The Oldiesfreak Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts III

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It really seems to me that [TNF] is bill clinton.

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Ron Paul has kept his Libertarian views for forty something years. Keep in mind, most people abandon their Libertarian views when they get into trouble and want somebody else to cover for them. The fact that Ron Paul has kept his views while remaining a doctor says something.

Emphasis mine.

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I see a lot of people here clamming that the Northeast and the Midwest could be competitive in the future because the Democratic Party is performing poorly among whites.

While I agree that the Midwest would be more competitive in the future, I disagree that this is a case in the Northeast.

That the Democratic Party is losing the white vote is out of its control. The Democratic Party is strong in the Midwest because of unionized labor. Unions have been experiencing a deep decline especially in the Midwest and that mean that the strength of the Democratic Party in that region will recede.

The Democratic Party is a strong in the Northeast because the Northeast is very socially liberal. When the Republican Party embraced cultural conservatism, it alienated a lot of northeasterners and bring it to the Democratic fold.

As a result, while the Midwest will likely become more Republican, the Northeast will be unlikely to change significantly.

How is this a bad post? It's probably the most likely electoral map going forward.

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Yes of course, it's a disgusting racial slur, just as the Cincinnati Bengals is offensive to tigers, the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos are offensive to horses, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is offensive to pirates, etc.

Also everything Oldiesfreak1854 has ever posted.

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https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?board=91.0

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I believe that some period of mandatory national service (while not necessarily military service) would do wonders to instill civic virtue in a generation of young men and women that is morally rudderless and lacks a strong work ethic or sense of patriotism.

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Rah-rah, 4th of July and all that, but no, that's a myth.

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Some brands of Libertarianism seek to abolish the concept of a state. Some strands of socialism wanted the Jewish people eliminated. Some strands of the Christian faith want to restore sodomy laws. Every ideology, philosophy, religion, or political organization has radical sects. But the fundamental basis in Libertarianism lies in individual liberty, regardless if a state exists or not. I chose to believe that a state is necessary to protect the individual rights of citizens from other individuals, who would rule by brute terror.

jesus christ

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Yeah, this, too. (I admittedly don't care as much about #4 as many folks here, but I recognize that it is an inconsistency.  The best news on that particular front, sadly, has been sequestration.)  Point #3, in particular, is why I take more of a moderate hero position when it comes to many public sector labor issues- I would rather, just for example, the MTA do what's in the best interest of its millions upon millions of straphangers than do exactly what the TWU wants, which can at times be inefficient and misguided.  

Emphasis mine. Can't let those silly unions fight for the rights of what it is their members want/need. Better just to leave their care to the enlightened bureaucrats! UNLESS YOU HATE THE POOR THAT IS!!!1111one1

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Yeah, this, too. (I admittedly don't care as much about #4 as many folks here, but I recognize that it is an inconsistency.  The best news on that particular front, sadly, has been sequestration.)  Point #3, in particular, is why I take more of a moderate hero position when it comes to many public sector labor issues- I would rather, just for example, the MTA do what's in the best interest of its millions upon millions of straphangers than do exactly what the TWU wants, which can at times be inefficient and misguided.  

Emphasis mine. Can't let those silly unions fight for the rights of what it is their members want/need. Better just to leave their care to the enlightened bureaucrats! UNLESS YOU HATE THE POOR THAT IS!!!1111one1

Nowhere did I say that they should not fight for their members; I fully support collective bargaining rights.  What I do not support is the idea of unconditional solidarity: there are some ideas that are just demonstrably terrible, and if implemented would absolutely hurt poor people- people who rely on public services to live their lives.  Your nuance-free temper tantrum here is a perfect example of what Averroes was talking about in that thread- there is a serious internal contradiction in your thinking, one that could be resolved by admitting even just a couple shades of gray.

Conditional solidarity is not solidarity. It's as if you're telling your telling your husband or your wife that you'll stay true to them, unless of course they're just plain wrong about something. Good grief.

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Goldwater why are you in favor of segregation of our schools by family income?

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Scott Walker has taken on the most massive political force in the country, the labor unions, and won. 

Man I wish I lived in a world where that was true. (The unions being the most massive political force in the country part)

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The one who's ideology doesn't involve killing me and my family for the sake of revolution.

You cannot say such horrible things of Groucho, the most influential thinker in History.

The fact that you think Karl Marx is the most influential thinker in historyis absurdity and ignorance in its own right.

Continuing the venerable tradition of posting directly into the deluge I see, Sanchez.

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Misvoted as Marx is obviously far more influential. But policy-wise Hayek is infinitely preferable to Marx considering Hayek, despite his image and rhetoric, supported a welfare state.

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FF in protest of the pro Native American bias. As a person of about 20% Cherokee descent, I really don't see how Columbus can be blamed for the spread of diseases that wiped out so many tribes. Furthermore, I don’t see any reason to replace Columbus (who still wasn’t a great guy, by the way-see Lief's mention of torture and slavery) with a “Native American Day” when some of the Natives (Aztecs, etc) practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism.

Worst post in the history of Atlas

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Homeschooling is fine so long as it provides children with an equally sufficient and adequate educational development as is provided in schools. This doesn't nullify my point.

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Homeschooling is fine so long as it provides children with an equally sufficient and adequate educational development as is provided in schools. This doesn't nullify my point.

You think this is absurd because he doesn't hate homeschooling enough, right? 

Yes. Homeschooling is an antisocial activity that should obviously be banned.

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OK, so I made a sexist joke about BeccaM that was over the line. The joke was that women are viewed as nagging and unintelligent. Was it on Daniel Tosh levels? I don't think so, but since so many of you, including some friends of mine, took me seriously (for once), I am offering a semi serious apology.

I posted this straight to the deluge to make your jobs easier.

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Manchin. Just take a look at his face, it cries "inbreeding".

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CDU, enthusiastically.

This. The CDU dominance of Germany ensured the development of a healthy social market economy rather than falling into the nationalization trap like the Brits did, leading to a massive neoliberal backlash [1] under Thatcher.

[1] It is true Germany like other countries was affected by neoliberalism during its high tide in the 1990s and 2000s but it was far milder than most and at this point the CDU has fully abandoned it on a domestic level.

lmao

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Death to Chicago-style pizza.

Literally the worst post ever.

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I want pizza now.

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Doesn't he lead a really terrible theocracy?

Uh, no.  He doesn't have a country to lead. 

Thank God. The Communist takeover of Tibet was the best thing that ever happened to them.

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

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I'll objectify who I want, when I want... in my own private time.

Which is fine if you can keep it from having any influence into your interaction with other people - which I'm sure you manage to, and which I also strive to. But I you can't deny that the kind of images that are watched have a major impact on the way individuals think and act, and thus on a society's culture and mores.

Honestly, I don't even think "official" porn is really the main problem. The kind of softcore porn that we find everywhere on commercials and trashy TV shows actually has a more perverse and infinitely more powerful effect on society IMO.

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HP (RD), interesting man though.

This too. I do identify with the man sometimes as a fellow Orange County native.

>teenager
>identifies with war criminals