Somfin posted:

Holy gently caress.

Like, there's a joke political party in New Zealand, that was active until 1999. The McGillicuddy Serious Party. One of its proposed policy changes was enforcing driving on the right-hand side of the road, to be phased in over the course of four years, starting with the heaviest vehicles.

They are somehow more reasonable than what is actually going on in India if Nenonen's info is correct.

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- Repeal the law of gravity

- Providing higher education by building taller schools

- Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages

- Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset

- Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River

- Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space

- Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory in Canada's backyard (after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories -- Nunavut did not yet exist), in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources

- Ending crime by abolishing all laws

- To provide more parking in the Maritimes and to create the world's largest parking lot respectively, paving the Bay of Fundy and the province of Manitoba

-Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley

- Amending Canada's Freedom of Information Act. "Nothing is free anymore; Canadians should have to pay for their information."

- Making the Canadian climate more temperate by tapping into the natural resource of hot air in Ottawa.

- Storing nuclear waste in the Senate. "After all, we've been storing political waste there for years."

- Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last.

- Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California

- Putting the national debt on Visa

- Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons

- Offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montreal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)

- Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times

- Banning guns and butter, since both kill

- Banning lousy Canadian winters

- Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.

- Making the Trans-Canada Highway one way only.

- Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.

- Donate a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada

- Counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans have stolen any

- The Queen of Canada would be seated in Buckingham, Quebec.

- Rather than awarding money as prizes in the lottery, the winners would be appointed to the Canadian Senate.

- Rather than patriate the constitution by bringing it to Canada, as proposed by Pierre Trudeau, the Rhinoceros Party pledged to bring Great Britain home and make it Canada's eleventh province.

- Building one nuclear power plant per household, including monthly distributions of lead underwear to Canadians. Indoor lighting would then be provided by radioactive citizens.

- Burning all the standing barns in Canada to provide energy, under the slogan Burn a barn for Britain.

- Alimony payments would go directly to the federal government, and responsibility for withholding those payments would fall upon the federal government.

- Men would be allowed to work as prostitutes, wet nurses, secretaries and receptionists.

- The Rhinoceros Party party pledge to eliminate small businesses, and replace them with very small business, having less than one employee.

- Candidate Graham Ashley, standing in Ottawa-Vanier, pledged to take Canada off the Gold Standard, and implement a Snow Standard, which would improve the economy until the summer.

- Candidate Stardust the Magician promised to put a roof on Olympic Stadium, using only a $25 million hankerchief.

Doc Hawkins posted:

What? No, of course not. Animals didn't kill or eat each other until after Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden. When they ate the forbidden fruit, it gave them knowledge of good and bad, and also made all the animals fallen and sinful.

The bible doesn't mention this at all because when God was writing it, he thought it would be obvious. Which it clearly is.

Vib Rib posted:

He literally called being faithful to your spouse "revolutionary".

Ularg posted:

Can someone explain to me the "Well intelligence also said there were WMDs so why trust them now?" claims? My gut tells me it's bullshit.

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He said he would not rest until he built a sound economy for the American people, but instead he spent part of over 300 of his days on golf courses.

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Discendo Vox posted:

Spreading a video of one of them getting punched has the same effect as a pithy remark, at best. Persecution is a coin that they are happy to trade in. He's saying he's afraid, publicly, to the press and on twitter, to further the narrative of how dangerous and violent those left wing feminist radicals. "these kind of people are roaming around". If he was actually afraid, he wouldn't be talking about it! This isn't going to cause him to stop going places or speaking, it's going to let him and his followers talk about how brave he was to overcome it. Spencer is saying publicly that he's worried it will become a meme, but he'd love for the image of him as the sane and rational one under threat by violent lefties became a meme. These are not people you can take at their word.


It's not about what he deserves, it's about what the effects are on his appeal. This increases his appeal, just like Milo loves having counterprotests (the rowdier, the better) at his campus talks. The proper response isn't to hit back, no matter how appealing it is. It's to cut them off in advance. Campuses and venues can easily enact policies that have the effect of excluding these people from speaking. Policies on ticket priority can keep them from bringing in paid supporters, which keeps them from profiting. Counterprogramming can sap their audience and promote an alternative narrative. The right wing isn't beaten by being attacked or reasoned with, but by cutting off their air.

Jedit posted:

Jesus H trampolining Christ. Leave aside the soda thing for a second: you are literally arguing that the correlation between carrying more weight and getting more tired is not causation. This is not an argument that can be made by anyone who has ever walked 100 yards (or climbed a flight of stairs) carrying a couple of heavy shopping bags.

euphronius posted:

..... isn't that the whole point of why it was so stupid for trump to say it.

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I AM THE TOILET posted:

Even when I left the military and went on unemployment, I still didn't qualify for food stamps - because I was living with close family members. Add to this that I had to demonstrate that I was actively looking for work on a weekly basis by showing up at a job center with applications and updated resumes just to keep the meager ~$600 a month I was being given, and even then, the unemployment office still found cause to ask for ~$2000 of it back once I did start working full time again, in spite of the fact I called and told them the minute I got the full time job.

This is in Texas. I don't know how it is in other states, but for me, getting "free poo poo" wasn't easy and hardly a loving scam. It's made me realize that the whole wellfare queen thing is bullshit, and any time some dumbfuck oxy-riddled redneck at my job goes off on people mooching off the gov't, I loving die a little more each time.

edit: I want to clarify that I'm not pissing and moaning I didn't get food stamps - the whole experience made me realize that the stamps are intended for the truly destitute and suffering. I was lucky to have a home to move into when I separated.

You see someone at the supermarket pull out a EBT card, that person's hurting.

CountFosco posted:

What was it but nationalism, the sense that we needed to defend our nation and its democratic ideals, that spurred our efforts to defeat the Axis powers?

Nationalism was of course at the core of fascism's rise, but nationalism also was an instrument (among many) of its defeat. It's almost as though one can have a healthy, moderate nationalism versus an unhealthy, toxic nationalism.

Rebel Blob posted:

Man, y'all are really over-analyzing this. It's a Hollywood movie, when this project first started coming together some studio executive said this needs a recognizable Hollywood star and everything else is just working around that. That executive had no objective other than profit, having someone like Scarlett Johansson as the lead will drag more butts into theater seats. Whatever creative decisions were made around the character are utterly secondary.

Ularg posted:

Actual anonymity helps these assholes actually send out threats, but for the rest of the regular harassment is done by people who may as well be anonymous because nothing is going to really happen to them in response.

But if there's anything I learned is that the assholes might just be the majority in our society, so it doesn't matter anyway.

loquacius posted:

I really really don't understand how one can still sincerely think in 2017 that terrorism tops the list of "real problems in America"

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

So I guess minorities shouldn't worry about the police since the probability of being killed by one is also essentially zero in any given year?

It's almost as if how people emotionally respond to things isn't guided by taking in facts and making GBS threads pure logic. Are you libertarian by any chance? Cause I hear that sort of thing all the time from them.

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BigglesSWE posted:

Sooooo what, a strong stance against global warming = not caring about terrorism?

Xenoveritas posted:

Except for the part where Trump campaigned in key states while Clinton ... didn't, not to mention the bit where on national television Clinton flat-out told a voter "my policies will put you out of a job." Literally: she answered "we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work" to a coal miner asking about what she would to to help people like him.

Trump had a superior campaign strategy to Clinton, whose strategy appeared to be "of course I'm going to win, time to try and run up the score."

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Ben Garrison posted:

Great Britain has at least shown some sign of a backbone. They resisted taxation without representation when they voted for Brexit, but too many of their leaders remain bent on globalism. The latest terror attack in London was good excuse for Theresa May to call for control over the Internet and the end of privacy and free speech. She doesn’t want a good crisis to go to waste.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Oddly, I haven't heard any talk of any sleeping around Trump might have been doing recently. Is that just in the past for him and/or his dick doesn't work anymore?

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Duckbag posted:

This is the dumbest poo poo. Every Sanders supporter I know likes Warren fine. If anything, it was the Warren people who sabotaged him by running a quixotic months long "draft Warren" campaign when she explicitly said she wasn't running.

Also, who the gently caress is declaring front-runners this early? Isn't picking a candidate what primaries are for? Have democrats really learned nothing from last year's botched coronation?

Also you gotta love that straw-manning. "They support him now, they'll obviously support him when he's a hundred years old. BTW, did you know that Sanders is old and his supporters are all white men?"

Duckbag posted:

Well, a lot of folks genuinely expected her to back Sanders because they're so similar on so many issues and Clinton is way to the right of both of them. A cynic can definitely read Warren's actions last year as selling out. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it's a fair critique. If you were just looking at her stated policy positions, it was reasonable to assume she'd back Bernie and disappointing to a lot of people when she didn't.

Darth Windu posted:

What the gently caress

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Something is inexpensive, therefore everyone can afford the expense and there is no reason for society to provide it. That's why there are no government programs to help people who can't afford food, electricity, or running water, it's just dollars a day people!!!

Also Gary McCoy is a loving turd and I'll keep saying it no matter how many gas station pickles he accuses me of buying

Fister Roboto posted:

I don't think that political inconvenience is a good excuse when it comes to not standing up for human rights. On other issues, maybe.

Radish posted:

People aren't falling for "we simply have to do small steps, it's how government has to work sorry. Maybe your kids in 20 years will benefit " anymore, especially as Trump burns down every political norm in plain sight.

Lurdiak posted:

Literally the only thing stopping them from "adapting" to pay raises in the same way is they don't want to have less money in CEO pockets.

logger posted:

Weird how she labeled Ted Cruz as Speaker Ryan

cheetah7071 posted:

Prince Val is being posted as some sort of weird protest against Zelda, right

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