Anyone else watching the DNC right now?

[Emanresu13]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

demonstrably untrue

really, it has less to do with the party than the person in question

both parties are very full of shit, hivemind, etc

individual people can be honest or not

[robertsona]

"i don't have a party because i just hate politics" and comments like it are byproducts of lazy thinking

[robertsona]

one thing i don't get: just how specific has romney gotten with his plans to fix the economy? he castigates obama a lot, maybe rightly, for being all talk and not a lot of action (i would disagree--he pushed a lot of economic-recovery legislation through; whether or not that legislation worked is up for debate), but he strangely seems unaware of his doing the very same thing. his RNC speech was particularly painful, as he basically said "obama talks a lot but has no plan for actually reviving our economy" while in the same breath giving the same heated hyperbole about his own ability to save the economy, while never laying out any details. i guess this might be because i haven't looked hard enough, but should i have to?

[Emanresu13]

i don't have a party and i hate politics, AND those two things are related

i understand the sentiment you're getting at, and sometimes it is laziness. though sometimes it is despair or disgust, instead.


and no you shouldn't have to look harder for answers, the man was giving a speech, that was his time to tell his plan.

[Reincarnate]

Watch this

[robertsona]

you're right, i probably should have phrased that more carefully. people who answer any sort of "political question" (re: economy, abortion, gay rights, etc.) with something like "don't care; i hate politics" are more the lazy types, usually falsely positing themselves as some sort of "outsider" when really they just don't have the capacity or willingness to think about a lot of important stuff. which i guess "important" is subjective in this case, but whatever screw those losers. but yeah if you're like "honestly i'm apathetic toward romney-vs.-obama" i get that

[Emanresu13]

currently watching, but the man is a liberal's liberal

"Lakoff was involved with a progressive think tank, the Rockridge Institute"

"Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors" aka twisting the truth

obviously that's not entirely the purpose, but it can easily lead to and further it

[Reincarnate]

I think you should probably try watching the video first before resorting to ad hominem >.>

[rebelrunner26]

Quite frankly, it doesn't matter who wins this election, as Congress will easily eff over anything either one of them wants to accomplish. It won't be any different at all. The downhill progress achieved over the past few years (by both sides of the aisle) won't be stopped until something (probably something pretty damn bad) wakes everybody up and depolarizes the country a bit. We have too many people (including a whole lot of ignorant pricks) that are a bit too power-hungry in office right now for my liking. When you have hundreds of people all trying to make a name for themselves by arguing/agreeing with pre-determined peers, it's hard to actually get anything worthwhile done.

[robertsona]

i agree, but to a lesser extent. we all know the party system has this country in something of a deadlock, but to say it -doesn't matter- who gets elected seems pretty far-fetched to me.

[adlp]

Originally Posted by rebelrunner26

Quite frankly, it doesn't matter who wins this election, as Congress will easily eff over anything either one of them wants to accomplish. It won't be any different at all. The downhill progress achieved over the past few years (by both sides of the aisle) won't be stopped until something (probably something pretty damn bad) wakes everybody up and depolarizes the country a bit. We have too many people (including a whole lot of ignorant pricks) that are a bit too power-hungry in office right now for my liking. When you have hundreds of people all trying to make a name for themselves by arguing/agreeing with pre-determined peers, it's hard to actually get anything worthwhile done.

something i want to see is set term limits on our senators.

[adlp]

btw more like Progressive Stink Tank hahah ownd

[Emanresu13]

i prefer ad hominem first, retract it later

in this case i don't have to retract it, lol

the first 25 minutes are spent vilifying conservatives, 5 minutes of building up liberals, 7 minutes of pure truth, the rest is vilifying conservatives again

not that he was entirely wrong about certain conservative mindsets

Originally Posted by Emanresu13

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

basically that, but i didn't take 58 minutes to say it

oh and he doesn't think dems want to ruin things but to each his own


edit:
i still recommend watching it though, it's not rubbish

[Frank Munoz]

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/1788...y-is-an-alien/

Just gonna leave this here...

[ddr_f4n]

Originally Posted by Frank Munoz

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/1788...y-is-an-alien/

Just gonna leave this here...

The trees are the right height man.

[Frank Munoz]

Originally Posted by ddr_f4n

The trees are the right height man.

I love cars.

[Coolboyrulez0]

He's just malfunctioning.

[Reincarnate]

Bill Clinton = badass

[hi19hi19]

The irony is that if I had to pick someone to run the country, DEAD ****ING LAST on my list would be career politicians.

[Reincarnate]

The people you'd want running your country are the ones who actually make their decisions based on reality