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A procrastination in of itself
#102426: Oct 2nd 2015 at 2:53:42 AM

Where in that does Biden say he's not a Socialist or imply that being a Socialist is bad? It's entirely possibly to be a realist or popularist Socialist.

edited 2nd Oct '15 2:54:00 AM by Silasw

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#102427: Oct 2nd 2015 at 2:55:55 AM

Hmm, that Ben Carson keeps doing the whole expressing oneself thing makes me think he's thinking of someone on the Left and not Trump as America's Hitler figure.

edited 2nd Oct '15 2:56:17 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#102428: Oct 2nd 2015 at 3:20:25 AM

Biden targeting Sanders. That's peculiar.

I would say I was worried about Biden having a spoiler effect but I don't know which of the two he'd spoil worse; he's kind of right in between Sanders and Clinton.

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#102429: Oct 2nd 2015 at 3:54:02 AM

[up][up] Does that mean he believes Hitler was left wing?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#102430: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:01:09 AM

Most if not all Republicans and conservatives in America do.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#102431: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:04:23 AM

To be fair Hitler did provide a significant amount of welfare and centralize industry. But he only provided said welfare for those he considered racially pure.

Edit: Not to mention his numerous right wing positions on social issues like the rights of woman.

edited 2nd Oct '15 4:04:59 AM by JackOLantern1337

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#102432: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:08:33 AM

Yeah, saying someone is left wing because he institutes healthcare is extremely stupid. Our first healthcare system was instituted by Bismarck - because it kept the lower classes from rebelling. The Republicans could probably learn from that example, but then, I'm expecting you guys starting an uprising every year and it never happens - so what do I know.tongue

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#102433: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:13:51 AM

[up] You know I'm not a Republican right? I was just pointing a fact out.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#102434: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:15:07 AM

Healthcare is only considering a leftist thing in America because we're just that fucked.

The rest of this decade is going to be hell.

edited 2nd Oct '15 4:15:22 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#102435: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:19:39 AM

[up] Even if Sanders is elected?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#102436: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:20:59 AM

Considering we lost Boehner, yeah. He was one of the few people who could have kept things at least somewhat sane.

Oh really when?
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#102437: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:22:10 AM

[up][up][up][up]

You know I'm not a Republican right? I was just pointing a fact out.
Never said that are. My statement wasn't even aimed at you, to be honest.

edited 2nd Oct '15 4:22:20 AM by DrunkenNordmann

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#102438: Oct 2nd 2015 at 4:28:22 AM

[up][up] If the Republicans go far enough off the edge they will cease to exist as a party, moving the country to the left. Plus I suppose this decade will be considered a Golden Age if you are an artist. I have noticed they tend to consider any point in history where the average American citizen is rich and happy to be a conformist evil hell, and love the points where they were miserable, their nostalgia for New York in the 70's and the 80's because it was more "vibrant." Plus if Trump gets elected think of all the good rock music we will get. Who else could get the artists that angry.tongue

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Lost in Space
#102439: Oct 2nd 2015 at 5:01:16 AM

[up] That's not entirely correct. They like to idolize the mid-20th century: The '50s and such, before the "free love" liberalization movements started up and everyone got all entitled. They believe in Leave It to Beaver as a model of American family values: a vision of single-family homes in quiet neighborhoods, with white picket fences, mom, dad, two and half kids, and a dog. Dad works, Mom keeps house, the kids all work hard at school and are respectful to their parents, everyone goes to church on Sunday. We are at war with Russia, but our day to day lives aren't impacted.

More importantly, any minorities seen are servants, and the white folk don't mix with them. LGBT issues simply aren't mentioned.

edited 2nd Oct '15 5:02:24 AM by Fighteer

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#102440: Oct 2nd 2015 at 5:05:00 AM

[up] I was talking about what time periods Liberals and artists idolize, not what conservatives or the average citizen wants to go back to.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#102441: Oct 2nd 2015 at 5:07:55 AM

Considering we lost Boehner, yeah. He was one of the few people who could have kept things at least somewhat sane.
This is especially double damning with Eric Cantor out of office as well. He was the heir apparent, and McCarthy ain't looking to hot.

So, yeah, basically unstable as shit and things could just get worse as the super-hard liners get more enraged as the new Speaker(s) fail to live up to expectations of creating a glorious 'True Republican' post-Boehner era.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#102442: Oct 2nd 2015 at 5:20:15 AM

[up][up]Oh, artists. Yes, artistic creativity tends to flourish in dark times.

edited 2nd Oct '15 5:20:24 AM by Fighteer

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MeetTheNewBoss I'm Ruthless. from The Same As The Old Boss Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
I'm Ruthless.
#102443: Oct 2nd 2015 at 6:40:01 AM

[up] Oh yeah, like writing a orphanage murder scene after you just heard someone was arrested for having loli pictures. If they aren't real doesn't matter, then arrest me! For murder! Now!

Censorship and criminalization of our likes is a hell of an drug, let me tell ya.

edited 2nd Oct '15 6:41:04 AM by MeetTheNewBoss

You claim that God is opressing us, but I see you opressing others without needing a God.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#102444: Oct 2nd 2015 at 6:50:32 AM

[up]Uhm, WHAT?

What the hell does "creative expression through art and music arise during times of hardship" with "child murder fantasies and loli porn"?

Inter arma enim silent leges
tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#102445: Oct 2nd 2015 at 6:52:38 AM

[up][up]your words form sentences, but my brain for some reason cannot parse them in that configuration. Could you explain what you meant please?

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#102446: Oct 2nd 2015 at 7:15:11 AM

Speaking of drugs. . .

@EPA rules, good I say, but good luck getting it enforced. Here in NC the state's primary energy company has an iron grip on the government and one of their own in the Governor's seat. It'll probably take something a lot more heavy handed than a few rules to get them to comply.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#102447: Oct 2nd 2015 at 7:38:16 AM

He appears to be referring to some jurisdictions (couldn't tell you which) outlawing any depiction of underage girls in pornography, even if actual underage girls aren't involved — eg, drawings of fictional characters, using photoshop to make of-age models appear younger, etc. The idea is that the reason child porn is wrong is because making it involves sexually abusing children, which is obviously wrong. But depictions of it that don't involve real children (so no one's being abused) are also outlawed in places. Meet The New Boss seems to be pointing out that you can draw pictures of someone murdering an entire orphanage full of children and it's entirely legal, but if you draw pictures of people below the age of consent having sex, now you've committed a crime, which seems like an arbitrary standard.

I think, anyway. I'm sort of extrapolating, here. And it does seem like a rather odd tangent even if I'm right.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#102448: Oct 2nd 2015 at 7:50:10 AM

Man. And here I was a few posts ago the U.S is ok and then another school shooting happens. Y'all stop bein' fulla cray cray people you hear me? Why can't you be normal like the rest of us and keep people subjugated through rampant poverty and governmental neglect instead of having tinfoil hat wearing crazies go out in shootings?

Wait. That's not actually better.

Nooo! Get out of here, Hobbes!

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#102449: Oct 2nd 2015 at 8:10:16 AM

[up][up]That part I understood, but the guy in question only got arrested because he was dumb enough to play guilty of the child pornography charge.

What I trying to wrap my head around is why drop that complain in a string of thought discussing artistic creation during harsh times.

Inter arma enim silent leges
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#102450: Oct 2nd 2015 at 8:25:36 AM

[up] Is there a news story I missed here??

edited 2nd Oct '15 8:25:50 AM by speedyboris


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