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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#185051: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:28:31 PM

@Ambar: And it has about as much merit as when someone from r/theredpill insists that "if you flip the gender pronouns in [this statement], you'll clearly see how sexist liberals are!"

With the exception of Jews due to the frequent use of terminology one would associate with Wall Street as a dog-whistle, it's not really comparable in the slightest to a rant about Muslims or Reptillians or any of the other things you mentioned. It's really not hard to mad-lib a statement and make it ridiculous and/or offensive.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:39:00 PM by CaptainCapsase

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185052: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:28:50 PM

Should you guys bring this to the economic forum or something, I feel like it is detailing this thread. As instead of politics we are discussing Wall Street. Not trying to be rude or anything but I wanted to say something.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:30:04 PM by megaeliz

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#185053: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:29:42 PM

@Mad: Don't joke about it when we're defending you on the point. It will inevitably be mistaken for sincerity and elicit a mod response of a permanent sort.

And if it were sincere, that would be the end of us debating with you in good faith.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:33:00 PM by Elle

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#185054: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:31:18 PM

[up]x6 Trump and his stupidity could literally turn Utah gray (IE, Voting for Independents, or even Libertarians), or even turn it Sanders' Blue.

The whole South West could become the new Blue Wall to replace the decaying Midwest by 2024. And with Texas slowly becoming a Purple State, that would not bode well for the Republican Party.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:31:33 PM by DingoWalley1

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#185055: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:34:29 PM

[up][up][up]Please, say it, so as to change the discussion.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#185056: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:35:26 PM

@Elle Well I wasn't joking. I was making a point that each group has a different word for when they mean elite and the word they use is based on their mindset.

So the alt-right would say it's da joos because they're neo-nazis.

Republicans would call them the coastal liberal elite.

Democrats tend to go with 1 %ers or sometimes old white men.

Far leftists call them capitalists and plutocrats.

Etc.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:36:40 PM by MadSkillz

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#185057: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:36:11 PM

What is a Purple State, if you don't mind me asking?

The legend has returned.
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#185058: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:37:17 PM

A Swing State: it's a bit red and a bit blue.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#185059: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:37:26 PM

[up][up] It's another term for a swing state, though I see my answer has been preempted.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:38:08 PM by CaptainCapsase

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#185060: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:39:32 PM

Concerning a Southwest Wall, maybe it'll be blue in another decade or two.

The thing about Arizona and Texas, in contrast to California, is that the white people there are pretty conservative and a chunk of the immigrant community don't have citizenship and the right to vote.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:40:16 PM by MadSkillz

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#185061: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:42:50 PM

Whatever you meant, the way you wrote it in the context you wrote it is, to borrow a phrase, terrible optics. I'm not accusing you but it would be best if you edited the post and be adequately contrite about it.

[up]Arizona more than Texas. Texas has much stronger urban blue pockets and a couple cities have attracted some of the Silicon Valley demographic.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:46:06 PM by Elle

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Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#185062: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:44:24 PM

Speaking of Texas, Senate Bill 4 has been passed and will now enable police officers to question detained individuals about their immigration status. Yes, children included.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#185063: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:45:27 PM

[up][up][up] And well, Hispanics don't split nearly as strongly in favor of democrats as African Americans. Fuck, IIRC Trump actually improved on Mitt Romney's share of the Hispanic vote as impossible as that sounds, it's entirely there's every possibility a future GOP candidate will be more successful at the party brass's goal of bringing Hispanics into their coalition, perhaps in the same way Italians and Irish Americans gradually went from being an other to simply being "white."

edited 26th Apr '17 7:46:50 PM by CaptainCapsase

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185064: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:47:29 PM

Wasn't that just because fewer Hispanics voted?

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#185065: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:49:14 PM

AP breaking: Trump decides not to terminate NAFTA, will renegotiate.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/857424342971547648

edited 26th Apr '17 7:49:43 PM by tclittle

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#185066: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:50:01 PM

[up][up] It's difficult to say, but it's clear that Trump didn't hurt the GOP's share of the Hispanic vote nearly as much as the pundits thought it would.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:50:08 PM by CaptainCapsase

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#185067: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:51:48 PM

There's a non—negligable Hispanic Republican contingent. Some of it I suspect stems from social conservatism (Catholic flavor), some of it "Well *I* did everything legal, why should they get slack", some of it "I've made a lot of money."

edited 26th Apr '17 7:54:29 PM by Elle

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185068: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:51:53 PM

[up][up][up] I doubt Canada will be willing to cooperate after the recent milk and timber spats, especially if he includes the stupid SOPA/TPP copyright bullshit in the renegotiated NAFTA.

edited 26th Apr '17 7:53:02 PM by FireCrawler2002

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#185069: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:52:08 PM

Well the Republican Party tried to pivot to Latinos in the primary.

Jeb was their golden boy and Marco Rubio was their back up.

I already know who the Republican Party is going to prop up.

George P Bush. Jeb's half Mexican son.

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Asgore Adopts Noelle
#185070: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:54:39 PM

[up] With how the Republican Party is decaying, George P. would fit better as a Libertarian then a Republican.

I also don't think a Hispanic/Latino Republican will ever have a chance at getting the Nomination from said Party, especially with Trump's Victory...

[down] And he got 0 States! And Rubio only got Minnesota, Guam and DC. True, Ted Cruz got a few States, but I'm willing to chalk him up as an anomaly, and even then, he got decimated by Trump.

edited 26th Apr '17 8:00:01 PM by DingoWalley1

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#185071: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:56:45 PM

[up] If they pressed the right buttons it'd certainly be possible. See Ben Carson spending about 2 months as Trump's main competitor in the Republican primary polling.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#185072: Apr 26th 2017 at 7:59:43 PM

@ Ambar Sonof Deshar (184988): "Which says nothing about which politicians, if any, are actually on the payroll. Mad Skillz has been trying to claim that Obama was controlled by Wall Street, but has offered exactly zero evidence to back up that assertion..."

I'll just say what I said here: "...The problem with our political system isnt the corruption of individual politicians, it's with the system itself... When we say "Money out of Politics" we are saying that it's the money which is the problem, not corrupt individuals in office (were that the case, we could just vote them out and problem solved). Try calling Bernie Sanders office and see if you can get him personally on the phone. Now donate a million dollars to his favorite cause or charity, and then see if he takes your call. He better, or the people who depend on that charity are going to suffer. That's the kind of corruption we are talking about- large donations create opportunities for influence that ordinary people (even masses of them) generally do not get...."

It's not Obama or Sanders or Clinton or even the Republican Party. It's the system they all built and help sustain.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#185073: Apr 26th 2017 at 8:03:18 PM

With how the Republican Party is decaying, George P. would fit better as a Libertarian then a Republican. I also don't think a Hispanic/Latino Republican will ever have a chance at getting the Nomination from said Party, especially with Trump's Victory...

Lot of libertarians are in the Republican Party.

Beside George P Bush is being set up as a candidate for 16 years later when Latinos become a lot more important of a group. Not in the near future.

So they'll trade in some whites for more Latinos.

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Face me now, bitch!
#185074: Apr 26th 2017 at 8:13:39 PM

@ Physical Stamina: "But I thought it was Trump supporters that were the weebs here."

Lol, fuck that. I ain't no trump supporter. [lol]

Watch Symphogear
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#185075: Apr 26th 2017 at 8:14:59 PM

Where's the anime left?

All I ever hear about is the anime right.


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