Originally Posted By utahjosh <Can someone please explain why we need to be polite to Mitt Romney here??> Hopefully we can all be polite to everyone. Sure, we all have our moments, but let's try to make politeness the general rule.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I'm not sure I'm inclined to be polite to Charles Manson or Hitler. Not everyone is deserving of being treated politely.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Can someone please explain why we need to be polite to Mitt Romney here?<< Well, there are those Community Standards (there's a link to them in the box at the bottom of the page where you type a response on each and every thread) that are agains bullying of anyone, whether they're posters on the board, celebrities, etc. Generally, those rules are relaxed (ignored?) in World Events, but the rest of the boards tend to stick to them. And since it's a Disney board, we should probably follow the advice that Thumper quotes: "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" (especially if it's really not relevant to the discussion at hand). That said, I don't think anything here has really crossed the line, though these types of discussions can go downhill pretty fast
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>We're not talking about mass murderers or war criminals.<< Perhaps not, but he is a Corporate Raider and they are not worthy of anyone's respect.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "We're not talking about mass murderers or war criminals." Do douchebags count?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>That said, I don't think anything here has really crossed the line, though these types of discussions can go downhill pretty fast<< Wow, I didn't expect my point to be illustrated so quickly, but it does make you think...
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<We're not talking about mass murderers or war criminals.>> But some of his founding investors in Bain Capital were tied to death squads in El Salvador: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/mitt-romney-death-squads-bain_n_1710133.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...tpopular</a> From the article: <> By 1984, the media had thoroughly exposed connections between the death squads and the Salvadoran oligarchy, including the families that invested with Romney. The sitting U.S. ambassador to El Salvador charged that several families, including at least one that invested with Bain, were living in Miami and directly funding death squads. Even by 1981, El Salvador's elite, largely relocated to Miami, were so angered by the public perception that they were financing death squads that they reached out to the media to make their case. The two men put forward to represent the oligarchs were both from families that would invest in Bain three years later. The most cursory review of their backgrounds would have turned up the ties. The connection between the families involved with Bain's founding and those who financed death squads was made by the Boston Globe in 1994 and the Salt Lake Tribune in 1999. This election cycle, Salon first raised the issue in January, and the Los Angeles Times filled out more of the record earlier this month. There is no shortage of unsavory links. Even the Tribune article referred to by the Romney campaign reports that "about $6.5 million of $37 million that established the company came from wealthy El Salvadoran families linked to right-wing death squads." <> Close enough.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Hopefully we can all be polite to everyone. Sure, we all have our moments, but let's try to make politeness the general rule.>> Ah yes. The ever-popular "do as I say not as I do" pronouncement.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox The guy visited DLR with his family over a month ago. Old news. Time to move on. Mods, please close the thread.
Originally Posted By utahjosh It's true, I admit it. But skinner is just so, so good at talking trash about others, it's hard to to respond.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo Does the politeness rule apply to Pressler? Should the politeness rule apply to public figures? Seems kind of silly.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh "Sorry Josh, you're just as guilty." No, he's not. Josh usually gets a ton of disdain thrown at him before he ever responds. "Should the politeness rule apply to public figures?" Yes.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>But skinner is just so, so good at talking trash about others, it's hard to to respond.<< Then take the high road and don't.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>"Should the politeness rule apply to public figures?" Yes.<< Feel free to lick boot, Doug.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Skinnerbox is a her?>> Yup. At least that's what my OB/GYN tells me. <<That would blow my mind for some reason.>> Welcome to the 19th Century, folks. Women are still expected to be demur and dainty and not assertive nor aggressive whatsoever. Aggressive women make Baby Jesus cry, apparently.
