EPTi hear the gulags are nice this time of year
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
i hear the gulags are nice this time of year | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18286 Posts
On March 03 2016 23:16 Seuss wrote: I'm using "we" in the same sense as when a friend suggests a really awful idea and you respond "we really don't want to do that". I'm not claiming you agree with me, I'm claiming the results would be awful for everyone involved. I don't trust that Trump will be anywhere near as benign a President as you assume he'll be. The man thinks Putin has good ideas about how to run a government. He's not wrong. Putin has great ideas for running a government. As long as that government is a repressive oligarchy. | ||
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KwarK
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On March 03 2016 17:04 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Yes.He has. It took the USA almost 10 years to raise rates from 0.25 to 0.5 whilst last year Russia hiked rates to 16-17%.USA would collapse overnight with 10% rates, heck there was enough wailing about a paltry 0.25% hike.I guess having 19 trillion in debt does that.The USA raised rates to 18% in 1980.An economy that cannot raise rates (Eg Japan since 1995) is a very unhealthy one. And gotta laugh about these folks posting stuff about how many republicans won't be backing Trump in the general... ITS THE SAME WITH SANDERS SUPPORTERS AND CLINTON! #bernieorbust I'm not sure if you're trolling or stupid but Russia's economy has imploded. There are government workers simply not getting paid already and they're running on currency reserves which won't last another two years unless oil prices recover significantly. Russia is basically a big Greece at this point with Putin trying to appeal to Russian nationalism to cover for the fact that the country has failed under his leadership. No amount of ritual sacrifice of European cheeses and bombing of foreigners will change that. | ||
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KwarK
United States43972 Posts
On March 03 2016 23:03 GreenHorizons wrote: Considering how he's being pitched as a con-man I don't think they can really get behind him without losing credibility. It's hard to go from a liar, idiot, dangerous, racist, etc.. to, he should be president. You know, for as much of a joke as his run was, he's got one of the few catchphrases I can recall from all of the losers. + Show Spoiler + 9-9-9!!!! Herman Cain was the guy who had the pokemon theme song spread throughout his speeches. | ||
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farvacola
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oneofthem
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Krikkitone
United States1451 Posts
On March 03 2016 21:15 GreenHorizons wrote: Is it just me or wouldn't it be pretty easy to talk everyone (the people dissatisfied with their potential nominee) but Hillary into trying to run 4 people all the way through the general? Trump, X, Hillary and Bernie. I'd be curious to at least see it polled Last time that happened (4 legitimate candidates) there was a Civil War. Realistically, we'd probably end up with Ryan as President since no one would get the electoral college votes to win and the House would choose. | ||
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Plansix
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Reaps
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On March 04 2016 00:31 farvacola wrote: Anyone who lauds anything about Russia clearly lives in another world lol. I mean, what screams successful nation more than a 38 year old Uzbek woman parading around the severed head of her 4 year old daughter in said nation's capital? It wasn't her daughter and not sure why that has anything to do with Russia being successful or not, it could happen anywhere. | ||
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farvacola
United States18857 Posts
On March 04 2016 00:36 Reaps wrote: It wasn't her daughter and not sure why that has anything to do with Russia being successful or not, it could happen anywhere. yes, it has nothing to do with Russia being successful. lol | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
I like new/old KwarK. | ||
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farvacola
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Plansix
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Its like that John Oliver skit about global warming and depicting it as a 1 on 1 debate, but its really 98 vs 2 in favor of global warming. | ||
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oneofthem
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the problem with the u.s. system isnt really two party it has to do with a system with multiple chokepoints on the negative side but a lot of inputs on legislation. this makes it easy to insert interests but hard to enact reform against organized interests. currently with the way house is organized or monied groups exercise enormous power. the gerrymandering only contributes to the underlying undemocratic reps distribution. with aforementioned multiple points of chokepoint a radical group actually has too much power in the us. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18286 Posts
On March 04 2016 00:44 Plansix wrote: I feel like the GOP race becoming a clown show preformed upon a dumpster fire has changed the tone of the thread. When people are claiming that “Russia is great!” and Putin is a cool dude that totally didn’t have reporter assassinated, at some point trolling is all you have left. Its like that John Oliver skit about global warming and depicting it as a 1 on 1 debate, but its really 98 vs 2 in favor of global warming. Except that due to the way your political system works, it really is a 1v1 debate. One of those clowns dancing in a dumpster fire has a very real chance of becoming president. And while I wish trolling would make that reality disappear, it's really scary to think of someone like Trump or Cruz as the de facto "leader of the free world". | ||
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Hexe
United States332 Posts
On March 04 2016 01:00 kwizach wrote: A clip of Reagan and Bush in 1980 on illegal immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWUOOzuWIY different times, and it wasnt 20+ million | ||
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On March 04 2016 01:00 kwizach wrote: A clip of Reagan and Bush in 1980 on illegal immigration: + Show Spoiler [Spoilered video link for brevity] + I didn't realize before how much I needed to hear that kind of rhetoric. | ||
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oneofthem
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that business group probably exercised dominating influence until the nativist sentiments was too much and had to be given voice. keep in mind reagan was entirely bought and paid for on these regulatory things. he said trees polluted more than cars, we need strip mine coal and so on. it was probably easy to manipulate him rather than corruption. | ||
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