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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Rarely the same ones. Biden's recent obsession aside, most of the video game scapegoating comes from the right, who are also the ones that lap up pretty much any war movie ever.
I mean my dad is pretty much the stereotypical conservative, and just about all he ever watches on TV comes down to news, football, and war movies.
I can't help but imagine some Republicans would hate having anything invested in a non-American company...
Keep Rolling OnYeah. I guess some don't watch Fox due to that. They probably end up on Above Top Secret or sites like that...
Keep Rolling OnThey go where the money is. Our economy is global. Hypocrisy is lost on these folks; they will gladly stand up in public and wave American flags around - or rather, support those who do, but all the while they are outsourcing jobs and investing in foreign companies that compete with American firms.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, I was semi-impressed by the news conference this morning. Of course it was all political, but it was more "common sense with a political stance" than it could have been. I only counted 2 times that he played the "this is what the voters voted for" card.
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!Found a copy of the 2012 Texas GOP Report of Platform Committee. Essentially, it's a statement of the party's stance and intent. It's been floating around since at least July of last year, judging by the comments on Fundies Say the Darndest Things (and we even have a link to their page on it over on the FSTDT Nightmare Fuel page).
To be honest, it paints a very disturbing picture of the GOP: one of a theocratic corporate-owned government in which all but the adult Judeo-Christian white heterosexual abstinent-until-marriage male gets screwed over, big time (and I'm not sure that the screwing over stops with them either, given the disbanding of the Department of Education and the complete elimination of the teaching of critical thinking skills).
Here's the full thing: 2012 Platform Final
Here's the FSTDT page, complete with highlights from the above document: Republican Party of Texas, Report of Platform Committee
Like I said before, this has been floating around the Internet since at least July of last year, and it is the real deal. So why hasn't the non-Fox News/Glenn Beck media made a fuss about it? Why have none of the other branches of the GOP not denounced it? Why has nobody brought attention to it beyond FSTDT and our site's Nightmare Fuel page for that site?
edited 14th Jan '13 1:06:05 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryI believe that the only thing that happened when that came to light was the Texas GOP hurriedly amending the bit about not teaching critical thinking skills in school, since it was so heavily ridiculed.
It is reprehensible, and a symbol of exactly what is wrong with that party.
Edit: This little gem is just wonderful:
Does anyone else see the contradiction there? Anyone at all?
edited 14th Jan '13 1:18:46 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The statement is saying that we need freedom of religion, whilst backhandedly implying that only Christianity (and Judaism, because we acknowledge it sometimes) is acceptable.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"While I don't doubt for a second that that's the idea behind it the actual weirdness to me comes from the fact that the two bits are together. They should really be separate stamens. Take the UK for example, we have a state church and are thus a Christian nation with a head of state who is head of the church. But we are also a nation that has religious freedom. It is possible to have a nation built on one faith that doesn’t oppress another, it's just rare. The two statements of "our nation is build on this faith" and "we support freedom to worship as you please" don't have to contradict each other, it's just weird for them to be put together.
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Does the UK government use the Church to back up their legislation though? That could cause problems since it would be oppressing other religions by definition.
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Not to me. It just says we're a Christian nation and as such we allow religious freedom. While that's probably the intent nothing about the actual wording says that to me.
Then again, this is America, where everything is an attack on the freedom of religion, except the things that actually are.
Muslims are trying to build a place of worship? It's totally cool to try and stop them.
The government says gay people should have rights? STOP ATTACKING MY FREEDOM OF RELIGION!
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No. In fact the Church is against some Government legislation. It can't stop it directly, though.
edited 14th Jan '13 2:41:16 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On

@Kostya: It's because they don't actually care about reducing oil prices. They care about discrediting anything that even slightly smacks of liberalism in the country.
In fact, higher oil prices just makes Big Oil richer. They are all for it. They just can't say that on TV.
edited 13th Jan '13 5:07:17 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"