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What are we going to do about this Socialist threat to the American way?
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>6093712
Yeah... you laugh now...
Soon, your children will be watching him on TV and reciting the alphabet and doing basic arithmetic.
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clone mark wahlberg

>Wahlberg had been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston Police Department in his youth. By the age of thirteen, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances.[8][9] At fifteen, he harassed a group of black school children on a field trip by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. When he was sixteen, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye
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for fuck's sake, disagree with obama all you want but he's not a fucking socialist. anyone with half a brain could tell you that (which explains the tea party pretty well)
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>>6093795

That's what pro-socialist(read: obama) people always say.
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>>6093795
Bitch, the only thing I want from you is to tell me how to get to Sesame Street!
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>>6093813
except i'm not pro-obama

sage for disinfo
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>>6093833
Either you're with us, or you're with the Muppets.
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Wow. He really was on SNL.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/409934
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Its not like Sesame Street sells clothing lines, toy lines and everything in between from dishes to bath towels.

Oh wait they do.

Fuck them. Cut every fucking cent from PBS and NPR funding. They'll make up for it by increasing the sales of merchandise or underwriters.
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>>6094062
Indeed. Big Bird's video games for the Xbox360 were runaway bestsellers
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I have toddlers:

1. pbs is obsolete, heard of the internet?
2. sesame street loudly advertises they use their funding to make a foreign version of their program in countries around the world
3. nick jr is much better -much much much better-- and with no commercials
4. pbs might as well be called "multiculti" programming.
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>>6094238
Millions of Americans don't have cable or satellite like you do you prick.
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>>6094238
>nick jr is much better

i don't believe you actually think that. why are people so stupid allowed to have kids?
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>>6094238
You're ACTUALLY making a big deal of Sesame Street?
Compared to the rest of the federal budget and sources of real waste...
that show costs almost NOTHING.
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>>6094433
bullshit

Not only is that a fucking lie: public libraries.

Books!!
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>>6094469
much much much better: sesame street is bad by comparison to the worst nick jr kids show

plus: public schools and public libraries
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>>6094540
You realize those public schools and public libraries (much like the Public Broadcasting System) are publicly funded?
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>>6094540
wow. it's like you WANT your kids to grow up retarded.
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>I had a vision of the future of Sesame Street... if Mitt Romney is elected
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>>6094493
Cutting has to start somewhere, so why don't you make some suggestions, complete with numbers, and then consider how damaging publicly detailing those cuts would be to a candidate for POTUS.

I'm not strictly defending Romney here. I'm not defending politics. But be realistic, and be specific. If you attempt to make specific, and consequential cuts you get Ron Pauled
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>>6094583
lold
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>>6094602
FINE.
We go back to the 1997 budget and taxation-rates.
From there... we make incremental adjustments.
How's that?
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>>6094433
The US doesn't offer free to air television anymore
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>>6094602

Oh I don't know.........maybe we could do some cutting

<-----HERE
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>>6094632
Yeah they do. You just need a digital coverter box if you don't have a new enough TV that they are already built in. I think they are around $10
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>>6094493
How much of the federal budget is PBS, anyway? I doubt it's even one percent. Military funding and entitlements are the real elephants in the the room. Heck, if you want to make a token gesture, cutting congressmen's salaries would be a more impressive austerity measure. It's not like most of them aren't rich bastards anyway.
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Last weeks SNL was the first funny one in a long time, and BBs appearance was the highlight. Very classily done.
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>>6094677
fuck, i missed SNL last week because they're usually shit. talk about your liberal jew media, i tell ya hwut
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>>6094618
That's nice. But that is how we got here. Budgets for everything already account for incremental adjustments, automatically inflating year to year. You need to go back farther, before guaranteed inflation was a reality.
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>>6094565
>>6094565
Your helping my case not hurting it.

Duplicative redubdant spending makes PBS a perfect icon for bad public spending.

PS public school!!
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>>6093864
Posting shitty Reddit meme images should be an autoban.
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>>6094648
lol. we know what you're saying... but you need to label your chart for it to make sense.
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>>6094689

The only meme images that count come from outposts of patriotism like freerepublic and hisfirsthugecock.com, everybody knows that.
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>>6094688
>redubdant spending
>50 state governments
>Army
>Navy
>Air Force
>Marines
Why not start there?

And anyway... with something as important as education...
Every little bit helps.
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Plus, it's not like Romney is actually talking about cutting any budgets. Whatever cuts the republicans talk about is bullshit. They want to cut programs they don't like and give that money to "Private Sector" military contractors. That's how Romney plans to create jobs in the "Private Sector". What a sham!
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>>6094685
Meyers was obviously traumatised by Obama's debate performance, although he channeled his butthurt into some laughs.
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>>6094696

Oh yeah. That chart represents current military budgets by country.
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>>6094648
Ok. So say we cut ALL defense spending....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0RkWqyn1y4

Well shit, we're still turning deficits.

Cutting has to come from everywhere. This liberal notion that defense spending should be first or the only consideration is so short sighted it hurts.

Starting with the largest budget requirement and working down is not how you cut. You put everything on the table and ask the question. What the FUCK is the Federal Government's responsibility, really?

The answer is protecting national sovereignty. Defense. Federal Government has few other responsibilities.
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>>6094755
>The answer is protecting national sovereignty.
We're surrounded by two oceans. If Canada can get by on a minimalist military, so can we.

And also...
a lot of us would like to see tax rates restored to the 1990s rates.
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>>6094728
>implying a president can cut state budgets
>implying pbs is the extent of his plan

now ur just lashing out
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>>6094729


that's romney's whole plan==suck that jewish dick and attack anyone whom they tell him to. you can bet if romney gets into office, war with iran is for sure. repukes love war. there hasn't been a repuke in office that didn't start or prolong a war.


and of course, since repukes are even sacrificing their goy children for their messianic rothchild master, the money flows, each day getting them more and more in debt so that the next actor can't do sheyat but the same thing
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>>6094777
>international shipping lanes
>nation dependent on imports
>world reserve currency

Yeah, we're perfectly safe without much of any military. Canada does it, and it isn't like their neighbor is the largest military spender by a factor of 4, and they are allies with that Nation.

You're interpreting my arguments that defense should not be cut. I already made the argument that everything should be on the table. The implication being that everything is subject not strictly to 100% cuts, but partial cuts. But keep making this only about military instead of acknowledging that SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and the interest on our debts are what are ultimately killing us.
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>>6094755

LOL. Defense? You mean invasion and occupation don't you?

You been duped. Was our "national sovereignty " at risk in 2000 when we had a military base budget around $300,000,000,000? It's more than doubled in the last 10 years.

But that is just keeping up with inflation right?

Nobody is suggesting military be the only thing cut, but to increase it even further, which is what Romney is suggesting, is absolutely fucking absurd.
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>>6094755
Yeah... those numbers are fishy to me.

The Education and NASA numbers seemed overblown...
And the military numbers seemed underblown.
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elect Romney who will lead us to a glorious military state. yes, do that and the evil socialism will go away and be replaced by even more rampant militarism and a likely eventual dictatorship.
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>>6094836
The programs you talk of are programs millions of emericans that have worked their whole lives and paid into. When they are old and ready to rest for the remaining 20 years of their life after being a wage slave for 45 years, they rely on social security and medicare to get treated for illness, keep a roof over their head, and food on the table. I don't think they can take shelter in an aircraft carrier or eat a pegasus missile.

I question the state of mind of someone who believes we need to say "Fuck you old people, we need to spend more on military!"
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>>6094915
Yes, because stating twice now that military should be subject to cuts means "SPEND MORE ON MILITARY"

you are clearly not open to having an honest debate.
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>>6094847
National budget is about 3 trillion. Defense is some 700 billion. Are you SURE the numbers are being manipulated, because defense STILL requires MOST of the year's tax "income".
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>>6094839
You're assuming I support Romney. I am talking about balancing a fucking budget. Romney is as bad as Obama.

Can we move on now? Defense should be cut, but not eliminated. WE STILL HAVE A BUDGET DEFICIT. What else do we cut?
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>>6094982
We increase revenue (hint: Bush tax cuts).
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>>6094947

see>>6094729

You can talk about cutting all you want. The reality is that Romney will increase the military. Do I acknowledge that other programs need to be cut as well as military? Yes.

Social security and medicare can be shored up with some minor tweaks without raising the eligiblity age.

Medicaid should have more spending for their fraud department which would save billions. You read more and more how they are catching doctors for defrauding medicare and medicaid.
There is money to be saved across the board, but in reality just cutting budgets will never reduce the deficit. There has to be revenue increases at well. That's why the Bush tax cuts need to go.
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>>6094982

You might have fun with this.

http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/

Have fun trying to balance the budget. Post your results.
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>>6095042
Ok, so say we cut about 600 trillion in total.

We still have a deficit.
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>>6095073
see
>>6094982
This isn't about Romney.
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>>6095279
I am the guy suggesting to cut everything but military, and then go ahead and cut military by 50% anyway, because we have debt to pay, and the sooner we repay, the lower the interest payments until debts are clear. Let the States handle everything else, IF they want to.

I'm trying to get other people to commit to something, but instead the argument is I should defend what should be cut. My defense is that we spend too much, and have a 100% debt to GPD ratio to show for it. Now it is "your" turn to balance the budget.
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>>6095364
How was it we had a balanced budget in the 1990s anyway???
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>>6095519
Do go into detail. I'm not the one to explain your position for you, nor do you want me to.
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>>6095364

Good point sir! All this talk about abolishing the federal government and states rights. We had a massive federal government in the 90's AND a balanced budget.

Plus, wouldn't having all of the states with separate governments essentially make us the Separate States of America? It is being the UNITED States of America that makes us strong.
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>>6095279
>http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/
i balanced it.
raised taxes, especially on cake eaters
cut spending, especially on cake eaters
raised retirement age 2 years.

got 58% by 2020 and sustainable levels.

not hard.
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>>6095717
what are "cake eaters"?
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>>6095717

By "cake eaters" do you mean the poor and elderly? That is exactly how Patrick Bateman would balance the budget! Nice Job.
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>>6095734
Small business owners
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>>6095734
>>6095746
>>6095754
>mfw no one knows what cake-eaters means.

fucking children.
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>>6095717

Fuck it. Why don't we all work until we die, and get no social security or medicare. Sounds like a great quality of life!
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>>6095788

You think you're going to survive on just social security and medicare?
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>>6095788
>2 years
>waaah, no benefits work till we die

hyperbole much.
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>>6095688
see
>>6095616
I'm asking for detail, and you just "point to the 90s". Economies were different, and the 90s were not without bubbles distorting revenue.

Otherwise your argument about being "United" is bullshit, because this nation was founded exactly as you describe. 13 competing colonies, that otherwise shared a common interest in basic civil rights to life and liberty. That all men (people) are sovereign unto themselves, nevermind the states, etc were sovereign to themselves.

You're argument is that it is GOOD the states compromised on slavery because they UNITED, and being UNITED is inherently good. I argue otherwise. It cost over 500k Americans to keep us that way, and right what eventually would have happened anyway, courtesy of the cotton gin.
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>>6095823

So let's go back to the north and the south. Brilliant dude. Do you have a confederate flag displayed anywhere at your residence or on your vehicles by any chance?
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>>6095823
How the hell did we go from talking about the 1990s to talking about the 13 colonies?
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>>6095871
>>6095878
I'm out. Said it already, but no one else is remotely interested in an honest debate.
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>>6095871
>>6095878
>mah 90s
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>>6095871
Make your own!
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>>6095878

This guy is peppering his opinions with states rights lingo to which I responded >>6095688

Hers are some of his "states rights" quotes:

"What the FUCK is the Federal Government's responsibility, really?"

"The answer is protecting national sovereignty. Defense. Federal Government has few other responsibilities."

"Let the States handle everything else, IF they want to."
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>>6095967
Ahhhhh.
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>>6095813
I'm saying why stop at 2 years? 2 will become 5 and 5 will inevitably become 10. You see where I'm going with this. Where does it stop? That is why you need to leave social security and medicare alone and stop paying for all of these tax cuts. No cuts to social services before trying to balance the revenue side first. Seems common sense to me. I'm glad you don't mind being a sheep led around by all of this "We're broke, we can't afford social security anymore, we are going to have to raise the retirement age.

How about raising the amount of income subject to social security tax from $110,000 to $250,000? That should pay for the next century of social security right there.
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>>6096063
>How about raising the amount of income subject to social security tax from $110,000 to $250,000? That should pay for the next century of social security right there.
Err... where'd you hear that?
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>>6096063
slippery slope fallacy much?
it stops when it's solvent.

how much has life expectancy increased since the retirement age was set at 65?

i did raise social security taxes, why don't you play the game and see how well you can balance without any cuts at all to anything.

increased revenue alone isn't going to lower the debt or eliminate the deficit.

fucking buttmad pleb.
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>>6096071

As Paul Ryan would say "I don't know the math". But if somebody who is not as lazy as me would care to calculate we could see.

The point being, you don't have to cut, you can raise revenue to shore up social service programs.

But the popular talk right now is "cut this" "cut that" "flim flam" "shim sham". "cut cut cut cut cut" but don't cut the military because "muh freedum"
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>>6096165
so you're attacking based on a strawman, despite that i said i raised taxes especially on cake eaters, and most of service i cut was cake eater crap?

or do you seriously not understand the term cake eater?

>implying i didn't make every single military cut offered in the game except veteran benefits
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>>6096119

You are getting debt and deficit confused. Automatically discredited from knowing anything other than regurgitated myths.
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>>6096238
no, i'm not getting them confused at all.

the point of the game was to lower the debt.

eliminating the deficit can not be accomplished simply by increased taxes without cuts.

the only regurgitation here is that line about confusing them you just pulled.
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>>6096194

passive aggressive much
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>>6096278
it's not passive aggression when i'm flat out calling you stupid.
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>>6096275

>eliminating the deficit can not be accomplished simply by increased taxes without cuts.

Dream on.

Take in another trillion and congress will spend 2 trillion more.

The US doesn't have a tax revenue problem. It has a spending problem.
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>>6096316
it can't be accomplished with just cuts, either.

fuckin' maroon.
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>>6096337
that's not true at all. Cut all federal spending and the current tax revenue will MORE than compensate
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>>6096352
>cut all federal spending
yeah, it can't be accomplished, so shut the fuck up.
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>>6096361
Then we'll just start with Big Bird...
He's a symbol of everything that's wrong!
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>>6096238

I'm talking about increased revenue specifically related to social security not the entire budget. Raising the ceiling from 110,000 to 250,000 would certainly shore up social security for a long time without raising the retirement age or cutting benefits.
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>>6096408

was actually aimed at you >>6096119
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>>6096408
it wouldn't really, to be sound through the retirement and death of the boomers you'd need to increase SS tax and retirement age.
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>>6096337

Of course it can.

What you really mean is, you don't want them to cut the things you like. You, and the tens of millions of people like you, are exactly why the US has a spending problem that will never be fixed.
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how about getting rid of all of the tax deductions to religions? If you look at land maps where I live, these churches are buying up 1000's of acres of land and they don't have to pay taxes on it. I imagine they turn around and sell it for a tidy tax free profit.
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>>6096448
no, it can't be done by things that are remotely realistically cuttable.

people like you with your refusal to compromise from an unattainable position are the reason the US has problems in general that'll never be fixed.
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>>6096482
Which is precisely why Paul Ryan is an asshole.

Speaking of which...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/150385/plucked

Your thoughts on this clip?
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>>6096448

Romney went to Massachusetts claiming he wouldn't raise taxes and he when he got there he did take a cuts first approach but he ended up having to raise fees significantly and he closed loopholes.

He was criticized by conservatives for the fees hikes because while he claimed that the fees weren't as broad as taxes, there were some that disagreed that this applied to all of the fees he raised.

I think what one can learn when just looking at the way he governed, is that even he realized you can't just go into office and only cut taxes. You have to do something to raise revenue as well when the place you govern is having economic difficulties. It's irresponsible to do anything but.
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>>6094648 is not the spending problem!

No! It's the millions of hard working Americans that pay into social security their whole live and would like to see the benefits when they retire.

Quit blaming everyone else. The government fucked us and now they have us blaming each other. Where did all of the money that was in the social security "trust fund" go? They took our social security money and paid for other shit with it and now they want us to work longer and pay more in to make up for their losses.

Open you eyes sucka. You just went full retard.
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>>6096512
>http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/150385/plucked
southpark used to be good.
and it's weird to watch 2 libertarians bash ayn rand on national tv.
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>>6096525

Oh, and just to clarify the point of sentence 2. He was criticized because the difference between some of the fees and a tax were superficial.
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>>6096482

I refuse to compromise.

So what spending are you willing to cut, Mr Compromiser?
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>>6096574
They aren't libertarians.
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>>6096607
Closet democrats?
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>>6096606
>I refuse to compromise.
Whats the point of negotiating then.

Politics is about compromise.
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>>6096618

Comedians. And like most americans they don't have a convenient label.

Obviously they are socially very liberal, but economically they aren't true libertarians. If you've listened to interviews, a lot of the libertarian stuff comes from the fact that they have a lot of libertarian friends.

Kind of like that they make fun of mormons a lot even though neither of them are/were mormons.
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>>6096606
military, numerous subsidies, increase SS/medicare age 2 years is about 60% of the deficit in cuts, asswipe.

refusing to compromise is why you're everything wrong with everything ever.
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The American way is socialist
Its the global elites and Jewish bankers that threaten the American way with their "free market" ideology which is just government assistance and collusion with the rich and nothing but exploitation of the American family.

the greatest generation were great because of the NewDeal, GI bill, and union manufacturing jobs.
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>>6096574

Ayn Rand did not support the Libertarian Party in her day. In her interviews she explicitly calls them out. I believe she says something (either referring to them or conservatives) where she says she respected a Marxist more because they at least had principles, or something to that effect.

So seeing two libertarians bash her, to me, seems about right. I don't think they are as hardcore as most libertarians anyways. They call themselves very "middle of the road" at times and they mostly only seem libertarian when it comes to social issues.
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>>6096675
How common actually is it to see fat people in the US in scooters?
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>>6096681
Ayn Rand kept getting perpetually pissed off at one group after another her entire life.
It had less to do with her "principles", than with her being a particularly insufferable cunt, even for a woman.
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>>6096698
It's... becoming pretty common.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/d4nqqv/doesnt-this-bother-you


it's related. and it should bother you.
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>>6096698
fairly common.
any major grocery store will have 1 at any given time 24/7.
wallmart will literally have 6 or so scooting around.

outside those places not so much cause they don't do anything outside those places and their civil service jobs.

i know, i work civil service and it's all giant black women with wobbly arms larger than my head.
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>>6096720
actually.. the clip was too short. just watch the episode. it's pretty good.

In the end... the day is saved thanks to Michelle Obama and James Cameron.
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>>6096727
i can only skim episodes of southpark now, like the simpsons.

already skimmed that one.
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A South Park episode does not reality make.
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Here it is:

Ayn Rand on Libertarisanism

"I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect."

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_campus_libertarians
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>>6096675

That cartoon is awesome.
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>>6096698

I saw one at the grocery store yesterday. I pushed my cart into the aisle and I look up and see this great big fat lady in one of those scooters. She took up the whole aisle. I felt immediate disgust and revulsion, it was like seeing Baron Harkonned in the flesh except her scooter couldn't fly. I screamed internally and I turned my cart around and got the fuck out of that aisle.
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>>6096855
it's so much worse in the south, where an aisle can have like 2 or 3 at a time trying to maneuver around eachother while breathing heavily.

i'm disgustingly fat imo with just a jiggly belly and these people... ugh.
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>>6096727
Michelle Obama only gave a shit once James Cameron did what James Cameron did, because he's James Cameron.
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>>6096442
Or the government can stop stealing our money out of the social security fund to pay for tax cuts. And then they turn around and say "We need to cut your social security benefits and raise the retirement age", and dumbasses like the one guy ITT buy it hook, line, and sinker.

He is getting robbed and he is defending the robbers! What a fool.
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>>6096907
Yeah, but she beat the crap out of Cartman and even for a TV show...
My god, that felt good to watch.
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>>6096855
Who's up for some SCOOTER TIPPING?
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>>6096768
Yeah, sounds like she was acting like an insufferable cunt that needed to change her tampon
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>>6097073
yes, we can go back in time and stop reagan form fucking things up, that'll certainly fix things now.

you're spouting unsustained emotional drivel that doesn't solve an actual problem.

the robbery already happened, probably before you were born, you can't just magic it away, you can prevent it from happening again but you still have to deal with having lost what you did.
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>>6097177

I know how to solve the problem..........tax cuts for everybody!!!!!
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Really Arkansas? Wow. Way to separate church and state!

State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-AR)

"If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861?
The South has always stood by the Constitution and limited government. When one attacks the Confederate Battle Flag, he is certainly denouncing these principles of government as well as Christianity."
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>>6097326
lol. when did he say that?
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>>6097343
2009 I think.
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>>6097437
How far we've come.
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>>6097479

Yeah we're fucked.
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>>6093734
DEAR GOD NO!
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>>6094755
i dont think anyone says we need to cut ALL defense spending. but do you think we should invest in building more nucluer arms? i mean, we dont even need the amount we have now. we dont need to be able to blow up the world 100x's over. whats the reasoning?
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>>6097177

We can have the rich, who got the money from Reagan in the form of tax cuts, pay the money back to the social security fund. There fixed.
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>>6097824
raising their taxes is needed just to pay for everything else.
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>>6093699 (OP)

I am not going to do shit. I flat out tell my fellow conservatives this and they lose their fucking minds and start to view me as an enemy of America. The thing is though, they are the ones that have sold out and destroyed the country their entire lives. The right in this country is a bigger threat to the country than the left BECAUSE they have no fucking plan. They have totally lost the culture war at every single turn and have always bent themselves over to get ass raped by the left and the fake conservative politicians. There is no hope for America when the people who hate the way the country is going will NEVER do anything to reverse it or stop it. They will always bend over and take it up the pooper and pretend they made the right decision for America.

Abandon all hope America.
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>>6097177

the government is still putting surplus social security revenue into the general fund and spending it elsewhere.
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>>6097945
Whatever do you mean?
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>>6098031

"Let me hear the momma grizzlies holla!" Okay, not let's have the hockey mom's raise the roof!"

Okay how about "I'm not a witch"

Here's your conservatives you fuckin' losers.
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How FUCKED are we as a country that our Vice-presidential candidate's daughter got knocked up and gave birth to a bastard child while she was in HIGH SCHOOL??
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>>6098089
She was cute. I actually really miss her. And I'm not even a conservative.
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>>6098183
I hope you're joking. But I'll bet you're not.

Let's vote for the cutest candidates. What are we in fucking high school?
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>>6098031

I hope you like eating a hope dick because that is what the fake conservative politicians are going to give america again. They have sold out america for decades and the people are too stupid to notice.
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>>6096623

So what spending are you willing to compromise on?
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sesame street does fine. they sell merchandize. they don't need government help.
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>>6097824
>>6097901

Tax them at 100% and it still won't even come close to paying for your unfunded liabilities.
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>>6098294
I think it's more a matter of misplaced priorities.
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>>6098294

But Billionaires need our help if they are going to give us jobs. That is why we need to get rid of social security to pay for tax cuts for them.
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>>6098321
THEIR unfunded liabilities, not ours.

Not even a good attempt sir.
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>>6098324
Hmmm. I guess Romney wouldn't be in a position to threaten Big Bird's job after all.
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>>6098321
not good at following the thread, are you.
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>>6098436
big bird doesn't rely on government funding, the rest of PBS does.

and it's a miniscule amount to make it a non issue to distract from their constant desire to increase military spending.

cutting big bird is meaningless when you spend 100 times as much as you cut on new shiny war machines we don't use.
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>>6098363

Theirs? Oh, so you've been voting for people who were going to cut spending. Good for you.
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>democrates
>socialist

AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA THEIR COWARDICE CAPITALIST LIBERAL SCUM AND ANTI-GUN

Opposite of a socialist.
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>>6098321
except i played the linked game and actually lowered the debt to 58% of GDP by 2020 while keeping SS and medicare in existence.

faggot.
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>>6098574
Hmmm. Nope.
I think they're mostly anti-gun in Sweden, Canada, and England. Japan too.
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>>6096675
sooooo much thisss it hurts.
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>>6098553
Have you taken any bath salts today? I'm having a real hard time understanding what the fuck are talking about.

lrn to communicate
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>>6098646

They're your unfunded liabilities. You voted for the people who created them, expanded them, and refuse to do anything about them. Your solutions for them are laughable.

You are part of the problem.
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>>6098584
The hard part for me was when I increased veterans benefits and highway funding. That fucked me.

I mean these boys go over there and get all fucked up "for murrika and freeduhm" and then they come back and the same politicians that sent them over there want to cut veterans benefits. Talk about some fucking assholes!
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>>6098838

Always with the veterans.
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>>6098590
None of those countries are socialist.The Swedish government is actually centre right-wing and Canada's government is VERY right wing,do you even read up on these things or just assume they are socialist because of affordable/free healthcare. having free healthcare does not make a country socialist,such a thought is very simple minded. England really? their a bunch of liberal statists. Wait did you just call japan socialist? Dear God i hope your trolling they are the epitome of capitalism. Where as an actual socialist nation like Vietnam has a very large gun market.
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>>6098796

You are part of the Herp Derp. Which unfunded liabilities are you referring to exactly? And, the candidates that I vote for never win office., so you can suck a fart out of my ass.
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>>6098879
You don't think it's fucked up that these guys with no arms and legs are getting shit on by the government? You sir, are not a gentleman or a scholar.
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>>6098889

I stopped reading at "The Swedish". That's how many fucks were given.
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>>6098889
>having free healthcare does not make a country socialist
Nope.
That's pretty much the all-or-nothing criteria.

Central healthcare = socialism.

That's pretty much what everyone else thinks too.
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>>6098889
↓ see? that just shows you that's what everyone thinks is the basis for the definition.
>>6098981
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>>6098957
Lol. He was trolling.
He put in a 120year old political cartoon from a time when the government was trying to GET RID of a surplus.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxs09eV-Vc

It gets good at the 0:09 second mark.
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>>6094591
that's not 40K you faggot, that is Battletech!
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>>6099061

Trying to get rid of? I guess that's one way to look at it.

I prefer to think of it as nearly bankrupting the country by throwing money at veterans. Of course, that's a republican for you.
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HOLY FUCK.

They finally went completely insane at FOXNews:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-8-2012/children-s-television-chop-shop---this-week-wit
h-george-snuffleupagus
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>>6099173
Lol. Yeah, I know. It pisses people off even more when they see that's what I named the file.
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>>6093699 (OP)
I dunno they just told Obama to STUFF it today.
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>>6098889
last time i checked vietnam was a communist country. who do you think is more socialist, Canada or china?
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>>6094433
Actually, while being for PBS subsidies (because of NPR), something like 79% of the country has some form of cable programming.

>>6094238
But you sir, are a prick. How do you get to those libraries? Maybe you don't have a car, or the buses don't run that way. We don't need to be parking more kids in front of screens. That's how you get Amerifats. But if they ARE going to be in front of screens, let it be educational. Also, nick jr only recently improved, and is still not *that* great.
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>>6099306
>pbs is multiculti!
>nickjr and dora the explorer are great!

srs?
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>>6099017

its fine if people want to believe that, but thats not even remotely close to what socialism is or meets the criteria for making a country socialist
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>>6094688
>Your
>Duplicative redubnant

Yeah, you know a lot about how we should spend public education dollars, being so educated right?
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>>6099343
I'm not who you think you're responding to. PBS is obviously multiculti. And those benefitting from public broadcasting the most would be the poor and minorities. So multiculti isn't a bad message when they have their own factions screaming domination. Jackass.
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>>6099451
but nickjr is like, teaching kids fucking spanish, it's way more multiculti.
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>>6098922
Okay be immature about it, typical

>>6099250
There has never been a communist country. In communism there is no state. I do not know to much about the current Chinese corporatist government so i wouldn't know. I am not going to make assumptions about it because I am not a moron.

>>6099041
I know right? It just shows what blind drones these people are.
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>>6099499
>just shows what blind drones these people are.
it's what most people in the USA believe, too.
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>>6099494
And Sesame Street didn't teach basic spanish for thirty years before? I live in the South. We have to take a language to graduate. Most people take Spanish. From seventh and eighth grade all the way to graduation, you can take spanish, and pretty much have to in seventh and eighth for lack of options. They still come out like dumbfucks, forgetting the whole language in like 3 years for lack of use. Teaching Americans foreign languages is like throwing your money away.
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>>6099017
With all do respect, There is no way you are this dense, maybe you just don't care enough?
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>>6099017
0/10 or fucktard/10

either way, cant tell if ignorant or troll
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>>6099539
As an American I do know this very well unfortunately. I'm Trying not to lose faith but the liberals and conservatives are fucking things up so bad.

MFW people think socialism is inherently big government
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>>6099548
>I live in the South. We have to take a language to graduate.
That applies to EVERY school in the USA.
And it wasn't completely useless.
Even after all these years... you still remember at least a pinch of Spanish sufficient that you can get the gist of simple signs.
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>>6099602
I think i might have to agree
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>>6099017
1/10
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>>6099560
>>6099602

Nope. That's really all it comes down to.

Canada, Sweden, Germany, U.Kingdom all openly hold themselves out to the world as being Socialist.

Their most notorious common-thread? Centralized governmental healthcare.
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>>6099695
>>6099660
>>6099633
>>6099602
>>6099560

Lol. Alright, my enlightened conservative friends...

What do YOU think is the critiera for determining whether a country is socialist or not?

>in b4 you try to classify full-tilt countries like North Korea (which the rest of the world call Communist) as being "Socialist"
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>>6099714

so explain to me how the workers own the means to production in those countries

face it, all those countries operate in mixed economies taking aspects of both capitalism and socialism

call yourself whatever you want, that doesn't make it true; national socialism, democratic peoples republic, what the fuck ever
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>>6099754
>NK
>communist
1/10

>national healthcare
>socialist
2/10

>me
>conservative
0/10
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>>6099764
>so explain to me how the workers own the means to production in those countries
Easy. We usually don't call those countries Socialist. We use the term "Communist."

Also... whenever you use the term "national socialism"...
you're pretty much putting on a hat for the entire world to see:
"I AM A RIGHT-WING LUNATIC THAT IS SO VIRULENTLY OPPOSED TO LIBERALS THAT I'LL GO TO ANY LENGTH TO DERIDE ALL OF HISTORY'S VILLAINS AS BEING LIBERALS INCLUDING THE NAZIS AND HITLER!!"
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>>6099714
You know i might say you have a point If the Canadian government WAS NOT right wing.

please give me a source where it says what you claim.

Good troll.
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>>6099825
>workers control the means of production
>>We use the term "Communist."
You don't know your shit.
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>>6099825

i'm confused, you call them communist?

so you know that definition is incorrect but continue to use it?

none of the countries that were listed above are even remotely communist and barely socialist as it is
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>>6099754
> conservative

I am a red star loving Libertarian Socialist
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>>6099877
>>6099825

Communism=a stateless society
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>>6099877
>so you know that definition is incorrect but continue to use it?
YEP!!!!!

And you know damn well that all of these 'labels' are horribly imprecise.
If anything... virtually every economy on Earth is a mixed-system to one degree or another.

BUT...

the Americans do have a pretty simple and USEFUL nomenclature.

*Capitalism is on the right end... with USA being maybe the only true member, due to it lacking centralized governmental healthcare.
*Socialism is in the center... with almost all of the industrialized countries sitting here due to having centralized governmental healthcare BUT with each of them possibly being closer to the right end or left end than the others.
*Communism on the left end... with North Korea, Vietnam, Bengal, China, and some of the former Soviet Republics being here... but this has changed a lot in recent years.

Why is it useful?

Because it distinguishes the Americans as being very unique compared to the rest of the West, and because it puts the Communists in a league of their own.


>>6099993
Yeah.... that's not how we use the nomenclature. Apologies to Marx and Engels.
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>>6100014
>Because it distinguishes the Americans as being very unique compared to the rest of the West
Uniquely idiotic.
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I cant believe the Obama campaign is showing Romney's obsession with Big Bird. I know is parody and all, but we know that Romney is an idiot, so it's unnecessary.
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>>6100014
Welp im voteing for Romney. He starts WW3 and the west gets a restart button, If i'm lucky I live through it and try to correct these weird nomenclatures Aha im kidding......
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>>6100078
Yep. :)
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>>6099963
>I am a red star loving Libertarian Socialist
k...
that sounds like an oxymoron, but,
care to elaborate on what that is?
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>>6100138
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>We'll outsource all our jobs to china and then realize we're fucked!
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>>6100181
Yeah, yeah... end of history and all that.
Of course I know what "Communism" might mean to the academics...
but that's just not how it's used in day-to-day matters.
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>>6100158
Anon probably (correctly) defines libertarian as an advocate of individual free will and socialist as supporting collectively controlled means of production (likely through workers cooperatives).
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>>6100158
the red star loving part just means that If America become socialist I would want a red star put on the flag/military symbols and what not. Libertarian Socialist as in small government socialism ITT: I'm against statism and the government regulations the Obama administration implemented, like the ones for BUILDING YOUR OWN HOUSE. I am for a few of the government agencies being disbanded. mixed market. that....Call me retarded or idiotic if you want.
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>>6100288
Yes,exactly.
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>>6100461
You're only retarded for your namefaggotry.
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>>6100288
Yeah... we just call that "liberal."
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>>6100596
>supporting individual liberties
>liberal
Not in America, buddy.
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>>6100538
ahahahaha i actually laughed anon and yes I figured as much
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>>6100625
this

>>6100596
Are you kidding? I also approve gun ownership with very little regulation. The Czech Republic has zero firearm regulation and there is almost zero gun violence.
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You know what this outrage really is?

Liberals demanding that government and television raise their children for them.

"Bawwww, if you take away Sesame Street, my kids won't learn the alphabet or basic math, they'll grow up to be retards! (Just like how, without ultrapowerful unions, we'd all be literally enslaved by big companies overnight.)"

"Why don't you teach your kids the alphabet and basic arithmetic yourself?"

"No time, gotta hit Starbucks before I head to the protest. Consuela will make sure PBS is turned on though, if that EVIL Mitt Romney doesn't kill it!"
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>>6100625
>supporting individual liberties
Go eat shit, my deluded friend.

The liberals are the ones advocating against racial, religious, sexual-orientation discrimination...
advocating against censorship in books and media...
advocating for adequate legal representation for the accused...
advocating for criminal justice that emphasizes rehabilitation over retribution...
and yes...
advocating for the right to get an ABORTION.
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>>6100690
Admittedly... the "dividing line" isn't perfect. And gun-control might be a good example of where it isn't perfect.

But as regards CIVIL freedoms (as distinguished from ECONOMIC freedoms)... the liberals usually seek to confer more leeway.
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>>6099754
I'm a registered Democrat, and the reason we all think you're trolling is because no one is POSSIBLY this fucking retarded.

But thanks for hammering it in that you actually are
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>>6100699
Lol. I have a sinking suspicion that liberals in the upper-tax brackets would be more empirically apt to spend time reading to their kids and teaching them math than their conservative counter-parts.
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>>6100837
lol... you gonna name-call or give me that criteria i asked for, "democrat"?
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>>6100849
>I have this suspicion that people I like are good and honest and true and that the people I don't like are assholes and you're wrong

YOU DON'T SAY?!
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>>6100888
How many Republicans do you know that volunteer at the soup kitchen?
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>>6100746
okay you sound like you may be on my side but i have a few questions.

are you in support of the useless and statist government regulations the Obama administration implemented? are you for more gun control? If so Then you are an ensnarement to the left.
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>>6100933

Prove you're not a pedophile and I'll tell you.
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What can we do? We have:

* rigged elections
* corrupt corporations whom have bought off anyone who could fix this problem
* spending cuts = job losses at the govt level
* Even if Romney were installed as leader, what could he do. Could he really cut spending by say 1/3rd? What about reign in the military? The joint chiefs would have his ass killed if he tried that. Besides, he'll be expanding the military to carry out Israel's bidding.
* Not to mention the US must bring about the second coming of christ!!!!

I say we just wait it out. It'll collapse on its own at some point. Just not register to vote, fly low under the radar and keep your mouth shut. That is the best course of action.
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>>6100746
Broadly speaking, in the United States, conservatives are more in favor of personal liberties and freedom from external constraints, i.e. negative liberty, than liberals.

You may not like that, but it is true.

>The liberals are the ones advocating against racial, religious, sexual-orientation discrimination...
So do conservatives and libertarians.
>advocating against censorship in books and media...
So do conservatives and libertarians.
>advocating for adequate legal representation for the accused...
So do conservatives and libertarians
>advocating for criminal justice that emphasizes rehabilitation over retribution...
Whether the punitive system is retributive or rehabilitative doesn't have anything to do with personal freedom. Both the convict in the rehabilitative system and the convict in the retributive system are still locked away.
>advocating for the right to get an ABORTION.
Advocating for the rights of the mother over the rights of the fetus
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>>6100837
>I'm a registered Democrat
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>>6100967
Lol. That's a loaded question, but yes, I am in favor of increased governmental oversight and perhaps more governmental intervention.
I'm also in favor of a bit more gun control.

Incidentally... wouldn't "supporting collectively controlled means of production" go hand in hand with "increased governmental intervention"?
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>>6100933
I can probably safely say that church congregation I grew up in, roughly 100 people, mostly voted Republican, and regularly organized food drives with the other local churches.
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>>6093699 (OP)
BIG BIRD 2012
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>>6101060
>are the ones advocating against racial, religious, sexual-orientation discrimination...
>So do conservatives
HORSESHIT.
The Republicans (and yes... they ARE the standard-bearers for "Conservativism") on Capitol Hill tried hard to block the end of don't-ask-don't-tell and they also tried to prevent the mosque construction in Manhattan.

>advocating against censorship in books
No... they're the ones that try to get shows fined by the FCC for violating "family hour" programming in the 7 to 9pm timeslots.

>adequate legal representation for the accused...
>So do conservatives
No, the Conservatives usually are trying to defund public defender programs or block the reopening of cases of convicted persons.

>Whether the punitive system is retributive or rehabilitative doesn't have anything to do with personal freedom. Both the convict in the rehabilitative system and the convict in the retributive system are still locked away.
No, it does matter. Rehabilitation seeks (among other things) to restore the freedom of movement of convicts. Retribution seeks to further minimize such movement.

Note that everything I said was only about conservatives.

Libertarians are a whole diferetn ballgame.
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>>6101257
>HORSESHIT.

Get angry and curse, that'll make your enemies the evil stereotypes you believe they are.
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>>6101127
>wouldn't "supporting collectively controlled means of production" go hand in hand with "increased governmental intervention"?

Absolutely not, it goes hand in hand with workers cooapratives. That was the original plan. The government is a mere tool of the people for keeping peace within the country. So you are in favor of the government regulations on building your own house? gun control does not work and it does nothing but take guns away from law abiding citizens while the criminals can easily get guns illegally. You think banning assault weapons will stop criminals from getting them? no it wont even effect them.ngathrox
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k... i gotta go be productive... so here's Captain America on a unicorn.
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>>6101127
>"supporting collectively controlled means of production" go hand in hand with "increased governmental intervention"?

Not necessarily. Very little is stopping true socialists from forming their own worker-owned, worker ran cooperatives, heck people are doing it right now all over the US and around the world. One of my largest criticisms of labor unions is that they seem to have become bloated bureaucracies ran by lawyers and not the workers themselves. Union dues would be better spent buying the factory from the capitalist than funding some politicians campaign.
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>>6101330

Theeere you go.

Still probably not as satisfying as downvoting my comment, is it? Ooo, all dat negative karma.
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>>6094689
>things i don't like should be banned

www.reddit.com/ is that way.
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>>6101060
>The Republicans (and yes... they ARE the standard-bearers for "Conservativism")

no....there not
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>>6101009
What can we do? well we could vote for mitt Romney, seeing as he will defiantly back Israel in an attack on Iran,which will lead to ww3

Survive the nuclear Holocaust and rebuild on different principles.... that's the only thing.
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>>6101365
plus, how is the revolution going to happen without guns comrade?
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>>6101591
Yeah I'm going to blow the governments A-10's out of the sky with my .22 rifle and my 12 gauge shotgun.
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revolution? I say good luck.
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>>6101060
>freedom from external constraints

See conservatives and libertarians forget that whole 'being a minority' constraint. And not racial minority, any minority. They profess a love for letting things work themselves out without government. The problem with that, as much as I'd love to agree, is that things can turn out incredibly unfair when you're in the minority. That's why I support SOME government intrusion.

>>6101092
I have no problem with socialism. In my state, I don't see a big problem with being a Democrat, and I'm not aligning with neocon biblehumping conservitards. Sorry.
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>>6101591
and yes there is there is that to. but seeing as the american military will be almost impossible to beat even with a giant insurgency throughout the country...It might help to pull the 'ol Leninist tactic and vote for the guy most likely to screw up the country the most.
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The only way a revolution could be won would be if the top military commanders refused to fire on civilians and actually joined forces with the civilians. You see how well the police behave at these peaceful protests. How well behaved do you think the military leaders would be against armed insurrection?
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>>6101295
Maybe he's angry because the Republican'ts make themselves out to be good, when they're just as evil as anyone else, except more. It gets frustrating when your opponent's party stands there and lies about it's positions because they make you sound like an asshole. That's why Romney lied about the pre-existing conditions. In reality, little kids with degenerative diseases can go fuck themselves under President Romney. But that doesn't win votes as well as saying, "Sorry President Nigger, I don't agree with that, lemme espouse your more populist point of view even though I don't agree with it, and have campaigned to the contrary."

The. Whole. Debate. Also, Obama being a giant pussy and not shutting Romney down like a beta-fag
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>>6101632
>>6101679

Then again... Libya and the FSA all got anti tank and air weapons along with small-arms smuggled in to help them with their revolution.....but what countries would give us weapons....ill bet on no one.
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>>6101803
And that is why I'm a democrat and not a member of the glorious red army. Practical and pragmatic beats idyllic anyday, anyway.
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lemme squash some rebellion
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>>6101854
My ideals conflict with the democratic party. I'll probably just start my own since there has never been a party with libertarian socialist values...I just gotta make a lot of money first "ironyyy" I will call it "The American Cooperative Workers Party" ....i can drream
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>>6101257
>The Republicans (and yes... they ARE the standard-bearers for "Conservativism") on Capitol Hill tried hard to block the end of don't-ask-don't-tell
From Wikipedia:
>In Congress, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia led the contingent that favored maintaining the absolute ban on gays. Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification (but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians. In a June 1993 Washington Post opinion piece, Goldwater wrote: "You don't have to be straight to shoot straight." After Congressional phone lines were flooded by organized anti-gay opposition, President Clinton backed off on his campaign promise to repeal the ban in favor of DADT.

>they also tried to prevent the mosque construction in Manhattan.
Harry Reid and other Democrats also opposed the construction of the Manhattan Mosque. Opposition to the Manhattan Mosque was bipartisan, although certainly more people who identify as Republican opposed the mosque, e.g. 2/3rds of Americans opposed the Mosque, and 4/5ths of Republicans.

>No... they're the ones that try to get shows fined by the FCC for violating "family hour" programming in the 7 to 9pm timeslots.
I would hardly say that Republicans are alone in enforcing or desiring regulations that limit or constrain freedom. While you have one example of Republicans wanting a regulation and wanting to enforce that regulation that you could theoretically construe as a limit to personal freedom, there are plenty of examples of Democrat wanting the same.
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>>6101938
Oh,hello
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>>6101257

>No, the Conservatives usually are trying to defund public defender programs or block the reopening of cases of convicted persons.
I can't find any evidence of conservatives attempting to defund public defender programs. Whether or not that means they are not, I don't know. I wouldn't necessarily doubt it. That being said, the Constitution guarantees the right to a fair trial and the right to an attorney. There are private organizations that will represent them, e.g. Legal Aid societies and other NPOs.

Blocking the reopening of a case is justified in certain instances. I am not saying that all cases should not be reopened, but when there is enough evidence that the trial was conducted fairly and that the accused is guilty of what they have been convicted of, what purpose is there in reopening a case?

>No, it does matter. Rehabilitation seeks (among other things) to restore the freedom of movement of convicts. Retribution seeks to further minimize such movement.
The theory behind this is that, once having committed and being convicted of a crime, a convict gives up some of their personal freedoms so that the rest of society can be better protected. By limiting the freedoms of some, you better protect and enhance the freedoms of the many. A stance that the left uses on many of their issues.
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conservatives = patriot act
conservatives support liberty and freeduhm!
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>>6101691
Classical liberals and other proponents of personal freedom have certainly not forgotten about the tyranny of the majority over the minority. Moreover, Libertarians do not oppose the existence of a state and state intervention in certain areas of life.
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>>6102075
The Patriot Act passed with large bipartisan support. Only one Senator and sixty six Representatives (the majority of whom were Democrats, yes) voted against the Patriot Act. That makes 67 out of 535 Congresspeople.
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>>6101801
Why is it that American liberals try and construe American conservatives as racists because conservatives don't support Obama?

What evidence do you have that Romney is a racist?
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>>6102119
Right but in the sense of the post I was responding to, the writer was saying that conservatives support all this. Libertarians, sure, just most 'libertarians' in this country don't realize that regulation sometimes protects a balance of power.

>>6101956
I don't disagree with the whole 'libertarian socialist' idea. I just chose the Democratic party because it was less abhorent behavior and more civil rights. I realize that everything is theoretical, and that neither party is really good. When you rise with that force comrade, I'll join you. Until then, I'm gonna stick with something that actually can get in power, a lesser of two evils.
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>>6102219
I don't. I don't even think Romney has an issue with race. But I know that a good deal of conservatives I know are very ethno-centric in their way of thinking. Maybe not even racist. Don't get me wrong, I believe in differences between the races, and affirmative action is bullshit, but as much as a lot of white guilt is involved in liberals, conservatives have a lot of ethnocentric pride (and xenophobic disdain.)
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>>6102119
>Libertarians do not oppose the existence of a state and state intervention in certain areas of life.
some do. me, for example
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>>6102328
If you oppose the existence of a state then you are not a Libertarian. You are an Anarchist, and probably an Anarcho-capitalist
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>>6102170
66 dems against the patriot act.
How many repugnants against it?
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>>6102320
> I believe in differences between the races
Gtfo
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>>6101508
Yes they are...
And if you dispute that...

then, FINE.

The debate shouldn't be about "conservative" versus "liberal"...

It should be about "Democrat" versus "Republican."

>in b4 third-party crap which the vast majority of people don't give a fuck about
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>>6102219
American conservatives long for pre-civil war society. Rich white men plantation owners (now corporate upper management) with women to fuck and beat up and slaves to fuck and beat up. They are not only racist but mysogynists and sadists as well. They believe that America is theirs and everyone else doesn't belong here and if you are here your only purpose is to serve them.

Have I left anything out?
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>>6102541
Looks like three did. And a single independent. the other 62 were Democrats.
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>>6102687
Yes. Woe befall you if you're a Jew.
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>>6102696
There you go you see conservatives are not the defenders of personal liberty like they claim they are.
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>>6102541
63 Dems against it between the House and the Senate. 3 republicans from the House voted against it as well.

That still means that 49 Democratic Senators and 145 Democratic Representatives voted for it.
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>>6102580
Why? Are you saying that there's not a difference? I get the social construct thing, but I also see inherent differences.
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>>6102687
I would say that is a pretty accurate representation of some American liberals' view of conservatives, yes.
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>>6102799
And American conservatives if they could only delve deep enough into their psyche, underneath the denial, to uncover the truth.
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>>6102724
With those dismissal numbers, I'm not sure we have many defenders of personal liberty on either party.
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>>6102851
It's called the patriot act because they were just being patriotic. It was all for your freeduhm don't you get it? It is to protect you from the Chai-neez!
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>>6102843
You're entitled to your opinion. However, that's as myopic and lacking in nuance as this view:
>All American liberals want to turn the world into a socialist paradise where the rich and hard working people are forced to pay for the entitlements and benefits of the lazy.
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>>6102979
>Patriot Act
>being in response to the Chinese
How stupid are you?
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>>6102799
Take a look at Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Nuff said.
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>>6102851
Difference being...
The Republicans will spearhead things like the Patriot Act and fight for it tooth and nail, actually believing it's a good idea.
Democrats will give up too easily because they're pussies and then follow the Republican's lead even though they don't like what they're voting for.

It's the same reason why Al Gore wouldn't have started Gulf War 2.

But it's also why the Democrats need to grow a fucking spine.
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>>6102990
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck represent the worst elements of the Republican party and conservatives in general. I would hardly call them representative of all conservatives or of conservatives in general. Picking two loud voices out of a sea of pundits doesn't mean anything. Those people are popular and well paid because of their extremism and irrationality. Simply because there are some idiots who like them doesn't mean that all conservatives do.
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>>6102980
You can get into semantics all you want to. I don't care about that. I do however see your point and admit that it is valid. So why the blatant racism (voter suppression) and sexism (sandra fluke is a whore )and talk of "job creators" (elites) and states rights (colonies). You can look at each one individually and say "well that doesn't mean anything", but you look at it collectively and it does appear that they are exactly what they appear to be.
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>>6102992
>Republicans spearhead the Patriot Act and it passes with wide bipartisan support.
>Democrats spearhead Obamacare and it passes with no bipartisan support, literally 0 Republican votes

I'd say they both are good at spearheading initiatives, just for different things.
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>>6103065
The Republican Party is notorious for acting as a unified block.

Pic related.
Criminal Justice if it were left up to the Republican Party.

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