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I'm not sure it's the first one but Frazz beat you to Godwin by two posts if he was the first. So you don't have to apologize for proving the Godwin law.

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Republicans need to step away from any sort of media source, they obviously don't know how to work this new technology


Republicans; we love corporations more than humans, we actually count our companies as people, better people than you though


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 Melissia wrote:
There still is no rebellion about to happen. Just a bunch of ignorant fearmongers who think that their inane ramblings actually represent the average person in the US.

I think this applies equally well without assigning a party to the ignorant fear mongers. Polarization's just a game to distract the masses.

 purplefood wrote:
The sole factor is that the Republicans are nuttier than a fruitcake... or fruitier than a nutcake which for some reason I like more...
I'm not saying the Democrats aren't crazy... they just hide it slightly better...

As I've said a few times, there's no shortage of nutters in either party, or in any other party around the world. What's unique about the Republicans is that so many of their nutters hold positions of leadership.

I mean, to catch a Democrat saying something truly odious you have to pick out an actress that was famous in the 80s for taking her clothes off, but to find something similar from a Republican you just interview a senate candidate.


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 Seaward wrote:
How much of it is actually a myth? I don't recall my fellow citizens being this vitriolic towards each other - not just on TV, mind you, but in daily interaction whenever politics comes up - in my lifetime. The politicians and the pundits have always gone for the throat, but when you've got people in line at the supermarket check-out going at each other...

All I'm saying is if you look at other countries where civil war has broken out you have conflict between factions where there is a massive divide in some place. There's a class divide that is so severe that people will turn to violence, or there's some clash of ideology that's so great that people are willing to kill for it.

I just can't see that in the US. For all the noise of a culture war, the actual difference in substance between the two parties is a couple of percent in taxes. No matter how impressively noisy the pundits are in ramping things up, you simply aren't going to get a meaningful number of people saying 'man that guy's plan will change my tax rate by 1% so I'm going to go blow up a Federal building.'


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 Seaward wrote:
Saw two last week. First time in my life. Not actual fights, just shouting matches. First one, I was standing in line, trying to buy some goddamn Frosted Mini Wheats, and the dude in front of me was buying like an apple and a Campbell's soup-to-go thing. The cashier made some comment about it, the guy made some joke about times being hard, and then some jackass at the back of the line chimed in with, "That's why we need a permanent change in the White House, y'all." It was on from there. Cashier, who happened to be black, ended up getting called a welfare queen, the jackass at the back of the line was called a hillbilly racist, etc. etc. etc.

How dumb do you have to be to call someone a welfare queen while they are actually at work? The single piece of information the guy had about the cashier was that she worked, and he decided to attack her by saying she didn't work... that's a brain that just decided to stop receiving incoming information, isn't it?