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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:07:14
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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Conversely the next four years will be about liberals completely forgetting everything Obama did during the last 8.
'Tis why I'm in Calvin Ball mode... doesn't matter anymore.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:14:58
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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whembly wrote:Conversely the next four years will be about liberals completely forgetting everything Obama did during the last 8.
'Tis why I'm in Calvin Ball mode... doesn't matter anymore.
I'm inclined to agree with you.
Trump's actions these last 48hrs are terrible and we should call him out on that.
What gets my goat is that the same people moaning about it in newspapers said nothing when Obama did something similar in 2011. That was also wrong.
I'm not trying to deflect by bringing up Obama, but the double standards on display as always, have me reaching for the sick bucket. It's bad journalism.
If the press would hold everybody to account equally, we'd all be better off for it in the long run.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:17:11
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Didn't realise Obama had made executive orders of such a clearly fascist bent?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:21:25
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Amnesty international reckons Obama's drone attacks killed hundreds of innocent women and children abroad in his 8 years as POTUS.
One of those attacks included the death of an American civilian, which some called assassination.
I believe it's illegal for POTUS to kill American citizens in this manner. Due process, trial by jury, 8th amendment and all that.
As I say, none of that excuses Trump's idiocy these past 2 days, but I'm just asking for balanced journalism, and not a whitewash of Obama, especially from a certain British newspaper.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:22:29
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Men I hope people in Taiwan won't suffer from that war between the US and the mainland.
Peregrine wrote:More likely, if Trump doesn't back down, is China getting economic revenge. They certainly have enough economic influence over the US to make us (literally) pay for the insult, and can do it in a very public manner that makes it clear that Trump earned it.
That would be way better. If the US and China cut economics ties, it will be great for Europe. Also I hope Alphabet (i.e. Google), Twitter, Facebook, Apple and co notice that in Europe they can get their very-high-skilled employee from all over the world to work together, including those from the US.
Then we'll be able to say unironically #ThanksTrump!
After that we'll just need to finally get that EU into a big super-state like the US did (that part might be really, really hard ^^), and we'll be back into the game big time!
NuggzTheNinja wrote:I think the terms "Neo-Marxists" and "Evangelical Theocrats" would fit pretty well, respectively.
I think “Neo-Marxists” is quite the worst possible description for people that have never, ever expressed the wish to abolish private property, institute a “dictatorship of the proletariat”, and that are quite as far as possible from the concept of class warfare as can be. Calling them “Neo-Guelphs” (or “Neo-Ghibellines”) would not be more out-of-touch in my humble opinion.
If I'm wrong about the fact the people (for whom you consider the name “neo-marxists” is fitting) are as far as possible from the concept of class warfare as can be, then my bad, I'll blame not actually living in the US. But actual communist ideas in the US seems like complete science fiction in France.
I could get beyond that. Mad Max style. In the US. Definitely not in Switzerland, you keep your hands out of my little precious postcard country  . Send lord Humungus my best regards.
Zywus wrote:  If you imagine yourself to be counted among the fittest in that scenario, I think you're in for a rough time
Exalted for greater truth! That's fact, AND alt-fact, AND every other kind of fact.
LordofHats wrote:At the rate he's going we might actually have hope of getting rid of him in 2020.
Might be too late. Also those ratings don't seem that bad. More than 40% of US citizen thinks this guy is doing a great job? Oh my!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:24:01
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Obama froze the program from one country, Iraq, after an event where fingerprints on a bomb used in Iraq matched the fingerprints of someone who entered the US as a refugee after previously having been detained in Iraq. They made changes in screenings based on that evidence, and then resumed it.
They froze the program for a specific country due to a specific reason. People were upset about it then, and innocent people died because of it then.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 18:40:47
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Never Forget Isstvan!
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Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 19:50:06
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: whembly wrote:Conversely the next four years will be about liberals completely forgetting everything Obama did during the last 8.
'Tis why I'm in Calvin Ball mode... doesn't matter anymore.
I'm inclined to agree with you.
Trump's actions these last 48hrs are terrible and we should call him out on that.
What gets my goat is that the same people moaning about it in newspapers said nothing when Obama did something similar in 2011. That was also wrong.
I'm not trying to deflect by bringing up Obama, but the double standards on display as always, have me reaching for the sick bucket. It's bad journalism.
If the press would hold everybody to account equally, we'd all be better off for it in the long run.
I'm going to have to disagree with you a bit...
The Obama adminisration was right to block the Iraqi refugee program in 2011. There were nat sec issues going on at that time that pracipitated that decision. (I think it was the fact that a fingerprint was found on a IED that matched someone trying to get into the US... or something like that).
Trumpesto, using the same authority as Obama's '11 decision, has every right to do so as well. (gak, he campaigned for this gak). Had they:
a) set an effective date
b) really informed the DHS
c) waived it for those in transit
d) not include the green card holders
I would've spent more energy defending this move. Alas, it's implementation and the inclusion of the green card holders to me is very troubling.
However, the Trumpesto Critic's losing their mind and going flying rodent gak is becoming a story... it's like they're walking into Trumpesto and Bannon's trap here...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 19:53:07
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 19:53:17
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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Ustrello wrote:
Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
You know what, if you are going to keep dragging me in like this, at least have the integrity to specifically point out something in my posts to justify your point.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 19:53:47
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Or are the Republicans voters losing their kind and going crazy by voting for Trump walking into the Democrats trap?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 19:55:00
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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d-usa wrote:Or are the Republicans voters losing their kind and going crazy by voting for Trump walking into the Democrats trap?
Nope... doesn't compute.
Democrats, the media, AND EVEN YOURS TRULY were convinced Clinton was going to win big.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:00:11
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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You know, this brings a thought. I am so, so SO grateful that our President Charles de Gaulle was nationalistic enough to say “No we don't want to rely on the US for our defense, feth you we'll get our own nukes”. I feel so much more comfortable at night knowing that there are French nuclear submarines armed with nukes around the oceans. Depending on Trump… oh my god that would be bad.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:00:24
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Mitochondria wrote:Total societal collapse. Total governmental collapse. Survival of the fittest. A hard reset and an opportunity to clear the laws, tax code, and bureacracy once and for all. Rewrite the Constitution with appropriate safeguards. We were strong when we did not tolerate the moral debauchery of the left. However, we are now too deep into the tolerance/acceptance/celebration cycle of moral and societal decay brought about by the subversive "best intentions" of the left. Time to just sink it to the bottom and start over. For once I agree with Mitochondria. I eagerly anticipate a near future in which society collapses, my wife is raped to death by a gang of lusty young alt-right hoodlums for being not white, I am chopped up for food being rather fat and chunky, while my teenage daughter is taken for good "breeding stock" because she has wide hips. It will be a glorious new age when after a thousand years of redevelopment along "dog eat dog" lines, society eventually manages to attain the level of 9th century Wessex, with all the glories of art, literature, and science that I am sure you will be put in mind of.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:01:00
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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As an accused "Obama Fanboy" I had plenty of problems with stuff he did, especially the assassination of a US citizen.
https://wiki.pirate-party.us/No_Safe_Harbor:_Assassinating_Citizens
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:02:32
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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Yeah... I especially remember you and Ouze positing strenuous objections over this...
As well as over most of the Patriot Act provisions...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:03:10
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Kilkrazy wrote:Mitochondria wrote:Total societal collapse. Total governmental collapse.
Survival of the fittest. A hard reset and an opportunity to clear the laws, tax code, and bureacracy once and for all.
Rewrite the Constitution with appropriate safeguards.
We were strong when we did not tolerate the moral debauchery of the left.
However, we are now too deep into the tolerance/acceptance/celebration cycle of moral and societal decay brought about by the subversive "best intentions" of the left.
Time to just sink it to the bottom and start over.
For once I agree with Mitochondria.
I eagerly anticipate a near future in which society collapses, my wife is raped to death by a gang of lusty young hoodlums for being not white, I am chopped up for food being rather fat and chunky, while my teenage daughter is taken for good "breeding stock" because she has wide hips.
It will be a glorious new age when after a thousand years of redevelopment along "dog eat dog" lines, society eventually manages to attain the level of 9th century Wessex, with all the glories of art, literature, and science that I am sure you will be put in mind of.
Hopefully some watery tart will throw a sword at somebody soon so we can know where supreme executive power will come from.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:05:47
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Kilkrazy wrote:Mitochondria wrote:Total societal collapse. Total governmental collapse.
Survival of the fittest. A hard reset and an opportunity to clear the laws, tax code, and bureacracy once and for all.
Rewrite the Constitution with appropriate safeguards.
We were strong when we did not tolerate the moral debauchery of the left.
However, we are now too deep into the tolerance/acceptance/celebration cycle of moral and societal decay brought about by the subversive "best intentions" of the left.
Time to just sink it to the bottom and start over.
For once I agree with Mitochondria.
I eagerly anticipate a near future in which society collapses, my wife is raped to death by a gang of lusty young alt-right hoodlums for being not white, I am chopped up for food being rather fat and chunky, while my teenage daughter is taken for good "breeding stock" because she has wide hips.
It will be a glorious new age when after a thousand years of redevelopment along "dog eat dog" lines, society eventually manages to attain the level of 9th century Wessex, with all the glories of art, literature, and science that I am sure you will be put in mind of.
You're a fan of Fallout I take it?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:05:51
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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You know what guys... If righties didn't like how Obama wielded his Executive Powahs... and conversely when lefties don't like it when Trumpesto uses that same Powahs... Isn't it time to have a discussion whether or not we'd WANT these powahs at the Executive level? Is it time to advocate to relegate some of them back to Congress and the states?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:08:59
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Never Forget Isstvan!
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whembly wrote: Ustrello wrote:
Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
You know what, if you are going to keep dragging me in like this, at least have the integrity to specifically point out something in my posts to justify your point.
You mean besides the hundreds of posts where you literally complain about everything he does, doesn't or might do?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:11:50
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
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Ustrello wrote: whembly wrote: Ustrello wrote:
Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
You know what, if you are going to keep dragging me in like this, at least have the integrity to specifically point out something in my posts to justify your point.
You mean besides the hundreds of posts where you literally complain about everything he does, doesn't or might do?
Yes. Pick any one of my previous posts...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:13:22
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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whembly wrote:You know what guys...
If righties didn't like how Obama wielded his Executive Powahs... and conversely when lefties don't like it when Trumpesto uses that same Powahs...
Isn't it time to have a discussion whether or not we'd WANT these powahs at the Executive level?
It's it time to advocate to relegate some of them back to Congress and the states?
That's definitely a good conversation to have. The Executive branch has acquired a vast amount of power that it wasn't originally intended to have across a broad spectrum of issues, and the statement that "Americans have Kings, they're elected every 4 years" has some merit. Executive orders, military actions, huge arrays of agencies under the Executive branch employing hundreds of thousands of people, etc. Listening to Dan Carlin's latest history podcast, he actually brought up a really good point about how the existence of nuclear weapons dramatically expanded the power of the executive branch in general, as there could be no waiting on Congress to declare war, shifting that responsibility to the Executive branch in practice while Congress pretty much just managed funding.
That said, given how dysfunctional congress is, much of that also may simply be bowing to reality in the expectation that anything actually get done.
Not sure if there are any good easy answers, but it's definitely an issue that should have been more closely looked at over the last 60 years in general, and has been brought up by many thinkers on all sides, but seldom addressed at the actual governmental level.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:20:01
Subject: Re:US Politics: 2017 Edition
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!
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Vaktathi wrote: whembly wrote:You know what guys...
If righties didn't like how Obama wielded his Executive Powahs... and conversely when lefties don't like it when Trumpesto uses that same Powahs...
Isn't it time to have a discussion whether or not we'd WANT these powahs at the Executive level?
It's it time to advocate to relegate some of them back to Congress and the states?
That's definitely a good conversation to have. The Executive branch has acquired a vast amount of power that it wasn't originally intended to have across a broad spectrum of issues, and the statement that "Americans have Kings, they're elected every 4 years" has some merit. Executive orders, military actions, huge arrays of agencies under the Executive branch employing hundreds of thousands of people, etc. Listening to Dan Carlin's latest history podcast, he actually brought up a really good point about how the existence of nuclear weapons dramatically expanded the power of the executive branch in general, as there could be no waiting on Congress to declare war, shifting that responsibility to the Executive branch in practice while Congress pretty much just managed funding.
That said, given how dysfunctional congress is, much of that also may simply be bowing to reality in the expectation that anything actually get done.
Not sure if there are any good easy answers, but it's definitely an issue that should have been more closely looked at over the last 60 years in general, and has been brought up by many thinkers on all sides, but seldom addressed at the actual governmental level.
Yea...
One good thing that Congress will likely pass (Trump'll sign... although, it weakens him), is that there's a bill in the works to undo the Chevron Deference... I think that'll do loads to mitigate runway executive overreach. It's a start...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:24:31
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Personally I think it was right for Obama to drone strike the ex-American terrorist in the Yemen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:27:29
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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whembly wrote: Ustrello wrote: whembly wrote: Ustrello wrote:
Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
You know what, if you are going to keep dragging me in like this, at least have the integrity to specifically point out something in my posts to justify your point.
You mean besides the hundreds of posts where you literally complain about everything he does, doesn't or might do?
Yes. Pick any one of my previous posts...
I'm not going to drag myself through hundreds of pages, because everyone here already knows it is true because they have seen it
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:30:42
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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whembly wrote: Vaktathi wrote: whembly wrote:You know what guys...
If righties didn't like how Obama wielded his Executive Powahs... and conversely when lefties don't like it when Trumpesto uses that same Powahs...
Isn't it time to have a discussion whether or not we'd WANT these powahs at the Executive level?
It's it time to advocate to relegate some of them back to Congress and the states?
That's definitely a good conversation to have. The Executive branch has acquired a vast amount of power that it wasn't originally intended to have across a broad spectrum of issues, and the statement that "Americans have Kings, they're elected every 4 years" has some merit. Executive orders, military actions, huge arrays of agencies under the Executive branch employing hundreds of thousands of people, etc. Listening to Dan Carlin's latest history podcast, he actually brought up a really good point about how the existence of nuclear weapons dramatically expanded the power of the executive branch in general, as there could be no waiting on Congress to declare war, shifting that responsibility to the Executive branch in practice while Congress pretty much just managed funding.
That said, given how dysfunctional congress is, much of that also may simply be bowing to reality in the expectation that anything actually get done.
Not sure if there are any good easy answers, but it's definitely an issue that should have been more closely looked at over the last 60 years in general, and has been brought up by many thinkers on all sides, but seldom addressed at the actual governmental level.
Yea...
One good thing that Congress will likely pass (Trump'll sign... although, it weakens him), is that there's a bill in the works to undo the Chevron Deference... I think that'll do loads to mitigate runway executive overreach. It's a start...
That has the potential to get all sorts of weird, but may be interesting, I'm not sure exactly what sort of policy would replace it however.
Kilkrazy wrote:Personally I think it was right for Obama to drone strike the ex-American terrorist in the Yemen.
I don't think anyone mourns the guy, but they also apparently went after his kid who wasn't apparently involved in anything, and there are...very scary issues surrounding a targeted assassination, by the United States Military, of a US citizen, particularly without any apparent due process, conviction, etc.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:52:28
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Ustrello wrote:I'm not going to drag myself through hundreds of pages, because everyone here already knows it is true because they have seen it Actually, you can filter this thread to only showWhembly's posts, which are just 13 pages. Don't be lazy. If you have a problem with the things Whembly says, be specific.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 20:55:35
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Ustrello wrote:
Doesn't matter, whembly thinks they are the same because "Obummer iz bayuhd" and other false equivalences
Doesn't erase the fact that, whether rightly or not, Trump is catching public flak for some of the same crap Obama carried out on his watch with nary (or hardly) a peep by the controlled media organs.
In 2011, Obama instituted a six month ban on refugees from Iraq for the reasons dusa pointed out. In media land: *sound of crickets chirping*
In 2017, Trump institutes a 120 suspension of taking in refugees from Syria. Media land explodes in outrage.
The Obama Administration declares seven countries to be covered under an enhanced visa security policy. In media land: *sound of crickets chirping*
Trump continues Obama's policies on the matter, including the policies of the Obama DHS, for the same seven countries along with a ninety day visa suspension. Media land explodes in outrage.
Even if Hillary Clinton got elected, she would be catching some of the same flak from the controlled opposition among so-called "conservative" media outlets for her actions. That's just the nature of the beast.
People seem to forget that the controlled Old Media outlets thrive and run on partisan bickering and controversy, all in the interests of money, agendas, and ratings. Even Faux Nooze. That's why I take the so-called "mainstream media" with the same level of seriousness as I do supermarket tabloids like the National Enquirer. Which is to say, none at all. It's ALL propagandist bull  and ratings hype no matter where it comes from.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 21:06:04
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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Kilkrazy wrote:[
For once I agree with Mitochondria.
I eagerly anticipate a near future in which society collapses, my wife is raped to death by a gang of lusty young alt-right hoodlums for being not white, I am chopped up for food being rather fat and chunky, while my teenage daughter is taken for good "breeding stock" because she has wide hips.
It will be a glorious new age when after a thousand years of redevelopment along "dog eat dog" lines, society eventually manages to attain the level of 9th century Wessex, with all the glories of art, literature, and science that I am sure you will be put in mind of.
Don't know how it is in your part of the world, but here in the US, race-based sexual assault is significantly more likely to happen in the opposite direction, SIGNIFICANTLY in the other direction. Literally 4,000 times more likely in the opposite direction.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/29 21:14:19
Subject: US Politics: 2017 Edition
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cuda1179 wrote: Kilkrazy wrote:[
For once I agree with Mitochondria.
I eagerly anticipate a near future in which society collapses, my wife is raped to death by a gang of lusty young alt-right hoodlums for being not white, I am chopped up for food being rather fat and chunky, while my teenage daughter is taken for good "breeding stock" because she has wide hips.
It will be a glorious new age when after a thousand years of redevelopment along "dog eat dog" lines, society eventually manages to attain the level of 9th century Wessex, with all the glories of art, literature, and science that I am sure you will be put in mind of.
Don't know how it is in your part of the world, but here in the US, race-based sexual assault is significantly more likely to happen in the opposite direction, SIGNIFICANTLY in the other direction. Literally 4,000 times more likely in the opposite direction.
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