The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

DwnWthVwls · 10-15-2018, 06:53 PM

Yeah, thats how it works.. lol

windsock · 10-15-2018, 06:56 PM

Just a reminder: the Trumpster is still playing 4d interdimensional backgammon and we're all pieces in his master plan.

OccultHawk · 10-15-2018, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Yeah, thats how it works.. lol

The **** if it doesn’t, retard

The Batlord · 10-15-2018, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I can’t believe people actually think someone should be given power over others because more people punch a hole next to their name. Stupid af.

This is actually something I've been thinking on very heavily recently.

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Yeah, thats how it works.. lol

It is and it's garbage. I mean it all starts with parents and teachers instilling subservience in you, but bosses justify it in the real world when you're an adult who should have absolute freedom to decide your fate and be whoever you want to be.

Every time you hold your tongue when you think you have something to say that a boss might take umbrage with, or even just do what a boss says because they have power over your ability to feed yourself, it degrades you and reinforces the notion that there are people superior to you who you are obligated to treat differently to anybody who doesn't have power over you.

It retards your ability to think freely or believe yourself to be equal to all other humans. It's what conditions people to treat aristocrats and politicians as authority figures to follow. It's what conditions people to simply go along with the flow of society even if that society is murdering six million Jews. It maneuvers your thinking processes to be whatever society decides you should be thinking.

OccultHawk · 10-15-2018, 07:10 PM

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It's what conditions people to simply go along with the flow of society even if that society is murdering six million Jews.

Fair enough. Nothing is all bad.

Lisnaholic · 10-15-2018, 07:16 PM

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Either one is a win is right. It's a blatantly political move that waters down the legitimacy of our institutions. Whatever battle is won, the war will be lost. Not a war between Rs and Ds, a war between tribalist entertainment and doing the greater good.

^ Aren't you making the same mistake as the MSM and attaching too much significance to the EWarren non-story?

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...waters down the legitimacy of our institutions.

^ This is a boat that has already sailed, hasn't it?

The legitimacy of FEMA:-

The legitimacy of the Immigration Authorities:-

The legitimacy of the EPA:-

I'm sure you can see how a picture can be built up without blaming Warren for publishing her DNA results when challenged to do so by Trump.

The Batlord · 10-15-2018, 07:22 PM

It's all the same ****ing thing. It all distracts from intelligence and encourages us to side with this or that side and ignore any kind of bigger picture so that we can feel that we're winning something even though we're losing the battle for the human race.

**Frownland** · 10-15-2018, 07:23 PM

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^ Aren't you making the same mistake as the MSM and attaching too much significance to the EWarren non-story?

My significance is more of a watermark of how our government is deteriorating. The general reporting seems to be painting it as another way to make the very easy claim that the T-man is a moron.

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^ This is a boat that has already sailed, hasn't it?

Not a great reason to push that boat along further.

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I'm sure you can see how a picture can be built up without blaming Warren for publishing her DNA results when challenged to do so by Trump.

Trump brought us there, but she made the jump into that abyss. That's stooping to his level. This move might get her a lot of high fives at the gym, but like steroids, that can be very unhealthy and artificial.

windsock · 10-15-2018, 07:31 PM

^ This guy and his watermarks...sheesh

I do genuinely think that part of Trump is a masterclass troll. By her biting his bait she's come out more of a fool than he.

Lisnaholic · 10-15-2018, 08:05 PM

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This is a boat that has already sailed, hasn't it?

Not a great reason to push that boat along further.

^ Well, yes and no. Can you push along a boat that's already sailed? TBH, I'm happy to forget about this metaphor if you are, Frownland.

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Trump brought us there, but she made the jump into that abyss. That's stooping to his level. This move might get her a lot of high fives at the gym, but like steroids, that can be very unhealthy and artificial.

^ You started this morning by laughing your a off about the Warren story being headline news, but now you seem determined to paint it as some dark turning point in the history of American politics.

I see your point, windsock, but then what were her options? If she hadn't done the test, the whole Pocahontas story might've dribbled on for months with Trump's mounting accusations that she was afraid to submit to a test. If Frownland and the MSM could only let the story go, then Warren will have nipped that whole Birther-style nonstory scenario in the bud.

*ahem* :-

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A story that I though would get more coverage is about the 53,000 voter applications put on hold in Georgia. Kemp is blocking voters' rights on a bureaucratic technicality while simultaneously running as a candidate in the electorial fight. Has anyone ever seen a boxing match in which one of the boxers is also the referee? It's so obviously unfair as far as I can see. It's a blatant disruption of the democratic process, but because it's to the Republicans' advantage, there isn't a single check or balance that's stopping it - all the checks and balances are now in the hands of the Republicans.