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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Besides, the argument is that Franken should be put in prison and receive a de facto death sentence for his crimes.

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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Groovelord Neato posted:

the thing that blows my mind about that article is there are people that make the effort to vote without even knowing what issues are. why would you bother.

i don't follow hockey so i didn't watch the stanley cup finals even when the bruins were in it. i had no skin in the game.

The cartoons told them it's their obligation as a citizen to vote. The cartoons never said how to vote or why, just that it was bad not to.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Think of it this way. Replace "taste in games" with political consciousness. These fuckers buy what's on teevee and complain about how rear end Screed is bad, but keep buying it. Our job is to get them Dunkey, Jim, and hbomb.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jul 16, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Rent-A-Cop posted:

Because somehow the idiot political class has convinced a large number of Americans that voting is a moral imperative, but neglected to offer them anything they actually want to vote for.

They did this on purpose. The alternative is that everyone forments on some low level for some form of embedded liberalism, nation-state economics, or socialism.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Honestly, you'd have more success with convincing the voters that Republican party politicians are racists. You just have to actually draw the lines and abandon shitlib civility politic. So actually make hay of the fact that Trump's dad was a wartime Nazi sympathizer who Woody Guthrie hated next time.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


They controlled the range of acceptable opinions through censorious bodies such as HUAC, used INS, the FBI, and the NSA to filter for subversives, put everything in private hands, and then told everyone to vote to assuage their guilty conscience.

They being a large amalgamation of people with soft power who often hate each other.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


sexpig by night posted:

Bernie can't run for president because Jotun are not citizens of America

Devil and Mister Webster rules apply.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


VitalSigns posted:

It's absolutely crazy that the political class in this country is so arrogant that they think they can just say "yeah we're all opportunistic liars who will stab you in the back in a heartbeat, grow up" and it won't cause them any problems.

At no point did anyone learn from Kerry. Kerry's campaign predicted Obama's presidency.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


They didn't assume, they recited. Rest assured that they will make you white again in the retelling.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


That can only happen when the controlled opposition is no longer able to defend their fellow Republicans.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


We need a Minority Leader who is capable of leading the minority to the point where courts can be convened to try and sentence Trump for his crimes against humanity.

Then, the Majority Leader needs to stay the course instead of pulling a Truman.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


And if they lose, they can just McGovern the good candidates.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


America deserved 9/11. If you can't accept this fact and keep it in focus you stop being a living human being and become something else.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Sep 3, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Trabisnikof posted:

I wish Obama was anywhere near as good a leader as he is a speaker. Because that discord is beginning to make smug Obama more and more grating.

President Obama still won't say depression for fear of a market panic.

Trump is president and our first black president won't call a depression a depression for fear the economy will experience the mother of all corrections will happen on the watch of the man who said he wasn't​ a citizen.

Obama's a total scumfuck and Trump is his legacy.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


John Kerry seems blissfully unaware of the fact that his soul is imperiled every day he refuses to publicly apologize for getting Bush reelected.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I guess it depends on where you draw the line on "warning signs" and "confirmations". For example, Hillary's "America is Already Great" motto pretty much confirmed every negative thing I thought about her. "Hope And Change" doesn't exactly scream "I'm a moderately-right centrist"

Also he's evil because of drones

Yep. For all that Obama is a scumfuck, Hillary's complete inability to understand what a shithole this country is made Obama's lies seem great by conspiracy.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 7, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Main Paineframe posted:

Do I have to explain the rather obvious contradiction here?

There's no contradiction for liberals. Ideals aren't something to be built towards, they're unreal objects of worship that occasionally intrude when the stars align on important dates or sanctify the Great Men.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


I actually disagree. If beating the Republicans was a good step towards improving things, the Democrats would do everything in their power to keep from doing so, and they have, so therefore they're directly to blame. A minor distinction, but an important one.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Sep 7, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Oh Snapple! posted:

Yeah speaking honestly I'd like to know who the gently caress is looking at Trump and is just disgusted at his inexperience and not him being a wretched piece of poo poo pushing every wretched piece of poo poo republican policy he can.

I mean I know, but still.

You want the list, cross-indexed by address.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Fulchrum posted:

You do understand you actually put my handle in the post, right?


Yes, somehow, even though the past two goddamn years have proven the whole leftist "economic anxiety" thing was just pure horseshit, Bernie would have gotten voters out of thin air who would support him. And the candidate who had never, in his entire political career, have even the most tepid, milquetoast negative ad run about him, and who had more negative info found on him by the RNC than Hillary Clinton, would of course easily be able to defeat the multi billion dollar right wing propaganda engine.

Keep on using that Bernie Math to prove why victory was assured, and the only reason he lost was those eeeeevil people who were pulling the strings to sabotage him.

Unless you admit Bernie would have lost badly, you're still going to keep seeing things like Nixon being crushed by Cuomo.

I know you're quoting, but bernie had more crossover appeal than the candidate who campaigned on having it and 2016 was characterized by both low turnout and voters leaving the top slot blank.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Sep 14, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


All around the world, the barefoot people are standing up, and they want liberals to shut the gently caress up.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Condiv posted:

i'm a little confused as to how a homophobe like fulchrum considers himself the center

Being a homophobic piece of poo poo, a feminism appropriating transphobe, or a straight white gay is pretty centrist.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Saagonsa posted:

Is a straight gay just bi?

"masc4masc no homos"

"I don't see what the problem is here. Donald Trump held a flag upside down, so clearly this passport thing isn't happening."

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Lets be honest.

Obama, superstar leader of the shitlib coalition, spent eight years trying to articulate a Woke Nationalism that would allow for the lie of Compassionate Conservatism to continue. He has continued this in the Trump era, desperate to conjure up some legitimizing myth for the people that are his enemy to use rather than talking about how much they want to dispossess, concentrate, and exterminate ethnic and sociological minorities.

But here's the twist.

Trumphumanimals actually want death camps and pointing this out breaks decorum.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Maybe they fear nuclear annihilation

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


The treatment for brain worms has entered distribution. Soon, you will be free of the disease called HOPE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wny4UptyceU

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Sep 20, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


You've confused "What about Islam?" (A noted tack Bushites and other Christian scum use to deflect attention from the Satanic Panic and institutional child rape.) and whataboutism, which was whenever anyone told the worst superpower of the Cold War that it's a horrifying shitpile that should be destroyed, but the news anchors deflect by boiling every valid criticism to "and yet you lynch Negroes" because they know domestic audiences lust for black death.

And they still do, to this day, allowing the tactic of mockingly saying "and yet you lynch Negroes" to dismiss valid arguments against America to continue.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Sep 23, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


B B posted:

How else do you expect the Democrats to reach the Baileys?

Painstakingly creating an alternate reality where opposition to #MeToo is in good faith and then spending time that could be spent of Kavanagh coverage discussing their fanfiction.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-obama-drink-flint-tap-water-679355459845?v=raila&

He is an accomplice in Rick Snyder's crimes and he should be tried as such.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Harik posted:

You just can't help yourself.

Let me help you: When Dennis Rodman goes to north korea and appears on "state-owned TV" hugging Supreme Leader and calling him an awesome guy, he is actively participating in propaganda.

When US actors do PSAs for the government, they are also participating in propaganda. This is not something that's up for discussion.

When Edward Snowden appears on Russia Today, he's participating in propaganda.

Aside from arguably snowden, everyone I listed has a choice to participate or reject propaganda outlets.

Deciding to film a video to be shown as propaganda is endorsement. It's not a complicated process to get from A to B here. That's why you're so desperate to call RT anything but a propaganda outlet.

Harik made an attempt at a witty dismissal, implied that the person he quoted posts irrationally or involuntarily. Harik equivocated Dennis Rodman and people who appear on RT. Harik finished by using the word propaganda in an attempt to conjure forth some emotion that would be useful to the nonargument he is making.

As was stated before, Harik has no rebuttal and so must desperately avoid engaging the contents of arguments against the economic system that will likely be the foremost cause of human extinction. They pretend at a commitment to truth or human dignity, but they, in their anger have posted enough to reveal that it is they who post in anger and they who post involuntarily.

The use of "propaganda" or "regime" to dismiss state enemies is a massive yellow flag.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


That one episode of the Golden Girls is propaganda, but do you see me repeatedly using the word propaganda as the sole descriptor of the wooden episode where a hateful charicature of a defeated state enemy is taught the virtue of [virtue] and becomes a successful [noun]

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Sep 25, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


If they don't appear on FOX where else will you hear Obama admit he's a Nixon man?

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


theCalamity posted:

Dude says he would vote for Hitler if he had a D next to his name, but wouldn’t vote Cynthia Nixon because she doesn’t have experience. The gently caress.

Refrigerator's out, so the yellow flags all turned brown.

Vaporwave Lenin Was Correct.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Dirk Pitt posted:

Can we all agree that Democrats are a waste at this point?

We can, but some will lie.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Manchin is the new Lieberman, except instead of being the deciding vote shielding Halliburton from the rapes they did he shields Kavanagh from the rapes he did.

As with Lieberman, he deserves inconceivable doublehell, as do his cohorts.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


You forgot Dan Rather, the man who was only against Iraq after Bush's no-show gig at the National Guard was proven to be common knowledge.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


J.B. CURES KANSAS posted:

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1048307218716790784

What's infected Peter Daou and how can we spread it around a bit more?

He's foreign, so he actually cares about the fact that we have a heavily armed racial purity police that uses a decade+ old enabling act authored in part by Joe Biden to whisk children away to the camps.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


it has been an honor.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Acinonyx posted:

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I know a bunch of people who can go on for an hour about how Zinn is eye rollingly simplistic while also believing that our problems would be solved if more people would just vote correctly (D). Has there been an actual problem societal problem solved by politicians, rather than them having to be forced, kicking and screaming?

JQA built federal roads that one time and had the bouge baying for his blood as a result, so yeah.

I assume reformist monarchs murdering the grabby, rapacious nobles beneath them and doing land reforms of some kind don't count.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Oct 7, 2018

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Main Paineframe posted:

Cool, they've invented soup kitchens but with a patriotic name

and tailored to middle class peccadillos

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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


I was talking about the name, but yeah, the free meals being vegetarian is a good idea.

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