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TheAnuhart wrote:

So as someone not affiliated with any party, someone who understands the oligarchy puppet masters pull the strings of the left and right puppets, anyway, and someone not even an American, so, meh....

That's some pretty nice swamp draining you got going on there, guys!!!!

The creature from the Sachs Lagoon?



Maybe he just needs a hug?

I'm skeptical of Mnuchin, but will have to wait and see what he actually does.

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Jennik wrote:

When economic policies are laid out without a party attached, people tend to go with the Democratic policies.

I have seen it both ways. A lot depends on how the questions are phrased. It's usually a small number of people interviewed that actually know much about the various policies without someone explaining them, so there's a lot of trust involved.

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Jennik wrote:

Anyone want to chime in with a clever jab about vegetarian being the Native American word for "bad hunter?"

Actually, I'm pretty sure "vegetarian" is rooted in Latin, and that the Native Americans have a cooler word/phrase for "bad hunter". Still, I lol'ed

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I think nongovernmental nonprofits are great. Really. I think there's a huge potential in the "we" of completely voluntary mutual cooperation. The thing is: that shit has no rightful place in government, except to the extent that we must, like it or not, fight against it. The only justifiable loss of freedom is the choice between the least of multiple evils; better to be at the mercy of the force of democracy than the force of dictatorship. Churchill nailed it when he said "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

Unless you are rich, most of us are recipients of income distribution, you just don't realize it.

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deathflower wrote:

Unless you are rich, most of us are recipients of income distribution, you just don't realize it.

You're probably getting rather indirect there by equating service as payment, and/or ignoring that government debt needs to be repaid at some point and that taxpayers will be burdened with that responsibility.

I mean, imagine if we paid taxes and benefited in no way whatsoever. It'd be an outrage. The problem isn't in simple yes/no of receipt, but in quality and scope of service relative to cost.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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deathflower wrote:

Unless you are rich, most of us are recipients of income distribution, you just don't realize it.

You're probably getting rather indirect there by equating service as payment, and/or ignoring that government debt needs to be repaid at some point and that taxpayers will be burdened with that responsibility.

I mean, imagine if we paid taxes and benefited in no way whatsoever. It'd be an outrage. The problem isn't in simple yes/no of receipt, but in quality and scope of service relative to cost.

You sure aren't paying it now. You get more than you pay for. The extra cost is financed with debt. Then refinance that debt indefinitely. Not like you aren't doing that already.

Best Obama overdosed on memes lel.

The entire media is shitting on Kanye West because he met with President Trump. Pic stays relevant.

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Xavderion wrote:

The entire media is shitting on Kanye West because he met with President Trump. Pic stays relevant.

Spoiler

The left wants people to accept whatever employment caste and political ideology they were born into. Independent thought is punishable by social exclusion and harassment, if not expulsion and job termination. Political Apostasy is unacceptable. Why couldn't Kanye just be happy serving his democratic overlords?

Combine a Trump win, Kanye defection and a whip cream shortage, and perhaps resident numerologist
was right about 2016 being THE END OF THE WORLD.

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End_Of_The_World_Is_2016 wrote:

2016 is not your average number. It possesses dark magic that you must see, to believe.

Trump Supporters Love Russia And Think CNN And The New York Times Are "Fake News"

How do you have an intelligent conversation with a group of people who believe fact is fiction are fiction is fact? You simply can't. I understand Trumpers will come back with a "no u, lel," but this is not a coin with two identical sides. One side is Washington's face, and the other has been scratched right the fuck off by Harvey Dent.

I don't think we can come back from having such a large portion of our country be dangerously misinformed and delusional. Any fact that comes along and could possibly be unkind to their "reality" is summarily dismissed. Any fact they believe that is opposed by daddy Trump or batshit right wing media is dismissed, with some new fiction replacing it.

And, before anyone says anything, Buzzfeed's news reporting staff is top-notch. They're not the same people who do their "Top 10 Ways to Eat Broccoli if You're a Celebrity" articles. Feel free to dismiss them as "fake news," though. I still love how hearing that so much of the bullshit you've been feeding yourself being pointed out as fake news has led to you calling legitimate news sources fake.

Every Trumper post in this thread is still utter nonsense. "The left wants (insert thing the left obviously doesn't fucking want because it's moronic batshit), aren't they dumb?" Sigh. After you do something about treating bullshit as fact and fact as bullshit, you really need to work on that projection problem.

"Independent thought is punishable by social exclusion and harassment"

By "independent thought," what do you mean? The only "independent though" I'm aware of that's treated like this is "I hate brown people," "I hate gays," "I hate non-Christians," and the like. Oh wait, you're a Trumper. That is the independent thought you're referring to. I'm sorry, I'm just so used to hearing it called "economic anxiety" that I got momentarily confused when you called it "independent thought."