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Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
The Americans is a sobering reminder of how ridiculousness pointless Cold War rhetoric was. Thank god that’s over

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Christoph
Mar 3, 2005
Rachel Maddow is reasonable and trustworthy

The Ultimate Doge
May 1, 2019

by Nyc_Tattoo

Grondoth posted:

A whole lot of people are fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

Those terms make sense and are useful.

I'm in the inverse of that

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

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

Soap Scum
Aug 8, 2003



"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown
The Democrats.may make some mistakes but Hy and large their heart is in the right place

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown
The new York times is a valuable and reliable arbiter of news

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Soap Scum posted:

"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
America is redeemable and worth saving.

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

Comedy speaks truth to power.

Brrrmph
Feb 27, 2016

Слава Україні!
Nobody likes Hillary but enough people will reluctantly vote for her.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

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.

uncop
Oct 23, 2010
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.

Big Mad Drongo
Nov 10, 2006

Man, I hope some kind of Resistance forms against Trump

The Ghoul
Dec 8, 2011

I got a cobra for a cock and some wrought iron balls
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.

The Ghoul has issued a correction as of 12:29 on Jun 2, 2019

The Ghoul
Dec 8, 2011

I got a cobra for a cock and some wrought iron balls
Communism can never work.
Anarchism is for children.
Unions are bad.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Ground game

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
"The democrats are evil and smart. As opposed to the republicans whom are evil and dumb"

I had it backwards :unsmith:

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
Political dramas and police procedurals are stupid and poorly written, but they're harmless fun thwt don't affect the real world.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Soap Scum posted:

"NPR is a worthwhile media outlet"

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

something matters

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
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.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
fiscally conservative, socially responsible is a reasonable and level headed approach to bipartisanship

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
Violence isn't the answer

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

obama tried to help Hillary get elected

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
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.

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis
I thought that democratic socialism was the best way to improve the world (now I'm an anarchist)

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

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)
:respek:

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
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

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

evangelicals care at least somewhat about a politician's religious sincerity and don't need to be brought in front of a new Inquisition

Mao Zedong Thot
Oct 16, 2008


Tubgoat posted:

America is redeemable and worth saving.

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

demographics is destiny :downs:

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice
  • America was bad but not as bad as the USSR
  • Communism killed more people than capitalism
  • America wasn't yet a fascist country

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

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

Kazzah
Jul 15, 2011

Formerly known as
Krazyface
Hair Elf
Texas and Georgia are gonna be purple states!!

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

Who What Now posted:

That anarchism is the edgelord of political theories.

I still think that, but I used to too

Wouldn't facism be the edgelord of political theories

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

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.

uncop
Oct 23, 2010
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.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


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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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Krazyface posted:

Texas and Georgia are gonna be purple states!!
weirdly, texas was the only state where any shred of electoral good news came for democrats in 2016. it went Trump but not as much as other states, and state-level Dems actually gained seats in the lower house. they chipped at the majority even further last year. this is in spite of the fact that the state party is still a dysfunctional mess

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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