omg! the soviets don't get to choose their leaders?!?!?! that's awful!

now, tell me more how i have to vote for democrats because they aren't as horrific as republicans, but i don't have any other choice

she was probably reacting to your wearing a nazi uniform in her restaurant

I always take that off after work

Choosing the lesser of evils (ie having a limited choice) is still better than not having a choice at all.

These two whining about privilege...

Shut up UD, what
Could you possibly know when
Talking commie things?

It’s not like the situation is different right now. At least when you guys vote someone for prez, you can reasonable expect your vote could count.

My vote for presidential elections has never had any meaning since I gained “voting rights”.

http://akarlin.com/2011/04/poker-and-capitalism/

Keep playing poker for a living you capitalist pig

Fun read, Mets. Not sure "amoral, emotionless rationality" is the system we want to experience, and of course I disagree that enforcing duly enacted laws prohibiting online gambling is authoritarian/despotic any more than laws prohibiting mail fraud, but still I enjoy a good analogy.

As illegal gambling operations, I assume the poker sites weren't paying taxes?

If so, they were stealing (use of) public infrastructure.

That's not a gauntlet cast against everyone here who played, btw.

Just shouldn't be surprising when the house discourages players from dodging the rake.

Check out this little patriarchy gem:

link

Cliffs: Ex-wife posts rant against ex-husband to Facebook after ex-husband refuses to pick up cold medicine for their kids. Ex-husband is a law enforcement officer and gets ex-wife arrested.

Capitalism cliffs: Court rules ex-husband not immune from suit.


Get him, girllll.

GOP sees highest favorability in seven years

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/polit...ity/index.html

Due strictly to those with Republican views:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/...ven-years.aspx

Yay! Go red team!

i think i prefer filthy's method of staying on the sidelines vs jack's approach of directly engaging and confronting people who he doesn't agree with but i will say that filthy's post where he basically said 'why aren't we talking about the people that vote for HRC over gloria la riva as the ones having privilege also' (i.e., we're not even sticking up for the people literally getting murdered around the world) basically got glossed over and is a very simple, yet true analogy that him and birdman and some other quieter people on this forum try to make a lot.

the most common response to posts like this, when they are responded to at all, are 'well i don't know a lot about this' or 'sure us foreign policy is bad but what about XXX IN AMERICA THAT WE CAN CONTROL'

where #1 betrays these people as the same ones (literally, they are the same ones) that attack mets from the left for not educating himself and #2 i hope everyone can see, in addition to being part of #1 (surely no one thinks genocide should be a lower priority than, for example, the unemployment rate or whether people should bake cakes for gay weddings), it's barely one step up from USA#1 jingoistic propaganda.

clearly most people here don't agree but i feel like that was one of the better points they have made recently and it was just ignored iirc. maybe this is because at the end of the day it's a forum and obviously we control nothing and this is our outlet to discuss topics that our RL friends and family have long since tuned out

Gloria La Riva had no chance of being elected president. Literally zero.

She was not even eligible for 270 electoral votes and her running mate was ineligible to be VP.

I can't wait to see bsball make a post in this thread that neither mentions mets or isn't about him

surely you can see the point I’m trying to make is only barely related to her chances of becoming president and is far more about the philosophy

What makes/made you to think Trump is/would be better for human rights than Clinton?

I think the privilege point is that you, unlike however many billions of other people in the world, have an actual opportunity to make some impact on the leadership, and you throw it away to ingratiate yourself.

There's nothing stopping you from promoting La Riva in such a way that she has an actual chance in a future election. Why does political engagement for you begin and end at the ballot box?

Then I guess I'm completely not understanding what you're trying to say by bringing up Hillary vs La Riva.

McCallum was tougher than i expected on Kavanaugh in the interview

Him claiming he was a virgin through college is too

he couldn't even spell "virgin" until law school, because it starts with a "V"

Not sure i get that exactly

Ted Cruz forced from restaurant amid Kavanaugh drama

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/polit...ugh/index.html

So yes, the hearing hasn't even happened yet, a vote has happened but let's not let Cruz and his wife eat dinner because we disagree with how we think he's going to vote

God Bless America