Whoah, 1776 was not a good time, there was a war in America, that's never good. People getting killed willy nilly, even if they weren't interested in politics.
Socially, things are much better and continue to get better on most fronts, though the end of the cold war has led to a slide back as the ruling rich don't feel much of a need to make peace with the middle class.
There's two kinds of people who talk like that, the idiots and the liars. The Father is smart so he's just dishonest. He know she's stupid, but he gets fed his talking points from Rush, Beck and so on, guys who lie so often and so destructively (Iraq anyone?) that no smart and honest person could be a fan.
They put a lot of effort into keeping us divided. The absolute hatred for Democrats and Liberals that a big chunk of Republicans have was a deliberate creation over many years by right wing radio and Fox news in particular. It's now to the point where many Republicans think Democrats are by default traitors, and I don't just mean the Democratic politicians, but every day folk who vote that way.
Every successful mass reactionary movement has worked this way: massive spending on media to get a solid chunk of the country hating the rest.
Just like they killed off the phone sex lines? The ongoing failure of net neutrality will lead to the end of your favorite porn sites since most will just get squeezed out of business.
Waging a war of aggression is a war crime. Torture is a crime under US law and under international law when anyone does it to anyone regardless of uniform. Indefinite detention is a crime in the US.
"Well regulated" refers to the militia, not the guns. Personally I'm for the freedom to bear arms that can be used by Just Folks to stop modern armies: RPGs, shoulder launched SAMs, assault rifles, and lot and lots of high explosives. That's the only kind of militia that makes sense in this day and age. Does the second amendment allow all that?
Something for nothing isn't absurd when we're paying 3 times as much for worse outcomes than a boatload of other nations.
Then we had incidents where Boeing slashed benefits and blamed it on Obamacare, then admitted later they were planning to anyway.
The insurance "industry" isn't going to collapse. We've got lots of examples of more highly regulated insurance, here in the US even, where the companies hum along just fine, where people and employers can still buy insurance, only the insurer can't screw them over. It really can work.
Why the hell isn't this modded +5? Are people even capable of learning from experience? A fucking flatworm can do that much. Has even one Republican apologized for spending our time and money staring at Clinton's Cock and blowing up kids in Baghdad instead of working to improve the country?
Do you even read what you right? How can it break a promise if it isn't started yet? And do you really think with 20% per year increase in health costs that premiums would not have gone up if the Republicans had defeated the bill?
There's been tons of oversight over the stimulus, which saw remarkably little corruption for a bill its size, the deficit has actually gone down, and Obamacare was virtually identical to proposals put forward by Republicans and still did not win the votes of the very same Republicans who originally made the proposals. Could that be because Republicans were following their stated strategy of blocking anything that Obama supports? Heck, they even blocked increases to Veteran's benefits. The Republicans would routinely hold up approval of presidential appointments for people that had near unanimous support *from* *Republicans*.
Your opinion about Obama is based on an understanding that is almost 180 degrees from the truth.
They don't call it "sidewalk crime" because they call it "street crime", which is totally different and wildly inaccurate by several feet in some jurisdictions.
Money, because he's just a scumbag that can be dealt with, one scumbag at a time by the whole community. We used to have folks around here promising to hang interracial couples from the nearest street light. Local law never did anything to these guys. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno came in and kicked their asses continually until they went to jail or just left.
Someone once compared the loebner prize to encouraging the invention of a flying machine by giving a prize to the device to that reaches the greatest height, leading to bigger and more efficient springs. I think the prize should go to the chat bot that makes the best DM.
"While the movies are often good, sometimes excellent, they are also often so far from the book that you wonder whether the screenwriter tossed darts at the cliff notes, and wrote a new script out of that."
Which would be a fitting way to script "Man in the High Castle"
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Whoah, 1776 was not a good time, there was a war in America, that's never good. People getting killed willy nilly, even if they weren't interested in politics.
Socially, things are much better and continue to get better on most fronts, though the end of the cold war has led to a slide back as the ruling rich don't feel much of a need to make peace with the middle class.
Obama has a knack for picking his opponents, Hillary was his only tough one since his first congressional run. It sounds like something he'd do.
There's two kinds of people who talk like that, the idiots and the liars. The Father is smart so he's just dishonest. He know she's stupid, but he gets fed his talking points from Rush, Beck and so on, guys who lie so often and so destructively (Iraq anyone?) that no smart and honest person could be a fan.
They put a lot of effort into keeping us divided. The absolute hatred for Democrats and Liberals that a big chunk of Republicans have was a deliberate creation over many years by right wing radio and Fox news in particular. It's now to the point where many Republicans think Democrats are by default traitors, and I don't just mean the Democratic politicians, but every day folk who vote that way.
Every successful mass reactionary movement has worked this way: massive spending on media to get a solid chunk of the country hating the rest.
For moral reasons? The little bundle of cells didn't choose to be conceived through incest.
Just like they killed off the phone sex lines? The ongoing failure of net neutrality will lead to the end of your favorite porn sites since most will just get squeezed out of business.
As well they should, don't you see the danger of internet providers controlling content?
Jerry Springer might as well be Socrates if you put him up against the top cultural heroes of today.
Waging a war of aggression is a war crime. Torture is a crime under US law and under international law when anyone does it to anyone regardless of uniform. Indefinite detention is a crime in the US.
Companies shouldn't be allowed to buy other companies.
"Well regulated" refers to the militia, not the guns. Personally I'm for the freedom to bear arms that can be used by Just Folks to stop modern armies: RPGs, shoulder launched SAMs, assault rifles, and lot and lots of high explosives. That's the only kind of militia that makes sense in this day and age. Does the second amendment allow all that?
Something for nothing isn't absurd when we're paying 3 times as much for worse outcomes than a boatload of other nations.
Then we had incidents where Boeing slashed benefits and blamed it on Obamacare, then admitted later they were planning to anyway.
The insurance "industry" isn't going to collapse. We've got lots of examples of more highly regulated insurance, here in the US even, where the companies hum along just fine, where people and employers can still buy insurance, only the insurer can't screw them over. It really can work.
Why the hell isn't this modded +5? Are people even capable of learning from experience? A fucking flatworm can do that much. Has even one Republican apologized for spending our time and money staring at Clinton's Cock and blowing up kids in Baghdad instead of working to improve the country?
Do you even read what you right? How can it break a promise if it isn't started yet? And do you really think with 20% per year increase in health costs that premiums would not have gone up if the Republicans had defeated the bill?
There's been tons of oversight over the stimulus, which saw remarkably little corruption for a bill its size, the deficit has actually gone down, and Obamacare was virtually identical to proposals put forward by Republicans and still did not win the votes of the very same Republicans who originally made the proposals. Could that be because Republicans were following their stated strategy of blocking anything that Obama supports? Heck, they even blocked increases to Veteran's benefits. The Republicans would routinely hold up approval of presidential appointments for people that had near unanimous support *from* *Republicans*.
Your opinion about Obama is based on an understanding that is almost 180 degrees from the truth.
They don't call it "sidewalk crime" because they call it "street crime", which is totally different and wildly inaccurate by several feet in some jurisdictions.
What a dumb summary.
Money, because he's just a scumbag that can be dealt with, one scumbag at a time by the whole community. We used to have folks around here promising to hang interracial couples from the nearest street light. Local law never did anything to these guys. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno came in and kicked their asses continually until they went to jail or just left.
Someone once compared the loebner prize to encouraging the invention of a flying machine by giving a prize to the device to that reaches the greatest height, leading to bigger and more efficient springs. I think the prize should go to the chat bot that makes the best DM.
And people laugh at obama for wanting to get rid of nuclear weapons.
Fuckin A
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"While the movies are often good, sometimes excellent, they are also often so far from the book that you wonder whether the screenwriter tossed darts at the cliff notes, and wrote a new script out of that."
Which would be a fitting way to script "Man in the High Castle"
I know this is a joke, but have you seen the interest rates on treasury bonds? We're rolling in dough if we want it.
You missed the sarcasm, and Internet != Twitter
Most members aren't that rich. If they are doing well, it's because they are unionized.