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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Or he gets a stroke.
Hilllary says she won't run for public office ever again.
“The aftermath of the election was so devastating,” Clinton said Thursday during the Women in the World Summit hosted by Tina Brown at New York’s Lincoln Center. “I had to make up my mind I was going to get out of bed, yes; I was going to take walks in the woods, yes."
Alright that last line made me laugh.
Honestly, I wouldn't blame her one bit if she decided to spend the rest of her life just having fun and leaving the rest of the world to fend for itself.
The whole "Outsiders are the best" mentality is just horseshit. By that logic, corporations should only be hiring people with no experience whatsoever to be their CE Os.
edited 7th Apr '17 9:15:19 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedA "real leftist party"? That does what, exactly? Let itself be caricatured as a defender of war criminals? For Christ's sake, openly tearing down the President's actions after the footage of the gas attacks would have been terrible PR.
The time to tear down Trump over this will come later. The State and Defense Departments are both understaffed and underequipped to really delve into Syria, plus ongoing domestic issues, the fracturing of the Trumpist base, and the Russian backlash will ensure that Trump's new disaster will unfold like a lotus blossom.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Nor I. I've described her loss this election as being the political equivalent of Mike Tyson getting one-shotted by Little Mac. That's not a loss you recover from. Not easily.
The Scottish unicorn and the Californian grizzly bear have joined forces to fight climate change.
Now if only the bald eagle would stop trying to peck at its own feet so it could help out.
edited 7th Apr '17 10:57:06 PM by MadSkillz
I always find it annoying when one argues that equality is bad because, in a world of equality, talent and aptitude didn’t matter and everyone would be equally snubbed because someone like a doctor deserve better and shouldn't be treated the same as a postman and vice versa.
This is a fucking strawman and anyone who make this kind of point isn’t interested in having a good debate and is only interested in parroting those edgelord libertarian talking points.
Equality isn't arguing that the strong is not allowed to exist, and as a result, we should drag and force everyone down to the same level. Seriously, even Lenin doesn't believe that everyone should be paid the same wage. You should be paid for what you truly deserve. If you put in more work, obviously, you deserve to get paid or rewarded more.
Inequality exists because the strong receives more than their fair share and oppression is when the strong do everything in their power to prevent the weak from ever becoming strong.
I mean just look at America. The poor need at least (I used "at least" because, obviously, the poor need more) higher wages and tax break to be rich, but in order to receive those things, they need to be rich first. Does that make any sense?
In a truly equal world, talented people would be appropriately compensated for their talents, not snubbed, edgelord.
For example, the rich treat the poor like shit just because they are poor. No one ever said that the rich were not allowed to feel pride in their wealth. No one ever said that the rich didn't deserve the wealth that they are getting. Rather, it is that the rich unfairly discriminate against the poor so much that they create an unsafe living and working environment for the latter. Since the government has failed to enforce its own policies against the discrimination that the poor face everyday, the poor is more than justified in their desire to achieve equality.
You can replace the rich with white people, the poor with Po C, and with some adjustments like replacing wealth with accomplishment or education, the end result is still the same.
So, for a certain troper, please stop using this kind of shitty excuse and justification to make it seems like equality is bad.
Only an experienced editor who has a name possesses the ability to truly understand my work - What 90% of writers I'm in charge of said.Jesus Christ! The corporate media really want a war with goddamn Syria but then they again go hand in hand with the military industrial complex's gluttony. Just please not another Iraq.
http://fair.org/home/five-top-papers-run-18-opinion-pieces-praising-syria-strikes-zero-are-critical/
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Libertarians should be renamed edgelords if you ask me.
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Damn, even Bush's administration is more subtle and sleek when they want to go to war for fun and profit in Iraq.
Nah, I think it's more that those guys believe that they are actually special. It's just that the world haven't recognize their superiority yet. In other words, why would they want to upheave the status quo when they stand to benefit from it as soon as the world finally recognize them for the true special people that they are.
Libertarianism has a variety of proposed implementations between left and right. It's just that the American flavor tends to attract some really weird types. For the logical conclusion of American "I Swear I'm Not A Republican (because they're too easy on the poor)" libertarians, see ancaps.
"Corporate media": Are you about to tell me that you believe TYT's claims that this is a false flag to spark a Russo-American war?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
