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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'm back from doing the thing. Small town after lunch, steady trickle of people but no real line. Voted straight D except for the incumbent state senator mentioned yesterday and two village positions running unopposed. Rural district candidates can be a pain to research as the sites like Ballotpedia don't have handy position dossiers on them and their websites weren't a ton of help.
Here is the entire post
if anyone is curious what other bizarrities the guy had to offer.
I guess saying
edited 8th Nov '16 10:35:41 AM by blkwhtrbbt
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youRedirect to the East Asia thread
- it's more extensively discussed there.
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Basically she had been taking advice from the daughter of the cult leader whose own ties got the current president's father assassinated by the then head of the secret police, including taking classified information and basically handing it to someone with no security clearances whatsoever, unsanitised.
Facebook political discussion: This isn't really something I do, since social media isn't exactly a useful medium for fact based argument, especially with fucking Malaysians. I got blocked for quoting "the burden of proof is on the accuser" once by one...
edited 8th Nov '16 10:41:31 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotRe #149391
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edited 8th Nov '16 10:45:23 AM by sgamer82
this election has honestly been pretty revelatory in that sense, because if this were any other election you might be able to have a reasonable discussion with someone who wasn't voting for your preferred candidate. However Trump is so openly odious that voting for Trump or even just equating Hillary with him says some pretty unpleasant things about them and there's just no getting around that. When a person is openly supporting a bigoted, misogynistic, elitist and racist buffoon it's hard to have a polite and civilized discussion.
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I usually sometimes visit /pol/ only to know what those shitheads are up and brace for the incoming shitstorm.
Also I swear there is no difference between Brazilian and American comments when it comes to politics because the word globalist keeps showing everywhere, down to the same arguments and stupidity, just from pt-br to en-us.
I really feel like smacking whoever keeps saying that Hillary is a globalist shill and Trump is not an anti-establishment anti-globalist, too much tinfoil and little sense, while those idiots accuse Hillary from being a globalist, Trump was enjoying all the privileges of globalism.
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I usually avoid entering facebook discussions, the first reason not really wanting those shitheads to spam my feed with their crap the second is realizing I'd be at disadvantage against those people because I am not fluent in stupid.
edited 8th Nov '16 10:51:41 AM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesDepends on the administration, Biden was mostly an advisor and Quayle...there was always a joke that the Secret Service had orders to kill him if the 25th was ever invoked. But guys like Cheney? Big power there.
And of course, being POTUS doesn't make one immortal.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.You know something slightly troubling I've noticed? The prefixing of terms such as "militant", "terrorist", and "fascism" with the word "white", as if these groups of people being white is something special. I think the term "white terrorist" is to make sure people don't think of a middle eastern suicide bomber, for example. That bothers me for obvious reasons
Insiders say Turnout Operation Is Insufficient
“Some of the criticism was directed at Donald Trump. The Republican nominee de-valued field and data activities and in unusual fashion delegated voter turnout almost entirely to the Republican National Committee.”
“The RNC also came under fire for its performance, however, although some of the veteran GOP political operatives that spoke to the Washington Examiner said the party did as well as could be expected under the circumstances.”
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Whose emails in particular?
Globalist: In theory it's used to describe people in favor of globalisation. By Internet racists or conspiracy theorists (assuming the Venn diagram isn't a circle), it's used to refer to the Jews/Jewish bankers/bankers/New World Order/One World Order.
Voter obstruction by what seems to be a porn shoot
? Someone has a polling place fetish?
edited 8th Nov '16 11:10:55 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotPence's homophobia affects me. Pence' religious fanaticism is the reason evangelical conservatives even bother to vote for a man like Trump. Trump owes nearly every part of his constituency that isn't American neo-Nazis and the KKK to Pence. Of COURSE Pence would be able to influence Trump's politics. If I were to marry, my marriage could be declared illegal under a Trump presidency.
This sums up in a nutshell my personal problems with a Trump presidency this year.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you

Heh, I haven't been on Facebook for literal years now, save for my birthday to thank people who sent well wishes.
The damned queen and the relentless knight.