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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: landofconfusion80 on November 03, 2014, 02:53:08 PM
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WilliamPitt (57,370 posts)
On the eve of this election, there's something I need your help to understand
Tomorrow, everyone of voting age in my family will troop down to our polling station and vote en masse to eject Scott "Please Just Go Away Already" Brown over the treeline and into the ether. This is not special, or unique, or dramatic. This is standard; we vote, period and end of file.
I imagine 99.99983% of every participant on this board is the same way: you vote, period and end of file.
So here's the thing that has been vexing me for a while now.
From the day of its inception until the day George W. Bush finally vacated the office he never won in the first place, DU was flypaper for liberals and progressives, and deliberately so. Among the attributes most clearly cherished were a demand for fair and open elections, a love of the Constitution and the rule of law, a desire to stop unjust or unwise wars, a desire to protect and defend the environment, and a desire to bring the criminals in government and Wall Street to justice.
That's the short list of the viewpoints actively cultivated for eight full years here. Eight. Full. Years.
Nowadays, however, because some politicians with a (D) after their names aren't, don't or won't stand for some or all of those ideals, pointing that out here and criticizing it has become some sort of high crime. If we do criticize those (D) politicians for failing to live up to those ideals, we're called "rat****ers" or "trolls," or accused of "trying to depress turnout," or of having "Obama Derangement Syndrome," etc., because OMG REPUBLICANS YOU GUYS.
Are we really that chickenshit that we can't discuss and debate these serious issues, and whether our (D)'s are living up to them? P.S. If you think being critical on DU is going to swing even one election tomorrow, I strongly suggest you push away from the keyboard and go get some fresh air.
It gives me whiplash. We were for all those things for 2,922 days, until a guy with a (D) after his name took the Oval, and now we get dunned for standing up for the principles that were the bedrock of this community since January of 2001.
Don't call me a "rat****er." Don't tell me I'm depressing turnout; if you want to find me tomorrow afternoon, look for the guy with the ponytail and beard holding a sign on Main Street, and that's after I vote.
We stand for these things or we don't. We stand up for them or we don't. We used to, en masse. Now, if there's a (D) involved, doing so is a crime to a whole lot of people around here. As far as I am concerned, *that* right there is Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Explain it to me.
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blkmusclmachine (12,487 posts)
1. Brand loyalty. And yet we think we're so much superior to the Republicans because we're
"more enlightened," "less authoritarian," etc. But we're really not. We're as easily duped by propaganda as the other side, and nobody seems to realize that in Washington DC it's both sides against the middle.
Who's hungry for pizza?
tridim (44,188 posts)
7. Bzzzt. The Democratic party is vastly superior to the Republican party.
In EVERY way. It is stunning that you still don't know that.
And once again, no, we are not the same as Republicans no matter how many times you say it.
I am also never "easily duped by propaganda". WTF are you claiming here?
in other words: liar, liar! pants on fire!!
WilliamPitt (57,370 posts)
13. Do you really think
discussing in this place the clear problems we have about holding our elected officials accountable for their actions/inactions is going to swing one single election tomorrow?
Which one? How?
...and pssssssst...maybe...juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust maybe...the act of being critical is an act of love, an attempt to point out a flaw in the hopes of improving or expunging it.
Juuuuust maybe.
Pittstain is a freeper troll! get him!!!
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blkmusclmachine (12,487 posts)
1. Brand loyalty. And yet we think we're so much superior to the Republicans because we're
"more enlightened," "less authoritarian," etc. But we're really not. We're as easily duped by propaganda as the other side, and nobody seems to realize that in Washington DC it's both sides against the middle.
THANK YOU! that was true honesty and something I can actually talk reasonably about. Golly! Is he a mole? Big Dog?! are you a black muscle machine? :naughty:
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Love of the constitution and rule of law? At the DUmp?
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :lmao: :rofl:
With a giant measure of :bs: :bs: :bs:
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THANK YOU! that was true honesty and something I can actually talk reasonably about. Golly! Is he a mole? Big Dog?! are you a black muscle machine? :naughty:
You must be at least 50% bloodhound, to go along with your 100% hot, and 100% discerning !
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tridim
I am also never "easily duped by propaganda". WTF are you claiming here?
This primitive has slobbered all over Dear Leader since day one, and then it wants to claim it's not "easily duped by propaganda"?
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
tridim primitive, you're the poster child for easily being duped.
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THANK YOU! that was true honesty and something I can actually talk reasonably about. Golly! Is he a mole? Big Dog?! are you a black muscle machine? :naughty:
You know it, baby, and you love me for it.
All love muscles are black in the dark!
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You know it, baby, and you love me for it.
All love muscles are black in the dark!
She sniffed you out like a hog on a truffle !
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tridim
I am also never "easily duped by propaganda".
Try a little logic exercise: How would you know that you weren't duped? I know, I know, critical thinking isn't your strong point or you wouldn't be a Democrat, but please, give it a shot...
:popcorn:
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I am also never "easily duped by propaganda". WTF are you claiming here?
:lol:
Try a little logic exercise: How would you know that you weren't duped? I know, I know, critical thinking isn't your strong point or you wouldn't be a Democrat, but please, give it a shot...
:hi5: From people who swallow the Blamestream® Volkischer Beobachter by the gallon.
blkmusclmachine (12,487 posts)
1. Brand loyalty. And yet we think we're so much superior to the Republicans because we're "more enlightened," "less authoritarian," etc. But we're really not. We're as easily duped by propaganda as the other side, and nobody seems to realize that in Washington DC it's both sides against the middle.
Shattering honesty, presupposing he's not a mole, of course.
(http://neohiotvmemories.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/romper-room.jpg)
I see many (D)Ummies frowning at their monitors wanting to go all raycissssss...
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From the day of its inception until the day George W. Bush finally vacated the office he never won in the first place, DU was flypaper for liberals and progressives, and deliberately so. Among the attributes most clearly cherished were a demand for fair and open elections, a love of the Constitution and the rule of law, a desire to stop unjust or unwise wars, a desire to protect and defend the environment, and a desire to bring the criminals in government and Wall Street to justice.
Big Mo could use this for fertilizer.
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a demand for fair and open elections
That demand was shitcanned when coach killed the round red sodomite.