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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#119776: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:21:20 PM

Guam gets the "benefit" of their attempts at getting an actual, proper, VA office shut down repeatedly. Mostly by Republicans. I don't think they would be very red.

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#119777: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:33:55 PM

I think I'm just gonna go ahead put this here, since we're talking about D.C., and this, since we've now mentioned Guam. I mean, everybody loves 'em some Last Week Tonight, right? grin

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#119778: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:38:14 PM

People are calling the District of Columbia part of the south? That doesn't really make sense to me.

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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
#119779: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:38:18 PM

How Bernie Sanders Jewish outreach coordinator sparked outrage Essentially she told Bibi to go fuck himself, and she actually used the word fuck in her post on twitter. The fact that Bernie didn't stand by her seems to indicate that not only does he not particularly care about foreign policy, he doesn't even care about "left wing" foreign policy, or at least he doesn't want to pick a fight over Israel right now.

[up] It's South of the Mason Dixon line therefore it is a Southern state.

edited 21st Apr '16 4:39:16 PM by JackOLantern1337

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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#119780: Apr 21st 2016 at 4:49:45 PM

He picked his fight over Israel during the last debate by declaring the Palestinians are actual human persons while respecting Israel's right to exist, which makes him a heretic and blasphemer.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#119781: Apr 21st 2016 at 5:03:11 PM

DC was surrounded by slave states even during the civil war, though Maryland was Union.

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#119782: Apr 21st 2016 at 6:26:34 PM

Jack O Lantern got it right.

Because the South is often thought of as a shithole.

Plus I really would not like to be associated with those backwards idiots in the Deep South.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#119783: Apr 21st 2016 at 6:28:52 PM

The Deep South isn't the entire South, you know. Like, I doubt the area around DC is what they think of when they think of that.

But that also doesn't change geographical location.

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#119784: Apr 21st 2016 at 6:33:31 PM

Sorry, it's just that the idea of getting lumped up with a group of bad eggs pisses me off.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#119785: Apr 21st 2016 at 6:38:32 PM

That'll happen if you're associated with basically anything.

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
#119786: Apr 21st 2016 at 6:41:33 PM

I had two options back in 2012 some small town in Alabama or Baltimore, none of the people I talked with advised going to Alabama because that famous song would have its riff in the tune of something like "Sweet shit hole Alabama", because it was the really bad part of the American bible belt.

edited 21st Apr '16 6:42:37 PM by AngelusNox

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#119787: Apr 21st 2016 at 7:20:59 PM

Joe Biden defends Bernie Sanders's idealism.

“I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think big – we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic,” he added. "C’mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I’m not part of the party that says, ‘Well, we can’t do it.'

edited 21st Apr '16 7:22:35 PM by Demonic_Braeburn

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Hooded Crow
#119788: Apr 21st 2016 at 7:33:02 PM

[up][up] Yeah no, the Bible Belt is a terrible place to live in, if my interaction with various American people is any indication.

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#119789: Apr 21st 2016 at 10:56:32 PM

There's a lot of wretches who seem to think America was made to cater to their particular interpretations of prophecies, and that everyone should submit to Christian moral standards when they themselves only stand for the wrath, destruction and damnation portions.

I can understand why people would not want to be considered part of the South.

Its a place that in the past decided their "right" to own human beings like cattle was important enough to secede over. And then they made every effort to try to make the said human beings as miserable as possible.

It would be like if people beat Hitler's Germany and both let Hitler live and just told him "just don't do it again, Hitler, oh, and you can just run for office again and make whatever anti-Jew laws you want again."

edited 22nd Apr '16 2:16:05 AM by NickTheSwing

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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#119791: Apr 22nd 2016 at 3:00:18 AM

[up]This seems more generic oversea's not specifically the US

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#119792: Apr 22nd 2016 at 3:03:02 AM

[up]specific US link, the fact the former link now applies to the US is disturbing

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#119793: Apr 22nd 2016 at 3:09:32 AM

Latest update:

Local laws and customs section – LGBT travellers may be affected by legislation passed recently in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi

Ahhhh

This seems to be the page in question

edited 22nd Apr '16 3:11:04 AM by 3of4

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#119794: Apr 22nd 2016 at 3:41:32 AM

Mentioned that one one or two pages ago, actually.

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Field Marshal of Cracked
#119795: Apr 22nd 2016 at 3:46:59 AM

was it? honestly, this thread moves so quickly it's near impossible to keep up at times

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#119796: Apr 22nd 2016 at 6:41:45 AM

It would be like if people beat Hitler's Germany and both let Hitler live...

I thought Hitler offed himself?

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#119797: Apr 22nd 2016 at 7:43:38 AM

If he hadn't offed himself - at least the bastard had that courtesy of disposing with himself, unlike the Confederacy's leadership.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#119798: Apr 22nd 2016 at 7:56:38 AM

President Obama on Friday marked the anniversary of the Ottoman Turks’ massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, but once again stopped short of labeling it a genocide.

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flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#119799: Apr 22nd 2016 at 8:05:41 AM

The President sure is a polite man.

edited 22nd Apr '16 8:07:33 AM by flameboy21th

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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
#119800: Apr 22nd 2016 at 8:17:38 AM

And of course the page has an add paid for by the Turks reminding everyone how the Armenians are in bed with Putin. Stay classy Turkey.

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