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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Even if Trump won the election (which he probably won't but hey, lots of surprises this cycle), panic is counter-productive. Join the local resistance movement against his safe-city crackdown, grab a pack of smokes, start practicing Spanish, and take up cycling. In fact, start doing those last two now, they're kind of fun.
edited 22nd Mar '16 9:08:28 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."Donald Trump tonight tweeted and then quickly deleted a message that appeared to be threatening Ted Cruz‘s wife.
Ted Cruz responds.
Hmm, the association of Mormonism with the hard-right is unfortunate. Maybe that'll change in the future, you do see more coverage lately of leftie Mormons in the press even though they're the minority.
It's kind of hard for them not to be because Mormon doctrine promotes a very conservative set of societal values. You know, the whole shtick of a "traditional" family, disapproval of homosexuality and overt sexuality in general, etc. This goes so far that they're actively discouraged from swearing and aren't even allowed to smoke or drink coffee (though caffeine in general doesn't seem to be forbidden because most mormons i know were perfectly fine with drinking soda). In that sense it's unsurprising that they'd mostly flock towards republican candidates; a lot of them are basically WASP's with a few more peculiarities.
edited 22nd Mar '16 9:40:27 PM by wehrmacht
Ted Cruz, being an enormous asshole, responded to Brussels by proclaiming that the US should "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods
". The NYC police commissioner responds by telling Cruz to fuck off.
During an interview that aired on CNN, Mr Cruz bashed New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for calling off surveillance of the city's Muslim communities, even though that surveillance failed to surface a single lead for police.
"We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized," Mr Cruz said in response to the attacks in Belgium. "We need to secure the southern border to prevent terrorist infiltration. And we need to execute a coherent campaign to utterly destroy Isis."
...
But Mr Cruz suggested that the methods used to monitor Muslims in the New York area — like planting informants in mosques and infiltrating Muslim student groups — should be considered across the country.
New York Police Commission Bill Bratton slammed Mr Cruz for his comments on Muslims, saying he took "great offense" from them.
"The statements he made today is why he's not going to become president of this country," Mr Bratton said. "We don't need a president that doesn't respect the values that form the foundation of this country."
In 2014, the New York Police Department acknowledged that such surveillance did not lead to any terror investigations. Police weren't able to find a single lead.
"I never made a lead from rhetoric that came from a Demographics report, and I'm here since 2006," said NYPD Assistant Chief Thomas Gulati in an Associated Press report. The Demographics Unit was the secret team that spied on Muslims communities in the city.
Mayor de Blasio ended the surveillance after he took office in 2014. Earlier this year, the NYPD settled two cases related to the surveillance.
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I can attest to that. My girlfriend comes from an LDS/Mormon family and generally went Republican. One of their family friends was also my first exposure to the knee jerk, other side is auto bad attitude I despise in politics.
I was also with them, living in California at the time the anti gay marriage proposition 13 was making the rounds when someone from their church called me specifically (as in asked for me by name) to get me to vote for it (or against it, I legitimately forget which way was anti-gay marriage). While not gay myself, that has become an issue I feel strongly about (perhaps ironically due to agreeing with my generally conservative brother that if they aren't harming anyone then who cares) that all I did was assure them I knew how I was going to vote. They assumed I meant I'd vote their way and left it at that.
On a completely unrelated note, I think something just clicked for me. My above mentioned brother is generally conservative, to the point he's referred to socialism as per Bernie Sanders "unconstitutional." Whether it actually is or not isn't important to my personal epiphany though. I just realized that one reason he likely leans conservative is because he's a big believer in individual rights and the Republican party, as proponents of small government (in theory if not in fact) would be a natural attraction vs the big government oriented Democrats, or would oppose socialism. They focus on making the group more important than the individual.
Not sure how accurate my assessment is, but I can see how it'd fit his logic.
edited 22nd Mar '16 10:34:20 PM by sgamer82
The media is calling it Western Tuesday.
I guess they realized the word super would have no meaning, if every Tuesday with primary was super.
The GOP have primaries in Arizona, Utah, and the American Samoa.
The Dems have primaries in Arizona, Utah, and Idaho.
edited 22nd Mar '16 10:54:59 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Only 3 states tonight, Arizona, Utah, Idaho. Idaho is a caucus, so we probably won't have results there until the morning.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Not sure how accurate my assessment is, but I can see how it'd fit his logic.
Hmm, your brother sounds like libertarian-leaning conservative.
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
I think progressives should use these kinds of arguments more. You saw these kind of arguments with the New Left, but it seems like progressives have largely ignored the importance of cronyism and instead focused on regulation and taxation. The latter isn't invalid, but to me the former seems more likely to win debates than the typical approach. At least, maybe penetrate the deadlock.
Likewise, I'd argue libertarians should ally with the Left, not the Right. That ship sailed long ago, of course.
But the appeals of Republicans towards the free market is almost entirely superficial, in reality they're just as "big government" if not more. And they don't have a good track record on civil liberties.
Of course, neither of those will probably ever happen. :/
If memory serves, some more cannabis initatives are on ballot in several states during the general election. Some folks wonder how it will affect these states' presidential ballot.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman@Ted Cruz law enforcement comments: well, it's a good idea to try and prevent radicalisation, but it's more of a social services thing than a "let's go all State Sec on them". That is not to say that law enforcement doesn't have its place in preventing terrorism, but, well, if you wanna prevent a guy from going "fuk da system imma bomb someone" you gotta give him psychological advice, not a day in the station.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.

Oddly enough, Mormons apparently dislike Trump so much that polls so that Utah would go for Sanders or Clinton in the general. Utah hasn't voted Democrat since 1964.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35877414
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