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theblackbox

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what logic?

frankly i'm glad that some of you post here as much as you do because when you are here, you don't affect the rest of the world. Say what you will, do what you will, enjoy the power you have here because it is the only power you will ever have.

I'm glad bush won, even though i did not vote for him. I prefer listening to you guys whine and tell me how i'm the one sterotyping when you yourself are too blind to see anything else.

I hope you have a stronger ticket in 2008, because the left is doing it's best to convert moderates to conservatism.

oh, but wait...you won this election, and 2000 too, we're just too dumb to notice..us normal americans that do our best to keep this country going at a local level.

please, go back to posting between classes, overclocking your video card and playing the Sims, a place where you can control your destiny.

If thats hate ^^ I'm fine with that, as i did not call anybody a name, a liar, or point any fingers at anybody specifically...




 

DealMonkey

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Originally posted by: theblackbox
what logic?

frankly i'm glad that some of you post here as much as you do because when you are here, you don't affect the rest of the world. Say what you will, do what you will, enjoy the power you have here because it is the only power you will ever have.

I'm glad bush won, even though i did not vote for him. I prefer listening to you guys whine and tell me how i'm the one sterotyping when you yourself are too blind to see anything else.

I hope you have a stronger ticket in 2008, because the left is doing it's best to convert moderates to conservatism.

oh, but wait...you won this election, and 2000 too, we're just too dumb to notice..us normal americans that do our best to keep this country going at a local level.

please, go back to posting between classes, overclocking your video card and playing the Sims, a place where you can control your destiny.

If thats hate ^^ I'm fine with that, as i did not call anybody a name, a liar, or point any fingers at anybody specifically...
You seem to be enjoying your little conversation with yourself. Keep it going, it's funny as hell.
 

Infohawk

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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: theblackbox
glad you kind find some humour in your bleak life.

Now the real black box shows his face.

LOL. I still think he showed his face in his first post with the underhanded attacks couched in a "let-me-help-you-you-suicidal-losers-oh-and-god-bless-america" tone.
 

marcello

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blackbox's post reminds me of watching Fox News. They claim to be fair and balanced and in the middle, but they are just trying to disguise their love of the right. Maybe they don't realize what side of the line they fall on or maybe they're being deceitful, hard to tell.

Anyways, the OP is garbage partisanship trying to pass itself off as middle of the road. Not surprisingly people fell for it. You put in a disclaimer at the beginning: "i am not republican/democrat" and you can say whatever you want and people who don't read critically believe it. My guess is they read the first few sentences, spaced out for the rest, finished the article and thought, "What did I read? Oh yeah, middle of the road. Great post, very unbiased and balanced!"
 

theblackbox

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you haven't seen the real me, i just wanted to be more like you* so you would understand.

*please don't get panties in wad about this generalization unless you know it refers to you, even though i know someone will be attacked and overly sensitive about it anyway.

i guess you can't please everybody all the time and you could not please 55 million LEGAL voters this time around.
 

Infohawk

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Originally posted by: marcello
blackbox's post reminds me of watching Fox News. They claim to be fair and balanced and in the middle, but they are just trying to disguise their love of the right. Maybe they don't realize what side of the line they fall on or maybe they're being deceitful, hard to tell.

Anyways, the OP is garbage partisanship trying to pass itself off as middle of the road. Not surprisingly people fell for it. You put in a disclaimer at the beginning: "i am not republican/democrat" and you can say whatever you want and people who don't read critically believe it. My guess is they read the first few sentences, spaced out for the rest, finished the article and thought, "What did I read? Oh yeah, middle of the road. Great post, very unbiased and balanced!"

I agree completely. It was a very odd initial reaction even given that some of the initial posters were staunch conservatives...
 

theblackbox

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call me what you will, i don't think i recall calling myself a moderate. I've always thought of myself as a national socialist except i don't think isolation favors my policies, because i think diversity makes the country stronger, as i stated above in my belief in policy.

call me right but i've always come full circle to the point where the two touch.

but i do believe in this country. I served it in the 80s, and fund the economy now. when you get out of high school, college, or whatever, maybe your tarnished perspective will change.

And, just because i said i am neither r/d does not mean i am unbiased. youwould have to be either extremely naive or just ignorant to think that any body is non biased, no matter what they think.
every person who has lived any part of life has created and fostered some type of bias, and no matter what side you take or if you debate for a living you still have some bias.

15. oh, and i like gays and lesbians, believe they shold have every right and protection to live their life any way they want without government scrutiny.
16. i believe that everybody is entitled to health insurance they pay for. When you have a good health system with good doctors, it is much better then letting the government handle it.

i forgot to put these in my beliefs above.
 

marcello

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Originally posted by: theblackbox
call me what you will, i don't think i recall calling myself a moderate. I've always thought of myself as a national socialist except i don't think isolation favors my policies, because i think diversity makes the country stronger, as i stated above in my belief in policy.

call me right but i've always come full circle to the point where the two touch.

but i do believe in this country. I served it in the 80s, and fund the economy now. when you get out of high school, college, or whatever, maybe your tarnished perspective will change.

And, just because i said i am neither r/d does not mean i am unbiased. youwould have to be either extremely naive or just ignorant to think that any body is non biased, no matter what they think.
every person who has lived any part of life has created and fostered some type of bias, and no matter what side you take or if you debate for a living you still have some bias.

15. oh, and i like gays and lesbians, believe they shold have every right and protection to live their life any way they want without government scrutiny.
16. i believe that everybody is entitled to health insurance they pay for. When you have a good health system with good doctors, it is much better then letting the government handle it.

i forgot to put these in my beliefs above.

Sorry to call you middle of the road but everything here is almost always divided. When you said you're neither D/R you kind of put yourself into that area.

when you get out of high school, college, or whatever, maybe your tarnished perspective will change. WTF? Can you tell me who is going to win the 49ers game this weekend, I would like to make some extra money this weekend gambling. I ask because clearly you have powers outside of normal people. You can tell how old someone is and what they do on a daily basis. All this from the safety of your keyboard. My perspective is tarnished because I don't accept whatever is told to me by idiots on the internet? It was an anecdotal story anyways; check back to your college education to figure out if anecdotal evidence is worthwhile. All it does is endear people to believe you without providing any real facts, statistics, or studies. Yeah, yeah, I get it, you were just telling your story. Now you're on the offensive when originally you were just "telling a story that was neither D/R". By the way, I graduated college, I have a job, I pay taxes, and I still don't believe your partisan bullsh|t.
 

marcello

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One quick question. Were you one of the undecided voters this year going into the election?
 

theblackbox

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i was undecided after voting for browne in 2000. I voted libertarian again in 2004. Undecided for me was i did not know after 2000 who would run libertarian. so I voted for Badnarik. He lost, and the libertarian party lost, having gone from 36,000 or so votes in 2000 for browne to 17,000 or so votes for Badnarik. That is only 7000 more votes then Buchannon got in 2000, and i am embarresed for georgia, almost as embarresed about the little sticker in the science books telling cobb county students evolution is just a theory.
My wife, who doesn't really follow anything she doesn't see, and she made her decision on the debates and such, chose bush. She started following kerry and bush when they announced kerry at the dnc, she liked dean more, actually. i won't comment on her vote, but you can decide for yourself, when kerry became the one, she looked more and more at bush.

But was i undecided. yes, in 2001,2002, and into 2003 i was. coe election time, i knew who i was voting for, and never had any doubts.

so as far as my partisan bullshit, i won't comment because i'm the most partisan independent (libertarian voter) around.
 

DealMonkey

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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: theblackbox
glad you kind find some humour in your bleak life.

Now the real black box shows his face.
No kidding. Although I must say the nick is fitting, because just as the democrats crashed and burned, theblackbox is right there pinpointing what caused the crash. Or just using the opportunity to lash out at liberals everywhere -- it's hard to tell. He's nearly as reverse-omniscient as Cad.
 

marcello

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Originally posted by: theblackbox
i was undecided after voting for browne in 2000. I voted libertarian again in 2004. Undecided for me was i did not know after 2000 who would run libertarian. so I voted for Badnarik. He lost, and the libertarian party lost, having gone from 36,000 or so votes in 2000 for browne to 17,000 or so votes for Badnarik. That is only 7000 more votes then Buchannon got in 2000, and i am embarresed for georgia, almost as embarresed about the little sticker in the science books telling cobb county students evolution is just a theory.
My wife, who doesn't really follow anything she doesn't see, and she made her decision on the debates and such, chose bush. She started following kerry and bush when they announced kerry at the dnc, she liked dean more, actually. i won't comment on her vote, but you can decide for yourself, when kerry became the one, she looked more and more at bush.

But was i undecided. yes, in 2001,2002, and into 2003 i was. coe election time, i knew who i was voting for, and never had any doubts.

so as far as my partisan bullshit, i won't comment because i'm the most partisan independent (libertarian voter) around.

Yeah, Dean kicked a$$. I still don't understand how he got exiled all of a sudden. I also really liked McCain and if he runs in 2008 the Democrats would have to put up a hell of a candidate for me to vote for him (her?).
 

Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: marcello
Originally posted by: theblackbox
i was undecided after voting for browne in 2000. I voted libertarian again in 2004. Undecided for me was i did not know after 2000 who would run libertarian. so I voted for Badnarik. He lost, and the libertarian party lost, having gone from 36,000 or so votes in 2000 for browne to 17,000 or so votes for Badnarik. That is only 7000 more votes then Buchannon got in 2000, and i am embarresed for georgia, almost as embarresed about the little sticker in the science books telling cobb county students evolution is just a theory.
My wife, who doesn't really follow anything she doesn't see, and she made her decision on the debates and such, chose bush. She started following kerry and bush when they announced kerry at the dnc, she liked dean more, actually. i won't comment on her vote, but you can decide for yourself, when kerry became the one, she looked more and more at bush.

But was i undecided. yes, in 2001,2002, and into 2003 i was. coe election time, i knew who i was voting for, and never had any doubts.

so as far as my partisan bullshit, i won't comment because i'm the most partisan independent (libertarian voter) around.

Yeah, Dean kicked a$$. I still don't understand how he got exiled all of a sudden. I also really liked McCain and if he runs in 2008 the Democrats would have to put up a hell of a candidate for me to vote for him (her?).

Dean was a threat to the establishment. He was assassinated by being made out to be a loon. If the people do not revolt and get money our of politics you will never get a decent candidate who can run. The system will marginalize anybody who is a threat to established interests, money and power. Only domesticated foul are ever allowed to run.