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Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#128376: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:17:03 AM

[up]x5 Welcome to Poe country.

edited 1st Jul '16 11:18:47 AM by Artificius

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128378: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:17:40 AM

We can't stop here!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#128379: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:18:16 AM

Where do people in the US get this idea that Liberals are authoritarian and Conservatives are anarchists?!?!
Because they equate liberal with the "oppressive" nanny state that takes your money by force and gives it to the undeserving without your consent, and conservative with libertarian "the government stats out of my way and lets me be awesome".

edited 1st Jul '16 11:18:49 AM by NativeJovian

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
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Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#128381: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:23:04 AM

Sometimes it's remarkably empty-headed, too. An otherwise intelligent person could say that "Hillary is a Communist" in all seriousness. I pointed out that it's a poor sort of Communist who serves on the board of Wal-mart and "represented Wall street" as a senator from New York, and his justification was that Communists were oppressive.

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#128382: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:23:10 AM

It wouldn't be the first time he's suggested that Mexico is an enemy of the US. He's said more than once that they're sending all those illegal immigrants and "murderers and rapists" over here on purpose to destabilize us.

Oh really when?
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#128383: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:28:21 AM

That stupid plane comment undermines one of his biggest talking points. If the Mexicans are sending war-planes at us, what is an expensive, time-consuming wall going to accomplish?

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#128384: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:29:48 AM

@ desdendelle: What Mexican Air Force? smile I guess they imagine Mexico attacking them with their top-line force of....six F-5s? [lol]

edited 1st Jul '16 11:30:42 AM by Greenmantle

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#128385: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:30:07 AM

[up][up]You don't know how tall this thing is gonna be

edited 1st Jul '16 11:30:23 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128386: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:33:55 AM

Mexico made a point of having a shit military so that the US wouldn't send them fight in Cold War bullshit. It worked.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#128387: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:34:53 AM

It's gonna be huge, this wall! So huge! It's gonna reach space its so huge! It's gonna be a really good, really big wall.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#128389: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:38:03 AM

[up]For tiny hands, I guarantee it.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#128390: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:38:44 AM

Little mutant sausage fingers

We're sure Trump isn't an alien, right?

edited 1st Jul '16 11:38:59 AM by AdricDePsycho

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#128391: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:41:36 AM

I mean, I could see an alien civilization sending Trump into exile...

edited 1st Jul '16 11:41:58 AM by Rationalinsanity

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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
#128393: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:44:30 AM

No intelligent life form capable of interstellar flight would produce something like Trump.

Inter arma enim silent leges
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#128394: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:44:50 AM

I'm gonna miss her on the Daily Show

Oh really when?
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#128395: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:45:40 AM

Trump is probably some kind of alien experiment that escaped.

That or we're in a Robot Chicken sketch and it's the same aliens who tried to conquer Earth with a white Michael Jackson.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#128396: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:46:06 AM

Are we sure that Trump isn't joking when he made the warplane comment? That sounds nuts even for him.

As for the "Liberal=Authoritarian" and "Conservative=Libertarian" idea: Which party is pro or anti-establishment depends on which party runs the establishment. Personally, as a rather pro-state conservative, it annoys me. I like the state, I simply wish for it to do its job rather than other things (from a self-deprecating perspective: "I like the government when it does what I want it to").

But, to sum it up, Ayn Rand and Anarcho-Capitalist influences are getting thrown in with the rest of the right and are gaining more traction. These ideologies essentially go the opposite direction of traditional anarchism and liberalism. The way they see it, public property, wealth redistribution, and taxation are theft legitimized and carried out by the establishment. Therefore, the solution is to limit the power of the establishment in order to secure a more individualist future.

Leviticus 19:34
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#128397: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:52:39 AM

Vanessa Williams? Doesn't she play tennis?note 

Keep Rolling On
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#128398: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:54:10 AM

That's Venus Williams.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#128399: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:54:56 AM

Vanessa Williams was that Miss America contestant, right?

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