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What?
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01-16-2017, 05:25 PM | #3277 |
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We're not fishing.
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01-16-2017, 06:11 PM | #3278 |
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"It's divisive towards white supremacists" seems like bait to me.
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01-16-2017, 06:22 PM | #3279 |
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No I'd just classify that as dumb tbh
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01-16-2017, 07:01 PM | #3280 |
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01-17-2017, 09:01 AM | #3281 | |
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01-17-2017, 05:28 PM | #3282 |
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So Chelsea Manning (among others) is getting clemency how about that
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01-17-2017, 06:15 PM | #3283 | |
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The only explanation I can think of is that you don't actually read my posts.
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01-18-2017, 12:45 AM | #3284 |
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This is old but I like it and don't recall it being shared here before.
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01-18-2017, 01:24 AM | #3285 |
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awesome!
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01-19-2017, 03:45 PM | #3286 |
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01-19-2017, 11:37 PM | #3288 |
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The Trump team wanted tanks and missile launchers at the inauguration.
At what point do you go from "terrible president" to "literally elements of fascism"? For me, it was months ago.
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01-20-2017, 01:02 AM | #3290 |
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So far it looks like Sessions (Justice) and Ross (Commerce) are gonna pass fairly smoothly. Ross had an especially good hearing.
Tillerson (State) will probably pass, but the Administration's gonna have to basically buy votes for it. Rubio's put up a few signals that he's in that boat (and his vote is important if they want Tillerson to get the Foreign Relations Committee's endorsement), but I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump Administration decided they weren't gonna play ball. So then things'll get interesting. DeVos (Education) got embarrassed by Tim Kaine and told Chris Murphy (Connecticut Senator who lives near Sandy Hook and I think represented them in the House for like a decade) that it's fine to have guns in schools. Overall a poor showing, but unlikely to sway Republicans (Education's too low profile to exert pressure to piss off the incoming administration). Finally we've got Scott Pruitt (EPA). Democrats grilled him pretty good. There was a fair amount of vagueness, and Pruitt making claims about his record that were quickly undercut by Democrats bringing up his actual record. And he really didn't talk about what he was gonna do. Like DeVos, he'll get through even though his hearing didn't go so great and he's not a good candidate because you're not gonna get the Republicans to vote against him. |
01-20-2017, 01:43 AM | #3291 |
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Murphy was also the one who started the Senate filibuster last year.
That's a huge misstep but unfortunately its DeVos so the Republicans are going to say ok anyways.
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01-20-2017, 05:16 AM | #3292 |
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The list is really inaccurate to fascism, though. 1-3 is accurate, as is 10, but the rest are really wrong.
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01-20-2017, 05:52 AM | #3294 |
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A few things that pop out at me:
Fascism is an atheistic ideology. Think horseshoe theory with Communism. European fascism was very coolly tolerant of religious exercise, but quickly shut it down when it started to run counter to its actions, persecuting religious people in large amounts. And let's not forget that Nazi Germany literally executed people for their religious beliefs? Labor unions were not opposed because they were "a threat," they were opposed because Nazis were Darwinist. Allowing your workers to band together runs counter to the idea that only the strongest and purest and sexiest will survive. Fascism was cool in the '20s, when everyone was sexist. Fascist regimes weren't any more or less sexist than non-fascist governments of the period.
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01-20-2017, 08:04 AM | #3295 | |
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The association-scare is also a thing with Nazi uniforms. In other contexts (like Star Wars) Nazi-like uniforms are venerated because they're stylish, but when worn by a Nazi they're demonic. This is because people have trouble divorcing the context of Nazism from their apparent observation that the uniforms are cool. That said, even if Trump understands this visual imagery use to a certain extent, I think it's pretty clear he is going for a Red Square theme to his inauguration.
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01-20-2017, 04:49 PM | #3297 |
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01-20-2017, 05:29 PM | #3298 |
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Considering that list was compiled by political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt who created the list only after a lengthy study and investigation on a history of the world's fascist regimes, I'm inclined to believe that the only thing wrong here is your response.
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01-20-2017, 05:35 PM | #3299 |
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Nazi Germany had the official support of the Roman Catholic Church and only punished people who were conscientious objectors.
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