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Osayidan wrote on 2013-10-01 20:43
Needs a second revolution or something.
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Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2013-10-01 21:08
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Needs a second revolution or something.
America is too fat and lazy to do that.
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Perfectio wrote on 2013-10-01 22:58
We need a revolution to deport all Republicans lol. Right-wing ideology is just as destructive as it was in the 1940s and the sane people are in full Chamberlain mode. There is no arguing with fascists.
YES I went there and I'll go there again. "Conservatives" should not be regarded as any better than Nazis. They're nearly as destructive to the country and they work from the same ideological underpinnings. The only thing is that they can't get away with as much.
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Evaris wrote on 2013-10-01 23:12
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Needs a second revolution or something.
That we do. Who wants to help pass out the flyers and emails?
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Yoorah wrote on 2013-10-02 06:15
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We need a revolution to deport all Republicans lol. Right-wing ideology is just as destructive as it was in the 1940s and the sane people are in full Chamberlain mode. There is no arguing with fascists.
YES I went there and I'll go there again. "Conservatives" should not be regarded as any better than Nazis. They're nearly as destructive to the country and they work from the same ideological underpinnings. The only thing is that they can't get away with as much.
This is not a smart way to think. Democrats also share the blame and have their fair share of stupidity awards under their belt. And a bigger issue yet is the polarized nature of politics in the US. Comments such as these come from both sides and together create the stupidity you see as the result.
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Thorne wrote on 2013-10-02 08:14
I hate how people are blaming solely the Republicans for this.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2013-10-02 08:36
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I hate how people are blaming solely the Republicans for this.
That's because they are solely to blame. They are acting like 2 year olds and throwing a tantrum because they aren't getting their way. No compromises, give us what we want or fuck everyone.
On another note, apparently just hours before the shut down they voted to waste another $5 billion on weapons so that we can continue to fight unneeded wars while the people of our own country suffer.
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Maenad wrote on 2013-10-02 12:14
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I hate how people are blaming solely the Republicans for this.
It IS entirely their fault. Sure, achieving agendas is the goal of politics, but congress has a duty to their people first, not their agenda. Yet, the republicans specifically opted to harm hundreds of thousands of their people in
an attempt to achieve their agenda.
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Chiyuri wrote on 2013-10-02 12:18
so I'm not really knowledgeble in politics and gouvemental finances and such but... Can't they just lower the ammount of funds used on militairy to fund other stuff?
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Maenad wrote on 2013-10-02 13:34
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so I'm not really knowledgeble in politics and gouvemental finances and such but... Can't they just lower the ammount of funds used on militairy to fund other stuff?
Yes, they can. But they'd rather just completely eliminate anything else instead of daring reduce the funding that contributes to an entire 5% increase in our 16 trillion debt every single year.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-10-02 13:38
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Yes, they can. But they'd rather just completely eliminate anything else instead of daring reduce the funding that contributes to an entire 5% increase in our 16 trillion debt every single year.
There's that and then Republicans in general would never defund the Military. That's something they are incredibly unwilling to budge on.
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rzetlin wrote on 2013-10-02 16:19
This government shutdown sounds like a libertarian wet dream - a country where there is no functioning government.
Looked how well it worked in Somali:
[video=youtube;oN8MfzHrFMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8MfzHrFMI[/video]
The whole shutdown is caused by the resistance to health care which every other civilized developed country has.
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Cynic wrote on 2013-10-02 16:44
Quote from Chiyuri;1154995:
so I'm not really knowledgeble in politics and gouvemental finances and such but... Can't they just lower the ammount of funds used on militairy to fund other stuff?
If only. And the worst part is, I'm sure a lot of people from both (or rather, all) sides would rather not do it. America's military is basically just a big extension of it's inflated ego.
But
god forbid we take some funds from the military's loaded pockets and put it towards a cause that actually needs the money. Noo.. military > everything else, despite the fact that the military doesn't even need most of the funds that it's getting.
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SlurpTASTY wrote on 2013-10-02 17:18
I love being Canadian. :)
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Osayidan wrote on 2013-10-02 18:16
The US military is the US's penis.
It wants it to be huge. No way they would willingly decrease its size.