Current Events > are people still pretending democrats are as bad as republicans

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are people still saying "both sides are the same guys"

Yep. They still think punching Nazis is worse than being one tio
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Hopefully not. I don't know how you could think so after this shit show honestly. :u Democrats will just have to clean the mess up once the GOP tires itself out and stops shitting the bed, like we always do. It is a thankless job but someone has to do it.
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it plays into the republican strategy: "You can't trust government. Look how incompetent we are! Same thing both sides! Vote for us, we'll uproot this incompetent government we have created!"

unfortunately some dems are eager to exchange their power for wealth. look no farther than the MD state legislature, which participated in rent seeking for alcohol distributors and almost destroyed their entire craft beer industry in the process (and DID destroy any hopes of small brewers for going pro)

but none of this is really comparable
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They are incompetent and fucking annoying and that's way worse than corrupt evil. Like would you want Scratch and Grounder leading a country over Dark Vader?
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Somehow yes. Like, I'm not gonna sit here and say Democrats are angels, because they aren't. But Republicans are very clearly worse in pretty much every regard.
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tremain07 posted...

They are incompetent and fucking annoying and that's way worse than corrupt evil. Like would you want Scratch and Grounder leading a country over Dark Vader?

Both sides are equally incompetent.
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creativerealms posted...

tremain07 posted...

They are incompetent and fucking annoying and that's way worse than corrupt evil. Like would you want Scratch and Grounder leading a country over Dark Vader?

Both sides are equally incompetent.

Nope, Reps are incompetent at leading and running a government but absolute kings at obstructing government, abusing government and changing government to suite them. Dems are incompetent at running the government and everything else. Look at their god awful attempts to earn back the public's trust, they're going to get destroyed in 2018 making the empire more powerful
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The Democrats hurt my feelings more so i think they are just as bad.
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gunplagirl posted...

Yep. They still think punching Nazis is worse than being one tio

All these little skinny jeans, hair dye, "dont assume my gender" kids are so cute with their pretend fights against a group as nonexistent and irrelevant as neo-nazis. Liberals always gotta always be pissed about something and start shit somehow. Just gotta disguise it as "justified cuz its against big, bad, evil, racist nazis who are out being all prominent and committing hate crimes and shit." Lolol
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https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhpcbdc/

TL;DR - republicans voting against public interest, every time.
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Which party was so corrupt that they screwed over Bernie in favor of Hillary?


Hint: Not the Republican party.
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It depends on the person

Rand Paul is one of the best Congressmen, and guess what he is a Republican
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Caution999 posted...

Which party was so corrupt that they screwed over Bernie in favor of Hillary?


Hint: Not the Republican party.

Which party was so inept that out of 17 republican nominees it decided that Trump was the best option?
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Depends on which Dem and which Rep. They're not all the same person.
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pinky0926 posted...

Caution999 posted...

Which party was so corrupt that they screwed over Bernie in favor of Hillary?


Hint: Not the Republican party.

Which party was so inept that out of 17 republican nominees it decided that Trump was the best option?

Which party was so inept that it decided to run the candidate that lost to Trump?
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rhetorical?

The Dems hired a third party entity to go over their DNC servers. Why not use the government?

Because they're afraid it will spill the beans about how Hillary fixed the primaries
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BilalPowell posted...

Which party was so inept that it decided to run the candidate that lost to Trump?

So we can agree that both parties are bad, yes. This is all a distraction from:

shockthemonkey posted...

But peolle don't notice shit like this, they're too busy getting wrapped up in rhetorical messes

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Caution999 posted...

rhetorical?

The Dems hired a third party entity to go over their DNC servers. Why not use the government?

Because they're afraid it will spill the beans about how Hillary fixed the primaries

Still talking about hillary's emails and bernie sanders, my goodness. Find something relevant to discuss.
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The Democrats also had like 4 candidates... it really was Hillary's turn

Also this topic is a huge burying your head in the sand. "My team's congressmen are better!!"
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Damn_Underscore posted...

The Democrats also had like 4 candidates... it really was Hillary's turn

Also this topic is a huge burying your head in the sand. "My team's congressmen are better!!"

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhpcbdc/
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Which party is actively attempting to kill people as we speak?
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We're talking about how the DNC is corrupt. This is relevant to the topic at hand for proving my point.
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Garioshi posted...

Which party is actively attempting to kill people as we speak?

The one that is promoting this "resistance" - by using violence as a means of getting attention.
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Garioshi posted...

Which party is actively attempting to kill people as we speak?

Both probably.
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Caution999 posted...

We're talking about how the DNC is corrupt. This is relevant to the topic at hand for proving my point.

Both sides are guilty of corruption, but one side is actively voting against public interest unanimously across the board. This is a fact, unless you happen to be against oversight, against transparency, against fair trial, pro teen pregnancy, anti family planning, against net neutrality, against affordable education, etc. etc. etc.

It's not cherry picking. It's cherry harvesting.
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pinky0926 posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

The Democrats also had like 4 candidates... it really was Hillary's turn

Also this topic is a huge burying your head in the sand. "My team's congressmen are better!!"

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhpcbdc/

that thread gets even better up higher

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhp6bkr/

the data on how republican voters' views on whether something is good or not depend mostly on whether a republican is doing it is particularly disturbing
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pinky0926 posted...

Caution999 posted...

We're talking about how the DNC is corrupt. This is relevant to the topic at hand for proving my point.

Both sides are guilty of corruption, but one side is actively voting against public interest unanimously across the board. This is a fact, unless you happen to be against oversight, against transparency, against fair trial, pro teen pregnancy, anti family planning, against net neutrality, against affordable education, etc. etc. etc.

It's not cherry picking. It's cherry harvesting.

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Darkman124 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

The Democrats also had like 4 candidates... it really was Hillary's turn

Also this topic is a huge burying your head in the sand. "My team's congressmen are better!!"

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhpcbdc/

that thread gets even better up higher

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhp6bkr/

the data on how republican voters' views on whether something is good or not depend mostly on whether a republican is doing it is particularly disturbing

Really interesting considering the stereotype for democrats is that they do everything by feelings rather than logic, isn't it
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pinky0926 posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

The Democrats also had like 4 candidates... it really was Hillary's turn

Also this topic is a huge burying your head in the sand. "My team's congressmen are better!!"

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/justice_department_appoints_special_prosecutor/dhpcbdc/

Once again, "My team's congressmen are better!!"

Notice that those votes are mostly on party lines. How many congressmen don't really care and were just voting on party lines? The vote count doesn't tell you that.
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funny how lazy TC was with this post and people are still taking him seriously
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Once again, "My team's congressmen are better!!"

Notice that those votes are mostly on party lines. How many congressmen don't really care and were just voting on party lines? The vote count doesn't tell you that.

It would appear they are objectively better, provided you feel that policy decisions are an important thing that should reflect public interest.
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pinky0926 posted...

Really interesting considering the stereotype for democrats is that they do everything by feelings rather than logic, isn't it

People with no sense of awareness are fucking horrifying. The Republicans are literally the party of the religious right.

Not bashing religious folks, but you just as emotional as the far left crowd is.

And nothing is wrong with being emotional, but have some damn self awareness.
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"they're both bad" is like a political equivalent of "I don't see race"
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Vindris_SNH posted...

funny how lazy TC was with this post and people are still taking him seriously

lazy what

i think i appropriately and overtly ridiculed the people who make that claim

BilalPowell posted...

Garioshi posted...

Which party is actively attempting to kill people as we speak?

Both probably.

Please stop this false neutrality.
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shockthemonkey posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

Vindris_SNH posted...

funny how lazy TC was with this post and people are still taking him seriously

lazy what

i think i accurately and overtly ridiculed the people who make that claim

Vindris is just projecting, he's been so batshit crazy lately that he needs to pretend someone else is the problem

I don't go around insulting entire groups of people without at least explaining why I think that way. TC was lazy, and usually that kind of laziness and lack of thought indicates pure trolling.

And batshit crazy? Wtf are you talking about?
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Both sides suck and play for the same team

Republicans voted in a corporate overlord.
Democrats only wanted to put a corporate lapdog into power.

Totally different.

That said, I'm part of the lower class. No one can tell me with a straight face that either party has my best interests in mind. Quite the contrary, they're both always looking for new ways to put me over a barrel and then feigning apology when they mention they forgot to bring lube again. I've been through Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush: Part Deux, and Obama. I had every fucking reason to think Clinton Redux and Trump would be more of the goddamn same.

Same shit both sides, they're no allies of mine.
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Vindris_SNH posted...

I don't go around insulting entire groups of people without at least explaining why I think that way. TC was lazy, and usually that kind of laziness and lack of thought indicates pure trolling.

And batshit crazy? Wtf are you talking about?

youre the religious zealot right? i dont really ever see you explain yourself. you enter a topic, say some stupid shit, someone smart challenges you, you bow out with a "yeah okay" and you disappear. you even did it in a topic i was reading this morning

Haldol posted...

Both sides suck and play for the same team

Inferno Dive Dragoon posted...

Same shit both sides

lolololol

FrenchCrunch posted...

youre the religious zealot right?

I wouldn't describe myself as a religious zealot. And I think the only reason someone here would accuse me of being a "zealot" is because they want to discredit my logical, non-religiously based opinions on issues.

FrenchCrunch posted...

i dont really ever see you explain yourself.

Then you don't read.

FrenchCrunch posted...

you enter a topic, say some stupid shit, someone smart challenges you, you bow out with a "yeah okay" and you disappear. you even did it in a topic i was reading this morning

That happened once recently because we were going off on a tangent that wasn't the main point of the thread and I didn't feel like derailing the whole thing, so I cut the conversation off. And there's nothing wrong with getting to a point where both people have stated why they think what they think, and saying, "OK I get it, we disagree, have a nice day." There's a point where an argument just becomes a waste of time.
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Vote Democrat

Always vote Democrat

Every time

Dont boycott

Dont stay home

Dont vote green

Dont let this happen again

We'll pick Bernie next time
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Malcolm_Caradoc posted...

Vote Democrat

Always vote Democrat

Every time

Dont boycott

Dont stay home

Dont vote green

Dont let this happen again

We'll pick Bernie next time

who's your main?