Over at Dkos today, I ran across this comment in Open Thread by
magurakurin-
" if 911 was the deathblow
then we were on death's door anyway. You know, it just wasn't that
bad. People act like it was the worst thing that ever happened to any
people anywhere anytime. And this is a country that incinerted 100,000 continued...
Japanese civilians with jellied gasoline firebombs in Tokyo. A bombing
so intense that pilots could smell the burning flesh as they opened
the bomb doors. Yet, it still wasn't the death blow for Japan. She
would endure not one, but two atomic attacks. Yet America has beomce a
nation of such weak minded cowards that the destruction to two
buildings and the loss of a few thousand people is a death blow
leading them to freely give up their civil liberties and comprimise
ethical and moral principles that have stood for two centuries.
Whatever.
I really wish there was a person in power with enough courage to tell
the American people to get over it. I know I am. And I'm sure plenty
of people here will get all pissed off because the 911 whining isn't
confined to the Right. It is pervasive."
by magurakurin on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 06:26:14 AM PDT
I liked it so much, that I sent it to a few friends. On the other side is a response from a repug ex-friend of mine.
Born again's reply-
Actualy,
You silly tree hugging purse swinger.The real contrast in the JAP American war comes to us in history ,the diffference was the treatment of POWs The fuckin slant eye treated OUR pows like SHIT.starvation torture, etc. eveything outside of the Geneva Convention, While we played ball and had sanitary camps food the works dont even argue this it is proven many times over.
Theris NOTHING wrong wih a little atomic bomb once in a while, The gooks did not buck up to blast Rather they somewhat staggered out and collapsed. How utterly exhilerating just to witness the mass death of rotten slants.Think of it to be privvy to the wonderful A Bomb as it blew Hiroshima to smithereens. Looking out the bay doors of some old B-52. Japan DESERVED eerything the old whore got. FUCK HER
As you can imagine, I was a little taken back by the diatribe I received.
So I replied-
It's not about japan, you xian fundy,you. It's about America and what happened to the country that you and I grew up in. It's about "the war on terror" that piss-poor excuse to rape OUR treasury and steal OUR rights and freedoms. Three thousand people died 5 years ago, and now, because of the lies told to us, we are living in the beginnings of a new totalitarian state with the rich 1% massaging the gullible into going along with the changes.
I can't believe that a president that espouses torture and locking people up without due process still has any base. How born-again christian is that? Fucking torture. Jesus fucking wept.
Please don't contact me anymore.
What the hell do you do with a mindset like that? How can you get across to someone who has such blinders on that he can't even argue the points of the message, but must attack a sidebar instead?