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Saint Sputnik posted:That's some pretty low poo poo, I mean drat. Ah yes, George Soros, a man who has discarded the capitalist system and all of it's means to support centrist Democrats who prevent anyone actually leftist from entering.
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trandorian posted:Let me introduce you to this thing called "Conservative Media In America Ever Since A Black Dude Became President". That's an exaggeration if I've ever heard of one. The most right-winged media would only get even close to those Venezuelan stations if Obama was actually remotely leftist.
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2011 07:28 |
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trandorian posted:And your point is? It was wrong when America shut down anarchist and communist media outlets throughout the past century or more for advocating revolution, it was wrong when Venezuela did it. No, it would be more like a coup occurs, the President of the Chamber of Commerce is sworn in, and they dissolve the Supreme Court and Congress. During this, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN support the coup, have been egging on supporters before the coup for a few weeks and edit footage to make anti-coup supporters are ambushing peaceful protesters instead of general brawl. I can understand why Chavez and supporters would be a bit upset, then again Chavez tried a coup when he was in the military and, in my opinion, has been squandering his options with pointless international posturing.
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OatBoy posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/o...re.html?_r=1&hp Things are terrible now but the future's so bright I gotta wear shades? Is this the (even more-so) free-market capitalistic version of Transhumanism?
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Bruce Leroy posted:Is the little guy at the bottom of each comic Kelly's personal caricature? Yes, Kelly is a fictional character mocking how a lot of cartoonists add someone in the bottom for "reinforced_talking_point". The Kelly Cartoons are drawn by Ward Sutton, and they're the most controversial part of the Onion as people actually think they're real or serious, even if they're in the print editions of The Onion. Here, have a laugh and cry when you realize that these are actual opinions to some or have been made into cartoons.
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| # ¿ Nov 9, 2011 06:21 |
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Armyman25 posted:I wish that every time Zucotti is talked about they would show a picture of it. The Philadelphia one is a bit similar, but at least they don't call Dilworth Plaza a park. Here are the pictures, the green highlighted area is where the occupiers, last time I checked, are located.  And here's the place without highlights so you can get a clearer idea.  Also as you can see, Philadelphia City hall is massive.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 17:13 |
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Augster posted:This letter to the editor was in my newspaper yesterday Well ignoring that Veterans Day is for all who served in the armed forces and not just those who died (that's for memorial day), women died in service to the US during the Vietnam War most noticeably with their own memorial, during plenty of other wars, and they're serving in combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan while being raped by their own comrades. In other words: 
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2011 04:36 |
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TetsuoTW posted:They can't say "uppity." Not in public at least. Plus she's married to a terrible president and has plenty of white knights against any criticism, legitimate or not.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I haven't read all of it, but doesn't Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" emphasize pretty much the opposite ideas of the type of capitalism championed by right-wingers (e.g. fetishizing the rich and hating on the poor) and their interpretations of "Wealth of Nations?" Basically, there's many references in various works of Smith to a good safety net, an educated populace being better than a non-educated, and the dismissal of investments just to get money, not to invest in business. I've learned that trying to bring this up just gets you dismissed because of other misgivings about Friedman and The Chicago School. I still can't believe people defend Pinochet.
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Pope Guilty posted:Smith was actually a fairly impressive moral philosopher in addition to expounding economic sentiments that wouldn't put him out of place among many social democrats. Pity he's remembered and feted as a champion of amoral ruthlessness. It's also a pity that he isn't remembered for living with his mother most of his life, like many of the libertards who worship him.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I agree that it is completely retarded of her to refer to college sexual assault response agencies as similar to both Soviet communism and the Spanish Inquisition, but she is still making a valid point about the rush to judgment in the media in sexual assault cases, like the Duke lacrosse scandal. This is the main problem with legal cases and the media in general. If you lived in the US you understand this, case in point the Casey Anthony and every other media circus that gets people more angry than they should as opposed to a systematic destruction of safety nets and any meaningful reform.
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| # ¿ Jan 31, 2012 01:19 |
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Equester posted:I love Conservapedia's project. It's so insane. Also how conservative do you have to be, to find the bible to liberal? The most hilarious thing about the Conservative Bible Project is that the vast majority of the Christians who would follow Conservapedia believe that only the King James Version is the only valid translation and would view this as blaspheme.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:My dad just sent me this WSJ op-ed: I would personally suggest goatse but to be serious link to It's Inequality, Stupid and how Citizens United is making America literally the worst nation ever.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2012 19:21 |
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Bruce Leroy posted:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bonus...-050100338.html That's the kind of poo poo I would expect to hear in Sweden or Norway with their massive taxes from some rich idiot in his well to do social safety nets, not a country where 1 in 4 children face food insecurity and health care is an eroding privilege.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2012 12:40 |
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Bruce Leroy posted:My favorite part is the "mayhem and bedlam" stuff. They pretend to live in the Just-World, where any violence perpetrated by the police is justified in response to some unspecified thing the protestors must have done.
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colonelslime posted:I really love how these people always assume "my people" and "Chosen One' somehow refers to America. Not even the whole planet/species generically, but specifically America and its people. Like Abraham was specifically writing for a country that would exist 3500 years down the line. That's one the few reason I like Jack Chick's crazy poo poo, in most of them he points out that the US is never mentioned in scripture and will most likely be destroyed early on during the tribulation. Then again I prefer crazy premillennialists to postmillennialists.
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2012 15:55 |
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colonelslime posted:It's only cognitive dissonance if you accept religions other than Christianity as valid. For some reason, people act like the government is actively covering up inflation. Every time a relative of mine comments on prices going up she says "But there's no inflation, right *wink*".
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| # ¿ May 3, 2012 20:36 |
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If God likes banning gay marriage and invading Muslim counties why did the stock market crash hard in 07/08?
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| # ¿ May 13, 2012 06:42 |
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It should also be noted that the "pimp" video was heavily edited to the point that it cannot be ascertained on what outfit that sniveling rat faced git was wearing during the recording of ACORN employees and after investigation by several independent sources is was proven that at no point did ACORN break any laws, contrary to the position of the aforementioned git who still lives with his parents while basking in the selfmade glow.
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| # ¿ Jul 5, 2012 19:57 |
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Orange Devil posted:Why do I get that dreadful feeling that the author thinks that Dirty Harry is a hero or morally good character? It's Ted Nugent, in his opinion the guy shooting people is always the good guy. People seem to ignore the very ending of Dirty Harry a lot.
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| # ¿ Jul 31, 2012 22:26 |
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Pope Guilty posted:I hate moderates; a few of them have genuine, thought-out beliefs which put them in the middle of the road, but most of the self-proclaimed "moderates" I've talked to look at two sides and choose the position they perceive to be "between" them because they think that makes them smarter and more reasonable than everybody else, when really what it makes them is shallow and smug about it. Well when it's Far-Right vs the Right, the middle ground is pretty lovely. Then again I had a relative tell me that thanks to Obama's new bureaucracy it's impossible to fire hired employees which is why all new hires are legally temps, this was ignoring the fact that I was laid off from UPS as a teamster in both 2009 and 2010.
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| # ¿ Aug 12, 2012 08:12 |
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To be quite honest, I'm amazed that there hasn't been a schism considering how radically different much of the Catholic population in the Americas is when compared to the overwhelmingly European higher ups in the Vatican.
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Branis posted:I really wish we could get a solid definition of personal freedom. What freedoms do I have that the average european does not? The freedom to be unable to afford my ultra high deductible health insurance, so despite being insured I still can't afford the the average doctor visit. Is it just guns? is that it? I'd give up all the guns for a more socialist country in a heartbeat. The best part is that there's still plenty of countries that let you own firearms, albiet with more restrictions than the US, that have evil socialist healthcare.
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2012 06:03 |
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I personally can't wait for PSY Too!
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| # ¿ Dec 11, 2012 21:33 |
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I worked at UPS for 3 and half years at a location in the Philadelphia area. It was a closed shop for all below-management employees so everyone was in the teamsters. I worked with people who loathed the teamsters and how they let people who were "loving leeches" stay while they worked their rear end off. One critic was a man who without the health benefits that the teamsters negotiated for would have had probably $1 million in medical bills because of a emergency his wife had. He also took advantage of it constantly as he had a guaranteed yearly raise and had been there long enough that seniority protected him. In conclusion, people hate unions they're in because they're ignorant.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2012 13:11 |
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Glitterbomber posted:So if I read right, Hitchens the brother is an arrogant, windbag, racist, Christian? Apparently he said in a debate with his brother that opposed the War in Iraq after some consideration in the beginning, so he's not the most worthless piece of poo poo like his late brother.
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Van Kraken posted:This one, I think. Just to make people's lives worse, there's some racist parody of that which basically ends with "I guess blacks really are subhuman". Never underestimate hate.
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