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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


PhilippAchtel posted:

You feel discriminated against as a Christian and want a law to ensure your religious freedom? Well, let me tell you what they do to Christians in <insert bad country>. Maybe you just need to harden up?

No see Christians facing repression in other countries shows that American Christians are highly persecuted and need to fight back. Everyone else getting persecuted in other countries means that they have to love America more since it could be worse for you (HINT HINT).

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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I can't wait for the primaries because one way or another the "Ted Cruz is a super genius and a master debater" thing being true will be settled.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Kill all dogs.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I'm waiting for it to be only food you can scrape off your body after Tea Partiers get to pelt you with it.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


"Dropped the ball" implies that it wasn't intentional.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


If it wasn't refrigerators it would be clothes and if it wasn't clothes they'd be asking why they use fancy barrels to hide their nakedness and not burlap sacks.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Gravel Gravy posted:

Oh they go on to list more after that one.

Yeah it would honestly go on until they were dead. I'm not sure if they would be complaining about having to pay to clean up the bodies or just allow them to rot in the sun and feel content in the visual reminder.

Not really they will never be content about anything.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I think Walker is already legitimate enough regardless of Obama. He's the favorite tool of big money and would be a great president for them as he'll do whatever they ask, not ask questions, and doesn't care about the disastrous results both because he has no morals and because he is very stupid. They are going to try and push him although he's running up against the entrenched Bush machine that's been in power since Nixon. Obama saying he's kind of a dumbass that that doesn't understand stuff is fine by me since it reinforces the notion that he's really lame and no one really wants to vote for that even out of Obama hatred. If Obama came out strong against him and made him feel like a genuine threat I could see it building some spite momentum, but occasionally dropping lines about how he's a joke probably won't hurt that much and might deflate some enthusiasm.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Fried Chicken posted:

Here is how it was reported before the video came out

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/28725562/coroner-identifies-man-shot-killed-by-north-charleston-police-officer

Or here is from the same paper before and after the video was released

Before: http://www.postandcourier.com/artic...d-investigating

After: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150407/PC16/150409468

In the bigger picture, for charges to be brought this quickly suggests that the non-public information about this is incriminating, rather than exculpatory. And they would have buried it if not for the video

The North Charleston police department received a heap of money for body cams in January btw

Lots of the typical types of people in the comments of that first article talking about how clearly it's unfortunate but this sort of thing happens when you try and resist arrest or run from police.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Also from the police thread it seems like SC is surprising less lovely than the majority of the country when it comes to tackling police corruption.

But yeah without the video this guy would have been a regrettable but understandable causality in the fight against crime and blah blah

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Honestly I'm fine with the city covering that cost.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Dick Cheney was already president twice that's why (joke works for Hillary too).

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Don't infer the system isn't good or it loses its magical totemic powers to protect us from criminals.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I'm kinda curious what would happen in a scenario where the GOP changed a bunch of electoral rules, then immediately won a Presidential election despite decisively losing the popular vote (like losing with 48% to the Dem's 50%). I would think the amount of people that had any faith left in the system would be at an all time low, but there's not much people can do about it.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


So Conan's Cuba trip was so good he decided to do Panama next?

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Fried Chicken posted:

http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/suspicious_lawyer_finds_malware_on_external_hard_drive_supplied_by_police_l/

Suspicious lawyer finds malware on external hard drive supplied by police lawyer in discovery

If the police attorney was in on this (and it sounds like he or she was based on the irregular method of delivery) that should certainly be grounds for disbarment.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


fknlo posted:

Seeing people posting a story on Facebook where a black judge sentenced some presumably black home invaders to some very minor time because "He felt the 3 year old white victim was racist". If this were real I assume it would be everywhere, provided left wing media isn't hiding it of course, so what's the real story so I can counter it? I'm really just assuming it's some bullshit to counter the thing where you can pay a police department to hunt unarmed black men.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/10/judge-slams-victims-for-tots-black-men-fear/25604929/

It sounds like two years after the robbery, the parents were trying to say that the robbers made their three year old racist and that should result in a harsher penalty for the criminals during the sentencing of one. The judge responded by saying that the kid isn't racist, but the parents are possibly using the kid as a way to sanitize their own racism. The robber getting probation seems to come from a hope he would redeem himself, not to stick it to the victims.

So yeah saying he's giving the robbers a pass because he thinks the three year old is a racist is in typical right wing media fashion taking a small kernel of truth and then creating a larger lie out of it. It plays in perfectly because you supposedly have black criminals victimizing a white family then a black man in a position of power yelling at them afterwards and of course using that to give a lighter sentence to the robbers to further stick it to whitey. It's a great "boo hoo white people are the real victims of racism :qq:" that the right wing is pushing like crazy lately.

Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 14, 2015

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


The jokes on you guys, the rich are just going to take their jobs to Mars with them and we'll be left here without knowing how to work for money.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


A Winner is Jew posted:

Well it's that or when the colonies eventually declare their independence they all build giant robot suits to fight on their behalf.

I dream of a future where the plot from Target Earth becomes a reality.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Target Earth is the more obscure and thus cooler reference. :colbert:

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Nothing will ever beat "My Ultimate Ayn Rand Porn"

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Mr Jaunts posted:

In which Chris Christie says, "gently caress it, I'm not getting elected anyway."


The full document is here, and also includes similar changes to Medicare, making Medicaid into a per-capita grant to states, and also some stuff about DI.

I'm glad that sack of poo poo imploded. I was actually terrified of him a few years ago since it seemed like sensible Democrats were in love with his moderate conservatism and I could see him getting elected. The gall to say that the average American has to face the hard truths while helping his friends profit is impressive. I hope his stomach band ruptures.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Which strip has more terrible, absentee parents, Moon Over June or Day by Day?

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Nat Turner.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Maybe he felt the Cubs have suffered enough.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


drakegrim posted:


She is a hot head with a fowl mouth. Not good for representing Americans, but then again

???

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I just wanted an excuse to post Donald yelling expletives.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003



I really can't understand this logic at all. I mean I can get that they like ultra right wing Bibi over Obama, that makes sense. However the idea that Israel should be a priority over their own country is crazy to me, especially from people that roll themselves up in the Ultra Patriot persona.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Amergin posted:

Gonna laugh at all of you "Trollbama Best Obama :allears:" folks when he trolls you with the TPP.

Yeah that really sucks but it's not that surprising from Obama.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Hey Matt, how did the Koch Bros break into the industry if you don't mind me asking :allears:

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003



Just offhand but it's really surprising a racist poo poo like Jeremy Clarkson would finally let it slip and physically assault a man because he got the wrong meal. It's almost like being a racist poo poo is indicative of being an awful person in general.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


SedanChair posted:

Ah, your king. But he finally lost his job for being a violent, intolerable buffoon, as all of your kind are unable to resist in the end.

Clarkson is a great example that being "politically incorrect" isn't nearly as career ruining as racists complain it is. It took him beating on his producer for half a minute in order to get fired and there was a huge outpouring of support for him.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Solkanar512 posted:

Wait, he was beating the crap out of him for an extended length of time? I thought he just threw a single punch. Holy poo poo, what an rear end in a top hat. I mean, one punch is bad enough, I didn't realize this was a full on brawl.

It's kind of unclear since they list the entire incident during which there was at least one punch and verbal assault which they list as lasting 30 seconds before someone intervened.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32052736

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I wonder how many white people outraged over anti-white racism have actually been called a cracker.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Maarek posted:

Its the most wonderful time of the election cycle, where obsessive party partisans try to convince people that a guy who got a 97% rating from the NAACP is a racist and the lady who said 'more white people will vote for me' in 2008 is the champion of people of color everywhere.

Who also started the birth certificate debacle.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Maarek posted:

We aren't even in the primary season yet and they're already telling the party's liberals that they're basically traitors if they don't vote for the center-right Mrs. Inevitability candidate. Once she wraps up the nomination and people who have no reason to be excited or give a poo poo about her election are apathetic, they're going to tell you that the primary is when you vote for the people you actually want and you need to get out there and GOTV for Hillary!!!


It's pretty hard to convince a lot of the people on this forum that she's better than Sanders. His worst issue is, what, Israel? She is to the right of him on everything and IN THEORY the primary is when you vote for those kooky folks who actually want to implement things you like. That's why they have to make up some random bullshit to avoid openly contradicting themselves.

Yeah the push for her is a real bummer. :(

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Clinton's defining feature seems to be "support bad positions until it becomes politically inconvenient to do so."

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Reagan was elected in a landslide and every Republican president since Eisenhower has either been a criminal, a joke, a forgettable one termer, or some combination of the those. He's the best they have so they need to elevate him to God-Emperor status in order to have someone they can claim made America great as their own.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Chelsea comes to a debate in blackface.

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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


That's some impressive passive voice. Somehow his neck broke after we apprehended him, we're not sure how but it certainly couldn't have been our fault.

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