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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#34876: Oct 23rd 2012 at 1:25:07 PM

I give it about ten years.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
AmateurPolymath Since: Mar, 2012
#34877: Oct 23rd 2012 at 1:34:06 PM

Yeah, what I imagine would happen is that people like David Duke would set up white only charter schools and fudge the numbers to make it look like they're the best performing schools in the country. Astroturf movements would be set up to re-segregate schools based on this alleged "success". Next, gated communities would start driving out African Americans en masse, and without affirmative action laws, African Americans would probably be at a significant disadvantage in competitive areas like hiring and college admissions, creating a two-tiered society that only becomes further pronounced when you consider today's social inequalities. By having a black underclass, white people would have someone to feel superior to, thus granting votes to a conservative status quo. Whites becoming a minority due to birthrates or some crap like that? No problem, just repeal the Voting Rights Act as well!

They'll always find some justification for things, no matter how paper-thin. Take "Voter Fraud" for instance, it's a bullshit excuse to reinstate a poll tax on lower class (Read: Minority) Americans. The Civil Rights Act could probably be repealed on some charge that it's "A violation of the 10th Amendment", "A violation of private property rights", "A bureaucratic, vestigal entitlement from a society that's clearly moved on", or some crap like that.

EDIT: Turns out at least some libertarians are in favor of repealing '64. This is just... so wrong.

edited 23rd Oct '12 1:49:17 PM by AmateurPolymath

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#34878: Oct 23rd 2012 at 1:58:22 PM

Romney ad: "I'll deliver recovery, not dependency."

So emblematic of today's narrative- and charisma-based campaigns.

Then again, campaigns were always like this I guess. Now, where's my stash of hard cider in my log cabin...

Edit: Oh yeah, don't forget that log cabins and hard cider was one of the earliest major campaign lies. W.H. Harrison was not a frontier boy by any means. Jerk.

edited 23rd Oct '12 1:59:24 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#34881: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:41:50 PM

I'm getting more Romney ads than Obama ads.

The "recovery not dependency" ad, and "we need a real recovery" could be persuasive. But "Obamacare is wrong; I'll repeal it" is iffy since you need to have an opinion on Obamacare already.

I do see one promising Obama ad: "let's finish what we started."

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#34882: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:46:16 PM

Ok, Donald Trump is officially a moron. He's going to reveal...

...

...

Obama's divorce papers. Really. And he thinks this is going to affect the election. tongue

Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
LooseCannon The Groose Is Loose from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jun, 2012
The Groose Is Loose
#34883: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:46:36 PM

[up][up][up] Scary, isn't it?

edited 23rd Oct '12 3:47:04 PM by LooseCannon

Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34884: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:48:56 PM

[up][up]Wait, are you serious or not?

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#34885: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:50:07 PM

I also hope that if Romney is elected, the Democrats won't spend another 4 years just attacking the incumbent.

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#34886: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:51:16 PM

@Kostya: I'm serious. Trump announced earlier this week that he would be revealing a "bombshell" which would change the course of the election. That's what he was going to reveal.

Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#34887: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:51:34 PM

[up][up]

Um. They usually dont. Which is why half the idiotic shit that got passed under Bush got passed

[up]

so Trump wanted attention. got it.

edited 23rd Oct '12 3:51:55 PM by Midgetsnowman

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34888: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:52:22 PM

[up][up][up]I do and I don't hope they do that. I don't because I'd hate to have them resort to such an underhanded tactic but I kind of do since I'd hate for a lot of his policies to go into affect.

[up][up]Okay, new question. Is this bullshit like the truther nonsense? I haven't heard of any problems between them.

edited 23rd Oct '12 3:53:11 PM by Kostya

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#34889: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:53:31 PM

I mean all the slander Obama's been getting, such as birther movement and this divorce Trump is trying to claim.

Obama has been called various names that don't even add up together. I definitely don't want that happening 4 years later regardless of who is elected. Whoever gets elected, we should help him administrate the country correctly.

edited 23rd Oct '12 3:54:04 PM by Trivialis

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#34890: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:55:04 PM

I doubt they'd do that. If the left was into that sort of thing Romney would have been getting slammed for being a Nazi or a Godless Mormon or some other bullshit for months. Since that hasn't been brought up at all I have a feeling they wouldn't start after he got elected primarily because it would make them look really fucking hypocritical.

edit: Why should we help them administrate the country if their policies will wreck it? I'm sorry but tax cuts for the rich, a two trillion budget increase, and several wars are not in this country's best interests.

edited 23rd Oct '12 3:57:42 PM by Kostya

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#34891: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:57:30 PM

@Triv" Thats a nice sentiment. But the reality is while a lot of us would agree with that,the Tea Party never will ande would take advantage of it.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#34892: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:58:20 PM

Trump just sounds like a kid desperate for attention.

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#34893: Oct 23rd 2012 at 3:58:28 PM

Do you think the Tea Party will do same to Romney?

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#34894: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:00:43 PM

So.

Them polls. They look slightly worrying (or maybe the ones I have are out-of-date).

This is the crucial last week. D:

I would be rather sad at a Romney win. That means my trip to Washington DC in Feb for school won't be so pleasant. tongue

Anyways; I presume both campaign machines swing into full gear.

How do things... go, so to speak?

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#34895: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:01:53 PM

Don't watch TV for 2 weeks if you hate political ads.

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#34896: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:02:53 PM

What, is every second advertisement an endorsement slot? tongue

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#34897: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:03:39 PM

One channel had 4 in a row for me.

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#34899: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:13:24 PM

"Governor Romney also believes, consistent with the 10th Amendment, that it should be left to states to decide whether to grant same-sex couples certain benefits, such as hospital visitation rights and the ability to adopt children."

Have I mentioned how much I hate the concept of "state's rights"? Because I really do hate it.

edited 23rd Oct '12 4:13:59 PM by Enkufka

Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#34900: Oct 23rd 2012 at 4:18:58 PM

Talk about it here. It's easy for this to derail into the same old conversation.


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