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Posts posted by hpslugga
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11 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
ON ACCIDENT
lol
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Right, he had no idea that throwing a fucking Molotov cocktail could catch something on fire.
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Israel
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6 hours ago, bad_teammate said:BDS is a justice movement
They’re actually not. I support the movement in terms of what the name implies, but their ultimate goal will never work.
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1 hour ago, Enchubben said:
Just checking on the status of socialism in Venezuela? Going well I presume?
If by “going well” you mean “still nonexistent,” yes.
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1 hour ago, Lucid said:
Sure do. Doesn't even come close to the stupidity of 16.
Please quantifiably measure that. I'm dying to see this.
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9 hours ago, Macanudo said:
They cant (legally) drink or join the military.  Do you seriously think 16 year olds are mature enough?
I say this with all due respect to you, but you've got to be kidding me.
People your age (and older) voted for a guy for president in 2000 because he was the guy that people wanted to have a beer with and they didn't want to vote for the guy who was the Vice President when the President was getting blown by interns, and he was re-elected in 2004 largely because they felt icky that gay people were getting married. That's "mature?"
People your age just put Donald fucking Trump in the White House. That's "mature?"
The public relations industry is absolutely dedicated, in general, to steer elections towards considering what they call "qualities," but to ignore policies. When you consider how in debt this country is, how internationally we perpetually give aid to notorious abusers of human rights, how we've systematically removed the middle class from our consciousness, among other things, it seems highly inappropriate to resist giving voting rights to people 2 years away from current legal status on the grounds of "maturity." There's nothing "mature" about what the current electorate does...at all.Â
EDIT: And besides, the difference between a 16-year old and an 18-year old in terms of political intelligence is a flea's hop.
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2 hours ago, Foosters said:
They can afford to get their kids toys but not bachelor’s degrees.
And that's really the point and it's not an accident. Toys and gadgets and shit like that, in the context of this "prosperity" nonsense, appeal only to the very superficial-minded. Those are shiny objects that have a way of distracting the easily distractible.Â
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16 hours ago, JimmyJames said:
In the case of Dershowitz, I’m guessing far far worse.Â
He is. That guy is Exhibit A for what it is to be a pathological liar. He has a capacity to just brazenly lie while both simultaneously 1) knowing literally everything he says is a lie while 2) believing that every word of what he says is true.
Thats precisely why he’s been a very effective attorney over the years.
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15 minutes ago, elfenix said:
how many agents could you hire and permanently endow for the ~$25 billion that this boondoggle would cost in upfront construction?
Depends on how horribly we’d want to underpay them.Â
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3 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
This dude's so far in the closet, he can't remember where the door is.Â
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13 hours ago, elfenix said:
Not only that, the idea that the immigration issue will somehow be a pivot for 2020 reaches a level of fractal wrongness to which republicans seem absolutely addicted these days.
1. The people who believed Trump's feculent blather about building that stupid wall are either going to vote to re-elect him or they're going to stay home (i.e. the people who are pissed about their taxes going up despite the bewildering inanities that were voiced in support of those heinous cuts). They will not, however, vote Democrat no matter who the candidate is. Trump's base is filled with people who, like the person you were responding to, feel that politics functions the way sports do: there's a red and a blue team, they're on the red team, and they'll never be on the blue team. Even if they did, the number of them is so small that it hardly merits consideration. And of course there's also the issue of the fact that we still operate on that ridiculous electoral college and the "swing states" he carried were more concerned about their own jobs rather than immigration.
2) Anyone who took said feculent blather for what it was worth isn't going to vote for him either. Trump is winning precisely and exactly 0 new voters at this point, and that's not going to change in 20 months. His popularity rating is the shits, it's only going to get worse, and this snowflake bullshit about building a wall isn't helping him.Â
Regardless of what the Democrats proposed in 2013, you can either be serious about illegal immigration or you can live in the Land of Make Believe and Pretend about it. Wholly ignoring, and in some cases inflaming, the reasons that people do it and yearning for some stupid monolithic construction is derived from the latter, not the former.
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5 minutes ago, Foosters said:No, I get it. I just find it hilarious that someone would accuse the Dems of being the party of Hitler when actual Nazis march in support of Trump.
At this point, I no longer find that because it's predictably true. We're at a point where we can just straight up predict how they'll react/respond to just about any story. It's as if they have an addiction to fractal wrongness.
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25 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
I had this idea a few days ago and I can’t think of many legitimate reasons not to do this. Â
I wanted to pitch it to the assholes here so they could tear the idea apart.
It’s actually a pretty solid litmus test to see if ones a troll or if one is merely stating their honest beliefs as being opposed to NN is an utterly indefensible position.
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9 hours ago, F250 said:
Somewhat but there are still a lot of Boomers sitting in those positions. There are a lot of old fucks still running things even though they are retirement age and have the money to retire.
They are the Hulk Hogan of generations: their "greatness" is well over 75% media creation, and in their very advanced years, maintain their reputation as being the old guy who absolutely refuses to put over the young talent.
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50 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
You do realize that this system already applies to everyone 65 and older, right? And that it's wildly popular?
Is that something that can be found on Fox News' website?
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8 hours ago, horn4life said:
When Bret Baier was asking Jim Jordan about the GOP not addressing the subject matter being discussed by Cohen it was an awkward moment. Just yell liar, liar, pants on fire.
They were simply following a hallowed tradition that is commonly referred to as the Carl Sandburg Axiom:
"If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell"
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2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
Or work with multinationals while retaining the controlling stake and preserving the people of Venezuela's ownership of their own natural resources. Literally no one is arguing that there should be no multinational involvement, not even Chavez.
This coup is simply an attempt to install someone who will give ultimate control of Venezuela's oil reserves to private multinationals.
They are telling us this out loud. They used to try to pretend that wasn't happening.
Exactly. They would claim either “self-defense” or that we were “defending them from internal aggression.”
This is sort of like when Vince McMahon just removed the facade of wrestling at least appearing somewhat legitimate and being out front with the reality that they were fixed.
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6 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:
 right after Kid Rock and Fabio's speech on how celebrities should stay out of politics.
Oh I absolutely love that sentiment they express.Â
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1 minute ago, Js1 said:
I am not a lawyer, and I sure as hell don't stay at Holiday Inns, but I'm like 99.9% certain "good accomplishments" don't suddenly make one immune to charges of graft, corruption and bribery.
Not only that, the claims that these "accomplishments" have been anything "good" are highly dubious at best.
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8 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:
Weird. I thought you had a point or somethingÂ
You knew better than that.
Anyways, here's a pretty good summary of how the prime minister is taking all this:
TL;DR: It's all a vast left wing conspiracy, fake news, alternative facts, etc.Â
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Seriously, none of the accusations against this thug should surprise anyone with a functioning grey cell. He’s Exhibit A
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1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:
i agree with a lot of this.
our only hope is our youth shaking us off like dead fleas.
look at these cpac personalities. these people are cynical carnival barkers, and there's probably not a true believer amongst them. they are in this for the graft. these people are swindlers, playing up the anxiety/hate politics that has taken over the older generations.
and, i mean, good for them for identifying a market and serving that market exactly what it seeks - that's capitalism in its perfect form.Â
but bill buckley ain't walking through that door, even if we probably have him to blame for shoving the republican party over to the right.
but these people are clowns, just like the politicians we saw in the oversight committee yesterday. they are performing for their gerrymandered constituency, and gloating behind the scenes that they have managed to fool some of the people all of the time.
i will say that i think it's a tragedy that conservative thought has been distilled to this crowd of grifters. i firmly believe we need strong, real patriots trying to actually make america better one step at a time. these people are not interested in that. they want strife and division, because it is good for business, and that's all.
good night, sweet republican party. you are the ouroboros.
Buckley was a clown too, he was just better at speaking than the rest of them.
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35 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
You would excuse terrorism if it supported your ideology.
Seriously the idea that this is Trumped up newspaper stuff doesn’t even rise to the level of Arkansas trailer park trash.
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45 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
The Leahy Law has waiver provisions.
Just sayin'.
It’s beyond insane to assume that each of those violations met those conditions. I’ll admit the law is vague and enforcement has been weak, but the point is those guys violated the living shit out of it as a matter of course, not just occasional mishaps.
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Their goal, whether unwitting or not, is to destroy Israel demographically.
When their movement started to gain traction just a few years after BDS was founded as a movement, they stated that they were "based on international law."
But later on they announced their 3 tiers, which is:
1. The ending of the occupation
2. Granting equal rights to the Arab minority inside Israel
3. The full implementation of the Right of Return.
I wholeheartedly endorse tiers #1 and #2, but #3 is a non-starter. If that were to be implemented, there'd be around 6 million Arabs admitted into Israel, and thus we've overnight completely changed the demographic character of the country from being a strong Jewish majority to being an Arab majority. That's a non-starter. The broad international consensus that supports the two-state settlement never insists on the full implementation of RoR. In fact, what they insist on is the "just settlement of the refugee question" with an acknowledgment from the Israeli government, which means that a much lower number of Arabs would be allowed to go back but not to such an extent that it even remotely threatens the demographic character. This is the reason why BDS enjoys such limited international support. Instead of refuting the very oft repeated charge of wanting Israel to cease to exist, which was levied against them years ago even by people like Chomsky, Finkelstein, Sara Roy, etc, they've given ambiguous statements about "we're agnostic on Israel."
If you're concerned with international law, you can't say that you take no position on Israel.