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Alucard188 posted...

DiesMortis posted...

A firearm, no. But shut them down? Sure. Fascism and white nationalism is a disease.

Sounds like she was trying to incite a riot and violence against people she didn't agree with in an effort to shut them down. Sounds like fascism to me.

Yes because trying to stop a group of people who's stated goal is the silencing and oppression of entire groups makes you just as bad as the group who wants to oppress people.
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Transcendentia posted...

DiesMortis posted...

Transcendentia posted...

Shut them down how? Through violence and force? And it's quite rich to see antifa decrying fascism even though they're literally the fascists leveraging violence and threats of violence to get their way. They're no better than the alt right and those people who are marching.

Not how fascism works, bud, but keep grasping at straws.

Anti-fascists are literally the fascists, buddy, and if you think what she did was okay you're not only on the wrong side of the law but you're also on the wrong side of history. This kind of shit just justifies their views in their eyes and removes the legitimacy of the opposition. Engaging people through violence when they have a permit to march is just going to make the aggressors look bad rather than justified.

The difference there being i'm not going around having marches and making statements like "black people should be the target of non-violent genocide" (actual quote from Richard Spencer). These guys are. Trying to stop them from having a platform to speak doesn't make you as bad the person who wants genocide, sorry.
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Annihilated posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Annihilated posted...

Because generally speaking, people like being employed and don't want to jeopardize that by voting for failed leftist policies.

Clearly Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands are all failed states.

"B-b-b-b-b-but Europe!!!"

Wow, you got me there.
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Annihilated posted...

Because generally speaking, people like being employed and don't want to jeopardize that by voting for failed leftist policies.

Clearly Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands are all failed states.
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HydraSlayer82 posted...

The best is why would a leftist vote for Hillary? She's republican light.

Because unfortunately you have a two party dominated system. This time around you had a grossly incompetent unqualified petulant manchild against a qualified (IE actually understands how the government functions) but corrupt republican lite centrist. It's like a choice between being punched in the dick once and being punched in the dick 5 times. Neither choice is good but one is less bad than the other.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Only 13% of Republicans say Hillary support would strain a friendship



http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/20/since-trumps-election-increased-attention-to-politics-especially-among-women/

And apparently, white liberals are way more petty than minority liberals. So much for the tolerant left

Why would I want to be friends with people like you?
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Something something jesus something.
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The23rdMagus posted...

http://biologos.org/common-questions/scientific-evidence/evolution-and-the-second-law

Pretty much this. You are misapplying the second law of thermodynamics. Go study so you actually know what you are talking about and then try again.
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Duncanwii posted...

Do you know how many American citizens would die if we went to war with Russia? 321.4 million. A war with Russia is the end of America as we know it, so it's in everyone's best interest that we keep Putin happy.

Neville Chamberlain would be proud.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Why do non-Christians keep bringing that up as an argument? You don't give a shit about Christianity anyway and constantly look for ways to remove it from government and the overall choices you want people to make.

Because regardless of any that it still points out the blatant hypocrisy of the evangelical-GOP alliance.
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Even as fucked up as this is there are people that will still defend the cops.
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I'd be ok with it if all religious schools were exempt from receiving them. Religious institutions have no business getting taxpayer money.
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Personally I think it's a good thing. Sports are pretty much the modern equivalent of Gladiatorial games. They serve only as a distraction.
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Fuck bois are the male version of the basic bitch.
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Having actually spent a lot of time working with Vietnam vets, I can tell you that almost all of them picked up AK 47s and used them over the m16 whenever they could keep enough ammo around.
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Bluebomber182 posted...

MonkeyBones23 posted...

Darkman124 posted...

Bluebomber182 posted...

shes better at playing the game of thrones than most people. she should sit on the iron throne in the end

its quite clear at this point that it will be jon and dany forming a political marriage that will sit it together

I don't know how people who watch the show can think this is how it's going to end with everything that has happened in the show.

for real. this show kills off everyone you like constantly and the good guys almost never win

Welcome to real life.
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Yeah, how dare people not allow their labor to exploited for corporate profits until they are adults.
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Stellaris is a less psychotically complicated game than other paradox games. It's actually fairly simple compared to a good portion of their stuff. Still super fun though.
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Callixtus posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

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SGT_Conti posted...

Wait which part is the eradication of religion from a citizen's private life?

Its marginalization. These values are antithetical to Christianity. You can't promote them without detracting from Christianity.

If equality is antithetical to your religion, maybe your religion is the problem?

Equality is a overused word constantly adjusting to moving goalposts. It's also an impossibility.

Equality in the eyes of the law is not an impossibility. Again, if equality under law is antithetical to your religion maybe your religion is the problem.
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Callixtus posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

Wait which part is the eradication of religion from a citizen's private life?

Its marginalization. These values are antithetical to Christianity. You can't promote them without detracting from Christianity.

If equality is antithetical to your religion, maybe your religion is the problem?
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Autocraticus posted...

Holy hell, a lot of you are upset over him posting a gif.

You can't really be so dense that you think this is actually about a gif and not about him acting like a 16 year old internet troll. The man is the goddamn president of the US, he should probably behave with some dignity. We are reaching Toronto mayor Rob Ford levels of behavior at this point.
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S1 was basically just trying to be the office. Leslie is literally a female Michael Scott clone. Luckily in S2 they drop that angle.
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Jesus.
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Wutobliteration posted...

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Wutobliteration posted...

wow, that's the most ignorant statement I've heard of so far. Not even in the 20th century and by far, not even close to events before the 20th century. Also, you should at least be aware of how much the Allies went in agreement to villianize only the Nazis as the evil ones after WWII. Funny how most to none of the Allies (Soviets included) got tried for war crimes but only the Nazis did.

Name me one army the same size who committed genocide on an industrial level.

I'll wait.

Never heard of Holodomor? Highest estimate: 60 million.

Holocaust highest estimate: 6 million.

Also fun fact, Hitler got his admirable idea of Holocaust inspired from Stalin's mass genocide in the first place

Yeah... actually he got it from an SS officer named Reynard Heydrich. Try to be less of a fucking tool.
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LightHawKnight posted...

Never seen anyone get a ticket for jaywalking in Chicago. Never. And I have seen people walk infront of police cars to get across the street.

The only jaywalking ticket I have ever seen was the one my cousin got in Champaign.

I saw it once in chicago, and I have seen it a bunch of times in Vegas. The best one in Vegas was a guy jaywalking and got hit by a cab turning onto the strip. Cops come, ticket the guy for jaywalking, and take information from him and give it to the cab so the cab company can bill the guy for the damage.
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Goddamnit, I hate my life. WHY CAN'T WE EDIT TOPIC TITLES!
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Article basically just describes the video contained in it. Two black dudes crossed against the light. Cop gets mad, things go south from there. Cop tries to detain them for walking without an ID. Which is not actually a crime. I've seen people actually get tickets for jaywalking, but only in places like Vegas and Chicago where the traffic flow is so heavy that people jaywalking fucks up the entire flow. From what I can see here though there is literally no traffic.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nevjqm/a-florida-cop-ticketed-a-black-man-for-walking-without-his-id-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus
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You can thank Reagan for ratings/advertisement based news media.
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giantblimpN7 posted...

Nah, I think it was best they never turned renegade into being evil. It was always about being an asshole who would do anything to get the job done, but still wanted to save the galaxy. Shit gets into war criminal territory in 3, but considering the circumstances it still isn't nefarious villian stuff I'm.

Yeah I felt like the renegade choices were perfectly reasonable in the first 2 games. Some of those choices in the third game though you would have to be a complete fucking monster to go through with though.
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Why would you resist? Like if I'm a teller at Bank of America why would I risk getting killed for my douchebag CEO who makes more in a year than I'll in a lifetime?
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I haven't yet played with the restored content mod. How is it?
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That game had such promise. It's still great, but it could have something truly spectacular.
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No Ron Perlman = no care.
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She's a con artist who spews self righteous nonsense 90% of the time. Unfortunately it triggers the shit out of alt-right incels so it's kind of a wash for me, since I loathe both groups.
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Antifar posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

One of the early criticisms of Obama was that he tried too hard to be non-partisan.

He's right. Obama had a supermajority in the senate and spent his time trying to win over Republicans anyways.

Yep, that was one of the chief things that annoyed me about the early part of his presidency. He had a supermajority. He should have just "fuck you, dad gave me the keys to the car i'm going to drive where I want". Instead he tried to build bridges with people who literally said "our entire goal is to make Obama a one term president". Unfortunately the last Dem who had any real sack when it came to that sort of thing was Kennedy.
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Imagine giving a fuck about any of these people.
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Any pornstar dumb enough to vote for any republican deserves to lose their job. The GOP is anti-porn and if it were up to most of them porn would be illegal. Why would you vote for a candidate from a party that wants your job to be illegal?
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

I might feel (a little) better about it if all that money they're saving wasn't just going back into tax cuts for people who don't need them.

But but...the wealth will trickle down.
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creativerealms posted...

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Blue_Inigo posted...

Are you really trying that elementary school deflection here

Irony™

Blue_Inigo posted...

Dems ain't perfect but they aren't fucking over our country like the GOP is

Yeah a fucking world wide recession isn't being fucked over.

Bill Clinton signing DOMA, was for helping minorities. Rigging their own primaries to keep Bernie away and running the only candidate trump could beat didn't ruin the country.

It's all the boogie man!

Bush caused that recession.

Lack of regulation on the banking industry caused that recession, which is a position heavily favored by the gop. Which is why they are currently undoing all the regulations that were put in place after said recession to prevent it from happening again.
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So basically the intent of the original tweet was to attempt to intimidate comey before his testimony.
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Garbage philosophy aside the writing is horrid, the characters all awful caricatures, and the plot is completely absurd.
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This fight will be typical mayweather. He'll play defense for six rounds. Macgregor will get exhausted because hes not used to it to fights like that. Mayweather will then start hitting and win the fight either by decision or Macgregor will finally drop.
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Piano
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voldothegr8 posted...

No shit. People bitch about $500 but the hardware is a steal for that price. It's the first console that isn't horribly behind on hardware compared to PC gaming.

Oh I agree. Microsoft has actually a decent job this time.
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In 2 years they'll be able to though. And in 3 years they'll be able to build something better. That's how PC vs Console tech always works. This is nothing new. Then 3 years after Xbox will come out with a new system and you'll start the process over.
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Mal_Fet posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

And yet the whole "we have to pass it to find out what's in it" line, while bad, is nothing compared to what the republicans are trying to do.

Repeal an act that made everyone's lives more expensive with little or no benefit?

As a guy who can now get insurance that covers his heart condition that isn't dependent on my job, you can go fuck yourself. If they remove coverage for preexisting conditions my choices if I lose my job based insurance are die from lack of medication or lose my house and car paying for medication then eventually dying completely in debt when I have nothing left to sell to pay for my medication. Same if they allow the insurance companies to cram in lifetime benefit caps. Go fuck yourself.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Some Vox writer ambushing senators to get their unprepared comments on a bill they probably don't like to begin with will still never compare to "We have to pass it to find out what's in it"

And yet the whole "we have to pass it to find out what's in it" line, while bad, is nothing compared to what the republicans are trying to do. There were 160 hours of debate on obamacare, 100 committee hearings/roundtables/walkthroughs, and over 170 amendments allowed to be proposed by the GOP to it. There have been 0 hours of debate on the Trumpcare bill, 0 hearings, and 0 amendments allowed to be proposed.

It's literally like the GOP took everything they complained about the Democrats doing and took it to the farthest possible extreme. They can no longer say anything about the Dems "jamming" Obamacare through.
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Well, I guess if this passes I'll probably die.
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QuantumScript posted...

What does a leftist government have to do with deep space exploration and curing diseases?

Right....because the GOP hasn't completely shown itself to be anti-science with it's continued pandering to the evangelical wing of the party. There are amazing medical advances to be made with stem cell research but the government won't help fund any of it because "muh ded fetuzes"
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