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Lost in Space
#165176: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:18:36 AM

Wanting the system to burn as punishment for its evil is exactly what got us #BernieOrBust and #NeverHillary and handed the election to Trump.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165177: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:19:38 AM

I'm not a fan of accelerationism either.

Disgusted, but not surprised
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#165178: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:24:24 AM

I'm not an accelerationist — I'd actually classify my opinion more as fatalism. America was never great, is not great, and will never great, and lacks the capacity to ever be great because we as a people, civilization, and nation are so rotten, corrupt, selfish, bigoted, and stupid that for us to be great, we would first have to stop being Americans.

"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."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165179: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:26:53 AM

[up] America is powerful. But power and greatness are not the same thing, depending on how you define greatness.

We've got some serious issues of the soul to work out.

At the very least, we need to re-define the American Dream.

edited 4th Jan '17 8:28:51 AM by M84

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Lost in Space
#165180: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:30:22 AM

America is just people. Like everywhere else, with good ones, bad ones, and indifferent ones. The idea that we are somehow great, or exceptional, by definition, is what's so toxic.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#165182: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:33:21 AM

[up][up][up][up]Please stop with the self pity and fatalism, as someone who is in country with the worst inflation on the world(yeah) and suffer year under a trump-like president(from the left! not less) I can said you are less bad that you belive.

That be said, America have a strong case of denilism in front of easy answer and need of vindication which let to trump, let see how the country is going to answr when he self destruct(because he will)

edited 4th Jan '17 8:34:31 AM by unknowing

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165183: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:34:26 AM

[up] I do feel kind of guilty for sometimes thinking "Okay things are bad, but not Venezuela bad. Yet."

edited 4th Jan '17 8:34:53 AM by M84

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#165184: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:39:42 AM

[up]Im feeling depress everything I think of trump because is pretty much "I have the feeling of deja vu" is like slasher movie were they manage to repeat the plot and you are caught unaware of that until the middle of the movie and feel rip off.

My only prediction is that Trump is going to self destruct by saying rdiculous shit, since it dosent have the "outsider" status anymore, if the Dems kept united they could give him a punch or two.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165185: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:42:18 AM

[up] Dems...united...hah! And I say this as a registered Democrat.

We practically embody We ARE Struggling Together.

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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
#165186: Jan 4th 2017 at 8:46:02 AM

I suppose you in fact could crunch the numbers on how much of Sanders' or Stein's supporters were complete newbies to the political cycle.

I suppose having your local opposition basically be a bunch of underlings in the shadows of some icons (who don't even seem to be all that informed) tends to give you a better shot at seeing the red flags.

Why Trump's vow to prevent North Korea from testing ICBMs won't work.

Speaking of Democrat disunity, a relevant comic.

EDIT:

edited 4th Jan '17 9:38:11 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#165187: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:03:28 AM

Nationalism! Unilateralism! Materialism! Welcome maxims for those with no faith - without guiding principles of their own. Give yourself up to the whole. No need to better yourself - you're American! You're number one!"

Is there a Japanese idiom equivalent to "People who live in glass houses..."? Because someone should tell that Kojima with respect to his country.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#165188: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:18:18 AM

I know the dems are strugling but one have to understand the republican arent any better in that: they disappear as party and their are instead the donald trump fan club(I fan, I refuse to see those who vote for him as voterbase, they are a fandumb) he will hurt himself with is tweets(is already happing actually) and soon they will be a breaking point.

problem is....well, yeah the country is going to suffer because of it, my biggest fear is the infantilization of politic were people just shurg what Trump said and asume is the best because he is so good, the same happen here and let to this shitstorm in venezuela, what happen in North carolina is a good sign of that.

And by the way, you can expect the rep party to become more deranged and outside of reallity, is going to happen.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
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
#165189: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:23:00 AM

[up][up]I don't think he actually wrote for Revengeance.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#165190: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:23:39 AM

[up][up][up] I don't think Kojima was involved much with Revengeance.

[up] Ah, beat me to it, sneaky cyborg [nja].

edited 4th Jan '17 10:24:22 AM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#165191: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:34:41 AM

Democrats can't get along because their only defining quality is "Not Being Republicans"

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#165192: Jan 4th 2017 at 10:36:33 AM

And that was true even when they were the conservative party.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#165193: Jan 4th 2017 at 11:35:48 AM

Also because being a "true progressive" is an inherently minority, avant-garde political position separate from the mainstream. Being ahead of your time is hard, being completely static is easy. Every Republican, at some point in their career, has gotten some mileage out of being reactionary, but the same can't be said of Democrats.

"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."
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165194: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:03:06 PM

WaPo: GOP congressman Rohrabacher plans Russia trip to ‘work with the Duma’

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), an ally of President-elect Donald Trump and longtime enthusiast of Russian president Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday that he is planning to lead a congressional delegation to Russia next month and expects to meet with Russian officials to discuss “how we can work with the Duma.”

“We’re going to look at certain goals we can set with our Congress and the Duma,” the Russian legislature, Rohrabacher said in an interview. “What could we actually set in the legislature of Russia and in Congress? Could we work together, for example, and cooperate on space activities?”

Rohrabacher went on to list the rise of the Islamic State and President Obama’s latest round of sanctions against Russia as additional agenda items that he expects to come up during the talks in Moscow.

Rohrabacher, a former White House speechwriter for Ronald Reagan who represents Orange County, said Russian leaders are eager to meet with U.S. lawmakers to talk directly about the sanctions and many other lingering political tensions.

“We’ll go within a month of the inaugural,” the lawmaker said of the timing. “It’s going to be an official trip of my subcommittee.”

Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, was coy when asked whether his group would meet with Putin.

“I really can’t say that,” he said after a pause and a half-smile. “It’s possible.”

Not even hiding it anymore.

Christ what the fuck.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#165195: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:05:10 PM

I'd just like to point out that we made a thread for media and how it seems to reflect current US politics. Posts that are nothing but links to media/qoutes from media seem like... way off topic and also in no way contributing to the conversation, so could we please, please refrain from useless posts like that? It got obnoxious a while ago.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#165196: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:07:01 PM

I dunno, we've got Republican Congressmen going over to a hostile country promising to work closely with the Duma and possibly Putin himself.

That's a pretty big deal.

edited 4th Jan '17 12:07:23 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165197: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:10:58 PM

[up] I think Aceof Spades is referring to my posts that are quotes from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. And my past quotes from Hamilton.

Sort of a bad habit of mine.

Probably for the best I refrained from quoting Fallout and Deus Ex as well.

edited 4th Jan '17 12:14:20 PM by M84

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#165198: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:15:12 PM

Yeah, Tactical just finished their post before mine. Didn't even see it before I posted. The whole thing about posts that are nothing but quotes is... getting to me, I admit.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#165199: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:18:58 PM

I should point out that Rohrabacher (like his best friend Gohmert) has always been on the lunatic fringe of the House GOP.

edited 4th Jan '17 12:19:09 PM by FFShinra

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165200: Jan 4th 2017 at 12:20:04 PM

@Crimson Zephyr

Being a progressive is hard since, by its very nature, it's going into uncharted waters and asking others to do the same.

Conservatives and reactionaries have the luxury of appealing to people comfortable with the status quo or nostalgic for the past.

[up] Figures that one of California's few GOP Congresspeople would be one of the craziest ones.

edited 4th Jan '17 12:20:45 PM by M84

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