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Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

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Kepler said:
Does anybody have a sliver of hope for the human race remaining? Lemme help you with that.
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Does this really surprise me? I'm surprised the figures are so low. The UN includes nations where children are married to men and their home countries themselves are often corrupt and relatively poor compared to most European nations. This should not be a shock to anyone.
 
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St. Clown said:
Does this really surprise me? I'm surprised the figures are so low. The UN includes nations where children are married to men and their home countries themselves are often corrupt and relatively poor compared to most European nations. This should not be a shock to anyone.
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It does shock me, greatly. A co-worker did time in UN Peacekeeping and he says it blows him away, too. He was in during the 90s and things may have changed, but his experiences were that it was a top flight, professional organization with a ton of oversight.

I guess I'm naive, but when the Rwanda story broke last year I thought it was a bizarre outlier, not evidence of widespread abuse.

The other thing is, who is crazy enough have sex with poor African women? That's like a ballpark vendor yelling, "Get yer HIV, here! Ebola! Hep B!"
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
And DFL Congressmen. Oh wait, I forgot: They can do no wrong. And in the off chance that they do, it's really not that big of a deal.
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DFL doesn't mean much to people outside of MN, fella.


DFL = Democrat, Farmer, Labor; it's the combination of three liberal political movements within this state that eventually became the local Democrat party.
 
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St. Clown said:
DFL doesn't mean much to people outside of MN, fella.


DFL = Democrat, Farmer, Labor; it's the combination of three liberal political movements within this state that eventually became the local Democrat party.
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His 100% correct point still stands though.
 
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Don't think Kepler ever said or implied that the Dems can do no wrong so no it doesn't (per usual).
 
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bigblue_dl said:
It is implied every time he posts his brilliant insights.
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I never mean or say Democrats are without fault, so by "It is implied" you're saying "I hallucinate it." When someone says "I hate apple pie" do you hear them saying "I love cherry pie"?

Thank you, however, for the kind words.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
His 100% correct point still stands though.
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I wasn't disputing anything, I just work in a world where I have to act as a translator between two detached groups. It causes me to pick up on things in the rest of my life, like acronyms foreign to different groups of people.
trixR4kids said:
Guessing he got a single digit score on the reading portion of the ACT.
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Actually, that's a really bad analogy. It takes conext of of a speaker or writer entirely out of the equation. When in a political thread you read a particular person rail against one party over and over again while minimizing the gaffes of the other, it allows reasonable suppositions into the thought process. There's no such context created within standardized testing, be it the logic or English portions of the tests.
 
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Kepler said:
I never mean or say Democrats are without fault, so by "It is implied" you're saying "I hallucinate it." When someone says "I hate apple pie" do you hear them saying "I love cherry pie"?

Thank you, however, for the kind words.
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When one spends 95% of their posting energy pointing out every little thing that any right-leaning politician does wrong, and exactly .001% of their energy making passive comments about left-wing politicians doing dastardly deeds, or excusing it, or the family-favorite, "But what the right-wingers do is soooooooo much worse!!!11!!1!!" then I think I'm fully within my rights to make certain conclusions.

trixR4kids said:
Guessing he got a single digit score on the reading portion of the ACT.
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And it would appear you scored about the same, and probably lower on anything to do with logic or common sense. The day anybody on here takes seriously a jab about their intellect from you, my friend, is the day that Kepler casts his ballot for Ted Cruz.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
When one spends 95% of their posting energy pointing out every little thing that any right-leaning politician does wrong, and exactly .001% of their energy making passive comments about left-wing politicians doing dastardly deeds, or excusing it, or the family-favorite, "But what the right-wingers do is soooooooo much worse!!!11!!1!!" then I think I'm fully within my rights to make certain conclusions.
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You're within your rights to think anything, but that doesn't mean it corresponds to the real world. :p

The GOP is certainly far more dangerous than the Democrats, at this time, and that makes the latter far preferable. Observing that doesn't mean I love the Democrats anymore than you holding the opposing view would mean you slavishly love the GOP. You see?
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
And it would appear you scored about the same, and probably lower on anything to do with logic or common sense. The day anybody on here takes seriously a jab about their intellect from you, my friend, is the day that Kepler casts his ballot for Ted Cruz.
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Well like most things involving the scientific process, you can choose not to believe it I suppose.

St. Clown said:
Actually, that's a really bad analogy. It takes conext of of a speaker or writer entirely out of the equation. When in a political thread you read a particular person rail against one party over and over again while minimizing the gaffes of the other, it allows reasonable suppositions into the thought process. There's no such context created within standardized testing, be it the logic or English portions of the tests.
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I've seen him criticize the Dems plenty of times so my point about his reading comprehension is valid.
 
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He rips Hillary almost as much as I do...last I checked she was a Dem.

Maybe you should blame the idiots in the GOP for making such ridiculous mistakes.
 
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Handyman said:
He rips Hillary almost as much as I do...last I checked she was a Dem.

Maybe you should blame the idiots in the GOP for making such ridiculous mistakes.
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Actually, Hillary was a member of the College Republicans. There's an out. ;)
 
Kepler said:
You're within your rights to think anything, but that doesn't mean it corresponds to the real world. :p

The GOP is certainly far more dangerous than the Democrats, at this time, and that makes the latter far preferable. Observing that doesn't mean I love the Democrats anymore than you holding the opposing view would mean you slavishly love the GOP. You see?
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No no no. Didn't you get the memo? Both Sides Are Bad, So Vote Republican (tm).

This was a running joke on Fark, but sadly it appears to be true for many, many people.
 
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unofan said:
No no no. Didn't you get the memo? Both Sides Are Bad, So Vote Republican (tm).

This was a running joke on Fark, but sadly it appears to be true for many, many people.
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Don't make me add you to the LOPCATGOPATA.
 
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