I googled the term as I was admitting I wasn't familiar with it.

Not that it matters really.

-So the California Coastline is a "moral ghetto"?

I have doubts Danforth keeps trotting that term out.

He brought it out for a very poor reason, IMO

Zed generates a fair amount of sympathy here.

It's not fair to say it's a defense because it's been done so goddam poorly.

Nobody here wants to define "rich" because they know the Democratic Party will not touch an idea like this ... ..and because they don't want to admit they want to stick it to anybody better off than themselves.

And absolutely nobody here believes zed lives in a really nice neighborhood yet it's very very dangerous for him.

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying nobody believes zed at all.

-Sure you did. Just like Bellringer.

So that's twice you called me a liar on this thread?

Holy cow. Okay. Free country.

-I've lost friends to QAnon

Lost? They're dead or not your friends anymore?

what all of them are afraid to do is admit what they really mean when they say "moral ghetto".

They simply mean a neighborhood comprised of red voters.

They could have defined it as such 100 posts ago.

But no......too -----------. All of them.

But Zed has suffered long enough living in a POS neighborhood where his life is in danger.

He should move on.

LOL

Oh, you're in the same club, clownie. Tolerant lefies have all but completely abandoned this place.

Fine, I'm mean for picking on Zed

but everything else I've posted about my neighborhood and community is 100% accurate.

If you want to believe him and call me a liar, that's your right. Danforth has already joined that club.

-You probably wouldn't notice until the party invites dried up.

We were talking about my life being in jeopardy, not being invited to parties.

You know, what Zed was claiming he has exposure to

But you moved on from that because you never believed it

-making up the phrase.

I knew it existed. But you'll never be able to point to an actual neighborhood that you described.

Neither Will Zed.

-the salient part?

The salient part was included. Your intolerance.

You don't get to make up excuses for being a racist or a Nazi, do you? Of course not. But you get a make up an excuse to be intolerant?

Nobody buys it.

-A moral ghetto is an isolated social or intellectual environment where people only interact with others who share the exact same values, beliefs, or moral codes, shutting out outside perspectives.

That sounds like a place you and Zed can only wish you could find and live.

You realize, of course, that you and Z are in the top 20% of most intolerant people here.

-And deep down you know your life would change if you publicly took a knee the next time the Star-Spangled Banner is played

You must believe it'll happen in Zed's neighborhood because he told you so

But you're dead wrong in mine.

It would be dimmed upon but my safety would never never never be in jeopardy.

Maybe it's because nobody has the balls to ---- with me.

Or maybe it's because nobody's that willing.

been fun....for me.

I love how corky accuses me of making it personal when zed mentioned his neighborhood has hundreds of times, and danforth is obsessed with my neighborhood and community and of course...corky drags my wife into it.

but I made it personal.

got it.

my offer still stands......I'll leave zed alone.....but it comes with a condition.

see you all later.......

-Not a risk you're willing to take, right?

man, you're quite obsessed with my well-being, aren't you?

I don't do business locally. I have a very very specialized niche. nobody in my neighborhood matters to me in a business sense.

and I'm friends with whom I want to be friends with.

And none of that is the issue.

My safety is not in jeopardy. nor are the people who are comfortable being liberal democrats in my neighborhood.

Deep down you know it's true.

I don't know what kind of contract you guys signed with Zed to protect him but he must have some dirt on you guys or something.

would everyone just prefer I simply plonk zed and/or simply ignore him?

I'll consider it on one condition..........

98

it's a term made up about an hour ago or so in an effort to give Zed mouth to mouth.

-Ever wonder why it's taken so long for Trump to be correctly identified as being crazy?

by whom?

it didn't take me nor you long to diagnose him as such.

and it's the same folks who still can't identify him as such.

IOW, either you figured it out immediately or.....never.

or did you just admit you didn't really think he was this way until more recently?

-I see people carrying guns into businesses past large signs stating that you can't carry guns here.
Explanation?

I wasn't clear earlier?

you live in a -------- or you're lying.....that's the explanation.

sounds awfully like a -------- to all of us, zed .

-That's because they think you're a Republican.

There are known active democrats in my neighborhood. they have signs up at every election. many are natives to this town....prominent families.

their consequence? probably don't get invited to all the parties.

but that's it. no safety issues.

You need so badly to believe zed's neighborhood is as he describes you're willing to assign it to me.

this place is awesome.........zed's an influential person. He can whip up a pitcher of kool-aid and it gets drank down pretty fast.

-What do your rich white friends want with huge arsenals?

i know you see me as very friendly and inviting in real life.

I didn't say "friends" just neighbors.

but whatever.....owning guns is equivalent to a moral ghetto?

never seen a bucket on anybody's head nor anybody carrying a firearm either.

and I'm sure I have neighbors who have CC permits.

still safe here.....

now I can take to you actual unsafe neighborhoods.

where you'll see a massive crossover of both economic and moral deficiencies.

they do tend to have a correlation.

are....not is.

-It's not necessary to define "rich".

in a conversation about confiscation of wealth from "the rich".....yes, it is necessary unless it's just a joke.

which is what everything knows it is. a joke

not serious. It's not like anybody believes the democratic party would entertain any such notion.

-Are you still pretending to be a Republican in your hometown for your own business and safety reasons?

You're gonna assign Zed's safety issues to me?

how off the rails can you get?

I have the very neighbors Zed believes he has. wealthy folks with a huge arsenal of firearms. extremely right wing.

There is no business nor safety issues where I live.

-What a riot, coming from someone who has to pretend he's a Republican in his home town.

funny thing on a walk this morning and I saw more signs of the democratic party challenger to a senate seat than of the incumbent. In fact, I saw no signs for the incumbent. only the challenger.

-Why are you pretending these areas don't/can't exist?

fair enough....to humor you I'll go along........I want to find a neighborhood that has very nice homes, good schools, shopping restaurants, etc...all the things folks who have a lot to spend on a home look for.

But I also want the neighborhood to be a moral ghetto.

Can I have both? moral ghetto AND upper class/wealthy?

zillow.com........find it for me.

I have no trouble believing zed lives in a dangerous neighborhood in Texas.

Fair enough?

The sandnazi brothers...I love it.

and I can't wait to ---- up every argument on this place every time we discuss economics by inserting "moral" into it to replace "economic"

thanks for that, Sandforth.

2 moral ghettos.

where zed lives (confidential and at his word entirely)
where Donald Trump lives

that's it?

yeah.....serious argument to be sure.