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  • #16
    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
    No, Russia is an oligarchy. The tea party is actually proof of our democracy, which is ironic for the authors of this article.
    Uhmn, how may seats have the tea party won in senate etc. and who is their precidency candidate ?
    With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Sava View Post
      Convincing a bunch of racist idiots to do revolutionary war cosplay is proof of our democracy?

      No wonder we're ****ed.
      I didn't say we weren't ****ed. I said we were a democracy.
      If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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      • #18
        Dum being the important part of the word...

        ACK!
        Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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        • #19
          Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
          Uhmn, how may seats have the tea party won in senate etc. and who is their precidency candidate ?
          The tea party won dozens of seats in the 2010 midterms.
          If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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          • #20
            Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
            Uhmn, how may seats have the tea party won in senate etc. and who is their precidency candidate ?
            It's a conservative faction within the Republican Party. In 2012 the Tea Party candidate was more or less whoever was the Not Mitt Romney candidate at any given time.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
              It's a conservative faction within the Republican Party. In 2012 the Tea Party candidate was more or less whoever was the Not Mitt Romney candidate at any given time.
              So not a proof of democracy workinking - just some internal battle in one of the two ruling parties
              With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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              • #22
                How is that not democracy working? It was a popular democratic uprising against the establishment. It worked in a whole lot of places. However a lot of people disagreed that the Tea Party had good ideas, so it didn't work everywhere.
                If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                  How is that not democracy working? It was a popular democratic uprising against the establishment. It worked in a whole lot of places. However a lot of people disagreed that the Tea Party had good ideas, so it didn't work everywhere.
                  You have just made a perfect description of how the communist party of the soviet union worked
                  With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                  Steven Weinberg

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                    No, Russia is an oligarchy. The tea party is actually proof of our democracy, which is ironic for the authors of this article.
                    Yeah... The corporate astroturf group funded by a few billionaires which completely made up outrageous lies which they spoon fed to dullards to get them to act against their own self interests. If you believe that then I bet you believed the stupid death panel lies as well as that Obama is a communist, secret terrorist sleeper agent, secret Muslim, who was born in Kenya and his family has been plotting this for 60 years going back to his birth announcement and birth certificate in HI. You are a unique little flower, HC.
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
                      The tea party was a popular grassroots reaction to conservative politicians going along with increasing taxes and spending as part of the usual business of Washington political machinery and lobbying.
                      Grass roots my ass! Grass roots movements don't get pumped 24/7 by a political party's official propaganda outlets for months before they even exist nor do they get primarially paid for by political groups & their donors. Or do you think those free buses to get to tea bagger events, those free coffee & donuts, the free signs, the paid speaking gigs by said political hacks, the political groups to pay for the event licenses to get filed, and the endless stream of pre-paid propaganda and advertising all magically appeared on their own? What a joke; it's proof this country is controlled by an oligarchy.
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                      • #26
                        You have just made a perfect description of how the communist party of the soviet union worked
                        Eh? Aside from that whole 'November revolution' thingy? Do they not teach that in Denmark?
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                          Eh? Aside from that whole 'November revolution' thingy? Do they not teach that in Denmark?
                          Stop drinking Ben, at least when you are posting.
                          With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                          Steven Weinberg

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                          • #28
                            In other news: Generalissimo Fransico Franco is still dead!
                            I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Dinner View Post
                              Grass roots my ass! Grass roots movements don't get pumped 24/7 by a political party's official propaganda outlets for months before they even exist nor do they get primarially paid for by political groups & their donors. Or do you think those free buses to get to tea bagger events, those free coffee & donuts, the free signs, the paid speaking gigs by said political hacks, the political groups to pay for the event licenses to get filed, and the endless stream of pre-paid propaganda and advertising all magically appeared on their own? What a joke; it's proof this country is controlled by an oligarchy.
                              QFT
                              A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
                                This is stupid and incorrect and at least we don't have a literal house of ****ing lords

                                or a queen for that matter
                                No aristocracy... just a plutocracy

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