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PoliGAF 2017 |OT6| Made this thread during Harvey because the ratings would be higher
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2017 is the year we find common cause with Furries and Juggalos.
I'm still drawing the line at Bronies though.
Box of Kittens
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Just did a Google search for "conservative brony." The images were, uh, something.
And what's with the alt-right blatantly copying the format of Onion editorial cartoons but playing it straight?
Something something the people supporting this are absolutely fine when they're doing their laundry and making their food, but freak the F out when they actually aim higher than that. You see the same thing in the UK w/ Brexit- it's all about relative status and being threatened by non-white people who can do better than you.
edit: I say this because these people will read these stats the opposite of how they're intended and double down.
Almost certainly, yes.
I feel like it started as being an ironic statement, and then Poe's law kicked in. Similar to what happened in the early days for /r/The_Donald
Steve King is literal human garbage.
Trump can only plan a week in advance.
Furries are a socially marginalized group. All socially marginalized groups are likely to have overlap, because they have to have higher tolerance for socially unusual behavior.
Finally, younger Millenials getting a taste of what life was like from 2002->2006.
Finale Fireworker
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Don't punch down. We got our wake-up call last November. Nothing is washing this taste away.
benicillin
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This is probably worse.
The real fucker is that the more depressing and infuriating things are, the more important it is to be paying attention...
I'll be going to a DACA rally in my city tonight.
If nothing else we have the bloody healthcare thing behind us for now.
This.
Basileus777
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It's getting worse more quickly, but we haven't surpassed the Iraq war yet.
Aaron Strife
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It's going to be really bad when we get another eight years of a cool Dem president, only for the next generation to piss and moan about the 2028 candidate not being good enough and electing... well, I don't know who would be worse than Trump. An actually competent fascist?
We are literally still in an unnecessary and unwinnable war caused by the last Republican administration.
Maybe two if you count ISIS!
There's always next year!
I really hope that bipartisan Gov group can lobby the fuck out of Congress to overwhelmingly pass their suggested fixes to the ACA. Veto proof baby.
...yeah right 😕
Mark Andrew
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It's not unwinnable, the United States just doesn't want to commit the necessary resources.
Amibguous Cad
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Knowing that '06 and Obama were coming, it looks a little easier in hindsight.
But 2004 and "permanent Republican majority" sure looked like we were just going to spiral down the militaristic drain, with jingoism leading to war leading to terrorist attacks leading to war leading to jingoism... I mean, they were torturing people, god only knew what the NSA was doing, constitutional protections were being shredded left and right, and incidentally the racists and the homophobes and the religious right were in the coalition with the warmongers, so we had that to look forward to, as well, seemingly indefinitely.
It's hard to tell - and honestly my perceptions are almost certainly colored by where I was in my life at both times. But it sure *looked like* 9/11 was the cataclysmic event that marked the end of America as a place of freedom, I suppose what Trump's election looks like now. And it does give me some hope that we might be able to claw our way out of this.
The dawn will come.
excelsiorlef
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Do you challenge them on their views at least?
I mean, you say that, but the mental callous you develop as you realize the country is going to war in Iraq based on transparent lies and there's nothing you can do about it s a pretty big one.
whyamihere
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metalslimer
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The prospects for LGBT Americans was also pretty low after the 2004 election. Many people wouldn't even recognize that version of the country at that point and would think of it more like out of the 80s.
Dubbedinenglish
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It's time to remove ICE from field operations, and only work as called in by local enforcement or the FBI.
Mark Andrew
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Box of Kittens
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During election season I often had a sense of deja vu based on my memories of 2000. At times I couldn't believe what people were saying and the I came to the horrifying realization that appeals to how wrong the same rhetoric turned out to be in regards to Bush and Gore were ineffective, because by and large the people saying this things were too young to really remember the Bush presidency.
AntraxSuicide
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I said God damn
Honestly, all of this should be building to the next Democratic executive straight up canceling ICE as a government agency. It doesn't fill a need that other law enforcement can't provide.
Yas queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.
Greigor The Fellhand
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100% cancellation of ICE. They are a department that shouldn't exist as its jobs and responsibilities are pieced together from different agencies.
Box of Kittens
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I continue to be amazed how many people don't realize that California voted down marriage equality in 2008.
Worse would be if everything were happening as exactly as it is now, but Trump had 80-90 percent approval ratings.
fucking lmao
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
This made me laugh, then be sad.
RumbleHumble
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Fucking savage. While also being awesome. I don't even like her music, but I think I'm gonna give a track or two a listen.
I thought this was about Florida initially. I'm staying the hell away from that thread.
Cher's twitter is the gift that keeps on giving.
Brawndo Addict
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Does Cher already have a dreamer staying with her or something? I don't really get it.
Finale Fireworker
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I am sure of that. I am sure you also have more aches and grievances by the sheer disadvantage of having lived longer.
But this is an extremely difficult time for everyone in America with a heart. Certainly we don't need to compete over who has hurt longer. Everybody had it easy for eight years. Now nobody does.
In these times, let us continue to look to Cher.
RumbleHumble
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The implication is Cher intends to open up her home for dreamers when the time comes.
Dubbedinenglish
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Looking like Republicans will try to get wall funding with any DACA bill. Should be no Dem votes for that. Push comes to shove I think a clean DACA bill could be veto proof
ContraPoints calling out the continued normalization of dehumanizing rhetoric under the guise of "but we have to listen to both sides"
Can homosexuality be cured by torture? Many sides to this issue. The debate must commence!
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On next well meet the man who claims he can 'cure' homosexuality in men. Any thoughts? - Contrapoints
Can homosexuality be cured by torture? Many sides to this issue. The debate must commence!
- Good Morning Britain
On next well meet the man who claims he can 'cure' homosexuality in men. Any thoughts? - Contrapoints
I mean, I guess?
This is tantamount to telling local law enforcement to actually detain ICE agents. Otherwise how are you going to stop them?
I don't actually hate this idea but it's, shall we say, fraught.
On the recent PSA, they agreed that if there was an opportunity to have a DACA fix as well as a path to citizenship, Dems should bite the bullet and fund some form of wall. Tough to swallow on principle, but it's truly a better path than simply obstructing everything.
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