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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Basically the political soil of the united states can be better compared to a modless night at the 4chan image board in the midst of a doxxing controversy than an actual ideological battleground.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes????????????
Delaware is Southern now?
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.He won a Nobel Peace Prize, to be precise. Then gave an acceptance speech about why we need to stay at war.
edited 1st Mar '16 1:30:25 PM by TobiasDrake
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It's considered part of the South: http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/usa-maps/united-states-regional-maps.html
edited 1st Mar '16 1:30:37 PM by Bat178
If it helps, he was just as confused as anyone else by the award.
And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has generated. (Laughter.) In part, this is because I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the world stage. Compared to some of the giants of history who've received this prize — Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela — my accomplishments are slight. And then there are the men and women around the world who have been jailed and beaten in the pursuit of justice; those who toil in humanitarian organizations to relieve suffering; the unrecognized millions whose quiet acts of courage and compassion inspire even the most hardened cynics. I cannot argue with those who find these men and women — some known, some obscure to all but those they help — to be far more deserving of this honor than I.
But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is winding down. The other is a conflict that America did not seek; one in which we are joined by 42 other countries — including Norway — in an effort to defend ourselves and all nations from further attacks.
Fair enough for me. America needed diplomacy after Bush and it got us where we are now, from making peace with Cuba, preventing a nuclear Iran, etc. If Obama manages to prevent a nuclear North Korea, he'll be hands down one of the best foreign policy presidents of all time (alongside domestic, provided the ACA doesn't get scrapped).
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ISIS and Ukraine aren't his fault anyway.
edited 1st Mar '16 1:36:26 PM by Shawnsummer7
I would have to do research on non-US conservatism before I come up with a suitable answer. The only other conservatism I'm personally acquainted with is Russian, and anyone who knows me would say I oppose both branches of that(Putinist conservative and opposition conservative that masquerades as "liberal").
Each change needs to be measured in context. But the US is so behind the entire first world(and some other places, like Russia, as surprising as it is for me) on so many things, change is alarmingly necessary.
I don't know what that common goal would be, but it wouldn't be mine. Unless there exists a conservative who opposes abortion restrictions, privacy invasion, corporate welfare, tax cuts, warhawk foreign policy, religious freedom to oppress, and copyright in general, and supports free healthcare, better job conditions(things like guaranteed paid leave, which we fucking have but USA doesn't) and unemployment support, minority rights, women rights, gun control, and sexual freedom. And not just in lip service, as conservative Democrats often do, but in practice. But the ultimate question is how would someone like that be a US conservative to begin with?
edited 1st Mar '16 1:56:47 PM by Luminosity
You're ignoring cases where a liberal and a conservitive might agree on something and agree to disagree on others for the sake of making progress on the agreed-on thing, either because the issue is bipartisan or is one that person is willing to break ranks with their party on. Unfortunately, bipartisanship is darn near a dirty word to too many people right now and especially on the Tea Party side, any deviation from the party ranks makes you a target.
But the main thing is that, being sane and reasonable means they're capable of compromising. Unlike the current batch who refuse to do anything.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswWell, unless they don't really work for him. See the page quote for Bodyguard Betrayal.
More or less. Very few people vote on or even learn policy, a lot of it is based on things like how much someone likes a candidate, how honest or genuine they are, (why anyone expects a lawyer or politician to be honest or genuine without holding their feet to the fire I can't fathom, but I guess they live in a world on the other end of the cynicism-idealism spectrum) how affable the candidate is, political memes spread by their friends, family, and media of choice, peer pressure/group dynamics, the political strawman they've built of the other side, and who will strick it to those people more, etc. Hell, a political study found that people will vote for who they think is going to win just so they can have the feeling of the thrill of victory.
Obama would have been a very natural fit as a Conservative up until the Gingrich takeover in the mid 90s, and even after that would have been entirely unremarkable as, say, a Northeast or West Coast Republican. It's not since the invasion of Iraq and the Bush administration coming to rely mostly on hardcore religious conservatives as their main base of support that Obama wouldn't fit at all in the Republican party. In most of the first world he'd be an unremarkable moderate conservative.
As for the discussion of change from the prior page and accepting it as inevitable, sadly I think that one the biggest problems with general attitudes in the US is the refusal to accept change, and particularly the attitude that somehow the world owes it to you to stay the as what you've experienced and known. It's, in my opinion, one of the worst aspects of the It's All About Me attitude that many people have.
edited 1st Mar '16 2:19:00 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |In unsurprising news, the GOP continues to refuse to do their f*cking job.
Obama Makes Case to G.O.P. Senators to Fill Supreme Court Seat
Mr. Grassley fired back: “It’s another day and another tantrum from the minority leader. But it doesn’t matter how much he jumps up and down and stomps his feet, we aren’t going to let the far left get away with denying the American people the opportunity to be heard.”
Yeah, I hope the American people "are heard" by firing you assholes.
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And despite the South being the oldest part of the country, having 6 of the 13 original colonies and the very first state (Delaware), they appear to have gone senile, as they truly believe Trump is a great candidate. Then again, the Northeast has also gone senile as they gave us Trump in the first place.