Communism is totalitarian. Fascism is totalitarian. Imperialism is totalitarian. Statists are also totalitarian. Why you aren't aware of this is your problem.
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Communism is totalitarian. Fascism is totalitarian. Imperialism is totalitarian. Statists are also totalitarian. Why you aren't aware of this is your problem.
You should come down to Troy for a beer and a tour of my "history books," Plaino...
Why aren't you aware you never write your sentences in proper English? And how do you know each of those political ideologies you mentioned are totalitarian and not authoritarian? Have you done any research to support your findings?
This coming from a guy who thinks my avatar is a communist soldier and that I went to the University of Texas, I guess I shouldn't expect much.
Gosh, I wished I could, I love ME some history.You should come down to Troy for a beer and a tour of my "history books," Plaino...
You're gonna need more than a Webster's Dictionary definition if you want to help your pal PtLavacaSooner.
It never hurts to be honest, right?Proper English.... what is that.
"In general, Totalitarianism involves a single mass party, typically led by a dictator; an attempt to mobilize the entire population in support of the official state ideology; and an intolerance of activities which are not directed towards the goals of the state, usually entailing repression and state control of business, labour unions, churches and political parties. A totalitarian regime is essentially a modern form of authoritarian state, requiring as it does an advanced technology of social control."
http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_totalitarianism.html
No, it doesn't. You should try it sometime...It never hurts to be honest, right?
To be perfectly honest.....I really don't care about proper English on this board. Being a blue collar worker I really had no need for it. I do educate myself in a lot of things, don't get me wrong.It never hurts to be honest, right?
I know what history books said 50 years ago. They are now lying about what happened before, to put a very liberal take on what used to be. It's disgusting. They want to make Washington and Lincoln into bad guys. They ignore the faith based part of history, which was so important in all that. And they claim that the founding father's were some sort of watered down believers. It's just a lie.
What the Mayflower Compact says, is not treated with fairness, but with all sorts of censorship and modifying.
Plaino, didn't most of the founding fathers own slaves? Thomas Jefferson made offspring with a slave woman of his.
Historians change their beliefs all the time. I don't put a lot of faith in what they say NOW, about past history. By the way, none of us will ever know the real truth. We weren't there.
Jefferson was like the original liberal.
Have you ever read the Mayflower Compact? And understood it?
Most of those who signed the Declaration did not support slavery. But they'd agreed they needed unanimous approval of the document. So they excluded language opposing slavery because the southerners threatened to leave if it stayed. We fought a whole civil war primarily over the issue. And the abolitionists were primarily Christians, though certainly not exclusively.
There are millions of people now, who support the murder of babies in America. This despite technology that shows just how human they are at an early stage of life in the womb. I'm not here to argue the good or bad of abortion, though I surely oppose it strongly. But my point is, that at this point in time, dismembering those children, with excruciating pain, is approved by many in our society. In 100 years, will the accomplishments of those who think abortion is okay, be diminished because of their support for what is commonly accepted now? I mean if abortion is viewed in the future for it's barbarism, as I believe it will.
I'd recommend the easy to acquire movie Amazing Grace, about the efforts of William Wilberforce to have the slave trade abolished in England. There were other forces at work. Just because someone supported what was commonly accepted 250 years or more ago, doesn't necessarily offset their other accomplishments. I say that, though my view has been for 45 years that slavery is America's greatest evil, and we still today bear the scars and ramifications of that more than 150 years after the emancipation proclamation.
It's a complicated issue in so many ways.
Even those who were there, had a different view of what they've seen. But it's the one sided nature of the presentation that I object to.
History is always written and interpreted by what nation/nations are in charge and/or by who won a particular war.
Well said, Plaino.
I wonder why, if a fetus has its own unique DNA, it is a "woman's right" to kill it under the guise of the fetus being part of HER body ? I do not regard this issue as a male-female debate as most people do.
I also believe that slavery was one of two of America's greatest evils, the second one being the virtual genocide of the American Indian. Our country, like every other country, has "skeletons in its closet". But I like to believe we have evolved from the way we were 150 years ago.....at least as far a slavery and genocide are concerned.
My English teacher wife and I laughed out loud when reading this question... Is it written in proper English? You just failed 4th grade.
Cats are mammals.
Dolphins are mammals.
Mammals are animals.
Douche nozzles are good for drinking out of, if that is your thing...
You always have great points. I can tell you have read and studied a lot of subjects. I applauded you. I am not joking, you do have good points.
Maybe... Did you watch?
"The results of DNA tests conducted by Dr. Eugene Foster and a team of geneticists in 1998 challenged the view that the Jefferson-Hemings relationship could be neither refuted nor substantiated. The study--which tested Y-chromosomal DNA samples from male-line descendants of Field Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's uncle), John Carr (grandfather of Jefferson's Carr nephews), Eston Hemings, and Thomas Woodson--indicated a genetic link between the Jefferson and Hemings descendants. The results of the study established that an individual carrying the male Jefferson Y chromosome fathered Eston Hemings (born 1808), the last known child born to Sally Hemings. There were approximately 25 adult male Jeffersons who carried this chromosome living in Virginia at that time, and a few of them are known to have visited Monticello. The study's authors, however, said "the simplest and most probable" conclusion was that Thomas Jefferson had fathered Eston Hemings."
https://www.monticello.org/site/pla...mas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account
Yes, it was a very interesting study. It's amazing what they can do with DNA testing. I had my DNA done as well as my wife's. When it came back it was intetesting. I did it by mail, so I think it is correct. Ya, never know.
Thanks. I'm not claiming to be right. I am claiming that I know what I believe and why. And I'm pretty sure that most of what I believe is reasonable and thoughtfully considered.
That is the difference in what we learned way back when and what so many learn today... thoughtful consideration of "facts" seems to happen less today...
How in the hell did a simple thread about movies turn into a pissing match about whatever it is you guys are sniping at each other about??? I just don't get the mindset of some of people who have to "right" about everything and can turn an enjoyable, non-confrontational topic into an Internet pillow fight. I need to take a timeout from this circus as this act is getting old. I'm sure I won't make it that long, but I'll see you guys when it's football season.
Sorry we upset you, Schooner. I wish you well! Hopefully everyone will be in better spirits come September. God bless.
Not sure if its been mentioned yet but History of the World Part I would be appropriate about now
Not a movie, but Band of Brothers is worth watching as well.
Band of Brothers awesome series. I love it. I bought it and watch the series over, and over again. Just really well done.
The Pacific is another one. My grandfather fought alongside MOH recipient John Basilone in Guadalcanal.
If your grandfather is still living, tell him that members of the board thank him for his service. They truly were the greatest generation.
Thanks! Unfortunately, he perished in 1984. Four years before I was born.
He was a Purple Heart recipient after getting wounded at Tarawa.
While Saving Private Ryan was very good, I think Band of Brothers and The Pacific were better done.
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