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    Quote Originally Posted by Machismo View Post
    We've increased taxes.

    Let's try something new for a chance. I vote for decreasing benefits and raising the retirement age.

    We did? What are tax rates now compared to say the 50's-70's?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rozz View Post
    This conversation can continue in PMs or in here, but the debate over taxation is starting to derail.
    Didn't see this before I replied. I won't post further on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Machismo View Post
    It literally says they pay more... any way you look at it.

    The cold, hard numbers are there. Now, you could argue that you want them to pay even more, but to argue that they are not already paying more, is simply wrong.
    lies, damn lies, and statistics

    sure the raw number is bigger, and that means what? like 10 people have more wealth then what 60-70% of the country, still doesn't' factor in how the true bottom line paid post all the deductions, kickbacks err I mean subsidies for both private and big corporations.

    its koch's cherry picked statistics talking points.

    edit: just saw mod note, this will be the last on the your libertarian voodoo math

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    What you want from government colors how you view government.

    Neither party represents the will of the people, each just represents a minority part. Elections between two parties often comes down not to who the majority agrees with, but who the majority disagrees with the least. It has been decades since I have voter for a candidate for office, I always end up voting based on which candidate will cause the least amount damage to me, my family, and my country in my view.
    More often than not, I hear from the far left that it's picking the "least damaging candidate" and Republicans in general say the same thing. Meanwhile the majority of the more moderate left, and most of moderate America, votes Democrat because many of their policies they DO agree with and like, while some they do not.

    But it's good to hear you voted for Hillary in 2016, considering Trump was a massive disaster since the 1970s and every single person who looked even slightly into his history knew that he was a con man, scam artist, liar, and all around buffoon that would make a laughing stock of our country.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiac View Post
    Making it less of a plutocratic empire with the trappings of a police state isn't "destroying it", sweaty.

    This stinks of Red Scare garbage.
    The most ironic thing about this right wing "red scare" is that they actually trust Russia in this scenario more than other Americans.
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    Manchin is being the perfect conservative democrat, stymying the his right-wing voters by publicly holding up Biden's agenda, while privately voting in favor every time it's needed.

    I would not be surprised if Manchin coordinates with Biden's legislative team before he comes out "against" bills. They work out what changes would be good overall, and then Manchin comes out demanding those before he'll even "consider" the bill, with Biden already briefed on them and "conceding" to those demands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    Manchin is being the perfect conservative democrat, stymying the his right-wing voters by publicly holding up Biden's agenda, while privately voting in favor every time it's needed.

    I would not be surprised if Manchin coordinates with Biden's legislative team before he comes out "against" bills. They work out what changes would be good overall, and then Manchin comes out demanding those before he'll even "consider" the bill, with Biden already briefed on them and "conceding" to those demands.
    That’s all well and good but unless he is willing to change the filibuster for HR1, those victories might be very short lived when less than 20% of the population can effectively hold onto power in a state even if the rest was against them due to Georgia like policies being boiler plate in every state the GOP get control in for even a single session where they control who votes, who counts the votes and can even throw out the votes entirely and decide who they want unilaterally within those states.

    Edit: I truly hope this is just Manchin playing the games and will pull the trigger when the time comes for the best interest for the nation, but part of me fears he believes his own bullshit and will go the way of the movie “The Great White Hype”.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fugus View Post
    That’s all well and good but unless he is willing to change the filibuster for HR1, those victories might be very short lived when less than 20% of the population can effectively hold onto power in a state even if the rest was against them due to Georgia like policies being boiler plate in every state the GOP get control in for even a single session where they control who votes, who counts the votes and can even throw out the votes entirely and decide who they want unilaterally within those states.
    It is all well and good, and it might actually help break the filibuster. Hear me out.

    Right now we have the GOP categorically voting against everything the majority of Americans want and need. COVID relief - partisan vote down the line. Infrastructure coming up - the GOP has already doubled down on hating Americans. So right now no one is working together, despite Biden reaching across the table every time asking for input and advice from the GOP.

    If the continues, and the Democrats pass Infrastructure I & II using Reconciliation, because the GOP voted down party lies against it, then we have a pattern of the GOP not helping Americans, making it all about politics and not about doing their jobs. Old news, of course - but it brings about the filibuster issue. Manchin could point to the dramatic partisanship by the GOP and say that it's time to revisit that issue, and then turn the corner.

    Probably won't go down this way, but it is a possible direction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    The most ironic thing about this right wing "red scare" is that they actually trust Russia in this scenario more than other Americans.
    China is the new Evil Communist Enemy these days. (so long as we ignore that they've been out-capitalism-ing us for a while now)

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    I hope it goes down that way or something similar because if they don’t pass HR1 and Georgia and others are allowed to stand, that becomes the GOP in every place they get from that point on.

    And if they wait to long and it doesn’t get passed until after redistricting next year, that’s still 10 years of them having a massive surgically accurate gerrymandering giving them power their voting population doesn’t dictate and 10 years of them using it to chip away at HR1 before the next one.

    And giving NC as an example where a 50/50 split in the vote splits the seats 3 to 10 along with every other seat voted on by district along with any other position appointed or nominated by the people voted on by district, that gerrymandering alone can go a long way.
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    in fox's alternative reality this is part of biden's climate outline.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormspellz View Post
    in fox's alternative reality this is part of biden's climate outline.
    First of all, let's pretend this is true.

    "The planet is getting worse. If we don't change our behavior, it will destroy crops, raise water levels, spread disease, cause more flooding, and basically the damage will be irreversible. One step we could take is limiting our beef consumption, which would probably be healthy anyhow."
    "NO FUCK YOU I'D RATHER DIE"

    But notice how I said "pretend"? Like Stormspellz said, this is an alternate reality.

    This false notion stems from the British tabloid the Daily Mail, which — in lieu of actual details the Biden administration has not yet provided — took it upon themselves to speculate about what terrible things “could” be theoretically included in the plan:

    The report they "cited" was published Jan 13, 2020.

    Biden never said this. People speculating on what might be required said this.

    Could he say this later? Yes. But he hasn't yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    Manchin is being the perfect conservative democrat, stymying the his right-wing voters by publicly holding up Biden's agenda, while privately voting in favor every time it's needed.

    I would not be surprised if Manchin coordinates with Biden's legislative team before he comes out "against" bills. They work out what changes would be good overall, and then Manchin comes out demanding those before he'll even "consider" the bill, with Biden already briefed on them and "conceding" to those demands.
    I sure hope so. I would be very disappointed if they did not. Also quite surprised.

    Note that the only times that Senator Sanders or Representative AOC are even mentioned anymore is when republicans try to bring them up somehow. I believe that this is also part of their grand strategy. And for the most part it's working pretty well.

    I expected them to be able to get about ZERO accomplished. They have already gotten quite a lot accomplished. Anything more is just flat out gravy.

    Even the "attacks" that Senator Manchin make are quite respectful of the bills he is opposing. It often is of the form "I am in favor of much of the bill - but THIS DETAIL HERE IS A COMPLETE DEAL BREAKER THAT I WOULD *NEVER EVER* ALLOW TO PASS." His opposition is noted, but so is his lack of opposition to a lot of the bill.

    The Biden team has been quite professional. Hmm that's not quite right. The Biden team has been VERY professional. I an confident that, for the most part, the statements of the democrats that go public are very well coordinated beforehand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormspellz View Post


    in fox's alternative reality this is part of biden's climate outline.
    The good news is that Fox News is warming the country up to the idea that climate change is a big fucking problem, and that there will likely be quite a few changes to our lifestyles in order to mitigate it.

    How many freezing winters of arctic air just hanging out over Texas before they say ENOUGH?

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    In all fairness, there isn't a daily action one person can do that would help the environment more than stop eating meat and dairy.

    Most of the disappearing of rainforests, is to create livestock pasture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defore...zon_rainforest

    Water usage to produce livestock is astronomical. (Before anyone forgets, livestock require water to drink AND to grow their food) https://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...oduction-waste

    One of the main causes of desertification is grazing of livestock.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guide...mnb/revision/4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    "NO FUCK YOU I'D RATHER DIE"
    -The American right's response to most serious issues that would require (small) changes to their way of life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonnysensible View Post
    hello paranoid right wing views.
    I am just going off of what they have had to say about the US and how they basically want to change everything about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiac View Post
    Making it less of a plutocratic empire with the trappings of a police state isn't "destroying it", sweaty.

    This stinks of Red Scare garbage.
    Making it more of a socialist "utopia" where everyone is equally low isn't "making it better" either.

    Again, as I just posted, you have little to nothing good to say about the US but have a massive list of things you want to see changed. No matter how you see it being remade, you intend to destroy it first...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu 2020 View Post
    More often than not, I hear from the far left that it's picking the "least damaging candidate" and Republicans in general say the same thing. Meanwhile the majority of the more moderate left, and most of moderate America, votes Democrat because many of their policies they DO agree with and like, while some they do not.

    But it's good to hear you voted for Hillary in 2016, considering Trump was a massive disaster since the 1970s and every single person who looked even slightly into his history knew that he was a con man, scam artist, liar, and all around buffoon that would make a laughing stock of our country.
    I voted for neither Trump nor Hillary in 2016, just as I did not vote for either major party in 2020. It also doesn't matter who I vote for, as the winner of my state is known the minute the Democrat runner is decided.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    -The American right's response to most serious issues that would require (small) changes to their way of life.
    As in anything that is subjective, what is small to you may be very large to others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    Again, as I just posted, you have little to nothing good to say about the US
    If you want a sunshine and rainbows thread, feel free to make one.
    /s

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    Quote Originally Posted by draynay View Post
    If you want a sunshine and rainbows thread, feel free to make one.
    And the point of the post went right over your head...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post

    As in anything that is subjective, what is small to you may be very large to others.
    When weighed against the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the mentality that inspired their refusal to wear a mask, or the long-term damage to the environment of the only planet we have to live on? No, it's not subjective that these changes are small.

    But based on your "they want to change America, which means they want to destroy America!" bullshit, it's clear that you're the last person that should be talking about this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    China is the new Evil Communist Enemy these days. (so long as we ignore that they've been out-capitalism-ing us for a while now)
    ...and also ignore Trump’s historic and continued dealings with China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormspellz View Post


    in fox's alternative reality this is part of biden's climate outline.
    I love how the right wing’s attacks on Biden have been so pathetic and fruitless that they’ve resorted to “He wants you to eat fewer hamburgers!”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wells View Post
    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    First of all, let's pretend this is true.

    "The planet is getting worse. If we don't change our behavior, it will destroy crops, raise water levels, spread disease, cause more flooding, and basically the damage will be irreversible. One step we could take is limiting our beef consumption, which would probably be healthy anyhow."
    "NO FUCK YOU I'D RATHER DIE"

    But notice how I said "pretend"? Like Stormspellz said, this is an alternate reality.

    This false notion stems from the British tabloid the Daily Mail, which — in lieu of actual details the Biden administration has not yet provided — took it upon themselves to speculate about what terrible things “could” be theoretically included in the plan:

    The report they "cited" was published Jan 13, 2020.

    Biden never said this. People speculating on what might be required said this.

    Could he say this later? Yes. But he hasn't yet.
    My favorite part was Larry Kudlow's rant about this, in which he posited a nightmarish scenario where 4th of July is celebrated by grilling brussels sprouts and drinking plant-based beer.

    Yes, that's right. Plant-based beer. The horror.
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