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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#163626: Dec 21st 2016 at 7:35:25 AM

It helps that it's really fucking boring, without that much health benefit, and dangerous as hell.

Golf is still an upper-class thing in southern latitudes where heat and sunlight make lawns prohibitively expensive in water and fertiliser.

What do the rich do now? Skydiving?

And why in the world is horseback riding a girl thing now?!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#163627: Dec 21st 2016 at 7:46:49 AM

Yachting, polo, foxhunting... But these days, any schlub can pay the green fee, rent a set of golf clubs, and pretend that he's a big shot for the afternoon.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#163628: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:00:30 AM

Yachting is not a sport.

Horses can be affordable and practical if you live in the right environment, although the things eat like black holes. And they're quite dangerous to ride in normal mode, let alone in a competitive team ball sport, I mean the injury rate there must be amazing for both animals and riders...

Foxhunting... like, the full theatrical thing, with dogs and horses and horns? Isn't that illegal now? Also, isn't it silly? Never mind, all sports are silly at heart. That's why we love them.

edited 21st Dec '16 8:00:52 AM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#163629: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:02:26 AM

HALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

No, fox hunting is silly.

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#163630: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:03:11 AM

@IF Wanderer

Superman doesn't need to enter the public domain for that to happen. DC's been using Luthor as a Tea Party analogue for a decade now.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#163631: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:08:16 AM

I kind of expect Marvel do a regime critical Captain America run....

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#163632: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:09:05 AM

I don't know about other countries, but foxhunting is alive and well in the US. Granted, we don't kill the fox here, so it should really be called "fox chasing."

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#163633: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:09:15 AM

@Swanpride You've been following the recent comics, right? Steve Rogers was retconned by a Reality Warper into a HYDRA agent. It's disturbingly appropriate. TBF, this storyline started last year.

I don't think this is going to be changing anytime soon.

edited 21st Dec '16 8:13:25 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#163634: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:47:38 AM

Back on the topic of politics, Trump keeps tweeting about the popular vote. You'd think that officially winning the EC would be enough to placate him, but no, he keeps complaining that he would've won the popular vote too if he had campaigned differently. The term "sore winner" immediately springs to mind. You won. What more do you want?

edited 21st Dec '16 8:48:14 AM by speedyboris

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#163635: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:50:43 AM

I would love for Trump to be Hoist by His Own Petard by pushing for and successfully abolishing the electoral college, only to find that no, he can't convince New Yorkers and Californians to vote for him.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#163636: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:53:41 AM

Why would Trump want to abolish the EC, though? It's what got him elected in the first place.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#163637: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:54:14 AM

[up][up][up]I think we've gone over this previously but his ego (and base, but mostly ego) is such that he has difficulty accepting that the majority of people who voted actually rejected him. Hence the attempts to decry reports following Hillary's PV lead as fake news and the claims about millions of "illegals" voting.

[up][up]What about upstate NY?

[up]There's this old tweet of his calling the EC a blight on the US. Granted, he's shown all the signs of flip flopping on everything to date...

edited 21st Dec '16 8:55:09 AM by Krieger22

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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#163638: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:54:41 AM

"DC's been using Luthor as a Tea Party analogue for a decade now."

Hadn't he gotten a Heel–Face Turn nowadays?

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#163639: Dec 21st 2016 at 8:55:20 AM

@boris: His ego, as Krieger said.

[up][up] We don't talk about upstate New York. Note that North California is also fairly red, but that's not where the state's population is.

edited 21st Dec '16 8:57:39 AM by CaptainCapsase

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#163641: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:00:28 AM

Isn't the infrastructure plan like the least harmful thing on Trump's agenda?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#163642: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:02:06 AM

[up][up] The thing is we really NEED some infrastructure spending. Trump's plan will skimp on spending where we really need to invest tax dollars, but a bipartisan infrastructure bill will probably alleviate that deficiency to some extent.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:04:10 AM by CaptainCapsase

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#163643: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:03:48 AM

It's also imperative that our infrastructure remain terrible, if only to sabotage Trump's presidency further. Girding his efforts with Democratic assistance or all of their work will make it look like a triumph of Republican leadership if it succeeds.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:05:39 AM by CrimsonZephyr

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#163644: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:05:56 AM

[up] The democratic base isn't reliable and consistent in the same way the republican base is, so it's going to be harder for congresspeople to play the obstructionism game without being voted out. By all means we should fight tooth and nail against his more odious proposals that the democratic base actually opposes, but blocking infrastructure spending just because is not going to work out for the democrats.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:07:27 AM by CaptainCapsase

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#163645: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:06:20 AM

What's with this narrative among conservatives that city-dwelling liberals are out of touch?

How is the larger population the one that's out of touch?

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#163646: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:06:23 AM

The infrastructure spending may not actually yield much actual infrastructure since instead of the government actually using money to build things the plan consist primarily of private sector incentives, some of which is going to things that are already in the process of happening.

So yeah, all that may happen is that the plan just balloons the deficit and debt in a time when the Federal Reserve is specifically trying to discourage that by raising interest rates.

[up]Because are filled with uppity intellectuals and "those" people, who obviously aren't real hard working Americans.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:08:39 AM by Mio

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#163647: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:06:47 AM

[up][up][up][up]Eh, giving Trump cronies the chance to render themselves public pariahs by embezzling funds earmarked for infrastructure might do that already.

[up][up]Projection. Not much else to say.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:08:57 AM by Krieger22

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#163648: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:08:38 AM

@blkwhtrbbt: Urban and rural America might as well be two completely different countries, that much is true.

[up][up] If the GOP compromises with the democrats (and Trump is probably fine with doing that on infrastructure so long as he isn't personally getting taxed), the amount of effective spending will be much higher.

edited 21st Dec '16 9:09:42 AM by CaptainCapsase

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#163649: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:12:04 AM

There are more of us, and we generate a larger economy per person. We keep up with modern tech, we keep up with current events. How does this put us "out of touch"?

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#163650: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:13:01 AM

Because you're not a real person, you live in a city and are probably "ethnic"

Oh really when?

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