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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#131001: Jul 19th 2016 at 12:52:23 PM

When fighting a volunteer army, you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that you're not killing anyone who didn't choose to put their life at risk for the sake of their government.

Actually you're probably killing a whole lot of members of the lower class who joined up for pay and education, hoping that they'd never actually have to shoot anybody.

Once the shooting starts, the only thing you can do is shoot back. Not worry about how happy the people shooting at you are to be shooting at you.

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#131002: Jul 19th 2016 at 1:02:30 PM

[up][up][up]That really isn't a good approach for statistics in general, especially when it comes to probability. That 538 has been among the most accurate helps lend it more credibility versus the 24 hour news network talking heads, sure, but the favorites don't always win and just because something has been predictive up to now doesn't mean it's either logical/rational or will be predictive going forward (for a counter-example, the old Redskins Rule for presidential elections which broke down soon after it was formulated).

edited 19th Jul '16 1:04:45 PM by megarockman

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Matues Since: Sep, 2011
#131003: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:32:41 PM

So has anyone mentioned this:

RNC Spox Invokes Twilight Sparkle From My Little Pony To Dismiss Melania Plagiarism

To continue this years trend of incredible surrealism.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#131004: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:42:56 PM

Probably the most relevant thing to come out of the plagarisim thing - the guy in the article was one of W's speech writers and no competent team of speech writers would have let that pass. Implication: If ti was accidental, Trump does not have competent speech writers.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#131005: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:43:01 PM

Now i feel disappointed in myself for not knowing what episode that quote is from. I mean, i left hardcore bronyism behind a few years ago but i still catch every new episode.

Is it the one where they go into dream-battle with Luna?

Matues Since: Sep, 2011
#131006: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:50:22 PM

[up][up]

How does one accidentally replicate 60% of another speech?

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#131007: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:50:46 PM

wild mass guessMaybe the speechwriter is trying to sabotage Trump from withinwild mass guess

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#131009: Jul 19th 2016 at 2:55:42 PM

Maybe they're just trying to distract from all the horrible bloodthirsty things that were said at this convention, by giving us this blatant lighthouse of ridiculouslness to focus on?

I mean, holy shit, remove ROE?

But, bringing Twilight Sparkle in...

I FEEL SO NOSTALGIC.

WHEN WILL THERE BE A NEW SHOW THAT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE MLP DID?

I mean, there's Steven Universe, but it's coming out way too slowly! And the episodes are too short!

More to the point, it's hilarious that they bring MLP, since I don't think there's anything more antithetical to Republican thought than MLP's Diversity Is Strength systematically hammered aesop. This show would be a much more appropriate reference for, say, Justin Trudeau.

I love that guy so much.

edited 19th Jul '16 2:56:31 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#131010: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:05:37 PM

Watching the nominating process right now. Sounds so out of touch....

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#131011: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:07:31 PM

[up]Got a link? I'd like to watch it too, but I've got no idea where it is.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#131013: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:15:10 PM

[up][up][up]You'd be surprised. The Sad Puppies (the alt-right of Sci-Fi/Fantasy literature random) had one of the episodes on their Hugo Award nomination list this year. (Though it was one where the main antagonist was an autocrat trying to force equality on a settlement by taking away their cutie marks.)

Was not a joke nomination either (though I suspect the Rabbid Puppies, their meaner offshoot, took it that way and it was really their slate that tore through the nomination list...the Sads were more moderately behaved this year than last.)

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#131014: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:18:33 PM

Someone in the Arizona delegation is waving an old Mc Cain sign.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#131015: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:20:51 PM

"WE WANT TRUMP! WE WANT TRUMP! WE WANT TRUMP!"

This is just fricking depressing...

Also, a black woman is actually speaking in favor of Trump. A black woman. AKA, a minority. The very kind of person that the GOP would like to imagine doesn't exist. Mind blown.

edited 19th Jul '16 3:22:48 PM by kkhohoho

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#131016: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:31:08 PM

[up]I never got that thinking like this. There are millions of black, Asians, and all minority groups in this country, not to mention a slim a majority of women. Him having a following from each group makes perfect sense, statistically speaking.

People aren't a hive-mind and their are stupid people of all stripes.

edited 19th Jul '16 3:31:45 PM by LSBK

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#131018: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:36:13 PM

So apparently the RNC abandoned any pretence of democracy by overruling the DC delegation's voting choice.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#131019: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:41:09 PM

[up]Also not surprising, Trump world is speach in the typical "But I wasnt speaking about all black/lating/gay, dosent it?" as far they can tell if they are honest citizen(really the right love saying this) them everything will be ALL RIGHT.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#131020: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:50:31 PM

It gives me nausea. How can he talk about honest citizens with a straight face?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#131021: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:53:15 PM

You'd be surprised how bigoted minorities can be. A lot of people in the Chinese community I grew up in are Republican voters despite having once been poor immigrants benefiting from government programs, because the one thing they hate even more than white people is the other races. Same with how a lot of British BME people actually voted Leave, because they think they're of a different, better stock than those *other* immigrants (particularly the Eastern Europeans). And contrary to stereotypes about the "straight white cishet male" demographic, most of the really overt misogyny and homophobia I've encountered in person comes from nonwhite immigrants from countries with less enlightened views on women, including my own relatives.

Which is why I hate this whole idea that "minorities can't be racist", the idea that downtrodden minorities are bastions of progressive views due to their experiences, or any other form of the aforementioned "straight white cishet male" box that ignores the fact that a lot of various forms of bigotry come from people who don't fit into that narrow box. Sometimes the most disenfranchised groups can be incredibly hateful in their own ways and their identities shouldn't be allowed as a Freudian Excuse.

Trump's rhetoric might be really appealing to racist women, Islamophobic gays, homophobic blacks, and misogynistic Hispanics, and so on. Actually from a lot of what I've read, a large percentage of the Latino population has values more in line with the GOP than the Democrats due to their Catholic faith. It's just that the GOP is so virulently racist and anti-immigration that they vote the other way instead. Hate can be a powerful motivator.

edited 19th Jul '16 4:54:49 PM by AlleyOop

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#131022: Jul 19th 2016 at 3:59:16 PM

Case in point, Ted Cruz is of Cuban ancestry and his father a refugee. And the Irish used to be as badly discriminated against as blacks a century ago.

edited 19th Jul '16 4:00:37 PM by Elle

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#131023: Jul 19th 2016 at 4:00:50 PM

[up]But voting Republican is standard for Cubans, so it's a bit different.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#131025: Jul 19th 2016 at 4:13:12 PM

Minorities voting for the Republicans is nothing new. Typically they're people that have a hard on for conservative economics and have a comfortable enough position in society that they don't care about discrimination.


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