Mandela funeral

[essence]

Originally Posted by texasjohn1965

good thing he kept it short......

Never has an avatar been less appropriate.

[texasjohn1965]

Never has a disapproval felt so right.

Isn't it time for the standard libtard argument that everyone is racist.... oh, you already did.

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by texasjohn1965

Never has a disapproval felt so right.


Isn't it time for the standard libtard argument that everyone is racist.... oh, you already did.

Ain't that the fucking truth.

[essence]

Read my lips, you lying bastards.

I never said everyone is racist.

I said latent racism rules in these parts.

Let me be transparent. You fucking tards who denigrate Mandela and ANC's struggle for freedom are racists.

Is that clear enough?

The ying-yang symbol has some resonance for me. It was a gift to my gf many years ago and is precious to me and to her.

[chicagoboy]

Originally Posted by essence

So inspiring to watch all the funeral and memorial events. Did it get much coverage in the US?

Not that much - South Africa isn't our former colony.

[essence]

Originally Posted by chicagoboy

Not that much - South Africa isn't our former colony.

Like I say, total xenophobia.

Your foreign policy is dictated by whom your former colonies were? Must make for a very small foreign affairs department.

Of course, I realise that there are remnants of the old school apartheid-supporting 1970's here, who are completely unrepresentative of the vast majority of US citizens.

[Guest050715-1]

So much for not starting a US bashing political debate.

Maybe TJ sees the Ying / Yang as more of a Texas style symbol. You know more like you mess with the bull you get the horns. Da know.

[texasjohn1965]

Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

Maybe TJ sees the Ying / Yang as more of a Texas style symbol. You know more like you mess with the bull you get the horns. Da know.

I have a large one tattooed on my body. It reminds me to balance the evil in my life with good. I don't mind doing evil things, but I try to keep the scales even. It's a karma kinda thing.

[chicagoboy]

It looks to me like a stylized, interracial "69". Madiba would be pleased.

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by texasjohn1965

I have a large one tattooed on my body. It reminds me to balance the evil in my life with good. I don't mind doing evil things, but I try to keep the scales even. It's a karma kinda thing.

Almost my exact philosophy. I believe in informing someone that their course of action will bring about certain actions on my part. I do not believe in drawing first blood. But if someone does, I believe in bring the scale back to zero. I learned a long time ago that nuking someone for a knife fight only brings round two. And personally, I don't like to take the time for round two. I will, but I don't like to pay for a stupid mistake on my part.

[Sarunga]

Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

Almost my exact philosophy. I believe in informing someone that their course of action will bring about certain actions on my part. I do not believe in drawing first blood. But if someone does, I believe in bring the scale back to zero. I learned a long time ago that nuking someone for a knife fight only brings round two. And personally, I don't like to take the time for round two. I will, but I don't like to pay for a stupid mistake on my part.

Phew....Thank God I never challenged you.

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by Sarunga

Phew....Thank God I never challenged you.

No, not on the Internets over politics or who is the biggest ass. It was never real life for me here because I never made my real living here on a regional board. I had an over $500 a month advertising budget on national boards for that. Though for some of the women here, this is the real world place they earn their money. I mean in real life when things are for real not in Make Believe, Internets land. Besides, a challenge isn't doing something to me in any way, shape or form. It doesn't affect my family or me in any way. I would hope everyone would have known what I meant from the context of the thread.

[spear88]

Mandela certainly did change his views over his long lifetime, and that is a good thing because the shit he believed in in the 1960's was used just to keep people backwards and poor and controlled by a small elite, just like in Cuba.

But even though he was a good and generous man, I don't like to see him deified, and I don't like that everyone assumes that things are better in South Africa than when under apartheid. For the vast number of people things are much much worse there now.

Blacks have some political rights they didn't have but the ANC government has made a shambles of the economy and have completely ignored the problem of widespread violent crime.

By the way Essence. Just because some of us have open eyes and are not jerking off to a picture of Mandela does not mean we are xenophobic, or racist.

You however, I am safe in saying, are a self righteous left wing asshole.

[texasjohn1965]

Originally Posted by essence

The ying-yang symbol has some resonance for me. It was a gift to my gf many years ago and is precious to me and to her.

I missed this before......

You bought a fucking trinket for your rental cocksucker, and this somehow gives you owners rights to the use of the symbol?

It is the only tattoo on my body. I look at it every day. I got it during a very hard time in my life. I will wear it to my grave. I guarantee that it means more to me than some piece of jewelry.

Let's hope Mandela did enough good in his later years to make up for the evil he created to even out his personal scale. I doubt it.