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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As a Nordic, burn Fox News to the ground and salt the earth.
We had enough of being poster boys for wacky race theories the last time this shit was happening. Fuck off.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/18/news/economy/g20-trade-protectionism-trump-germany/index.html
The only solace the world can take it is that at least the US will go down with them.
2017 will go down as the year when fucking Communist China wanted to protect free trade more than the self-proclaimed bastion of freedom and democracy.
edited 18th Mar '17 3:55:48 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.edited 18th Mar '17 4:12:27 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Isn't TPP a "free trade agreement" In Name Only? (like all of its recent predecessors)
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Honestly, I was not gonna vote for Trump nor Hillary. And voting for her her because she wasn't Trump, that's not a valid reason for me to vote. Her corruption was damn well not gonna become irrelevant to me.
If it comes down to it, I'm not gonna vote for ANY evil, greater or lesser.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:28:06 PM by MarkVonLewis
I hope someday you get to the opportunity to live in a country like mine and actually have to care enough about politics that you can't afford to not vote for people just because they're not perfect bastions of morality.
Assuming all those allegations are true. Which they weren't. But even assuming they are, they're nowhere near as bad as Trump's corruption and general bigotry.
When you're dealing with evil as big as Trump and the current flock of Republicans there's no such thing as neutrality. You're either voting Democrat or you're supporting the Republicans.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:41:42 PM by LeGarcon
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Yes because my country obviously has no reason to be mindful of the consequences of political apathy and/or the effect of populism in the political process. And not spend the last half century getting to grips with that.
And hey, its not like Clinton has not had decades of experience and credentials to actually do the job.
Look at the past fifty FUCKING days and tell me honestly that it would have been the same under her.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:44:16 PM by 3of4
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Well, if she's so corrupt you should easily be able to number some of the things she did and provide evidence.
EDIT: And seriously, I wish there was a candidate even an eight as good as Hillary Clinton in my country to vote for. Sadly, last one's been dead for about eight years and retired from politics for a longer time.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:47:51 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVIf it comes down to it, I'm not gonna vote for ANY evil, greater or lesser.
Can you really look at the last fifty days of fustercluck and say, with sincerity, that not voting for Clinton/not voting at all was a good decision? That you have no regrets at all?
To my view, it was going to be one of them the moment the primaries ended. You can say whatever you want about how Sanders got cheated, but when the primaries ended, as I said earlier, that became irrelevant. Hillary Clinton possessed in great abundance the one thing Donald Trump had not at all: Competence. That, to me, was worth a little corruption as opposed to incompetence with a heaping helping of blatant corruption.
During the election, I'd said often that I didn't like the whole "not voting for Clinton = voting for Trump" schtick. Being honest, I'm... less sure of that now than I was given said fifty days of fustercluck, but even if you didn't want to vote for Clinton, at least vote. To use a quote I've attributed to Jesse Ventura, the only vote truly wasted is the one never cast. If Trump won after you voted for someone who truly wanted, Clinton or otherwise, I woudln't care what you voted for. But not voting at all seems to be to be the same as a vote for Trump. Especially if you had planned to vote Democratic otherwise and only changed afterward, which was my main caveat about the vote for not-Clinton=Vote for Trump thing.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:50:47 PM by sgamer82
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, among the ACLU and 45 others are going against
a California bill that would strip the privacy protections of teachers and students.
Speaking of which, I am curious about your opinions on the former organization.
edited 18th Mar '17 4:55:02 PM by MorningStar1337
That time when one cannot afford to ignore politics has always been here, but now it's crunch time. And there is no high and holy "neutrality option." Either one will act, or one will watch from the sidelines and gaze proudly at hir clean hands—which helped no one—while waiting for heroes on white horses who'll never appear.
"The world is burning, but I'm innocent, because while I didn't check off a freakin name to stop it, that woman isn't the true savior" is a damaging note sentiment. And a disturbing sign, that these times, deadly for many people at home and abroad and degrading and painful for a multitude of others, aren't being taken seriously.
Anyway, an exploration of the USA's "DNA" Steve King, John Lewis, and the American gene pool
Only a few months ago, we were walking out of the movie theater, having watched a Cold War drama called “Bridge of Spies.”
The history teacher among us was giddy. The Tom Hanks character, in a conversation with a CIA agent, had given a succinct speech that the teacher intended to convert to a You Tube video as a way of explaining to students the difference between a constitutional democracy and democratic nationalism.
“My name’s Donovan. Irish. Both sides, mother and father. I’m Irish, you’re German, but what makes us both Americans?” the Hank character asks, then answers himself. “Just one thing … the rule book. We call it the Constitution, and we agree to the rules. And that’s what makes us Americans. It’s all that makes us Americans.”
The first German language newspaper in America, Die Philadelphische Zeitung, was published in 1732 by Ben Franklin. German-language journalism thrived, unabsorbed, in the U.S. for nearly two centuries, until World War I.
California’s Constitution of 1849, which brought that state into the Union, was printed in both Spanish and English. California would remain a formally bilingual state for 30 years.
The Jim Crow era that followed the Civil War and Reconstruction amounted to white resistance to the assimilation of African-Americans — whose ancestors were brought here unwillingly — into the social and political fabric of the country. While focused in the South, that resistance stretched nationwide.
The civil rights movement of the next century would be its sequel.
As late as the 1950s, hostile Protestants named communism and Catholicism — the latter a mostly European import — as the two greatest existential threats to the United States. Communism is largely gone, and Catholics have finally won acceptance.
If Neil Gorsuch is confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice — his first Senate hearing is Monday — he will be the only Protestant on the nation’s highest bench. The other eight are either Catholic (five) or Jewish (three).
A few days before Steve King sent out his Tweet on what he thought this country was about, an arm of the University of Georgia, the Selig Center for Economic Growth, published its annual analysis of the state of the multicultural economy in the United States.
This year’s headline: In 2016, the $1.4 trillion Hispanic market in the United States was larger than the entire economies of all but 14 countries in the world. Smaller than the gross domestic product of Spain, but larger than that of Mexico.
edited 18th Mar '17 5:04:59 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives

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