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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#172151: Feb 2nd 2017 at 9:54:15 AM

I was just thinking yesterday what's been going on feels like Civ 6 right after launch.

"America has just denounced Mexico."

"America has just denounced China."

"America has just denounced Germany."

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172153: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:00:44 AM

What a shock—the Treasury Department is easing the sanctions on Russia. Who could have possibly seen that coming.

McCain? Shouldn't this be your cue to start making a fuss? You promised to stop him from doing that, after all.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#172154: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:03:36 AM

The Trump administration should really be more subtle about how they support their Russian overlords.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#172155: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:06:25 AM

@Democrats will rig elections if they get back into power: I mean that's probably technically true. If we switch to popular voting and nonpartisan congressional districts it probably would tilt things to favor Dems. Of course you could easily argue that it would just be rebalancing the skills after the GOP rigged them to begin with.

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:06:52 AM by Kostya

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172156: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:07:23 AM

Oh, and the Duma were celebrating the easing of sanctions hours before Congress was even notified. But I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that.

[up] That's not rigging, though. That's just a level playing field.

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:07:45 AM by RBluefish

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#172157: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:09:39 AM

If there was minimal voter suppression, no bullshit gerrymandering, etc the Republicans would probably lose a lot more elections. And they know it.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#172158: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:10:52 AM

[up]x6 You got the wrong one.

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:11:05 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#172159: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:11:08 AM

[up][up] Freakin' Traitor.

(And I page topped. Basically, Trump Admin eased Russian Sanctions hours after the Russians celebrated it. He's a god damned Traitor.)

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:13:35 AM by DingoWalley1

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#172160: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:11:36 AM

If the EC rigs things to favor Republicans then I'd argue that the popular vote would do the same thing with the Dems. I just don't view it as a problem because it's still a more democratic system.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#172161: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:11:57 AM

Put up or shut time for Mccain and Graham; Russia was the only consistent line they drew in the sand. Twenty bucks says they both fold like cheap suits before sundown.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172162: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:15:24 AM

Definitely. They're cowards, the both of them.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#172163: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:17:23 AM

They already sold out. Mc Cain tried to rationalize it but it's all just politician speak for "I had to fall in line because the people at the party were looking at me funny".

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:17:57 AM by Draghinazzo

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#172164: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:19:23 AM

But remember It's the libruls who hate America.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172165: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:20:57 AM

When in fact we're the one who are trying desperately to save it.

While the guy who's going to "Make Amurrica Grate Agin!" is actually going to dismantle the government for parts, throw civil society into chaos, ruin the planet, and probably start World War 3.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#172166: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:21:56 AM

That was certainly a nice Ukraine we had once...

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#172167: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:22:50 AM

Guys, is there any source collecting RT's examples of hypocrisy and self-contradiction? I mean, that's their one favorite accusation against Western powers. Worldwide, "anti-imperialists" adore them for it, and swallow the pro-Russian propaganda alongside that. It would be nice to summon a tu quoque repository.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#172168: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:25:14 AM

[up][up][up][up] It's basically just code for "You're not a sanctimonious jingoist asshole like me so fuck you".

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:25:34 AM by Draghinazzo

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
#172169: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:26:03 AM

I am waiting for the conspiracy nutters to start complaining about the SOGnote  since they complained about the ZOG for so long.note 

Inter arma enim silent leges
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#172170: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:26:49 AM

I think they tend to have a very narrow definition of what America should be, in defiance of all reality.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172171: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:27:17 AM

[up][up] I think we're the conspiracy nutters now.

Only difference is, we're right.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#172172: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:31:35 AM

That's exactly it though. Their version of America (whether they're conscious of it or not) is some idealized, saccharine version of the 50's where black people were out of sight and "knew their place", it was safe to hate gays, women were homemakers, they didn't have to meet anyone different from them and America "ruled the world". Any attempt to point out the problems with that ridiculous farce is met with basically "well it was good for me so fuck you".

The Republican party is all about capitalizing on people's perception and desire to return to that era, in spite of the fact that it's never going to be possible. And maybe on some level they know that, but they just want to put their boot on the faces of people they hate out of spite anyways.

edited 2nd Feb '17 10:32:04 AM by Draghinazzo

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
#172173: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:33:58 AM

The Handle: StopFake has a good collection of articles on how RT manufactures "truth". The Rationalwiki.org page has some good examples as well.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#172174: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:39:55 AM

Behold President Trumpra!

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#172175: Feb 2nd 2017 at 10:43:31 AM

[up]O_O

It's so accurate, it hurts.


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