The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

lel

Rhetorical question I know, but I wonder how much Marx he has actually read.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

You've never made this joke before.

I'm barely joking.

[Mordecai]

Shame that Hollywood is dominated today by vapid bourgeois liberals (not to mention the literal Pentagon propaganda that is most action films) instead of the good old days when half of them were card-carrying Communists.

The "communists" of the 1950s were bored bourgeois liberals trying to be edgy. Much like you, actually.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Georgetown students just love illegal dorm room science projects.

You went to Georgetown?

I thought he goes to Berkeley.

At least he doesn't go to Oxford.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm sorry Oakvale but really, the act is getting old.

Probably a necessary evil.

Yeah, we get it, you're not a "True Leftist".

[Oakvale]

I'm really kind of surprised that "the Thatcher/Reagan reforms of the 80s were hamfistedly and oftentimes sociopathically implemented but ultimately necessary" is apparently some kind of edgy troll position to take.

[Franzl]

I'm really kind of surprised that "the Thatcher/Reagan reforms of the 80s were hamfistedly and oftentimes sociopathically implemented but ultimately necessary" is apparently some kind of edgy troll position to take.

You can make that argument, but even if, not sure how Reagan is in any way necessary. You could have gotten the reforms without the idiocy and recklessness of Reagan.

[Oakvale]

I'm really kind of surprised that "the Thatcher/Reagan reforms of the 80s were hamfistedly and oftentimes sociopathically implemented but ultimately necessary" is apparently some kind of edgy troll position to take.

You can make that argument, but even if, not sure how Reagan is in any way necessary. You could have gotten the reforms without the idiocy and recklessness of Reagan.

There's also the less quantifiable argument that the goofy optimism and nationalist swagger of a Reagan was necessary on a psychological level after the malaise of the Nixon-Carter-Ford era.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm really kind of surprised that "the Thatcher/Reagan reforms of the 80s were hamfistedly and oftentimes sociopathically implemented but ultimately necessary" is apparently some kind of edgy troll position to take.

You can make that argument, but even if, not sure how Reagan is in any way necessary. You could have gotten the reforms without the idiocy and recklessness of Reagan.

There's also the less quantifiable argument that the goofy optimism and nationalist swagger of a Reagan was necessary on a psychological level after the malaise of the Nixon-Carter-Ford era.

One can question at what cost.

[Gustaf]

Oakvale is basically correct and I'd question the notion that the people weren't important in both of those cases. I sort of suspect they were actually.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I'm really kind of surprised that "the Thatcher/Reagan reforms of the 80s were hamfistedly and oftentimes sociopathically implemented but ultimately necessary" is apparently some kind of edgy troll position to take.

You can make that argument, but even if, not sure how Reagan is in any way necessary. You could have gotten the reforms without the idiocy and recklessness of Reagan.

There's also the less quantifiable argument that the goofy optimism and nationalist swagger of a Reagan was necessary on a psychological level after the malaise of the Nixon-Carter-Ford era.

One can question at what cost.

Edgy troll position? More like concern troll position.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Oakvale is basically correct

Disagree.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wow. I actually agree with Gully.

[Potatoe]

Wow. I actually agree with Gully.

And I agreed with Cassius on Ian Paisley the other day. Go figure.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Wow. I actually agree with Gully.

Yeah, 10 years and never yet for me.  But there is hope.

[SWE]

HP.  He may have gotten it right in 2012, but he was constantly predicting that Obama had an 80% chance of reelection.  Of course, Obama did win, but his chances were never THAT high.  And what's worse is that almost everyone (especially here) takes his predictions as gospel.

I tend to take his mathematical analysis more seriously that the opinion of a hack such as yourself.

[Badger]

Blue state, are you effing kidding? 

Blue state -


Red state -

Red state -

After you get to Claude and take a picture of the traffic light


Keep heading south another five miles:

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The real problem with oakvale's statement is that it's pretty much the epitome of Moderate Heroism that he's mocked before. "Reagan and Thatcher's reforms were needed but they went TOO FAR." That's basically something that could come directly from benconstine.

At least without the elaboration on what specifically he's referring to. Don't see how you can argue things like arming terrorists and propping up apartheid are needed, just taken too far.

[windjammer]

HP.  He may have gotten it right in 2012, but he was constantly predicting that Obama had an 80% chance of reelection.  Of course, Obama did win, but his chances were never THAT high.  And what's worse is that almost everyone (especially here) takes his predictions as gospel.

I tend to take his mathematical analysis more seriously that the opinion of a hack such as yourself.

Touche

[Gustaf]

If Bushie's family's men's forte is 'out on the grill', and they don't have a grill, perhaps they should consider developing a forte that isn't 'out on the grill'.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Guntoker nails me good here. 

The first quote I'd apply to you.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What incentive do they have to fix the United States? If we're giving them pay incentives, we could do the same thing for US citizens.

None of our politicians have economics degrees or rigorous business training, which should be a minimum prerequisite for anyone who controls $3T in government revenue.

Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush all had economics or MBAs from prestigious institutions. Obama does not.

Ah, yes, because a degree from that vaunted hive of great minds, Eureka College, trumps Harvard Law School any day of the week.

[Gustaf]

I think this counts as self-burn.

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

Most books I read are "scene", seriously. Things like compilations of zine articles from certain scenes and eras, or journal compilations of the same style, stuff like that. Sometimes it's actually fictionalized though but with the plot sort of being the same, stuff happening in the scene. Or compilations of essays and social commentary from people involved in it.

Otherwise I'm actually bigger on short stories. I've only read like one Stephen King book the whole through (The Gunslinger) but I like all his short story compilations I've read. The last full length novels I read were all the Ingress tie-in novels.

Also, I think the problem here is that BRTD doesn't understand what Oakvale is saying. But it's perfectly comprehensible to me.

[Adam Griffin]

Makes sense since it is not in any way a currency.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it isn't actually the thing it says it is.

For example, your dismissive outrage at things you don't like could be a form of currency.  Not one that anybody willingly accepts... but one that is used by you nearly constantly on this forum.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I know very little about de Blasio's tenure so far, but the ban on horse carriages cements him as a solid FF in my book.

Do you work in the glue industry or something?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Makes sense since it is not in any way a currency.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it isn't actually the thing it says it is.

For example, your dismissive outrage at things you don't like could be a form of currency.  Not one that anybody willingly accepts... but one that is used by you nearly constantly on this forum.

lol