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Radbot
Aug 12, 2009
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So how is this report partisan, as morons on the right have been accusing?

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Vermain posted:

I only hope that it leads to some kind of new interest in politics, at the very least. Like, there's got to be a few people out there going, "How did we get here?"

The only way that a government can get to this sort of stage is if there's not a critical enough mass of people pressuring and monitoring their actions. There's been a mass disconnect of people from the whole idea of "politics" in general, and the government has taken good advantage of that, even in situations where its own actions are actively harmful to its continuity!

Yes, I'm sure evidence piling on top of evidence that your vote doesn't mean jack poo poo will definitely get more people involved in politics.

Your cause and effect is reversed. People stop voting when they don't feel like their vote makes a difference.

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I like the torture report because it's caused all the trolls on reddit to shut the gently caress up about how voting and writing to your congressman changes things, and that it's today's low political participation rate that's driving all the awful stuff that's getting rammed down our throats. Perhaps they, too, have embraced the sweet kiss of accelerationism.

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ActusRhesus posted:

so supporting prison sentences for murder = supporting anal hummus smoothies.

Got it.

You're a disingenuous prick, hth.

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I'll say it again, anyone who complains about the incompetence of the gubbermint has never worked at a very large company.

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Job Truniht posted:

Udall is accusing the CIA of lying. Just loving do it, Udall. Drop the full 6000 page report on the way out. It'll be glorious.

No loving way will he do it. You'd need to be an idiot with no regard for yourself or your family to piss off the CIA like that.

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mds2 posted:

What exactly would they do? Murder a family member of a US Congressman? I dont see that happening.

Well, if I were a CIA agent with a grudge, I'd plant kiddie porn or other similarly disgusting poo poo on his computer, then out him to the local PD.

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