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by Grumman
2017-01-30 07:23am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Shooting at Quebec City Mosque
Replies: 54
Views: 8241

Re: Shooting at Quebec City Mosque

The women were thankfully separated from the men according to Islamic gender apartheid tradition. Shooter seems to be a Muslim refugee. Did I get that right?... Is Trump ordering these incidents via some Manchurian Candidate program? Sweet jesus what a timing. You will provide sources for your attr...
by Grumman
2017-01-28 01:49pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting
Replies: 40
Views: 5737

Re: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting

The Tea Party didn't come here looking for recruits. The Left did. What are you even talking about? Where is "here"? Who is being recruited? What does this even have to do with what we are talking about? Read the title. SolarpunkFan started this thread because he wanted people on this for...
by Grumman
2017-01-27 11:44am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting
Replies: 40
Views: 5737

Re: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting

Taking this advice makes you a shitty demonstrator, a shitty American and a shitty human being. Shouting people down and deplatforming are tools to destroy free speech and useful discussion. The use of these tactics is illegitimate and everyone else knows it. Why is it only the Left doing it that m...
by Grumman
2017-01-27 05:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting
Replies: 40
Views: 5737

Re: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting

If a Nazi gets shouted down with "NOPE! NO NO NO! Bad Nazi Bad! NO BISCUIT!" or someone like me singing music from Fiddler on the Roof, it humiliates them and makes them feel weak and powerless, which is exactly how they should feel. It is also effective. It's only effective because they ...
by Grumman
2017-01-26 11:32pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting
Replies: 40
Views: 5737

Re: In case any U.S. members have time for protesting

Optimize visibility. Unlike in town halls, you want your presence as a group to be recognizable and attention-getting at this event. It may make sense to stick together as a group, wear relatively similar clothing / message shirts, and carry signs in order to be sure that your presence is noticeabl...
by Grumman
2017-01-25 08:14am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump Abandons Trans Pacific Partnership
Replies: 24
Views: 3229

Re: Trump Abandons Trans Pacific Partnership

The Romulan Republic wrote:Sigh... I'm a little worried that he's going to have the anti-trade Bernie or Bust idiots eating out of his hand with this. The last thing we need is for that division to continue.
If you care so much about this division in the left, then why don't you abandon your position to end it?
by Grumman
2017-01-24 12:26am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump Abandons Trans Pacific Partnership
Replies: 24
Views: 3229

Re: Trump Abandons Trans Pacific Partnership

Tribble wrote:This agreement was little more than a blatant corporate attempt at undermining national sovereignty and gutting the rights and wages of the lower-middle classes as much as possible. To be blunt, as a Canadian I have to say we owe Trump, big time.
Thank you for giving Trump credit where it is due.
by Grumman
2017-01-13 09:37pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump to remove commander of D.C. National Guard mid-inauguration
Replies: 38
Views: 5333

Re: Trump to remove commander of D.C. National Guard mid-inauguration

Dartzap wrote:Ive not been paying a vast amount of attention, but Isn't he pretty much sacking anyone he can at the moment? This chap, the guys in charge of the nukes, every single ambassador?
No.
by Grumman
2017-01-09 09:39pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: free speech and finance
Replies: 7
Views: 5054

Re: free speech and finance

You took your quote out of context; ignoring the very next sentence is why you are wrong: When the price reaches a certain level, criminals immediately sell off their holdings of those stocks (the "dump"), realizing substantial profits before the stock price falls back to its usual low lev...
by Grumman
2017-01-08 05:53am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Replies: 87
Views: 13532

Re: US imposes sanctions on Russia

I will note something. And this is not specifically about Clinton, it's about massive email leak scandals in general. I would argue that deliberately stealing someone's dirty laundry and selectively releasing it in such a way as to cause maximum trouble for them, and maximum harm to their reputatio...
by Grumman
2017-01-06 08:12pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Replies: 87
Views: 13532

Re: US imposes sanctions on Russia

Influence =/= hacking. I was trying to influence the election by telling people not to vote for Hillary because she voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq War; that doesn't make me a threat to democracy.
by Grumman
2017-01-02 04:28pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Replies: 87
Views: 13532

Re: US imposes sanctions on Russia

So why is it better for the Obama administration to be acting off of baseless accusations than if they had real evidence to support those accusations? I don't really understand what your point is. My guess would be "the US spouting bullshit for internal consumption while farting in Russia's ge...
by Grumman
2017-01-01 11:11pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Replies: 87
Views: 13532

Re: US imposes sanctions on Russia

If "Russia hacked the election" is true, then I want to know that it is true. Don't you? If. Yes, if you start from the assumption that the Obama administration's claims are true, it is a good thing if we become better informed about the state of the world. But the Obama administration ha...
by Grumman
2017-01-01 06:25pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Replies: 87
Views: 13532

Re: US imposes sanctions on Russia

TL;DR: hopefully the classified version has a lot more evidence, because the public version is a crock of shit. Hopefully the classified version doesn't have a lot more evidence. If the options are that Obama is trying to pull another "No really, murdering people with anti-tank missiles is tot...
by Grumman
2016-12-24 06:13pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack
Replies: 61
Views: 9561

Re: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack

wautd wrote:Pity he's dead. I wanted to see him rot in prison.
Considering that the idiots running the EU think life without parole is a human rights violation, I'd prefer him dead.
by Grumman
2016-12-20 07:05pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack
Replies: 61
Views: 9561

Re: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack

Flagg wrote:How do they know it was a terrorist attack and not just a shitty driver?
Because the truck driver was murdered before the attack.
by Grumman
2016-12-20 08:12am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack
Replies: 61
Views: 9561

Re: Twelve dead in Berlin terrorist attack

And the Alt. Rightist vultures come crawling out, ready to exploit the dead to advance the cause of xenophobia. This is the religious right, regularly murdering people in the name of their religion. Why are you running interference for them with idiotic accusations of "xenophobia"? For fu...
by Grumman
2016-12-18 02:42am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election
Replies: 175
Views: 31997

Re: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election

Because I didn't see Wikileaks going after Trump's long list of misdeeds and accusations. Funny how they only seemed to go after Democrats. Its almost like they aren't real journalists interested in the truth, but partisan operatives with an ax to grind. It's almost like they didn't need to , you i...
by Grumman
2016-12-17 09:11pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election
Replies: 175
Views: 31997

Re: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election

Because I didn't see Wikileaks going after Trump's long list of misdeeds and accusations. Funny how they only seemed to go after Democrats. Its almost like they aren't real journalists interested in the truth, but partisan operatives with an ax to grind. It's almost like they didn't need to , you i...
by Grumman
2016-12-17 07:31pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election
Replies: 175
Views: 31997

Re: CIA report - Russia intervened in the 2016 election

Yeah. As much as I freely admit that I'd love to see Trump be utterly discredited, lose the Presidency, and, for that matter be thrown in Federal prison for the rest of his miserable life... still, the implications, and potential consequences, of Russia interfering in an American election in this m...
by Grumman
2016-12-15 01:41pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit
Replies: 78
Views: 11924

Re: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit

Would you mind expanding on your reasoning? He likely rejects the notion of either A) the right to privacy, or B) Any sort of medical autonomy or self-ownership. Not sure which. I reject the notion that you have a constitutional right to medical autonomy in the sense you're talking about it. For ex...
by Grumman
2016-12-15 04:52am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Russian bogeyman continues to be a useful tool
Replies: 48
Views: 8549

Re: Russian bogeyman continues to be a useful tool

Or not: the appellate court just found that no, the "sexual emergency" rapist really is a rapist, and actually handed down a more severe penalty than the one he started with. So good on them.
by Grumman
2016-12-15 04:32am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Russian bogeyman continues to be a useful tool
Replies: 48
Views: 8549

Re: Russian bogeyman continues to be a useful tool

How convenient - the same thing that's already happened once on their watch might happen again, but this time, it's Snowball's fault. On the plus side, the rapists are now terrorists, committing acts of (sexual) violence to terrorise the populace for political ends. So the next time some sick bastar...
by Grumman
2016-12-14 02:03pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit
Replies: 78
Views: 11924

Re: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit

If enough states pass twenty week bans, and enough of them survive legal challenges, then the abortion protection offered by Roe vs. Wade becomes fatally compromised. Good. Roe vs. Wade shouldn't provide any abortion protection at all, because the logic that justifies the decision is complete nonse...
by Grumman
2016-12-14 05:47am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit
Replies: 78
Views: 11924

Re: Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit

Just remember- John Kasich is what passes for a sane, ethical Republican in national American politics. Let that sink in. He's not the crazy one. What's both insane and unethical is the inability to even comprehend why pro-life people might hold the position they do. If a baby can be born at 21 wee...