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| Xosaia | Jun 23 2011, 06:46 PM Post #31 |
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Once again, agreed overall. On the two choices, I believe the reason it occurs that way is slightly different, but I share your sentiments. My feeling is that the main reason ppl just vote democrat or republican is because they know that if they vote for something else, it won't count. E.g., if I were to vote green Libertarian instead of democrat, then for all intents and purposes it's just taking a vote away from the "real" left candidate, and thus in essence giving the right candidate a vote. Of course, that's only because everyone thinks that way; if something happened to really spread the votes, then it should stabilize that way. And I use the terms left and right loosely. I am more than willing to agree with right-wingers if I agree with their position. I almost entirely agree with the republican viewpoints I've heard on Libya, and I almost entirely disagree with the views I've heard from democratic politicians. Of course, I think they are both being extremely hypocritical, but whatever. I'm sure there are conservatives who agree with Obama on libya, and at least maintaining a constant position, and I know there are liberals (like me) who think Obama's pulling typical politician bs. And actually, it makes me feel a lot better to agree with you . I think my view of the right is largely dominated by my view of right wing politicians, who in my opinion are almost unanimously hypocritical, selfish people, and the Tea Party, which I view as severely deficient. Of course, there are plenty of lying, hypocritical, selfish democratic politicians (in fact, most politicians probably fit that category), but in my opinion, on average they tend to have a little more integrity and a little less selfishness than their right counterparts. However, I fully recognize that that view could be entirely because of the environment in which I live, and If someone shows me that that really is the only reason for my position, than I will be more than willing to accept that. But anyway, what I was originally getting at was this: I disagree with a lot of liberal politicians, but I agree with almost all liberal voters. I disagree with almost all conservative politicians, but there's a good chance that I'd likewise agree with a lot of conservatives. However, since I know very, very few conservatives, and the ones I do know really are biased, hypocritical bigots, they color my view of the right as a whole. So, in conclusion, you are the solar eclipse that proved relativity; the evidence I need to know that half of America isn't really operating without a full deck.Wow, they came out a lot more formal than I wanted it to, lol... |
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| Fenwick | Jun 23 2011, 07:05 PM Post #32 |
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Rofl! Glad I could restore your faith in humanity, if only a little bit.
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| Raz | Jun 25 2011, 11:53 PM Post #33 |
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Baseline: Politicians suck and we could all get along better without them, but that would lead to anarchy which is unknown and therefore is scary so we stick with the known, but deficient, system. |
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| Xosaia | Jun 26 2011, 12:02 AM Post #34 |
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Yup. |
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| Greater Laddneia | Jun 26 2011, 08:54 AM Post #35 |
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Well, there are things we know, and things we don't know, and the things we know we know are known as 'known knowns', but the things we know we don't know are known as 'no knowns', and are kept with the 'no nos'. Just putting that out there... |
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| Leraq | Jun 26 2011, 10:22 AM Post #36 |
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*Cough* Rap news |
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| Greater Laddneia | Jun 26 2011, 10:42 AM Post #37 |
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*Coughcougharticlesarchivedinthebritishlibrarywhatwhat?cough* |
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| Leraq | Jun 26 2011, 11:07 AM Post #38 |
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Cough cough National Archrives do not necessarily = British Library.
Edited by Leraq, Jun 26 2011, 11:07 AM.
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| Greater Laddneia | Jun 26 2011, 12:07 PM Post #39 |
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*coughcoughit'sallbullsh1tcoughcoughi'mateacherandmyfriendis15cougcoughnationalarchiveswhatevercough* |
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| Xosaia | Jun 26 2011, 08:30 PM Post #40 |
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God damn, bless you! Are you ok? |
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. I think my view of the right is largely dominated by my view of right wing politicians, who in my opinion are almost unanimously hypocritical, selfish people, and the Tea Party, which I view as severely deficient. Of course, there are plenty of lying, hypocritical, selfish democratic politicians (in fact, most politicians probably fit that category), but in my opinion, on average they tend to have a little more integrity and a little less selfishness than their right counterparts. However, I fully recognize that that view could be entirely because of the environment in which I live, and If someone shows me that that really is the only reason for my position, than I will be more than willing to accept that. But anyway, what I was originally getting at was this: I disagree with a lot of liberal politicians, but I agree with almost all liberal voters. I disagree with almost all conservative politicians, but there's a good chance that I'd likewise agree with a lot of conservatives. However, since I know very, very few conservatives, and the ones I do know really are biased, hypocritical bigots, they color my view of the right as a whole. So, in conclusion, you are the solar eclipse that proved relativity; the evidence I need to know that half of America isn't really operating without a full deck.





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