How Many Russians Do You Hate?

Posted by straightlinelogic 7 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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If you couldn’t continue hating someone who hurt you, why would you hate any one of billions of people you’ll never know? It’s foolish, a waste of time and energy. Most people pursue their own opportunities, living and letting live...especially people they don’t know. It’s an important element of a well-adjusted personality. Wars and conflict get all the press, but the unrecognized history of the world is actually a more salutary chronicle. Through the generations, people in large measure have lived peaceably together, even people of different races, nationalities, and creeds. Peace, cooperation, and mutually beneficial exchange, not war and conflict, account for humanity’s journey from cave to skyscraper.

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  • Posted by Stormi 7 years, 11 months ago
    Hatred is a tool of community organizers and liberals, set people against people while they steal all the money and power for themselves. Them, I could hate. However, thanks to e-bay, I have had several good transactions with people all over the world, good conversations, positive transactions, including Russians.I can dislike some Russian leaders of the past, but not the people they abused, anymore than I can hate the clueless people Obama and Hillary have used over here. I find it interesting the liberal politicians push Earth Day, yet never mention the whole original connection to Gorbachev's green agenda in the USA, and the fact Earth Day is big commie Lenin's birthday! I guess I hate people who manipulate other people, regardless of their nationality.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Chinese people are fine. They have zero input into their government though and their government owns a chunk of every business.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You never hear a negative word about China from Democrats, and Obama was bending over backwards to hand them one sweet deal after another to the detriment of the US. I'd love to know how much cash the dems take from Chinese monks & government.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Boy, one doesnt hear praise for the muslims or russians these days ! I dont know many muslims, and although I think their religion is bizarre (not far from the mormons along that scale), they have some good ideas relative to family and finances.

    Just dont get between two muslims, jews, or mormons, and expect fair treatment. They stick up for themselves ONLY.

    I dont know any Russians, but they cant be ALL bad- wasnt Ayn Rand Russian?
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 11 months ago
    If someone intends to harm you or your family or friends, you should be capable of dispatching them without hating them. Should you be wary of potential enemies? Undoubtedly, but first try to understand why they appear to be a danger, and determine if there's any chance to find common ground.

    Extreme ideologies depend on stirring up extreme emotion in their populace to distract from the discomfort of lack of material goods, or personal freedom. Hate is definitely an emotion that hampers your ability to think logically and dispassionately, so the progressives do everything possible to stir up blind hatred against anyone who doesn't believe as they do. Left wing supporters are taught that opponents who use reason and fact are cold blooded and heartless.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I dont have the deep hatred feelings except towards individuals who have specifically done things to me. The rest of the undesirables, hillary supporters at the front of the line, I just try to stay away from and get on with my life.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think the government of china is definitely the big enemy. I dont think the people of chiina are a big threat, however. I deal with them all the time in business, and they have always been very upstanding, customer oriented, fair, and benevolent- at least to me.

    In the USA, the enemy is definitely anyone who supported hillary or sanders.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago
    I disagree that people have lived in harmony over the years. There always seems to be war going on in one place or another, and in some cases in essentially all places at once.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 11 months ago
    Don't know of any Russians I would physically harm, except perhaps: Alexander Dugan-(another rules for radical, this one is ALT Right and a very dangerous creature).
    Other than that, perhaps I'd slap around georgie sorass, chuckie shumer...maybe a few others.

    For the rest of the parasitical humanoid classless creatures...I will admit, I do wonder if a swift bop upside the head would reset their brain...but of course, that doesn't qualify as physical animosity; therefore, does not qualify as "Hate".
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  • Posted by Esceptico 7 years, 11 months ago
    Good article. Too bad we all don't keep this in mind. I will say I bet CNN, MSNBC, et al, will not like the idea. They love warfare (class and others).
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  • Posted by Esceptico 7 years, 11 months ago
    Good article. Too bad we all don't keep this in mind. I will say I bet CNN, MSNBC, et al, will not like the idea. They love warfare (class and others).
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
    Me dino views Russians as potential allies against ISIS if we can just work out our differences.
    Me dino does not hate ISIS, Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
    Me dino does not hate mad dogs either but I know they need to be put down on sight.
    Me dino fears all creatures who want to hurt me. That's why I'm a concealed carry and go to the range so I know I can shoot straight.
    Fear of what a "I dream of open borders" El Presidente Shillary Clintonista would have Evil Hag done to the USA is why I built up an arsenal in my house.
    Me dino does not perceive himself as having a hatred problem.
    Methinks what I have is a fear for survival problem.
    That leads to this question~Is that a problem at all?
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago
    I just keep being amused at how the dems sound like a bunch of anti-Russian war mongers, it wasn't until they lost an election that they came up with their new boogeyman.

    Threat-wise... they have a couple of barely-functioning carrier and battle groups, compared to about 30 that we could put to sea. They have less than a dozen subs, we have hundreds. They may only be out-numbered 5 to 1 in aircraft.. Lethality, no match for us even if there was parity... they never have been. The only thing they can do is pick on a third world country or go nuclear.

    Economically.. Maybe 1/5 of the US..

    Our only potential foe is China, they want to lead, 4 times our population, larger economy than we have, and they are catching up in technology (mostly through theft). They haven't figured out how a carrier catapult works though, we must not have had the plans for that online or those cheap Chinese gaskets keep breaking.

    Our enemy is China, always has been. They are the Athens that looks at us like Sparta.
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  • Posted by GaryL 7 years, 11 months ago
    Hatred prevails throughout the ages. I certainly hated the Gooks during Vietnam. My dad hates the Japs and granddad hated the Germans. Heck, there are still many who hate both the North and the South right here in our own country. I could easily hate my liberal friends, all Muslims, Many black and brown and yellow and red people and even all the RINOs.
    I am just thankful I have better things to do with my feelings and can't be bothered with any hate other than on an individual basis. We should all hate cop killers, terrorists, rapists and a host of other evil doers but I try hard to not go there even though it is a real emotion.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 7 years, 11 months ago
    None. I don't really think about them at all.

    I will say that I do have a degree of respect for the Russians and even the Muslims for their fidelity to their respective causes.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago
    Hatred has always been a big issue with me. It took me many years to realize that it was a waste of energy and in addition was damaging to my psyche and even my body. So, a number of years ago, through effort and discipline, I gave up hatred. That doesn't mean, however, that I replaced it with forgiveness. There are sme things that can be forgiven, and other things that never can. Another thing about hatred is, that because it is such a strong emotion it tends to block rationality, thereby causing one to operate a a lower than oprimum level. Thus, hindering the ability to do one's best in repairing the cause of the hatred.
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