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Nonsense posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/ Maybe if we prevented stupid people from voting. Perhaps by requiring, say, a test to be taken at the polling station. Only allow people who pass it to vote. That's the ticket.
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Now my question is why were some people so willing to overlook the similarly bad poo poo Hillary had done in the past but not Tulsis?
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Nov 17, 2016 18:01
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Democracy was a mistake
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Nonsense posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/ Politics are too democratic says the guy pushing the insanely unpopular policy of cutting social security and medicare.
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Thoguh posted:Maybe if we prevented stupid people from voting. Perhaps by requiring, say, a test to be taken at the polling station. Only allow people who pass it to vote. but we don't want to be too exclusionary though, so maybe if we add some kind of clause to it, maybe one that says that if your father and grandfather was able to vote, you should be able to as well. yeah this is one thing from the bush era i don't want to see brought back, white liberals advocating for a return to jim crow-esque restrictions on voting to keep the people in "jesusland" from voting.
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I'm pretty sure Ann Coulter was literally doing that on election day
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Thoguh posted:Maybe if we prevented stupid people from voting. Perhaps by requiring, say, a test to be taken at the polling station. Only allow people who pass it to vote. what if they added a property requirement? if you are too stupid to own land than you are obviously too stupid to vote. The_Politics_Man has issued a correction as of 18:26 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:That's a really lovely article, from a really lovely website. I'm still skeptical. I don't see why her hawkishness is an issue but not with politicians like Hilary. Her hawkishness and Hillary's hawkishness are both awful and I condemn them both.
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MaxxBot posted:Gabbard also personally opposes gay marriage and refused to answer multiple times when asked if gays face oppression in America. I do not understand this troll.
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Zythrst posted:I do not understand this troll. quote:While Tulsi explains that seeing and experiencing oppression in the Middle East helped her develop ideas about individual rights in the United States, she stops short of saying that the Defense of Marriage Act — which defines marriage as between one man and one woman — amounts to oppression against those who identify as gay or lesbian. Asked twice whether she believes gays and lesbians are oppressed in the United States, she declined to say. Instead, Tulsi says she looks at the law “with the goal being government getting out of our personal lives.”
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Pollyanna posted:Her hawkishness and Hillary's hawkishness are both awful and I condemn them both. Fair enough. The problem is certain posters that were all in for Hilary are wiling to overlook only Hillarys hawkishness. Meaning they're a bunch of hypocrites.
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Fullhouse posted:I'm pretty sure Ann Coulter was literally doing that on election day She wasn't advocating Jim Crow policy, how dare you suggest that! She was suggesting an American versions of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, and Reich Citizenship Law.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Fair enough. The problem is certain posters that were all in for Hilary are wiling to overlook only Hillarys hawkishness. Meaning they're a bunch of hypocrites. i only voted for hillary in the election cause she wasn't trump. i was fine supporting the rest of the dems in the downticket tho. also i cant do research cause im a dumb fuckbaby also today i learned that local democratic party meetings are basically impossible to find in massachusetts idk???????? this party is a joke
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tadashi posted:Is there an Uncle Tom like name for gay white men who don't really give a gently caress about anyone as long as they're making money? "lgbt people who don't buy into our culture of fear are uncle toms! Wait, where are you all going?" gently caress yourself shithead
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Segmentation Fault posted:"lgbt people who don't buy into our culture of fear are uncle toms! Wait, where are you all going?" "culture of fear"?????????????? they literally elected an anti-gay evangelist to the vp slot
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Pollyanna posted:i only voted for hillary in the election cause she wasn't trump. i was fine supporting the rest of the dems in the downticket tho. also i cant do research cause im a dumb fuckbaby I'm in NYC and I can't find a meeting I can attend in my district
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Pollyanna posted:"culture of fear"?????????????? they literally elected an anti-gay evangelist to the vp slot i dunno if u got the memo but some of the more brilliant minds on the left have decided that gays are no longer oppressed because goldman sachs flew a flag
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Segmentation Fault posted:"lgbt people who don't buy into our culture of fear are uncle toms! Wait, where are you all going?" hahahahahaha Yea it's us gays just making up that Trump surrounded himself with insane homophobes and his SCOTUS shortlist was written by an anti-gay hate group and his VP literally wanted to use HIV money to instead 'cure' gay people, and the tiny progress trans rights have made is openly talked about being kicked off the cliff as well.
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Pollyanna posted:i only voted for hillary in the election cause she wasn't trump. i was fine supporting the rest of the dems in the downticket tho. also i cant do research cause im a dumb fuckbaby Yeah it seems like the local level democratic party is non-existent here in Kentucky too.
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Democracy was a mistake -- Hayao Miyazaki
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Pollyanna posted:i'm not confident that i can say anything important, or that ill be taken seriously. but at this point, being able to express myself in any way possible is enough to relieve my frustration. All you have to do is repeat Bernie's in your own words and maybe talk about how your life reflects the struggles he's talking about. The more times people repeat the message, the more convinced the old folks will be that this is the direction the party has to tAke.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:She aged like 10 years in one week lol Reince Priebus, Sword of Ch'iang in hand, destroyed her phylactery on Monday
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crazy cloud posted:Reince Priebus, Sword of Ch'iang in hand, destroyed her phylactery on Monday Please. Priebus rolled a 1 and cut off his own leg.
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Segmentation Fault posted:"lgbt people who don't buy into our culture of fear are uncle toms! Wait, where are you all going?" Even the Nazis accepted Rohm! Come on guys!
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Phi230 posted:Even the Nazis accepted Rohm! Come on guys! Well, until they didn't 
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Majorian posted:Please. Priebus rolled a 1 and cut off his own leg. It's a good thing he's actually a shared consciousness among 9 goblin-like bodies, so one of the non-amputees could be chief of staff, then
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Nonsense posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/ SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Democracy was a mistake Many of the issues currently experienced in the US democracy system have First Past The Post voting as the root cause. Personally I like Score Voting.
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Pollyanna posted:"culture of fear"?????????????? they literally elected an anti-gay evangelist to the vp slot So what, you're just gonna curl up into a ball and cry? Jesus Christ this is retarded nonsense grow a goddamn pair (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The problem with FPTP reform and EC reform is that whoever is currently in charge of the government just enjoyed a victory thanks to our current voting system so they're not really heavily incentivized to change it (see also: campaign finance reform) Maine just switched to a ranked voting system, but they had to do a referendum for that
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My thread is sort of a lovely joke, but I'm trying to fill in a basic plan for 50 states on how to get involved with the local party. It's got a much narrower scope than this thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3798151 I'm an expert in Arizona. It's seriously sad that this is so hard. The Republicans have a 50 state guide on how to get involved. No wonder they're able to capture people who feel alienated. I can pretty much guarantee that there's local meetings going on everywhere, but the info is only spread through channels that people over the age of 80 follow.
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we're at like.... 1890s stage of gilded age 2.0, so be prepared for another ~60 years of this
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Karl Barks posted:we're at like.... 1890s stage of gilded age 2.0, so be prepared for another ~60 years of this It's the 1920s, actually. For real. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-wall-street-bankers-231524 quote:It’s a restoration of Wall Street power — and a potential flip in the way the industry is regulated — perhaps unparalleled in American history.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's the 1920s, actually. Welcome to the Second Great Depression and, subsequently, World War III.
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Who are we going to fight in WWIII? The European Union? A second civil war is probably more likely at this juncture.
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Porpoise With A Purpose posted:Yeah it seems like the local level democratic party is non-existent here in Kentucky too. Call the national Dems and demand answers, I guess.
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I LITERALLY CAN'T BELIEVE HOW STUPID THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WAS SHE PLAYED CHICKEN WITH TRUMP IN MICHIGAN, LIKE LITERALLY, THEY DIDN'T PUT RESOURCES THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE BLUFFING HIM TO THINK IT WASN'T GONNA BE VULNERABLE NOW WE HAVE TO CLEAN UP HER BULLSHIT MESS I'M SO MAD RIGHT NOW
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Fiction posted:Who are we going to fight in WWIII? The European Union? A second civil war is probably more likely at this juncture. Honestly probably Russia. By the time we get to that point in the cycle Trump won't be president anymore, remember
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:My thread is sort of a lovely joke, but I'm trying to fill in a basic plan for 50 states on how to get involved with the local party. It's got a much narrower scope than this thread. I don't think it's age as much as it is how much money do you have in the stock market and how much can you give to our "reelection" efforts
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Fiction posted:Who are we going to fight in WWIII? The European Union? A second civil war is probably more likely at this juncture. If it's a class war and not a culture war, then bring it on.
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