The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

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There's been a lot of posts I've been tempted to report just to sack the other person with death points but haven't been because it'd be a sin. I'd rather just be able to disable my ability to report posts so it's not an issue.

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I think he meant to put it in the Deluge.

Yes my bad.

At least Antonio fixed it for me.

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Gustaf's crush on J. J. is pretty inexplicable. I don't think I've ever seen him criticize him ever.

Eh...we real, sane men don't have "crushes" on strangers on the internet. That's just you.

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Read your last sentence again Link.  It's a personal attack, and a rather vicious one at that.  Attacks like that would get 10 points in my book. Oh, and it's "conscience" rather than "conscious" by the way.

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Yeah, you did. You also told us he's irrelevant in this race. You also don't let your kids watch The Simpson's yet have no problem posting pictures of your children on the Internets. Do I need to go on with your stupid ideas or will that due for now?

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Sigh.

That post would've been an absolute direct hit if anybody else but you had said it, BRTD.

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Whack-a-Mole may be back for a fortnight.

Will you just shut up already? We get it. Whack-a-mole. Ha ha. Well done.

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Losing money is against the law?

Also, QFT:

I still don't understand how a thread celebrating insults of one poster to another is allowed to exist if people are regularly being infracted for insulting one another.  Seems a bit....counter productive.  Even more so when you look at how many mods are posting and being quoted in it.

shut up

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Actually, Romney will be a cross between the new Washington/Jefferson/Lincoln/Teddy Roosevelt/FDR/Ike/JFK/Reagan.

You misspelled Hoover.

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v0031 is a forum institution. Attacks on him will not be tolerated.

Amen to that.

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What about you do your own God damned homework and stop clogging up this board with your cheating...

I'll be honest, clarence's post rubbed me the wrong way.  As in, he comes across as a total asshole there (though to be quite honest, that's not really rare).

I mean like wow, what a big man this is viciously insulting a foreigner who has less than perfect English......

Well, my own English is far from being perfect, but I think one should try first to learn a language very diffrent from his mother's tongue before becoming an asshole about those, who are actually putting a lot of efforts.

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I refuse to believe that France will elect Hollande.

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...I genuinely pity you.

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You three need to either shut up or take it elswhere.

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Disgusting, but it's to be expected.

I was just going to get irritated by your rote spamming, but I just checked out your recent post history, and concluded you probably don't care one way or another.

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Good. Obama's taking a minority stance on this issue, and this could be something Romney needs to fire up conservatives. Also, this takes away Obama's ability to attack Romney for being a flip-flopper without looking like a complete hypocrite.

But....isn't the poor economy (caused by the EVULLL MARXISSST incumbent) the primary concern of conservatives?

Moderator: President Obama, why did you change your opinion on gay marriage?

Obama: Well-uh-I-uh-where's my teleprompter?

Romney: Flip-flopping on gay marriage isn't going to help the economy.

Mitt, is that you? Why are you posting on message boards?

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tito would have dealt with you effectively, so him.

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I'd write something abusive, but this thread is so mind-numbingly stupid that there's really no point. Please delete yourself from the internets.

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By that I mean Jews who have converted to Mormonism.  And there are Jews who, in fact, have converted to Mormonism.

Hundreds of thousands who died in the Holocaust, even.

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Winfield, you of all people most certainly do not want to be attacking a politician for apparently shifting positions on an issue for the sake of political expediency.

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I can't believe I'm posting this, but Winfield deserved that one:

Wish she'd been nominated. She's too funny to be wasted on Fox News.

Of course she would have won and she would beat the Kenyan in November. She is an American hero, bear her the respect she deserves.

We are giving her the respect she deserves.

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Sorry, Carl, but it ought to be posted here:

My god, my head hurts.  Either it's the alcohol induced hangover, or this thread just really really f***ing sucks!

Seriously Jake dude, are you reading your arguments?  I mean, are you physically scrolling down on the page and looking at your arguments bro?

I was thinking today about why I chose to support Mitt Romney over Gary Johnson.

I definitely agree with Johnson more than I agree with Romney, so why support Romney? Well, because Romney has a better chance of winning.

First of all, might I ask what is even the point of bringing this up?  Most everyone by now has accepted the fact that you want to vote for the rabid flip-flopper because (like all liars and politicians do) he has the better chance of winning than say the principled not at all contradictory Gary Johnson, whose claim to fame was being Governor of a Mountain West state with (at the time) 1.5-1.8 million people.  You have repeatedly staken the claim to wanting to go with Romney due to his statistically higher chances of winning.
Big freaking whoop.  Again what is the point of repeat this bullschnooze?

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WHAT THE FREAKING HELL DO YOU THINK THE JUDICIAL BRANCH DOES?  Sit around and play pool all day and smoke crack rock?  Why do you think that branch of government exists?  Too look pretty in freaking black robes and for men to fantasize about what 70 year old women look like naked?  My god man!  I'll just stop right there due to the sickening images coming into my head!
Anyway, now that I've calmed down, the reason Bush didn't go all the way with the gay (pardon the rhyming scheme) marriage ban or overturning Roe v. Wade is because he simply didn't have the ability to do so.  I mean, this is the Republican Party of 2004 you are talking about, not the one of 2012.  A party that still had quite a few pro-choice pro-gay moderates still left in it.  Sure, one could argue that the Republicans would have enough conservatives in the caucus to push for either of these two bills, but that disregards the pragmatism of an earlier era.  The Republican Party needs more than the South and Great Plains to have a majority in the House of Representatives and in the US Senate, a fact that is obviously not dawning on some people.  Anyway, I could imagine a number of Republicans, even a few conservative ones, being kind of iffy on either voting for a gay marriage ban or overturning Roe v. Wade.  The electorate could perceive either as being far far reaching and it could have dangerous consequences for Republicans in swing districts who care mostly about economics and could give a whiff about social issues like gay marriage or abortion.
Now onto Obama:

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Yeah, if you consider 256 House seats and barely having 60 Senate seats (made possible by the defection of one Arlen Specter) to be a "super-majority" for less than 180 days.
Anyways, it's ridiculous to assume that a party with a large white union base would be overly thrilled about passing either marijuana legalization or gay marriage.  Obama would quickly be painted as a radical by many of his own party members and he would likely face a primary challenge that wouldn't win against him, but weaken him enough in the long run to make defeat in the general pretty much a done deal.  Marijuana legalization, as much of a "you've got to be crazy to be opposed to it" issue it is, would be even less likely to pass through Congress, considering how much pandering Democrats do towards the "soccer mom" crowd.
Both issues are popular with Americans, however Congress is too much ruled by special interests to make it happen.
And I say this as somebody who supports drug legalization and gay marriage.
The problem here is that, Americans on average tend to not like the social issues boat being rocked.  Bush or Obama pushing for social issue legislation on the national level would've been rocking the boat being rocked quite a bit.

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And how would Romney handle the economy?

Because, given his record, I'm drawing blanks here.  Seriously, does this guy play lotto numbers with policy or something?  Were you even paying attention the past few years and have you even bothered to look at wikipedia to see how his principled campaign for Mass. Gov went?  Or how about his even more principled and not at all big spending liberal pro-universal healthcare term in office went?  Or how about his attempts to out liberal Ted Kennedy in 1994, insisting he was an Independent during Bush/Reagan?
How the hell am I supposed to know if he's going to operate like a communist or a libertarian?  Given his vicious record of blatant flip floppery (that keeps up the grand Massachusetts tradition nonetheless)?
.....Oh wait.  I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here as to why YOU think Romney is a good choice for President.  After all, Romney also seems to be of the mind "principles be damned!  Let's just get elected!"

I guess if I lived in Weimar Germany I would vote National Socialist.  After all, I disagree with like 98% of what they say, but hey at least they could operate the economy better than the Communists and have a chance to win, unlike the Conservative People's Party!

Yes, slippery slope.  And a bit a Godwin for you.  But necessary.

I hope you genuinely understand how dangerous this line of thought really is Jake.  Because, people who think like you do (aka "non-Democrat and non-Republican votes DON'T MATTER") are why it's gotten to the point where third party votes really don't matter anymore.  You know, I was thinking the other day that I'm a political apathetic, but the more I think about it people who vote "lessor of two evils" are the REAL APATHETICS.  Because, at least when I don't vote I'm doing it out of principle.

Just a closing thought for you.

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Simple and absolutely sufficient. Classic Al:

Democrats have influences... Che Guevar

Try harder, idiot.

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Sorry, Morgan....

F#ck off.

Such wit.

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Do you really advocate anything? I mean, you're the great cheerleader of the Palestinians here now (apparently) yet you also think that circumcision should be banned. In other words, do you have a consistent worldview, or do you just try to adopt fashionably rebellious views in order to look rebelliously fashionable in an irritatingly hipsterish manner?

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2008      Palin      (R)      AS

Sarah Palin is not from American Samoa.

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I support the right to bare arms

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