The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

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Tonight's ceremony apparently has a section praising the NHS as part of a thing showing the best of Britain.

Mitt'll end up walking out or something.

See this is the socialist attitude that we're dealing with in the next election.

This Darius guy seems like trouble.

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This creep is getting banned at some point, right?

Thank you for calling me a creep...

You basically hit on everyone in PAPOY. That's really, really creepy.

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Fidesz (apart from their altering the constitution) look like Freedom Fighters

Yeah, this Rhodie person doesn't sound too good.

To be fair, Hungarian political parties are awful. There's Fidesz, who are awful, there's Jobbik, who are extremely awful, there's a couple Christian conservative parties (Christian Democratic People's Party and Hungarain Democratic Forum) who are awful, and there's the socialists (who are by default awful). Really the only thing approaching decent is a small green liberal group called Politics Can Be Different.

OK, so Fidesz is bad because they are wannabe dictators, and MSZP is just as bad because they are... left-wing (and not even that much so) ?

I mainly said Fidesz were FF's because of there role in the fight against communist evil in Hungary.

Oh, so you're one of those people...

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He's probably molesting children and seniors without Medicare in his basement as we speak.

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My submissions to the Deluge:

The most left-wing Southerner is probably still not very leftist.

That this was even controversial just shows what a horrible and un-American place Tennessee is.

To be fair, that last one is kinda true.

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Haha, no. Paul Ryan's ideas are rather tame and mainstream, and you can't get at him by attacking Ayn Rand, as most people haven't heard of her and most of the ones who have are fans.

In the context of American politics, something supported by essentially the entirety of the Republican Party is mainstream even if you disagree with it.

You do realize that polls have shown 54% of CONSERVATIVES opposed to Ryan's plans for Medicare, right? Also, your comment suggests you think the Republican Party is mainstream...LOL

Thank you for saving me the trouble by posting directly here.

Technically the modern Party officials are rather extreme.

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Most foreigners love seeing America struggle, so naturally they love Obama and want the next four years to be like the past four years.

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Politics aside, anyone who thinks non-human animals should receive the same rights as humans deserve to have all of their views on everything disregarded.

A: In what way are humans not animals?

B: If you had a pet cat, and I killed it with a chainsaw, would you be sad?

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B: If you had a pet cat, and I killed it with a chainsaw, would you be sad?

I'm sorry to say that, but that's a pretty ridiculous strawman.

*is penitent*

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Anyway, how do you know other animals aren't sapient? Can they not think? Can they not feel pain?

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Gunner Joe McCarthy was a freedom fighter. The fact that the Democrats recognized the Soviet Union in 1933 and (willingly?) allowed communists to infiltrate the state and agricultural departments from 1934 to at least 1947, as proven accurate by the Venona project, is the main reason I will not vote for them.

Why is this so absurd? Did I use improper syntax or spelling? This is just an opinion which I hold and backed with some logic. It may not be logic that you agree with but I did present facts to back up my opinion. Is it because my statement does not mesh with your own particular view that my statement is "absurd"? If this is the fact than it is YOU who are absurd and deserve a place in this thread.

Because the Democrats who did those things are dead now.  That was a long time ago.   (Sound familiar?)

Are you saying that democrats actually were communists at some point in time?

Poor fool.

No, I'm just using your response when I expose the Democrat's history of racism,

So...have you converted to reason or are you supporting McCarthy by mocking our "the past is over" argument?

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Women don't tend to obsess over specific fields of minutaie the way men do. A lot of the political gossip here is very analagous to female oriented celebrity magazines, but there is nothing they're into that compares to creating a national swing map by county. That's something only a guy would do.

Really, don't most of Memphis's posts in that thread belong here?

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1866

Antonio V: This is perfect!  We Democrats start the Ku Klux Klan to get rid of all those Republicans, and then, 150 years from now, we pretend that Republicans did all these things!

Welln, it's true.  Democrats are constantly pretending that slavery, segregation, the KKK, etc. either were or are Republican institutions despite the fact that they were all Democrat institutions instead.  If Sigmund Freud examined today's Democratic Party, he would have to conclude that they are denying their party's racist past and projecting it onto Republicans.

Oh, we're not denying our racist past. We know and accept that back then, 150 years ago, Democrats were racist and Republicans weren't (see Cathcon's Atlas US Elections thing). You're denying the Republican Party's racist or at least semi-racist present.

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There's no way to argue rationally with someone who seriously thinks that, in the 21st century, our sole defense against tyranny is represented by some random nutjob with his rifle that Americans shouldn't have our right to keep and bear arms. There's nothing to do but laugh (or cry, depending on the mood).

Sam, what Jbrase and many others have said is not simply that Americans have the right to own a gun. I think they should have that right. What Jbrase said is that privately owned guns protect Americans from tyranny, and that's not true. The government isn't waiting with bated breath for everyone to put down their guns so that it can send us all to death camps.

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Last time I checked, President Bush wasn't a bad president.  I'm a Democrat, but IMO, he was the better person to handle 9/11.  President Bush was also far from "dumb".  He is extremely intelligent (almost too much for his own good).  He wasn't a great president, but he wasn't a bad president, either.  I think history will smile on his administration overall.  Iraq was not a mistake, initially, it was IMPERATIVE to get Saddam Hussein out of there.  The problem lies in not being prepared for such a quick and decisive victory over the Saddam regime.  Al Gore would have been alright, but he's just not a likeable guy.  President Obama, OTOH, is very likeable and very intelligtent.  Al Gore needs to stay in the background, otherwise he will pretty much guarantee a Republican will be inaugurated on January 20, 2017.  Also, Hillary is far from a guarantee.  Even if she does run, she's not automatically going to win.  America is still a center-right country.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, can call George W. Bush dumb and be correct.

That's not an absurd, ignorant, or bad post because it's true, aside from America being a center-right country (it's actually center-left).

No, America defiantly a center-right country...

I don't think a country that supports universal health care, the AWB, abortion rights, and higher taxes while opposing cuts to Medicare and SS is "center-right".

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I don't think a country that supports universal health care, the AWB, abortion rights, and higher taxes while opposing cuts to Medicare and SS is "center-right".

Tell me, Alfred, how many Americans in the latest polling have agreed with the statement "I would like my taxes to be higher."?

Warren Buffett, at least. And higher taxes doesn't mean higher taxes on middle-class Americans; people want to raise taxes on the rich, and that counts.

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I don't think a country that supports universal health care, the AWB, abortion rights, and higher taxes while opposing cuts to Medicare and SS is "center-right".

Tell me, Alfred, how many Americans in the latest polling have agreed with the statement "I would like my taxes to be higher."?

Warren Buffett, at least. And higher taxes doesn't mean higher taxes on middle-class Americans; people want to raise taxes on the rich, and that counts.

People want taxes raised on everyone except themselves. The mercurial other.

Warren Buffett doesn't. And that's better than wanting spending cut for no one at all, not even themselves.

And this conversation has gone on too long, we should stop it.

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Again we witness the specter of intellectually dishonest misquoting.

He said,

"And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in."

You inserted a "the" before "minorities" and deliberately juxaposed it next to "Obama" to twist his remarks into a racial comment.

Love how the crowd cheers the loudest after the 'minorities' part.

Talk about showing your true colors.

Why shouldn't the crowd be free to cheer to their hearts content? If in your own mind you believe that you represent the viewpoint of the majority, why would you allow any minority viewpoint to dominate you?

I'm pretty sure we've also got a thread for BSB.

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I hope Winfield's arm isn't in a brace from patting himself on the back too hard.

2 days.

I believe this conclave will end fairly quickly.  The Cardinals know what the church requires in a Pope at this time, and they will make their choice accordingly and quickly.

Good call.

Mods, I would really look into a potential Winfield Sock all things considered. (See the General White thread)

What? Is Winfield making a sock to congratulate himself that happens to have the same display name as him?

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Because Kemp appears to have been around more than long enough to be legitimate, and seems fairly devoutly left-wing?

Really?  Well, I don't make it a project to observe him very closely, but I always assumed him to be a bit right-leaning.. perhaps its just an impression, but then again his PM score isn't a proper ->7/->7.

Does it count if you average the two to -7? -8/-6, for example? Do you weight E scores or S scores more heavily? Or are they both the same?

Stay tuned as we peek more into the mind of the legendary opebo, ladies and gentlemen.

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Adam, how the hell is your S score positive? Are you ravingly anti-abortion in order to compensate for your weird obsession with lesbian horses?

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It's a goddamn rainbow, because she's a weather pony

Jesus, Adam! Everyone knows that.

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What are 'federal morals'?

Morals explicitly granted to the federal government by the Constitution, as opposed to state morals.

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The post where Torie consistently refers to drj101 with male pronouns (in Individual Politics) is objectively ignorant, even if not absurd or bad as such.

Females are allowed to post on this site?  Who knew?

Well, they're not allowed to be biological females, but yeah.

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The post where Torie consistently refers to drj101 with male pronouns (in Individual Politics) is objectively ignorant, even if not absurd or bad as such.

Females are allowed to post on this site?  Who knew?

Well, they're not allowed to be biological females, but yeah.

Ouch!  I assume that you are referring to the plethora of hetero pussies and prudes around here, and not to us gorgeous homo macho hunks right? 

No, I'm referring to the fact that of the three female-identifying posters here, only one of them is biologically a woman.

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The mail bomb plot was foiled, thank God.

Unfortunately all the villains survive attempts at assassination(like the lady in your signature), but all the freedom fighters die. Such is life.

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And making a million dollars an hour shouldn't seem strange or repugnant -- it's what every person should strive for. I'm disappointed that for somebody out there it does.

Good lord.

Someone likes hyperinflation?

Strive for ≠ achieve

Someone likes inequality for inequality's sake?