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Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#188726: May 13th 2017 at 2:07:18 PM

As an actual socialist I find the insinuation that CNN is in any way indicative of my ideals extremely offensive.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#188727: May 13th 2017 at 2:09:59 PM

[up] Haughty libertarian explanation of freshman economics class in 3, 2, 1...

PolarPhantom Since: Jun, 2012
#188729: May 13th 2017 at 2:12:03 PM

I don't think calling CNN communist is particularly accurate or particularly helpful and I think others in this thread will become fairly angry fairly quickly.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188730: May 13th 2017 at 2:12:07 PM

Most political discussions, in my experience, boil down to "My side is right and anyone who disagrees is automatically wrong and an Enemy of the State."

Though, recent developments, such as the half-assery that is the AHCA, have prompted a slight change to this motto, which now is "THEIR SIDE BAD!!!" because, frankly, that makes way more sense than an actual, articulate sentence.

[down] Or OccupyDemocrats. Seriously, stopped following them less for the agenda and more for the attempts to sensationalize everything like "Colbert destroys Trump with EPIC put down".

Seriously, who takes a news outlet serious when they use the word "epic"?

edited 13th May '17 2:14:54 PM by sgamer82

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#188731: May 13th 2017 at 2:13:30 PM

...no. CNN is not liberal news.

You want to see news that's actually pushing a liberal agenda? Read Slate, or the Huffington Post. CNN goes out of its way to give both sides equal air time even if one side has absolutely nothing coherent to say.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188733: May 13th 2017 at 2:15:45 PM

[up] Fair enough. Though I think you're missing the fact that Trump seems to have earned a lot of the negativity directed towards him. Not even with just interpretations, but with his own, recorded words and actions.

When your words can consistently be photoshopped into the mouth of a Nazi supervillain or an utter boob with neither sounding out of character, that's a Red Flag.

edited 13th May '17 2:16:58 PM by sgamer82

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#188734: May 13th 2017 at 2:16:58 PM
Thumped: This post has been thumped with the mod stick. This means knock it off.
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#188736: May 13th 2017 at 2:17:14 PM

There are better candidates for leftist news network at least (though without the pun so I can't blame you for that)
CNN is more like ESPN News Apparently

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188737: May 13th 2017 at 2:17:38 PM

[up][up] Change of gears: If he hasn't done anything wrong, what has he done right? Because, to me, personally, he seems to have taken all the accusations of corruption against Hillary Clinton as an instruction manual. Kind of taints my view of him, to be honest.

I'll also add to [down] to keep things civil as much as possible. Thumps come hard and fast when things get crazy round these parts.

edited 13th May '17 2:19:01 PM by sgamer82

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#188738: May 13th 2017 at 2:17:44 PM

[up][up][up] Despite my snarky comment, I'd be happy if you continued to do so (voice your opinion that is). Most conservatives and libertarians have been more or less chased off of the thread, it's nice to have a dissenting voice, if only because the arguments between leftist and centrist leaning posters is getting extremely repetitive.

edited 13th May '17 2:20:08 PM by CaptainCapsase

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#188739: May 13th 2017 at 2:18:45 PM

The fact that you don't think trump has done anything wrong has less to do with our biases and more that you don't have a clue what you're talking about lol. Either that or you're fine with ham-fisted attempts at authoritarianism :P

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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#188740: May 13th 2017 at 2:20:36 PM

People are listening to the leftist media... I take the whole of what someone says not just bits and pieces that are took out of context to make someone look bad.
I listen to the man himself, straight from the source, in full context.

I don't need a single talking head to tell me that he is absolutely full of shit.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#188742: May 13th 2017 at 2:21:33 PM

[up][up][up] Considering the center, left, and right all live in completely different worlds (particularly the right) in terms of media, that's a bit of an overstatement.

edited 13th May '17 2:21:53 PM by CaptainCapsase

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#188743: May 13th 2017 at 2:23:11 PM

He literally said that he fired Comey because he was sick of the Russia investigation. That's illegal. It's called obstruction of justice.

It really doesn't help that he doesn't actually make sense most of the time. He talks in this bizarre fashion that constantly loops around on itself where he rarely actually says anything with a coherent meaning. Also, the town of Palm Beach is literally going bankrupt because they can't afford the police movements for his security and the businesses surrounding Mar-A-Lago are going bankrupt too, because the security for the region is so tight that their clientele is severely cut down.

There's also a difference between people whining about having to pay for healthcare out of their taxes and someone terrified that they're going to literally die because they've been kicked off their insurance.

edited 13th May '17 2:24:46 PM by Zendervai

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188744: May 13th 2017 at 2:24:38 PM

Eh, I doubt I am going to change anyones opinion anyways. Debating politics is like two brick walls debating.. no one is going to change their minds to be honest. Right now the conservative side is winning. They won the election.. and the other side will complain for 4 years just like the right complained the last 4 years and this cycle will be a endless vicious cycle.
I'd like to say you're wrong but, as I said earlier, "THEIR SIDE BAD!!!" dominates way too much political thought. Especially now. That said, things are looking like it'll be less than four years just because the GOP are making such a mess of everything that mid-terms seem to be favoring the Democrats.

In the interest of discussion, I'll lay out my most basic current views, so you'll know where I'm coming from at nearly any given time:

  1. Donald Trump is an idiot.
  2. The GOP as it currently exists is untrustworthy.
  3. I can conceive of no skeleton in Hillary Clinton's closet, real or imagined, that would ever convince me she was the inferior option.

edited 13th May '17 2:26:45 PM by sgamer82

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188746: May 13th 2017 at 2:27:28 PM

Issue there is that his immigration policies like the Travel Ban have been so poorly ordered and implemented that legal residents are getting caught in the crossfire precisely because of their race. There's also Trump's insistence on the border wall he only recently backed down on, which by all indications serves no real practical purpose and would do more harm than good if built since it takes resources from places that do the same job just as, if not more effectively, such as the coast guard.

Honestly, the thing that turned me well, truly, and permanently against Trump was his assertion that we need to go after Terrorist families. Breitbart reported that statement exactly as he said it during the election, and if anyone was going to try and downlplay or change what it meant to make it positive, they would.

You will never convince me it is justified to deliberately target people who may very well be innocent of any wrongdoing themselves solely for their connection to someone else.

edited 13th May '17 2:31:38 PM by sgamer82

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#188747: May 13th 2017 at 2:29:37 PM

[up][up] The second case is fair, and a bit of a non-issue. In the first case, the sheer number of undocumented immigrants in the United States makes it rather impractical to deport them all in a humane fashion.

Even if we assume Trump indeed means what he says in regards to his harsh words being directly solely at undocumented immigrants, America's immigration laws make it extremely difficult to immigrate unless you're a highly skilled and specialized worker, but meanwhile there's significant demand for low wage unskilled workers, and too few Americans willing to do that kind of work; thus businesses which employ low skilled workers frequently look the other way when someone doesn't have a green card.

The solution to the problem of illegal immigration are reforms to immigration laws to be more suited to America's current needs, and considering there's something like 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, it's simply not practical to deport most or all of them.

edited 13th May '17 2:32:33 PM by CaptainCapsase

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#188749: May 13th 2017 at 2:32:26 PM

Even the remotely good things that Trump has done so far (in which I include "doing stuff he promised" because hey, democracy), he has done with unprecedented incompetence. He is a stain on the very concept of democracy, and the sooner he is removed from office the better.

For crying out loud, China and Russia actually get to take the moral high ground for once. Get a grip.

[up]And the wall is the dumbest idea ever. It simply won't work.

edited 13th May '17 2:33:43 PM by Kayeka

fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#188750: May 13th 2017 at 2:32:58 PM

[up][up] the issue is the fact that he's building it at all. It's a waste of time and money that doesn't fix the actual issue.

edited 13th May '17 2:33:15 PM by fruitpork


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