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Greetings, friends. It has come to my attention that there are a lot of bad posts in the Debate and Discussion forum, most of them relating to politics in the United States and specific political figures from that country. We have had several threads dedicated to more specific discussion, because a broad US politics thread inevitably descends into slapfights over various election results, or worse, individual posters. I am tired of reading these posts. You probably are, as well. Which is why I'm stealing an idea. logikv9 posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again: political deathmatch thread where trump, clinton, and sanders posters post and any political ranting outside the thread gets a probe  Welcome to the thunderdome, fuckers! Here are the rules: 1. Posting is strictly limited to the topic of politicians in the United States of America and why certain politicians, or groups of them representing various ideologies, are good or bad. 2. This includes the current President of the United States, Donald J. "Deals" Trump. You can say the president is good here. Don't be surprised if you are mocked roundly for it. 3. Outright bigotry and fascism remain punishable. What constitutes this is up to moderator discretion. 4. This isn't a Helldump thread and shouldn't be used to litigate post histories or spread personal information. Your rear end is banned if it happens. But it is OK to make fun of people for posts in this thread. 5. The report function should be used for posts in this thread. This is not Hamsterdam for D&D. However! High-stakes posting means high-stakes modding. Relaxing some of the rules for this thread means that when I get reports or see dumb poo poo happening, punishment will be much, much worse. The minimum probation is one week. If posts get particularly bad, this minimum might change. Be warned!!!!
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Reserved for photos of Stalin.
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Sep 28, 2017 04:09
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Pembroke Fuse posted:This is going to suuuuuuuuuuck... it might. we'll see
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Sep 28, 2017 05:46
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tammy duckworth has NOT entered the thunderdome.
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Sep 30, 2017 09:41
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JeffersonClay posted:It's fine to suggest Democrats try to recapture the kind of popularity that LBJ and FDR enjoyed, but it's weird to assert their popularity was solely due to expanding social services and had nothing to do with their ideological defenses of free enterprise and capitalism and their interventionist foreign policy to defend the same across the world. Thank you for posting this in the thunderdome. Dickhead.
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Oct 3, 2017 03:16
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it turns out when your entire understanding of geopolitics turns on the axis (heh) of opposition to the ussr you get taken to some weird fuckin places
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Oct 4, 2017 08:14
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yronic heroism posted:1. Amusingly, Johnson and Roosevelt weren't leftists. These were liberals who as history would have it had the advantage of large congressional majorities. "left-liberal on the verge of seeing the value in one-party socialist states" is my favorite genre of post
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Oct 9, 2017 05:46
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technically wampalord baited loam into bringing Other Thread stuff in here but if you're dumb enough to take the bait it's fair game imo
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Oct 14, 2017 00:58
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Rodatose posted:politicians who lived in times with different values are all going to be bad, that's why you try to focus on policies instead of emulating the person as a Great Man. this is true of everyone except comrade stalin
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Oct 19, 2017 09:25
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yronic heroism posted:Well by this logic any kind of welfare state can be framed as pointless because "the rich will just steal it back." welcome to the communist party
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Oct 20, 2017 01:05
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slander against comrade stalin in the thunderdome...now i've seen everything
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Oct 20, 2017 12:00
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Ze Pollack posted:congratulations spoiler alert: it's a charnel house
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Oct 25, 2017 07:40
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VitalSigns posted:🎶I cried on September Eleventh, as though I'd lost a brother of mine, goddamn
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Nov 1, 2017 03:05
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Falstaff posted:The last verse is the same as in the original, though...? no it isn't, he takes out references to socialism "Sure, once I was young and impulsive; I wore every conceivable pin, Even went to Socialist meetings, learned all the old Union hymns. Ah, but I've grown older and wiser, and that's why I'm turning you in." new versions of the song — even jello biafra's — almost uniformly suck in comparison, no one could craft a verse like phil
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Nov 4, 2017 11:54
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NathanScottPhillips posted:loving love this forum! shame about all the other posts
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Nov 6, 2017 10:13
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franken endorsed manchin lol
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Nov 11, 2017 06:31
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i think that was the first thunderdome post bad enough to warrant punishment, lol
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Dec 1, 2017 03:36
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Ganson posted:He didn't gently caress up the recovery from the housing crash too horrendously (yes I know half the country hasn't recovered, I live in a not-poo poo top 20 city because an idiot could tell the rural country was going to get boned either way, eat it suckas), killed Bin Laden (and a lot of other brown people in the middle east, not as great), didn't get in the way of gay marriage, made it so my g/f could get health care, and kept the GOP from enacting most of their crazy slasher fan fics. Yeah he wasn't perfect but I got most of what I wanted out of him. so "gently caress you got mine" is acceptable if it's used in defense of a cool center-right guy with some liberal positions on social issues
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Dec 14, 2017 07:54
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gowb posted:I have tattoos and have three gfs and make a lot of money, and I hate poor white people but not any other poor people because why can't they be like me, and get multiple bi gfs, cool ironic tattoos, a dog that can scream like a man lmao
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Dec 15, 2017 07:52
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socialist countries: cuba, dprk, laos, prc, vietnam, nepal....? capitalist countries: every other industrialized nation in the world
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Dec 21, 2017 12:13
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Lightning Knight posted:I’m not really sure I agree with most of these, several of them are either state capitalist or have liberalized since the fall of the Soviet Union. Vietnam and Cuba are arguable, but the DPRK is much closer to feudalism than socialism. the government of the dprk isn't just the kim family no matter how hard the west tries to convince everyone otherwise
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Dec 22, 2017 02:29
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Lightning Knight posted:Oh are you actually going to go to bat for North Korea? Lmao oh are you taking a statement of fact as "going to bat" because you only see politics as team sports? Lmao just Lmao.
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Dec 22, 2017 08:42
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the reality is any left movement that doesn't want to get throttled in the crib by an even stronger state apparatus than in the panther days will have to be extra careful not to advocate for violence or be seen as doing it not that it matters — when they want to arrest you, they'll arrest you
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Dec 23, 2017 19:31
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check out these fuckin people what have never been to france
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Jan 12, 2018 01:23
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Don't dox me bro. ortolan
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Jan 12, 2018 10:27
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actual answer: the best meals i had in paris weren't what you'd consider classic french dishes, it was almost all nouvelle cuisine. but there's little better than a nice fois gras seared and lightly seasoned with some white wine
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Jan 12, 2018 14:47
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all food is good.
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Jan 13, 2018 01:50
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Tim Raines IRL posted:Here in Vermont, we've had some chucklefucks making these "News Done Right" videos about local issues, basically making fun of the state for being progressive. Ex: this couldn't look more astroturfed if you had a koch brother stare into camera and say "I am funding this."
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Mar 26, 2018 01:00
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1036392223598960646 charles pierce turning into just another resistance lib has been so disappointing to watch
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Sep 3, 2018 04:29
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selec posted:Dems are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but the DEMS ARE GOOD/DEMS ARE OUR HOPE/DEMS ARE GONNA DO THIS posts all slide right past that rule because they basically don't upset the feelings of the people who insist on the DEMS ARE BAD rule, which to be fair is the majority of the posters in the thread. It's as simple as that--one side of the debate gets to run wild in there, and even actively bait, as I've seen, the other side with "I bet Greenwald/VitalSigns is going to pop up in a second to tell us..." posts, and the impulse to respond is officially against the rules. you should report that stuff when you see it because those posts also suck rear end.
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Sep 14, 2018 03:47
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:To be clear, you're just talking about post history stuff right? i'm talking about baiting, either explicit or implicit.
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Sep 14, 2018 04:09
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:In any case that post has gone unactioned for long enough that I think it's safe to say that R. Guyovich was full of poo poo the other day, and that the mods here do not apply the rules evenly. I mean in case you didn't already know that. there was a period of inactivity roughly this long before the first round of the d&d purge. probably just a coincidence.
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Sep 19, 2018 08:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxnkadRbak
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Sep 21, 2018 03:05
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Ytlaya posted:Oh wow, jeez. I'm kinda surprised I escaped that, since it seemed like a whole bunch of people from "both sides" (of the arguments that tend to occur in D&D anyways) were selected. only bad posters were banned.
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Sep 21, 2018 10:07
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modern democrats are to the right of southern democrats before the turn of the 20th century. a good chart.
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