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This is exactly what I was talking about earlier, these days people are all too happy to automatically lump everyone who don't 100% agree with them as "those other guys": "What!? that guy is pro-gun rights and doesn't believe that taxing the rich is all we have to do to get out of our financial mess? HE MUST BE A REPUBLICAN!!! Wait, he doesn't also hate gays and aren't against abortions? well, he must be one of them NEW republicans that had just climbed out of the stone age!!!" You don't know my views on government, or religion, or healthcare, or most other social and fiscal issues. Incidentally, I've also spent damn near half my life outside the US, so I'd appreciate it if you would refrain from registering me as a republican or presume to know what my perspective is. Last edited by kyp275; 2013-03-02 at 20:45. |
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2013-03-02, 20:55 | Link #563 | ||
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as far as third party candidates goes, I understand the visibility aspect of it, and I actually did vote for a couple 3rd party candidates in November myself, but you can't blame people for not voting for them, because in most cases they are little more than exercises in futility, given the election system that we have which massively favors the two major parties. Who knows, maybe if the two parties disenfranchises enough voters as they keep screwing things up, the third parties may gain more steam. |
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2013-03-02, 21:17 | Link #564 | |
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Big cuts spur calls to Congress from irate constituents
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2013-03-02, 21:24 | Link #565 | |
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There Goes The Sequester (Zero Hedge)
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2013-03-04, 14:35 | Link #568 | ||
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2013-03-04, 14:38 | Link #569 |
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Raise Taxes
Offer loopholes for the rich. ??? Go Broke!! Under the current system, they're just looking to siphon more money out of you if you're working or running a small business. Then they use a tiny little bit of their ill gotten gains (but not enough so they can still afford a new mansion as well as importing 50 all-but-in-name wage slaves to labor under them) and give it to those on welfare and truly need help. And then tell you that those recipents are the core of your problems and stole all your money. All while pocketing your cash in their back pocket while lying to you that you could be like them if only you had more willpower, like in a shounen anime. Oh, and most of it is masked behind going to war, to make you feel that it's doing something. It's doing something, alright.
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2013-03-04, 14:54 | Link #570 |
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I'm more interested in having the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet calling out the likes of Donald Trump (what a total jerkoff!) and the other selfish super-rich people who are clearly not doing their share of the job to get more money pumped into the greater good during difficult times.
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2013-03-04, 19:49 | Link #571 | ||
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It'll be funny if Obama does something like that. For now, this is merely hypothetical and wishful thinking.
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2013-03-06, 10:29 | Link #573 | |
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Behind a cancer-treatment firm's rosy survival claims
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2013-03-06, 12:41 | Link #576 | |
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2013-03-07, 00:13 | Link #577 |
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What are people's thoughts on Rand Paul's filibuster?
I thought his point about Jane Fonda was rather thought provoking. As for the NRA, as a non-NRA member I'd just like to point out that no one is going to convince me that the NRA is somehow a detriment to the maintenance of my 2nd Amendment rights. You all want to complain about NRA being beholden to gun manufactures? Why should that upset me? They're a good ally in stopping all this gun grabbing nonsense. Why should their motives matter to me? And don't tell me that we're all paranoid. Up in my home state of Washington the legislature tried to pass a bill that would send the sheriff out to confiscate your guns if they are on the banned list. (As reported by the Seattle Times, hardly a conservative newspaper). Oh and if you manage to get a special gun permit for the guns they want to ban then you have to register your gun and be subject to yearly "safety" inspections whenever the sheriff chooses. So much for our 4th Amendment rights. It's not paranoia when they really are trying to grab your guns. Yeah, so I'm with Senator Corbin on the issue. I'll support universal background checks, but not if it's being used as a backdoor way to create a national gun registry. Considering the antics going on in the more liberal states I don't think that is unreasonable at all.
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2013-03-07, 00:24 | Link #579 | |
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2013-03-07, 00:39 | Link #580 |
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That Jane Fonda aka "Hanoi Jane" went to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. While there she denounced American soldiers as war criminals, denied that American POWs were being tortured, and then posed on an anti-aircaft gun.
These actions are analogous to the actions taken by some of the targets of current drone killings, and were used as justification for their targeting. Rand Paul points out that he doesn't support Jane Fonda, but that he didn't think she should have been put on a drone kill list. Rand Paul is currently filibustering on the Senate floor, demanding that the Administration withdraw its recent claim by the Attorney General that under certain circumstances US citizens inside the US can be targeted by drones for killing. I think he's in his 11th hour of talking now.
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