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Who determines what is quality though?

A person with your views or a person with my views?

Perhaps the best policy is to let the members decide. If you don't like a thread then don't post in it. That way one person isn't deciding for everyone what constitutes quality.

That approach would be easier but for the fact that you are such a prolific troll.

Unfortunately this forum has been that way from the very beginning - largely dominated by partisan hacks. That is the major reason I have taken a break from it for several years. I was a prolific poster on political matters before this forum was even broken off from ATOT (and, believe it or not, posted a number of complements of President Bush during his first year in office).
 

halik

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Hippie wet dream with not a slight bit of thought put into how would that even be implemented.

Add x) End sweat shops

Also extra LOL for:
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Try paying your fucking bills.
 
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Hippie wet dream with not a slight bit of thought put into how would that even be implemented.

Add x) End sweat shops

Also extra LOL for:

Try paying your fucking bills.

Can't honestly argue with a word of your post. I have several hippies in my family and have come to find this kind of suspension-of-disbelief politics incredibly tiresome and stupid.
 

Fear No Evil

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I find it strange that someone who purports to be a professor would not understand the difference between censorship and quality control. As a digression, I find it amusing that so many Republicans seem to have such a contorted view of what constitutes censorship (I am thinking of Sarah Palin's tweets about the Westboro Baptist Church in particular).

There is already a thread about the Wall Street protests, and I don't find anything particularly different about this topic to justify another thread. I think your brand of thread-starting smacks of narcissism and a misguided desire to guide the discussions here in a way that suits your political bent. Obviously you have the legal right to start endless numbers of troll threads (a right you exercise with great frequency and relish), but if your goal is to engage in substantive discussion, you're doing it the wrong way.

I find it strange that anyone who purports to be a lawyer would seriously try to use someone's handle on an internet message board as justification for discrediting their opinion.
 

Budmantom

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These people are the dumbest of the dumb, needless to say 90% + must have voted for Obama and share his ideology, I think a lot of them post on this forum.
 

Macamus Prime

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That's nice.

My heart spews blood many times, but in this case; not a single drop. These brats are providing nothing more than entertainment to the very people the wish to "defeat".
 

werepossum

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That is hilarious, and right on par with what most of us suspected. Full disclosure, I did like the paper ballot thingy though.
 

ProfJohn

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That is hilarious, and right on par with what most of us suspected. Full disclosure, I did like the paper ballot thingy though.
That is smoke and mirrors and based on delusional thinking to begin with.


They have bought into the stories of stolen elections that are pushed by the far left idiots like Matt Taibbai.
And so on. There are dozens more such glitches, which taken together suggest that the exit polls in Ohio, showing Kerry the victor, were probably accurate.
Bush won Ohio by 150,000 votes and yet people on the left really think that he 'stole' the state.

Thus the whole 'paper ballot' "international standards" thing comes from the twisted belief that elections are being 'stolen' across the country everyday.

That demand alone illustrates their whole psychosis. In their world elections are being stolen and the American people are being denied what they really want by the rich and power corporations. They REALLY believe that most Americans support them and their ideas and demands.

They have absolutely no understanding of reality and what their ideas would do to the country. $20 an hour minimum wage would destroy the economy and leave millions unemployed overnight. A typical restaurant has 20-25% labor costs. Double that to 50% and they either close down or raise prices and when they ALL raise prices that $20 an hour doesn't go so far anymore. The dollar menu gets replaced by the $5 menu etc etc.

The whole list is idiocy.
 

werepossum

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That is smoke and mirrors and based on delusional thinking to begin with.


They have bought into the stories of stolen elections that are pushed by the far left idiots like Matt Taibbai.

Bush won Ohio by 150,000 votes and yet people on the left really think that he 'stole' the state.

Thus the whole 'paper ballot' "international standards" thing comes from the twisted belief that elections are being 'stolen' across the country everyday.

That demand alone illustrates their whole psychosis. In their world elections are being stolen and the American people are being denied what they really want by the rich and power corporations. They REALLY believe that most Americans support them and their ideas and demands.

They have absolutely no understanding of reality and what their ideas would do to the country. $20 an hour minimum wage would destroy the economy and leave millions unemployed overnight. A typical restaurant has 20-25% labor costs. Double that to 50% and they either close down or raise prices and when they ALL raise prices that $20 an hour doesn't go so far anymore. The dollar menu gets replaced by the $5 menu etc etc.

The whole list is idiocy.
I don't think that elections are being stolen every day, but I do think that a paper ballot goes a long way toward keeping them from being stolen. It's not perfect - witness the left stealing a Senate seat for Franken by redoing "bad" ballots and then "accidentally" leaving the originals in to be counted along with the replacements - but it certainly helps. And with paper ballots, at least we have a reasonable expectation of knowing that an election is being stolen.

Just because they are crazy doesn't mean they can't be right about something. Even a blind hog finds the occasional acorn.
 

ProfJohn

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I agree with you on the ballot thing, but it is still smoke and mirrors.

Watch this hand waving around in the air while ignoring the hand reaching into your pocket.

We have some problems that need to be fixed, but overall we probably have one of the best democracies and voting systems in the world.
 

werepossum

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I agree with you on the ballot thing, but it is still smoke and mirrors.

Watch this hand waving around in the air while ignoring the hand reaching into your pocket.

We have some problems that need to be fixed, but overall we probably have one of the best democracies and voting systems in the world.
Trust me, these people are far too trifling to reach into my pocket. Their highest ambition is to have someone else reach into my pocket on their behalf. This is why they don't form a commune, because on a commune, at some point someone has to do something useful.
 

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I cannot stand these protests.
I enjoy my 401K dive-bombing to less than zero.
I love the freedom to live from paycheck to paycheck.
I want so badly to be taxed to death so some B of A CEO can retire in Fiji.
And I especially love and enjoy my US congress owned and operated by Goldman Sachs.
Don't you ?????

Tell me about it. It's pretty amazing the lengths people will go to defend a system that is fucking most of us in the ass.
 

matt0611

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Tell me about it. It's pretty amazing the lengths people will go to defend a system that is fucking most of us in the ass.

Most conservatives here are not "defending the system", they're pointing out the flaws in most of these protesters solutions.