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Re: I knew it, Captain Picard is on my side.
« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2015, 01:31:30 PM »
I use words in context.  You will frequently then pull out the literal card, in order to argue a point, NO ONE IS MAKING.  Yes, art can be the literal definition, as a noun.  But in the CONTEXT I was using it, was in describing an act

Words can have multiple meanings, depending on the context of how they're used.  You would think a language professor can grasp such a concept.  However, my guess is that you do, but your art of deflection takes priority, which requires you to argue issues no one is making

And the sad thing is, everyone else sees it as well
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« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2015, 03:59:48 PM »
Deflect yourself, sirs.   Make a video and put it on YouTube. Maybe you could make it pay for you.
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« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2015, 04:19:36 PM »
Dr Deflection, strikes again
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« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2015, 05:30:42 PM »
No matter. Captain Picard is still on my side.
I bet Data and Spock are too.
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« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2015, 06:50:21 PM »
That's ok, I have Master Yoda and the rest of the Jedi council on my side     ::)
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« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2015, 10:18:39 PM »
No, you don't. I doubt that even a scumbag like Senator Palpatine would have anything to do with you. I am thinking you might be able to forge a deal with a Hutt.
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« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2015, 12:53:09 AM »
Not even close.  If you can claim Starfleet, I can claim not only all the Jedis, but the light side of the Force as well.  Too bad for you.       8)
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« Reply #22 on: August 05, 2015, 01:26:18 AM »
The British system of divide and conquer worked very well to co-opt a few clans to fight the more unruly ones. The same system was also used in Ireland and later in India. Britain managed to control India with a very small bunch of soldiers and bureaucrats.

This is what Republican'ts dream of doing with Hispanics, but they suck at it, since they fool almost no one except a few diehard Cubans. Now the diehard Cubans are dying off. Most of Miami's Cubans like the new relations with Cuba. Rubio is not very popular, and Cruz is irrelevant.

Wow nice segue.

Could it be that Republicans suck at doing something that they are not attempting to do?

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« Reply #23 on: August 05, 2015, 09:34:12 AM »
Of course they are trying to divide and conquer the Hispanic vote. But they suck at it.

It is obvious what they are doing to anyone who lives here in Miami.

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« Reply #24 on: August 05, 2015, 08:00:37 PM »
  No , that division is there already.

   The Cubans you are pointing to are not tricked by Republicans , they have a low esteem for socialism because of their Cuban experience.

    Mexicans and other Southern Latins have different experience and don't think of socialism as such a negative, well they will learn.

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« Reply #25 on: August 05, 2015, 10:17:15 PM »
Why do you assume that Mexicans do not know just as much or more than you do about Socialism?

There are no entirely Capitalist nations and no entirely Communist ones, either.

Neither system works in its "pure" form.

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« Reply #26 on: August 05, 2015, 11:03:05 PM »
  The Cubans know all the negatives of socialism.

Point being that they know this without the Republicans doing anything to divide them.

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« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2015, 09:13:53 AM »
Cubans can come to the US rather easily, all they have to do is set a dry foot on the beach.

There are one million HERE and ten million THERE. I suggest this proves that vastly more of them prefer to be THERE than HERE.

The ones that originally left were those who were allied with the previous dictatorship and who ran things rendered useless by the Revolution: real estate salesmen and developers, car dealers, loan sharks, croupiers and other gambling industry people, compradores- the rich guys who bought stuff here and imported and sold it at a large profit there, administrators of US companies.

Many of those who came afterwards were swindlers and fixers, who are now swindling and fixing here in the US.

The immigration statistics prove exactly the OPPOSITE of what you claim.

If the US declared the same policy toward Hondurans, over half the country would apply, because Honduras is a vastly harder place to live in than Cuba is or ever was.


A majority of Cubans in the US favor the end to the embargo. They are bright enough to see that it serves only the purpose of making a few local Cubans (who manage telephone calls,  travel to Cuba, charter flights, etc.) very rich th the expense of all the other Cuban Americans.

When you have lived in Miami and lived with a Cuban for four bloody years, then you can tell me all about what a fucking genius you are about Cuba. All you are doing here is regurgitating CANF propaganda from the days of yore.

Sure, Castro runs a somewhat oppressive and inefficient government. On the other hand, people in Cuba are not starving and THOUSANDS who have come to Miami have returned, not because they love Fidel, but because the live better there with less stress than here. Payoing rent in Miami eats up half or more of an unskilled persons' salary. Rent in Cuba is minimal.
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« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2015, 07:40:01 PM »
  So you retract the idea that the Republican party is trying to split the Latinos?

   You seem to be agreeing with me that the split there is pre-existing.

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« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2015, 08:53:16 PM »
What I said was that previously most Latinos tend to be Democrats, but Cubans were the exception, and voted Republican. As the old whiskerandos die off, their children and grandchildren are increasingly voting for Democrats, and in the last presidential election, Obama got more votes among Cubans than Romney. The republicans would LIKE TO split off a larger percentage of Cubans to vote Republican't, but most Cubans favor the end of the Embargo, and morons like Trump accusing the Mexican government of deliberately sending rapists to the US, and crowing that he plans to force the Mexicans to build a huge wall to keep themselves in their place makes this increasingly less likely.

Pope Francis is far more popular than the Pole and the German that came before him, but Rubio, Cruz, and Bush have suggested that the first Hispanic Pope ever is batty. This does not help, either.
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