(03-14-2017, 07:31 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(03-14-2017, 07:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: An interesting, non-partisan, and open minded perspective:

http://www.michaeldsellers.com/blog/2017/01/08/putin-trump-and-the-russian-influence-in-the-us-election-act-of-war-or-the-new-normal/

'Does Trump even favor the perpetuation of that “American led liberal democratic world order” that we have been working to build since WWII — or is he against it? His “America first” populism, his denigration of NATO and the UN, all of this suggests that he’s not really in favor it. But is this a truly carefully thought out position? Does he understand what will be lost if we let this slip away? Is it a position that Americans who voted for Trump truly want? Trump framed it as “America first” but what if that means abandoning the post WWII global structure in which America is first among a functioning coalition of western democracies? Is Trump ready to jettison that entire structure in favor if … what?'

#RagsNationalism

Uh, when will this guy give an equal hearing to the PTB that are fucking things up already?

1. Corporate America
a. Exports jobs
b. pays pissant wages
c. treats employees like slaves.  You got that fucking Amazon, yes you.   Fuck you Amazon!
2. The MIC
a. Why are you spying on us Americans.  That is not your fucking job.
b. Your budget needs to be .25 of what is is now.  We need healthcare, infrastructure spending, and basic research
c. I don't think you need 100 bases strewn to the 4 winds.  Empire sux.
3. US oligopolies.
a. Big Phama:  I can't buy cheap drugs overseas because y'all bribed The Feds.
b. Big Oil:  I'm tired of spending my money to protect your stuff. We need an oil import fee charged on each barrel of imported oil to pay for that and make the real costs of your shit match that of domestic production/green energy
c. Big Insurance.  .... Just fucking die, already.  A bunch of useless paper shufflers y'all are.
4. Big Tech:  <-  I think Putin's bribing y'all.  Just look at all of those IOT/Ishits that are so easy, basement dwellers can hack 'em.

Like this:  http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/520123490/vibrator-maker-to-pay-millions-over-claims-it-secretly-tracked-use    

(03-14-2017, 08:14 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Cold War Daily?

Quote:this one is a Russian trollery classic going way, way back ... we're talking early FreeRepublic

(03-15-2017, 11:43 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 10:51 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:this one is a Russian trollery classic going way, way back ... we're talking early FreeRepublic

So what you're saying is that your pissing and moaning about those peskie Ruskies on the internet long predates anything concerning the Trump administration that might have legitimately precipitated it?

In the early days of FreeRepublic there were Russian trolls who would issue those sorts of epithets any time there was a negative article about Russia posted, or a commenter made a negative comment. It was an early example of Russian trollery. Back when many on the Alt Right were still in Jr. High or HS.

(03-15-2017, 02:19 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Was it an ad hominem argument?  Looked more like mere invective to me.  Do you know the difference between the two?

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

(03-15-2017, 03:32 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

You may have a point about that but I am pretty sure that most of Eric the Obtuse's IQ loss is self-inflicted.  The consequence of certain recreational pharmaceuticals he used in the sixties and seventies.   As for Alphabet you are witnessing an advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  To the best of my knowledge there is no cure.

(03-15-2017, 03:37 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 03:32 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

You may have a point about that but I am pretty sure that most of Eric the Obtuse's IQ loss is self-inflicted.  The consequence of certain recreational pharmaceuticals he used in the sixties and seventies.   As for Alphabet you are witnessing an advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  To the best of my knowledge there is no cure.

Hey, I've dropped acid once or twice and I turned out fine. 

*looks around needily*

Right?   

As for Alphabet, I am pretty sure his TDS has only exacerbated an existing condition.  He was pretty hardcore paranoid about Russia/China when I got here.

(03-15-2017, 03:32 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

You may have a point about that but I am pretty sure that most of Eric the Obtuse's IQ loss is self-inflicted.  The consequence of certain recreational pharmaceuticals he used in the sixties and seventies.   As for Alphabet you are witnessing an advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  To the best of my knowledge there is no cure.

(03-15-2017, 03:37 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 03:32 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

You may have a point about that but I am pretty sure that most of Eric the Obtuse's IQ loss is self-inflicted.  The consequence of certain recreational pharmaceuticals he used in the sixties and seventies.   As for Alphabet you are witnessing an advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  To the best of my knowledge there is no cure.

Hey, I've dropped acid once or twice and I turned out fine. 

*looks around needily*

Right?   

(03-15-2017, 02:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

Blah ... blah ... blah ...

Ad hom = predictable and borrrrrrrring .....

(03-15-2017, 10:26 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: "Hey Alphabet Soup .... seein' Commies under your bed? .... forget to take your meds? [this one is a Russian trollery classic going way, way back ... we're talking early FreeRepublic] ..... your tin foil hat need adjustment?"

Blah, blah. I mock scoundrels, criminals and scum.

And now, for something real:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-charging-russian-spies-and-criminal-hackers-for-yahoo-intrusion/2017/03/15/64b98e32-0911-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.336d38bfe8f0

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(03-15-2017, 11:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 02:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

Blah ... blah ... blah ...

Ad hom = predictable and borrrrrrrring .....

Pretty much describes most of kinser's posts.

(03-14-2017, 10:26 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-14-2017, 08:14 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Cold War Daily?

Yeah someone didn't get the memo that the USSR collapsed in 1991.

(03-19-2017, 01:11 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 11:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 02:12 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 01:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'm starting to think there's something in the water out in CA. I mean I know fluoride can be used to lower IQ, so that might explain Eric, but I'm not aware of a connection to paranoid schizophrenia.

Blah ... blah ... blah ...

Ad hom = predictable and borrrrrrrring .....

Pretty much describes most of kinser's posts.

Something in the water in CA?  Doesn't that belong on the Big Lie thread?  Do you think that one comes from Breitbart, Trump, or perhaps he made it up himself?

(03-20-2017, 03:38 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(03-14-2017, 10:26 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-14-2017, 08:14 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Cold War Daily?

Yeah someone didn't get the memo that the USSR collapsed in 1991.

Russia has a dictatorial regime hostile to democracy anywhere.

What Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko dreamed of doing and all failed at -- installing a regime similarly undemocratic and obedient to the interests of the Kremlin in the USA... Putin has succeeded in doing.