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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Honestly, there being a statute of limitations on sexual assault seems odd to me.
You'd think the difficulty of physical evidence lasting that long would be enough of a limit on that, you know?
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Politicians have ethical standards?
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
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What the hell is the Unicorn Brigade?
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I've been wondering that myself.
Our nickname for the Uber far lefties. Specifically the really contrarian ones like the Bernie supporters who don't really care what Bernie himself does
edited 13th Nov '17 2:03:36 PM by sgamer82
It's the name that many posters here have given to the members of the left that won't accept any candidate that isn't perfect (most of the times, regarding the economy), basically. It just sounds so ridiculous that I won't ever use it. I prefer to call them the far-left because that is what they are.
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The entire reason it's used is because that's misleading at best.
'Unicorn Brigade' is a derogatory term applied to voters/politically active people on the fringe left, differentiated not by their views, but their reasons for holding them-specifically, contrarians for the sake of contrarians, picking 'perfect' candidates that have little chance of winning, while tearing down anyone else for being 'corrupt', and admonishing other left leaning people for accepting anything less than a perfect candidate. This has the usual effect of these brigadiers trying to prop up some outsider in primaries, then disappearing during the general election after their candidate lost, while they pat themselves on the back for not falling for a 'corrupt' candidate that might well have advanced most/all of their issues with the occasional blemish. Hence, 'Unicorn'.
TL;DR Contrarians patting themselves on the back for supporting outsider underdogs with little chance of winning, while slagging others for voting anything else.
edited 13th Nov '17 2:16:23 PM by ViperMagnum357
use political terms to describe, not insult
We use it specifically because "far-left" is misleading (some Sanders supporters* were actually closer to the center or the right wing of the party than Hillary supporters, there's the issue of some of these people having problematic views on gender, race or religious issues and so on).
*Supporters in the sense of people who voted for one of these two in the primaries.
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Especially since the US definition of the far left includes way too many groups. It lumps the Greens, the nutjob groups like Greenpeace and PETA and the "Unicorn Brigade" together...even though that's a vast range of positions.
And honestly, the Unicorn Brigade group aren't really that left or right. They're constantly looking for the "perfect candidate"...except their standards appear to consist entirely of "did they support Sanders?" regardless of the candidate's actual positions. And if they can't find their "perfect candidate", they seem to be fine with the whole system collapsing.
Not Three Laws compliant.
No. They aren't. There's nothing "far left" about being a brocialist who thinks that every white man in the country needs to be perfectly happy and content before you can worry about the women and minorities and their filthy "identity politics". Which is a very, very common disorder amongst the Unicorn Brigade.
"Fringe left" is an acceptable description, but "far left" or "radical left" is a nonsense descriptor, because there's nothing far left or radical about a group of people who are to the right of some Republicans on social issues.
For the most part I just call them anti-establishment contrarians. Because that's what they are, if Sanders won they would likely turn on him for not being perfect or implementing everything they demand.
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They're white liberals. People who say they're for progressive policies but if it means giving POC's more rights they'll gladly throw them under the bus.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Yeah, the UB isn't particularly radical, they are just stubborn and the worst of them wouldn't understand "practicality" if you smacked them with it.
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I called them White Maoists. People who want all the benefits of being a genuinely egalitarian society but don't actually want an egalitarian society in and of itself.
Granted, Trump supporters and white supremacists probably could fall under the label too.
Almost certainly. Take a look at what happened when Obama, the rare Unicorn candidate to win, became President. They abandoned him during the next election, citing the fact that he wasn't magically fixing every problem in the nation or, my favourite thing to hear from white college kids, "wasn't black enough".
Speaking of Cheeto, he's trying to seize land on the border as Step One towards his Yuge, Beautiful and Effective Border Wall(TM).
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/border-wall-eminent-domain/index.html
At this point, I don't think the wall is a realistic prospect. It would take years (definitely more than 4, probably more than 8), the GOP won't shell out for it, and the opposition (be it based on affordability, morality or both) would be too intense for Congress to tolerate. Still, this must be making property owners lives' difficult to say the least.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Random thought that just crossed my mind.
Start with the assumption that Trump makes it through his presidency with his reputation (such as it is) intact.
In other words, I'm assuming no impeachment.
Assuming he follows through on recent tradition, there will be a President Trump Presidential Library.
What on earth would that look like? What in God's good name would be inside it? Just rows upon rows of The Art of the Deal? The complete (apart from the deleted ones) set of 'presidential' tweets? An institute of covfefe studies?
If anyone has any other suggestions for inclusions into this library I'd love to see them.
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No books, because Trump doesn't read. Instead, it would be like an internet kiosk with bigly-screen HD TV sets showing Fox News and reruns of The Apprentice 24/7/365 (pay-per-view, of course.)
It would probably involve a lot of books on economics, business, that sort of thing. Not necessarily stuff Trump has read, but stuff that he would keep on bookshelf for decoration.
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Transcripts of Fox and Friends?
edited 13th Nov '17 2:43:41 PM by megaeliz
Cape Malleum Majorem
Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw: a guy is checking out the ornate mahogany bookshelves that line the walls in a lawyer's office, and discovers that his extensive collection of "law books" are just false spines, with nothing behind them. The lawyer says: "Of course they're all fake. I'm a shyster."
No discussion of Trump's reading habits would be complete without mention of a book of Hitler's speeches.
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More Republicans call for Moore to drop out or be punished
. One is saying that if elected the Senate should vote to expel him for not meeting it's ethical standards.