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05-03-2017 , 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
How is our foreign policy and my disagreement with it a red herring? What is not sincere about my statement "I do not think the goods and services our government provides with tax money are worth rotten corpses in shallow graves in the middle east?" Does that statement sound like a Trump supporter?
I'm not calling you a Trump supporter.

Once again, the topic is "How taxes benefit society in a positive manner". You look at that and go, "Brown people are dying. Therefore, let not pay taxes." We are pointing out how stupid that logic is. Your response is to put your fingers in your ears and say "Lalalala I can't hear you." You can see how frustrating this is.

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I get that im baked and am arguing in a president trump discussion thread but honestly this discussion could be duped in any thread on the front page because its always the same thing "democratic party is so amazing lets get them back in there because they certainly ramped down the old war machine back when obama was pres :B"
Leave and come back when you're not baked.

Your characterization of us is inaccurate and offensive. The posters in good standing in P have nuanced views that cannot be covered with one blanket statement, let alone one as ignorant as that.
05-03-2017 , 08:14 PM
Jules would America be

A) Better

or

B) Worse

if Clinton had won?
05-03-2017 , 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TheHip41
tomorrow he will be telling us "this is much more difficult than Trump was expecting"
"It turns out the Middle East is complicated".
05-03-2017 , 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
i mean i got a ton of bombs and dead brown ppl from my federal taxes, im not particularly happy about that sitch
You give pot smokers a bad name dude. Get educated.
05-03-2017 , 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Jules would America be

A) Better

or

B) Worse

if Clinton had won?
In the short term, probably a little better.

But I feel like the D party "leaders", and I shouldn't project my feelings on D politicians onto D voters who are by and large good people, did little to stop our warmongering ways while they had the chance and instead fattened themselves at the troughs while stopping actual leaders, like senator sanders, from affecting actual change.

So it's not that I like trump or am happy he won, but I want to make the best of this terrible president to make people realize that they can't just keeping doing business with crooks like DWS or any of the million lobbyists etc that make their money off business as usual with D party. It would be very easy to trade the anger and the dissatisfaction at trump to 8 more years of looting from the Obama Clinton Wall Street Democratic Party
05-03-2017 , 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
I get this, but the fact that I subsidize dead browns to do so raises some qualms with me. I understand if you think dead browns is a sufficient added costs for Americans to receive these benefits but I do not.

No, I'm against the dead Browns

But I can be against dead Browns and still recognize that tax dollars do good things also

Neither candidate was going to be good for foreign Browns but one candidate was and is much much worse than the other
05-03-2017 , 08:24 PM
It is kind of epicly hilarious that all of a sudden the term "liberal" is something everybody wants to fall under (after it being quite toxic for the last few decades) and the Democratic Party has absolutely no idea what to do with that information, if they even know that it's happening.
05-03-2017 , 08:24 PM
Twitter says that the GOP has the votes now on the AHCA lol we're ****ed
05-03-2017 , 08:25 PM
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But I feel like the D party "leaders", and I shouldn't project my feelings on D politicians onto D voters who are by and large good people, did little to stop our warmongering ways while they had the chance and instead fattened themselves at the troughs while stopping actual leaders, like senator sanders, from affecting actual change.
I tend to agree with you and that's why I think we have a lot of housecleaning to do in the Democratic Party. We have to get rid of the corporatists and get genuine leaders who believe in true, bold solutions.
05-03-2017 , 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Nicholasp27
No, I'm against the dead Browns

But I can be against dead Browns and still recognize that tax dollars do good things also

Neither candidate was going to be good for foreign Browns but one candidate was and is much much worse than the other
That's the thing for me tho is for you dead browns are "an issue" to me they are about the only issue because it's the one thing both sides agree on, which means it's a goddamn atrocity just like when we passed the drug abuse and prevention act in 1986 almost unanimously and it was a goddamn atrocity
05-03-2017 , 08:27 PM
Holy thread explosion. I did not want to read that much in such a short time.
05-03-2017 , 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Twitter says that the GOP has the votes now on the AHCA lol we're ****ed
Wow. This is bad if true.

Quite a disincentive for me to return.
05-03-2017 , 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
In the short term, probably a little better.
OK so now that you've answered that incredibly easy and obvious question with 3 distinct qualifiers, you understand why people are mean to you, right?

Because of how you're defending Trump. Because you're more invested in bleating (and, incredibly, factually incorrect) self-righteousness than opposition to fascism.


Like, someone so attuned to the rights and concerns of "browns" wouldn't need ANY qualifiers when one of the choices is a guy who put like THREE different dudes with serious white supremacist ties in his administration, but you're insincere, and we see through you.
05-03-2017 , 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
i mean i got a ton of bombs and dead brown ppl from my federal taxes, im not particularly happy about that sitch
The EPA does a ton for you.
05-03-2017 , 08:29 PM
Jules all you care about is legal weed and keeping your taxes low and you can't even ****ing get that right, Hillary wouldn't have nominated Jeff ****ing Sessions.

You are the enemy, stop acting surprised that people oppose you.
05-03-2017 , 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Twitter says that the GOP has the votes now on the AHCA lol we're ****ed
Twitter also saying a lot about the GOP willing to trade human lives for tax dollars.
05-03-2017 , 08:29 PM
Ya I'm treating this like a chat room cuz I'm bored and baked lol 😂 We way OT now also
05-03-2017 , 08:30 PM
Here are my main problems with Gary Johnson/libertarians:

-They're against federal student aid, let alone universal college.
-They're against raising the minimum wage and against ACA (they would support something like AHCA unfortunately)
-They have no problem with money flowing into politics completely unchecked ala Citizens United
-They often don't believe in labor laws and protections, also regulations and protections put into place to protect consumers

There are more but those are the big bold points, the most important things. It comes back to that old argument about can you be a liberal if you're just socially liberal. My answer is no.
05-03-2017 , 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Jules all you care about is legal weed and keeping your taxes low and you can't even ****ing get that right, Hillary wouldn't have nominated Jeff ****ing Sessions.

You are the enemy, stop acting surprised that people oppose you.
Okay dude I get it I'm trump supporter A1 and the enemy... at this point it would be more engaging to argue with a twitter bot and I would probably have a better chance of swaying its POV. I'll give you credit you are relentless and probably don't read more than 5 or 6 words of my posts before launching into insane diatribes about how I support Jeff sessions - who I would probably spit in his face if I met him irl lol
05-03-2017 , 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
Okay dude I get it I'm trump supporter A1 and the enemy... at this point it would be more engaging to argue with a twitter bot and I would probably have a better chance of swaying its POV. I'll give you credit you are relentless and probably don't read more than 5 or 6 words of my posts before launching into insane diatribes about how I support Jeff sessions - who I would probably spit in his face if I met him irl lol
Ok, now we know you're faking.
05-03-2017 , 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
Okay dude I get it I'm trump supporter A1 and the enemy... at this point it would be more engaging to argue with a twitter bot and I would probably have a better chance of swaying its POV. I'll give you credit you are relentless and probably don't read more than 5 or 6 words of my posts before launching into insane diatribes about how I support Jeff sessions - who I would probably spit in his face if I met him irl lol
Sounds like Trump Derangement Syndrome there, Hillarybot!
05-03-2017 , 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by einbert
Here are my main problems with Gary Johnson/libertarians:

-They're against federal student aid, let alone universal college.
-They're against raising the minimum wage and against ACA (they would support something like AHCA unfortunately)
-They have no problem with money flowing into politics completely unchecked ala Citizens United
-They often don't believe in labor laws and protections, also regulations and protections put into place to protect consumers

There are more but those are the big bold points, the most important things. It comes back to that old argument about can you be a liberal if you're just socially liberal. My answer is no.
That's fair, I never claimed to be a liberal but I will definitely claim to be a radical social liberal, which is why it's funny to me to watch Fly the ultra liberal call me an anchor baby
05-03-2017 , 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
Ok, now we know you're faking.
??? Is it not possible for your brain to comprehend someone may not like Hilary Clinton OR Jeff sessions? Like how hyper partisan can you people be?
05-03-2017 , 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
I mean if you want to split hairs I registered dem so I could vote sanders in primary because his views and mine were in sync quite often. And I get it that's it's inconceivable to you that I would not rush to the polls to vote for God emperor Hilary. But that doesn't change what the reality is
Interesting. Could you list the things that Bernie wanted to spend money on that you agreed with vs the list of things Hillary wanted to that you didn't?
05-03-2017 , 08:36 PM
You'd think I would have learned to give people with opposing viewpoints the benefit of the doubt if they do not have an established reputation on P by now. Ugh.

Jules might be more annoying than people like VMF and BS because he appears to be a guy who has the brainpower to be smart but he seems to have used that brainpower to rationalize dumb positions instead.

      
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