Okay, I'll explain the fallacy of your own dead horse for you: right now, the buggy whip manufacturer (AT&T) is enjoying historical profits while at the same time demanding the people who generates said profits work for less money.
Everybody is opposed to crony capitalism. The question is whose actions actually promote it, and progressives and Democrats are at the top of the list there.
Progressives are at "the top of the list" for supporting crony capitalism like right-wing conservatives are "at the top of the list" for supporting abortion rights and gun control, or how libertarians are at "the top of the list" for supporting nationalization of industry.
No bigot in the history of the human race has stood up and said "hey everybody, I'm a bigot who has irrational prejudices against people I've never met!" They all have reasons for feeling the way they do. Reasons based on anecdotes, confirmation bias and general bullshit.
Which is exactly what you're doing, with the "Muslims believe in xyz because their book says so" canard. But no one would be stupid enough to apply the same reasoning to Christians, and argue that they all believe in mother-son fucking "because their book says so".
Nothing like some Whataboutism to trivialize a serious security issue.
Just what part of Swiftboating and McCarthyism did you not understand, dumbfuck? Interfering with other countries is what you do, not Russia. Disagree, feel free to demonstrate that the amount evidence to back up Russiagate exceeds the evidence that Obama's parents knew 45 years in advance that he would run for president, and planted a fake birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to back up his fake birth certificate.
Contrasted to the indisputably U.S. backed coups in Honduras and Ukraine, just during the time Obama was in office.
No, just Russia that invaded and annexed half of another country, breaking the promises it made when that nation voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons.
Russia hasn't invaded shit, your braindead tool. Years of pictures posted to social media from your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine, but not a single photo from a U.S. satellite or drone showing Russian troops in Ukraine or invading Crimea. The latter of which had an existing agreement for a Russian naval base - does the U.S. Army "invade" Germany whenever troops are sent to one of the existing bases there? - and voted overwhelmingly to joint Russia, in no small part due to your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine and their xenophobia.
But even if all your bullshit on Russia and Ukraine was completely true, it would still be more justified than any American "intervention" you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the elected government of Ukraine.
Right now, progressives are wanting the government to spend to rebuild in areas threatened by climate change and then simultaneously use those risks to justify spending even more money to combat climate change. It's a crony capitalist scheme on an utterly unprecedented scale.
Progressives are opposed to crony capitalism, so I'd like to see links to these progressives wanting Houston - that's suffered what, it third 500 year flood in three years - to rebuild in areas that have been wiped out. Areas that mostly affect poor residents.
Mmm, sounds like a libertarian tautology. Regulation is no more dangerous than any other human construct, like business contracts or deeds. The lack of regulation, though, has caused plenty of harm including deaths, though: the people who died on the Deep Horizon rig during Katrina, the dozens to hundreds of people who burned up in that London highrise because better materials would have cost a few thousand pounds, those chemical plants in Texas that have leaked or blown up, who's owners argued for lax regulations....
Amazing how horrible these GOPers are, that the only evidence of them being bad has to be made up. You would think you could just pull anything they did ever and it would be proof of how bad they are, but you don't you literally make shit up and claim its the truth.
I constantly call out Russiagate for the unhinged McCarthyism it is, so in your attempt to call bullshit here you only got it all over your face. Now, back to the topic, it's a fact that Bush skipped out on his Air Guard service, which in itself was a way to get out of Vietnam. I wouldn't GAF about that, as the occupation of Vietnam was a crime against humanity that killed millions, if Bushco hadn't gone around smearing anyone who questioned the illegal Afghanistan and Iraq wars as cowards.
We should be proud of the fact that we helped put down the Arab dictatorships
Like when we sold weapons to the Bahrain dictatorship to brutally put down their Arab Spring protests, while at the very same time bombing Gaddafi to protect his Arab Spring protestors?
Yeah, they were written in a proportionally-spaced font
All of which was able to be done on typewriters made in the 70's. The rest of your post is continued fucking of a decade old dead chicken.
4) When are you fuckheads going to demand every media person who repeated Bush's Iraq lies be fired
Great, now your dragging in Iraq. Can't win defending Dan rather, so you try to muddy the waters.
Wingnut translator: "don't highlight the fact we are hypocritical, brain dead partisan hacks who created a standard that applies to Dan Rather, and no one but Dan Rather! Certainly not Fox News, which would have had to fire every person who worked for the organization if reporting false information was really a problem for us!"
You're as bad as the Hillbots who go on defending her private email server, right after being shown video of her complaining about the Bush Administration's use of private email. You guys hang out for coffee and doughnuts?
Russia is trying to incite civil war and very few people see how.
Maybe because it's the most deranged conspiracy theory since the idea Obama's parents knew in the 60's that he'd be president, and planted a fake birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to back up the Kenyan's fake birth certificate?
The story goes that Putin was crafty enough to dug up dirt (which all happens to be true) on Hillary (who was already campaigning on shooting down Russian jets in Syria) and gave it to Wikileaks to torpedo her campaign. Yet Putin, while being that crafty, was at the same time dumb as a sack of hammers by colluding with Trump, because reasons. Which means the CIA and the NSA would have known all about this collusion.
Which means President Hillary - it was still her election to lose right up until she didn't bother campaigning in the Rust Belt - would have known about it too. Which means this entire storyline is nothing but Swiftboating projection from partisan tribalists. Interfering with other countries governments and elections, both overtly and covertly, is what you do to the rest of the world.
Ummm, when a source gives you a DEMONSTRABLY FORGED document
Wingnuts questioning a document doesn't mean it's a forgery - just ask Obama's birth certificate. The authenticity of the documents one way or the other was never proven, and never will be as the source provided copies, not originals.
"Fake but accurate"
Who cares? If the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives turns out to be a forgery of the original - but one that is completely accurate - does that mean it shouldn't be quoted?
comes from CBS's legal department
The one that was determined to toss Rather out the door? Golly gee!
In other words, they de facto admitted that Dan Rather is the ultimate purveyor of fake news - literally.
Literally more bullshit than a cattle feedlot. You wingnuts have spent over a decade fucking that chicken but DGAF that Bush did in fact go AWOL on his Guard service, only to run around accusing anyone who questioned the Iraq war as a coward.
And, you're the third AC to skate right on past the fact that none of you fuckwits has ever called for anyone to resign for repeating Bush's lies over Iraq. Which are proven.
The worst fakers get fired or reassigned (Dan Rather, Brian Williams, etc.)
Fakiest fakest fake false equivalence. Rather reported on a story made by a producer, who (as a fraction of the case that Bush went AWOL on his Air Guard commitments) included memos from a source. Memos that, even if forged, were accurate representations of the base commander's thoughts on Bush.
Contrast that to all the media reporters and pundits who breathlessly repeated Bush's claims on Saddam's WMD's, which were built on more bullshit than you can find at a cattle feedlot. Not one of the Rather haters demanded any of those people be fired.
Wingnut lies about Rather were deliberate, not an honest mistake.
FTFY. Even if the Air Guard memos were faked - which were a fraction of the case that Bush skipped out on his Guard commitments - the source only forged the truth. And this was a source, not something that Rather pulled out of his ass - and we don't see wingnuts demanding that every media person who ever covered Bush's claims on Iraq be fired, as those were indisputably lies.
Um...everything? Complete this sentence: "the sun never sets on the XYZ Empire." Did Russia have colonies across the world? How about China?
They didn't have matching technology
You're right - China was a century ahead of any European country in naval prowess, yet they didn't establish a global empire - as opposed to England and Spain.
but if your objection is aspiration of world conquest, the original point falls apart
Or you're just really eager to hold onto that false equivalency.
You're conflating racism and stupidity with being racist against a religion.
Not in the slightest. The Venn diagram between select races/ethnic groups and the "radical Islamists" islamphobes like to whine about is a complete overlap. This is following the well known Lee Atwater trope:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****" â" that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me â" because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****."
Instead of "n*****", American Exceptionalists say "muslim". Or "illegal immigrant", in the case of latinos. It's all the same shit.
Attacking the religion is not however racist. "The Koran advocates pedophilia" is an attack on Islam (that may or may not be accurate) but at no point infers or requires a Muslim to be a specific race.
Which is complete idiocy. No different from pretending that Christians are supporters of child murder because the Bible says Abraham hauled up his son on top a mountain and was prepared to sacrifice him to please Jehovah. Or that Christians believe in incest because Eve fucked her son to continue the species.
It costs too much to mitigate climate change (keeping climate as the farmers have known it for centuries), but dealing with much of the Rockies being on fire in the north (from dry and hot temperatures) and the south being flooded from powerful hurricanes (wet and hot temperatures) is completely free!
There is too much risk that the Russian government, which is basically a massive criminal enterprise, has its fingers in that pie.
Swiftboating + McCarthyism = American Exceptionalism. It's not Russia that has spent the last 15 years bombing the better part of a dozen countries for bullshit reasons, overthrown two democracies, and executed three disastrous regime change operations that have gotten a couple million people killed and millions more made into refugees.
Of course you can. Ask any American Exceptionalist to describe the sort of Muslims he's talking about, and you're going to have a list that looks like this:
1) Arab 2) Arab 3) Someone from one of the 'stans (who looks pretty much just like an Arab) 4) Black African
You can however highlight the lack of logic, rationality, common sense or morality to their beliefs, you can tell them they're ignorant savage cunts and you can mock them.
Sure you can - because the right to be a completely ignorant racist towards Muslims is one of the more cherished uses of the freedom of speech amongst American Exceptionalists.
Yes. England invaded lots of places. So did Spain and Russia (as it expanded east) and China (as it expanded west) and the Zulus (as they expanded south) and the Chaldeans and the Egyptians and the Greeks and the Persians and the... (you get the point).
The point seems to rest on a heap of false equivalencies, as only two of of the countries on your list aspired to globe-spanning empires.
Call us when they decide to give citizens freedom of speech and expression.
You mean like the freedom to advocate for boycotting Apartheid Israel without being sent to jail for the bullshit charge of antisemitism - or just the "freedom" to be complete racist assholes to Muslims a la Charlie Hebdo?
Apple is largely being called out because they have been the quickest to sue others for doing the same.
That's the Hateboi Hatorade talking. If Apple was a patent troll, you'd see a thousand more times as many lawsuits from them. When they do sue it's because someone actually copied their shit.
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Okay, I'll explain the fallacy of your own dead horse for you: right now, the buggy whip manufacturer (AT&T) is enjoying historical profits while at the same time demanding the people who generates said profits work for less money.
Progressives are at "the top of the list" for supporting crony capitalism like right-wing conservatives are "at the top of the list" for supporting abortion rights and gun control, or how libertarians are at "the top of the list" for supporting nationalization of industry.
No bigot in the history of the human race has stood up and said "hey everybody, I'm a bigot who has irrational prejudices against people I've never met!" They all have reasons for feeling the way they do. Reasons based on anecdotes, confirmation bias and general bullshit.
Which is exactly what you're doing, with the "Muslims believe in xyz because their book says so" canard. But no one would be stupid enough to apply the same reasoning to Christians, and argue that they all believe in mother-son fucking "because their book says so".
Just what part of Swiftboating and McCarthyism did you not understand, dumbfuck? Interfering with other countries is what you do, not Russia. Disagree, feel free to demonstrate that the amount evidence to back up Russiagate exceeds the evidence that Obama's parents knew 45 years in advance that he would run for president, and planted a fake birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to back up his fake birth certificate.
Contrasted to the indisputably U.S. backed coups in Honduras and Ukraine, just during the time Obama was in office.
Russia hasn't invaded shit, your braindead tool. Years of pictures posted to social media from your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine, but not a single photo from a U.S. satellite or drone showing Russian troops in Ukraine or invading Crimea. The latter of which had an existing agreement for a Russian naval base - does the U.S. Army "invade" Germany whenever troops are sent to one of the existing bases there? - and voted overwhelmingly to joint Russia, in no small part due to your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine and their xenophobia.
But even if all your bullshit on Russia and Ukraine was completely true, it would still be more justified than any American "intervention" you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the elected government of Ukraine.
Go back to gargling Cheney's balls, shitbag.
Progressives are opposed to crony capitalism, so I'd like to see links to these progressives wanting Houston - that's suffered what, it third 500 year flood in three years - to rebuild in areas that have been wiped out. Areas that mostly affect poor residents.
Mmm, sounds like a libertarian tautology. Regulation is no more dangerous than any other human construct, like business contracts or deeds. The lack of regulation, though, has caused plenty of harm including deaths, though: the people who died on the Deep Horizon rig during Katrina, the dozens to hundreds of people who burned up in that London highrise because better materials would have cost a few thousand pounds, those chemical plants in Texas that have leaked or blown up, who's owners argued for lax regulations....
I constantly call out Russiagate for the unhinged McCarthyism it is, so in your attempt to call bullshit here you only got it all over your face. Now, back to the topic, it's a fact that Bush skipped out on his Air Guard service, which in itself was a way to get out of Vietnam. I wouldn't GAF about that, as the occupation of Vietnam was a crime against humanity that killed millions, if Bushco hadn't gone around smearing anyone who questioned the illegal Afghanistan and Iraq wars as cowards.
Like when we sold weapons to the Bahrain dictatorship to brutally put down their Arab Spring protests, while at the very same time bombing Gaddafi to protect his Arab Spring protestors?
All of which was able to be done on typewriters made in the 70's. The rest of your post is continued fucking of a decade old dead chicken.
Wingnut translator: "don't highlight the fact we are hypocritical, brain dead partisan hacks who created a standard that applies to Dan Rather, and no one but Dan Rather! Certainly not Fox News, which would have had to fire every person who worked for the organization if reporting false information was really a problem for us!"
You're as bad as the Hillbots who go on defending her private email server, right after being shown video of her complaining about the Bush Administration's use of private email. You guys hang out for coffee and doughnuts?
Maybe because it's the most deranged conspiracy theory since the idea Obama's parents knew in the 60's that he'd be president, and planted a fake birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to back up the Kenyan's fake birth certificate?
The story goes that Putin was crafty enough to dug up dirt (which all happens to be true) on Hillary (who was already campaigning on shooting down Russian jets in Syria) and gave it to Wikileaks to torpedo her campaign. Yet Putin, while being that crafty, was at the same time dumb as a sack of hammers by colluding with Trump, because reasons. Which means the CIA and the NSA would have known all about this collusion.
Which means President Hillary - it was still her election to lose right up until she didn't bother campaigning in the Rust Belt - would have known about it too. Which means this entire storyline is nothing but Swiftboating projection from partisan tribalists. Interfering with other countries governments and elections, both overtly and covertly, is what you do to the rest of the world.
Wingnuts questioning a document doesn't mean it's a forgery - just ask Obama's birth certificate. The authenticity of the documents one way or the other was never proven, and never will be as the source provided copies, not originals.
Who cares? If the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives turns out to be a forgery of the original - but one that is completely accurate - does that mean it shouldn't be quoted?
The one that was determined to toss Rather out the door? Golly gee!
Literally more bullshit than a cattle feedlot. You wingnuts have spent over a decade fucking that chicken but DGAF that Bush did in fact go AWOL on his Guard service, only to run around accusing anyone who questioned the Iraq war as a coward.
And, you're the third AC to skate right on past the fact that none of you fuckwits has ever called for anyone to resign for repeating Bush's lies over Iraq. Which are proven.
1) They were never demonstrated to be fake
2) Even if they were forged, it was a forgery of the base commander's actual views
3) And even then Rather had nothing to do with the production of the report, most of it not based on memos from the base commander
4) When are you fuckheads going to demand every media person who repeated Bush's Iraq lies be fired
Fakiest fakest fake false equivalence. Rather reported on a story made by a producer, who (as a fraction of the case that Bush went AWOL on his Air Guard commitments) included memos from a source. Memos that, even if forged, were accurate representations of the base commander's thoughts on Bush.
Contrast that to all the media reporters and pundits who breathlessly repeated Bush's claims on Saddam's WMD's, which were built on more bullshit than you can find at a cattle feedlot. Not one of the Rather haters demanded any of those people be fired.
FTFY. Even if the Air Guard memos were faked - which were a fraction of the case that Bush skipped out on his Guard commitments - the source only forged the truth. And this was a source, not something that Rather pulled out of his ass - and we don't see wingnuts demanding that every media person who ever covered Bush's claims on Iraq be fired, as those were indisputably lies.
Um...everything? Complete this sentence: "the sun never sets on the XYZ Empire." Did Russia have colonies across the world? How about China?
You're right - China was a century ahead of any European country in naval prowess, yet they didn't establish a global empire - as opposed to England and Spain.
Or you're just really eager to hold onto that false equivalency.
Not in the slightest. The Venn diagram between select races/ethnic groups and the "radical Islamists" islamphobes like to whine about is a complete overlap. This is following the well known Lee Atwater trope:
Instead of "n*****", American Exceptionalists say "muslim". Or "illegal immigrant", in the case of latinos. It's all the same shit.
Which is complete idiocy. No different from pretending that Christians are supporters of child murder because the Bible says Abraham hauled up his son on top a mountain and was prepared to sacrifice him to please Jehovah. Or that Christians believe in incest because Eve fucked her son to continue the species.
Complete. Idiocy.
It costs too much to mitigate climate change (keeping climate as the farmers have known it for centuries), but dealing with much of the Rockies being on fire in the north (from dry and hot temperatures) and the south being flooded from powerful hurricanes (wet and hot temperatures) is completely free!
Swiftboating + McCarthyism = American Exceptionalism. It's not Russia that has spent the last 15 years bombing the better part of a dozen countries for bullshit reasons, overthrown two democracies, and executed three disastrous regime change operations that have gotten a couple million people killed and millions more made into refugees.
Even back when it was going to be nothing more than a Blackberry clone? Okay, Fandroid.
Of course you can. Ask any American Exceptionalist to describe the sort of Muslims he's talking about, and you're going to have a list that looks like this:
1) Arab
2) Arab
3) Someone from one of the 'stans (who looks pretty much just like an Arab)
4) Black African
Sure you can - because the right to be a completely ignorant racist towards Muslims is one of the more cherished uses of the freedom of speech amongst American Exceptionalists.
The point seems to rest on a heap of false equivalencies, as only two of of the countries on your list aspired to globe-spanning empires.
You mean like the freedom to advocate for boycotting Apartheid Israel without being sent to jail for the bullshit charge of antisemitism - or just the "freedom" to be complete racist assholes to Muslims a la Charlie Hebdo?
No, that's what the Apple Hatebois make it out to be. Rounded corners were the least of the lawsuit, so that's why you leave the rest of it out.
Nevermind that every mobile device has been a ripoff of the Apple Newton, if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
All tech companies patent everything they possibly can. It's only becomes a problem if the company involved is named Apple, because reasons.
That's the Hateboi Hatorade talking. If Apple was a patent troll, you'd see a thousand more times as many lawsuits from them. When they do sue it's because someone actually copied their shit.