Political discussion thread

The T wrote: I'd have a vodka with Stalin. I'm pretty sure he was the coolest guy when totally drunk.

We've all seen pics of Stalin.
Honestly, looks so jolly like a fun ol uncle.
Can't believe looking at him he'd be such a heavy handed cruel guy! That famous picture of the Big Three, if I didnt know I'd say "oooo that old bald guy...HE is deff the evil one"



...forget politics entirely, something about is just kinda disturbing and weird Slart


Edited by JJLehto - January 25 2013 at 19:06

Slartibartfast wrote: You think that's disturbing and weird.  How about this? " height="284" width="403">

Nah cause that's silly! The first was just, IDK off putting and disturbing on a deep level I cant explain
Besides, between 4chan and the thought of "Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt" nothing physical can disturb me.



Edited by JJLehto - January 25 2013 at 19:16

JJLehto wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: You think that's disturbing and weird.  How about this? " height="284" width="403"> Nah cause that's silly! The first was just, IDK off putting and disturbing on a deep level I cant explain Besides, between 4chan and the thought of "Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt" nothing physical can disturb me.

I dropped that into live chat for TYT and the moderator said it was going to give her Newtmares.

Hey Doc - you excited?  
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/democrats-launch-plan-to-turn-texas-blue-86651.html

Geoff will be very happy when Democrats have absolute no competition and the balance of power he so strongly defends today ceases to exist in favor of an absolute rule of one party. All he want is something like a pseudo-democratic dictatorship, just in the hands of his party. Democracy is just a word he uses to legitimize his real desires. 

You don't seem to realize - it's not that I want total, absolute destruction of the Republican party.  What I want is moderation.  I want unity.  And that's the opposite of what the Republican party is about right now.  They are about absolutism, idealism, name calling, excluding groups of people (LGBT, Muslim, etc.) and demonizing them.  They just lost an election that should have been a gimme, and still they have not learned their lesson.  My hope is that in the next election they lose BIG.  Historically big.  To the effect that they can no longer deny the problems within their party.  Oh, they know they have some problems, but they can't seem to pinpoint it.  Right now all they are talking about is changing their language to sound more appealing to certain groups they've ostracized.  But that's just going to insult those groups, because they know that if you talk nice to them while trying to tear down policies that help them, it's just empty rhetoric.  So, I am hoping for something to come that will break the fever.

The GOP could just actually support what they pretend to....
That would win over lots of people I think.

Geoff's idea: turn republicans into democrats, and democrats into über-democrats. Don't allow any other ideas. Not even libertarianism or anything else. Everybody to the "left"!

thellama73 wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: thellama73 wrote: In other words, you don't want to destroy Republicans, you just want them to adopt the same policies as the Democrats. Alright, lets step outside of today's politics for a second.  Lets say we're back in the time of the civil war where one party supports slavery and the other is fighting it.  YES.  I want the other party to be forced to reckon with their failures and have to turn from their evil support of slavery!  Absolutely!  And I know it's going to take something big to force them to turn, so yes, I welcome this catastrophic failure of their ideals.  Now, you won't like me making the comparison of slavery to policies of today, but there are some policies the Republicans embrace that I think are similar situations and they need to be smacked soundly in the face until they can't get up before they'll finally give up on these fights, I think. So you want to turn Democrats into Republicans? Now I am confused.

I am comparing a historical situation in politics where one side is almost universally accepted to have been right to some situations in today's politics (which I'm not naming outright, but maybe some can guess what they are) that are not so universally accepted, but that I think one day will be.