Karimlan
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@Sunwoo: Hey, great minds think alike. I was planning to post that hours ago when you had the question about the Confederacy.
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I've held off on saying this for the longest time, but as far as I'm concerned, the former president's domestic and foreign policy has been lifted directly from comedian Denis Leary's 1997 special Lock n' Load:
(if and when he becomes the President) "My domestic policy: Fuck you. My foreign policy: Fuuuuuuuuuh-huh-huuuuuck you!"
As for the question of who is categorically worse, I can say with certitude that Dubya's corruption looks more cleverly disguised than Trump's by comparison.
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I don't have any of the main banner characters (except for F!Kris and THREE regular Katarinas that the game thought of throwing my way last week--seriously?). Guess I'll be going with F!Kris on this one.
Air Orders is a seal I'll definitely be putting to good use.
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@Lord Raven: Not only him, but other small men and women, all the more financially bloated yet morally bankrupt.
Thing is, whenever you see similar rhetoric paraded about, it's usually done as a means to an end, thinking that you'd silence debate, when in fact, it invites more debate. Marx's "opium of the people" isn't the only misunderstood quote he has, there's another one: DE OMNIBVS DVBITANDVM (or DISPVTANDVM, depending on which book you're reading. Okay, It's Descartes, but Marx would've had no problem copping it).
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Fair point.
Amusing how people who probably haven't read Orwell refer to the banning of Trump's social media accounts as a prelude to 1984. Read Popper, you idiots.
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7 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
So basically Trump is a teenager who gets their account banned and just creates an alt to get around the ban, right?Teenager? More like prepubescent to me.Okay, you TRUMPed my post.
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Those kinds of arguments are disingenuous at best, and downright pathetic at worst. The most recent incarnation, where people on the other side claim that Antifa actors instigated the most heinous acts, is to me, no less sickening. How can people who are part of the movement, a movement that is WAY TOO AWARE of symbols/insignia pertaining to all things Nazi (case in point: the LARPer who had the Mjolnir and Valknut tattoos) take up the same symbols of a regime they so detest? Hell, they call out bands who overtly (see Phil Anselmo of Pantera fame being bashed for yelling "White Power" and doing the Sieg Heil salute) or somewhat covertly (tattoos or band imagery containing iron crosses, sunwheels, the twin Sig runes, etc) portray these things, and folks on the right take a look at that logic and say "Gaetz has a point?"
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This may be something that will NEVER happen, but just in case we have someone from his coterie (or better yet, HIMSELF) contemplating on Jefferson's "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just," he'd better start quaking. Hard.
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Oh, to look at this moment and realize, slyly at that, that my personal decision to leave the US years ago has proven to be a wise oneI hope that if there's anyone in this forum who lives in and around the DC area, that they'd be okay (incidentally, it'll be interesting to watch DJ Stone, Esq--the LegalEagle guy--and his take on this). Here's to hoping that those who incited this event, those who have been stirring the pot for months on end, would have their reckoning.
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4 hours ago, Jotari said:
While I'm here chilling in GMT+9 enjoying 2021
Not very far from you there (GMT+8). I won't know about any differences, since I'm at work lol
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In any case, this is a more welcome filibuster than Ted Cruz's reading of "Green Eggs and Ham" years ago. -
Jackie Chan/10.
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Prefers any flavor of ice cream as long as it's all of them.
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21 minutes ago, Dragoncat said:
@Karimlan The way you worded that is kinda confusing, just "ask" any Nazi who says he has Jewish friends? Shouldn't that be "Just as any Nazi who says he has Jewish friends"?
I'm referring to accounts from the Nuremberg Trials where some of the major war criminals (Hermann Goering and his ilk) claimed that they had Jewish friends. Semantics aside, I maintain the point that the behavior doesn't fly just because one is on more-than-speaking-terms with someone belonging to whichever race/gender that's being blasted.
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If you have to say that you're not bigoted (and follow it up with provisos that make absolutely no sense), then you probably are.
You don't get a pass by saying you have friends who identify as a part of whatever group/orientation; just ask any Nazi (or Neo-nazi who said that "he has Jewish friends" that think that his behavior is just fine and dandy). You're being an asshat to that friend and whoever you come across in the internet or elsewhere.
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Thanks for the reminder that I have to add Shadow Dragon to my Switch backlog too. XD
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21 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:
I've had the gamepad lockup on me so many times, that and errors while playing games.
What kinda lockup?
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Octopath is grind-heavy, so there's the endgame problemReally irritated that selected members of my team have the lovely proposition of coming to work on Friday. If the schedulers had half a brain and were driving occupancy (i.e, persons over the phones, ON CHRISTMAS DAY NO LESS), they'd have the entire roster of people under me report for work, not just five people.
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13 hours ago, Lewyn said:
Yes I've really taken pages from the despot rulebook, by ranting on a forum. Lol, give me a break.
With that attitude and your batshit remarks, hardly anyone would give you a break. But I could be wrong.
10 hours ago, Hylian Air Force said:For every person that sees a sheep trying to fight against a wolf, there is another that sees a wild ram trampling a puppy. You have to account for many perspectives when fighting what's wrong, otherwise you alienate some people and radicalize your opponents.
Welp, accounting for many perspectives is where he is clearly taking a walk from by espousing the kinda crap the GOP does on a daily basis.
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1 hour ago, Lewyn said:
That's a bit extreme. I'm simply saying Democrats have to fight back.
Ok, but by equally underhanded means? Nope. And lemme take a moment to jog your memory:
On 12/14/2020 at 2:46 PM, Lewyn said:Reward or inspiration doesn't motivate as much or as well as fear. Republicans and right wing media have thoroughly shown that. Also disregard the rules as much as legally possible, the political backlash is insignificant compared to the reward. The GOP have it so easy, they won't when the left isn't afraid to fight back just as nasty.
People who belong to neither extreme will realize (if they haven't already) that the other side is just as crazy, if I'm to extrapolate and take your line of thinking to its logical ends. Do you honestly believe that people would be willing to bear witness to both sides mutually agreeing to tear each other, limb from limb, by any and all means available under the sun?
2 hours ago, Lewyn said:What the GOP is doing is Machiavellian, what Democrats need to do is defend themselves.
The methods you suggest are Machiavellian too. Talk about the pot and the kettle.
2 hours ago, Lewyn said:Democrats have the power to defend themselves, they simply choose not to.
Calling out the GOP in their most insufferable tendencies is tantamount to Dems exercising power to defend themselves. They know that if the GOP had its way, all institutions would bend over (in most cases, backwards) to cater to their every whim. But then, you only need take a look at how people react to the many attempts that the GOP made to disenfranchise their votes and know that the people have the GOP by the balls. See how they writhed under the face of intense public scrutiny week after week?
TL, DR: You don't get to take a page from The Despots' Playbook and not seem despotic in the process. It just won't happen. You will do well in relieving yourself of those misapprehensions.
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13 hours ago, Lewyn said:
Thing is Trump was indeed a tyrant and a big threat, Democrats just needed to say the truth with him. Democrats can be truthful, but more outraged and more fear mongering about all the bad stuff the Republican party as a whole is up to.
Really I'm saying is have some balls and if someone punches you, you break their jaw. You punch back harder and make them sorry they even tried anything. This is how you counter Republicans. Also attack first if there is an opportunity.
The emphasized phrases reek of more Machiavellian batshit that makes you no better than Republicans. Dare I say it, they make you look just as bad, if not categorically worse.
Besides, aren't you contradicting yourself by saying that and "Democrats just needed to say the truth with him" in the same breath?
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3 hours ago, Excellen Browning said:
One of the maxims of The Prince is that it's better to be feared than hated. republicans are hated by many and feared by few. Now that I think about it, the same applies to the dems.
it's actually this:
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
But the point remains. What's being advocated is a dangerous position which will make the Dems no better than the GOP. Someone here apparently forgot what ol' Freddie said about what happens when one looks at the abyss.
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1 hour ago, Lewyn said:
Reward or inspiration doesn't motivate as much or as well as fear. Republicans and right wing media have thoroughly shown that. Also disregard the rules as much as legally possible, the political backlash is insignificant compared to the reward. The GOP have it so easy, they won't when the left isn't afraid to fight back just as nasty.
Enough with the Machiavellian batshit. On the surface, it feels like you took one good look at The Prince and asked if you could apply its tenets under a cause different from what was intended in that book. And that makes you no better than a card-carrying member of the GOP.
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Enter John Kerry, who is relegated to the spot that George McGovern occupies in history: a candidate who had no impact on his presidential race at all.