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Post by Seabass » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:20 pm

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klr wrote:So, if the government gets shut down, are the politicians amongst those who would not get paid? :ask:
Nope, they still get paid.

How are there not angry mobs with torches and pitchforks gathered outside Congress? This shit is ridiculous. Fucking outlandish, even.

Fuckin' Republicans. :banghead:
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klr wrote:So, if the government gets shut down, are the politicians amongst those who would not get paid? :ask:
Nope, they still get paid.

How are there not angry mobs with torches and pitchforks gathered outside Congress? This shit is ridiculous. Fucking outlandish, even.

Fuckin' Republicans. :banghead:

Because the least passive and most heavily armed are looking to the skies for a flaming chariot or a UFO as a signal to start the shooting. They're not about doing anything, just preparing to do something, which is probably be shot by ATF officers, cops or in the unlikely event Scrumple is right, bludgeoned to death by thousands of starving arseholes with even more artillery and then raped and eaten.

Which would make for great T.V.
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Ian » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:32 pm

The left is much more civil than the right. If this drags on a while though, I'll spend some time around Capitol Hill...

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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:42 pm

Ian wrote:The left is much more civil than the right. If this drags on a while though, I'll spend some time around Capitol Hill...
Nah. The "Academic" left might be a bit more civil minded certainly, there are a lot of left wing fuck-buckets with nary an understanding of anything, a chip on their shoulder and a penchant for preposterous rhetoric too. but I'd think it unfair to tar "the right" as uncivil especially since what is called the Republican party seem to have no consistent ideology other than "NO!" at the current time and I think it unfair to even categorise them as right wing. Batshit fucking crazy would be the wing I'd say they belonged to.
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Ian » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:44 pm

Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.

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Post by Seabass » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:53 pm

Ian wrote:Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.
True, but right wing demonstrations and protests never end with overturned cars, bricks thrown through windows, molotov cocktails, etc, the way left wing protests do.
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Post by JimC » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:22 pm

The phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" springs to mind...
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Ian » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:47 pm

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Ian wrote:Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.
True, but right wing demonstrations and protests never end with overturned cars, bricks thrown through windows, molotov cocktails, etc, the way left wing protests do.
Aye, but that doesn't happen much. Not even much during the Occupy movement two years ago. The left has been far more civil ever since the early 70s. The right, meanwhile, stockpiles ammo. Gun sales and "survivalist" crap have skyrocketed in the last few years.

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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by klr » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:48 pm

JimC wrote:The phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" springs to mind...
It's certainly not unique to US politics though. I think we just get to hear about it more.
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Ian » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:19 pm

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JimC wrote:The phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" springs to mind...
It's certainly not unique to US politics though. I think we just get to hear about it more.
Just wait two more weeks. A shutdown-showdown over the budget isn't nearly as psychotic as not raising the debt ceiling, and Republicans will likely hold that hostage too.

This is a new thing, btw. The deficit tripled during Reagan's term, and he got 18 debt-ceiling raises with no controversy, barely even any token grumbling about them. The deficit doubled again during George W. Bush's terms and he got seven raises, also with no controversy and merely token grumbling about them as well. But now, while the deficit has been cut in half during the last four years, the loony fringe of the GOP has whipped up a hysteria over raising the debt ceiling once (which resulted in a downgrade of the US's otherwise perfect credit rating) and will likely do so again in mid-October. "Psychotic" might be an understatement.

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Post by JimC » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:52 pm

Ian wrote:
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Ian wrote:Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.
True, but right wing demonstrations and protests never end with overturned cars, bricks thrown through windows, molotov cocktails, etc, the way left wing protests do.
Aye, but that doesn't happen much. Not even much during the Occupy movement two years ago. The left has been far more civil ever since the early 70s. The right, meanwhile, stockpiles ammo. Gun sales and "survivalist" crap have skyrocketed in the last few years.
The worst of the "left" actions were the anti-globalisation protests that sprang up in cities where world leaders meet. Mainly run by lunatic anarchists and morons who just loved the excitement of trashing things. Not really serious left wing action.

And even they are child's play compared to events on the streets of Egypt, Greece and a variety of third world countries...
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Post by Collector1337 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:36 am

Ian wrote:The left is much more civil than the right.
:funny:

That's some funny shit right there.
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Ian » Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:36 am

Look at your avatar and look at mine.

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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Collector1337 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:43 am

Ian wrote:Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.
Nope. Just, "do what we say or you will hurt your fellow livestock."

Then when they get the power and have totalitarianism or whatever authoritarianism needed to impose their leftist ideals, it's, "Do what we fucking say or we'll line you up in front of a ditch and shoot you in the fucking head."

Yeah, that's totally civil.
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Re: Obama slams Republicans for threat to blow up entire eco

Post by Collector1337 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:45 am

Seabass wrote:
Ian wrote:Still, you never hear Democrats ranting about "second amendment solutions" etc.
True, but right wing demonstrations and protests never end with overturned cars, bricks thrown through windows, molotov cocktails, etc, the way left wing protests do.
:this:

Inconvenient facts leftists like to ignore.
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