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Comment on Do we have a new President yet? (2012-11-07 05:25:03)
Romney hasn't conceded yet because he already admitted he only wrote a victory speech and needs time to cram this one out college style.
Comment on Time To Vote! (2012-11-05 21:16:03)
Count might be a poor choice of words, I think. I'm not saying it's worthless, just a needless embracing of ineffectiveness. In the past few years I've come to believe that the two party system works better than I gave it credit for now that its boiled down to base social philosophies rooted in the moral binary continuum of conservatism v. liberalism... but having that argument is what drives compromise, what finds solutions, what creates moderates... at least when there's respect involved. Jon Haidt did a TED Talk on this that I really thought hit the mark. As for oligarchy, good luck getting around that one in a capitalism-driven republic. The capitalist will buy perceptual sway over the polis, always. If one party fell, and a party that was hitherto considered a vote "not counted" rose to power, they'd just go tit for tat until the distance between them worked back to the LibCon binary and all the backing would shift and we'd be back where we started with different names. And if you force three parties? Forget about it. A system where 65%+ can be fore something and they lose? In 'MURRICA? American Representative Democracy is the Microsoft Windows of government systems. It's not the best we can do, but it's what's working best right now. Too-long-story-short, I still say it's better to affect what you can when your true hopes are already lost.
Comment on Last to comment gets $5 (2012-11-05 20:16:10)
Liar.
Comment on Time To Vote! (2012-11-05 18:53:25)
Ethically, I agree with you... provided that the goal is to be righteous even in spite of reality. I don't understand how taking action that you have proof positive will not make a difference can be preferable to trying your best to manipulate the lesser evil in your favor. It results in more action. The race is extremely close - there's no excuse to say your vote won't count UNLESS you go third party.
Comment on Your children ... (2012-11-03 23:54:46)
MY BACK ENJOYS MANY RIGHTS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Comment on At What Point Do We Determine Humanity? (2012-11-02 05:13:18)
That's pretty much how it was interpreted until the televangelists got involved, as far as I know - something about dashing heads on rocks. After that you've got people going on about the Psalm about God knowing who you were going to be before your were fashioned interpreted by modern pro-lifers as an anti-abortion mechanism (as if he wouldn't have known someone was going to have an abortion...) The whole thing is a circus. I refuse to even accept someone's claim that they're "pro-life" when they're pro-death penalty, anti-healthcare, anti-environmental protection regulation, anti-head start ... but they take a hard line on babies because they had a traumatic and sensitive family experience with a child.
Comment on SHIELD helicarrier (2012-11-01 03:52:04)
I HERD YOU LIKE PLANES
Comment on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Coming in 2015! (2012-11-01 03:43:35)
So what we're saying is that there's no longer a copyright issue if we replace Jar-Jar with Stitch?
Comment on Christopher Hitchens (2012-10-27 18:18:21)
Disputing this one is kind of egocentric. Get a roundtable going - Christian, Jewish, Mormon, Islamic, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, Sikhs, Aboriginal, some of the Folk Tribes, Rastas... maybe some of those New Age folks. Have everyone sit in a circle and ask one at a time: "All those who believe [Single Member] is wrong, say I." ... all-on-one every single time. Hitchens is speaking with good probability, especially taken into account that we're not even bringing in the Greek and Roman groups, any of the factions that broke off along the way, etc. -- and those were popular back in the days when we claim God made all of these announcements about who was right!
Comment on How I felt on November 8th, 2000 (2012-10-24 19:59:14)
"Will we see the Florida that elected George W. Bush in 2000, or will we see the Florida that elected Al Gore back in 2000?" - The Onion
Comment on bug evolution (2012-10-22 02:22:01)
Maybe we're dealing with Pokémon definitions.
Comment on Hogwarts map WTF (2012-10-20 19:50:39)
http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html
Comment on Pudding (2012-10-13 23:40:06)
Probably the same people who use yogurt out of a squeeze tube - children and people with the mental capacity of same.
Comment on Joe-Fucking-Biden (2012-10-13 05:31:13)
[While watching a replay of the first debate] "So... Romney won because he caffeinated up beforehand, interrupted you a lot, and laughed to himself every time he looked at his own notes? SHIT, I CAN DO THAT."
Comment on I like your style, Romney. Don't stop saying things. (2012-10-09 22:00:12)
I'm just amazed he's getting away with it. He's done a 180 and sped right back to the moderate views he had before (which I was pretty okay with, I guess). At this point, what he needs to prove to me is that the slow, stable, guaranteed recovery we've been seeing since changing horses pulled us out of the nosedive (not trying to white-knight Obama, just watching the charts) is (a) not the best we could be doing, and (b) not even as good as what he's got to offer. From what he's shown me so far, his "tear it all down and build something new" attempt at a better path is a gamble at best, and this sure as shit isn't the time for gambling. He sounds confident... but Tom Cruise sounds pretty confident about half the shit he says, too, so there goes that.