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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165826: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:33:02 AM

I'm from Texas, and Your "Liberal Bubble" Argument is Ridiculous: A Texan does a huge twit-chain of how "the coastal elites live in a bubble" is bullshit.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#165827: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:38:59 AM

@Terrorists Won: find that it's difficult for me to muster sympathy. The USA's conduct has been, dare I say, deplorable.

edited 9th Jan '17 11:40:11 AM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#165828: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:40:08 AM

[up]x however many

Why did this idiot get elected, again?

Because the inbred, moronic, xenophobic intellectually and culturally backwards parasites were allowed any sort of influence in the election process, or indeed, over anything other than what slop they shovel down their fat greasy throats.

And now we're all about to pay the price for having allowed them any sort of place in a civilized society.

edited 9th Jan '17 11:41:26 AM by Reflextion

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#165829: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:40:18 AM

Yeah, that's the thing. A "bubble" is an area that is dominated by one culture and one viewpoint. The idea that all cultures and viewpoints are welcome? Categorically not a bubble.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#165830: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:41:42 AM

[up][up]Can it with the bullshit. Trump's voters were Dursleys.

[up]Except that's a lie. You tolerate anyone except the outgroup. See [up][up].

edited 9th Jan '17 11:42:40 AM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#165831: Jan 9th 2017 at 11:43:28 AM

I'd have to say, we still live in filter-bubbles. But I simpathize with the sentiment of the tweet chain.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#165832: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:01:19 PM

Internet bubbles are a little different from IRL cultural bubbles.

On the internet you can largely pick and choose where you go and what you see.

IRL, depending on your job and where you live you might not have the same choice of who you're exposed to.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#165833: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:03:32 PM

@"I'm Not On Obamacare" Pic: I now feel really bad for that guy, as moronic as he is. He didn't know just how badly he screwed himself. It's like watching a mouse try to get cheese off of a mouse trap...

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#165834: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:09:20 PM

Filter-bubbles can seep into real life. There are tons of conservatives in California and tons of liberals in Texas. The issue is that they live in parallel, not intermingling much.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#165835: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:22:36 PM

Pillarisation?

edited 9th Jan '17 12:22:48 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#165836: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:45:07 PM

Can it with the bullshit. Trump's voters were Dursleys.
... Exactly how the Dursleys are that far off from what Reflexion described?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#165837: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:56:27 PM

They tell better Japanese golfer jokes?

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#165838: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:00:27 PM

@"I'm Not On Obamacare" Pic: I now feel really bad for that guy, as moronic as he is. He didn't know just how badly he screwed himself. It's like watching a mouse try to get cheese off of a mouse trap...
I don't. I possibly would if he had screwed only himself (though knowing myself, it would likely take some prodding), but we all know that isn't the case, and a lot of people are going to suffer from his stupidity.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#165839: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:02:34 PM

I feel like America's heading into another Civil War, and honestly, I don't know if I'm not okay with that.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#165840: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:09:17 PM

[up]I think the thought has crossed most of our minds at least once the last two months. The horrifying counterpart thought that I doubt is endemic to me is the little voice wondering if that might be better than the increasing likelihood of a nuclear exchange, or a trade war escalating into a conventional shooting war that engulfs a good chunk of the world.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#165841: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:25:07 PM

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick declares his running for reelection in 2018, debunking rumors of him running against Governor Greg Abbott.

And why would he give up all that power over the Texas political process as the President of the Senate.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#165842: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:26:23 PM

I feel sorry for him only in the sense that the Republicans have made an art out of fooling people into voting for them, but at some point you need to be an adult and take responsibility for your own vote.

If he had Googled 'Obamacare' even once without the words 'death panels' or 'secret Muslim' in the search bar, the first result tells you that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. Maybe losing their health care will teach them a lesson about educated voting.

The idea that we can't take schadenfreude as a little bit of cold comfort in the days ahead - that a bitter chuckle at people getting exactly what they voted for is somehow a step too far when we and our close friends stand poised to lose human rights thanks to those very votes - is ridiculous.

edited 9th Jan '17 1:26:59 PM by RedSavant

It's been fun.
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#165843: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:28:15 PM

"Percy Jackson" author Rick Riordan has declined an invite to be honored by the Texas state Legislature over their "new and improved" anti-LGBT bathroom bill.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165844: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:32:24 PM

[up][up]Actually, thanks to google personalized search, you'll find stuff that reinforces already held beliefs when you search stuff on google, so that guy is SOL unless he somehow gets linked to a source he believes that says Obamacare is the same as the ACA.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
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
#165845: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:37:15 PM

I'm going to be reading the several Heroes series again.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#165846: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:41:50 PM

@Pushover Media Critic: Personally, I don't see us heading into a civil war. Instead, I see it being a purge (e.g. Kristallnacht and the Night of the Long Knives) where critics of Trump (both within and without the Republican Party) are declared "terrorists" and either arrested and sent to camps or killed on sight.

Yeah, if you didn't already know, I'm pretty much stuck in a prolonged Freak Out.

edited 9th Jan '17 1:42:27 PM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#165847: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:43:38 PM

[up] All because Trump has such thin skin that he can't stand being criticized.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165848: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:47:35 PM

Thats defeatist talk. He got elected because people want their jobs back, and blame Bill Clinton for having lost them.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#165849: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:49:52 PM

'sides, I doubt that the non-Trump states would let that simply happen.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165850: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:50:44 PM

Regarding that comment chain, where the idiot on the ACA is celebrating the death of Obamacare...

I'm not sure if "hope" is the right word, but if they need/want healthcare, at some point they're going to have to separate themselves from the Republicans.


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