussion. Not all agree with you. That doesn't mean we are
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#128
20,700,000 Germans served in the Wehrmacht alone, all following orders from and considered by
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#154
Not fer nutthin, but 12 million people were murdered in the Holocaust, of whom 6 million were Jews.
merrily
Sep 2015
#151
Yeah, we get it too, but the intent is being misunderstood by some. OP needed a better way
RKP5637
Sep 2015
#181
It would make a lil more sense if it implied the German people let it happen
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2015
#156
Controlling illegal immigration is the same thing as the holocaust?
TexasMommaWithAHat
Sep 2015
#178