Haha, yeah. What is scary is that Ron Paul is the most sane of the republican candidates, at least from what I have seen. I sincerely hope that Obama gets re-elected, not so much because I want him to but because I definitely do not want any of them.
Not even close. He's just better at putting on a public face, but he's a straight up crazy conspiracy theorist, super-hardcore randian/Austrian economics goldbug, racist, sexist, isolationist hardcore-christian nutball. Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Romney, even santorum, they're all saner than he is, but they don't have nearly 40 years of mistakes hiding it to learn from.
Or, in short - The other candidates are kinda like your hippy-dippy friend with some weird opinions, they're mostly harmless though rather crazy, and it's only if they get into any authority that you're going to have problems. Ron Paul is the quiet, nice guy that nobody really knows super-well, who is has a stack of bodies in the basement.
It doesn't help that he gets maybe a tenth of the media attention the other candidates do, because the only people who don't seem to know he has zero chance of winning are Ron Paul Supporters - who in turn tend to spin their own conspiracy theories as to why he didn't win.
Ron Paul in his newsletter, circa 1992, regarding black men in Washington DC:
Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.... Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the "criminal justice system," I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
The December 1989 Ron Paul Political Report contains entries on a “new form of racial terrorism,” cites former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer’s claim that “the average homosexual has 1,000 or more partners in a lifetime,” and quotes Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in the third person.
In January 1990, the Ron Paul Political Report cites “a well-known libertarian editor” who “told me: ‘The ACT-UP slogan on stickers plastered all over Manhattan is ‘Silence=Death.’ But shouldn’t it be Sodomy = Death’?”
The September 1994 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report states that “those who don’t commit sodomy, who don’t get blood a transfusion, and who don’t swap needles, are virtually assured of not getting AIDS unless they are deliberately infected by a malicious gay.”
In the April 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report, the author--writing in the first person--states, “Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.” The newsletters also warns readers to “do your very best to keep your family away from inner cities. If you can’t, have a haven remote from the metropolitan areas.”
The November 1992 Ron Paul Survival Report defends chess champion and Holocaust-denier Bobby Fischer, saying that “the brilliant Fischer, who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world’s greatest chess player.”
A May 1990 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites Jared Taylor, who six months later would go onto found the eugenicist and white supremacist periodical American Renaissance.
The May 1991 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites American Renaissance and offers readers subscription information for it.
So while it's not my personal fail, I felt like I need to share this so we can get our five minutes hate in:
Apparently someone signed up for Reddit's Secret Santa, and when they found out that their match was gay and an atheist, decided to send a lovely little note instead. I think the proper response is:
I'm pretty sure that the sender of that letter is just horrible person and a troll, instead of being horrible, anti-gay, religious person, at least that's what I want to believe.
I'm pretty sure that the sender of that letter is just horrible person and a troll, instead of being horrible, anti-gay, religious person, at least that's what I want to believe.
Except Reddit is a fucking shithole (and I use Reddit quite frequently), and it's filled with motherfuckers who'd do things like that just because they believe it. Seriously, one just has to peruse /r/christianity or any number of somewhat more sleazy subreddits long enough to figure that out.
Yeah, you get all sorts on there. It's the best and worst of the internet. So I wouldn't be surprised either way, although I really hope it's just an elaborate ruse.
I'm pretty sure that the sender of that letter is just horrible person and a troll, instead of being horrible, anti-gay, religious person, at least that's what I want to believe.
Except Reddit is a fucking shithole (and I use Reddit quite frequently), and it's filled with motherfuckers who'd do things like that just because they believe it. Seriously, one just has to peruse /r/christianity or any number of somewhat more sleazy subreddits long enough to figure that out.
Yeah, like /r/atheism (not meant as dig against SquadronROE).
I'm not going to lie, /r/atheism is a big old bag of dicks. The vast majority of posts I see do not take a rational approach to religion, instead opting for the more common path of "Everything religion has ever done has a negative effect on the world and if you're religious you're fucking retarded."
Contrary to /r/christianity, wherein the majority of posters take the polar opposite, and thus equally bad, tack.
WUB, this is the front page of /r/christianity right now: In your defense, #1 is SquadronROE's SS posted as "Awesome secret santa gift", but here's the top voted comments on that: Now then, which of you bastards posted that. SQ, did you post that image anywhere else someone who do that?
Well, seems the Senate has gone crazy again. Pretty sure that the Supreme Court will kill this one but the fact that it passed, and by that much, kind of scares me.
That article was nothing but sensationalism. I searched the actual text of the bill. We're still not a battleground. It's just the same military budget that we've been spending for the last ten years. The real problem is that that budget passed 93-7.
Also the House version of the bill hasn't passed yet, and the President hasn't signed it. It only passed the Senate.
Someone probably cross-posted it. I only posted it here since I thought it was just a shitty thing to do to someone else. And yeah, I agree that /r/atheism is pretty much vile. While there's some funny stuff there, I unsubscribed months ago.
So recently a friend of some of my friends died in the military. Well the Westboro Baptist church is protesting his funeral too. I didn't even think they were up this far north. Here's the flyer. Fuck those guys.
Likely not, and certainly not that specifically. IIRC, it was already ruled back in 2007 that the US government can't declare US citizens on the US mainland to be Enemy Combatants. Failing that, It would be a pretty directly against the US constitution. The provisions which everyone is freaking out about - again, IIRC - are actually about that the US military can indefinitely hold people if they are thought to be Enemy Combatants, even US citizens - but that only applies in areas which fall under the legal definition of an active battlefield, and there are some pretty strict rules that apply there. However, the US mainland most definitely is not a battlefield of any sort - in the legal sense - and therefore this provision does not apply.
Thanks for clearing that up. I still think of the Senate as crazy for that passing by as as much as it did but not as scared anymore.
Nope, you have plenty of reason to be scared - the provisions for allowing the military to indefinitely detain people (including American citizens) for suspicion of terrorism were in that bill. There was an attempt to remove it with the Udall amendment, but that failed.
Unfortunately, it already passed the House, so Obama is our last hope to stop it. Re-searched the direct text of the bill (I don't trust you people's sources) and it does give the power to indefinitely detain civilians who are suspected of being a potential terrorist to the President, and even if he vetoes it, Congress is probably stupid enough to force it into law anyway.
I already posted it in the Republican thread - appropriate, since both of our political parties are very right wing - But it also goes here. One of our two major political parties did a backflip and started to officially support gay marriage - and then decided to make it a conscience vote issue, so that the party politicians don't have to vote the party line.
Fucking useless cunts. And I just KNOW it's going to be a case of that if Gay Marriage doesn't pass, then everyone will blame the opposition - when in reality, if they had not made it a conscience vote, the opposition would have an extraordinarily hard time blocking it, as they don't have a majority.
Nope, you have plenty of reason to be scared - the provisions for allowing the military to indefinitely detain people (including American citizens) for suspicion of terrorism were in that bill. There was an attempt to remove it with the Udall amendment, but that failed.
Well, since this shit is blocked at work, can somebody explain the situation?
The summary version is thus, via consumerist -
For two years, the folks at Regretsy.com, had been accepting donations (which were then handed out to various causes) using the "Buy Now" or "Shopping Cart" buttons. But for its Secret Santa campaign, Regretsy made the mistake of using the "Donate" button, and now PayPal is making the site refund all donations (while it keeps the transaction fees, of course).
So now Regretsy must manually refund hundreds of $2 donations. It would have been much worse had PayPal not made this demand until after thousands of dollars had already cleared. This means that most of the children who would be receiving the gifts from Regretsy's Secret Santa campaign will not be affected.
And of course, the PayPal policy is that even though Regretsy must return the money that was being held up, PayPal keeps the fixed fee. And if people whose money is refunded choose to donate again, that means PayPal gets paid twice. Not a bad gig.
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Or, in short - The other candidates are kinda like your hippy-dippy friend with some weird opinions, they're mostly harmless though rather crazy, and it's only if they get into any authority that you're going to have problems. Ron Paul is the quiet, nice guy that nobody really knows super-well, who is has a stack of bodies in the basement.
It doesn't help that he gets maybe a tenth of the media attention the other candidates do, because the only people who don't seem to know he has zero chance of winning are Ron Paul Supporters - who in turn tend to spin their own conspiracy theories as to why he didn't win.
Here's a few quoted from the above link :
The December 1989 Ron Paul Political Report contains entries on a “new form of racial terrorism,” cites former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer’s claim that “the average homosexual has 1,000 or more partners in a lifetime,” and quotes Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in the third person.
In January 1990, the Ron Paul Political Report cites “a well-known libertarian editor” who “told me: ‘The ACT-UP slogan on stickers plastered all over Manhattan is ‘Silence=Death.’ But shouldn’t it be Sodomy = Death’?”
The September 1994 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report states that “those who don’t commit sodomy, who don’t get blood a transfusion, and who don’t swap needles, are virtually assured of not getting AIDS unless they are deliberately infected by a malicious gay.”
In the April 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report, the author--writing in the first person--states, “Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.” The newsletters also warns readers to “do your very best to keep your family away from inner cities. If you can’t, have a haven remote from the metropolitan areas.”
The November 1992 Ron Paul Survival Report defends chess champion and Holocaust-denier Bobby Fischer, saying that “the brilliant Fischer, who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world’s greatest chess player.”
A May 1990 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites Jared Taylor, who six months later would go onto found the eugenicist and white supremacist periodical American Renaissance.
The May 1991 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites American Renaissance and offers readers subscription information for it.
Apparently someone signed up for Reddit's Secret Santa, and when they found out that their match was gay and an atheist, decided to send a lovely little note instead. I think the proper response is:
Contrary to /r/christianity, wherein the majority of posters take the polar opposite, and thus equally bad, tack.
In your defense, #1 is SquadronROE's SS posted as "Awesome secret santa gift", but here's the top voted comments on that:
Now then, which of you bastards posted that. SQ, did you post that image anywhere else someone who do that?
As for that image, it's the original that DoctorYuyi posted. Someone probably just cross-posted it.
Huffington Post article on the Udall amendment.
Fortunately, it will probably get vetoed.
Fucking useless cunts. And I just KNOW it's going to be a case of that if Gay Marriage doesn't pass, then everyone will blame the opposition - when in reality, if they had not made it a conscience vote, the opposition would have an extraordinarily hard time blocking it, as they don't have a majority.
For two years, the folks at Regretsy.com, had been accepting donations (which were then handed out to various causes) using the "Buy Now" or "Shopping Cart" buttons. But for its Secret Santa campaign, Regretsy made the mistake of using the "Donate" button, and now PayPal is making the site refund all donations (while it keeps the transaction fees, of course).
So now Regretsy must manually refund hundreds of $2 donations. It would have been much worse had PayPal not made this demand until after thousands of dollars had already cleared. This means that most of the children who would be receiving the gifts from Regretsy's Secret Santa campaign will not be affected.
And of course, the PayPal policy is that even though Regretsy must return the money that was being held up, PayPal keeps the fixed fee. And if people whose money is refunded choose to donate again, that means PayPal gets paid twice. Not a bad gig.