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whatisthisasheep
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 15 2015 10:20 whatisthisasheep wrote: Trump gave a speech in Mark Cubans Stadium bashing Karl Rowe for the better part of 20 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suBsY9eqJGQ Trump is great. Finally we have political theatre that is actually entertaining. The elites are catching on. | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
I hate it when people say this. Do you guys have any idea why it was created in the first place? | ||
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farvacola
United States18864 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
Overall, the post was designed to demonstrate that when talking to a Libertarian about gay marriage, you say, "Assume all the other shit you hate still exists, should gays also have the same ways to cut through all that shit?" Then we say yes, and go play EVE. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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whatisthisasheep
624 Posts
On September 15 2015 11:20 Plansix wrote: We can just let wealth travel upwards until we reach the natural conclusion where the poor kill the rich. it's the natural outcome on a long enough time line, and why should the government get in the way of nature. I wish a was poor. I could work alot less and just complain about not having the things I want instead of working hard for them. Then I should spend all my time explains how the man is holding me down and how their isnt a level playing field and how the system is rigged against me. Except it isnt...but it is because of institutionalized racism, sexism, social hierarchy, political discourse, cultural insensitivity etc. How I wish I could do that but im to busy working  Sorry that the man is holding your people down Plansix. You should elect a president that will be champion for the middle class and give them a fighting chance! | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On September 15 2015 13:10 whatisthisasheep wrote: I wish a was poor. I could work alot less and just complain about not having the things I want instead of working hard for them. Then I should spend all my time explains how the man is holding me down and how their isnt a level playing field and how the system is rigged against me. Except it isnt...but it is because of institutionalized racism, sexism, social hierarchy, political discourse, cultural insensitivity etc. How I wish I could do that but im to busy working The funny part is that you think you would work less. Edit: kid, no one is holding me down. I own a house and have a more than full time job that supports me. | ||
KwarK
United States44128 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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whatisthisasheep
624 Posts
On September 15 2015 13:19 KwarK wrote: I'm amazed someone as illiterate as whatisthisasheep considers himself one of the elite. I'm desperately hoping he's just a child of rich parents whose prep school education was somehow unable to teach him the difference between too, two and to, or there, their and they're. I am a young impoverished woman of color born in rural south africa who is trying to etch out a meager living for my family by moving to the States. I have successfully overcame seemly insurmountable obstacles in my journey to fame and fortune and dont want others to go what I had to go through then in order to get where I am now becuase it was to difficult. I choose to devote my spare time making sure people big corporations are held accountable for both their rhetorical and ethical choices, because they wouldn't exist if it wasent for us hard working folk. | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
A Golden Valley woman is asking the courts to allow her to smoke marijuana for religious reasons — because she belongs to the First Church of Cannabis. Through her lawyer, 31-year-old Ashley Firnschild is arguing to the Hennepin County District Court that the weed’s illegality places an “undue burden” on her “sincerely held” religious beliefs as a member of the Indiana-based church established earlier this year. The case is coming before the court because Firnschild is alleged to have smoked the weed in violation of a condition of her probation for a drug charge. Firnschild’s use of marijuana is based on “guidance in the philosophies of her church” and her embrace of the church’s mission “establishes her dedication and sincerity to such ideologies,” the motion said. http://www.startribune.com/defendant-cites-religion-seeks-reprieve-from-probation-ban-on-smoking-marijuana/327605281/ Holy shit I hope this works. I'd love to see what conservative evangelicals have to say about other religions being able to circumvent state (and federal) law because of their "sincerely held religious beliefs".  | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On September 15 2015 14:26 cLutZ wrote: There is...a completely on point case. Compelling interest + least restrictive means. With the existence of Obamacare, the government has a compelling interest in everything you put into your body. Odd. Nations with better universal healthcare coverage for longer periods seem to care a lot less about policing individual lifestyle's than your nation does. The war on drugs has existed a lot longer than universal healthcare in your country as well. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On September 15 2015 14:32 WolfintheSheep wrote: Odd. Nations with better universal healthcare coverage for longer periods seem to care a lot less about policing individual lifestyle's than your nation does. The war on drugs has existed a lot longer than universal healthcare in your country as well. And there is a decent argument that it should be unconstitutional. But, the precedent is not there because a myriad of similar social programs have already been challenged and upheld based on how everything in the world may eventually affect everything. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46130 Posts
The video clip is from this article: http://deadstate.org/watch-bernie-sanders-slams-gop-pro-life-hypocrisy-on-front-of-thousands-at-christian-university/ | ||
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
On September 15 2015 13:19 KwarK wrote: I'm amazed someone as illiterate as whatisthisasheep considers himself one of the elite. I'm desperately hoping he's just a child of rich parents whose prep school education was somehow unable to teach him the difference between too, two and to, or there, their and they're. Ironic, since one of the salient features of the elite is to look down on the masses and call them illiterate. Their unpolished views on immigration, economic freedoms, and self-government make them so. Elites hold the fiction that they advance the interests of the lower classes, and therefore must consider their opposition not sufficiently poor and marginalized for their notice. If it wasn't endemic to the GOP ruling class, they wouldn't have a Trump problem. | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
On September 15 2015 23:35 Danglars wrote: Ironic, since one of the salient features of the elite is to look down on the masses and call them illiterate. Their unpolished views on immigration, economic freedoms, and self-government make them so. Elites hold the fiction that they advance the interests of the lower classes, and therefore must consider their opposition not sufficiently poor and marginalized for their notice. If it wasn't endemic to the GOP ruling class, they wouldn't have a Trump problem. Projecting much? KwarK called sheep illiterate because he cannot communicate effectively. Don't read into it too much. The guy's posts are a garbled mess 100% of the time. Illiterate may be a stretch, since he can obviously read, but not by much. | ||
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KwarK
United States44128 Posts
On September 15 2015 23:35 Danglars wrote: Ironic, since one of the salient features of the elite is to look down on the masses and call them illiterate. Their unpolished views on immigration, economic freedoms, and self-government make them so. Elites hold the fiction that they advance the interests of the lower classes, and therefore must consider their opposition not sufficiently poor and marginalized for their notice. If it wasn't endemic to the GOP ruling class, they wouldn't have a Trump problem. Hardly ironic, I'll freely admit to being an elitist. My parents are university graduates, I was privately educated, went to grammar schools and then university. In my home nation I'd easily be upper middle class and I'll deny neither my intelligence nor my privilege. But whatisthisasheep can barely string a coherent sentence together and yet seems to see himself as one of America's oppressed upper classes who bootstrapped his way up to the top only to be robbed of his achievements by the envy of those less talented than himself. I'm really struggling to see how someone who would need to employ full time help to proofread any email he were to send out professionally sees himself that way. Surely it can't be due to his own personal success, hence my conclusion that his delusion is rooted in vicarious family success. | ||
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