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Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:46 am
by FuzzHugger
Thanks for indulging me, dubkitty.
I was curious as to where you were coming from.
I have a pretty strict personal policy about not debating or engaging people on politics...even when I agree with them, I'm not into preaching to the choir (mutual masturbation)...
dubkitty wrote:massively raising taxes in the middle of a depression
But I will say this: my taxes were never raised under Obama. And the "Bush tax cuts" on those making over $250,000 have stayed--are are still--in place under Obama...even if they hadn't, I am mind-bogglingly far from being in that group. Smokers and tanners
have had their taxes raised; I'm also not in that group. He
has stated that he'd like to raise taxes on those making over $200,000 a year; I am also not in that group. Unless you're referring to the ACA as a tax, which hasn't been enacted yet (and my family of five will be exempt from that tax penalty). Just wanted to say for anyone who's wondering, that I haven't personally seen a tax increase...actually a decrease, if we count the ARRA.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:16 am
by Psyre
Now that it is the next day, I think it's safe to say this has come to an end. I didn't want to disclose this at the beginning of the thread because I did not want it to effect how my posts were perceived as having voted or not. However, I was not allowed to vote, because as a registered Michigan resident, your first election must be in person, at the polls, in Michigan. I do appreciate how civil you all kept it though, not that I expected anything less for a bunch of besties
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:49 am
by warwick.hoy
greyscales wrote:Voters won't inform themselves. Plain and simple.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:20 am
by andtheLiquidmen
Psyre wrote:I do appreciate how civil you all kept it though, not that I expected anything less for a bunch of besties
Politics terrify me. It becomes a gigantic football game all too easy, and social media seems to only have made it worse. I voted, but it's no one's business other than my own who I voted for, and why
Seriously though, the behavoir this thread gives me some more confidence in people. The world should be one gigantic ILF
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:27 am
by McSpunckle
dubkitty wrote:D.o.S. wrote:More importantly, if Romney would have/ is tallied to win the popular vote, is Al Gore honor-bound to commit seppuku?
hope springs eternal. also, if Romney wins the popular vote i'm dying to hear all the Leftists who have been demanding the electoral college be abolished since Bush/Gore suddenly reverse themselves.
That's irrelevant. They would have campaigned differently if it weren't for the electoral college, which basically renders the popular vote moot.
You can be for getting rid of the electoral college (as I am) AND recognize that it makes absolutely no god damned sense for a candidate to try to get anything but swing states, regardless what happens in the popular vote.
More liberals from red states and conservatives from blue states would probably vote if they felt their vote mattered at all.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:33 am
by Gearmond
dubkitty wrote:D.o.S. wrote:More importantly, if Romney would have/ is tallied to win the popular vote, is Al Gore honor-bound to commit seppuku?
hope springs eternal. also, if Romney wins the popular vote i'm dying to hear all the Leftists who have been demanding the electoral college be abolished since Bush/Gore suddenly reverse themselves.
i hear people saying that on twitter all the fucking time. AFTER Obama won, FROM people who supported him
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:20 pm
by Jwar
That got durn O-bam-a! That got durn man!!!!!
I actually have mixed feelings about all of this. I'm all over the fucking place with my views...so...yea...
I don't like abortion but at the same time I don't think it's up to me to decide someone's life.
I don't believe in Government assistance, but at the same time I think people need help.
I don't have a problem with gay marriage.
I am anti drug, but again...see the first thing up top there.
I'm pro death penalty, but at the same time think it's barbaric.
And so on and so forth.
Down with them all I say!!!!!!! DOWN THE CRAPPER WE GO REGARDLESS!!!!
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:04 pm
by dubkitty
i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:16 pm
by Chankgeez
dubkitty wrote:i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
I was thinking that if Obama lost, the entire Northeast might secede.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:18 pm
by Achtane
Chankgeez wrote:dubkitty wrote:i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
I was thinking that if Obama lost, the entire Northeast might secede.
We should force Florida out of the union and replace it with Puerto Rico.
Just sink it.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:27 pm
by D.o.S.
Chankgeez wrote:dubkitty wrote:i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
I was thinking that if Obama lost, the entire Northeast might secede.
Anyone know the percentage of the population that voted yet?
It's hard to call for a civil war when two-thirds of your country doesn't care enough to vote.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:35 pm
by Chankgeez
Achtane wrote:Chankgeez wrote:dubkitty wrote:i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
I was thinking that if Obama lost, the entire Northeast might secede.
We should force Florida out of the union and replace it with Puerto Rico.
Just sink it.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4165
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:10 pm
by FuzzHugger
dubkitty wrote:i'm just waiting for the civil war now.
Fuck war.
And also, those hateful douchemouths who genuinely think Obama is a Nazi Muslim Communist Marxist Kenyan can have voluntary succession...no need for Civil War, they can just fuck off into some everyone-for-themselves fearhole.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:15 pm
by dubkitty
except that the people you're mischaracterizing are half of the nation.
Re: Voting
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:37 pm
by devnulljp
dubkitty wrote:except that the people you're mischaracterizing are half of the nation.
And the people
they're mischaracterising are the other half.
Remember, under Bush II a lot of people on the right were yelling about how if you don't like Murka GET OUT! Turnabout is fair play no?
I think it would interesting to see the US split into two countries -- it already is. See how the teapartiers make out on their own without federal subsidies, no regulation, no taxes, no health care...just a copy of Atlas Shrugged, a bible, and a big ass pile of guns.