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General Politics Discussion (III) [ARCHIVED] • Page 704

Discussion in 'Politics Forum' started by Melody Bot, Mar 24, 2017.

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  1. iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum

     
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  2. jkauf

    Prestigious Supporter

     
  3. Whatjuliansaid

    News on once the clouds are gone. Prestigious

    Wonder why
     
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  4. "Not a good look, Don."
     
  5. MyBestFiend

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    Suuuuuure

     
  6. David87

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    Just came from a town hall my gov was holding on the budget...clammed up with anxiety too much to ask questions during the actual meeting but spoke to his comms director after about how the 'extreme centrism' from him and other Delaware Dems needed to stop re: cutting education funding to help balance the budget, among some other topics.

    He's a nice enough guy but def comes from the centrist, corporate Democrat mold that my state tends to churn out.
     
  7. Dominick

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    "In ancient Greek society, an idiotes was a layperson who lacked professional skills. The idiot contributed nothing to public life or the common good. His existence depended on the skill and labor of others; he was a leech sucking the lifeblood from the social body. Related to this, idiocy (from the root idios, “one’s own”) was the state of a private or self-centered person. This contrasted with the status of the public citizen, or polites, such that to be an idiot was to be withdrawn, isolated and selfish, to not participate in the public, political life of the city-state. In Greek society, the condition of idiocy was seen as peculiar and strange (a meaning that is retained in the English word “idiosyncratic”); thus “idiot” was a term of reproach and disdain."


    Opinion | Trump and the True Meaning of ‘Idiot’
     
  8. Jake Gyllenhaal

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    Gonna have to get over that anxiety if you want to run for president in 2036
     
  9. David87

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    Hey man they'll have some drug by then that works as well as xanex without all the terrible side effects and possible addictiveness!
     
  10. Whatjuliansaid

    News on once the clouds are gone. Prestigious

    2056, he needs more experience
     
  11. Dominick

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    His first act as president will be to pass the "I Can Haz Cheeseburger" act. It'll mostly be made of changes to the amount of stop signs in the country.
     
  12. LightWithoutHeat

    If I could just forget it

    If only this medicine grew on trees.
     
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  15. Dominick

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    Lol

     
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  16. Jake Gyllenhaal

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  17. Dirty Sanchez

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  18. incognitojones

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    This means they know he's getting blackmailed, but they don't want us to know that they know.
     
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  19. Dominick

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    As I was saying about losing:


     
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  20. Fucking lol

     
  21. Dominick

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    This is the dead-end that this Russia shit produces. These morons genuinely think that sanctions on Russia is more important than healthcare.
     
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  23. Dominick

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    "It’s not just that centrism is unpopular; there’s simply no such thing. The center is a fiction, believed in only by politicians and the people who would like to become them; political science majors and the people who teach them; journalists and the people who imitate them. Nobody else has ever identified themselves with something as vapid and empty—an ideology of no ideology, the plan to keep everything the same, the residue of class power disguised as a doctrine. It’s the imaginary space between parties, a desert, a wasteland. For most people, the world doesn’t revolve around a happy stable core: it’s a nightmare, in which the rich want to fill their veins with the blood of the poor, in which the old promises of health and security are vanishing, in which everything has gone and continues to go monstrously wrong....America is no exception. The Democratic Party still sees two distinct working classes: a core, ‘traditional’ working class that is white and intrinsically, helplessly racist, and a more peripheral working class, ethnically differentiated, its own kind of special interest. The only difference is that while British centrists desperately try to appease this imaginary proletariat with witless flag-waving and a constant tilt towards social exclusionism—is this racist enough for you? how about this?—American centrists tend to write it off altogether in favour of a minority coalition who, presumably, don’t need a roof over their heads or anything to feed their kids.

    Corbyn’s success shows that none of this is necessary. Instead of a politics based on the triangulation of various evils—unfettered capitalism, institutional racism, endless war abroad, endless immiseration at home—something good is possible, and not just possible, but viable. "

    The Truth About Jeremy Corbyn's Triumph Staring Us Smack in the Face
     
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  24. iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum




    Um
     
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