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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#113226: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:32:52 PM

[up]X5 We have a Middle East thread you know.

[up] I doubt it.

edited 25th Feb '16 3:33:27 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#113227: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:34:42 PM

Centrist Republicans? Ditto for Centrist Democrats? I am looking at Charles Schumer, future Democratic Senate Caucus leader.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#113228: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:36:36 PM

[up] Do they like Wall Street or just Wall Street's money?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#113229: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:41:25 PM

Clinton supposedly discussed policy in at least some of her speeches. There's speculation she indicated a willingness to repeal or modify Obama's signature Wall Street reform bill, Dodd-Frank. The Clinton camp is on record promising to be more favorable to Wall Street than Obama. If there's record of her admitting doing something so far as repealing one of Obama's landmark first-term bills, that'd sink her alone.

Wall Street and absurdly obviously evil corporations like Comcast keep donating for her for more plausable reasons than stupiduty. She's still trying to run passive-aggressive pro-Wall Street ads like one on her twitter(I can't find the tweet right now, feel free to dismiss me), claiming that "Dealing with Wall Street won't fix this unrelated issue and that unrelated issue", the classic anti-progress diversion tactic. I doubt her past record shows her opposing Wall Street at any point before having to compete with Sanders forced her to pretend she did.

Sivartis Captionless One from Lubberland, or the Isle of Lazye Since: Apr, 2009
Captionless One
#113230: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:42:13 PM

@Drunken Nordmann: If they want the latter, they can't say or do too much against the former, so there's not that much difference in effect.

♭What.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#113232: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:50:42 PM

Fair number of Wall Street investors are leery of Wall Street firms themselves.

And the top brass of Goldman Sachs itself is beginning to question the value of capitalism.

edited 25th Feb '16 3:52:45 PM by PotatoesRock

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#113233: Feb 25th 2016 at 3:58:53 PM

the fact the military ranks so high in respect worries me (and yes, I know I use the whole "Field Marshal" thing), armies are a necessary evil, but an evil none the less, they should never be taken for granted and always watched

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#113234: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:01:01 PM

You'd make a terrible American.

Oh really when?
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#113235: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:02:01 PM

good thing I'm British and not a no good jumped up colonial, now if you excuse me I'm going to receive some free medical care and eat some imported Belgian chocolates

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#113236: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:03:06 PM

[up] Don't forget pining after this empire of yours. You know, the one you lost?

edited 25th Feb '16 4:03:17 PM by DrunkenNordmann

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#113237: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:03:06 PM

[up]X4 I think you're being a wee bit paranoid.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:03:42 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#113238: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:05:52 PM

God forbid we respect the people who get shot at in our name. Also teachers are way higher than I expected. I have heard all sorts of stories about terrible teachers, but every teacher I have ever had, even the brutal ones, I am genuinely convinced loved some if not all of the kids. And it's good to see doctors ranked so high, they have a difficult job, face murderous lawsuits if they fuck up, and getting a degree is ludicrously expensive. All and all this whole survey has made me a lot more optimistic about my generation.

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
#113239: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:06:08 PM

I bet you eat pizza with a fork and don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

[down]That was for Fry.

For all your covert China shilling I know you're a good American who eats food correctly.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:07:28 PM 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
#113240: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:06:44 PM

[up] No, why does that matter?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#113241: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:06:48 PM

several generals said they would stage a coup if Corbyn won here, and the army are trained killers, that is something we always have to be wary of, and what did that colonial say... "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" [up][up][up][up]

edited 25th Feb '16 4:07:10 PM by FieldMarshalFry

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wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#113242: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:06:57 PM

I respect the fact that some people are willing to die to protect their country, definitely, although war itself is obviously horrible.

I have heard all sorts of stories about terrible teachers, but every teacher I have ever had, even the brutal ones, I am genuinely convinced loved some if not all of the kids.

This is something that is going to be up to personal experience. I have had teachers I liked less than others, but I don't think I ever really had one that just plain didn't care or wasn't willing to do their job properly.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:08:22 PM by wehrmacht

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#113243: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:07:36 PM

a necessary evil, but an evil none the less

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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
#113244: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:09:06 PM

[up][up][up][up] I'd be at least considering a coup if the man was elected hear. And as a rule if you separate an army from society and consider them freaks because they are "trained killers" you make them more loyal to the army than they are to society.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:12:37 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#113245: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:09:47 PM

[up] Which is why we re-defined our army as "citizens in uniform".

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#113246: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:13:16 PM

Where did that survey come from? Another dimension?

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#113247: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:13:41 PM

Speaking of prices of freedom...

(Raw Story) Rubio plans to steal Trump's nomination during the Republican Convention if Trump can't garner 51% of the Reps in the first round of voting.

I'm pretty sure that's the sort of shit that would make Trump and 40% of the electorate go third party.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#113248: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:14:08 PM

Good

Oh really when?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#113249: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:15:06 PM

It's been not-so-subtly noised about for months that Republicans might aim for a brokered convention if Trump can't land 51% of the delegates, and then agree to lock him out.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#113250: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:15:12 PM

[up][up][up] And rightly so. Trump and his support base would be fully justified in protesting if Rubio used these kinds of anti-democratic dirty tricks to swipe the nomination.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:15:27 PM by DrDougsh


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