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[Truean]

I guess some guy on Fox News actually had something negative to say about Chic Fil A.  But I guess this guy is already pretty well know for being very liberal.

Jesus Christ in a chicken sandwich, WHY did I start reading the comments section?? D:

And "very liberal" is a relative term here. He doesn't hate gays, and he thinks maybe torture is going too far. This apparently put him on the far left wing of things at FOX. It's not like he's calling for collectivization and free love communes.

I love how some consider that an insult, "very liberal," but when someone says "very conservative" it's a compliment. Goes right to the "hates/doesn't believe in" this country, BS argument. Of course, do it to them and they cry bloody murder....

I just sorta don't get or wanna get why you can't be in the middle without having the right wing people call you left and the left wing people call you right. It's really become subjective to whatever you are in relationship to the person belittling you, anymore, a lot of the time.

[Descan]

Everyone thinks they're a centrist.

Unless they don't.

Then they're a commie pinko fascist scum-sucking gay racist bastard!

Or something.

[scriver]

Don't worry Truean, to us Europeans you're all conservatives

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The European far-right does have plenty of supporters, you know.

[penguinofhonor]

http://www.care2.com/causes/gay-kiss-gets-man-barred-from-partners-bedside.html

....

So you know that original story about the gay couple being separated where one partner was dying? Since then I've only heard that it's a huge exception, stuff like that pretty much never happens. It was a fluke.

Obviously.

[Dutchling]

The European far-right does have plenty of supporters, you know.

Yes, but we call them liberals or idiots, depending on how far right you go.

[kaijyuu]

Is this a competition to see who's the most liberal? 'Cause I can totally do that. Fear the radical, free love, borderline anarchist, pacifist vegetarian hippie!

What do you have to be afraid of, you might ask? Hugs!

[GreatJustice]

The European far-right does have plenty of supporters, you know.

Politics across countries can be kind of weird.

In the US, conservatives are socially quite a ways to the right and economically in favour of free markets, whereas liberals are mostly the opposite. In Canada, conservatives are modestly to the right on social issues at most (and even then, only in places like Alberta and the BC interior) and are somewhat to the right on fiscal issues, making them moderates by American standards (though our corporate tax is notably quite low), though Stephen Harper himself is basically a Statist like Putin. In most of Europe, the "far right" is moderate on fiscal issues but rabidly anti immigration to the point of near explicit racism (see: The Dutch Freedom Party, Marine Le Pen, etc) and possibly somewhat explicitly religious. It's a bit weird, really. In Eastern Europe the right wing is a bit closer to the American standard, and there's even fiscally far-right parties there like the Polish Kongres Nowej Prawicy.

[alway]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19159286
http://marketday.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/07/13161514-standard-chartered-accused-of-working-with-iran-as-rogue-bank?lite
Seems a bank was circumventing sanctions to the order of a quarter of a trillion dollars.

Unrelated to that:
Hospital puts profit over patients
2012 election cycle expected to cost $6 billion. Or approximately 1/3 the budget of NASA.

[Truean]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2012/08/china_s_wealthy_and_influential_sometimes_hire_body_doubles_to_serve_their_prison_sentences.single.html

Coming soon to the US if they can manage it....

[Nadaka]

"Some imperial Chinese officials who admitted to the use of substitute criminals justified its effectiveness. After all, the real criminal was punished by paying out the market value of his crime, while the stand-in’s punishment intimidated other criminals, keeping the overall crime rate low. In other words, a “cap-and-trade” policy for crime."

Wow, now that is capitalism.

[scriver]

When I was younger I used to believe the US bailing system let people pay instead of go to prison...

[Loud Whispers]

"Some imperial Chinese officials who admitted to the use of substitute criminals justified its effectiveness. After all, the real criminal was punished by paying out the market value of his crime, while the stand-in’s punishment intimidated other criminals, keeping the overall crime rate low. In other words, a “cap-and-trade” policy for crime."

"Because your life is worth $31 a day..."

Hospital puts profit over patients

I don't suppose they've ever heard about the Hippocratic oath...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

When I was younger I used to believe the US bailing system let people pay instead of go to prison...

A lot of people are under the impression that the bail system was essentially a bribe to the police to let you out before trial. The revelation that it is merely to keep you from fleeing and will be returned to you if you show up for trial is a surprisingly widespread one.

[Truean]

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