US Politics Mega-thread - Page 726

On December 20 2013 09:52 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Breaking news - California didn't fuck up!!!

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We're all very proud of you!

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On December 20 2013 04:25 Mercy13 wrote:


Together with this Colorado ad I think they have just about every demographic covered now:

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Edit: And this ad wins I think -

On December 20 2013 12:10 sluggaslamoo wrote:


http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/12/18/rap-hipster-ads-target-young-people-sign-obamacare

Fox news thought it was a real ad, ROFL.

A national organization called Get Covered is hoping to change young Americans' minds so they'll "Sign Up 'Cause It's Hot" by reaching out to them in language they can appreciate.

The group partnered with Covered California to launch a parody rap of the Snoop Dogg hit "Drop It Like It's Hot," featuring Obama impersonator Iman Crosson, to promote the law's provisions and direct them to the health care exchanges.

On December 19 2013 01:18 Nyxisto wrote:


Well then there's no reason for these straw man arguments all the time. Yeah obviously every feminist believes men are obsolete and every feminist hates men. That's how she makes it sound. She tries to dismantle feminism in the way environmentalists are criticized here in Europe. Everyone who cares a bit about the environment is obviously a total nut-bag who lives in the woods, and wants to forbid everything that's fun. That leads to a misperception of the actual movement, and with quite a lot of success.

On December 21 2013 12:53 sam!zdat wrote:


I recommend that you go read some feminist theory. that is what paglia is responding to. paglia *is* a feminist, who amuses herself by terrorizing other feminists, and she's very useful in that respect, because frankly feminists could use some terrorizing. what you mean when you say "feminism" is a very weak-thesis sort of obvious thing which is only opposed by rural mouthbreathers, the people that paglia wants to argue against actually do often believe (or at least *say*) some very outrageous things (not to mention that, in the academy, feminism has morphed into a very degenerate sort of vague, poisonous orthodoxy which doesn't help anybody)

On December 21 2013 13:07 xDaunt wrote:

Yeah, "poisonous orthodoxy" is precisely the right term. Did you happen to see what Paglia had to say about the Duck Dynasty mess? That's right on point, too. She's disgusted by the fascist political correctness of feminists, the GLBT crowd, and other "liberal" groups that she identifies with. I've always thought that the single biggest hypocrisy of those on the left is their purported "open mindedness." It's a complete farce for the most part.

“I speak with authority here, because I was openly gay before the ‘Stonewall rebellion,’ when it cost you something to be so. And I personally feel as a libertarian that people have the right to free thought and free speech,” Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Thursday.

“In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality — as I one hundred percent do. If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again they have a right of religious freedom there,” she added. [...]

“To express yourself in a magazine in an interview — this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades,” Paglia said. “This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.”

On December 21 2013 13:07 xDaunt wrote:
Did you happen to see what Paglia had to say about the Duck Dynasty mess? That's right on point, too. She's disgusted by the fascist political correctness of feminists, the GLBT crowd, and other "liberal" groups that she identifies with. I've always thought that the single biggest hypocrisy of those on the left is their purported "open mindedness." It's a complete farce for the most part.

On December 21 2013 14:35 Nyxisto wrote:
nd that's the level of sense you're making here, i don't have to tolerate it. I don't even have to take it seriously to be open minded.

On December 21 2013 12:53 sam!zdat wrote:


I recommend that you go read some feminist theory. that is what paglia is responding to. paglia *is* a feminist, who amuses herself by terrorizing other feminists, and she's very useful in that respect, because frankly feminists could use some terrorizing. what you mean when you say "feminism" is a very weak-thesis sort of obvious thing which is only opposed by rural mouthbreathers, the people that paglia wants to argue against actually do often believe (or at least *say*) some very outrageous things (not to mention that, in the academy, feminism has morphed into a very degenerate sort of vague, poisonous orthodoxy which doesn't help anybody)

On December 21 2013 14:47 ComaDose wrote:
just lettin u know you cant say a feminist is terroizing feminists without being ironic rite?

On December 21 2013 14:47 ComaDose wrote:
when you say feminism it means anti oppresion towards women talkin bout strongest thesis tho.

On December 21 2013 14:49 sam!zdat wrote:


why not?