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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
August 02 2016 18:38 GMT
#92441
On August 03 2016 03:33 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:26 TheYango wrote:
And some people don't get the choice. If you're a cancer patient who needs chemotherapy, the competent doctor can't provide that to you as much as he would like.

The only people who get the luxury of a protest are those who are far removed enough from the system where the difference between two bad choices doesn't matter to them. For people who are directly affected (e.g the minorities who you claim to stand up for), it matters a lot.


Or people who would rather die fighting than to let the status quo continue to deteriorate. It's as if folks are unaware that we've seen things get worse under both parties, and that the president is only a part of the puzzle.

Submitting to the two party "less evil" paradigm is not a valorous choice to save marginalized people, it's a rationalization for supporting contrary positions.

If helping marginalized people was actually the goal/justification, none of you would be voting for either candidate.

What many here have turned this into is a choice of damage mitigation, which realistically completely removes progress from the equation.

Or they will learn to live with your disapproval. People who just received the right to marry and adopt children don’t have the luxury of risking it all on some protest vote. I don’t get to face my Muslim friends and tell them I voted for Jill “I don’t believe in vaccines” Stein in a fit of self serving protest of the status quo.

And the two third party options suck. And Bernie doesn’t want my vote.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
TL+ Member
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24048 Posts
August 02 2016 18:40 GMT
#92442
On August 03 2016 03:33 TheTenthDoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:20 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:15 TheYango wrote:
That doctor being a better doctor is meaningless if he doesn't have the facilities/staff/resources to provide adequate care either way.


All those facilities/staff/resources are useless if the doctors are corrupt and incompetent. I'll take my chances in a strip mall office with a legit doctor over a facility that's rotten through and through.

Some people would rather go to the hospital that's killing people out of incompetence and corruption than take their chances with a low rent facility with a competent doctor, that's fine for them, but let's not pretend the people who do't want to go are loons.



On the other hand, I think it's a pretty good idea to go to the better doctor for help and choose the hospital he refers you to rather than insisting you'll go to him after he says he can't treat you.


We've moved on for a second opinion, unfortunately there are perverse incentives built into the system for that referral, mainly being he'll get shut down and not be able to help anyone if he doesn't submit and make that referral to the hospital he spent his whole life in hospitable opposition to. His calculation is different from the patient's. No coincidence he's not sending over the medical files before or after referring the patients.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18864 Posts
August 02 2016 18:41 GMT
#92443
Jill Stein just recently said something hilarious about wifi being bad for you, anyone got the quote? 'Twas quite funny iirc.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24048 Posts
August 02 2016 18:44 GMT
#92444
On August 03 2016 03:38 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:33 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:26 TheYango wrote:
And some people don't get the choice. If you're a cancer patient who needs chemotherapy, the competent doctor can't provide that to you as much as he would like.

The only people who get the luxury of a protest are those who are far removed enough from the system where the difference between two bad choices doesn't matter to them. For people who are directly affected (e.g the minorities who you claim to stand up for), it matters a lot.


Or people who would rather die fighting than to let the status quo continue to deteriorate. It's as if folks are unaware that we've seen things get worse under both parties, and that the president is only a part of the puzzle.

Submitting to the two party "less evil" paradigm is not a valorous choice to save marginalized people, it's a rationalization for supporting contrary positions.

If helping marginalized people was actually the goal/justification, none of you would be voting for either candidate.

What many here have turned this into is a choice of damage mitigation, which realistically completely removes progress from the equation.

Or they will learn to live with your disapproval. People who just received the right to marry and adopt children don’t have the luxury of risking it all on some protest vote. I don’t get to face my Muslim friends and tell them I voted for Jill “I don’t believe in vaccines” Stein in a fit of self serving protest of the status quo.

And the two third party options suck. And Bernie doesn’t want my vote.


and I with others.

You'd be lying if you told them having Hillary as president secured or protected any of that stuff. If the majority of Americans decided they changed their minds on gay marriage or adoption or how we treat Muslims everything about Hillary's record shows she would go with the political winds.

The vaccine thing has been debunked and everyone with a shred of integrity knows what she said about vaccines is totally reasonable. That it's still the go to dismissal of Jill is telling.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
August 02 2016 18:44 GMT
#92445
In any case, if you want people to go see your good doctor, it's more productive to help him hire nurses and get better facilities than to chastise people for going to the hospitals.
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GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24048 Posts
August 02 2016 18:48 GMT
#92446
On August 03 2016 03:44 TheYango wrote:
In any case, if you want people to go see your good doctor, it's more productive to help him hire nurses and get better facilities than to chastise people for going to the hospitals.


It's not going to the hospitals which I would chastise people for, it would be the incessant caping for them.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-02 18:52:30
August 02 2016 18:49 GMT
#92447
On August 03 2016 03:44 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:38 Plansix wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:33 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:26 TheYango wrote:
And some people don't get the choice. If you're a cancer patient who needs chemotherapy, the competent doctor can't provide that to you as much as he would like.

The only people who get the luxury of a protest are those who are far removed enough from the system where the difference between two bad choices doesn't matter to them. For people who are directly affected (e.g the minorities who you claim to stand up for), it matters a lot.


Or people who would rather die fighting than to let the status quo continue to deteriorate. It's as if folks are unaware that we've seen things get worse under both parties, and that the president is only a part of the puzzle.

Submitting to the two party "less evil" paradigm is not a valorous choice to save marginalized people, it's a rationalization for supporting contrary positions.

If helping marginalized people was actually the goal/justification, none of you would be voting for either candidate.

What many here have turned this into is a choice of damage mitigation, which realistically completely removes progress from the equation.

Or they will learn to live with your disapproval. People who just received the right to marry and adopt children don’t have the luxury of risking it all on some protest vote. I don’t get to face my Muslim friends and tell them I voted for Jill “I don’t believe in vaccines” Stein in a fit of self serving protest of the status quo.

And the two third party options suck. And Bernie doesn’t want my vote.


and I with others.

You'd be lying if you told them having Hillary as president secured or protected any of that stuff. If the majority of Americans decided they changed their minds on gay marriage or adoption or how we treat Muslims everything about Hillary's record shows she would go with the political winds.

The vaccine thing has been debunked and everyone with a shred of integrity knows what she said about vaccines is totally reasonable. That it's still the go to dismissal of Jill is telling.

I live in the same state a Jill Wifi is bad for children Stein. I hear about her and the Green Party all the time. She and that party suck. They can barely win a seat in state government, let alone nationally. Its not because the DNC is keeping them down. They couldn’t’ even win in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, the land where the local judge said “I don’t do the bidding of banks” in open court and dismissed all debt collection cases on the court’s docket.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
TL+ Member
GGTeMpLaR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States7226 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-02 18:53:30
August 02 2016 18:50 GMT
#92448
On August 03 2016 03:19 Doodsmack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 02:59 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:41 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:38 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:33 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:22 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:15 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:10 Doodsmack wrote:
Yes because it's all liberal trickery and you and Donald "Mexico is gonna pay for a wall and we're gonna ban a religion" Trump are just victims under siege.


This is called 'lashing out at anyone who disagrees with you'

You're becoming that which you hate most about Trump


It's called addressing Trump supporters because of their dangerous views.



And no one is banning a religion



That's interesting, why don't you think your candidate means what he says?


He's never said he wanted to ban a religion



I realize it's temporary, but you really can't be that far removed from reality.

EDIT: and yes I know it's only a ban on immigration/travel. No less dangerous an idea, point still stands.


I'm not removed from reality. You're just exaggerating your attacks when you decided to lash out against everyone who has decided to vote differently than you, which is a vast and diverse group of people voting for a variety of different reasons, and got called out on it.


Yes I used hyperbole as we all do here and then you decided to get technical only address the hyperbole.

Yes you're removed from reality, because history and Japanese internment and all that don't mean it's not a radical move. We've progressed as a country, and it is a radical move, based on a tribe mentality. Your view that electing its proponent is a good idea is dangerous. And this is just one of the reasons your views are dangerous.

And I trust you are also committed to vetting and monitoring mentally ill white males in the US, due to their body count over the past couple years and the danger they pose to us. Or do you not want to implement any special danger-reducing measures in response to mass killings of civilians?


I addressed your shitposting because it gets old coming in here and seeing you just flaming anyone who disagrees with you - all. the. time. Then you made a hyperbole to justify your shitposting and I called you out on it

I'm not removed from reality. Hillary is proposing to take in 50,000 more Syrian refugees. We know ISIS is attempting to infiltrate refugee groups to commit acts of hatred and violence. I don't want 50,000 refugees in my country if the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day in the name of hatred or their God.

And I actually do think mental health needs much more attention than it gets in politics - so once again you assume wrong facts about others.

I don't think it should just be white males that better mental health though, rather everyone should have equal access to it independent of what their skin color is, which is another stupid as hell thing for you to say.

You sure love your racial profiling for someone so set on affirming anyone who votes differently from what you agree with is racist.
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-02 18:52:45
August 02 2016 18:51 GMT
#92449
On August 03 2016 03:40 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:33 TheTenthDoc wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:20 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:15 TheYango wrote:
That doctor being a better doctor is meaningless if he doesn't have the facilities/staff/resources to provide adequate care either way.


All those facilities/staff/resources are useless if the doctors are corrupt and incompetent. I'll take my chances in a strip mall office with a legit doctor over a facility that's rotten through and through.

Some people would rather go to the hospital that's killing people out of incompetence and corruption than take their chances with a low rent facility with a competent doctor, that's fine for them, but let's not pretend the people who do't want to go are loons.



On the other hand, I think it's a pretty good idea to go to the better doctor for help and choose the hospital he refers you to rather than insisting you'll go to him after he says he can't treat you.


We've moved on for a second opinion, unfortunately there are perverse incentives built into the system for that referral, mainly being he'll get shut down and not be able to help anyone if he doesn't submit and make that referral to the hospital he spent his whole life in hospitable opposition to. His calculation is different from the patient's. No coincidence he's not sending over the medical files before or after referring the patients.


I think I'm going to live in the world where the better doctor is the kind of person who doesn't lie through his teeth all the time and is still ultimately looking out for my best interest, because it's completely indistinguishable from the world where he's a serial liar and ultimately not much better than the hospitals anyway as a result.

And since that way I don't keel over dead while screaming in his waiting room about how both the hospitals are evil, to the point of not rejecting all reviews to the contrary.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
August 02 2016 18:55 GMT
#92450
On August 03 2016 03:50 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:59 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:41 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:38 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:33 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:22 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:15 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:10 Doodsmack wrote:
Yes because it's all liberal trickery and you and Donald "Mexico is gonna pay for a wall and we're gonna ban a religion" Trump are just victims under siege.


This is called 'lashing out at anyone who disagrees with you'

You're becoming that which you hate most about Trump


It's called addressing Trump supporters because of their dangerous views.



And no one is banning a religion



That's interesting, why don't you think your candidate means what he says?


He's never said he wanted to ban a religion



I realize it's temporary, but you really can't be that far removed from reality.

EDIT: and yes I know it's only a ban on immigration/travel. No less dangerous an idea, point still stands.


I'm not removed from reality. You're just exaggerating your attacks when you decided to lash out against everyone who has decided to vote differently than you, which is a vast and diverse group of people voting for a variety of different reasons, and got called out on it.


Yes I used hyperbole as we all do here and then you decided to get technical only address the hyperbole.

Yes you're removed from reality, because history and Japanese internment and all that don't mean it's not a radical move. We've progressed as a country, and it is a radical move, based on a tribe mentality. Your view that electing its proponent is a good idea is dangerous. And this is just one of the reasons your views are dangerous.

And I trust you are also committed to vetting and monitoring mentally ill white males in the US, due to their body count over the past couple years and the danger they pose to us. Or do you not want to implement any special danger-reducing measures in response to mass killings of civilians?


I addressed your shitposting because it gets old coming in here and seeing you just flaming anyone who disagrees with you - all. the. time. Then you made a hyperbole to justify your shitposting and I called you out on it

I'm not removed from reality. Hillary is proposing to take in 50,000 more Syrian refugees. We know ISIS is attempting to infiltrate refugee groups to commit acts of hatred and violence. I don't want 50,000 refugees in my country if the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day in the name of hatred or their God.

And I actually do think mental health needs much more attention than it gets in politics - so once again you assume wrong facts about others.

I don't think it should just be white males that better mental health though, rather everyone should have equal access to it independent of what their skin color is, which is another stupid as hell thing for you to say.

You sure love your racial profiling for someone so set on affirming anyone who votes differently from what you agree with is racist.

Bring all the refugees to me, I’m not afraid. We have caught terrorists before, we can do it again. I have faith in our ability to find them, so bring me the poor, sick and needy. My local church already offered to assist any refugees, so I’m sure we got this.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
TL+ Member
zlefin
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States7689 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-02 18:58:28
August 02 2016 18:57 GMT
#92451
Plansix -> has your church donated to the un refugee organization?


On the trump/purple heart; I wonder if he'll do something stupid which actually violates the law on medals. probably not, but ya never know.
Great read: http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/ great book on democracy: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html zlefin is grumpier due to long term illness. Ignoring some users.
ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
August 02 2016 18:58 GMT
#92452
On August 03 2016 03:51 TheTenthDoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:40 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:33 TheTenthDoc wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:20 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:15 TheYango wrote:
That doctor being a better doctor is meaningless if he doesn't have the facilities/staff/resources to provide adequate care either way.


All those facilities/staff/resources are useless if the doctors are corrupt and incompetent. I'll take my chances in a strip mall office with a legit doctor over a facility that's rotten through and through.

Some people would rather go to the hospital that's killing people out of incompetence and corruption than take their chances with a low rent facility with a competent doctor, that's fine for them, but let's not pretend the people who do't want to go are loons.



On the other hand, I think it's a pretty good idea to go to the better doctor for help and choose the hospital he refers you to rather than insisting you'll go to him after he says he can't treat you.


We've moved on for a second opinion, unfortunately there are perverse incentives built into the system for that referral, mainly being he'll get shut down and not be able to help anyone if he doesn't submit and make that referral to the hospital he spent his whole life in hospitable opposition to. His calculation is different from the patient's. No coincidence he's not sending over the medical files before or after referring the patients.


I think I'm going to live in the world where the better doctor is the kind of person who doesn't lie through his teeth all the time and is still ultimately looking out for my best interest, because it's completely indistinguishable from the world where he's a serial liar and ultimately not much better than the hospitals anyway as a result.

And since that way I don't keel over dead while screaming in his waiting room about how both the hospitals are evil, to the point of not rejecting all reviews to the contrary.


I dun get it. What happened to the Hippocratic oath?
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France8107 Posts
August 02 2016 19:00 GMT
#92453
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/barack-obama-donald-trump-president-republican-party

Ouch
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
GGTeMpLaR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States7226 Posts
August 02 2016 19:00 GMT
#92454
On August 03 2016 03:55 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:50 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:59 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:41 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:38 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:33 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:22 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:15 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
[quote]

This is called 'lashing out at anyone who disagrees with you'

You're becoming that which you hate most about Trump


It's called addressing Trump supporters because of their dangerous views.



And no one is banning a religion



That's interesting, why don't you think your candidate means what he says?


He's never said he wanted to ban a religion



I realize it's temporary, but you really can't be that far removed from reality.

EDIT: and yes I know it's only a ban on immigration/travel. No less dangerous an idea, point still stands.


I'm not removed from reality. You're just exaggerating your attacks when you decided to lash out against everyone who has decided to vote differently than you, which is a vast and diverse group of people voting for a variety of different reasons, and got called out on it.


Yes I used hyperbole as we all do here and then you decided to get technical only address the hyperbole.

Yes you're removed from reality, because history and Japanese internment and all that don't mean it's not a radical move. We've progressed as a country, and it is a radical move, based on a tribe mentality. Your view that electing its proponent is a good idea is dangerous. And this is just one of the reasons your views are dangerous.

And I trust you are also committed to vetting and monitoring mentally ill white males in the US, due to their body count over the past couple years and the danger they pose to us. Or do you not want to implement any special danger-reducing measures in response to mass killings of civilians?


I addressed your shitposting because it gets old coming in here and seeing you just flaming anyone who disagrees with you - all. the. time. Then you made a hyperbole to justify your shitposting and I called you out on it

I'm not removed from reality. Hillary is proposing to take in 50,000 more Syrian refugees. We know ISIS is attempting to infiltrate refugee groups to commit acts of hatred and violence. I don't want 50,000 refugees in my country if the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day in the name of hatred or their God.

And I actually do think mental health needs much more attention than it gets in politics - so once again you assume wrong facts about others.

I don't think it should just be white males that better mental health though, rather everyone should have equal access to it independent of what their skin color is, which is another stupid as hell thing for you to say.

You sure love your racial profiling for someone so set on affirming anyone who votes differently from what you agree with is racist.

Bring all the refugees to me, I’m not afraid. We have caught terrorists before, we can do it again. I have faith in our ability to find them, so bring me the poor, sick and needy. My local church already offered to assist any refugees, so I’m sure we got this.


I'm actually envious of your optimistic faith
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18864 Posts
August 02 2016 19:01 GMT
#92455
On August 03 2016 03:57 zlefin wrote:
Plansix -> has your church donated to the un refugee organization?


On the trump/purple heart; I wonder if he'll do something stupid which actually violates the law on medals. probably not, but ya never know.

If you're referring to the Stolen Valor Act, it was found unconstitutional in US v. Alvarez.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24048 Posts
August 02 2016 19:02 GMT
#92456
On August 03 2016 03:51 TheTenthDoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:40 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:33 TheTenthDoc wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:20 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:15 TheYango wrote:
That doctor being a better doctor is meaningless if he doesn't have the facilities/staff/resources to provide adequate care either way.


All those facilities/staff/resources are useless if the doctors are corrupt and incompetent. I'll take my chances in a strip mall office with a legit doctor over a facility that's rotten through and through.

Some people would rather go to the hospital that's killing people out of incompetence and corruption than take their chances with a low rent facility with a competent doctor, that's fine for them, but let's not pretend the people who do't want to go are loons.



On the other hand, I think it's a pretty good idea to go to the better doctor for help and choose the hospital he refers you to rather than insisting you'll go to him after he says he can't treat you.


We've moved on for a second opinion, unfortunately there are perverse incentives built into the system for that referral, mainly being he'll get shut down and not be able to help anyone if he doesn't submit and make that referral to the hospital he spent his whole life in hospitable opposition to. His calculation is different from the patient's. No coincidence he's not sending over the medical files before or after referring the patients.


I think I'm going to live in the world where the better doctor is the kind of person who doesn't lie through his teeth all the time and is still ultimately looking out for my best interest, because it's completely indistinguishable from the world where he's a serial liar and ultimately not much better than the hospitals anyway as a result.

And since that way I don't keel over dead while screaming in his waiting room about how the hospitals are evil.


No one is saying he is a serial liar. He's telling his truth, it's just not our truth. What's best for us and what's best for him to say to us don't always align. That's the reality of our system.

I've been reminded more times than I can count that the hospital doesn't need my support anyway so I don't see why I should support something that doesn't support me or care if I support it over supporting someone who (even if misinformed) genuinely wants to earn my support. That's the assbackward paradigm people are accepting.

I find this best summed up with the image suggesting "If Stalin won the Democratic nomination, and Hitler the Republican, one of them would win the white house" unless of course there was a population that didn't buy into the "lesser evil" stuff and they supported a candidate who wasn't either of those two.

Just to be clear I'm not suggesting Hillary and Trump are Stalin and Hitler, just if those were our two party choices Democrats would be here telling us how we have to support Stalin otherwise we will get Hitler, instead of crying out for another option and supporting them when they came.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22428 Posts
August 02 2016 19:10 GMT
#92457
On August 03 2016 04:00 Biff The Understudy wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/barack-obama-donald-trump-president-republican-party

Ouch

Meh I dont see the use. Better for him to stay out of the mudfight and focus on making Hillary look better
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States44121 Posts
August 02 2016 19:12 GMT
#92458
On August 03 2016 04:02 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:51 TheTenthDoc wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:40 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:33 TheTenthDoc wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:20 GreenHorizons wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:15 TheYango wrote:
That doctor being a better doctor is meaningless if he doesn't have the facilities/staff/resources to provide adequate care either way.


All those facilities/staff/resources are useless if the doctors are corrupt and incompetent. I'll take my chances in a strip mall office with a legit doctor over a facility that's rotten through and through.

Some people would rather go to the hospital that's killing people out of incompetence and corruption than take their chances with a low rent facility with a competent doctor, that's fine for them, but let's not pretend the people who do't want to go are loons.



On the other hand, I think it's a pretty good idea to go to the better doctor for help and choose the hospital he refers you to rather than insisting you'll go to him after he says he can't treat you.


We've moved on for a second opinion, unfortunately there are perverse incentives built into the system for that referral, mainly being he'll get shut down and not be able to help anyone if he doesn't submit and make that referral to the hospital he spent his whole life in hospitable opposition to. His calculation is different from the patient's. No coincidence he's not sending over the medical files before or after referring the patients.


I think I'm going to live in the world where the better doctor is the kind of person who doesn't lie through his teeth all the time and is still ultimately looking out for my best interest, because it's completely indistinguishable from the world where he's a serial liar and ultimately not much better than the hospitals anyway as a result.

And since that way I don't keel over dead while screaming in his waiting room about how the hospitals are evil.


No one is saying he is a serial liar. He's telling his truth, it's just not our truth. What's best for us and what's best for him to say to us don't always align. That's the reality of our system.

I've been reminded more times than I can count that the hospital doesn't need my support anyway so I don't see why I should support something that doesn't support me or care if I support it over supporting someone who (even if misinformed) genuinely wants to earn my support. That's the assbackward paradigm people are accepting.

I find this best summed up with the image suggesting "If Stalin won the Democratic nomination, and Hitler the Republican, one of them would win the white house" unless of course there was a population that didn't buy into the "lesser evil" stuff and they supported a candidate who wasn't either of those two.

Just to be clear I'm not suggesting Hillary and Trump are Stalin and Hitler, just if those were our two party choices Democrats would be here telling us how we have to support Stalin otherwise we will get Hitler, instead of crying out for another option and supporting them when they came.

Any realist would accept that a plurality of people would vote along party lines regardless of the candidate, that Stalin in his younger days would easily get a lot of the female vote and that Hitler would have a lock in on the patriotic male vote with his promises of Lebensraum in Canada. And that even if other candidates did take a significant portion of the vote there would be no consensus about who the other candidate would be. Better to ask yourself "Am I on Hitler's list? If so, Stalin. Am I not on Hitler's list? Hitler it is then". You can still have a preference, if you're a Jew then you'll take Stalin over a futile third party vote and a risk of Hitler.
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Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
August 02 2016 19:13 GMT
#92459
On August 03 2016 03:50 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:59 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:41 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:38 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:33 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:22 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:15 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:10 Doodsmack wrote:
Yes because it's all liberal trickery and you and Donald "Mexico is gonna pay for a wall and we're gonna ban a religion" Trump are just victims under siege.


This is called 'lashing out at anyone who disagrees with you'

You're becoming that which you hate most about Trump


It's called addressing Trump supporters because of their dangerous views.



And no one is banning a religion



That's interesting, why don't you think your candidate means what he says?


He's never said he wanted to ban a religion



I realize it's temporary, but you really can't be that far removed from reality.

EDIT: and yes I know it's only a ban on immigration/travel. No less dangerous an idea, point still stands.


I'm not removed from reality. You're just exaggerating your attacks when you decided to lash out against everyone who has decided to vote differently than you, which is a vast and diverse group of people voting for a variety of different reasons, and got called out on it.


Yes I used hyperbole as we all do here and then you decided to get technical only address the hyperbole.

Yes you're removed from reality, because history and Japanese internment and all that don't mean it's not a radical move. We've progressed as a country, and it is a radical move, based on a tribe mentality. Your view that electing its proponent is a good idea is dangerous. And this is just one of the reasons your views are dangerous.

And I trust you are also committed to vetting and monitoring mentally ill white males in the US, due to their body count over the past couple years and the danger they pose to us. Or do you not want to implement any special danger-reducing measures in response to mass killings of civilians?


I addressed your shitposting because it gets old coming in here and seeing you just flaming anyone who disagrees with you - all. the. time. Then you made a hyperbole to justify your shitposting and I called you out on it

I'm not removed from reality. Hillary is proposing to take in 50,000 more Syrian refugees. We know ISIS is attempting to infiltrate refugee groups to commit acts of hatred and violence. I don't want 50,000 refugees in my country if the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day in the name of hatred or their God.

And I actually do think mental health needs much more attention than it gets in politics - so once again you assume wrong facts about others.

I don't think it should just be white males that better mental health though, rather everyone should have equal access to it independent of what their skin color is, which is another stupid as hell thing for you to say.

You sure love your racial profiling for someone so set on affirming anyone who votes differently from what you agree with is racist.


Not even a word from you on monitoring and vetting mentally ill white males - the group with the highest body count among the mentally ill. You just want better care for them? How about taking immediate danger-reducing measures by tracking and monitoring all of them? Or do you only want to take immediate measures on Muslims because of your tribe mentality? Guess you're fine going to movie theaters and other public places, but personally I think "the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day".
GGTeMpLaR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States7226 Posts
August 02 2016 19:20 GMT
#92460
On August 03 2016 04:13 Doodsmack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2016 03:50 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 03:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:59 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:41 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:38 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:33 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:22 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:19 Doodsmack wrote:
On August 03 2016 02:15 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
[quote]

This is called 'lashing out at anyone who disagrees with you'

You're becoming that which you hate most about Trump


It's called addressing Trump supporters because of their dangerous views.



And no one is banning a religion



That's interesting, why don't you think your candidate means what he says?


He's never said he wanted to ban a religion



I realize it's temporary, but you really can't be that far removed from reality.

EDIT: and yes I know it's only a ban on immigration/travel. No less dangerous an idea, point still stands.


I'm not removed from reality. You're just exaggerating your attacks when you decided to lash out against everyone who has decided to vote differently than you, which is a vast and diverse group of people voting for a variety of different reasons, and got called out on it.


Yes I used hyperbole as we all do here and then you decided to get technical only address the hyperbole.

Yes you're removed from reality, because history and Japanese internment and all that don't mean it's not a radical move. We've progressed as a country, and it is a radical move, based on a tribe mentality. Your view that electing its proponent is a good idea is dangerous. And this is just one of the reasons your views are dangerous.

And I trust you are also committed to vetting and monitoring mentally ill white males in the US, due to their body count over the past couple years and the danger they pose to us. Or do you not want to implement any special danger-reducing measures in response to mass killings of civilians?


I addressed your shitposting because it gets old coming in here and seeing you just flaming anyone who disagrees with you - all. the. time. Then you made a hyperbole to justify your shitposting and I called you out on it

I'm not removed from reality. Hillary is proposing to take in 50,000 more Syrian refugees. We know ISIS is attempting to infiltrate refugee groups to commit acts of hatred and violence. I don't want 50,000 refugees in my country if the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day in the name of hatred or their God.

And I actually do think mental health needs much more attention than it gets in politics - so once again you assume wrong facts about others.

I don't think it should just be white males that better mental health though, rather everyone should have equal access to it independent of what their skin color is, which is another stupid as hell thing for you to say.

You sure love your racial profiling for someone so set on affirming anyone who votes differently from what you agree with is racist.


Not even a word from you on monitoring and vetting mentally ill white males - the group with the highest body count among the mentally ill. You just want better care for them? How about taking immediate danger-reducing measures by tracking and monitoring all of them? Or do you only want to take immediate measures on Muslims because of your tribe mentality? Guess you're fine going to movie theaters and other public places, but personally I think "the potential exists that one of them could end up murdering me or my friends or my family or just random innocent american civilians one day".


I'm of the impression that better mental healthcare would result in the ability to identify and monitor those with mental health issues such that those displaying signs of posing threats to themselves or others would be taken into care to prevent this from happening.

Got another other false accusations?

Also, I was under the impression you see more mentally ill whites because you have more white people living in America. Do you have any statistical evidence to support the idea that they make up a disproportionate amount of shootings related to mental illness in terms of their proportion of the population?
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