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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 769639 times)

Sowelu

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3225 on: April 25, 2012, 06:42:45 pm »

They both have suffrage, period.
Your logic has defeated me.
Go read the fucking constitution.  It's not my logic, it's a founding principle of our country.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3226 on: April 25, 2012, 06:44:31 pm »

They both have suffrage, period.
Your logic has defeated me.
Go read the fucking constitution.  It's not my logic, it's a founding principle of our country.

I thought you were arguing what should be, not what is.  Does being in the constitution grant moral authority?
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3227 on: April 25, 2012, 06:45:26 pm »

Sure it's a founding principle.  I don't agree with that founding principle.  The constitution isn't the word of God.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3228 on: April 25, 2012, 06:46:54 pm »

Sorry.  My main intention here was to try and explain the motivations behind that principle to people who didn't seem to have a firm understanding.  Being personally attacked for that is...unpleasant.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3229 on: April 25, 2012, 06:48:20 pm »

They do not, by and large, seem ignorant as to the origin or mechanics of this principle to me.  Everyone but you appears to be debating what should be, not what is.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3230 on: April 25, 2012, 06:51:16 pm »

Sorry.  My main intention here was to try and explain the motivations behind that principle to people who didn't seem to have a firm understanding.  Being personally attacked for that is...unpleasant.
It wasn't a personal attack.  I was pointing out that you were literally saying "I am right.  Period".

But yeah.  This discussion is not exactly off-topic but probably shouldn't consume the thread.  I'll stop posting on the matter.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3231 on: April 25, 2012, 08:08:38 pm »

Back to the election, Obama's going to win.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3232 on: April 25, 2012, 08:12:25 pm »

Didn't the republicans manage to get him the position of satan?
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3233 on: April 25, 2012, 08:13:47 pm »

To Republicans.

To everyone else? Not so much.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3234 on: April 25, 2012, 08:15:59 pm »

You have to remember, the republicans are throwing the race. If this was professional wrestling, they'd be standing on the edge of the ring screaming about how invulnerable they are while supporters are stacking folding chairs around Obama's corner.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3235 on: April 25, 2012, 08:19:45 pm »

I guess you could see the refusal of much of the Republican base to vote Romney even now as a "we'd rather lose" message.  I can see the logic - the next four years are gonna be tough on whoever gets in, and there's also the fact that some portion of the Republican base hopes they can get a more nutty candidate (see Santorum) next time if Obama is hated more.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3236 on: April 25, 2012, 10:05:20 pm »

In my opinion the only difference between obama and romney is skin color.

Personally I'd rather have 4 more years of the same bullshit than 8. Not that it matters since the next president is probably going to be shit also.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3237 on: April 26, 2012, 09:17:34 am »

In my opinion the only difference between obama and romney is skin color.

Personally I'd rather have 4 more years of the same bullshit than 8. Not that it matters since the next president is probably going to be shit also.

They are not quite that similar, but they are more alike than they are different.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #3238 on: April 26, 2012, 09:41:36 am »

Yeah, Romney got his healthcare plan passed without caving in to the opposition.
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« Reply #3239 on: April 26, 2012, 09:59:29 am »

Yeah, Romney got his healthcare plan passed without caving in to the opposition.
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