The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

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Imagine being so mad that women keep beating you in arguments that you became a libertarian.

That's an odd statement because there was no argument.  I agree with them that abortion should be legal.  Their smug attitude is probably why Johnson and Stein had a massive vote increase, largely at Hillary's expense.  I'm certainly convinced the new left is why Trump was able to eek out a win.  But go ahead, keep pretending the new base of the Democratic party is helping by rioting on campuses, and shouting racist as every other word

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Democrats are basically Republicans that are pro gay marriage and pro abortion...but the political discourse hasn't been moved to the far right? Ok.

What is it with ProgressiveCanadian being so triggered lately?

I've noticed that the anti-Bernie crowd has really begun to ramp up their sh*tposting. It pisses me off quite a bit too...the difference being, of course, the fact that I try to keep my post quality (on serious posts) high.

What does being angry with anti-Bernie people have to do with arguing that a Trotskyist would be moderate in Europe?

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The "safe spaces" and "SJWs" that Trump and his supporters talk about are the result of anti-bullying campaigns.

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Women will now be able to drive in SA as of next year https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html

Before the end of the century, women will have more rights in SA than in Israel.

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So should we say, because of Sanders becoming the face of the party, that Democrats are becoming the face of the extreme left? No, just like we shouldn't say the opposite.

And it's Alabama.  Running someone like Moore against someone like Phil Scott in Vermont isn't going to work.

Bernie is intellectually ideological and that's fine and many may disagree but his ideology is rooted in an intellectually consistent belief in things like social democracy. I disagree with him on several things and I supported Hillary in 2016. But there are essentially 0 Democrats who have an insidious, toxic mere presence in the vein of Trump or Moore. The whole embrace of Trump as the conservative populist savior is intellectually inconsistent and dishonest. It's breathtaking.

Coraxion, genocide deniers The Young Turks, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street might want to talk to you. Come on - Pramila Jayapal, Ben Jealous, Kshama Sawant, David Zuckerman... A lot of very left wing people are beginning to gain popularity. The Democrats almost elected Keith Ellison as their DNC Chair.

TIL that Coraxion is just as notable and relevant as the President and a guy who is soon to be a US Senator.

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Lewis. He has a lot of strong potential opponents, including Pam Myrha, Elizabeth Kautz, Joe Atkins, Laurie Halverson, and Lori Swanson. Of these, I think Myrha, Kautz, or Swanson could beat Lewis.

On Paulsen's possible opponents: Ron Latz or Melissa Hortman would not be too strong. Jacob Frey, Lisa Bender, Paul Thissen, and Mike Freeman all live in Hennepin County, and one of them might "carpetbag" over to the district.

I did explain in a further post in that thread why this post is so dumb.

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Even with all the misuses of the word "socialism" by right-wingers and people with socialist avatars who are still pretty standard Democrats, this might be up there for worst use of the term:

North Korea doesn't try to be somewhat socialist the way Cuba does. They're more totalitarian than anything else.

In what way is North Korea less socialist than Cuba?

Cuba actually has a longer life expectancy than the US, while North Korea misses by 9 years.

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Even with all the misuses of the word "socialism" by right-wingers and people with socialist avatars who are still pretty standard Democrats, this might be up there for worst use of the term:

If you're talking about heatcharger and the like, they're doing it sarcastically. The Americans with actual socialist avatars, afaik, aren't necessarily "pretty standard Democrats".

No, Atlas has a lot of center-left posters who think supporting universal health care and tuition-free college makes them a socialist.

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There's a lot of possible evidence seemingly pointing to it being a left-winger. His attack on a country music festival, ISIS claiming responsibility, the ANTIFA literature in his room. Nothing's been confirmed yet but nothing discredited either.

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I'm not cynical about Harris in particular, but really about the Democratic Party and American politics in general. Do I think Bel Edwards would be better than Harris in answering the needs of rural Americans? Maybe, I really can't say for certain. I will say that I am slightly more confident in his ability than Harris' due to his background and the state that he governs being largely rural and one of the poorest in the nation. What sort of experience does Harris have that is equivalent to that?

But the fact remains that rural America continues to crumble and not a thing is being done about it. There needs to be serious changes in the system, and I doubt that Harris has the political clout or platform to do. I don't blame Harris for not having a political career laser focused on the plight of the rural poor, it's not her problem. And that's why I would prefer to elect someone with a more class based background and platform, who is experience in dealing with rural issues.

Single payer sounds real nice, and I am willing to give Harris the benefit of the doubt, but she has yet to prove to me that she is anything more than an over hyped Democratic Rubio so far.

With all due respect, what about the just move argument. Some parts of rural (and urban) do not serve a purpose in the modern economy. I moved from rural Oregon to Los Angeles, and I don't have patience for people who won't do the same to find success.

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You guys do know that Seth MacFarlane endorsed Bernie Sanders, right?

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For those saying only 5%, why so low? We know that Trump has threatened to attack North Korea if they don't give in to absurd demands (like giving up their nuclear weapons). He's always known that such a demand wouldn't work. If there's an attack it immediately becomes an existential threat to North Korea, and they have no reason not to hit back with nukes.  

My view is that they have far more nuclear missiles, hidden away in a vast network of underground tunnels that they've been building for years, than our intelligence could possibly estimate. No matter how many satellites we have, we can't see underground. Their missile capability is also higher than our estimates, since they are being fed by third parties. Even if Pyongyang was totally flattened, their nuclear command structure and government would remain intact, and their population is highly motivated. The US position in the western Pacific is weaker than it looks. Think about it... what surface strongpoints do we actually have? A base in Seoul, and a few bases in Japan, and Guam, all of which positions are well known. Then we have three or four aircraft carrier battle groups, which are sitting ducks for a nuclear strike. All of these strongpoints could be taken out very easily, which leaves us with submarimes but nothing on the surface. At that point, Trump will want to make good on his threat to "totally destroy" North Korea, and the North Koreans will want to do as much damage to the U.S. mainland as possible in retaliation. South Dakota is relatively safe, but Chicago, New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco are not. Not that Trump would mind, as all these cities voted for Clinton, and it would give him an excuse to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law. The other option is that China gets drawn in and the U.S. enters a protracted war with China which ends in a nuclear exchange.

I'm not just posting, either. I am actually moving out of D.C. in part because I don't want to be here when the nuke hits.

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Because she is half-black. Most of the excuses boil down to "Black women aren't as electable as a blonde white woman is" because they don't like her race. Female POC know your place behind white feminists.

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Evangelical Christianity is the mouthpiece of and ideological medium for the transmission of elitist controlled values and beliefs. It primarily serves to assuage natural human negative reactions to inhumane social conditions and organize people behind a policy agenda that serves particular interests. Critical thought is discouraged, while human capital and energy is directed towards bigotry, nationalism, rallying around capitalism, and directing your frustrations towards non-constructive actions, such as prayer. Meanwhile, megachurch pastors get filthy rich and right-wing special interests are promoted while also cultivating a uniform voting base that works against their own self-interest and focuses on distraction issues.

That Trump received such a large percentage of the Evangelical vote and such a warm welcome should be absolutely unsurprising.

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Evangelical Christianity is the mouthpiece of and ideological medium for the transmission of elitist controlled values and beliefs. It primarily serves to assuage natural human negative reactions to inhumane social conditions and organize people behind a policy agenda that serves particular interests. Critical thought is discouraged, while human capital and energy is directed towards bigotry, nationalism, rallying around capitalism, and directing your frustrations towards non-constructive actions, such as prayer. Meanwhile, megachurch pastors get filthy rich and right-wing special interests are promoted while also cultivating a uniform voting base that works against their own self-interest and focuses on distraction issues.

That Trump received such a large percentage of the Evangelical vote and such a warm welcome should be absolutely unsurprising.

This is a good post dude.

There was a gem here and there in it, but the broader point wins a place in this thread.

It of course commits the common fallacy of assuming that "Evangelical Christianity" is one large easily generalized entity, and kind of reminds me of the idiots on sites like DU and DailyKos who basically believe that virtually all or the vast majority of evangelical Christians believe in things like super-charismatic practices and worship, KJV-onlyism, Dominionism and prosperity theology, the truth is not only do the majority of evangelicals not believe in those things, you'd have a very difficult time finding any who believe in ALL of them.

Things that the post alludes to like prosperity theology and extreme mixing of nationalism in theology are quite fringe even by the standards of conservative evangelicals.

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Evangelical Christianity is the mouthpiece of and ideological medium for the transmission of elitist controlled values and beliefs. It primarily serves to assuage natural human negative reactions to inhumane social conditions and organize people behind a policy agenda that serves particular interests. Critical thought is discouraged, while human capital and energy is directed towards bigotry, nationalism, rallying around capitalism, and directing your frustrations towards non-constructive actions, such as prayer. Meanwhile, megachurch pastors get filthy rich and right-wing special interests are promoted while also cultivating a uniform voting base that works against their own self-interest and focuses on distraction issues.

That Trump received such a large percentage of the Evangelical vote and such a warm welcome should be absolutely unsurprising.

This is a good post dude.

There was a gem here and there in it, but the broader point wins a place in this thread.

It of course commits the common fallacy of assuming that "Evangelical Christianity" is one large easily generalized entity, and kind of reminds me of the idiots on sites like DU and DailyKos who basically believe that virtually all or the vast majority of evangelical Christians believe in things like super-charismatic practices and worship, KJV-onlyism, Dominionism and prosperity theology, the truth is not only do the majority of evangelicals not believe in those things, you'd have a very difficult time finding any who believe in ALL of them.

Things that the post alludes to like prosperity theology and extreme mixing of nationalism in theology are quite fringe even by the standards of conservative evangelicals.

Is this anything more then feeling like your hipster christian church was badmouthed?

While it's not remotely close to anything he described, neither are most conservative evangelical churches. Not that they aren't terrible in their own ways of course.

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Obvious troll is obvious.

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Links to Hindu nationalist groups, Islamophobia, opposition to gay rights, supports Assad over actual left wing resistance in Rojava. What exactly about her is supposed to be progressive?

I could try explaining, but everyone hates her even more than Trump here, so it's pointless for me to even try.

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It never fails to amaze me how many people, particularly liberal and young people, do not understand the way criminal law works in the United States of America.

As someone who grew up around many policemen, went on ride-alongs until I was 21 years old, and fascinated with criminology , it pains me to see how many people are utterly clueless when it comes to the law.

Little things that regular people see and don't understand. For example, an article will be released saying, "Coroner rules police shooting of suspect a homicide". You'll have people screaming at the top of their lungs, "THE CORONER RULED THAT GUY'S DEATH A HOMICIDE! WHY WON'T THE COP BE CHARGED!?!"

They don't realize that any shooting death, even justified, is always ruled a homicide.

Do you know how many charges of sexual assault and rape are not really sexual assault and rape? Liberals cry about how "75% of rapes and sexual assaults go unpunished." What they are failing to understand is that those cases are typically not sexual assault or rape.

Girl runs into police station. She said she was raped.

What happened?

Guy offered her crack if she'd have sex with him. She had sex with him. Afterwards, he says, "Whoops...all out of drugs."

She gets mad, runs out of the house, finds a cop and says she was "raped".

No she wasn't. At all. This type of crap happens every single day. Call it trouble makers, duping, misogyny, whatever you want, but it is not rape or sexual assault.

Donald Trump was privately bragging to Billy Bush how being famous gets him laid. There is no crime there. No sexual assault, no rape, no nothing. Just a guy being boastful about his sex life due to fame and star-power.

Same thing with this NFL crap. Wanna know why all these NFL players are protesting against police brutality? Because they are troublemakers who don't like cops because cops, rightfully, put them in their place for breaking the law.

An NFL player is arrested every seven days, on average, for crimes as varied as domestic abuse and rape, gun violations, drug offenses, disorderly conduct, burglary, breaking traffic laws, and occasionally even murder. Why do you think people (since I was a teen atleast) refer to it as the "National Felony League"?

It's all about the law guys. Not "social justice" or any of this stuff that half the country doesn't even believe is real. It's about criminal law. Not civil law, not some ugly old woman in a goofy hat in Florida whining about Donald Trump, it's about CRIMINAL LAW.

Once you understand the law, you understand the way the world works. Always remember, the loudest "victims" usually are the ones with something to hide.

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This has been known for a while. The Greens/progressive hard-left has a very weird symbiotic relationship with propaganda networks. The two candidates RT played up the hardest last year were Trump and Sanders. Once Sanders was out, it switched the narrative to "Sanders got screwed by the DNC, and Stein is the best alternative," while constantly pouring out admiration for how much Trump was revolutionizing American politics and was going to drain the swamp.

Its interesting, though, because if you watch Democracy Now, Al-Jazeera America (RIP), or RT, the average America-based news piece is actually pretty similar to the point that it would be hard to tell the networks apart without context or a bit of extra knowledge. They love to focus on social issues like homelessness and racism, American warmongering, corruption in the US government, particularly among those that claim to care about the aforementioned social issues and warmongering (i.e. Democrats) and all tend to harken back to the days of the stoic newsreader, giving you the "truth" without all of the bells and whistles of cable news.

Personally, even though I don't really like their politics, I would watch any of those three networks before I'd watch Fox News, and I think that's really how they like to play their game. They're not spouting vitriol about one side or the other, just casually slipping it in here and there as it suits their fancy.

RT is a reasonable source of news that doesn't have anything to do with Russia just like Al-Jazeera is a reasoanble source of news that doesn't have anything to do with Qatar.

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Drunken groping with a twelve year difference? Or repeated, planned sexual affairs with an aide and a twenty-eight year difference?

There's a difference, both criminally and morally, between committing a crime in your own house drunk and committing it in your house sober. I'm inclined to believe both the accuser and accused, and I would be surprised if Spacey had remembered it in the morning after.

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If anyone wants to know why some people are so sensitive about cultural appropriation in the first place, here's a fun article:

Controversial Sushi Chef Out Amid More Racism Allegations

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How is that comparable to little girls wearing a Moana costume?

IDK, but examples like these are why we can't have nice things.

So apparently little girls wearing non-white Disney princesses Halloween costumes caused this guy to be racist, or something.

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If anyone wants to know why some people are so sensitive about cultural appropriation in the first place, here's a fun article:

Controversial Sushi Chef Out Amid More Racism Allegations

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How is that comparable to little girls wearing a Moana costume?

IDK, but examples like these are why we can't have nice things.

So apparently little girls wearing non-white Disney princesses Halloween costumes caused this guy to be racist, or something.

This is for absurd and ignorant posts, not some petty side sh*t you disagree with.

It's absurd and ignorant for how much of a non-sequitur it is.

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Everyday Feminist. I consider myself a meninist actually.

wtf?

There's plenty of double standards that favor women. Just think about it. If you look closely, a men's rights movement is needed more.

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Pretty soon all the working people will soar to the polls and Gillespie will take the lead.