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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
#121901: May 10th 2016 at 5:48:49 PM

wasn't West Virginia the one where he literally said "don't vote, I've already won"?

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#121902: May 10th 2016 at 5:49:25 PM

I don't mean the British Empire of TODAY. I mean the colonization and imperialism and bigotry and greed and atrocities that yes, we committed too, but I keep seeing the superior attitude that the ~civilised Brits~ are somehow above that.

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
#121903: May 10th 2016 at 5:51:55 PM

well... the ones who would call themselves "civilised" are the public school boys, like Bo Jo the Racist Clown... and they are very pro old school British Empire

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#121904: May 10th 2016 at 6:01:06 PM

Sanders won West Virginia.

Looks like I spoke too soon.

edited 10th May '16 6:01:17 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.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#121905: May 10th 2016 at 6:02:47 PM

Clinton's campaign, which had previously ceased its ad buys in the remaining primary states to focus on the general, is apparently rethinking that strategy lest Sanders win enough of the remaining delegates to force a contested convention. -_-

As for what's wrong with Sanders, it's not just his inability to back up his economic ideas with concrete plans. It's not just his protectionist trade agenda, which is populist catnip. It's not just his dogged insistence on breaking up big banks or reinstating Glass-Steagal, which are nice sound bites but wouldn't fix any of our current problems. It's not just that he's making spurious claims of illegitimacy against Clinton, or tacitly abetting his more virulent supporters in their aping of Republican mudslinging. It's not just that he's settled on a kind of victimization complex towards the primary, where he's only losing because the Democratic Party is against him.

It's all of those things together. I can't match the reputation as a man of intellectual integrity with the actions of the candidate.

edited 10th May '16 6:08:41 PM by Fighteer

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#121907: May 10th 2016 at 6:04:17 PM

Us Europeans sometimes miss when we were in charge and respected globally instead of the US. Most countries see us as a laughing stock and America's underlings nowadays.

edited 10th May '16 6:05:55 PM by Bat178

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#121908: May 10th 2016 at 6:04:59 PM

why don't you support the legalisation of drugs? if they're legalised addiction can be treated as a medical problem instead of a criminal one, it severely damages criminal elements as they can no longer make anywhere near as much money, brings in extra tax revenue, and the previous enforcement policy's have been a complete failure
"Drugs are evil and anyone who uses them must be treated as a murderer lest a drug epidemic occur and destroy everything our society has worked towards." Or something like that.

Justice in America isn't about Stopping A Problem or Rehab.

It's about humiliation and punishment, to make the criminals suffer.

edited 10th May '16 6:06:13 PM by PotatoesRock

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#121910: May 10th 2016 at 6:13:21 PM

Some of us are also sick of the US's influence and political correctness seeping into our pool.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#121911: May 10th 2016 at 6:13:49 PM

The US' political correctness? Now that's a laugh.

Oh really when?
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#121912: May 10th 2016 at 6:18:38 PM

[up][up] Are you talking about those Dutch guys who were in pseudo-black face?

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#121913: May 10th 2016 at 6:19:43 PM

oh yes, look at University culture, in the US they have had a MASSIVE backlash, the stereotypical "frat boy" is all but gone, it's now the extreme social justice warrior, while over here they're all a bunch of drunk wankers, I know that because I am one

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#121914: May 10th 2016 at 6:21:21 PM

Trump just took Nebraska.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
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
#121915: May 10th 2016 at 6:23:44 PM

Trump has already won (and we're already priming the nuclear warheads) the interesting one is Hillary/Sanders

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#121916: May 10th 2016 at 6:24:41 PM

Fry, I can't tell if you're joking or serious. The frat boy is still alive and well.

[up][up] To the surprise of no one, because he's the only one left in the race.

edited 10th May '16 6:25:15 PM by AceofSpades

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
#121917: May 10th 2016 at 6:29:34 PM

really? from what I've seen they're a dying breed

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#121918: May 10th 2016 at 6:31:48 PM

Yeah, no. They're not going away anytime soon and the SJWs are pretty much non existent. They're a select few who have deliberately been blown out of proportion by the right to discredit the idea of racial and social equality

Oh really when?
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#121919: May 10th 2016 at 6:34:59 PM

Meanwhile, in local news...

The two main streets in town (North/South and East/West) are being torn up and milled down, in preparation for re-paving, whether they really needed it or not. (Hint: they didn't.) Why, you ask? Because it's an election year, said streets are also numbered State Routes, and our State Representative doesn't want us to forget about him and all the good work he's doing. So he reminds us by making our daily commuting as inconvenient as possible... for about a month (so far.)

edited 10th May '16 6:36:11 PM by pwiegle

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#121920: May 10th 2016 at 6:43:25 PM

Even if the "SJ Ws" (and I hate that term because it's deliberately derogatory and thrown at anyone who shows hints of giving a fuck and is used mainly by folks on the right such as anti-feminists to protest that they can't have anything fun anymore) are on the rise, the frat boy is still a thing that exists. Hell, Seth Rogan is releasing a sequel to his movie about frat boys, and he's using the frat boy to battle sorority girls.

(Sidebar, I'd say it's not the media on the right so much as the media in general that's blowing it up, and even then not very much because a few articles and getting on the news once or twice doesn't seem like a situation "blowing up" to me. They were reporting on recent events that seemed notable and while it came off as obnoxious it didn't seem like most of the articles I read were negative.)

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#121921: May 10th 2016 at 6:50:41 PM

I don't know about social justice warriors being rare, I encounter them a lot on the internet, or those espousing some of their views. Then again I hang around on Tumblr and TV tropes so maybe the sample is a bit biased.

Also I'm surprised PC isn't more of a thing in Europe, you guys are more into restricting speech than us, not that that''s a problem. Also you guys are kind of leftwing heaven, so I assumed you were not only in to PC, but that you were the ones who invented it and spread it over to our side of the pond.[lol]

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#121922: May 10th 2016 at 6:55:16 PM

[up] Well, considering some of the first non-native Americans were European Puritans we shipped over there because we were getting sick of them...

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#121923: May 10th 2016 at 6:56:21 PM

[up][up] Of course you would find SJW on the Internet.

You can a living dodo bird on the Internet.

Also it's laughable that you think Europe is some liberal wetdream.

edited 10th May '16 6:56:49 PM by NoName999

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Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#121924: May 10th 2016 at 6:58:58 PM

I've seen articles on Cracked.com that accuse pretty much anything they can of being racist/sexist/homophobic and stuff that kinda veer into the SJW mindset.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#121925: May 10th 2016 at 6:59:02 PM

Much of Europe took a big rightward lurch recently. Keep in mind, the US is really right wing plus whatever the hell the Tea Party is, since they certainly aren't conservative. For example, Canadian politics are pretty centrist by most standards, and in many ways, the entire mainstream American political establishment is to the right of the entire Canadian political establishment.

Yeah, and the SJW thing really isn't a major movement. Unless you expand it to cover anti-racism movements, anti-sexism movements and so on, which are kind of important to have.

edited 10th May '16 7:00:11 PM by Zendervai


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