Where they are burning books, they'll burn people in the end.

[McAvoy]

This is really starting to remind me of Fahrenheit 451.

This has been going on for centuries. As long as it's not state mandated, as in government backed we will be fine.

There was a Bible burning years ago from Bible thumpers believe it or not.

You seem to be of the mind that this is all just okay

Sure if that is what you want to think.

Ha. That's just what they want you to think.

Sorry, Madner, really I will stop 5 minutes ago.

My point really is this, book burning means nothing if it's not a state mandated thing. It will always happen on the individual level.

It is a concern though if thousands or even just hundreds show up and contribute to one though.

Book burning is the past 20 years isn't solely American thing either.

[sayla0079]

Relying on technology, dumbing people down so people don't stand out, and now burning books? This is really reminding me of when I read Fahrenheit 451 in Highschool.

[Beastro]

Not all book burning ends in holocaust situations.

With that said book burning is vile. I wouldn't feel comfortable with the burning of Mein Kampf or Das Kapital.

My point really is this, book burning means nothing if it's not a state mandated thing. It will always happen on the individual level.

It is a concern though if thousands or even just hundreds show up and contribute to one though.

Book burning is the past 20 years isn't solely American thing either.

People came for the Dixie Chix CDs and used bulldozers to destroy copies of them en mass 20 years ago and it didn't go farther.

To be blunt, Americans are a bunch of drama queens both in doing crap like this and the reaction to it.

[McAvoy]

Not all book burning ends in holocaust situations.

With that said book burning is vile. I wouldn't feel comfortable with the burning of Mein Kampf or Das Kapital.

My point really is this, book burning means nothing if it's not a state mandated thing. It will always happen on the individual level.

It is a concern though if thousands or even just hundreds show up and contribute to one though.

Book burning is the past 20 years isn't solely American thing either.

People came for the Dixie Chix CDs and used bulldozers to destroy copies of them en mass 20 years ago and it didn't go farther.

To be blunt, Americans are a bunch of drama queens both in doing crap like this and the reaction to it.

Funny how conservatives forget about the Dixie Chick thing. Cancel Culture being a liberal thing my ass.

How many times do we see conservatives burning shit in protest of something they didn't like and it was always something stupid?

[Beastro]

Funny how conservatives forget about the Dixie Chick thing. Cancel Culture being a liberal thing my ass.

How many times do we see conservatives burning shit in protest of something they didn't like and it was always something stupid?

Well you're talking to a conservative that finds all kinds of protesting stupid. Something about people walking around and doing such shit expecting it to do something pisses me off even if I happen to agree with their protest.

Plus keep in mind what I said about Americans and drama. They're a very hyperbolic people, and always have been (Look up the 1800 election).

[McAvoy]

Funny how conservatives forget about the Dixie Chick thing. Cancel Culture being a liberal thing my ass.

How many times do we see conservatives burning shit in protest of something they didn't like and it was always something stupid?

Well you're talking to a conservative that finds all kinds of protesting stupid. Something about people walking around and doing such shit expecting it to do something pisses me off even if I happen to agree with their protest.

Plus keep in mind what I said about Americans and drama. They're a very hyperbolic people, and always have been (Look up the 1800 election).

Nah it's just my observation of conservatives doing the exact thing that they accuse liberals to do.

I am just getting tired of extremism being the norm now on both sides.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Nah it's just my observation of conservatives doing the exact thing that they accuse liberals to do.

I am just getting tired of extremism being the norm now on both sides.

It's not the same thing. Conservatives aren't keeping a scoreboard, and that was from 20 years ago. It's like complaining to someone's kids that they're stepping over their parent's shoes. There's a bit of historical insight to be had for sure, but it's not really some blatant hypocrisy because they aren't monolithic between those two points.

Well you're talking to a conservative that finds all kinds of protesting stupid. Something about people walking around and doing such shit expecting it to do something pisses me off even if I happen to agree with their protest.

Plus keep in mind what I said about Americans and drama. They're a very hyperbolic people, and always have been (Look up the 1800 election).

As indifferent as I am to most any type of marketing or propaganda, I find protesting to be a bedrock of democracy whether one likes it or not. I think at the very least I find representing sports teams to be a social bubble in an economic sense, but that itself has holistic communitarian facets to it that are rather important on a cultural level, which itself mushrooms into the principles surrounding what makes the Olympics a considerable international past time.

And yeah there's a lot of drama, I do agree.

[McAvoy]

Nah it's just my observation of conservatives doing the exact thing that they accuse liberals to do.

I am just getting tired of extremism being the norm now on both sides.

It's not the same thing. Conservatives aren't keeping a scoreboard, and that was from 20 years ago. It's like complaining to someone's kids that they're stepping over their parent's shoes. There's a bit of historical insight to be had for sure, but it's not really some blatant hypocrisy because they aren't monolithic between those two points.

Well you're talking to a conservative that finds all kinds of protesting stupid. Something about people walking around and doing such shit expecting it to do something pisses me off even if I happen to agree with their protest.

Plus keep in mind what I said about Americans and drama. They're a very hyperbolic people, and always have been (Look up the 1800 election).

As indifferent as I am to most any type of marketing or propaganda, I find protesting to be a bedrock of democracy whether one likes it or not. I think at the very least I find representing sports teams to be a social bubble in an economic sense, but that itself has holistic communitarian facets to it that are rather important on a cultural level, which itself mushrooms into the principles surrounding what makes the Olympics a considerable international past time.

And yeah there's a lot of drama, I do agree.

Of course conservatives don't view what they are doing as the same as liberals. Technically they are not either. But at the base they are doing similar things they accuse the left of doing.

[Beastro]

As indifferent as I am to most any type of marketing or propaganda, I find protesting to be a bedrock of democracy whether one likes it or not. I think at the very least I find representing sports teams to be a social bubble in an economic sense, but that itself has holistic communitarian facets to it that are rather important on a cultural level, which itself mushrooms into the principles surrounding what makes the Olympics a considerable international past time.

And yeah there's a lot of drama, I do agree.

I know the principles around it, it's just "a bit too much" to me whenever I see it.

We'll have to disagree on the Olympics. I see zero reason for them to exist, especially given that they've become effectively their own organized crime racket.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

As indifferent as I am to most any type of marketing or propaganda, I find protesting to be a bedrock of democracy whether one likes it or not. I think at the very least I find representing sports teams to be a social bubble in an economic sense, but that itself has holistic communitarian facets to it that are rather important on a cultural level, which itself mushrooms into the principles surrounding what makes the Olympics a considerable international past time.

And yeah there's a lot of drama, I do agree.

I know the principles around it, it's just "a bit too much" to me whenever I see it.

Well that begs the question now don't it.

We'll have to disagree on the Olympics. I see zero reason for them to exist, especially given that they've become effectively their own organized crime racket.

Hardly seems like a defining gesture.