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Dirk X West

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  1. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Your attempt to cast current D perspective in light of the world view is distracting.  What matters is where they are relative to the opposition RIGHT NOW.

    Never mind that the average Republican would have us believe all Democrats are Communists.  

    I agree with that, but what it's come to is, instead of pulling things back in the right  direction - which to me is back to the left - the Democrats have conceded the terms of the debate and are just fighting for the status quo.  You may disagree, but I suspect that that's partly because they are content with the status quo.  I mean, isn't that a big reason that Hillary lost, because she thought that support from minorities along with economically well off liberals (i.e. people happy with the status quo) was enough to win? 

  2. Just now, David Dennison said:

    I forget. How many Democrats in the Senate voted to confirm Gorsuch?

    Look, right now, the Ds no the can vote in lockstep against the Rs as their strategy is to be 100% anti-Trump.  I get it. This still doesn't change the overall trends, and it really makes no difference as to what actually happens.

  3. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Sorry, that's just damage control.  The Dems can rightly be criticized for a variety of things, but the gulf between them and the 'pubs is vast.

    It's only vast in the perspective of current American politics.  In comparison to the range of political positions you see in other developed nations around the world, our "left" party is quite conservative.

  4. 9 hours ago, Tom said:

     

    No. No. No. No.  Enough with the "both sides" B.S. 

    Remind me the last time Democrats tried to gut medicare and SS, gut the EPA, gut education, and basically shit on every program that helps the middle class while giving handouts to the rich.  Remind me again how Democrats killed net neutrality and abandoned slaying the seedy pay loan industry.  Reminds me how Democrats rallied around Citizens United.  The two parties clearly have VERY different priorities and agendas.  No, they are not "mostly the same on big issues."  

    I'll give you that Democrats tend to give lip service to being against wars while ultimately being too hawkish, but other than that I'd love to see a list of issues they vote lockstep with Republicans on.  Oh, wait, I found a picture of that list.

     

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    Sorry, I wish there was a difference, but if there is, it's small.  If you notice, things have been trending in a particular direction, and that trend has only, if anything, just slowed a bit during the (admittedly brief) recent periods when the Ds have had control of one or more houses of Congress.  Obama did nothing end our imperial wars in the Middle East, for ex.  There may well be individual Ds that have principles and speak out against tax cuts for the rich and increased defense spending, but other Ds vote for those things and they still happen.  If you think the Ds aren't the GOP lite now, you aren't paying attention.  Hillary is about as conservative as Nixon, again, if you leave aside social issues.  Funny pictures don't change that.  

  5. 7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The R vs D shitfest is not as serious as it’s made out to be. Yes, it’s used to fire up the base. 

    But at the end of the day, the major corporations are donating to both parties, and a lot of legislation happens because members on both sides were bought off. 

    If you don’t solve the lobbyist problem,  nothing will change. 

    This is the thing.  Trump is a goddamn embarrassment, but the two parties mostly differentiate themselves by where they stand on a few hot button social issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc.).  They vote mostly the same on the big issues because that's what they're paid to do.

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  6. 11 hours ago, RPM said:

    FOX News is PBS compared to Sinclair.

     

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    As homophobic as most conservatives are, it's kinda funny that most of their go-to threats and insults involve explicit references to penises and/or anal penetration, like those are the first things that pop into their heads.

  7. 3 hours ago, shnsajax said:

     


    I fully expect Rick Perry to visit a plant talking about health dangers of pink slime. Only to realize that doesn’t qualify as energy.

     

    I fully expect Rick Perry to talk to a plant.

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  8. In just about every other college stadium I've ever visited while wearing Tech colors, I've had a drunk bro (or multiple drunk bros) yell profanity at me (or the group I was with) in a confrontational manner.  That includes at OU, UT, UH, & Texas State and even in bowl games at neutral sites.  At A&M aggys yelled at us but didn't use profanity, but anyway, it happens.  It takes a lot of doing on both sides for that kind of situation to escalate into an actual fight.

  9. 2 hours ago, slorch said:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zKZd2aE3C0

    evidently, I haven't mastered posting vids.  

     

    Zach Thomas returns pick for TD, runs by student section, rings victory bell, aggy QB has  a sad...

    This may be my favorite game of the Spike Dykes era.  I was a junior at Tech that year.  Good times.

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