The Americans is a sobering reminder of how ridiculousness pointless Cold War rhetoric was. Thank god that’s over
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# ? Jun 1, 2019 20:53 |
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 17:38 |
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Rachel Maddow is reasonable and trustworthy
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 04:58 |
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Grondoth posted:A whole lot of people are fiscally conservative but socially liberal. I'm in the inverse of that
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 05:18 |
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the far right radicalization of internet dweebs is weird and upsetting, sure, but at the end of the day these people are a tiny minority of society and their views are not reflecting a larger trend
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 06:18 |
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"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 06:21 |
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The Democrats.may make some mistakes but Hy and large their heart is in the right place
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 07:40 |
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The new York times is a valuable and reliable arbiter of news
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 07:41 |
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Soap Scum posted:"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 08:12 |
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America is redeemable and worth saving.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 10:31 |
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Comedy speaks truth to power.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 10:40 |
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Nobody likes Hillary but enough people will reluctantly vote for her.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 10:46 |
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Comedy speaks truth to power. It kinda does, though, there's just a whole lotta bootlickers that self-identify as comedians.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 10:48 |
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Left parties might capture institutional power through *radical economics*, bring back a new "keynesian" era and solve pressing issues like unemployment and climate change. And even if they didn't, even the center-right would have to change its ways now that it's conclusively proven that austerity doesn't work and it wouldn't let the world go beyond 2 degrees because democracy. Democracy is the ideal politics: everything can be solved by more and more direct democracy. Racism, sexism and so on are individual distortions and have been pushed to a fringe anyway, so a well informed majority will only occasionally and accidentally do wrong. Academics are the vanguard making this world better by researching how bad things are wrong and don't work and how there are good things we should do instead, and popularizing their work. Modern rebels and terrorists are all (self-)brainwashed weirdos in the same vein as incels and their appearances have only a purely distorted relation to what was happening in the world.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 11:05 |
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Man, I hope some kind of Resistance forms against Trump
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 12:07 |
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The so called "alt-right" are a bunch of harmless edgy morons that will grow out of this phase and be embarrassed by their teenage years like I am.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 12:27 |
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Communism can never work. Anarchism is for children. Unions are bad.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 12:27 |
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Ground game
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 12:48 |
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"The democrats are evil and smart. As opposed to the republicans whom are evil and dumb" I had it backwards
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 14:51 |
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Political dramas and police procedurals are stupid and poorly written, but they're harmless fun thwt don't affect the real world.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 15:57 |
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Soap Scum posted:"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 16:22 |
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something matters
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 16:24 |
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As the economy and living conditions worsen, people will embrace the left in greater numbers and affect great change on many levels of the government.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 16:44 |
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fiscally conservative, socially responsible is a reasonable and level headed approach to bipartisanship
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 16:46 |
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Violence isn't the answer
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 20:42 |
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obama tried to help Hillary get elected
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 20:44 |
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I thought that quote from Churchill about democracy being a poo poo form of government thats sole redeeming virtue was that every other form was worse was overly cynical.
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 21:03 |
I thought that democratic socialism was the best way to improve the world (now I'm an anarchist)
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# ? Jun 2, 2019 21:19 |
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im on the net me boys posted:I thought that democratic socialism was the best way to improve the world (now I'm an anarchist)
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 01:56 |
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From my BA in political science: -Only developing countries do people vote along ethnic or tribal lines, unlike western democracy where people may disagree but vote for what they think is in the best interest of society and not their people. -Hillary Clinton has a ground game advantage that will give her a 1-2% boost in swing states for the GE -Although flawed, the Democrats mean well and any inability to deliver just means they were hamstrung by the GOP and structural problems like the electoral college and single member districts
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 02:12 |
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evangelicals care at least somewhat about a politician's religious sincerity and don't need to be brought in front of a new Inquisition
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 02:57 |
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Tubgoat posted:America is redeemable and worth saving.
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 03:14 |
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demographics is destiny
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 03:19 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 05:42 |
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im on the net me boys posted:I thought that democratic socialism was the best way to improve the world (now I'm an anarchist) That anarchism is the edgelord of political theories. I still think that, but I used to too
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 05:48 |
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Texas and Georgia are gonna be purple states!!
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 06:00 |
Who What Now posted:That anarchism is the edgelord of political theories. Wouldn't facism be the edgelord of political theories
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 07:07 |
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im on the net me boys posted:Wouldn't facism be the edgelord of political theories Yes. Anarchism is just fine for emotionally-mature adults, which means it can't work in the U.S.
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 10:40 |
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I thought that anarchism was a unitary political theory too before 2016. American anarchists have proudly cultivated the highest form of edgy politics, post-left anarchy.
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 12:04 |
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In 2007 I thought the financial crisis would lead to a revival of the far left globally. Because there was no way people could fall for nasty nativism and ultimately fascism.
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 12:09 |
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Krazyface posted:Texas and Georgia are gonna be purple states!! oddly enough, i actually have an ounce of faith in Texas. not Georgia though, they're hosed. squidbillies is an accurate depiction of that state
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