Carbon dioxide posted:From an European point of view, Sanders is center/center-left, the Democratic party as a whole is center-right/far-right, the Republican party as a whole is extreme right, and Trump is an idiot that can't even be categorized in any kind of political scale. America has no real leftist politicians and they have no clue what a socialist actually is. to most americans socialist/leftist literally means "any politician i don't agree with" there are angry conservative bloggers labeling trump as a leftist
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Carbon dioxide posted:From an European point of view, Sanders is center/center-left, the Democratic party as a whole is center-right/far-right, the Republican party as a whole is extreme right, and Trump is an idiot that can't even be categorized in any kind of political scale. America has no real leftist politicians and they have no clue what a socialist actually is. However, we enjoy calling everything left of GWB "socialism", as the poster above me explained. Someone you don't like? SOCIALIST Something you disagree with? It's SOCIALIST Can't stand your neighbor? He's probably a feminazi SOCIALIST If Americans ever found out what the word actually means, heads will explode. TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 22:50 on May 11, 2016 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:From an European point of view, Sanders is center/center-left, the Democratic party as a whole is center-right/far-right, the Republican party as a whole is extreme right, and Trump is an idiot that can't even be categorized in any kind of political scale. America has no real leftist politicians and they have no clue what a socialist actually is. Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP
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# ? May 11, 2016 22:51 |
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Maxwells Demon posted:Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP "Persus"
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# ? May 11, 2016 22:58 |
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President Ark posted:to most americans socialist/leftist literally means "any politician i don't agree with" Given his voting history, hard line conservatives would view him far to the left of most republican candidates in recent years.
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:03 |
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I'm a strong believer in this. If you'd like to know more i'll be sitting outside the coffee shop until it closes talking loudly to no one in particular
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:15 |
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Maxwells Demon posted:Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP do you even get the opportunity
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# ? May 11, 2016 23:48 |
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Aramek posted:It's a fun side effect of how retarded libertarian "beep, boop, use of force?" thought processes are. Yeah considering they few taxation as "unlawful coercion" I don't think they're using the same scale for "use of force" as the rest of the world.
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# ? May 12, 2016 00:26 |
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duckmaster posted:do you even get the opportunity The American Nazi Party puts out a candidate every election.
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# ? May 12, 2016 02:18 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:The American Nazi Party puts out a candidate every election. You realise that the European parliament elections are literally like voting for the city dog catcher right?
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# ? May 12, 2016 02:39 |
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duckmaster posted:You realise that the European parliament elections are literally like voting for the city dog catcher right? OK? I'm just saying that we have parties like that, albeit with far fewer supporters.
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duckmaster posted:You realise that the European parliament elections are literally like voting for the city dog catcher right? Yeah, and we don't elect Nazis for city dog catcher, either.
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# ? May 12, 2016 03:15 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, and we don't elect Nazis for city dog catcher, either. I mean, you can probably find a few in some podunk town. Statistically speaking, it's inevitable.
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# ? May 12, 2016 03:17 |
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Would a Nazi dogcatcher's politics affect his performance? Would he give German Shepherds more Lebensraum? Would he have a gas chamber in the back of his truck or something?
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# ? May 12, 2016 03:42 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:OK? I'm just saying that we have parties like that, albeit with far fewer supporters. Take a look at the Front National's policies and see how they differ from Trump's platform. He's going to get a lot more votes in November than any of the parties on that map got.
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# ? May 12, 2016 03:42 |
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Zemyla posted:Would a Nazi dogcatcher's politics affect his performance? Would he give German Shepherds more Lebensraum? Would he have a gas chamber in the back of his truck or something? Yes.
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# ? May 12, 2016 04:14 |
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Maxwells Demon posted:Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP Those are literally the kind of parties Trump would run if he lived in a many-party democracy. Trump actually reminds me of the PVV leader: - Shouts utter nonsense about immigrants/muslims - wants to build a wall around the continent/country - gets a lot of votes but because they never have any clear and feasible solutions, nobody in government (except for their own goons) can cooperate with them, and those who try tend to get burned - Awful fake hair
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# ? May 12, 2016 06:24 |
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President Ark posted:to most americans socialist/leftist literally means "any politician i don't agree with" Most commonly it's something like "you are in favor of a tax rate greater than 0%? loving socialist, ." Plus literally anything that will help the working class, up to and including jobs programs, is considered socialism and must be destroyed.
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# ? May 12, 2016 07:38 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:Those are literally the kind of parties Trump would run if he lived in a many-party democracy. Trump actually reminds me of the PVV leader:
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# ? May 12, 2016 10:09 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:OK? I'm just saying that we have parties like that, albeit with far fewer supporters. It's skewed a little bit though, because most people ignore the EU voting stuff. So you get a higher proportion of people voting for anti EU parties - leading to us paying for UKIP MEP'S to not turn up. It's great. (It's not )
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# ? May 12, 2016 10:18 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, and we don't elect Nazis for city dog catcher, either. You guys do elect guys like Sheriff Joe though I was going to make a short game of Le Penn or Cruz/Trump but realised it would be unfair as they polices are identical in many cases.
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# ? May 12, 2016 10:20 |
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It took me a minute to figure out why the series of photos (just before "JA JA JA") unsettled me - they're all subtly Syncro-Voxed. For what it's worth, the full music video is kind of amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQkV5cTuoY
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Henchman of Santa posted:OK? I'm just saying that we have parties like that, albeit with far fewer supporters. edited to be less obnoxious: The US electoral system is set up in such a way that third party candidates barely get a look in, let alone fourth and fifth. The European Parliament is set up in such a way that everyone gets a look in - the governing coalition contains one hundred and fifty three parties with four hundred and seventy five MEPs between them. The comparisons between the US and European systems are in this case irrelevant. duckmaster has a new favorite as of 02:42 on May 13, 2016 |
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# ? May 16, 2016 13:19 |
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Wellp. You must admit, it did escalate quickly.
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# ? May 16, 2016 17:38 |
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Travis343 posted:War. War never changes. War, huh yeah. What is it good for?
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# ? May 16, 2016 20:41 |
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# ? May 17, 2016 05:59 |
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I love everything about this
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# ? May 17, 2016 06:16 |
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# ? May 18, 2016 06:51 |
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Nothing is correct about that graph except the spelling, which is impressive.
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# ? May 18, 2016 12:22 |
sweeperbravo posted:Nothing is correct about that graph except the spelling, which is impressive.
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# ? May 19, 2016 00:02 |
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kalstrams posted:In British English it's juniour and seniour. British people don't use those terms to label the grades of school though
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# ? May 19, 2016 00:17 |
Jmcrofts posted:British people don't use those terms to label the grades of school though
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# ? May 19, 2016 01:40 |
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kalstrams posted:In British English it's juniour and seniour. What's worse is that the pronounce sophomore as To-MAH-To.
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# ? May 19, 2016 01:54 |
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Maxwells Demon posted:Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP Ironically pretty much the only people who vote in these sort of EU elections are fascists who hate the EU. 25% of votes for EU council is like ten and a half voters. That being said the Far-Right has been getting a bit bigger in recent years and it's sort of worrying that they're actually getting some votes in real election and not just in lovely failed states like Greece, Hungary, and Finland.
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# ? May 19, 2016 02:30 |
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# ? May 20, 2016 19:54 |
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Funny thing is that those percentages seem perfectly sensible
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# ? May 20, 2016 20:02 |
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Didn't Hillary's campaign have another instance of the Venn-diagram-that-says-the-opposite-of-what-it-probably-wanted-to-say?
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# ? May 20, 2016 20:29 |
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I don’t think that says the opposite of what it’s supposed to; it’s just nonsensical.
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# ? May 20, 2016 20:34 |
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Yeesh, yeah, every gun owner that she's referring to is an american gun owner, so that is supposed to be a circle within a circle.
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# ? May 20, 2016 21:36 |