Comedy Goldmine & Robin

[Badger]

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Um, funny because utterly unrestrained lassiz-faire economics were major or primary contributors to many of these things?

Oh "libertarians"---the rhetoric of Angela Davis combined with the economic policies of a Fortune 500 boardroom.

[Torie]

I still wish I could debate over again with Milton Friedman the issue of selling off the national parks to private companies. I had that debate with him as a college freshman, and didn't do very well. I would do better now.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh "libertarians"---the rhetoric of Angela Davis combined with the economic policies of a Fortune 500 boardroom.

I think that will do as an entry in its own right.

[Insula Dei]

I still wish I could debate over again with Milton Friedman the issue of selling off the national parks to private companies. I had that debate with him as a college freshman, and didn't do very well. I would do better now.

You had a debate with Milton Friedman? I must be misunderstanding this...

[patrick1]

I still wish I could debate over again with Milton Friedman the issue of selling off the national parks to private companies. I had that debate with him as a college freshman, and didn't do very well. I would do better now.

You had a debate with Milton Friedman? I must be misunderstanding this...

Nope. Torie went to U. of Chicago back in the day.

[Torie]

I still wish I could debate over again with Milton Friedman the issue of selling off the national parks to private companies. I had that debate with him as a college freshman, and didn't do very well. I would do better now.

You had a debate with Milton Friedman? I must be misunderstanding this...

Nope. Torie went to U. of Chicago back in the day.

His son and I used to get stoned together, and traveled together to a Libertarian convention in Philly.  We had a grand time.  I knew David, the son, knew more economics than I did at the time, when we discussed sharing car expenses. I said, let's just split the gas, and he said fine, I was just wondering about the issue of car depreciation, maintenance, and so forth. And I looked at him in a kind of wonderment. I thought to myself, you know, there is a lot I don't know.

[Thomas D]

Maybe they picked a date they knew Mexicans would be too busy partying to hear what was being said about them.

Click for conext.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I laughed at this but can't really say why:

There's worse fates than death, you know.

Yeah, spending an afternoon with an insurance salesman.

Or reading BushOK saga.

That's a pretty horrible sentence.

[Platypus]

I laughed at this but can't really say why:

There's worse fates than death, you know.

Yeah, spending an afternoon with an insurance salesman.

Or reading BushOK saga.

That's a pretty horrible sentence.

Presumably because it fails grammar?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't want this to become an angry conversation. I have a serious question.

Why do so many people care about insulting, hurting, or punishing bad people?

It seems to me that the most major flaw in America right now is our lack of conviction. We have aggressive TSA pat-downs on children, but don't wanna scope out middle eastern people because *gasp*...they might be "offended". In WWII we locked up Japanese Americans for goodness sakes! What's a little profiling hurt? I mean, it's not like on September 12, 2001 we locked up all Middle Eastern people.

I'm not denying that certain things can come off insensitive to people, my question is, "Who cares?" Honestly? Who cares if John McCain makes an off-color joke about "Bomb bomb bomb Iran" (which we'll probably end up doing anyways) or if we racially profile to try and stop terrorists...or say Muslims attacked us on 9/11? It was Muslim men on 9/11. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but it was Muslim terrorists. Why can't we say it? Who cares if we say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays?

Who cares if a cop punches an out of control guy who is a threat to other people? Who cares? Why care?

Why do so many people care about minuscule things about bad people?

[Reaganfan]

I don't want this to become an angry conversation. I have a serious question.

Why do so many people care about insulting, hurting, or punishing bad people?

It seems to me that the most major flaw in America right now is our lack of conviction. We have aggressive TSA pat-downs on children, but don't wanna scope out middle eastern people because *gasp*...they might be "offended". In WWII we locked up Japanese Americans for goodness sakes! What's a little profiling hurt? I mean, it's not like on September 12, 2001 we locked up all Middle Eastern people.

I'm not denying that certain things can come off insensitive to people, my question is, "Who cares?" Honestly? Who cares if John McCain makes an off-color joke about "Bomb bomb bomb Iran" (which we'll probably end up doing anyways) or if we racially profile to try and stop terrorists...or say Muslims attacked us on 9/11? It was Muslim men on 9/11. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but it was Muslim terrorists. Why can't we say it? Who cares if we say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays?

Who cares if a cop punches an out of control guy who is a threat to other people? Who cares? Why care?

Why do so many people care about minuscule things about bad people?

I don't understand why that is funny? It's a serious question. Why do so many people care about what happens to bad people?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't want this to become an angry conversation. I have a serious question.

Why do so many people care about insulting, hurting, or punishing bad people?

It seems to me that the most major flaw in America right now is our lack of conviction. We have aggressive TSA pat-downs on children, but don't wanna scope out middle eastern people because *gasp*...they might be "offended". In WWII we locked up Japanese Americans for goodness sakes! What's a little profiling hurt? I mean, it's not like on September 12, 2001 we locked up all Middle Eastern people.

I'm not denying that certain things can come off insensitive to people, my question is, "Who cares?" Honestly? Who cares if John McCain makes an off-color joke about "Bomb bomb bomb Iran" (which we'll probably end up doing anyways) or if we racially profile to try and stop terrorists...or say Muslims attacked us on 9/11? It was Muslim men on 9/11. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but it was Muslim terrorists. Why can't we say it? Who cares if we say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays?

Who cares if a cop punches an out of control guy who is a threat to other people? Who cares? Why care?

Why do so many people care about minuscule things about bad people?

I don't understand why that is funny? It's a serious question. Why do so many people care about what happens to bad people?

Calling Japanese Americans "bad people"

[Insula Dei]

I don't want this to become an angry conversation. I have a serious question.

Why do so many people care about insulting, hurting, or punishing bad people?

It seems to me that the most major flaw in America right now is our lack of conviction. We have aggressive TSA pat-downs on children, but don't wanna scope out middle eastern people because *gasp*...they might be "offended". In WWII we locked up Japanese Americans for goodness sakes! What's a little profiling hurt? I mean, it's not like on September 12, 2001 we locked up all Middle Eastern people.

I'm not denying that certain things can come off insensitive to people, my question is, "Who cares?" Honestly? Who cares if John McCain makes an off-color joke about "Bomb bomb bomb Iran" (which we'll probably end up doing anyways) or if we racially profile to try and stop terrorists...or say Muslims attacked us on 9/11? It was Muslim men on 9/11. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but it was Muslim terrorists. Why can't we say it? Who cares if we say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays?

Who cares if a cop punches an out of control guy who is a threat to other people? Who cares? Why care?

Why do so many people care about minuscule things about bad people?

I don't understand why that is funny? It's a serious question. Why do so many people care about what happens to bad people?

Calling Japanese Americans "bad people"

And that's actually one of the least awfull parts of that post.

[King]

I don't understand why that is funny? It's a serious question. Why do so many people care about what happens to bad people?

A bad person by definition is someone who doesn't care about others.  Their actions (greed, violence, etc.) are just symptoms of that definition.

By not caring about a bad person, we therefore become bad people.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Bushie should apply his compulsive micromanagement habits and get a job as a wedding planner.  He definitely has experience.

[Lunar]

You know, I don't generally complain about your obvious-loaded-answer type polls, but dude this is objective mathematics.  It's not beating a dead horse, it's beating a horse that literally cannot possibly have ever lived because of the objective rules that govern the universe.

That might be true to you, but not to me.

[J. J.]

This comment absolutely typifies the posters.

opebo has to be number one. Libertas might tie if he still counts (then again opebo is about 50/50 while Libby is 25/75 hate/love)

phknrocket probably also deserves a mention.

opebo deserves a mention only if you count as half the forum, BRTD

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=129298.0

It's currently EXACTLY 50/50.

Now I'm a bit ahead in fact.. ilikehervein is a jerk.

*hughughug*

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hamilton getting all high and mighty. Oh the irony and hilarity:

You're a year and a half late and about ten voters short.

Your memories of summer 2009 are actually quite far off from what actually was happening.  If I recall, I was recruited to this game by North Carolina Yankee in July for one main reason--because it was necessary. Does no one remember June 2009? The RPP/DA combined still lost to the JCP despite taking 3 or 4 JCP members during the process.  The RPP won a single Senate seat outright int hat election and had no at-large seats. MasterJedi tied for the second time in a row and only avoided a run-off he was sure to lose because EarlAW (SoFA at the time) realized that if he sent MJ to a run-off then Lief couldn't be declared the victor right off the bat, essentially. Gustaf's and barnes' votes aside, it is ridiculous that the center-left to the far-right has to unite behind one ticket to even come close to winning. The right and left should be competitive with each other, and the explicit center should be able to split evenly.

But this is the problem--there is no elasticity in this game allowed. Right-wing candidates move to the left, left-wing voters solidify like never before (October 2010). In any normal "country", what constitutes right and what constitutes left adapts to fit the political environment, hence why both Democrats and Republicans have shifted right in only a two-year period.
I was around. I know what it was like. Swedish, in my first encounter with you, you labeled me a "moderate hero". Maybe I was and am. But whatever. I was a productive Atlasian who brought a great legislative record to the Northeast and was instrumental in making that region both competitive and active (and anyone with a quarter of a brain would know that the two go hand-in-hand).  What we did in the Northeast was undone because a handful of spoiled left-wing twats decided that winning elections with only a slim majority meant one-party domination, and some of them decided to move to the Pacific (and yes, that is the same Pacific that pushed me out as soon as I tried to constructively bring some competition to elections). I

These lefties would vote for Friz over Torie today. Hell, people kept voting for Bacon King after he decided he didn't even want to be a Senator. Unless the right has the numbers to compete with the left, there is nothing that will change in this game to make it work.

Personalities are all that matter in this game. The left doesn't care that bgwah can post sex fantasies about Bono and Nazis, or that Kalwejt can throw an immature fit every couple weeks and exhibit extreme bipolar symptoms without provocation. They don't care that BRTD is relentless in his personal attacks and harassment of forum members he has even the slightest of disagreements with.

DWTL was a moron, a poor leader, and bad at his job. No sh**t, that's why me, PiT and Tmth conspired to get rid of him but no one else had the balls to take him on.

As for myself and Libertas, at least we were good at our Atlasian jobs. It's just that we would never be judged on that because certain people on this forum don't want people here who disagree. And Duke loves that he is popular now and is able to be a total asshole because of it, but it wasn't too long ago he was getting shat on the same as most on the right were. June 09 special election? LOL. And he was always one of BRTD's victims too. Shame on you, Duke.

This game is no better off without myself or Libertas than it would be without bgwah or Marokai or Antonio or Tmth or PiT or Lief or Snowguy or anyone else, really. At least Fritz understand that this game needs people to function.

Does no one else care that the left can literally split itself and half and still shoot straight to the top-two spots? Or that the RPP has existed for over two years and still has never won a national election?

Atlasia is like this because the left made it this way. I want to blame it on DWTL's inability to lead the RPP, but I can't. There was no right-wing before the RPP. The JCP candidate has won nine of the last ten Presidential elections. The JCP-endorsed candidate has won every special Senate election since bgwah became President a.k.a. before we even knew that Obama would win Indiana and North Carolina. The Left in Atlasia has done all it can to demonize anyone who isn't one of them. Look at the horrible things you guys said about people like Duke when he was new, or Tmth when he was first appointed Senator and new, or Dallasfan when he joined and tried to just be a part of this game. I was thought to be Ogis, and instantly suspected. When I wanted to participate more, I was ridiculed by some.

The right can put up their best personalities and move as close to center-left as possible without being a carbon copy of the JCP/UDL. They will lose. Why do you think I was running for Governor against AndrewCT? He was a passive executive and didn't want to energize debate on political positions, but rather form a consensus. I wanted to be an active and strong executive that would push my own policies and have allies and opponents in the legislature. A functioning, realistic type of government that would allow voters to pick sides. But people like Libertas and dallasfan and Morgan, they were just "useless zombie-trolls". Senator who doesn't do sh**t for 21 straight days? Well, 15 first preferences and re-election was the least he deserved.

Kinda sickening to think about actually. I mean, in the real world we would all vote to re-elect Senators who spent 1/5+ of their term doing absolutely nothing, right?

The figures on the right only become controversial because whenever the left does something similar no one sees anything wrong with it. Realisticidealist went from Ogis' troll squad to JCP Senator to one of the more respected forumites. officepark didn't get to braek through from that so easily. Any one wondering why?

The right needs more voters on their side, or more leftists have to start voting for righties. You need both sides. It's the conflict that drives elections, elections that drive government, and government that drives the conflict. When was the last time that any kind of right-wing policy was enacted at the federal level? Yep.

P.S. those who think posting PMs and private conversations and the like, as a means of hurting the reputations of others in a humiliating and public manner, should be ashamed of themselves.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Not a place for posts from Atlasia.

[Keystone Phil]

Not a place for posts from Atlasia.

The biggest joke board on the forum certainly deserves to have its posts here.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I laughed at this but can't really say why:

There's worse fates than death, you know.

Yeah, spending an afternoon with an insurance salesman.

Or reading BushOK saga.

That's a pretty horrible sentence.

Presumably because it fails grammar?

No, when I said sentence, I meant punishment sentence.  Not the English sentence, or sentence segment as it is.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

context is needed

Jfern will find a way to blame Obama for this poll.

[Free Palestine]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

James!

Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light!

Surrender now or prepare to fight!

Meowth that's right!

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Basically, there's been only one real surprise this lame-duck session.  Actually, two, but I consider the first to be far more surprising.  Everything else has gone about as I suspected.

Every time I read Sam's posts I get a feeling I'm reading the horoscope.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not surprised by Ensign.  I'm a bit surprised Graham didn't end up voting for the actual bill after it passed cloture though.

Lindsey likes it in the closet.

^^^^^^^^^^^
Dude's so far in the closet he lives in Narnia.