US Politics Thread |OT| THE DARKEST TIMELINE

[Oblivion]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/libertarian-utopia-styled-after-ayn-rand-book-spectacularly-falls-apart-almost-immediately/

“When you ‘sold’ us the property, when you printed out a photo from your phone that read ‘Wendy’s tree,’ did you know you could not legally sell us the lot you were offering?” He said, “That is correct.”

When you get right down to it, there's really only two types of right-wingers: the scammers and the scammees.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Of course libertopians will just say it wasn't "free" enough to be a real test of libertopian ideals.

Well yeah. No 1.25 acre lots? The fuck is that shit?

I want to see one of these actually get off the ground without being fucked over by some third world government.

[Great Rumbler]

CNN anchor Don Lemon, no stranger to the occasional head-scratching observation, took a debate over corporal punishment to a strange place on Wednesday night with a pair of remarks.

Lemon took issue with his colleague Chris Cuomo, who argued that research clearly shown that spanking children is not effective discipline.

He told Cuomo that his parents used corporal punishment on him and he, in turn, employed similar methods on his pet.

"Listen, I went to training — I hate to do this — with my dog, and fear is the same thing," Lemon said. "You have to teach who's in control."

"It doesn't matter whether it's fear or what have you, I'm saying this, because it stops you from doing it," he added.

Lemon eventually admitted that the child abuse allegations against Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson have caused him to "evolve" on the matter; he just doesn't think spanking should be completely taken off the table.

The anchor said Peterson's alleged abuse has also prompted him to examine the historical nature of the issue.

“Especially for me as an African-American, because the question is where did you learn that from? Was that learned from the slave master? Getting the switch? Being beaten?” Lemon asked.

That point left Cuomo and CNN's Alisyn Camerota a bit confused.

"How is that a rationale?” Cuomo said. “Help me with this. Is this white man's ignorance? I keep hearing this. Well, maybe it was passed down from slave culture. Why would that be a rationale to continue a practice like this? Isn’t that the last thing you would want to continue?”

"Because Chris, the slaves were beaten and some people had to go and get the whip," Lemon responded.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'm still not convinced that Don Lemon isn't some white guy in shoe polish. Just sayin'.

[Dickie Dee]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/cliven-bundy-blames-state-for-faulty-fence-after-woman-sues-him-for-interstate-cow-crash/

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[Great Rumbler]

[Yeti]

How is Cliven Bundy STILL not in jail? 

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

http://time.com/3395791/occupy-wall-street-activists-suing-ex-member-over-twitter-account/

A group of Occupy activists filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan court Wednesday alleging that one of their ex-members had gone rogue and hijacked the account for himself, locking everyone else out.

The lawsuit says that Adbusters — the Canadian magazine that first called for demonstrators to occupy New York City’s financial spine — opened the @OccupyWallStNYC Twitter account in summer 2011, according to the New York Times.

Adbusters later gave the account to Marisa Holmes, an activist and filmmaker, who apparently shared the account’s password with 14 group members who all tweeted from it.

Or they did until this August, when one activist, Justin Wedes, changed the password.

In blog post soon after the takeover, Wedes said that the relationships among the account’s users — whom he called #TweetBoat — had degenerated over the past few years, into a “dust storm of festering interpersonal conflict.”

That month, he “started to worry about the future of the boat,” wrote Wedes, who has not returned media requests for comment.

“I don’t shy away from currently being the chief steward of this account,” he said, “and my plan is to reinvigorate it again by putting it back in the hands of responsible stewards.”

In a long statement entitled “The Wolf of Occupy Wall Street,” the group excoriated Wedes for using its Twitter account for self-promotion and pulling “a power grab” that “violated our basic principles of organizing within Occupy.”

Occupy — which just celebrated its third birthday on Sept. 17 — said it had asked Wedes in August to cut down on his tweeting from the account, after too many referred to his controversial personal project for water rights in Detroit.

“Throughout our brief history there have been opportunists who would use the name to build their personal careers and benefit financially from their association with Occupy Wall Street,” said the group, adding that it disavows “any connection between this individual and the movement at large.”

[benjipwns]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/218134-left-blasts-hillary-clinton-in-secret-emails

Clayton suggested in an email from January of this year that without a more liberal alternative to Clinton, the party would splinter: “if we have no Progressive candidate with legitimate street cred about taking effective bold action to face the vital issues we’re confronting as a country today (which is pretty much Warren and ... cricket, cricket...) in the race for Presidency, that means the abandonment of the Democratic Party by the reemerging and resurgent Left in America.”

2016 is going to look like 1920.

[Human Snorenado]

Implying the left in America is reemerging and resurgent

[benjipwns]

Billy Wimsatt, the founder of the group, stated in a September 2013 email, “I’m ready for something better and Warren is the only person on the radar who might be significantly better. Warren doesn’t need to appreciate it. Leadership isn’t fun. She doesn’t get to tell people that we can’t want something better.”

[Human Snorenado]

Treat politics as if they're a way to fulfill your hopes and aspirations instead of to control your environment, brehs

These fuckers need to stfu and stick to drum circles

 

[benjipwns]

HEY! You don't get to tell people they can't want something better EITHER!!!!

[Kara]

Excoriate(d) is a Black Library oft-used thesaurus word. WTG for reaching 40K tier, Time.

[toku]

 

[Joe Molotov]

Time: "Will bombings in Syria lead to more blood for the blood god; skulls for the skull throne?"

[toku]

Time: "Will bombings in Syria lead to more blood for the blood god; skulls for the skull throne?"

CNN: Recent breakthroughs in medicine could mean that even death our troops will still serve

[Great Rumbler]

[benjipwns]

Well, let's think about this for a minute, if we invade and annex Mexico...

[Joe Molotov]

LASER BLITZ SOME PEOPLE WITH FIGHTER JETS TO MAKE YOUR POINT! WHISPERING, I'M TOTALLY DOWN FOR STARTING A WAR WITH MEXICO!

[I'm a Puppy!]

I say we send down Optimus Prime to deal with the threat.

[Kara]

Time: "Will bombings in Syria lead to more blood for the blood god; skulls for the skull throne?"

CNN: Recent breakthroughs in medicine could mean that even death our troops will still serve

I like the drop off in likes from Joe's to this one. You can tell you've fallen down the obscure 40K reference hole even though this one is from a semi-popular vidcon.

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This is why I didn't even bother to try and make one of my own because I knew only Cheezmo might get it.

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[Phoenix Dark]

Treat politics as if they're a way to fulfill your hopes and aspirations instead of to control your environment, brehs

These fuckers need to stfu and stick to drum circles

 

What exactly would Warren accomplish with a republican House of Representatives?


The goal should be to elect more Warren types in the house and senate every couple years. So the next time a democrat president gets elected he/she isn't greeted by Blanche Lincoln and Joe Lieberman types...

[Kara]

Fuck it.

HuffPo: Obama on criticisms from the left of his presidency - "Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."

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"And I serve the Changer of Ways."

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I was going to put, "The dark God, the Changer of Ways," but no racist.

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Isador

[benjipwns]

But that's the problem with this country, we need more statesmen like Lieberman and McCain and Graham and Baucus and Mark Pryor and Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords and Evan Bayh and Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chafee and John Breaux.

People who are willing to reach across the aisle and pass something, anything, to get their name in the news and invited on more talk shows and have more profiles about their patriotic sacrifice for this country that makes them Presidential material.

[Kara]

Excoriate(d) is a Black Library oft-used thesaurus word. WTG for reaching 40K tier, Time.

Addendum: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Excoriators

Remembered this one in the car today.

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I understood every word of that article's introductory paragraph.

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[Joe Molotov]

Time: "Will bombings in Syria lead to more blood for the blood god; skulls for the skull throne?"

CNN: Recent breakthroughs in medicine could mean that even death our troops will still serve

I like the drop off in likes from Joe's to this one. You can tell you've fallen down the obscure 40K reference hole even though this one is from a semi-popular vidcon.

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This is why I didn't even bother to try and make one of my own because I knew only Cheezmo might get it.

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Pulling in some cheap likes with literally one of the only things I know about Warhammer. It's so heretical, brehs.

[Kara]

Pulling in some cheap likes with literally one of the only things I know about Warhammer. It's so heretical, brehs.

When I said y'all needed to find the eightfold path I actually meant for you to find Khorne.

[Phoenix Dark]

Are you one of those Soulcage Slaveship status noobs who never actually played 40k?

[Phoenix Dark]

too bad he supports airstrikes.

[I'm a Puppy!]

47 minutes of Rand Paul? That's almost a John Galt-esque diatribe level no matter what he's talking about.

[Joe Molotov]

There's no way Ran Paul can talk for 45 minutes without saying something insane.

[Yeti]

Popeyegate, Thorghazi, and Wonder Woman's patriotism called into question

[benjipwns]

 

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/obama-michael-boggs_n_5860730.html

Another Obama nominee torpedoed by obstructionist Republicans SJWs.

[benjipwns]

 

[Joe Molotov]

[Brehvolution]

Just another turd on bullshit mountain. 

[benjipwns]

Airstrikes. Bomb them! Bomb them! Keep bombing them! Bomb them again and again!

[Joe Molotov]

Bombing Arabs is the Final Fantasy XV of American foreign politics. It's been in development for a while under a variety of different names, all with few obvious results, it kinda hit a lull, people started to lose interest, but now we've got some new videos, some new talent involved, development is ramping back up, and it's starting to feel fresh and exciting again.

[Great Rumbler]

"I've been telling you for months that you need to be afraid."

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/obama-michael-boggs_n_5860730.html

Another Obama nominee torpedoed by obstructionist Republicans SJWs.

Good.

[Joe Molotov]

The greatest threat in American history.

Even worse than Obamacare and Socialism.

[Great Rumbler]

 

[Phoenix Dark]

"I've been telling you for months that you need to be afraid."

(Image removed from quote.) at Republicans making it seem like Obama is allowing a portal full of Burning Legion Arabs to open right in front of the White House.

did you just out yourself as a WoW stan?


second best expansion

[Phoenix Dark]

I always want to hate on W3 but honestly, while I didn't play it nearly as much as W2...it was a good game overall. The depth of the multiplayer options

[benjipwns]

I like how I'm supposed to tremble at people getting inside the White House fence. The fence is like a fucking mile from the residence at this point. They aren't going over it at the part that's got actual security.

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Why should I care that anyone gets near the President anyway?

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[Brehvolution]

The NSA is watching you take that picture through your own phone's camera.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

The NSA is watching you take that picture through your own phone's camera.

Probably...and since it's run like every other government organization it will require a sign off with 82 levels of approval in order to call the phone and tell said person to stop being a troll.

[Brehvolution]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/22/investing/defense-stocks-isis-bounce/index.html?iid=Lead

Wag the dog, brehs.

[Brehvolution]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-bolling-and-anthony-weiner-are-going-at-it-on-twitter-right-now/

[Kara]

No, I only played the RTS.

MMO gaming ruined all the story lines in the original games modern Blizzard

Warcraft 3 ruined the Warcraft story plenty enough on its own breh.

[Human Snorenado]

Playing video games for the story

[Steve Contra]

There was a Warcraft story

[Kara]

Yes and my brain is full of stupid shit like the betrayal of Alterac that is best left there and on WoWpedia.

[Phoenix Dark]

Warcraft 3 ruined the Warcraft story plenty enough on its own breh.

my counterpoint:

no it didn't

eh....

W3's story definitely had some lol worthy shit but it also laid the basis for some of the best WarCraft stories, and early parts of WoW. Namely Stratholme and the fall of Arthas.

People who shit on WoW's story are usually people who don't know anything about it. I thought the lore and shit was fine initially but turned to utter shit later. All the Lich King stuff is good. In fact it's a direct continuation of W3's story.

I really think WoW died with Arthas. After I killed him I just didn't feel like there was much else to give a shit about.

[Oblivion]

I saw the Expendables 3 and they made a reference to BENGHAZI!

Now I don't feel so bad for it bombing.

[toku]

 

I actually let out a "aha! whew!" irl

[benjipwns]

More females in gaming would be a Road Rash to Serfdom #gamergate