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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#146801: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:14:56 PM

[up][lol]

But if Hillary had a star, you wouldn't want some yahoo destroying that, would you?

edited 27th Oct '16 3:15:44 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#146802: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:21:35 PM

He has a STAR!?!? They just hand those out to anyone these days I guess...

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#146803: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:26:38 PM

[up][up]Condemn the property damage itself, but that doesn't mean you have to sympathize with the person in question.

edited 27th Oct '16 3:27:40 PM by LSBK

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#146804: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:28:54 PM

Apparently the guy up and stripped the name off the star block kinda dealie and plans to auction it off and donate the money to charities for women who have been sexually assaulted.

Oh really when?
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#146805: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:33:04 PM

[up][up]Yeah.

[up]That's cool, but is it legal to sell someone else's star?

The questions this election has made me ask. >.>

Do not obey in advance.
chartoc Since: Apr, 2010
#146806: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:34:33 PM

[up]I don't think it is. it is stolen property.

edited 27th Oct '16 3:34:40 PM by chartoc

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#146807: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:46:04 PM

Being honest, I'm in full support of the vandalism. Nobody was hurt, and a serial rapist and bigot doesn't deserve that star.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#146808: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:46:37 PM

Oh, great. Now he's probably going to get sued by Trump.

Does anything ever come of his lawsuits?

Do not obey in advance.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#146809: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:49:19 PM

Trump has no grounds to sue him. The star is city property, buddy only has to worry about whatever fine and community service he gets for vandalism.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#146810: Oct 27th 2016 at 3:52:07 PM

I mean, do people actually care about those stars? I'm sure Trump does and will, but I doubt the average person does.

Of course, he'll probably use it as an example of "typical lawlessness of Hillary supporters" or something, and things like that is why stuff like this isn't productive. It doesn't really accomplish anything.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#146813: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:01:43 PM

Sent in my absentee ballot over the weekend. Democrat across the board, though I didn't vote for any municipal stuff. Didn't seem right, since I no longer live in Washington state.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#146815: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:23:03 PM

[up]x4 — Sorry, but a Horocrux would imply that Donald Trump actually has a soul, and that he's smart enough to know what to do with it...

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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#146816: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:23:23 PM

The latest doozy from Trump:

“And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for? What are we having it for?”

I feel so fucking vindicated right now. Months ago I told a friend that Trump would say exactly this... if he was elected. Turns out I didn't even need to wait that long.

edited 27th Oct '16 4:24:15 PM by Eschaton

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#146818: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:41:34 PM

Oh for fuck's sake, how did they not commit some sort of felony? This is just going to embolden those terrorist bastards.

And regarding Trump's latest statement on how he should just be awarded the Oval Office: yikes.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#146819: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:44:57 PM

[up] So the US will become a richer North Korea if he wins, with a president for life and presumably his sons taking control when he dies. Lovely.

edited 27th Oct '16 4:45:25 PM by Bat178

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#146820: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:47:05 PM

Assuming the US Marshals or the Secret Service don't drag him out in cuffs when he finally crosses a line.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#146821: Oct 27th 2016 at 4:57:31 PM

So an acquaintance I used to play tabletop games with wrote this article describing a sort of political map with a bit more nuance than the standard left/right binary. I actually find it pretty compelling (up until the bolded header "Lower Leftism" when he starts raving about the virtues of anarchism, which I'm less than a fan of), and I'm curious what you guys think.

Of the map. Not so much of the anarchy wonk.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#146822: Oct 27th 2016 at 5:02:43 PM

Two-axis political spectrums (with the two axes being "level of government control" from authoritarian to anarchy and "level of economic freedom" from laissez faire to communism) are nothing new, that guy in particularly just seems to have adjusted what he considers the zero-line of both axes in order to make his political statement of choice ("there's basically no difference between Democrats and Republicans, we should all be anarchists instead").

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#146823: Oct 27th 2016 at 5:05:07 PM

Re: Y'all Quaeda:

Technically, all they did was stage a sit-in on a piece of government property that wasn't even in use at the time. The fact that they were all armed carried an implicit threat, but that's not actually a crime. The most you could get them for is trespassing.

edited 27th Oct '16 5:06:35 PM by RavenWilder

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#146824: Oct 27th 2016 at 5:09:36 PM

^^ Ah. Guess the two-axes map is just a more common thing that I hadn't happened to encounter before. Nevermind, then.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#146825: Oct 27th 2016 at 5:17:02 PM

I am disappointed by the lack of an actual map. I was expecting a geographical map with the four points mapped onto them like you have Republican or Democrat leanings mapped onto a physical maps. So you'd seen which states are anarch-capitalist, which are anarch-communist, which are authoritarian communist and which are authoritarian capitalist.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

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