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Bravo! If I had any criticism it would be that you were too over the top. Just try and make it less of a caricature.

> 1984 (gender, race) war is peace freedom is slavery

No shit. The thing I always wondered about, is the (hysterical) left on in the scam? The two sides just seem to ping pong hysteria at each other, a spiral of clickbait titles. The right wing with flavor of they took our jerb populism, and left with smugness of a champagne socialist.
Both caricatures seem so common they're not caricatures anymore, and more like redefinition of what left/right is supposed to be now.

Are polar politics just two 1984 countries now? And even if not, is the perception of that being the case a source of universal alienation about politics? Isn't this why a lot of people identify with south park quasi-centrism, even if thats worst outcome, given that it is least likely to enact actual political change in either direction?

If it is just Green and Blue teams of a Byzantine chariot race, who is the emperor. And most important question of all, where is my goddamn Green on Blue secret gay lover porn.

Your caricature is inaccurate. Many Libertarians oppose intellectual property rights. Others support reforms of the existing system.

Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property

>What's interesting is that you're so angry about it.
People cringe and squirm while watching it not because they feel shameful, or identify with the caricatured bad men, but because the whole thing is extremely patronizing.

If you actually believe what you wrote here, you have absolutely no idea what a Liberal is. Your idea of a Liberal is a caricature that has been illustrated for you by the media.

I used to enjoy political caricatures. But since they more and more resemble reality, it's become kinda hard to enjoy them.

You're right, I should correct it. It should say "Why do republican INCELs try to _CRUDELY AND CHILDISHLY_ imitate _STUPID REPUBLICAN INCEL CARICATURES OF_ black people?

Seriously the captcha is Unconvincing

One prediction I first read about decades ago was that global warming would result in an increase of extreme weather events. Not just warmer weather, but more extremes in any direction. Since then news about extreme weather events from all over the planet have steadily increased in frequency. Meteorologists and climate scientists have been reluctant to attribute single events to climate change, because extemes becoming more probable doesn't say anything about single events. Only recently we're seeing extremes so exceptional that experts think it's more likely they can be directly attributed to climate change than not.

Perhaps I'm getting my news from more level-headed sources than you are, or perhaps I actually pay attention to what they say instead of turning everything into a caricature, because the way you represent it is indeed idiotic. What I've seen over the decades is experts making predictions that turn out to be correct, while being very careful not to sensationalize what they have to say.

Not an emergency? Hundreds of thousands of people illegally crossing the border every year is a-ok hunky dory normal?

Illegal immigration is down. By a very large amount. It can't be an emergency when it's already dropping.

Also, that hundreds of thousands number requires counting people seeking amnesty as illegally entering the country. US law and treaty obligations make it legal to enter the US to seek amnesty. We are required by law and treaty to let them live into the US while we investigate their claim. And, FYI, the vast majority of asylum seekers 1) report to ICE as required during the investigation (96%) and 2) have their asylum claims approved.

It turns out people don't abandon everything and walk 2000 miles on a whim.

Since you are the one to mention numbers, exactly what number of uneducated useless third worlders from socialist shit holes invading our country would be an emergency for you?

Well, the number would have to be going up instead of dropping substantially. It's also currently 1/3rd the rate in the 80s and 90s, when it wasn't an emergency that required bypassing the Constitution.

And exactly why is it ok if even a single person illegally crosses the border?

Ask the people who employ them. That's the only reason the actual "illegal immigrants" are coming here. No jobs, no immigrants.

I've yet to see anyone on your side propose cracking down on the people who hire undocumented workers. Almost like our agricultural industries have used cheap undocumented labor for more than a century....Oh wait, they have!!

Stupid children in your college echo chambers. Once you start paying taxes you will understand.

As a 40-something who's been paid very well for a very long time, I'm reasonably sure I've paid more in taxes than you have. I also didn't have to resort to strawmen and caricatures to talk about this.

"scientist X does his job and advanced knowledge a little bit" is unsexy. "scientist is surprised by X" "scientist says X is impossible to be later proven wrong" all are headline which sell 1000 more than the first. As a general rule all fellow scientist I ever worked with WANTED to be surprised, to write their name somewhere, in posterity, to find the new laws, new particle, new material or anything new, the dream of the average scientist is not to go to an event less day at work, or be proven correct in the actual existing knowledge. No the dream is to find something new breaking the old knowledge down and potentially maybe a nobel.

The only one with the "scientist don't like to go agaisnt dogma" or using the "old scientist being proven wrong" are people having NEVER met a scientist : the SAME people endorsing the film/tv serie caricature of a scientist (you know , the first guy being killed by a demon or meeting an angel, or the first guy killed by the monster he said was not existing, you know the trope) and projecting their own unwillingness to face toward the unknown. They think this is what scientist do, because this is what they would do (and in the case of people projecting CT often already do).

The reason was to vote against Hillary and you are the idiot who can't find a reason why someone would be against her. "pwning the libs" is not a value, and your caricature of emotional people who vote without reason is very much visible on the side Hillary was representing.

Seriously, get out of the hole.

I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I, too, have noticed that many use caricatures when describing other religions and cultures. My Christian sect does not observe Lent, but we have our own fasting. On the first Sunday of the month healthy members fast either 2 meals or 24-hours (depends on personal interpretation) without food or water. This can be modified based on individual needs (eg. drink minimal water in some climates, or avoid low blood sugar for diabetics). We donate the money we would have spent on food to a "fast offering" fund which is used to provide for the poor and needy. We are strongly encouraged to be generous in this offering. No, the money doesn't go into the bank account of the bishop or other leaders. Members can also fast at other times based on their needs. We believe that by combining fasting with prayer we can increase our spirituality. We've been doing this since our sect was founded in 1830. It's good to see that there might be some health related benefits to our religious practices.

Lynndie England was a std issue small-town bull dyke with no future who sought employment with the only option available to useless inbred trash: THUH ARMEE . She wasn't "scapegoated" at all, she was just doing what comes natural to flatland retards like her.

Have you seen pictures of Graner? He looks a film caricature of a redneck douchebag with his giant coke-bottle glasses and "I always wanted to be cop" mustache

If you are going to attack an opponent's position, you actually have to know what those positions are. Republicans don't believe in ingesting exhaust.
Stop trying to create a caricature to attack. It shows a lack of intellectual fortitude.

The ridiculous caricature you painted of the average southerner is more prejudice and bigoted than most genuine "All blacks are lazy" racists. It's hard to take you seriously when you demonize your opposition as straight out evil like that.

Putin is very popular among Russians but the Kremlin has also done a lot deny the participation of viable young candidates such as Navalny in the big politics. Pretty much all of Russia's independent mass media is practicing self-censorship in order to avoid being crushed by the government censors. If Putin run against someone like Navalny (as opposed to the caricature "opposition parties" they have now) then Putin would still win, but with something like 55% of vote, add or subtract, but that will not satisfy Putin who always wants to win with a double percentage margin in order to perpetuate the perception that he has the mandate to do whatever he wants, including changing the constitution for example.

Once upon a time I read Atlas Shrugged. It seemed so poorly written, as the political and industrial leaders seemed like such simple caricatures. But more and more I see examples of exactly those behaviors in real life.

Rand's cartoonishly incompetent industrial leaders would blame failures of heavy industry on the weather. "No one could have predicted that storm! We're doing all we can after the fact." Left unsaid was that bad storms (or in this case tsunamis) are certain to happen eventually, and it's your job to be ready for them.

And here we see it in real life, with these guys defending themselves with "no one could have predicted that specific tsunami, all we could do was manage the disaster afterwards". You know, when you start sounding like a villain from an Ayn Rand novel, maybe you should hire different lawyers, as it's hard to do worse than that.

A college campus accepts public funds, and furthermore the speakers you find so distasteful are invited to speak

And they should be allowed to speak. I have never said otherwise. Furthermore, I also condemned the violent protests.

If they are speaking hateful things, however, they should expect and deserve loud protests against them.

The proper response when someone says something you disagree with is to respond in kind; advocate against their position without attempting to suppress it.

This is exactly what I am saying, especially the part about responding "in kind." I have been a bit quick and imprecise with my writing, but I have always framed the "shouting down" in response to hate speech.

"Shouting someone down" deprives people of their natural right to free speech.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "natural right to free speech", but I think that this is where the crux of the argument lies.

Too often, I think the argument of free speech is taken to mean that people can say whatever they want in all contexts without consequences. I strongly disagree with that sentiment, especially the consequence-free part. Everybody certainly has the *right* to say whatever that they want to, but actions have consequences. If you are saying things that are deeply offensive, somebody should call you out on it.

Also, I think all of this talk of free speech vs. not free speech is missing the real issue. The bigger problem is that there is no dialogue. Here, the right is just as bad as the left. I hear on right-wing radio all the time strawman caricatures instead of any genuine attempts at understanding. Likewise, conservatives are also made into caricatures on the left.

That was the caricature, yes. What I actually wrote though was that we attacked Iraq fearing it was another Afghanistan in the making.

But dat'd be stealing, and stealin's bad, M'Kay. I learned that from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the multi-billion dollar Propaganda machine ^X^X^X^X Nightly news

Ok give me your money. I demand it. What? You want something in exchange for it? Well fuck you I want it. Because by your logic stealing is 'ok'. Put down your addr and I know a guy who can come pick it up. You don't mind if he brings a few of his big friends along to make sure you give it up do you? You know because of the long trip he is going to need some moral support.

Stop watching what other people tell you is bad. You did not watch one second of any of the stations or shows you mocked. You watched their caricatures on some other station or even worse the internet. Then assumed they were like that. Feel free to watch them. You may at least understand their position better. Instead of mocking them.

Want to know why we went to the moon?

It was propaganda. You started off sort of right (then curved hard left). It was no accident that the missiles that put men on the moon were the same ones we had sitting in silos aimed at moscow. The KGB was well aware of what we had. They had spies everywhere (even a couple high profile cases of the spies selling the plans). Just like we had spies all over them too. We were both very well aware of the capabilities. We then showed the world what we can do. It was a projection of power. Kennedy was fresh off of the cuba crap when he did his man to the moon speech. That was no accident. He was showing moscow what we were going to do and 'rallied the troops' while doing it. It was a beautiful bit of persuasion that people still quote to this very day.

feared they'd be seized by the commie
Interesting take on the rebuilding of europe, japan and china. Which took about 20-25 years. Right when our recession kicked off in the late 60s. I think you seriously underestimate the scope of what WWII did to the world. Pretty much every factory was bombed out. A whole generation of working class people were dead.

resulting in Unions that got better pay
Yeah that is working out well now, is it not? I sit in a part of the country that hundreds of them. It is a ghost town for jobs now. They literally packed up the factories and moved them to mexico and china. Think about that. It is cheaper to build something in another country then ship it here solely because of labor costs. The very unions you think are awesome are busy strangling europe, right now today. Do you think china or mexico gives any fucks about human rights? That is what you compete against. You have to be wildly better than them to beat that. You are not even close.

I personally suggest you take a macro economics class. Reduced competition (they were bombed out). A smaller pool of workers (they were dead). The smart people that were still alive migrated to the US because that was the only place to get a decent job. A ready to go work force in the US (that was not bombed out or dead). That lead to an increase in labor costs and production costs. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader what happened.