The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

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Wealthy liberals, ala Geore Soros, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, etc.  There may be some wealthy conservative enclaves (Minneapolis/St. Paul suburbs, Southern suburbs, Orange County, CA), but most of the wealthiest areas outside of there are some of the most Democrat.

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Snyder will be in great shape in 2014.

Because most Governors with 37/54 approvals are reelected just fine!

I'm so glad Governor Perdue is still in office!

A better example would be Pat Quinn.

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I really don't understand how you can say the economy wouldn't have been as bad in 2008. The crisis had absolutely nothing to do with tax cuts. It was due to the governments interference in the housing market via fannie mae & freddie mac. If anything the Gore economy would have been worse. Bush inherited a slumping economy that got worse because of 9/11. The tax cuts didn't take full effect until 2003, at which point, the economy picked up until the housing market bubble.

there's nothing in there that's as absurd as blaming the financial crisis on tax cuts.

If we didn't have the tax cuts, Iraq, and Medicare Part D, instead going the Gore route of lockboxing and paying down the debt, the stimulus packages could have been double in size and twice in length and scope and we wouldn't have felt a recession at all.

Iraq and the tax cuts are definitely right, but it's a little strange to hear a Democrat arguing for "lockboxing" to pay down the debt at the expense of expanded Medicare coverage.

Except that was Al Gore's proposal.

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People paid into Social Security. The government took the money from the people it is suppose to 'help,' in the first place.

Ida Mae Fuller paid roughly $25 and collected roughly $23,000 in benefits over her lifetime. Paid for, indeed.

Some other rascals similarly made out like bandits.

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Country - strong gop
Pop - depends on sub-genre; Taylor Swift - strong GOP; Katy Perry - leans GOP; Madonna - leans Dem; Lady Gaga - strongly democratic
Post-grunge - lean GOP
Pop Punk - lean GOP
Hardcore Punk - lean GOP
Metalcore - GOP
Christian Hardcore* - strong GOP
Christian Contemporary - ridiculoulsy GOP
Classical - toss-up
Heavy Metal - GOP
Death Metal - scary nihilistic rightwingers
Black Metal - scary nihilistic rightwingers
Post-hardcore - GOP
Grindcore - GOP
Emoviolence - GOP
Christian Emoviolence** - strong GOP
Reggae - strong Dem/green
Indie Rock - lean Dem
Electronic - lean Dem
Classic Rock - GOP
Post-Rock - GOP

*It is worth nothing that there is actually a Christian "sound" in hardcore that is slightly different from non-Christian bands, so there is a musical differentiation, not just lyrical content. It's more moshy and has a far higher percentage of songs consisting of breakdowns.
**This includes about six bands total, none of which are active today.

mostly white people music, no? Given the demographics, I would say most of the above probably lean GOP.

Apparentely Dude Fest and your average South Minneapolis house show are mostly Republican gatherings...as were the Occupy Wall Street protests!

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The kids on Glee

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Atlas has two biologically female regular posters, politicus and Sheilak5.

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It would be better if opebo stopped posting in it.


...but then again so would every other thread.

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Shoulda, woulda, coulda. With the information the government had in 2003, the Iraq War was the right choice. It's easy to sit here in 2013 and complain.

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Nonpartisan redistricting can be enacted after the GOP uses gerrymandering for a century as punishment.

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I disagree completely. Also, if someone put themselves in harm's way, that's on that person. Civil liberties of the population should never be suspended. Ever. Hoping people do not abuse power is ridiculous. The cops were out for revenge over the university cop that was killed. It had nothing to do with the people of Boston.

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Dear God, that brain-dead troglodyte is posting again? I had assumed that he'd accidentally electrocuted himself in the bathtub or something.

That guy kind of comes and goes, he's been on and off since 2008 when I remember him saying things like that if Obama won there'd be a total economic collapse and new Great Depression with >20% unemployment, all with an attitude and general air of "and if you disagree with me you're clearly just another media-brainwashed Obamabot."

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Speaking of Zarn, I just found this old gem of his that predates the Deluge but unquestionably belongs in it:

The bigger the government, the more left-wing it is.

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Let's keep the beatdown on Zarn continuing:

Rand Paul

Rubio is a silly answer. He is a 'moderate.'

something like this if hillary were to expose rand paul's crazy economics.

Fixed. Isn't 3 years out stuff fun?

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I sure hope not.  That's the last thing America needs.  I'm afraid an atheist president would advocate for getting rid of all Christian symbols from the country, such as the Nativity or the Cross, or the Ten Commandments and while he wouldn't shut churches down, he would actually discourage going to church.  He would probably take prayer out of the beginning of each Congressional session.

The day America has an atheist president is the day it begins its downfall.

That said, I don't think it will ever happen.  I think Christ will be coming back to earth very soon and if He tarries, He won't allow an atheist president.

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If fascism is palingenetic ultranationalism, then at least a few strands of radical thought in Islam could be described as palingenetic ultrareligiosity. I myself wouldn't make the comparison and would caution against it for a whole host of reasons (the concept of 'Islamofascism', as if the content of the belief systems was comparable in either a theoretical or a historical sense, is bizarre, wrongheaded, and dangerous, and I think politicus's post veered dangerously close to that without necessarily in fact diving in), but I don't think it's prima facie absurd.

"Islamofascism" is just a very stupid term that fails to describe any real ideology. The closest thing probably would be something like the ideology Gaddafi claimed, or maybe Hamas, but in those cases it's still a pointless term to use to describe them.

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The post isn't bad at all until you get to the bolded part, but the bolded part alone is so absurd, and the parts after it show at least extreme ignorance:

I've seen "the writers" referenced before, and thought, what? This is a fiction, but who would type out a fiction like this on an Internet forum? It's not like it's a comic book or anything. Then I thought maybe it was some obscure reference to God or something, but the plural makes no sense. Ah well.

You guys are so right - in a godforsaken place like Kenya there is no baseball all day, no watching movies all night, no eating like he does now. You're lucky to have clean water. There are bugs, it's hot. Missionary work is grueling from what I have heard, and what I did hear was years ago when I was a kid.

The ideal job for Bushie would be to be a minister. It's really not taxing work in the least, especially for a country minister, and even if you have to perform weddings and funerals, you're still the boss. Other people do the heavy-lifting. Bushie could watch TV all day, read his Bible, and prepare sermons. Why wouldn't he want to do that?

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https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=172672.0

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Yes, despite Gustaf's insistence otherwise I can get along with people who disagree with me. Torie is another great example of someone I get along fine with.

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And yet you wonder why this is almost exclusively maleprepubescent boys forum

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The OP has already been quoted, but EVERYTHING Bushie says in this thread is worthy of inclusion really: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=172898.0

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I don't want to make this into Update 7, all I want to do is break down the itinerary for discussion and thoughts.

United Airlines
Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City to Washington, Dulles, International Airport
Thursday, 20 June 2013 - 10:40 - 14:28
Flight Duration 2:48

Brussels Airlines
Washington, Dulles, International Airport to Brussels National Airport in Brussels, Belgium
Thursday 20 June 2013 - 17:40 - Friday, 21 June 2013 - 07:15
Flight Duration: 7:35

Brussels Airlines
Brussels National Airport to Kayibanda Airport in Kigali, Rwanda
Friday, 21 June 2013 - 11:35 - 20:00
Flight Duration: 8:25

Brussels Airlines
Kigali, Rwanda to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya
Friday, 21 June 2013 - 21:20 - 23:35
Flight Duration - 1:20

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Swiss Airlines
Nairobi, Kenya to Zurich Airport - Zurich, Switzerland
Monday, 1 July 2013 - 23:25 to Tuesday, 2 July 2013 - 06:25
Flight Duration: 8:00

United Airlines
Zurich, Switzerland to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York
Tuesday, 2 July 2013 - 09:50 to 12:35
Flight Duration: 8:45

United Airlines
JFK to Washington, Dulles
Tuesday, 2 July 2013 - 14:15 to 15:34
Flight Duration: 1:19

United Airlines
IAD to OKC
Tuesday, 2 July 2013 - 18:50 to 20:44
Flight Duration: 2:54

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Another -- some states tax different items. Some states tax food, and some don't. Some tax prescription medicines, and some don't. Some tax religious materials and some don't. 

It is quite interesting. The freeloaders using EBT are exempt from paying sales  taxes that real Americans have to pay in some situations.

Inhumane piece of s**t.

...Wow. Even for krazen that's...

And there are people who think I have a problem with empathy?

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Context: This is in a thread about anti-GM actions taken by the government of Hungary:

The funny thing is that unscientific views on GM foods are far far more harmful than the young earth creationism that I keep hearing about.

Which doesn't make young earth creationism any more scientific or any more constitutional to teach in public schools. Anything useful to add?

Perhaps, but certainly GM is more pressing.  Besides, this shows the utter hypocrisy of the far-left when they claim to hold the mantle on scientific progress.  They don't.

Emphasis mine.