03-11-2016 11:28 AM
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03-11-2016 11:32 AM
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I'm happy to see the biggest fraud in the country endorsed El Donaldario: Ben Carson. Well, he doesn't have to a be a fraud; it could be that he's intensely delusional. Regardless, his campaign was a mail scam, he lied about Cruz with the Iowa thing and played the hypocrite in the details for how he blamed Cruz for his own mistake, and he has now endorsed the guy who compared him to a child molester. |
03-11-2016 11:34 AM
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03-11-2016 02:24 PM
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Trump wins, there will be no contested convention. | |
03-11-2016 02:38 PM
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I'm gonna contest your mom. |
03-12-2016 07:44 AM
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What if Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders became one person? | |
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03-12-2016 11:55 AM
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She makes me think of this: |
Last edited by wufwugy; 03-12-2016 at 11:59 AM. | |
03-12-2016 12:40 PM
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"There's a virtual consensus among economists..." | |
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03-12-2016 12:58 PM
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It should be noted that the violence at Trump rallies is not historically new. It tends to happen when one segment of authoritarianism disagrees with another segment of authoritarianism on who should get special treatment. The unfortunate thing is that the fighting between the two groups make them look like they're antipodal when really they're not. |
03-12-2016 12:59 PM
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03-12-2016 03:02 PM
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sure |
03-12-2016 03:09 PM
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03-12-2016 03:13 PM
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there's apparently some weird multiquote malfunction on this site where it doesnt delete old quotes from new posts so you end up with the same quote in multiple posts. i dont know how it works but some of the others might. |
03-12-2016 05:38 PM
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Jumped in my time machine and got the before and afters of Ted's first term. |
03-12-2016 08:52 PM
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03-12-2016 09:32 PM
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It doesn't. Drawing lines in the sand based on who votes for whom and who supports what ideas is dangerous business. This social purity helps nothing. I used to be somebody who judged others based on their politics; it was all sorts of wrong and I've since learned from it. For all I know, Spoon intends to vote for Trump this Tuesday, but that doesn't change how I think of Spoon. I don't think Spoon is a bad guy and I think he doesn't think Trump is a bad guy. I think he thinks Trump is a good guy (or as he would say, the right kind of bad guy). Imposing my thoughts on Trump onto my thoughts of those who support him would be an awful thing for me to do. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 03-12-2016 at 09:36 PM. | |
03-12-2016 10:01 PM
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A more succinct response would be that I support Cruz because of his policies, and Cruz saying he would vote for Trump in a hypothetical doesn't change Cruz's policies. I don't even know that I wouldn't vote for Trump in the general. It depends. I probably wouldn't, but there's always more to learn and a constant need to reassess ideas. |
03-13-2016 12:00 AM
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03-13-2016 10:24 AM
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So sad. While I disagree with the Trump cult, constantly repeating that we need a plantation, paid for by the left in exchange for votes in order to "succeed" is unbelievably tragic. | |
03-13-2016 11:10 AM
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Hey Wuf, you said," The typical Redditor supports Bernie for his technically incorrect policy positions. I support Cruz for his technically correct policy positions." | |
Last edited by bigred; 03-13-2016 at 11:21 AM.
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03-13-2016 12:32 PM
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The only source I can think of that tells you where candidates stand is ontheissues.org, but it still tells you little. I don't know of any "policies for dummies" page. |
03-13-2016 12:35 PM
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03-13-2016 12:46 PM
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Black communities were doing substantially better back in the decades before welfare and victimization culture than they are today. This ranges from about the 20s to the 70s. Black graduation at all levels (including Ivy League) and employment was off-the-charts higher. Today, the blame is all "legacy of slavery", but in reality is the legacy of welfare, Al Sharpton style victimization, and centralization of education. If it really was the legacy of slavery, things wouldn't have been so much better in the 20s-70s for blacks economically. Legacy of slavery style racism gets the blame, when the real culprit is SJW style racism. Thomas Sowell is the main economists who discusses this stuff. |
03-13-2016 08:54 PM
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How do you feel the loss of manufacturing jobs and the drug war contributed to the decline of the black middle class? | |
03-13-2016 09:31 PM
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I'm not sure. I don't think either is a primary mover. The localization of the decline of manufacturing shows that it didn't affect most black communities. The drug war looks to be largely an effect; although, it does contribute some cause with things like black men having even less capacity to reform. |
03-14-2016 08:18 PM
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03-14-2016 11:22 PM
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http://www.redstate.com/absentee/201...dministration/ |
03-16-2016 08:14 PM
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So Kasich is staying in to making sure Cruz has no chance to win a majority but also lowering Trump's odds. lolgop | |
03-16-2016 08:40 PM
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It's sad. |
03-16-2016 10:54 PM
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Wuf, list three apprehensions you have about a Cruz presidency. | |
03-16-2016 11:32 PM
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Man that's a tough one. I support him to the degree that I do because I agree with his policies so much that I don't have apprehensions. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the person whose political ideals seem to line up the most with my own (Thomas Sowell*) was an early Cruz endorser. |
03-16-2016 11:52 PM
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An example of a normal apprehension I would have with a politician that occupies a similar space to the space Cruz does is that he could get out of hand with evangelical authoritarianism. The thing is, though, that I think Cruz, even though he's deeply evangelical, looks like one of the best politicians there is for freedom of religion (and freedom from religion). I'm not the only hardcore atheist who thinks this. I do not think that Cruz would push any federal evangelicalism down any throats. |
03-17-2016 10:56 AM
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03-17-2016 05:11 PM
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I would not be surprised if he's one of, say, five national politicians who has even read the edited out sections of Jefferson's A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. |
03-17-2016 05:16 PM
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Among other things, today's PPA email said the following: | |
03-17-2016 05:22 PM
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I'm happy to see Cruz not on that list. If he was, well, let's say that would be one of my apprehensions -- not because I want to play online poker, but because it would signal some missteps in the philosophy of liberty that all signs say he espouses. |
03-17-2016 05:37 PM
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If Kasich stays in the race, Trump will probably get to 1237. Kasich can pull off enough anti-Trump vote that Trump's 40% ceiling will win states that he needs to lose, like the soon to come Arizona. With Kasich in the race, Trump will probably win ~10 more states including California. Without Kasich in the race, Cruz would win all the remaining states except New York and maybe 2 or 3 others. |
03-17-2016 11:03 PM
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03-18-2016 12:17 AM
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No change is worse than bad change. Even so, change would still happen, just that the side that would be compromising is the other one. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 03-18-2016 at 12:22 AM. | |
03-18-2016 12:19 AM
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Turned out longer than I would have liked. If you read only one part of it, make it the last paragraph. It really is what's going on in Washington. You have to be a progressive leftist to be cool, and so many GOP elites have internalized this. |
03-18-2016 08:47 PM
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It should be added that I don't support a "no compromise" position so much as I advocate not compromising principles. You never get everything that you want, but inherent to the idea of compromise is that you get some of what you want. There is pretty much no universe in which a Clinton SCOTUS nomination would have any positive effects on the trajectory of law. The country's strength has been highly dependent on its federalism, but under all the Democrats and most of the Republicans, it has been steadily turning into a unitary state. A compromise on a Clinton SCOTUS nomination would be like compromising to only drive towards the cliff edge at 30 mph instead of 60 mph. Both are taking you off the cliff. |
03-18-2016 09:35 PM
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You still seem to be stuck on tactics, when I'm talking strategy. | |
03-18-2016 10:28 PM
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This is both, yo. |
03-19-2016 05:18 AM
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03-19-2016 02:41 PM
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The anti-Trump protesters are fucking retards. All it does is galvanize support for Trump. He could edge the nomination over this. |
03-19-2016 10:24 PM
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They have their own memeboys now: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carl-t...-aids-skrillex | |
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03-20-2016 03:07 PM
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Trump vs Hillary is going to be amazing to watch. | |
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03-20-2016 03:29 PM
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I wonder how many will come out to vote...just so the other doesn't win... | |
03-20-2016 04:36 PM
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Far more would vote against Trump than against Hillary. She'd beat him by significant margins. Also, virtually nobody on the Democrat side would stay home and tons on the Republican side would stay home. |
03-20-2016 04:46 PM
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Trump's equity to become president should be something crazy low like <1%. Millions of Midwestern blue collar white men that don't even exist would have to materialize to make up for his colossal gap with women. IIRC he'd have to win something like 80% of men. It's just not going to happen. Especially when he gets shredded by the media post-nomination and he ends up only winning men by a ~Romney margin. |
03-20-2016 04:55 PM
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John Kasich epitomizes the definition of "a horse's ass." |
03-20-2016 07:33 PM
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If you're so sure that Trump won't win the nomination, then go put your money where your mouth is. Bovada has him at -400 currently while both Cruz and Kasich are at +600. | |
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03-20-2016 09:40 PM
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03-20-2016 09:42 PM
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03-20-2016 11:11 PM
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03-20-2016 11:28 PM
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03-21-2016 12:08 AM
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That was not the only post on this subject getting at the same point. | |
03-21-2016 02:03 PM
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You're assuming the "no realistic positive endgame to be had" aspect. |
03-21-2016 04:03 PM
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"Being an obstructionist" is a pretty wide, generic net that is too vague to mean much imo. Of course obstructing things will be positive in the right situations. I think boost might mean something more specific than what that particular word carries with it. | |
03-22-2016 10:51 AM
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03-22-2016 01:42 PM
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Even though in the latest AZ poll Trump leads by 13, there are several silver linings in its methodology that suggest Cruz may win. |
03-22-2016 07:44 PM
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Cruz: "we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods" | |
03-22-2016 09:25 PM
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How is that against the constitution? |
03-22-2016 09:45 PM
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Let's say there isn't a legitimate argument for its unconstitutionality-- then what? It's ok? | |
Last edited by boost; 03-22-2016 at 09:47 PM. | |
03-22-2016 10:01 PM
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Profiling is good stuff. It's not unconstitutional. It is naturally accepted for pretty much all things. Except when it involves race, sex, or religion, few want to touch it because the SJW backlash is immense. Not profiling wastes resources and allows bad actors to flourish by easily hiding. |
03-22-2016 10:13 PM
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Whether something is constitutional is a fun essay topic in law school. Even when you have a SCOTUS decision that clearly decides the issue, there is always argument for the other way (with legal support). Often, what it comes down to is how easy it is to make the argument. | |
03-22-2016 11:38 PM
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Again, tactics vs. strategy. | |
03-23-2016 12:03 AM
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When it is, it's not profiling, unless you're talking about resource waste, which is harmful. If profiled people experience undue negative harm, it is because of something other than the profiling, like harassment. Profiling is just who you're looking at. Overdoing it isn't profiling. |
03-23-2016 12:12 AM
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Should it be depressing to me that my sister and her husband have many thoughts about Trump and every one of them is factually inaccurate? They consume 10-30 minutes a day of highly agenda driven opinion media. Trump really could shoot somebody in the street and keep all his votes since nobody who supports him would even hear about it. |
03-23-2016 01:12 AM
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03-23-2016 01:36 AM
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As a resident of AZ, I am completely unsurprised. Sheriff Joe was a huge endorsement | |
03-23-2016 08:38 AM
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03-23-2016 09:43 AM
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Based on his quote, it sounds like Ted intends to profile based on being muslim rather than being a terrorist though. Is this not the same type of incompetence? | |
03-23-2016 11:09 AM
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03-23-2016 11:15 AM
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Apparently the polling was way off, which is funny since they were off in antipodal directions. I think Cruz edges out a victory HU, but he didn't even get close due to the month of early voting AZ had, where 18% went to Rubio and Carson. I remember thinking how senseless early voting was in primaries when I first heard about it. |