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Xiahou Dun posted:I sincerely, honestly want to know why they care so strongly about the election of Senators. Senators used to be appointed by state legislatures instead of elected by statewide popular vote. Look at all the state legislatures Republicans control via gerrymandering even when Democrats get more votes statewide, those states would all have Republican senators. Also senate seats were for sale, guaranteeing they stay in the hands of our lordly Job Creators
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O no. I get that. I want to hear them try to explain it.
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Oct 13, 2020 00:09
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"More power for us, gently caress you" is an entirely consistent political approach if you think you're in the right.
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Oct 13, 2020 00:14
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Xiahou Dun posted:O no. I get that. I want to hear them try to explain it. Its usually "we cant be ruled by the tyranny of the majority" when the majority favors Democrats and "the government cant force things upon us!" When the government favors a Democrat solution. And if its both? "The constitution says..."
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Oct 13, 2020 00:59
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RagnarokAngel posted:Its usually "we cant be ruled by the tyranny of the majority" when the majority favors Democrats and "the government cant force things upon us!" When the government favors a Democrat solution. And then "Well the democrats are the minority so we can force things upon them no prob"
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Oct 13, 2020 01:00
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RagnarokAngel posted:Its usually "we cant be ruled by the tyranny of the majority" when the majority favors Democrats and "the government cant force things upon us!" When the government favors a Democrat solution. Reminds me of: When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. When the law is on your side, pound on the law. When neither is on your side, pound on the table.
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Oct 13, 2020 06:07
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Xiahou Dun posted:O no. I get that. I want to hear them try to explain it. The Founders intended Moar States Rights.
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Sarcastr0 posted:'Unmasking' probe concludes without 'finding any substantive wrongdoing': report I agree, point Trump's petty grievance obsession in Barr's and make don jr ag
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What, Freep: The Swap.avi protects its own is right there! This is predictable. It's the same mindset that sees "11 congressional investigations and thousands of hours and millions of dollars later, and Clinton hasn't been found to be at fault for Benghazi" and just comes to the conclusion of "we haven't investigated enough!" The verdict has been reached. Now the trial must be held.
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quote:To: yesthatjallen Ah yes, the "guilty until proven innocent" approach. quote:To: yesthatjallen In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be Reagan" and there was Reagan. And God saw Reagan, that he was good.
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I am not excited about Biden, but I am excited about reading FReep after election night.
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Oct 18, 2020 05:31
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Based on the early voting data, maybe you shouldn't.
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Oct 18, 2020 06:04
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i just want HRC to be at fault for benghazi so we can put VIlerat's name on THE HILLARY BODY COUNT
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Mantis42 posted:Based on the early voting data, maybe you shouldn't. Early voting data seems to suggest Biden is winning. Trump getting corona hurt him with seniors (his best group) because seniors often will vote on appearance and trump looks like poo poo and a fool to them for banging on about how corona is fake then getting it. Regardless the data isnt the concern, its more that covid is going to gently caress up who can vote and if its even a little close the gop will bang on about the election being invalid a la 2000.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Regardless the data isnt the concern, its more that covid is going to gently caress up who can vote and if its even a little close the gop will bang on about the election being invalid a la 2000. lol like being close or not will stop them
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Oct 18, 2020 15:35
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Trump defeat = it was rigged Trump victory = it was rigged but Trump’s genius and the Silent Majority defeated the Deep State
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:lol like being close or not will stop them I didnt define what close was.
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Mantis42 posted:Based on the early voting data, maybe you shouldn't. I'm not drunk enough to start trusting polls, but I think that things look favorable for a Trump loss.
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Oct 19, 2020 04:07
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The early voting data is good for Biden. The only place where it looks "even" is in a site that's basically just making stuff up because the states they're saying they're tracking don't actually report party ID for ballot requests and returns.
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Oct 19, 2020 04:14
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Trump victory = it was rigged but Trump’s genius and the Silent Majority defeated the Deep State the worst fuckin deep state if they fail to stop Trump twice
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Jesus Christ.
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FReep has this demented vision of cities. It's like they think that any town with more than 50,000 people in it is Mogadishu circa 1990. They also think we're going to collapse or whatever and that the fallout would all be contained within city limits and wouldn't have any effect on their lives. Though they do fantasize about black people killing all of us city-dwelling palefaces and then gunning them down when they leave the city to find more loot.
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The racism is so disgusting that my brain protects me by projecting an image of terrified urban freepers futiley blasting shotguns into swarms of africanized* honey bees. *nairobi strain 
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I also was thinking bees.
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Grogs.txt meets Freerepublic.com Any Freepers Play Strategy Board Games? quote:My all-time favorite is Advanced Third Reich by Avalon Hill. It can be combined with Empire of the Rising Sun for a Global War! quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:To: rfreedom4u quote:Played Avalon Hill Afrika Corp. There was a Stalingrad board game but I don’t remember if it was Avalon Hill or not. I think we may have played Blitzkrieg too. Not that playing old WWII wargames makes you a Nazi, but I can take a wild guess about what side these guys liked to play.
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That pisses me off because the same poo poo freepers probably believe about WW2 is still around today, the decades-out-of-date myths of soviet conscript hordes and superior german engineering and all that poo poo. Any strategy game community outside of SA is full of that poo poo coming from people our age and it's a loving dice roll if a given game store is chud central. The golux post legit made me chuckle, cuz I thiiiiink they're calling out freeper evangelicals.
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It is interesting what types of people are attracted to wargames. I think you do get a small number of actual nazis, but mostly you get people who bought the Superior German Steel propoganda and want to play Germany because it has "superior" equipment. Even in these forums today, you will now and then get a goon posting an utterly misunderstood belief of history because the German Kruppstahl vs. Soviet Hordes myth has become utterly ingrained in Western military ethos. Similarly, in modern setting games you will get loads of Russian nationalists posting about the superiority of cold war Russia over the Western militaries. A sort of "Make Russia Great Again" attitude.
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I hate to pedantically "defend" a Freeper, but Kriegspiel, despite the German name, either refers to a variety of chess played blind or this weird rear end proto wargame from the 1600's. It's the one non-Nazi thing in the post. But I understand the assumption cause I doubt there were a lot of people talking about Agricola or whatever.
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These people are like the folks that play hearts of iron and refuse to play anything but Germany.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I hate to pedantically "defend" a Freeper, but Kriegspiel, despite the German name, either refers to a variety of chess played blind or this weird rear end proto wargame from the 1600's. It's the one non-Nazi thing in the post. Avalon Hill published a game called Kriegsspiel in 1970. It bore no relationship to the earlier games of the name name, but was interesting in that it was an ahistorical game with a symmetrical setup to make it an even contest.
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mllaneza posted:Avalon Hill published a game called Kriegsspiel in 1970. It bore no relationship to the earlier games of the name name, but was interesting in that it was an ahistorical game with a symmetrical setup to make it an even contest. And, let me guess, it had Nazis? I stand corrected.
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Any news on Freeper voting? Are they voting early? Using mail?
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Xiahou Dun posted:And, let me guess, it had Nazis? I stand corrected. It did not. It was vague red and black pieces with no real historical marker.
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I’m not shocked at all that a bunch of freepers are Wehraboos
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PhallicPhalanges posted:I’m not shocked at all that a bunch of freepers are Wehraboos Funnily enough I do have a conservative family member who is big into WW2 stuff and yet all he talks about is the Red Army. I don't know what the Soviet equivalent of Wehraboo-ism but he is definitely not a tankie or any kind of communist 
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DarklyDreaming posted:Funnily enough I do have a conservative family member who is big into WW2 stuff and yet all he talks about is the Red Army. I don't know what the Soviet equivalent of Wehraboo-ism but he is definitely not a tankie or any kind of communist Just a guy who appreciates a cool army.
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T-34 is objectively the sexiest tank. Peak armor performance.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Just a guy who appreciates a cool army. Odds are also pretty good they're tankie. With WW2 wargamers never trust them. (Evidence: I play the Red Army in WW2 historicals)
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