Now that those parasites from the media are out of the room, let me introduce myself properly. I am to be refered to as Chairman Hussein, and you will all kneel before me. Your pathetic little states will surrender all your privately owned firearms, all of your young, able bodied men for my army, and women for my harem, and every trace of recoverable cash, precious metals, and gems. From this day forward, Islam will be the official religion of the United States. Those who do not comply will be purged. There is no longer a free market -- you should all have copies of my 5 year plan on your desks. All who question my orders will be put to immediate and painful death. You will carry these proclamations to your people.
Or at least, that's what I assume our resident crackpots think happened next.
People seriously need to update their conservative talking points around here. The new party line is to say "surprise liberals, Obama's really a conservative!" and then do a victory lap like they didn't just lose in a landslide.
I know it's an almost Orwellian reversal of talking points, but if you've been mainlining Republican talking points for the last decade, you should be used to that by now.
Yeah, but when they did it they didn't set out to intentionally burn people.
Granted, the Mythbusters got someone burned too, but it was one of their own people, and there was a fair chance that they might not have gotten burned.
In this case, it was essentially the inevitable result of the experiement as proposed.
^ We are. Look how scared we have you, and we haven't even taken office yet.
QM, Obama's stormtroopers will all be black as night, and which side of the Mason-Dixon line do you think they're mostly in?
I'm gonna have fun watching people run their imaginations wild about the evil that Obama is doing, especially since it's already going at a good pace, and we're still some 40+ days from him being sworn in.
Hell, Clinton hadn't even sobered up from the victory parties by this point in his transition. Let's give Obama another 90 days before accusing him of building a secret army, okay?
^ Europe also has much higher gas prices helping them think they need smaller vehicles. Not to mention far better mass-transit, and a smaller overall terrain...
But yeah, the non-US branches of GM and Ford are pretty good from what I've heard. I'm not sure Chrysler has a presence to speak of overseas, though.
^ I thought faith in the sum action of greedy individuals in a crowd was what your philosophy was based on.
Since I seem to be accumulating a healthy number of downvotes on my original comment, clearly people disagree with my premise that this shows that greed is not an absolute good. For most people, that's not a revelation, nor offensive, but I've spotted at least 3 at this time who reacted negatively to the assertion.
No one's risen to my challenge to explain either why this was good, or why greed wasn't the cause.
Let me try to make it less confrontational. I'm not saying capitalism is evil -- I'm saying parts of it lead to evil behavior, and I'd love to work together to try to figure out what's wrong and correct it.
I don't think Republican-style conservatives are the cause, but I think their rhetoric pushes things in the wrong direction.
I'd say this incident is mostly a dangerous mix of nihilism, competition, and people's natural tendency in a group to think someone else will handle things like a salesperson lying on the floor.
Still, consumerism built the pressure-cooker that helped make this possible, and I'd love to come up with a solution, because I don't want the free market to go away, I just wish it were less intense at the consumer level somehow, without losing the freedom that makes it so useful in the first place.
Obama Addresses the National Governors Association
Or at least, that's what I assume our resident crackpots think happened next.
People seriously need to update their conservative talking points around here. The new party line is to say "surprise liberals, Obama's really a conservative!" and then do a victory lap like they didn't just lose in a landslide.
I know it's an almost Orwellian reversal of talking points, but if you've been mainlining Republican talking points for the last decade, you should be used to that by now.
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Newp.
*nsfw
Am I the only one who was expecting the punchline to involve a Fed bailout?
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MythBusters did this too.
Yeah, but when they did it they didn't set out to intentionally burn people.
Granted, the Mythbusters got someone burned too, but it was one of their own people, and there was a fair chance that they might not have gotten burned.
In this case, it was essentially the inevitable result of the experiement as proposed.
That's just petty, and cruel.
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QM, Obama's stormtroopers will all be black as night, and which side of the Mason-Dixon line do you think they're mostly in?
I'm gonna have fun watching people run their imaginations wild about the evil that Obama is doing, especially since it's already going at a good pace, and we're still some 40+ days from him being sworn in.
Hell, Clinton hadn't even sobered up from the victory parties by this point in his transition. Let's give Obama another 90 days before accusing him of building a secret army, okay?
Obama Civil Defense Plan - Mandatory Civil Service
Conservatives Blame Unions, CAFE Standards For Auto Collapse
proletariatonwership-class will lead to their own downfall.As for their apologists, we'll have to figure out what to do with them.
Conservatives Blame Unions, CAFE Standards For Auto Collapse
But yeah, the non-US branches of GM and Ford are pretty good from what I've heard. I'm not sure Chrysler has a presence to speak of overseas, though.
Wal-Mart employee trampled to death
Since I seem to be accumulating a healthy number of downvotes on my original comment, clearly people disagree with my premise that this shows that greed is not an absolute good. For most people, that's not a revelation, nor offensive, but I've spotted at least 3 at this time who reacted negatively to the assertion.
No one's risen to my challenge to explain either why this was good, or why greed wasn't the cause.
Let me try to make it less confrontational. I'm not saying capitalism is evil -- I'm saying parts of it lead to evil behavior, and I'd love to work together to try to figure out what's wrong and correct it.
I don't think Republican-style conservatives are the cause, but I think their rhetoric pushes things in the wrong direction.
I'd say this incident is mostly a dangerous mix of nihilism, competition, and people's natural tendency in a group to think someone else will handle things like a salesperson lying on the floor.
Still, consumerism built the pressure-cooker that helped make this possible, and I'd love to come up with a solution, because I don't want the free market to go away, I just wish it were less intense at the consumer level somehow, without losing the freedom that makes it so useful in the first place.
Wal-Mart employee trampled to death
>> ^NetRunner:
Did you just turn this tragedy into an anti-capitalism political talking point? I am officially amazed.
Not anti-capitalism, but anti-rampant consumerism.
Isn't the fact that it was over a sale part of what makes this particularly tragic?
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