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The alternative is not voting at all, which doesn't help either.
Yes, but it lets you feel smug, and you can mock both sides while not actually having to do anything yourself.
The alternative is not voting at all, which doesn't help either.
Yes, but it lets you feel smug, and you can mock both sides while not actually having to do anything yourself.
She's an authoritarian pro-corporate (anti-capitalist) socialist democrat who aims to keep the rich rich and the poor begging for welfare
Well, her politics are certainly are a lot more complicated than I realised. Seldom have I seen such a mix of left and right wing buzzwords in one sentence.
Besides, most "conspiracy theories" have been proven to be true:
No, they haven't, or they wouldn't still be called conspiracy theories, they'd be called historical fact.
Meanwhile, back here at slashdot...
lack of prosecution != innocence
So if I've not been convicted of a crime, I'm guilty, and if I have been convicted of a crime, I'm also guilty. So everyone's guilty. Of everything. Got it.
The real question will be is there a prosecution? The Clintons have enough friends and reach to likely derail that.
What, unlike the poor, powerless Republican Party?
Come off it.
The definition of right and left:
left-wing wants more government
right-wing wants less government
Those are the actual definitions.
No, they're not, the actual definitions are:
left-wing wants more freedom for the majority of people
right-wing wants more freedom for the minority of people in power
The US "left wing" media is about the same as the mainstream "right wing" media here in the UK. (Fox News would be very right wing).
Just because you're not a biblical literalist, Chuck Norris or a neo Nazi doesn't make you particularly liberal.
Am I the only one who's noticed that any post that says something like "We've had enough of both Clintons and Bushes" or "Both parties are corrupt" always gets modded up, often to +5? That's because the mods must be thinking, "Gee, he's pissed off but he's not biased. If he were biased, he'd only be attacking on side".
No, mods, because you are too lazy to come to grips with the fact that a post that simply says "both parties are corrupt" or "both Clintons and Bushes are bad" is a throwaway post, not insightful.
No, you're missing the point that the general slashdot worldview is a version of libertarianism, where both left and right are tired, outmoded and corrupt, and only letting tech entrepreneurs control the world can save us.
Haven't you noticed that you only need the word "Paul" in a post to be upvoted?
That statement doesn't mean what you probably think it means. The other GOP candidates have said "knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war," while Marco Rubio goes a step further and says, "and neither would GWB." That Jeb Bush is still vacillating on the issue means he's tone-deaf, stubborn, or simply not in the loop. Given his lack of ability to demonstrate foreign policy awareness, I suspect the later.
Interesting.
Here in Britain, Tony Blair still goes on as though the Iraq war was a combination of the Battle of Britain and the Second Coming.
I just hope that he is still alive to squirm when the Chilcott Inquiry reports sometime in the next couple of decades.
He's not fat, just big boned.
Yeah, whatever, but he still chose his stupid fucking surname.
That is a meaningless term when referring to a politicians position. Hitler was a progressive using the dictionary definition of the term....
It is a reasonable term to use in opposition to a conservative, who by definition wants things either to stay the same, or (more usually) go back to how things were fifty/hundred years ago.
Hitler was, of course, a combination of ultra-reactionary ideas, smart uniforms and exciting new ideologically motivated violence, which is what is usually knwn here in the UK as "extreme right wing".
I think the current Libertarian movement is very similar to the anarchist movement at the peak of the industrial revolution.
Why do people like you think you can just rewrite political philosophy and history to make yourselves sound better?
Current US Libertarianism is pretty much the antithesis of true anarchism, which relies on mutual co-operation, not economc dog-eat-dog viciousness.
Government may not succeed in controlling big business very well, but it's still a lot better than letting big business do it.
You need to learn to think like a politician.
Owner = 1 vote Labor = 100 votes
Good luck winning an election if you have only owners and labor is against you. Will you argue this point?
In the US at least, 99 of those 100 workers apparently believe they will be the owner one day, so in the meantime they'll act as though they are even though it's not in their best interest.
Capitalism is a game of smoke and mirrors and it is very good at confusing people.
If the parent think it is important for their student to have pretty shoes, that is very difficult to overcome.
No, it's not. After the sentence in the compulsory school uniform section saying that you have to wear the approved trousers, shirt, etc, you just add the words "and only plain black lace up shoes may be worn" or something.
Kids won't know or care about whether their boring school shoes cost GBP10 or GBP500.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
