Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

[gnr61]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

i didn't catch much more than rubio's speech (really good), and clint eastwood's bit (****ing gold and i gotta give gop props for bringing in a celebrity who's not some milquetoast b-lister). romney himself was kinda in the background for dinner, didn't catch much exciting rhetoric but i can imagine folks are a little fatigued with exciting rhetoric by now. i've never actually watched a convention before but man from what i can see there's some pretty legit benched republicans too bad mitt's the one who stepped up to the plate

also LMFAO and people think Fox News is the most biased network. **** MSNBC

http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/08/...eech-coverage/

i am a generally left-leaning fellow and msnbc is a really crappy network.
any self-respecting right-leaning person should be able to say the same of fox. (note: fox's reporting itself is generally pretty unobjectionable. their opinion segments are inexcusably vile).

also the site you linked to looks like it's written by a REALLY angry and not-very-bright eighteen year old holy cow.

EDIT: OH MY GOD. The comments on that site (redalertpolitics). The comments........... These people talk like GENUINELY INSANE people, like, paranoid schizophrenics straight up. pleeeease tell me that kind of discussion doesn't read like rational discourse to you, because LOL

[adlp]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

linked it from r/conservative on reddit, you can get the story in other places but that was the one i came across today.

lmao wow those comments are gold

[gnr61]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

linked it from r/conservative on reddit, you can get the story in other places but that was the one i came across today.

lmao wow those comments are gold

also, for what it's worth, everything i see on google and in the blogosphere indicates that (with the exception of rep. davis) fox news talked over/was in commercial for/covered the hurricane for all the same speakers as msnbc did (who was much more hastily jumped on by angry not-so-bright eighteen year olds).

so, pro-tip: stop watching and aligning yourself politically with major media news jesus christ they're all retarded and there are perfectly good newspapers and websites out there to read and redalertpolitics and mob-mentality channels like r/conservative are NOT them lmao.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

First step to resolving one's ignorance: Turn off the TV.

[adlp]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

if you think i only watch fox news and read r/conservative you are sorely mistaken

nytimes, WSJ, KGS nightwatch, Huff post and Al Jazeera are what im all about

[Reincarnate]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

if you think i only watch fox news and read r/conservative you are sorely mistaken

nytimes, WSJ, KGS nightwatch, Huff post and Al Jazeera are what im all about

Then surely you're aware how high the GOP/Democrat bullshit ratio is? You know, assuming you actually care about facts/reality?

[Emanresu13]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

50/50?

[Reincarnate]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

Wayyyyy off

nicely shows you how false dialectics/equivalencies get used when it comes to this stuff XD

[Emanresu13]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

yeah actually i take that back

republicans want to run the country into the ground, and try to get people to think otherwise

democrats want to run the country into the ground, but they're (mostly) honest about it

[Reincarnate]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

yeah actually i take that back

republicans want to run the country into the ground, and try to get people to think otherwise

democrats want to run the country into the ground, but they're (mostly) honest about it

Well this’ll be interesting -- explain please

[Emanresu13]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

funny vid


typical democrat: i have this terrible plan for the country, everyone follow me!

typical republican: i have this decent plan for the country, everyone follow me but as soon as i get into office i'll backpedal!


generally, dem's fiscal policies suck; gop's social policies suck AND fiscal policies suck but they do an alright job of hiding that. so much, that people define them as "fiscally conservative" when they are not.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

Was looking for actual, specific reasons/evidence/arguments

[Emo_Saur_]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

Communism is the only way to go.

[Emanresu13]

Re: Anyone else watching the RNC right now?

Was looking for actual, specific reasons/evidence/arguments

i know, sorry xD. if i stop being so lazy i might look some stuff up. nothin off the top of my head because i usually file details of this kind in the "not useful unless internet debate" section of my brain, which is pretty much emptied weekly.

just to be clear (this determines how much effort i'll put into this), you aren't looking for "why i think X system of gov't is bad/good", but actual dem/gop examples of dirty politicians making stupid decisions? if the latter,


i'm sure you'd enjoy this:

http://thepoliticsofdebt.com/2007/11/30/the-myth-of-republican-fiscal-conservatism

i hate not knowing if crap i find online is legit or not, and validating it by looking up a half-dozen or so sources in agreement takes too much time.
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for a rough idea of where i stand on these matters, i'm a libertarian/capitalist/anarchist... whatever that means <_<