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Resident_Hazard
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:35 am 
 

darkhness wrote:
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...as in, follow the constitution as it was written, with the exception of checks on executive power and without such bothersome things like the Bill of Rights.

Police state, here we come.

now, granted, many in the US are more than happy about this, unfortunately. Because while most people in the US do not want a police state, clearly some (like Darkhness above, unless of course he was being sarcastic) obviously do.


I seriously doubt you were concerned with "checks on executive power" when Obama was President for 8 years.

EDIT: I also think it's laughable how the majority of the people on the left are lamenting over this totally unrealistic and improbable Trump police state, but want the government dictating how they live their lives even more than it does now.



First, Trump has literal concentration camps now, genius.

Second, I am concerned about not only an impending police state, but a theocratic one, and I have no interest in the government "dictating how I live my life," pertaining to your moronic strawman argument. Pretty sure the people you're talking about don't fucking exist, so I can only imagine what stupid corners of InfoWars or your ass you pulled that shit from. Quit playing the part of the Russian bot already.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:25 am 
 

Accusing the U.S. of having concentration camps is not only factually dishonest, but also disrespectful to what we, as a whole, have done to combat extremism and help liberate the world.

"Impending police state" You make these baseless claims, I'm really not convinced. As for your comment about these people not existing, have you seen what type of people and ideology have hijacked the Democratic party over the years?

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:37 am 
 

Sounds like somebody forgot what the word concentration means in this particular context but okay.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:50 am 
 

^ I'd put money the fellow doesn't even know the difference between Nazi concentration camps and death camps, of which only (iirc) Auschwitz was both.

I'm rather amused how he didn't say that calling Trump's concentration camps what they are would be disrespectful to the millions of Jews and vulnerable people affected by them during WWII, but rather just to shill for American interventionism and pointless patriotic jingoism. Something tells me darkhness hasn't done shit to help "liberate the world."
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:11 am 
 

darkhness wrote:
Accusing the U.S. of having concentration camps is not only factually dishonest, but also disrespectful to what we, as a whole, have done to combat extremism and help liberate the world.

"Impending police state" You make these baseless claims, I'm really not convinced. As for your comment about these people not existing, have you seen what type of people and ideology have hijacked the Democratic party over the years?


What have you done to "liberate" the world?

Because I spent a year in Iraq, "liberating."

Also, explain how the US "liberating" places magically means concentration camps can't exist here. That's like saying I understand sexism and women's rights now, so I was never sexist or crude concerning women's rights, and it's disrespectful to say that to me. To be perfectly blunt, I was very bad in that regard when I was younger, and I'd like to think I've learned quite a lot about it in recent years and how I was wrong in the past. Calling me on my bullshit when I slip isn't disrespectful to me, it helps keep me in check.

In the same token, just because someone was on the right side of history once (like the Republican party ending slavery, giving women the vote, and protecting our natural resources) does not mean they get a free fucking pass for locking kids in camps now, oppressing women at every opportunity, and working overtime to violate, rape, and destroy our natural landscapes and environments.

*Yes, I am aware of the strength of the term rape in this, and do not use it lightly. When you replace a forest with a strip mine, there is really no other adequate adjective.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:35 am 
 

Resident_Hazard wrote:
darkhness wrote:
Accusing the U.S. of having concentration camps is not only factually dishonest, but also disrespectful to what we, as a whole, have done to combat extremism and help liberate the world.

"Impending police state" You make these baseless claims, I'm really not convinced. As for your comment about these people not existing, have you seen what type of people and ideology have hijacked the Democratic party over the years?


What have you done to "liberate" the world?

Because I spent a year in Iraq, "liberating."

Also, explain how the US "liberating" places magically means concentration camps can't exist here. That's like saying I understand sexism and women's rights now, so I was never sexist or crude concerning women's rights, and it's disrespectful to say that to me. To be perfectly blunt, I was very bad in that regard when I was younger, and I'd like to think I've learned quite a lot about it in recent years and how I was wrong in the past. Calling me on my bullshit when I slip isn't disrespectful to me, it helps keep me in check.

In the same token, just because someone was on the right side of history once (like the Republican party ending slavery, giving women the vote, and protecting our natural resources) does not mean they get a free fucking pass for locking kids in camps now, oppressing women at every opportunity, and working overtime to violate, rape, and destroy our natural landscapes and environments.

*Yes, I am aware of the strength of the term rape in this, and do not use it lightly. When you replace a forest with a strip mine, there is really no other adequate adjective.


I guess as a whole means me.

You were probably a POG fobbit that now has a contrarian view and loves to start a conversation with "Well, as a veteran..." I might be wrong though, who knows?

I don't care about your history of being oblivious to (and probably apathetic to) women's rights.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:04 pm 
 

darkhness wrote:
Accusing the U.S. of having concentration camps is not only factually dishonest, but also disrespectful to what we, as a whole, have done to combat extremism and help liberate the world.

"Impending police state" You make these baseless claims, I'm really not convinced. As for your comment about these people not existing, have you seen what type of people and ideology have hijacked the Democratic party over the years?




The U.S. have helped liberated the world but they are no angels either. As an exemple, during the WW2, there was segregation, the japanese americans were in concentration camps, the natives were treated really badly are were packed in reservations, they were doing experimentations on prisonners and patients of mental institutions and the list goes further. It was a kind of an hypocrisy that they thought they were so much better than Nazis. The situation is more complex than that and much more nuanced.

Today some of the right wings christians are hating on muslim but not because of their values even if they tried to deny it, but mainly because they don't worship the same God, don't talk the same language or have their skin darker.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:23 pm 
 

darkhness wrote:

I guess as a whole means me.

You were probably a POG fobbit that now has a contrarian view and loves to start a conversation with "Well, as a veteran..." I might be wrong though, who knows?

I don't care about your history of being oblivious to (and probably apathetic to) women's rights.



I actually don't use my veteran status for much of anything outside of saving 10% at Home Depot and my current home loan. But I will use it against internet whelps who talk tough through a face full of ignorance to blindly defend their chosen world-damaging demigod. So yeah, you are wrong. I had an easier time there than most, but the point is, I still went. Unlike your bullshit super-pussy chicken-hawk president.

I'm sorry you missed the point of my personal anecdote, but it was your choice to activate your deflector shields against reason and reality. You could always shut it off and join reality, or go back to the Incel/InfoWars/FoxNews forum where you were originally brainwashed.

By the way, you failed to properly explain my questions. How does "the good the US has done" magically negate having concentration/internment/prison camps now? You probably didn't catch my criticism of your broken logic because you were too busy missing the fucking point. One I stated in two analogies.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:51 pm 
 

darkhness wrote:
Accusing the U.S. of having concentration camps is not only factually dishonest, but also disrespectful to what we, as a whole, have done to combat extremism and help liberate the world.

Absolute horseshit. It's factually accurate, and what the US has done abroad doesn't magically change that what they're doing domestically is abhorrent.

Moreover, what the US has done abroad is mostly imperialistic grotesqueries anyway. "Liberate the world"? This reads like a fucking parody/troll post.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:07 pm 
 

Lots of responses, so please, bare with me.

lost_wanderer wrote:
The U.S. have helped liberated the world but they are no angels either. As an exemple, during the WW2, there was segregation, the japanese americans were in concentration camps, the natives were treated really badly are were packed in reservations, they were doing experimentations on prisonners and patients of mental institutions and the list goes further. It was a kind of an hypocrisy that they thought they were so much better than Nazis. The situation is more complex than that and much more nuanced.

Today some of the right wings christians are hating on muslim but not because of their values even if they tried to deny it, but mainly because they don't worship the same God, don't talk the same language or have their skin darker.

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No nation has a morally clean record when it comes to the actions it has committed. However, to imply that the U.S. wasn't so much better than the Nazis is ridiculous. Do you really think that murdering 11 million people and plunging the world into a massive war that cost millions more lives is even comparable to the war time policies of the U.S.? I understand the point you were trying to make, no country and it's history is perfect, but If a topic like this is going to be explored on a deeper than superficial level, distinctions have to be made.

Racists exist unfortunately, I'd love for that to change too.

I'll be happy to provide you a recent example. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she just won a Democratic primary. She's openly against abolishing borders, getting rid of ICE, a 15$ minimum wage, a job for everyone that's provided by the federal government, and also free housing. These are just a few of the things that shes for. A party that once had some shred of decency and morality is getting overran by Sanders' acolytes that are even more to the left than him.

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I actually don't use my veteran status for much of anything outside of saving 10% at Home Depot and my current home loan. But I will use it against internet whelps who talk tough through a face full of ignorance to blindly defend their chosen world-damaging demigod. So yeah, you are wrong. I had an easier time there than most, but the point is, I still went. Unlike your bullshit super-pussy chicken-hawk president.

I'm sorry you missed the point of my personal anecdote, but it was your choice to activate your deflector shields against reason and reality. You could always shut it off and join reality, or go back to the Incel/InfoWars/FoxNews forum where you were originally brainwashed.

By the way, you failed to properly explain my questions. How does "the good the US has done" magically negate having concentration/internment/prison camps now? You probably didn't catch my criticism of your broken logic because you were too busy missing the fucking point. One I stated in two analogies.


Thank you for your service brave soldier.

Never have I said that it magically negates it. However, since we are going down this road, we are coming to a point where unlike you, I don't think there is anything wrong with following a law that was enacted by the Democrats that says children can't be with their parents when they illegally cross the border and are awaiting trial. For all I care transport them back to the Mexican authorities, with or without the parents. And riddle me this, Trump gave the left what they wanted and the children aren't being separated. However, why is that not enough? The Democrats are now calling for full release of these criminals into the U.S. side. So I ask you, were you this outraged when these things were happening during Obama's second term? Or is it just now that you're finally up in arms about it because the mid-terms are happening this year?

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:24 pm 
 

fwiw the Democrat law gave power to officials to separate children and adults, in case of situations of abuse or where it seemed that child trafficking was obvious, but it didn't make that the default policy, unlike what Trump did.

The new "concentration camps" themselves, yeah that was Obama's thing and similar have existed long before either president without much hubbub. They're basically refugee camps. There's nothing particularly shocking about that unless you believe that the government shouldn't have the power to detain illegal immigrants at all (which is a fair opinion to have, but equivalent in practice to endorsing unregulated immigration). It's just the typical media circus.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:27 pm 
 

darkhness wrote:

Thank you for your service brave soldier.

Never have I said that it magically negates it. However, since we are going down this road, we are coming to a point where unlike you, I don't think there is anything wrong with following a law that was enacted by the Democrats that says children can't be with their parents when they illegally cross the border and are awaiting trial. For all I care transport them back to the Mexican authorities, with or without the parents. And riddle me this, Trump gave the left what they wanted and the children aren't being separated. However, why is that not enough? The Democrats are now calling for full release of these criminals into the U.S. side. So I ask you, were you this outraged when these things were happening during Obama's second term? Or is it just now that you're finally up in arms about it because the mid-terms are happening this year?


Spare me your fake patriotism bullshit rhetoric. If you really want to thank me, you'll actually respect this country, and not blindly support people like Trump who only want to burn it to the ground.

On the other points, if you care even one iota about humanity in general (and let's skip the jokes about how humans are all bad, etc., we're talking about people's lives), then you should very much care about if children are separated from their parents and put in camps. I know it's a Trumpian element to completely lack understanding of the concept of empathy, but surely there must be a relative or friend or neighbor or something with children where you can imagine them trying to flee a horror show only to wind up in a completely different one for absolutely no reason. Indeed, I linked an article a page before about why they're coming to the US, despite rampant Republican racism targeting them and stopping just short of steam-shoveling them into fucking ovens. Granted, 1500 children were still just fucking lost with no idea where they are.

This is basic human morality. Do these lives matter? I understand they're outside of your Monkeysphere, so you might not see them as humans, but at least fucking try. Do you have the same attitude towards children who are raped or molested or beaten or tortured to death?

You call them all criminals, which is only something you could do if you are either A) fucking braindead, B) cheerily swallowing Trump's taint sweat without thinking, or C) racist as as a fucking KKK rally. I happen to be a fan of statistics and reality, and the reality is that immigrants commit far fewer crimes than actual American citizens. That is a fact researched time and time again.

Beyond that, you are working from frankly false information, and the idea that you didn't bother to research it paints quite a robust picture of how you operate. Nothing you said about the "democrat's law" or "pre-existing separation law" or anything in that regard is accurate. No less than Snopes has fucking debunked that, complete with resources.

The fact is, Trump (with Sessions) made this policy, they blamed the Democrats because shifting blame is literally how Trump always works, and then tried to pretend to be heroes. That is patently and provably a lie told by Trump, and notably false by any and all standards.

Fuck, how brainwashed and deliberately blind does someone have to be?

HERE IS YOUR FUCKING DEMIGOD'S VISAGE PAINTED ON THE WALL OF ONE OF THOSE CAMPS.

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Keep pretending the Democrats did this when Trump happily emblazoned his image right fucking there. If you look at Trump, and you see yourself in Trump, and you think he is what you want for America, and you voted for him as a representative for you, then until you denounce him, you are saying your values are those of liars, thieves, charlatans, greed, and racism. You support taking rights from women, gays, and minorities. You support spending more money just to be more racist (because immigrants and refugees actually benefit the economy to the tune of literal billions of dollars which I linked the page prior. That these are your "values," or you would not have wanted Trump to represent you in the government. This is the America you want. An America propped up by liars and bigots. Where freedom is cast aside in favor of authoritarianism. Where groupthink is preferable to a variety of views and ideas, regardless of how bad the groupthink is. Where blaming others is preferable. Where those with the money are allowed to break the backs of the poor to have their money. Where capitalism is crushed beneath cronyism.

These are your fucking values if you support Trump. You literally cannot pretend to be a good person if these are your values.
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I'll check back into this thread in 24 hours and respond only after you've calmed down. Thanks, and thank you for your service again!

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The only reason one needs to be against the separation of children from their parents at the border is the fact that doing so is proven to be mentally scarring for the former. Ripping toddlers from their mother's arms and keeping them locked up in cages with no way to establish contact with each other is basically state-sanctioned child abuse, and a gross offense against human rights. We are talking about really, really young children here, such as pre-schoolers and babies. Who is taking care of these children? Feeding them when they're hungry, holding them when they cry, etc? You people know that a baby can just outright fucking die if it doesn't receive enough physical contact, right? Or how about medical conditions? Surely, some of these children might suffer from asthma, allergies, require medications or have special needs; who is keeping track of all that and supplying those needs? Hmmm?

And if you argue that these people are criminals, well, 1) they're children, they didn't cross the border out of their own volition, 2) crossing the US border illegally is classified as a misdemeanor, so you might as well kidnap and cage the children of people who get drunk in public or smoke in non-smoking areas, and 3) you are probably a sociopath and this entire comment was pointless.
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Xlxlx wrote:
Ripping toddlers from their mother's arms and keeping them locked up in cages with no way to establish contact with each other is basically state-sanctioned child abuse, and a gross offense against human rights. We are talking about really, really young children here, such as pre-schoolers and babies. Who is taking care of these children? Feeding them when they're hungry, holding them when they cry, etc? You people know that a baby can just outright fucking die if it doesn't receive enough physical contact, right? Or how about medical conditions? Surely, some of these children might suffer from asthma, allergies, require medications or have special needs; who is keeping track of all that and supplying those needs? Hmmm?


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“Nobody knows what to do,” Ms. Frankel said, explaining that her colleagues have been charged with caring for “a number of infants,” including some as young as 8 and 10 months. Many of the children are too young to speak, Ms. Frankel said. Without knowing where or even who the parents are, Ms. Frankel’s colleagues have struggled to advocate for the children.

Ms. Frankel said that contract workers were well trained and doing their best to help but that the youngest children are struggling even more than older ones because they cannot understand what is happening. “The young kids think that their parents have abandoned them, or that something very bad has happened to them,” she said.

“They’re in crisis. They’re just crying uncontrollably,” she said. “We’ve seen young kids having panic attacks, they can’t sleep, they’re wetting the bed. They regress developmentally, where they may have been verbal but now they can no longer talk.”

Since the administration’s policy became public, doctors and child welfare experts have spoken out about the potential health implications of separation, citing an increased risk for children of anxiety and depression, as well as post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorder.

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Representatives of the Health and Human Services Department, which cares for the children, did not respond to requests for data on Wednesday on the number of tender-age children in custody. But Ms. Frankel said that her organization had been informed that government facilities were at capacity.

“They are placing the children wherever there is an available bed,” she said. Some are being flown thousands of miles away from their parents.

Ms. Frankel said most of the youngest children were being placed overnight in temporary foster homes, and then transported during the day to government facilities for case management and other services. Children who were old enough were going to school during the day, she said, while the babies are kept together in rooms where they are cared for by contract workers.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/t ... ation.html

Obviously separation isn't healthy for children, but it's not like they're being thrown into empty cages and left to fend for themselves. Child protective services regularly separate children from parents as well, and that can do damage as well, but sometimes that's a necessity. Putting aside those children who were separated as part of a political ploy by Trump, what is the solution for children otherwise? The camps themselves are the same that have existed for decades. The holding of unaccompanied minors by the government is something that has existed for decades.

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And if you argue that these people are criminals, well, 1) they're children, they didn't cross the border out of their own volition


They're not being held in prisons pending criminal charges, they're being held by the HHS pending identification of legal guardians. Their parents are being held while charged with a crime.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she just won a Democratic primary. She's openly against abolishing borders, getting rid of ICE, a 15$ minimum wage, a job for everyone that's provided by the federal government, and also free housing. These are just a few of the things that shes for. A party that once had some shred of decency and morality is getting overran by Sanders' acolytes that are even more to the left than him.

Yeah, what's more decadent and immoral than a wide-eyed ideologue whose main goal is to remove corporate money from politics and improve the quality of life for everyone who makes less than $100k a year? Dude, you cannot be even remotely serious. Argue the feasibility till you're blue in the face, but saying she lacks decency is just fucking moronic.

Wait, holy shit y'all, darkhness is 38!!?!
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darkhness wrote:
I'll check back into this thread in 24 hours and respond only after you've calmed down. Thanks, and thank you for your service again!


The idea that people need to remain calm in the face of barbarity is an utterly loathsome one.
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HamburgerBoy wrote:
Xlxlx wrote:
Ripping toddlers from their mother's arms and keeping them locked up in cages with no way to establish contact with each other is basically state-sanctioned child abuse, and a gross offense against human rights. We are talking about really, really young children here, such as pre-schoolers and babies. Who is taking care of these children? Feeding them when they're hungry, holding them when they cry, etc? You people know that a baby can just outright fucking die if it doesn't receive enough physical contact, right? Or how about medical conditions? Surely, some of these children might suffer from asthma, allergies, require medications or have special needs; who is keeping track of all that and supplying those needs? Hmmm?


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“Nobody knows what to do,” Ms. Frankel said, explaining that her colleagues have been charged with caring for “a number of infants,” including some as young as 8 and 10 months. Many of the children are too young to speak, Ms. Frankel said. Without knowing where or even who the parents are, Ms. Frankel’s colleagues have struggled to advocate for the children.

Ms. Frankel said that contract workers were well trained and doing their best to help but that the youngest children are struggling even more than older ones because they cannot understand what is happening. “The young kids think that their parents have abandoned them, or that something very bad has happened to them,” she said.

“They’re in crisis. They’re just crying uncontrollably,” she said. “We’ve seen young kids having panic attacks, they can’t sleep, they’re wetting the bed. They regress developmentally, where they may have been verbal but now they can no longer talk.”

Since the administration’s policy became public, doctors and child welfare experts have spoken out about the potential health implications of separation, citing an increased risk for children of anxiety and depression, as well as post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit disorder.

...

Representatives of the Health and Human Services Department, which cares for the children, did not respond to requests for data on Wednesday on the number of tender-age children in custody. But Ms. Frankel said that her organization had been informed that government facilities were at capacity.

“They are placing the children wherever there is an available bed,” she said. Some are being flown thousands of miles away from their parents.

Ms. Frankel said most of the youngest children were being placed overnight in temporary foster homes, and then transported during the day to government facilities for case management and other services. Children who were old enough were going to school during the day, she said, while the babies are kept together in rooms where they are cared for by contract workers.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/t ... ation.html

Obviously separation isn't healthy for children, but it's not like they're being thrown into empty cages and left to fend for themselves. Child protective services regularly separate children from parents as well, and that can do damage as well, but sometimes that's a necessity. Putting aside those children who were separated as part of a political ploy by Trump, what is the solution for children otherwise? The camps themselves are the same that have existed for decades. The holding of unaccompanied minors by the government is something that has existed for decades.

I never said that separating children from their parents in general is a universally bad move. I said that within the context of the separations happening as we speak at the US border. Of course it's a logical thing to remove children from abusive households and the like, but this is clearly not the case here. It almost looks like you deliberately cut out the "at the border" part of my statement.
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And if you argue that these people are criminals, well, 1) they're children, they didn't cross the border out of their own volition

They're not being held in prisons pending criminal charges, they're being held by the HHS pending identification of legal guardians. Their parents are being held while charged with a crime.

You should tell that to all the right wingers calling every single sapient creature crossing the border a criminal. And the fact that the parents are the ones being held like prisoners for a misdemeanor isn't any less ridiculous or tyrannical. As I said, might as well abduct the children of people who get charged with public intoxication.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:50 pm 
 

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Thanks, and thank you for your service again!



Your sarcastic, piss-ant tone is very much the anti-solider, anti-veteran mentality of the modern Republican party. You chickenhawks are all the same. Tough talk, a public support of the military, while crushing the people in service beneath your shoes whenever you can, while desperate to hide what a sniveling coward you really are.

Thanks for proving you're a troll.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:59 pm 
 

HamburgerBoy wrote:
The camps themselves are the same that have existed for decades. The holding of unaccompanied minors by the government is something that has existed for decades.

Xlxlx wrote:
And if you argue that these people are criminals, well, 1) they're children, they didn't cross the border out of their own volition


They're not being held in prisons pending criminal charges, they're being held by the HHS pending identification of legal guardians. Their parents are being held while charged with a crime.


The camps are not the same. They have clearly reported building more. Funny how it took Trump in office to turn Alex Jones' "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory into something real. Isn't that just super hilarious? So these have not really existed for decades. This is a new horror. From Trump.

Also, to try to compare this to Child Protective Services as "holding unaccompanied minors has existed for decades" is ludicrous. Taking a child away from meth-mommy is not remotely the same as taking them away from someone desperate to give them a better life--and then not fucking tell anyone where that child is or if they'll get them back. Even CPS has to follow the law and inform the parents of consequences. Come on, man.

Also, for the last part, of their parents being held for charges, I'm sure you'll be super happy to know Trump is looking to ax due process in this. Keep that plunger handy, we're stuffing so much democracy down the drain, it's clogged.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:14 pm 
 

Putin has set a date and location for Trump's annual performance review. Helsinki, next month.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... d-by-putin

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:17 pm 
 

Hopefully the two world leaders will see eye to eye and not allow conspiracy theories which have sadly gone mainstream to goad them into leading our two nations into unnecessary conflict.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:42 pm 
 

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she just won a Democratic primary. She's openly against abolishing borders, getting rid of ICE, a 15$ minimum wage, a job for everyone that's provided by the federal government, and also free housing. These are just a few of the things that shes for. A party that once had some shred of decency and morality is getting overran by Sanders' acolytes that are even more to the left than him.

What shreds of decency are you talking about? Hillary and Bill willfully, maybe even gleefully, imposing harsher sentencing on minor offenders based on their geographical location (and, thusly, their race)? The "morality" of being against the Civil Rights Movement? "Don't ask, don't tell" instead of "grow the fuck up and do your fucking job"?

Son, the morality and decency didn't start becoming a real fixture until the likes of Bernie went mainstream.

Bonus! What if I told you that Sanders isn't even that far left, and that the Democratic party has been center-right for most of its existence?

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Yeah, what's more decadent and immoral than a wide-eyed ideologue whose main goal is to remove corporate money from politics and improve the quality of life for everyone who makes less than $100k a year? Dude, you cannot be even remotely serious. Argue the feasibility till you're blue in the face, but saying she lacks decency is just fucking moronic.

Well, that would mean holding alleged job creators responsible for creating jobs that pay livable wages! That would mean admitting the Reaganomic ideals of wealth distribution via top-down slopes has never fucking worked! OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
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I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant she was in favor of abolishing the southern US border, but that statement is just as bewildering because I can't ever remember her saying or even implying anything like that. It honestly sounds like he read the clickbait headline from a Fox or Breitbart article and declared himself an expert.

Ironically, Alexandria's biggest pull is that she takes a hardline stance on an issue Trump built his campaign on (only to abandon it once he won, like anyone with half a brain knew he would): that of "draining the swamp" in Washington, kicking out the aristocracy and installing people who actually represent the people. But because she identifies as left she's gotta be a degenerate snowflake cuck desperate to appease the new world order, amiright?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:34 pm 
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... rmula.html

Absolutely fucking disgusting of our healthcare system.

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nestee8 wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5896977/Hospital-charged-parents-18-000-babys-nap-bottle-formula.html

Absolutely fucking disgusting of our healthcare system.

Yup it's insane. Here's a non-Daily Mail link with the original reporting: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17506232/ ... rance-baby
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:06 pm 
 

Gotta love the idiots on the bodybuilding.com Misc forums (which I used to be a member of) talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthre ... =175907281

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:36 pm 
 

nestee8 wrote:
Gotta love the idiots on the bodybuilding.com Misc forums (which I used to be a member of) talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthre ... =175907281



I browse a little bit through the comments until I read ''god emperor trump''. I stopped there. lol
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:51 pm 
 

Still more stomachable than fucking anything on the_donald :puke:
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Yeah, let's not worry about/start linking other sites or whatever, please.
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I dunno, I heard Stormfront said something racist.

Anyway, AOC's win was still one of the most unprecedented in recent American history, not least because of the label she's willing to put on herself, especially in this climate. It's truly heartwarming to see so many Americans embrace an out-and-out, openly self-described

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:16 am 
 

darkeningday wrote:
I dunno, I heard Stormfront said something racist.

Anyway, AOC's win was still one of the most unprecedented in recent American history, not least because of the label she's willing to put on herself, especially in this climate. It's truly heartwarming to see so many Americans embrace an out-and-out, openly self-described



Did you see the footage of Sean Hannity talking about her and her policies? Was absolute gold, just the fact of how ignorant he is WHILE showing the things that most Americans want.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:18 pm 
 

darkeningday wrote:

Anyway, AOC's win was still one of the most unprecedented in recent American history, not least because of the label she's willing to put on herself, especially in this climate. It's truly heartwarming to see so many Americans embrace


Turnout in her district was 13%, and she got a bit less than 3/5th's of that. In other words, only about 7.5% of her party voted for her. That's it. That race is the latest addition to a now-bulging bag of evidence that "we need hardcore leftists to run or else young people won't be enthused" is white-hot garbage as a theory of Democrat voting behavior.

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Earthcubed wrote:
darkeningday wrote:

Anyway, AOC's win was still one of the most unprecedented in recent American history, not least because of the label she's willing to put on herself, especially in this climate. It's truly heartwarming to see so many Americans embrace


Turnout in her district was 13%, and she got a bit less than 3/5th's of that. In other words, only about 7.5% of her party voted for her. That's it. That race is the latest addition to a now-bulging bag of evidence that "we need hardcore leftists to run or else young people won't be enthused" is white-hot garbage as a theory of Democrat voting behavior.

2016 and 2014 didn't even have primaries for either party in NY-14, and the republican was uncontested this year too. The fact 28K people even showed up to vote and 16 of them went out of their way to vote for a person who had less than 10% of the campaign budget isn't something to scoff at. It's not anything to excitedly rally behind as a nation, but dismissing it as purely a statistical aberration is just as disingenuous.
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Even if turnout was triple what it was and she still won it wouldn't be a national rallying cry. As our junior senator from Illinois just pointed out, what works in NYC is not going to work in the Midwest. "Let's paint the country the proper shade of red" won't fly in most of the country. Thankfully, AOC has been calculating enough to note this in interviews.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/us-tra ... ls-allies/

Trump's tariffs are going to fuck up our economy, mark my words.

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They're gonna fuck up the economy more than it already will be thanks to his absurd tax bill.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 2:07 pm 
 

nestee8 wrote:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/us-trade-partners-fed-trumps-games-looking-cut-deals-allies/

Trump's tariffs are going to fuck up our economy, mark my words.



Oh, it gets better folks: Trump wants to undermine the entire World Trade Organization.

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"It would be the equivalent of walking away from the WTO and our commitments there without us actually notifying our withdrawal," said a source familiar with the bill.

"The good news is Congress would never give this authority to the president," the source added, describing the bill as "insane."
"It's not implementable at the border," given it would create potentially tens of thousands of new tariff rates on products. "And it would completely remove us from the set of global trade rules."
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Earthcubed wrote:
what works in NYC is not going to work in the Midwest.

I mean... yes? Was this ever in question? The point isn't that Democratic Socialism will have pull in the Midwest, it's that it has any pull at all anywhere in the entire US. Baby steps and all.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 10:24 pm 
 

And what do you know, people are lobbying for Trump's SCOTUS picks.

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