The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And who are these poors carrying smartphones?

They're poors carrying smartphones, krazen.  Most people who have smart phones are poor.  Why should that surprise you?

Smart phones cost hundreds of dollars. But I suspect this is part of the gifts strategy for the lazy.

L38G LG Optimus Dynamic Andriod phone for $80 at Walmart.  No contract.

Please exit whatever cave you are living in.

Outside of whatever nonsense you create in your head, your spendthrift President doesn't buy the $80 phones.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Soon we're going to need separate Krazen Thread.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

loooooooooooooool

Not only that, but Occupy is gonna turn out big if they try it.

Think you can get together 20 people again?

That's more than the number of people who support the Tea Party.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

loooooooooooooool

Not only that, but Occupy is gonna turn out big if they try it.

Think you can get together 20 people again?

That's more than the number of people who support the Tea Party.

Ha ha, he underestimates the Rube vote. 

[TNF]

A 49% plurality, but fair enough. Unless he either does something absolutely awful.

He just did.

No, he did something good.

SJoyceFla, defending Marco Rubio's vote in favor of wife-beaters everywhere.

[Donerail]

A 49% plurality, but fair enough. Unless he either does something absolutely awful.

He just did.

No, he did something good.

SJoyceFla, defending Marco Rubio's vote in favor of wife-beaters everywhere opposition to a nationwide DNA database of innocent people.

FTFY.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Basically every krazen post in this thread would qualify, but this one stands out:

He thinks they do... basically, if anything Krazen writes actually makes sense, I'm going to walk in front of a truck.

This is your utopia, champ. High taxes and no guns for the people, monstrous unions, and rampant homosexuality.

That's what you people say you want for all of us.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

A better question is what happens to Democrats after there is a financial crisis that makes 2008 look like happy days? How does it get blamed on Bush again?

Under Obama, we have kicked the can down the road one too many times. As soon as the world realizes that the blackout in the Super Bowl pretty much symbolizes the state of America today, it's lights out for us. What then?

The Super Bowl blackout happened because Obama!

[TNF]

Basically every krazen post in this thread would qualify, but this one stands out:

He thinks they do... basically, if anything Krazen writes actually makes sense, I'm going to walk in front of a truck.

This is your utopia, champ. High taxes and no guns for the people, monstrous unions, and rampant homosexuality.

That's what you people say you want for all of us.

Monstrous unions? Sign me up!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

krazen is playing with fire with that "rampant homosexuality" comment in a board that Mr. Moderate moderates...

[Kitteh]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=10265;sa=showPosts

[dead0man]

The first sentence here is to an extent accurate (or, at least, you won't do very well or last very long) but the second is, uh...

You can't be a dumb f-ck and join up.  As has been discussed before, the average person in the military is better than the average person not in the military.

I fought the ignorance in the that thread and it was ignored.  It's a fight I'll have again.  Probably with the same people.  When facts fly in the face of preconceived notions, ignore the facts.

[dead0man]

oh and from the thread about the one child policy in the PRC...

A terrible policy. Hopefully the reaction from this will force a change.

Why is it terrible?

It was a good policy, but now they should drop it, since Chinese population will age and start naturally declining in about a few years.

It set up a huge advantage, and it would been maintained if the policy was cancelled sometime between 2000-2005.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Almost every single recession in recent memory has been caused by the fed raising interest rates.  When they raised rates from 2004 to 2006, a recession ensued in late 2007.  When they raised them in 1999 and 2000, a recession ensued in 2001.  When they raised them in 1988, a recession ensued in 1990.  Keep going back and you see this same pattern.

The solution here is for the fed to never raise rates.  Inflation never seems to happen anymore and even with rates at 0%, there is basically no inflation.  Even if inflation did start to get too high(say over 5% a year), price and wage controls could simply by put in place to put a lid on this.  This worked very well in 1971, 1972, and for most of 1973 until the program was repealed and the fed stupidly started raising rates in 1972. 

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

On the surface, direct popular vote seems fairer, but if you don't live in a big state like California, Texas, New York, or Florida, then you would have virtually no say in that system.

Wrong, wrong, absolutely brimming over with wrongability.

In a direct popular vote, one vote is one vote, regardless of whether you live in New York City or Hooterville. Let's compare the two systems. Let's say the Republican wins Wyoming by ten thousand votes and the Democrat wins California by ten thousand votes. With a direct popular vote, the election is tied at this point. But in the Electoral College, the Democrat leads 55-3. That means that the ten thousand voters who made the difference in California are over eighteen times as powerful as the ten thousand voters who made the difference in Wyoming. This does not resemble anything even remotely fair. And if you bothered to watch the video that FallenMorgan posted, you'd know that the 100 most populous cities in America amount to less than 20% of the population, proving the absurdity of the argument that big cities would dominate presidential elections in a popular vote system.

Not true.  Big states would be even more powerful than they are now under popular vote.  For example, a candidate could carry California, lose every other state, and still win the election because California has so many more people.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Technically possible I guess.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Technically possible I guess.

You're doing it all wrong

[Paul Kemp]

I met a Republican who met Christie at a dinner and had a picture with him.  Then after the hurricane, the person refused to hang the picture up because Christie praised Obama... that's just stupid.

Christie's behavior cost us the election. If he had invited Romney AND Obama to that photo op, the bipartisan thing that would have made Romney trump Obama in the "appearing presidential" category, we would have won. His behavior, giving Obama that platform, absolutely crushed our momentum and elevated Obama back into "presidential" territory after previously making himself look real small in ranting about Big Bird and Binders Full of women. There was not enough time to regain the momentum. All Christie had to do was insist that Romney and Obama appear together and pledge their bipartisan support to rebuild America. Such a maneuver would have won us the election. Instead, Christie chose to elevate Obama at Romney's expense.

Christie, more than anybody else, is responsible for the next four years. He's a Machiavellian. The whole "straight talk" image is a facade. He'd throw his own mother under a bus for a few votes--or donuts for that matter.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

This is just the natural conclusion of allowing "casual" dress in workplaces. Soon you'll have people coming in in their underwear or covered in sweat after a workout. It's disgusting.

[Lief 🗽]

Why doesn't Obama propose anything left-wing? I don't know.

Because he isn't a progressive. He's the proverbial Generic Republican.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Context:

Bill Clinton

[Donerail]

Context:

Bill Clinton

Snowstalker, this is for legitimately bad posts. Not just for ones you disagree with.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

[Oakvale]

The juxtaposition is pretty funny. You have the stuff about wars, the PATRIOT Act (which I don't personally care at all about but some people do) and then "Obama defended body scans at airports!!!!!111".

[Kitteh]

This doesn't fit here. It's arguable but there's nothing absurd or ignorant about it.