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The thing about Republicans is... they define words however it's convenient for them. So you can't argue with them.
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So Jeff Sessions has started a Religious Liberty Task Force. Or better named the Christian Enforcement Agency.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/21/hes-accused-of-killing-someone-in- (space) a-parking-spot-dispute-authorities-say-he-was-standing-his-ground/?utm_term=.76aa05290ad4

Florida's stand your ground law is really disturbing.
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I like how somehow having female characters and minorities makes something 'political".
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Sam and Dean (Supernatural)
Ron and Harry (Harry Potter)
Yu Narukami and Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4)
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Jakyl25 posted...

I wonder if more conservatives will join people like Walsh and publicly denounce Trump for this

Trump could say that he colluded with Vladimir Putin, have a signed notarized confession from Putin, and all conservatives would say is:

"Who cares? We should be thanking Putin for saving us from Cankles!"
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If Trump is a Putin Puppet, I wonder if Putin bangs his head against the wall at Trump's lack of subtlety.
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Conservatives LOVE calling people communists... and yet never have any clue what a communist is. Other than a dirty word their grandfather taught them from the McCarthy era.
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Make sure they don't waste their life savings.
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Paul LePage vetoes law outlawing gay conversion therapy. Citing religious liberty

You know... I wonder how these conservatives would feel about there being straight conversion therapy clinics that did the same things these gay conversion therapy clinics did. Only to turn straight kids gay instead of the other way around. My guess is they would flip their shit. Fuck Paul LePage and Fuck the GOP.
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2 seconds. I had no idea what you were saying, so I quit watching.
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Persona 4.
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I find it kind of funny that a criminal is asking for 'no crime"
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Inviso posted...

I wonder what sort of cultural change could have happened in recent years to make usage of the word "Fuck" so casually accepted? I mean, maybe it was the idea of a presidential candidate getting into a heated debate about his dick size, and the country just being okay with that as part of our political discourse.

Words are just words. Not sure why "fuck" should be considered such a bad word that it shouldn't be used.

I remember sadly reading a post elsewhere where this guy called up the suicide prevention hotline, and he kept cursing--so the woman on the other end told him she'd hang up on him, and she did. Luckily he didn't kill himself, but that seems like a bad thing to do to someone threatening to kill themselves.
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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/1012457662506782721

Cop uses tazer on unarmed compliant man.

I wonder how people will defend this one.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Then how do we beat him?

Make sure you have a candidate that plans to visit Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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Riley & Maya (Girl Meets World)
Chie Satonaka & Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4)
Anna & Elsa (Frozen)
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There's a bit of a disconnect when people on one hand say "Stop being politically correct snowflakes!" and on the other hand say "Wahhh you called a bunch of people deplorable."
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I like Dragonair a lot better than the other two.

Nominate: Totodile line.
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Islam has a lot of problems -- but none of them will be solved by keeping them out of the west.
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So Republicans are celebrating that victims of domestic violence and victims of gang violence aren't grounds from Asylum.

And people wonder why liberals feel they can't find common ground with Republicans.
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Apparently, Virginia nominated Corey Stewart (a nazi sympathizer) to run for Senate against Tim Kaine.

I wonder how many Republicans will denounce him, and how many will tie themselves to him.
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As soon as we ask Europe to pay back their WWi debts, China should just come around and say "How about that debt you owe us then?"
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So someone who had their DACA status revoked because they drove while high on marijuana was murdered after being deported.

A lot of conservatives are totally okay with this because "Hey, he shouldn't have broken the law."

It greatly concerns me that people are so willing to put a death penalty for minor crimes, albeit an indirect one. I wonder why (Not really--it's obvious why) the same extension isn't made toward white-collar criminals. I mean they do they crime too. So they too should face near-certain death.
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xp1337 posted...

However, in that event, I don't think you're solving the problem you laid out there! Trump had endorsements from elected Republicans! That's not a high bar at all to clear!

For Republicans, no. But for Democrats I don't think you'd see, for example, anyone saying "I endorse Kim Kardashian"
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Booker's still too much of a corporate stooge. And he was pals with Betsy DeVos. That's a big concern for me as far as he's concerned.

I do think Dems need to go a little younger than Biden. Though I wouldn't be opposed to Sanders (as long as he chose a good running mate)
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xp1337 posted...

Wouldn't that be worse? You'd effectively be making that person a kingmaker.

What are you talking about?

How is requiring one endorsement from one elected Democrat Official making anyone a Kingmaker?
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Dems need several people in their primary this time. Not just 2 people (and Licoln Chaffee). Oh yeah, I guess Martin O'Malley ran too or something.

Also they need to get rid of the Superdelegates. If you want to prevent someone like Trump from getting the nomination, then require an endorsement from an elected member of the Democratic Party to get on the ticket or something.
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Kenri posted...

gonna be honest, the most surprising thing about this is that trump knows one (1) fact about American history. the bar is so low this might actually have raised my opinion of him because i'd expect him to blame them for the USS Arizona or some shit instead.

You're giving him way too much credit. It was the British who burned down the white house, not the Canadians. I suppose he might deserve a point for knowing it had to do with Canada.

Also if we're being honest, he probably thought it happened in 2012. (I almost said 14, but then realized Trump probably thinks the War of 1812 would only take place in 1812)
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/swatting-prank-reported-home-parkland-teen-activist-david/story?id=55658829

There's the link.
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So apparently someone swatted David Hogg's home.

I feel like swatting needs to carry stiffer punishments. Like 5-10 years in prison. More if someone dies as a result (20-life if someone dies).

Then again, there's so much wrong with our justice system. Rape a girl? 3 months in prison! Kill a transgender person? Probation! Run over 4 people, killing them all in a drunk driving accident, then ESCAPE from rehab and go on the lam to Mexico? 2 years in prison. (Rehab before that, though!) Molest a 5 year old girl? 5 years probation. Have a little too much weed on you? 20 years in prison. Swat someone... and cause their death..
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With news of that pastor who is using donations to buy himself a FOURTH Jet... I feel like we should tax things like that. I mean fine, your church building can be exempt from taxes. But why should you get a tax-free airplane, and a tax-free mansion because you are a preacher?

Maybe we're all doing this wrong, and we should all just start our own religions. Then claim tax exemption. Seems to work for Scientology.
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Jakyl25 posted...

I wonder if he passes out Bibles to trick or treaters

I wonder if he does, how long it takes to clean up toilet paper and egg off his lawn on November 1st.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Its also important to keep in mind that a lot of these ideas originate as damage control from Russian trolls posing as American Trump supporters.

I really hope a lot of people I see on twitter are just Russian Trolls. Especially the ones attacking the parkland survivors (and posting pictures of Parkland Shooter's face in replies to them when they specifically ask people not to)

But I have little faith they are when so many conservatives have said terrible things about the Parkland Survivors simply because they don't back the NRA.

It's hard to tell the line between 'real conservative' and 'troll' anymore.
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Lopen posted...

I would say assuming the police are in the wrong every time is generally a worse look than assuming the police are in the right every time, yes, going by percentages.

I thought questioning authority was generally a good thing. Apparently not when police are concerned.
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Lopen posted...

If you want something where it's possible the swing voter outright disagrees -- Police stories in general I think are an excellent example of this. Many many super liberals will basically take the side of the perp by default, even when there isn't a lot of information yet. It's just not a good look, particularly for people who have had better experience with police than random people on the street.

As opposed to immediately taking the police's side like conservatives do? And many conservatives will continue defending police's actions even AFTER information comes out that it was in the wrong. (Also your use of the word 'perp' here is definitely telling. Was Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy a perp? What about Philando Castille? What makes him a perp?

Conservatives are forgiven a lot more easily for their bullshit than liberals are by swing voters. They can vote for pedophiles like Roy Moore, Anti-Gay lunatics like Mike Pence, but because someone didn't take the side of the police in a shooting (or because some people don't think police have the right to carry out the death penalty for any number of crimes) they can't vote Democrat?
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Jakyl25 posted...

I can tell you are not people who were culturally aware during the early 90s

Well that makes sense, I was born in 1992.
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LapisLazuli posted...

I always mix up Rosseane and Rosie O'Donnel which leads to very confusing political news stories.

Glad I'm not the only one.
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Corrik posted...

Can you not discuss anything without doing it? Why is it so hard for some of you?

You're the one who brought race into it to start with. You don't seem to understand why someone would be upset by something, so you don't think they have a right to be upset. But YOU get to be upset over what makes you upset and you don't see why other people have a problem with this.

It's the double standard and is 100% privilege. (Note that I didn't say WHITE Privilege. This is Conservative Privilege, where they get to be upset about things like taking God out of schools, kneeling for the anthem, but other people can't be upset about things that matter to them for similar reasons)
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I mean why do you get to be upset about something, but other people don't? Just because YOU don't view it as important.

(THIS is a perfect example of privilege by the way.)
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Corrik posted...

And yes. Even I was outraged over the kneeling thing. Disrespecting the flag and the anthem is a pretty big no-no to someone who is pretty much a nationalist such as I am.

So it's okay to stereotype a race, but if someone refuses to worship your flag you get to be upset?
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Corrik posted...

For example, attacking a 25 year old fan loved show because of an Indian character usage?

As opposed to attacking people for not saying Merry Christmas, or kneeling for the flag?
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I tend to insult people who are religious. But usually only after they bring up how being gay is an abomination and that gay people aren't normal.
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I've seen conservatives regularly call liberals MS-13 supporters, baby killers, and said Hillary Clinton worshiped Satan and did some soul cooking and ran an underground pedophile ring from a pizza place.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

"racist," "fascist" and "nazi" are definitely insults (well, usually. "klansmen are racists" isn't necessarily an insult). but uh... tons of people proudly call themselves alt-right. so that often wouldn't be an insult.

A lot of people proudly call themselves Nazi's too, and marched with them in Charlottesville.
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Reg posted...

Remember this guy? Did I actually remember to post this crap to try to get the conversation away from the general idiocy that has plagued this topic over the past couple weeks?

Reminds me of how there's a town in Michigan where only Christians who can prove they attend church regularly can buy OR inherit property. Meaning one man can't will his property to his jewish wife. Used to be white only too.
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UInstinctGogeta posted...

This guy isnt a pundit, and isnt acting like a journalist. So its time he shut the fuck up!

So why do you talk about politics then? You aren't a pundit, and you aren't acting like a journalist.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

So suppose, totally hypothetically, that the president (or any other politician) is engaging in an objectively stupid or corrupt course of action. How do you think that should be covered?

Depends on if it's Trump or Obama.

If it's Trump it should be ignored, because there's nothing objectively stupid he can do.

If it's Obama he should be destroyed, and commentators can say what he want because then it's actually objectively stupid.

obviously
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Everyone is biased. How biased is another matter. Everyone has a right to say what they want, though.
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Maybe someone can explain to me why Daren Hobson is being tried with Terrorism.

Now, I won't jump to conclusions. Maybe the gun he had wasn't fake, but real (despite reports saying it was fake). Maybe there was a political bent behind it (but nobody's said what that is yet, if anything at all). But at present, I just don't see why he's being charged with terrorism instead of say.. public endangerment or even aggravated assault.

Maybe Nevada state law defines terrorism differently -- it appears to do so. But if that's the case, then Stephen Paddock should have also been classified as a terrorist. But he wasn't.
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