The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst

[Kepler]

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New Jersey! He’s from a good family.

https://m.startribune.com/teenager-a...ays/512174762/

“The boy filmed himself penetrating a visibly intoxicated 16-year-old girl from behind, her torso exposed, her head hanging down, prosecutors said. He later shared the cellphone video among friends, investigators said, and sent a text that said, “When your first time having sex was rape.”

GOP SCOTUS nominee, 2050.

[Kepler]

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What is IRV?

Instant runoff voting.

[trixR4kids]

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Without the Nader votes, we probably don't go into Iraq.

Let's not let the 29 dems in the senate who voted for it off the hook either (including Biden and the 2016 dem nominee who shall not be named).

[Rover]

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Then again, we know how spot-on your political assessments are.

And yours, apparently!

[Rover]

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Let's not let the 29 dems in the senate who voted for it off the hook either (including Biden and the 2016 dem nominee who shall not be named).

Trix, if Bernie ever stops short your head is going to end up half way up his rear end.

[Kepler]

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Let's not let the 29 dems in the senate who voted for it off the hook either (including Biden and the 2016 dem nominee who shall not be named).

That's what happens when you try to triangulate. You give away the moral high ground when you start playing the "smart" angles. And the thing is while there are doofuses out there with "these colors don't run" (1) they're mostly Republicans anyway and (2) there are more people who care about you having sincere positions and holding to them.

Hillary voting for the war is why she isn't President. She thought it was clever at the time. It's never clever to knowingly do the wrong thing to try to appease the dopes.

[burd]

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And yours, apparently!

Touche

[Handyman]

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Let's also not forget the people weren't exactly against it either.

[trixR4kids]

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The politicians have far more responsibility and power than the people but yes it was popular at the time.

[Rover]

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The blame for Iraq falls on the Bush administration. Not on anybody else. If you recall, the Dems in the Senate were asking Shrub to give it time for the inspectors to go in there and confirm the WMD's. Knuckledraggers wouldn't allow that and asked for a resolution immediately due to an imminent threat which they backed up with doctored intelligence and even roped in the Brits for the ride. I'm not sure how you hold people who were conned as up for as much blame as the con artists themselves?

[Kepler]

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The politicians have far more responsibility and power than the people but yes it was popular at the time.

War Fever is a fart. In the moment it's overwhelming but it dissipates quickly, nobody remembers it fondly, and everybody claims not to have been guilty of it.

"I support our troops therefore I won't send them into a meat grinder to prop up Exxon's third quarter earnings." Full stop. Take the heat from all the cowards who buckled for six months. Be hailed as a brave and prescient hero for the rest of your career. Because you will be.

[ScoobyDoo]

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War Fever is a fart. In the moment it's overwhelming but it dissipates quickly, nobody remembers it fondly, and everybody claims not to have been guilty of it.

I was highly skeptical. I did say at least once that I was ok with it if they proved there was WMD's. They didn't. And, I felt duped. Never again.

[burd]

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The blame for Iraq falls on the Bush administration. Not on anybody else. If you recall, the Dems in the Senate were asking Shrub to give it time for the inspectors to go in there and confirm the WMD's. Knuckledraggers wouldn't allow that and asked for a resolution immediately due to an imminent threat which they backed up with doctored intelligence and even roped in the Brits for the ride. I'm not sure how you hold people who were conned as up for as much blame as the con artists themselves?

I think posters are just being careful to recognize that people in this country are easily convinced that kicking some foreigner arse is the best solution, regardless of party affiliation. To this day, a lot of people will say the only mistake we made in Vietnam was not dropping enough bombs and burning enough huts.

[Kepler]

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I was highly skeptical. I did say at least once that I was ok with it if they proved there was WMD's. They didn't. And, I felt duped. Never again.

Everybody feels it at the time, even smarties. That's when you have to realize you are a bag of chemicals and this is a primate threat response. War Fever is just the animal lashing out in fear. It's the opposite of reasoning. And it's the opposite of bravery -- it's the epitome of cowardice.

[Kepler]

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I think posters are just being careful to recognize that people in this country are easily convinced that kicking some foreigner arse is the best solution, regardless of party affiliation. To this day, a lot of people will say the only mistake we made in Vietnam was not dropping enough bombs and burning enough huts.

Those people are criminally insane and they're straight ticket R. The battle isn't for them.

In the first few months of War Fever everyone, even D, even smarty D, is on board. The ladies line the street and the brave boys with their shining uniforms line up and march to the open maw of the pit. The collective IQ drops to zero in a flood of pheromones and grade school narratives. Everyone is, literally, stupefied -- it is The Great Hunt; the eons-old echo of our reptile brains.

And then first the smarties and then even the dummies realize what a disaster it all is. And everybody turns against it. And everyone moans oh how could we have been so shortsighted?

So... don't be. Next time it happens be ready and deny it, especially in yourself. Say, "no -- this is a drug and I am saying no to it and yes to life." Just be well protected because the rest of the mob is going to want to kill you.