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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It is an echo chamber, though it's a centrist/beltway echo chamber which is hard to come by these days with confidence in traditional parties at an all time low. It's pretty much impossible not to have an online debate turn into an echo chamber because of how most people prefer to discuss politics with likeminded individuals. I consider myself an exception that particular rule, at least to the extent that I force myself to, when it comes to politics, spend more time discussing things with people I disagree with than people I agree with, because talking politics with someone I agree with is just a cycle of validating each others' opinions.
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Keep in mind that not everyone here is a liberal, a Democrat, or even an American. I for one consider myself a conservative in certain respects.
This place is not an echo chamber. It just happens to have certain standards of basic decency and respect.
They're overcompensating for being the "other" in a vain attempt to make the rest of their group forget "oh wait, this person is someone we're supposed to hate."
edited 13th May '17 8:12:22 PM by M84
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I'm rather sure there are non-crazy conservative minorities (whose motivations I can only speculate on). I only have two bits of non-anecdotal evidence, but the Georgia GOP is in financial straits partly because of its poor treatment of a black member of the party and one (of four) of the runners for chair of the GA GOP is a black man.
Whether its divide and conquer is a judgement of history (but its what I believe). I'd be rather happier if both (or more than two parties or hundreds of independents) adopted targeted universalism and left it to voters to choose which T.U. plan to go with, but that's the future.
edited 13th May '17 8:23:07 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives![]()
That's not gonna happen as long as pandering to peoples' bigotry is seen as an effective strategy to get votes.
edited 13th May '17 8:35:10 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedSo apparently one of the people considered as a replacement for Comey is the senate majority whip John Coryn
of Texas, which would result in new leadership elections among Republican senators.
Trump prioritizes personal loyalty (or the ability to fake it) above pretty much everything in terms of his appointments, though a handful of people (Henry Kissinger for one, which is supposedly why Trump's foreign policy team is slightly less odious than the rest) seem to be able to get him to go starry eyed and say yes to whatever they suggest.
We'll have to see what ends up actually happening.
edited 13th May '17 8:39:16 PM by CaptainCapsase
White House invokes Russia in response to North Korea missile test
The statement from press secretary Sean Spicer said "the missile impacting so close to Russian soil – in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan – the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
New Survey coming this weekend!NC Senate GOP strips education funding from Democrats districts
As the clock approached 1 a.m., Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue was summoned to the front of the chamber to talk privately with Senate leader Phil Berger. The Senate had rejected five amendments from Democrats to fund their spending priorities, but each time one proposal was shot down, another one was filed.
Senate Rules Chairman Bill Rabon abruptly called for a recess, stopping the proceedings for nearly two hours. GOP leaders headed to a conference room with legislative budget staff, while Democrats – some surprised by the lengthy delay – passed the time with an impromptu dance party in the hall.
The session finally resumed around 3 a.m., and Republican Sen. Brent Jackson introduced a new budget amendment that he explained would fund more pilot programs combating the opioid epidemic. He cited “a great deal of discussion” about the need for more opioid treatment funding.
Jackson didn’t mention where the additional $1 million would come from: Directly from education programs in Senate Democrats’ districts and other initiatives the minority party sought.
Sen. Erica Smith-Ingram’s rural district in northeastern North Carolina took the biggest hit from the amendment. It strips $316,646 from two early college high schools in Northampton and Washington counties, and it specifically bans state funding from supporting a summer science, math and technology program called Eastern North Carolina STEM.
Party of monsters!
@No Name 999 It's the NC GOP. After all of the shit they have pulled recently, this isn't a surprise. Disgusting, but not a surprise.
edited 13th May '17 10:40:34 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedAnd they make me glad to never vote for GOP in my state ever again. They only got both houses of my state's General Assembly since 2010 after have never been in control of both of them since 1896. They are riding until the wheels off and they and the population is suffering for it too.
http://prospect.org/article/north-carolinas-tug-war
edited 13th May '17 11:12:58 PM by chartoc
