The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

Trollheart · 10-09-2017, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Lol Chula just called himself intelligent. Way off base mate.

Shut up, you. You don't even have skin!

Lisnaholic · 10-09-2017, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

They don't dictate thinking necessarily, no. However, it does dictate what you are allowed to say.

^ Well, yes, it's a poll, Frownland - it's not an invitation to write an essay - or attend a town hall meeting. In fact we have polls on MB too; do people boycott those because they "dictate what you are allowed to say"?

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It doesn't and there is. Third parties have to reach higher poll numbers to appear on the ballot and participate in debates. That's without getting into very-difficult to control factors like the media or financial limitations.

I'd have to be better informed to take issue with this. That's not likely to happen, so I'll concede this point.

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Maybe if I present it as a non-political analogy it will make more sense: You are allowed to vote for a beating or a cigarette burn. You have the option not to vote, but you will receive a beating or a burn regardless. Sure, we're free to make these choices, but that's not liberty.

Yeah, that's a good analogy, and makes very clear your point about both options being bad. May I make two points:-

i) your choices suggests a victim and a torturer, in which the person offering the vote is willfully inflicting the torture. Perhaps a better analogy for America would be a choice between two disagreeable medical treatments. There's a problem which needs to be addressed and the doctors give you a choice: you've got cancer - do you want amputation or chemotherapy?

ii) even in your bleak analogy, it only takes two votes to work out the lesser of the two evils, and I'm pretty sure I'd would vote for that each time thereafter.

OccultHawk · 10-09-2017, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

How could that possibly work? Wherever you live, someone else can come in and take what you have or stay there or kick you out? Sounds pretty ridiculous, which is probably why there has never been, to my knowledge, any society which existed on that principle. Fine in theory, impossible in practice.

Pueblo Indians did it for two hundred years

Lisnaholic · 10-09-2017, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Lol Chula just called himself intelligent. Way off base mate. The word you're looking for is "submissive".

^ Steady, please Frownland! Chula called the policy of not voting third party intelligent, not himself. If you carry on like this, Janzsoon will be locking the thread on us!

Lisnaholic · 10-09-2017, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Pueblo Indians did it for two hundred years

^ Yes, because so many of us live in small isolated and inaccesible communities.

OccultHawk · 10-09-2017, 07:08 PM

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) your choices suggests a victim and a torturer, in which the person offering the vote is willfully inflicting the torture. Perhaps a better analogy for America would be a choice between two disagreeable medical treatments. There's a problem which needs to be addressed and the doctors give you a choice: you've got cancer - do you want amputation or chemotherapy?

The patient isn't sick. One doctor has herpes and the other HIV. You're told if you don't choose one of them to **** you in the ass you're doing nothing.

OccultHawk · 10-09-2017, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Yes, because so many of us live in small isolated and inaccesible communities.

All of humanity did it before Mesopotamia.

**Frownland** · 10-09-2017, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

ii) even in your bleak analogy, it only takes two votes to work out the lesser of the two evils, and I'm pretty sure I'd would vote for that each time thereafter.

I.e. perpetuating evil that you are not free from. This is why I consider voting as a form of liberty to be a farce.

I'll post some lyrics because I'm cheesy.

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~~[MERIT]~~ · 10-09-2017, 07:29 PM

So, a week later, are you cucks STILL eating the official narrative of the las vegas attack?

**Frownland** · 10-09-2017, 07:35 PM

You should wait before the investigation is over so that there is a legitimate official story before you denounce the official story. It makes you look less like a denialist if you allow someone to finish their sentence before you go "nuh uh!"

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~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,814	So, a week later, are you cucks STILL eating the official narrative of the las vegas attack?