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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 720932 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8955 on: November 07, 2012, 05:47:19 pm »

Heh...CNN has an article about Republicans wanting to move to Canada. I think they'd be in for a rude awakening. (Well, okay...it's Canada, so maybe a polite awakening) :P

Okay, that's just stupid.

I heard Democrats threatening to flee to Canada if Romney was elected. I actually considered the idea.

If the Republicans want to flee to any place where their kind still reigns supreme, they'll have to tolerate a pretty dismal standard of living. I almost feel bad for them - what can you do when you're a conservative in the most conservative country in the first world and you want to leave? You go to the second world, of course. Russia must be nice...
Russia has the highest number of Robber-barons Billionaires of any country. They'd probably enjoy it if not for the Russians.

The ones who hate gays could move to anywhere in Africa (or Jamaica)... if they're willing to settle for living with [entering right-winger simulation mode] NEGROES!

Your right wing simulation mode is either inaccurate or made a spelling error.
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This is relevant.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8956 on: November 07, 2012, 05:53:58 pm »

Pretty sure Toady only cares about "bad words" like nigger if there's actual malice attached.

Words are just words, you know.
Words are powerful. Words can do what a man alone cannot. Words have the power to command armies, inspire peoples, save refugees, execute rebels, genocide races, end nations. Words are the power of the many, and spread knowlede of you, your intentions, and other things you wish to convey. Therefore your words must be chosen with care.
Splitting hairs perhaps, but IMO it's the meaning behind those words that have the power you speak of. Words themselves are just arrangements of symbols, be they letters or syllables. But the meaning we give to them, the concepts we define them to convey... that has power.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8957 on: November 07, 2012, 05:59:54 pm »

Pretty sure Toady only cares about "bad words" like nigger if there's actual malice attached.

Words are just words, you know.
Words are powerful. Words can do what a man alone cannot. Words have the power to command armies, inspire peoples, save refugees, execute rebels, genocide races, end nations. Words are the power of the many, and spread knowlede of you, your intentions, and other things you wish to convey. Therefore your words must be chosen with care.
Splitting hairs perhaps, but IMO it's the meaning behind those words that have the power you speak of. Words themselves are just arrangements of symbols, be they letters or syllables. But the meaning we give to them, the concepts we define them to convey... that has power.
If you want to get specific, you are nothing but a interesting collection of organic compounds, pressing molded plastic sending electric signals aross the planet to me to read in various colors decoded by the eye. Happy?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8958 on: November 07, 2012, 06:01:43 pm »

If you want to get specific, you are nothing but a interesting collection of organic compounds, pressing molded plastic sending electric signals aross the planet to me to read in various colors decoded by the eye. Happy?
Indeed. Because since I am "happy", I transcend those things and become something greater than the sum of my parts.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8959 on: November 07, 2012, 06:02:53 pm »

Yep!
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8960 on: November 07, 2012, 06:03:57 pm »

If you want to get specific, you are nothing but a interesting collection of organic compounds, pressing molded plastic sending electric signals aross the planet to me to read in various colors decoded by the eye. Happy?
Indeed. Because since I am "happy", I transcend those things and become something greater than the sum of my parts.
No, it is Dopamine. Feel the Dopamine. Enjoy it. No that there are poor republicans, out there right now!, who have none.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8961 on: November 07, 2012, 06:17:12 pm »

Heh...CNN has an article about Republicans wanting to move to Canada. I think they'd be in for a rude awakening. (Well, okay...it's Canada, so maybe a polite awakening) :P

Okay, that's just stupid.

I heard Democrats threatening to flee to Canada if Romney was elected. I actually considered the idea.

If the Republicans want to flee to any place where their kind still reigns supreme, they'll have to tolerate a pretty dismal standard of living. I almost feel bad for them - what can you do when you're a conservative in the most conservative country in the first world and you want to leave? You go to the second world, of course. Russia must be nice...
Russia has the highest number of Robber-barons Billionaires of any country. They'd probably enjoy it if not for the Russians.

The ones who hate gays could move to anywhere in Africa (or Jamaica)... if they're willing to settle for living with [entering right-winger simulation mode] NEGROES!

Your right wing simulation mode is either inaccurate or made a spelling error.
Fixed.

Sounds like Obama.

That's because it is Obama.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8962 on: November 07, 2012, 06:26:47 pm »

Heh...CNN has an article about Republicans wanting to move to Canada. I think they'd be in for a rude awakening. (Well, okay...it's Canada, so maybe a polite awakening) :P

Okay, that's just stupid.

I heard Democrats threatening to flee to Canada if Romney was elected. I actually considered the idea.

If the Republicans want to flee to any place where their kind still reigns supreme, they'll have to tolerate a pretty dismal standard of living. I almost feel bad for them - what can you do when you're a conservative in the most conservative country in the first world and you want to leave? You go to the second world, of course. Russia must be nice...
Russia has the highest number of Robber-barons Billionaires of any country. They'd probably enjoy it if not for the Russians.

The ones who hate gays could move to anywhere in Africa (or Jamaica)... if they're willing to settle for living with [entering right-winger simulation mode] NEGROES!

Your right wing simulation mode is either inaccurate or made a spelling error.
Fixed.

Sounds like Obama.

That's because it is Obama.

An out-of-context soundbite from "Dreams from My Father", apparently.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8963 on: November 07, 2012, 06:47:19 pm »

That is a great audiobook right there, especially out of context.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8964 on: November 07, 2012, 07:12:16 pm »

That is a great audiobook right there, especially out of context.

Yeah... any book with the incumbent president dropping racial slurs on a regular (but sparse) basis is naturally going to be abused.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8965 on: November 07, 2012, 07:15:52 pm »

Apparently, Gary Johnson's run was one of the libertarian parties most successful in history.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gary-johnson-ran-most-successful-libertarian-campaign-party-193500973--politics.html
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8966 on: November 07, 2012, 07:18:12 pm »

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He may have received only about 1 percent of the national vote,
That's...special.

Coincidentally, I wonder what percentage that Vermin Supreme time-waster earned.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8967 on: November 07, 2012, 07:33:42 pm »

So, I think we should all write in someone unexpected for next election.  Say, Nate Silver maybe?  Just for funsies?  It would be really funny if A: it got media attention and B: if he somehow actually won.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8968 on: November 07, 2012, 07:35:06 pm »

So, I think we should all write in someone unexpected for next election.  Say, Nate Silver maybe?  Just for funsies?  It would be really funny if A: it got media attention and B: if he somehow actually won.
No. Vote for me. Everyone vote for me. Nate Silver will just point he can't win florida and we'll forget about him. I don't need logic.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8969 on: November 07, 2012, 08:21:59 pm »

Apparently, Gary Johnson's run was one of the libertarian parties most successful in history.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gary-johnson-ran-most-successful-libertarian-campaign-party-193500973--politics.html
Jill Stein was voted for by quite a few people at my college, but then my college is almost ludicrously left-leaning, and I have no idea what her national numbers were.
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