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Thread: Can American conservatism survive intact & unadulterated?

  1. #811
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
    What does that even mean
    See the replies for explanations
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  2. #812
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
    What does that even mean
    think "Wrong side of the tracks"

    Also, black communities are commonly preyed on by government looking for cheap land with little push back. The history of this has become a local talking point around here because we keep finding black cemeteries under old government purchased/seized land.
    Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 04-11-2021 at 08:49 PM.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  3. #813
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
    What does that even mean
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=3539889
    "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)

  4. #814
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    think "Wrong side of the tracks"

    Also, black communities are commonly preyed on by government looking for cheap land with little push back. The history of this has become a local talking point around here because we keep finding black cemeteries under old government purchased/seized land.
    Indeed its been a major problem in the past.

    But what answers does Buttigieg have to address this in the future? The problem is known, what is the solution? The highways that were built and decades that have passed since are not going to be reversed, what investment is planned to address any problems that are there now?
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

  5. #815
    There's a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan being advanced. Presumably there are non-racist ways of implementing it.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  6. #816
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  7. #817
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    https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1646/2021
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  8. #818
    What utter shitheads.

    Please enjoy this gem made from pure, unadulterated conservatism:

    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  9. #819
    You didn't know that corporations only had the free speech to support Republican causes?
    Hope is the denial of reality

  10. #820
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  11. #821
    "common respect for uniquely Anglo Saxon political traditions"
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

  12. #822
    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    "common respect for uniquely Anglo Saxon political traditions"

    Damnit Rand, watching Castle was not supposed to be how I spent the later part of my night!
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

  13. #823
    Really tho?

    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  14. #824
    Survival looking increasingly uncertain

    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  15. #825
    Quite literally.

    You'd think GOP leaders might at some point stop and think that if the Democrat's base gets vaccinated and theirs doesn't then the differential death toll might not exactly play in the GOPs favour at the next election.

    Its not just deaths too. Many lives ruined by Long Covid and people left with "pre-existing conditions" as a result, or facing onerous medical bills as a result. Driving your own voters into medical bankruptcy is hardly productive to getting them to keep voting for you either.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

  16. #826
    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Quite literally.

    You'd think GOP leaders might at some point stop and think that if the Democrat's base gets vaccinated and theirs doesn't then the differential death toll might not exactly play in the GOPs favour at the next election.

    Its not just deaths too. Many lives ruined by Long Covid and people left with "pre-existing conditions" as a result, or facing onerous medical bills as a result. Driving your own voters into medical bankruptcy is hardly productive to getting them to keep voting for you either.
    GOP is banking on mass unforeseen vaccine deaths and complications taking out more donkey voters than elephants.
    Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

  17. #827
    In fairness, it is relatively in keeping with their frequent superficial commitment to libertarianism when it is absent morality components. They've always been rather opposed to public health vs private health. And also in keeping with the general Congress-critter's ignorance regarding science.
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

  18. #828
    The trump whitehouse was pretty open about hoping covid would ravage urban areas, and the gop still has a weird fetish with not bucking positions of the old, and even more irrelevant, administration.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  19. #829
    It's certainly not impossible, OG. I just still can't help but apply Hanlon's Razor to GOP-critters in most cases. Though in this case he IS for pushing it on "the most vulnerable" (i.e. elderly voters who generally swing conservative) so you might have a point. Or it could easily be both stupidity AND malice.
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

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    From the party of job creators:

    The state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau, a number-crunching agency similar to the federal Congressional Budget Office, calculated that it would take the state until 2043 to recoup the $3 billion handout, which was the largest such subsidy in Wisconsin history. Even if all 13,000 promised jobs went to Wisconsinites, the tab would be more than $230,000 per job created, the bureau found.

    A separate analysis conducted by the Mercatus Center, a free market think tank based at George Mason University, found that the higher taxes needed to cover the cost of Foxconn's tax breaks would "decrease Wisconsin's long-run GDP by about $20 billion over the 15-year life of the handout."
    And that was before all the promises were broken.

    https://reason.com/2021/04/21/foxcon...-in-wisconsin/
    Keep on keepin' the beat alive!

  21. #831
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  22. #832
    These people are so fucking stupid you almost forget how fucking repugnant they are

    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  23. #833
    "CNN's"
    The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
    The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
    When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
    I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun

  24. #834
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  25. #835
    Whereas over here people on the left, especially Europhile, have been the ones arguing against democracy for years now. Or as they like to call it whenever they lose a vote "populism".
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

  26. #836
    The interesting thing is that if a conservative uses a racial slur they are rightfully condemned by other conservatives. However when mainstream liberals call a senator a variety of racial slurs that's a-ok. The double standards are as always obnoxious.

  27. #837
    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Whereas over here people on the left, especially Europhile, have been the ones arguing against democracy for years now. Or as they like to call it whenever they lose a vote "populism".
    Nice try conflating democracy with rule by non-binding referenda.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
    The interesting thing is that if a conservative uses a racial slur they are rightfully condemned by other conservatives. However when mainstream liberals call a senator a variety of racial slurs that's a-ok. The double standards are as always obnoxious.
    Lewk, your side tried to overthrow the government and 3/4 of your congressmen voted to support that attempt. There's literally nothing the other side can do what would even come close. You're whining about someone jaywalking while your side commits mass murder.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  28. #838
    Ah Loki please go on, continue to justify the use of racial slurs. Its very telling of your world view.

  29. #839
    American conservatism will survive in an alternate reality:

    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

  30. #840
    Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
    The interesting thing is that if a conservative uses a racial slur they are rightfully condemned by other conservatives.
    No they're not.
    I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
    I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
    Which is what I am

    I aim at the stars
    But sometimes I hit London

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