I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

there's pre-gaming and pre-tailgate, why can't there be pre-election

What does anyone hope to achieve by arguing on the internet? I'm interested in American politics, they're hugely important to the whole world. Plus I've lived in the US for a year. What's hard to understand?

yeah!

Why are people so focused on personally attacking me instead of looking at my arguments? They happen to be correct most of the time. Oh wait, I just answered my own question?

nm ban frederik

i'm sure whatever i wrote was really dumb (unlike the things i right today looooool right?!!??!), but the only response i got was someone who was like "DO YOU LIVE IN LONDON?! THAN GET TEH FUCK OUT OF HERE, whyyyy i ouuughtta", and i thought it was a really lame response. i spent the next few weeks staring at a floating plastic bag, just twirling in the air, thinking about how i felt at that moment, and self-released an album on myspace about the exchange called Emotions in my Heart.

I lol'd

I too am only interested in attacking what is correct

xp

attacking the incorrect, that's for feebs

why do i give the benefit of the doubt to anyone? just like a number of obscure television episode titles, the world is... Beyond Redemption

They happen to be correct most of the time.

IF YOU SAY SO

xp thing is Karl that British people don't get to tell the ancestors of the people who fled across an ocean to escape British oppression or whose entire existence is essentially a function of British colonialism to get out of a British politics thread

frederik i'm sure you are more interested in this than the median american voter so you're welcome as far as i'm concerned

lol Karl (as always)

...so are you telling me i have to delete Emotions in my Heart, because there are some really good tracks on there

Plus I've lived in the US for a year.

tbf i forgot / didn't know this

where's that Trumpwall?

fred can post about whatever he wants, but if i were making a serious post on a thread about e.g. danish politics i'd try to avoid this "yo, this is the way your politics is, and you're stupid if you disagree" attitude he always gives us

Uh it's not about eg Danish politics it's about og Danish politics tyvm

lol KM. one great post after another as always.

re: eleanor roosevelt, actually that's a great point and i agree completely. ashamed to say i just blanked on her by starting from hillary and working back over just the previous few.

re: Frederik B, I have no problem with Danes posting here, it's just weird to see someone from outside who often seems to not really get how or why things work here be so confident and assertive about their take on not only what should happen but what WILL inevitably happen. like say what you want about tuomas but i kinda dig the "I don't understand this. Is this something that is popular in America?" response to doings beyond your ken.

I haven't seen him post anything yet that demonstrates he's aware of any US political history that predates the Black Lives Matter movement.

yeah occasionally I'll check out British politics threads out of curiosity/for my own amusement but it's not like I'm wagging my finger at anybody about the inner workings of the House of Lords or whatever

xp

Why are people so focused on personally attacking me instead of looking at my arguments? They happen to be correct most of the time. Oh wait, I just answered my own question?

― Frederik B, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 9:12 PM (9 minutes ago)

trying and failing to remember these correct arguments

also yes KM killing it good work lad, steady on

xp

i don't doubt that's how gross DC PR operatives work, Tomboto, i'm more intrigued by the ways in which writers for the Atlantic don't say "good the fuck bye."

at least Frederik was right about Jessica Hausner's excellent film Amour Fou, full credit. Watch it!

Tuomas' schtick is now much more "let me write this long fanfic of how <insert topic here> should be" these days, ranging from every movie he's ever seen to idk economics

no way, Tuomas' thing is more like "What is congress? I don't know how to find out"

that would still be preferable imho. but really i feel silly even expending posts on this.

That's politics Dr, this is what the people are telling us they want discussed itt

vetoed

look, let's just dispel once and for all with this notion that frederik b does not know what he is posting. he knows exactly what he is posting!

Him and Obama both.

Cuban burgers for everyone!

Fred b: "Now, let me be unclear"

lol Doc

lol DC

we need to get back to the issues that matter to the American people

This notion that Frederick doesn't know what he's doing is false! He knows exactly what he's doing. Okay?

we need to get back to the issues that matter to the American people

ie how can we program a robot to keep the homos from getting married

@brianvradenburg
@mtaibbi Do you think there is any way that Trump can be goaded into saying smegma at a rally?

‏@mtaibbi
Just hold up a sign near him saying, "Donald Trump is afraid to say Smegma." Should work.

uh OH, not RACHEL

‏@ggreenwald
.@Maddow tells Hillary she's been attacked by her & Bernie's supporters & sees no difference in tone/nastiness @5:30

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/clinton-chides-worked-up-sanders-supporters-619073091998

this speech thing is so dumb. they think americans who didn't care about benghazi and didn't care about the emails are going to get worked up about a puff speech to wall st?

different audience

actually, those are different if at times overlapping sets of worked-up americans

xp

Turn on FOX News and a mention of HRC can't happen without someone wiggling eyebrows and muttering darkly about the "imminent FBI bombshell."

Wow sexist

that sounds like Jessica Rabbit is going to burst into frame waving an incriminating email

xp: damn you dmac

no i understand they're meant to upset different ppl but these are just such boring scandals. benghazi was a little sexy since there were dead bodies but emails and paid speeches zzzzzzzzzz

sexiest scandal

http://www.motherjones.com/files/kissingerclinton.jpg

I think bill already depleted the sexy scandal quota in that family

hillary is an equal opportunity kisser

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/hillary-suha-arafat.jpg

hmmmm, who killed more ppl, Mrs Arafat or Kissinger... tough one...

HRC's buddy-buddy thing w/ kissinger is so nauseating

Not to defend FB, but pretty sure he was kidding about the whole "my opinions are right all the time" thing. Right?

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