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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#128351: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:27:21 AM

Fucking hell Republicans

Oh really when?
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#128352: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:29:32 AM

Heh, woke up to conservative radio hosts blaring "Dems voted against Zika measures, proving they don't care about minorities and the poor."

It's a small win all around for them. They aren't keen on a vaccine anyway in the same vein as the HPV vaccine, but if it passed they would get their bullshit additions. Since it didn't (and they knew it likely wouldn't) they get a juicy propaganda piece.

I will never understand the hateboner they have for the clean water/superfund acts. People around me living in communities that have been devastated by industrial pollution and chemical leaks are going around marching with teabaggers and rambling on about wanting it struck down. o_O

edited 1st Jul '16 3:35:15 AM by carbon-mantis

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#128354: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:38:25 AM

I will never understand the hateboner they have for the clean water/superfund acts.

Money and hatred of regulations.

Oh really when?
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128355: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:50:44 AM

Yeah, but this is very petty. Like, Captain Planet villain level of petty.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#128356: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:51:55 AM

It really is. Honestly I was a little surprised, usually they're not this petty.

Oh really when?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#128357: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:28:52 AM

[up][up], [up] Oh they've being rational alright, it's just that, facing will radically changing their policies to resolve an existential demographic and forcing a political crisis (by obstructing no matter what) that could potentially be the end of democracy in America, the GOP has chosen the latter. I would have hoped that he rise of Trump would have disagree them from that path, but that is seemingly not the case.

edited 1st Jul '16 5:29:31 AM by CaptainCapsase

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128358: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:02:27 AM

Winter is coming...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#128359: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:24:04 AM

You mean it isn't already (metaphorically) here?

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128360: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:27:04 AM

President takes office in January 20th at noon.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#128361: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:19:22 AM

Normally I would commend someone for standing up for what they believe in, but the Republicans have slid into Black-and-White Insanity where they have absolutely no idea what black or white even are. They have no coherent policies, plans, ideologies beyond "Our constituents are the companies that bribe us." They're perfectly willing to destroy the US so that they can continue to get their precious bribes. It's even more pathetic when the bribes are absurdly tiny. Like that one guy the NRA bought for a couple hundred dollars. When they're attempting to block something 90% of the country want, they are actively working against the people.

It doesn't help that they keep trying to pull the "it's for your own good" when it most certainly isn't.

I genuinely don't understand how these people function because the cognitive dissonance must be massive.

edited 1st Jul '16 8:25:10 AM by Zendervai

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#128362: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:31:34 AM

Some more local flavor for a change of pace. For one's definition of "local", anyway.

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#128363: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:32:40 AM

I wish it was just bribe money motivating the GOP. But when I see provisions added to the Zika bill like "Allow the flying of the Confederate flag in cemetaries" or "Cut funding to women's contraceptives", these do not strike me as corporate interests. The GOP didn't do that in order to rake in some sweet, sweet bribe money from the Screw Women And Minorities Corporation.

There is hate festering in our political system, lurking behind a mask of greed. The GOP wants you to believe they're just paid shills. It's a pleasant alternative. Whether it's "just a joke" or "political corruption" or "no one would really believe that", hate has a wide variety of masks it wears to prey on skepticism.

Greatest trick the devil ever pulled, and all that.

edited 1st Jul '16 8:37:21 AM by TobiasDrake

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#128364: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:43:12 AM

Yeah, some people really just are evil fanatics.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#128365: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:53:55 AM

The GOP is sometimes so cartoonishly evil that it defies all logic.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#128366: Jul 1st 2016 at 8:58:44 AM

[up] Oh it's very easy to understand how the GOP became what it is for anyone that's even an amateur student of history. This is something the party leadership knew would happen one day if they kept using racism to propel themselves into power.

edited 1st Jul '16 9:01:37 AM by CaptainCapsase

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#128367: Jul 1st 2016 at 10:57:41 AM

A leading Trump subreddit is in the middle of infighting over infiltration by white supremacists.

I'm surprised there aren't screenshots in the article claiming that the white supremacists in question are "social justice warriors" false flags. However, this would probably warrant a "This is what Trump supporters/white supremacists/(wannabe) channers actually believe" disclaimer.

edited 1st Jul '16 10:57:50 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#128370: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:03:04 AM

Top Minds of Reddit are at it again I see.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128371: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:05:55 AM

OMG is that for real or a parody?!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#128372: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:07:22 AM

[up]x5 White Supremacists need to "infiltrate" r/Trump??

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#128373: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:12:39 AM

/r/TopMindsOfReddit is a parody sub. Or rather, it's a sub where they link to threads on other subs in order to make fun of them for being insane.

edited 1st Jul '16 11:13:59 AM by NativeJovian

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#128374: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:16:04 AM

Looks to me like a satire/snark subreddit.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128375: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:16:42 AM

"ISIS is Liberal".

Where do people in the US get this idea that Liberals are authoritarian and Conservatives are anarchists?!?!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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