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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 771402 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10275 on: December 11, 2012, 07:38:58 pm »

It's odd that he hates radical Islam so much, considering how much his own views seem to align with it.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10276 on: December 11, 2012, 07:41:26 pm »

He doesn't think he's extremist, though.

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Fuqua, who has been backed by the state GOP and is seeking a comeback
You were saying, MSH? Sure, other Republicans are decrying him, but it looks like he has some support.
I was saying that the state GOP are a bunch of morons. The GOP also backed Atkin and Mourdock, and that crazy party platform in Texas. The GOP backs a lot of stupid, crazy things that the vast majority of Americans will reject. Why do you think the party is dying?
It's odd that he hates radical Islam so much, considering how much his own views seem to align with it.
Most extremists start to become alike and want to kill each other as the level of their extremism increases.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10277 on: December 11, 2012, 09:31:33 pm »

Does much of anything in this thread have to do with the election now?

American Election Megathread: It's Never Over

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10278 on: December 11, 2012, 09:33:09 pm »

Extremists never do. That's how they get their death cults started, by pretending to be mainstream.
Hey, I'm an extremist and I realize it!

Though I don't have any death cults, and only a few of my views are extreme...
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10279 on: December 11, 2012, 09:43:44 pm »

No death cults?

You aren't trying hard enough.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10280 on: December 11, 2012, 09:44:26 pm »

I don't want a death cult, I want a thought cult.

Yes, I am aware that is somewhat of a contradiction.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10281 on: December 11, 2012, 10:12:47 pm »

I want a cult of not having a cult of personality of me when I take over - that's just so much better for your image in the history books.

(Do you reckon we might keep this thing going till '16?)
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10282 on: December 11, 2012, 10:15:36 pm »

(Do you reckon we might keep this thing going till '16?)

Why not? Maybe change the title to something else?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10283 on: December 11, 2012, 10:16:35 pm »

Call it "American Election Megathread: Round Two!"
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10284 on: December 11, 2012, 10:46:34 pm »

Or just another generic American Politics thread to talk about developments, like the Michigan Union busting or SCOTUS reviewing DOMA and California's Prop 8.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10285 on: December 11, 2012, 11:04:00 pm »

Yeah, it's gonna come up somewhere, might as well be confined to one place that everyone else can know to avoid.  And I can lock it if need be and nobody will put up a fuss about it.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10286 on: December 11, 2012, 11:06:50 pm »

Yeah, it's gonna come up somewhere, might as well be confined to one place that everyone else can know to avoid.  And I can lock it if need be and nobody will put up a fuss about it.

Maybe you should lock it now and start a new thread that can carry the politics discussion until April or May 2015 when presidential rumblings start to get underway?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10287 on: December 11, 2012, 11:09:55 pm »

Why? What's the difference from this thread to a new one?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10288 on: December 11, 2012, 11:10:56 pm »

Yeah, it's gonna come up somewhere, might as well be confined to one place that everyone else can know to avoid.  And I can lock it if need be and nobody will put up a fuss about it.

Maybe you should lock it now and start a new thread that can carry the politics discussion until April or May 2015 when presidential rumblings start to get underway?

Yeah, maybe I should.

And maybe that would completely fucking redundant.  I consider it a triumph that finally most of the inevitable American politics arguments have been contained in a couple of threads that can stay at a low simmer instead of turning into fights in completely inappropriate places.  Anyone who doesn't want a politics discussion can just point to this horse's carcass and say "hey, take it over there".
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #10289 on: December 11, 2012, 11:12:02 pm »

Yeah, it's gonna come up somewhere, might as well be confined to one place that everyone else can know to avoid.  And I can lock it if need be and nobody will put up a fuss about it.

Maybe you should lock it now and start a new thread that can carry the politics discussion until April or May 2015 when presidential rumblings start to get underway?

That would be nice, except that campaign 2016 actually began over a month ago.
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