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Re: Election '12
« Reply #240 on: August 22, 2012, 06:24:59 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on August 22, 2012, 10:59:09 am
Breakfast of Champions was my second Vonnegut book. My first was "Harrison Bergeron" which has since been made into a great movie called 2081. Every adaption of Rand to film blows hard.

Wasn't HB a short story/novella? I read it in 9th grade but I remembered it being somewhat less than book length.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #241 on: August 22, 2012, 08:06:49 pm »
Yes. It was a short story and the movie is less than hour.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #242 on: September 11, 2012, 12:06:36 pm »
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hm.  im not voting for him and im not completely buying the "rolled up sleeves/working dude" angle.  im just glad to see a little glimmer of humanity in the ***** facade(whether earned or blown out of proportion by the press).
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #243 on: October 18, 2012, 01:14:45 pm »
I think that presidential candidates should be banned from making "on day one, I will..." promises, because you know that the first thing on their agenda is really gonna be jumping on the Lincoln bed.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #244 on: October 18, 2012, 07:25:29 pm »
The scales are finally falling from your eyelids.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #245 on: October 18, 2012, 07:41:32 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on October 18, 2012, 07:38:21 pm
It's not like I suddenly crave sucking on Donkey Junk, y'know?

How do you know sucking on Donkey Junk is bad?
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #246 on: October 18, 2012, 07:55:58 pm »
Why find out?
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #247 on: October 18, 2012, 08:10:50 pm »
I'm glad someone other than me is reading the stuff I put up.  I try not to post utter garbage so that those who do see it know my signal:noise is worth checking out.  I'm still a registered Republican, but at this point the national party has almost totally alienated me.  I think the only thing keeping me from actually registering as a Democrat would be the glee of my brothers and stepfather.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #248 on: October 19, 2012, 12:21:29 am »
Quote from: jaydub on October 18, 2012, 08:10:50 pm
I'm still a registered Republican, but at this point the national party has almost totally alienated me.

Replace Republican with Democrat and that describes me. But the Republican party alienated me years ago at a young age already, so I have nowhere else to go. Except political apathy, I guess. Who am I kidding, I've been there for years now.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #249 on: October 20, 2012, 02:40:51 am »
I'm registered unaffiliated. I've swung both ways in the past, but with politics the way they are right now I lean heavily Democratic.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #250 on: October 20, 2012, 02:49:29 am »
I have never been aware of politics in any other era. So I am registered Democrat.

I might vote for my buddy who is running for a weird city administrative position as a Republican.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #251 on: October 20, 2012, 05:49:03 am »
I used to think myself libertarian, but then I realized there was in fact a social contract, and that it's a mostly good thing for nearly every level of society.

After that I thought myself republican, until I realized that social issues were as important as economic ones.

Next I thought myself centrist, as good ideas can come from anywhere. And then I stopped hearing very many good ideas from very many places.

Then I thought myself democratic, until the national Overton window shifted so far to the right that the democrats couldn't see through both it and my personal Overton window.

Now I just wish the green party was at all viable. But then, nobody seems to know how to build an actual third party.

In the future I might find myself a complete socialist, if only as a reaction to how consistently more conservative the elephant and donkey get as they age.

Hey, there's a neat idea for a study: party platforms judged through the years on the political compass.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #252 on: October 20, 2012, 05:35:03 pm »
I live in a state where the Republican party is lead by Mitch fuck*ng McConnell. 

You bet your ass I'm a Democrat.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #253 on: October 20, 2012, 10:12:46 pm »
I live in one of five states where my vote matters.  I am not voting for Obama.  I am sure as shit not voting for Romney either though.
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Re: Election '12
« Reply #254 on: October 21, 2012, 12:15:13 am »
and this is exactly how romney will win.

in states where votes count, it's more important to vote against the guy you like less. in states like mine (georgia), your vote doesn't count in the big race, so voting for the candidate you REALLY want sends more of a message.
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