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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:40 PM Original message |
Is it only progressive if you are nice? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. "I have formed my views based on my own life" |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Good point, really. My experiences are not the same as others. nt |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Good thing you didn't get sick or become disabled. |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. You're right. I guess I was just trying to illustrate I became mainstream. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's one common way to deal with the homeless problem: say they WANT to be poor... |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Since I have actually been there. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. You aren't the spokesman for all homeless people |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. by no means is he the universalspokesman, neither are you, he was relating his experience |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. i gotta agree tough love sometimes works wonders |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. If you believe others, for whatever reason, should have to endure that ... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. question is should you be the one who has to provide it |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
10. In Libertarian Land |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:10 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Everybody gets free everything in the land where noamnety is dictator. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:13 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. The reason your post makes me less than gracious |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Reality isn't what you think it should be. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. And based on all that |
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mudplanet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. Tough love has nothing to do with being progressive |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:19 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. A very insightful post, thanks. nt |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's usually not a good idea to base your moral philosophy on what happens to you at 19 |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
15. So "tough love" gives you the ability to pull money out of your ass so you can rent a room? |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
16. I hate to pull the religion card, but in situations like this, I ask myself "What would Jesus do?" |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
17. The root word of |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
18. "nice"? no. Conscientious, yes. |
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Control-Z (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. "homeless by choice", as you describe it, is not homelessness. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
21. "Tough love" has an awfully parental ring to it, and is not a term I would use to describe |
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Mrs. Overall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. Sorry, but what is with all the "I'm confused, DU, please explain this to me" threads lately? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
25. You can be a "progressive" and spout crappy RW economics so long as you support abortion |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. There Is Nothing Remotely Progressive About Such Treatment, As Described. |
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