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Fruity Rudy posted:Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel currently in the Mississippi GOP primary: Hey, the bathroom followup line is pretty funny. The rest makes me hope he wins the primary.
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By the way, he's since not-pologized and said that he's going to reach out to black voters who he plays basketball with all the time.quote:Given some of his racially-tinged remarks, how would he be able to reach out to African-American voters? "I reach out to them because they are fellow Mississippians. I love them," McDaniel told me. "They're my friends. They're my neighbors. They're who I went to school with. They're who I played basketball with. They're wonderful human beings." People shouldn't be treated as "racial collectives" but rather as "individuals," McDaniel said, adding: "I reject racism in all its forms." Though I'm guessing there weren't too many black voters at the League of the South rallies he keeps speaking at and forgetting.
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drat it, this stuff is supposed to come out AFTER the primary.
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Apr 12, 2014 00:31
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Really hoping someone asks him to name one of his many black friends.
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So if there is a complication with pregnancy, and delivering the baby would create a potentially life threatening situation for the mother, is she allowed to Stand Her Ground and shoot the fetus?
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Can someone with archives please take some screenshots of the thread where the goon (God I can't remember his name, started with an S maybe?) argued that if you are okay with abortion as the baby is not alive until birth, you should theoretically be able to gently caress a baby that's halfway through being delivered? AKA the Best Thread Ever
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Apr 12, 2014 01:20
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I'm pretty sure you can't legally abort a baby halfway through delivery.
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VitalSigns posted:I'm pretty sure you can't legally abort a baby halfway through delivery. I guess you haven't been paying attention to Obama's America.
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VitalSigns posted:I'm pretty sure you can't legally abort a baby halfway through delivery. Right but you can gently caress it was the point I think.
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Apr 12, 2014 01:27
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What?  You mean gently caress as in have sex with? What kind of segue did that involve?
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That is both the craziest and dumbest argument I've ever seen. Mecca-Benghazi posted:What? I'd guess it was just the unsolicited opining of an unsocialized moron.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Really hoping someone asks him to name one of his many black friends. LeBron... Dwyane... that guy who looks like a dinosaur. They are my black friends, that I play basketball with. Those are their names. Not the NBA players though. You're the racist for thinking I was naming NBA players.
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mooyashi posted:Can someone with archives please take some screenshots of the thread where the goon (God I can't remember his name, started with an S maybe?) argued that if you are okay with abortion as the baby is not alive until birth, you should theoretically be able to gently caress a baby that's halfway through being delivered? The turdicken
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In case you missed it the New Yorker did a follow-up on that little bit of business in West Virginia that might have possibly poisoned more than three hundred thousand people over there, that little brouhaha. First a bit of background.quote:he spill struck a state in the throes of one of America’s most thorough political transformations. Once a Democratic stronghold, West Virginia has moved so far to the right that, in 2012, President Obama lost all fifty-five counties, a first for a Presidential candidate of either major party. In the Democratic Presidential primary, a challenger had won forty-one per cent of the vote—impressive in part because the candidate, Keith Judd, is serving seventeen and a half years in a federal prison for extortion. And what's been the response? quote:Evan Hansen, an environmental consultant who has testified about the leak before the West Virginia legislature, has tracked the cumulative effect of that objective throughout the government. “In the past ten or fifteen years, they’ve systematically weakened virtually all the major water-quality standards that apply to the coal industry,” he said. “One by one, there’s been a steady effort to undermine the implementation of environmental laws, to the point that it’s become a part of everyday normal life here.” This behavior is hardly unique. quote:Over the years, Ward had witnessed other demonstrations of the coal industry’s penetration of state government. He once received a copy of a script that lobbyists had written to help a legislator introduce a rule change on water pollution. It read, in part, “We must be sure that our standards are protective of our streams without being overly protective.” In the most brazen example, ten years ago, Don Blankenship, the chairman of Massey Energy, which was America’s fourth-largest coal company, sought to reshape the politics of the West Virginia Supreme Court shortly before it took up Massey’s appeal of a fifty-million-dollar judgment for fraud and interfering with a contract. Blankenship had broken the mine workers’ union during a strike in 1985 and still kept, near his desk, a television that had been shattered by a bullet that came through his office window. Judges in West Virginia are elected, not appointed, and in 2004 Blankenship spent more than three million dollars to promote a conservative candidate named Brent Benjamin, who was vying to be the first Republican on the Supreme Court in seventy-six years. Most of the money went to a political-action committee that was running ads accusing Justice Warren McGraw, a progressive, of being soft on child molestation and drugs. Blankenship’s candidate won, and provided the decisive vote that overturned the judgment against Blankenship’s company. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually said that Benjamin should have recused himself from the case, on the ground that Blankenship had a “disproportionate influence in placing the judge on the case.” quote:The Democrat John Unger, a pastor and former Rhodes Scholar who serves as the majority leader in the state Senate, told me that he has identified three steps by which lobbyists win the coöperation of his peers. “First, they try to wine and dine you. Then they try to set you up. And then they try to threaten you.” To read more about a state where income inequality and a panicked, politically focused, and well monied elite have gained power, leading to almost no streams free of contaminants and near misses that would have eclipsed the Bhopal disaster (and the amazing fact that the original owner of Freedom Industries is an actual honest to god convicted coke dealer), go here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/07/140407fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all
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Now that Obama's destroyed the dignity of the Presidency with his between-two-fernsing, everyone's getting in on being undignified.quote:“Former presidents compare their libraries the way other men may compare their, well …,” Bush said to laughs.
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So there's an investment banker running as an Elizabeth Warren-esque populist for New York State Assembly.quote:
Also, his name is Gustavus Adolphus Henry Christensen IV, which is awesome.
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mooyashi posted:Can someone with archives please take some screenshots of the thread where the goon (God I can't remember his name, started with an S maybe?) argued that if you are okay with abortion as the baby is not alive until birth, you should theoretically be able to gently caress a baby that's halfway through being delivered? That sounds like something StarMagician would say. Possibly SedanChair if he was in possession of a particularly intense batch of meth.
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ReindeerF will eventually get around to this thread to jog my memory. D&D in the early aughts was a weird place, with actual Republicans and Bush supporters bouncing around, and "libertarianism" was a term that still needed explaining.
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mooyashi posted:ReindeerF will eventually get around to this thread to jog my memory. D&D in the early aughts was a weird place, with actual Republicans and Bush supporters bouncing around, and "libertarianism" was a term that still needed explaining. Haha yeah, it used to be weird as hell. I bought my first account in 2002, and I couldn't believe how many conservatives there were when I beelined for D&D (because I'm "that guy"). Those halcyon days before the R  ution.
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Remember anything else? I've got archives but not search. Is there even archives search anymore? I agree it sounds like way far back. I cruised the sex-tagged threads and didn't see anything like it in abortion or rape-related threads, and there were several. I did find out that deleted users exist (The Artificial Kid and Dolex), though. Didn't know that was a thing.
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Gygaxian posted:Any NY goons know anything about this guy? He seems to be an interesting character, even if he's just pandering. I can't answer your question, but if a rich guy wants to jump on the progressive bandwagon then I'm not going to stop him. Even if it just comes down to him seeing the writing on the wall, it is better that he fight for the progressive cause than status quo New York liberal policy.
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eviltastic posted:Remember anything else? I've got archives but not search. Is there even archives search anymore? I agree it sounds like way far back. I cruised the sex-tagged threads and didn't see anything like it in abortion or rape-related threads, and there were several. Were you around when the libertarian Puppy Brigade was still in action?
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SCRUBBER! Motherfucker's name was Scrubber.
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Wildlife Analysis posted:I can't answer your question, but if a rich guy wants to jump on the progressive bandwagon then I'm not going to stop him. Even if it just comes down to him seeing the writing on the wall, it is better that he fight for the progressive cause than status quo New York liberal policy. Yeah, it's genuinely exciting that those who want power think that advocating progressive populism is the way to go.
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mooyashi posted:ReindeerF will eventually get around to this thread to jog my memory. D&D in the early aughts was a weird place, with actual Republicans and Bush supporters bouncing around, and "libertarianism" was a term that still needed explaining. Ah yes, I rememeber. D&D was pretty liberal in that "oh, gently caress Bush" was very popular (throughout his whole term) so you had many openly conservative and libertarian posters say "we do not identify with the current Republican party" then go on with their usual talking points. The actual Republicans or Bush supporters did post here, but kept it under their hats, and if they revealed themselves they often had to explain themselves. Then Ron Paul 2008 happened and hoooly poo poo did the libertarian posters here go psychotic and either got banned or driven out by everyone of any political stripe. D&D (and SA as a whole to be honest) shifted HARD to the left and it's been like that ever since. You used to always see a "well, poor people just have to work harder!" type post in many a thread back in like 2006 that caused debate and not derails. Now, don't even.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Were you around when the libertarian Puppy Brigade was still in action? Yeah and I still think McCaine was a good mod  mooyashi posted:SCRUBBER! Motherfucker's name was Scrubber. Theeeeere we go. Via a helldump thread: quote:Well we all know what so called partial birth abortions are. Couldn't find a link to the actual thread, but I'm thinking (hoping?) that was the money shot regardless. eviltastic fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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Apr 12, 2014 03:56
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eviltastic posted:
I feel like this is a wonderfully poor choice of words.
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mooyashi posted:SCRUBBER! Motherfucker's name was Scrubber. I miss the weirdos. We might have known each other in a former life.
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Gygaxian posted:Also, his name is Gustavus Adolphus Henry Christensen IV, which is awesome. Clearly where I'm lacking is the second middle name department.
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I don't think SA shifted left so much as the lf posters were driven out from their sanctuary into d&d.
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shrike82 posted:I don't think SA shifted left so much as the lf posters were driven out from their sanctuary into d&d. Yeah, the closing of LF pushed D&D left in a big way.
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mooyashi posted:SCRUBBER! Motherfucker's name was Scrubber.  Scrubber was one of the most likable conservative trolls because he was actually funny. His avatar is still hilarious, MLK with a red filter and a hammer and sickle with the words, "HE HAD ANOTHER DREAM" under it. Justin Godscock posted:Ah yes, I rememeber. D&D was pretty liberal in that "oh, gently caress Bush" was very popular (throughout his whole term) so you had many openly conservative and libertarian posters say "we do not identify with the current Republican party" then go on with their usual talking points. The actual Republicans or Bush supporters did post here, but kept it under their hats, and if they revealed themselves they often had to explain themselves. Of course, yeah, later is changed, but that leads us to... Pope Guilty posted:Yeah, the closing of LF pushed D&D left in a big way. Mostly what happened is that D&D aged and a lot of the already-older posters who had been early internet libertarians simply left, while the younger libertarians often went hardcore the other way as they hit late high school or university and some aging libertarians just progressed into the working world and lost their taste for the house of cards that is libertarianism. Then we sort of internationalized in the process, inexplicably, which turned things completely on their head (mostly in a good way). Imagining multiple [COUNTRY] Megathreads in D&D 12-13 years ago is impossible. Imagining the threads of today is too. It's hard to remember sometimes that this place has been around for 13 years. That's 5-6% of a lifetime and a lot of people have gone through huge life changes during that time that, as with any normal person, radically affect their views. 
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radical meme posted:Whatever the date is, South Carolina is determined to be the first state to give that little guy the right to Stand his Ground. My fiancée is currently the only person trying to stop this from making it to law. It's a horrible combination of classic progressive problems: She's a state level organization so six weeks ago when this bill first became a thing, she reached out to ALL of her national partners for assistance because their specialty is teen pregnancy and they have little grounding in gun rights. Not one of her partners, domestic violence groups, the NAACP, minority outreach no one, got back to her. Because here in gosh darn South Carolina we just don't matter on a national stage. Now that she's invoked the "Stand Your Ground" verbiage (literally, that's all this is about, the words), every one of these organizations is making GBS threads on her for various reasons. She's been accused of being a white woman co opting the black community's struggle. They started the campaign today and already they're taking flak, but frankly, nobody helped her out a month ago, and she couldn't just not try something, so this is what she came up with. I think it's fine, and she's gotten crazy support from our local advocates and such, so I'm pretty proud of the attention it's gotten (FINALLY). Been a helluva legislative session here in the second worst state in the union. Thanks Mississippi, you've always got our back.
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Stew Man Chew posted:
Surely we're better than Alabama? Seriously though, wouldn't further efforts to make access to abortion more difficult (that's what this is really about, right?) negatively affect black communities as well? It seems insane to me for people to complain about that. paragon1 fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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ReindeerF posted:Of course, yeah, later is changed, but that leads us to... One of the LF quotes that I remember best was some user asking an LF moderator for permission to troll D&D using the phrasing "our posts shall fall into D&D like qassams."
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Stew Man Chew posted:My fiancée is currently the only person trying to stop this from making it to law. It's a horrible combination of classic progressive problems: I think your girlfriend is going to grow up to be an angry conservative woman one day after she is driven insane and tells all those groups to go gently caress themselves for being dumb as hell. Shageletic posted:In case you missed it the New Yorker did a follow-up on that little bit of business in West Virginia that might have possibly poisoned more than three hundred thousand people over there, that little brouhaha. First a bit of background. West Virgina being owned by coal companies would be funny if it wasn't just a window in to the future for the rest of the country.
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