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2016/03/07 02:51:38
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
You are trying to spin this in to something it isn't. Liberals who claim they would leave if Trump was elected are probably going to go to a country that is Liberal. Which Mexico is not.
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2016/03/07 03:24:39
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
You are trying to spin this in to something it isn't. Liberals who claim they would leave if Trump was elected are probably going to go to a country that is Liberal. Which Mexico is not.
I should also point out the admittedly fewer posts out there of "conservatives" saying the same thing. As in, some of the idiots out there are saying if Sanders or Clinton were elected, they'd move to Canada.
2016/03/07 03:41:47
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
"Moving to Canada" is just a saying at this point though. It's not as though it's a carefully weighed emigration decision it's just a way of saying you don't like a thing that might happen.
2016/03/07 03:44:48
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
Strong contender for most idiotic post of 2016 right there.
2016/03/07 03:48:11
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
Strong contender for most idiotic post of 2016 right there.
What, you didn't know that liberals are secretly racist?
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2016/03/07 03:48:55
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
Strong contender for most idiotic post of 2016 right there.
What, you didn't know that liberals are secretly racist?
There is a lot of racism amongst liberals, they just don't associate their ideas with rascism. Liberal Hawkism is generally driven by racism (saving brown people from their brown life styles) and neoliberalism (saving brown people through control of their economies because they can't make the right decisions) can be fairly rascist. American Liberals enjoy removing agency from foreigners of darker complexion so that they can learn to enjoy the glories of modern western secularism.
Lets not pretend here that liberalism is only kind hearted innocent do gooding.
2016/03/07 04:12:27
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Ouze wrote: Well, if a successful actor says ignoring a problem is the best way to handle it, how can you argue with that?
#facebookwisdom
Not to argue with the quote itself, but if you've seen the interview where Freeman said that to Mike Wallace, the very strong undertone there was that when we talk about things in terms of race, we will continue doing things in a racial manner. Remember he does go on to decry February as Black History Month, even going so far as to asking Mike, "Which month do you want?" (in reference to having a Jewish History Month). What I personally took out of it, which not everyone will, is that the manner in which we speak to each other, or speak about issues will result in we as a society remaining stuck on a problem, or solving it and moving on.
2016/03/07 04:53:45
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
FREEMAN: You're going to relegate my history to a month?
WALLACE: Come on.
FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.
WALLACE: I'm Jewish.
FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?
WALLACE: There isn't one.
FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?
WALLACE: No, no.
FREEMAN: I don't either. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until ...?
FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You're not going to say, "I know this white guy named Mike Wallace." Hear what I'm saying?
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2016/03/07 05:16:48
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Yeah, I watched that interview. I strongly suspect Freeman's words were directed specifically at Wallace and how he was trying to start a pity party or something.
I'd wager if given a podium to opine about the issue he'd come out different.
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2016/03/07 05:43:15
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Well, I don't agree with his last line, but I did agree with all of the middle parts. I'm not a big fan of black history month either - it feels cheap and meaningless.
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2016/03/07 06:21:36
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
I'd wager if given a podium to opine about the issue he'd come out different.
IIRC, he has spoken about that interview, and about racial issues... and his message isn't much different. It's not the "dont talk about it" message, but rather the message of respect "me" as a person... I'll have to see if I can find something tomorrow.
2016/03/07 08:03:29
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
whembly wrote: Buckle up ya'll... the DoJ just doesn't grant immunity deals willy nilly (to the IT email administrator)... something's up.
Not according to Rep. Castro.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, the twin brother of HUD secretary Julian Castro, claimed this morning on CNN that Hillary Clinton had been cleared by the Justice Department:
I'm unsure if Castro just mixed up his talking points or is just applying the latest spin. Regardless, the likelihood of Hillary being indited even if there were anything illegal is slim at best and zero if she receives the Democrat nomination.
Here's an interesting question. If Hillary were to be indited, would President Obama pardon her on the way out of office in fashion similar to what President Ford did for President Nixon?
2016/03/07 10:02:22
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
I mean, I'd go to Canada because I prefer the cold to the heat, but hey, maybe it's actually just that I'm incredibly racist.
Sure, it's a reality that the people that would go to Canada would go because they're racist, I'm just not sure that it's *this* reality.
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skyth wrote: I love the false narrative from conservatives that trying to help someone that is 'brown' is some how racist.
Its actually a liberal narrative, you should look more into it. There are many liberals (especially amongst anthropologists, feminists [non-imperialist], political scientists and even historians) that argue against the notion that brown people need to be saved from their own lives. What looks like do gooding is actually removing agency from people which turns them into things that can't make choices rather than individuals that make difficult decisions or simply are within the grip of life that effects us all. Often people are inproving their over all life in their own distinct cultures before they receive the intervention of modern western secular liberalism via military force. Liberals in America love to get on board with saving other countries because it makes them feel like they were successful at home already.
Its okay to criticize Western liberalism, they are not perfect. Doesn't make Western conservativism some how better, it has its own problems too. Seriously I don't get why Western liberals believe they have all the right answers for everybody everywhere regardless of individual cultures and histories.
Edit: Interesting that if you criticize the right you become liberal and if you criticize the left you become conservative for convenience. Easier I suppose to immediately dismiss something without needing to think about it.
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2016/03/07 14:08:04
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
skyth wrote: I love the false narrative from conservatives that trying to help someone that is 'brown' is some how racist.
And that they somehow they are too dumb to understand how Democrats are constantly pulling the wool over their eyes so and vote for them en masse. If only they were smart enough to listen to the Republican talking points...
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2016/03/07 14:44:25
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
whembly wrote: Buckle up ya'll... the DoJ just doesn't grant immunity deals willy nilly (to the IT email administrator)... something's up.
Not according to Rep. Castro.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, the twin brother of HUD secretary Julian Castro, claimed this morning on CNN that Hillary Clinton had been cleared by the Justice Department:
I'm unsure if Castro just mixed up his talking points or is just applying the latest spin. Regardless, the likelihood of Hillary being indited even if there were anything illegal is slim at best and zero if she receives the Democrat nomination.
Here's an interesting question. If Hillary were to be indited, would President Obama pardon her on the way out of office in fashion similar to what President Ford did for President Nixon?
NuggzTheNinja wrote: On another note, why is it that so many liberals are claiming that they will move to Canada if he is elected, but so few claim they would move to Mexico?
Because if Trump becomes President there'll be a big wall blocking them from getting into Mexico.
While this and all of the other joke replies are cute, it doesn't address the reality - the people who would leave and go to Canada because, they claim, Trump is a racist would not be caught dead living with Mexicans. Latte liberal elitist racism is still racism after all.
Strong contender for most idiotic post of 2016 right there.
What, you didn't know that liberals are secretly racist?
While this isn't generally detectable on explicit measures of racial bias, implicit measures show that Whites in NY and NJ (very liberal states) are actually very biased.
And I'm glad to see I'm missing nothing of importance by having certain posters on ignore
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