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Post by Emma on Jan 20, 2010 18:07:02 GMT -5
So how did this Conservative dude get elected to the Senate in Mass.? I thought they were liberal? And why did Brie make a status expressing pleasure about the conservative election, which 9 people have liked? Also - WHY IS THE BRITISH ELECTION BEING HELD ON MAY 6 WHEN I TURN 18 ON MAY 11. FUCKERS. I'LL JUST WAIT UNTIL I'M 22 THEN.
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Post by Scrumtrulescent on Jan 20, 2010 18:22:37 GMT -5
Awwww that sucks. I couldn't vote in mid-terms in 2002 b/c I was like three weeks to young to register. The conservative dude got elected b/c the effing democrats can't govern or campaign their way out of a paper bag. Mid-terms coming up, and we're seriously fucked. It's horribly wrong that Brie is a Republican, but I suspect upper-middle class suburban Florida upbringing + Republican family probably has to do with it. Maybe get her to visit here more often and try to make her see the light. I mean she was miss vegetarian hippie back in the day, right? It's in there somewhere. And I can argue with any Christian about the ignorant conservative = good Christian crap. I lived with it for a year, trust me. Even if most of my counter arguements were stored angrily up in my head. And I know plenty Republicans who are really good, intellegent people. They're not all evil, just very, very misguided.
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Post by Emma on Jan 20, 2010 18:40:28 GMT -5
Yeah when I asked her she said it was because her family were being taxed too much, that was her sole reason for justifying it.
It's weird that the Conservatives try to bill themselves as a Christian party when Obama is Christian too. Over here there's never any religious debates like that, it's more just shouting at each other stupidly about other shit. It surprises me that the Conservatives get away with the whole 'if you're Christian vote for us' thing.
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Post by Scrumtrulescent on Jan 20, 2010 19:11:31 GMT -5
From living in various parts of the country, I can attest that as far as taxes go, you get what you give. Taxes suck, and I know some people get unjustifiably screwed (I'm thinking of Sheri here Rachel, since I equate everything to Bob and Sheri), but Republicans are just as guilty of raising taxes as Democrats. That's a very 1992 myth, that they're not. Also, who got us into this horrid, fiscal black-hole of a war/massive national debt? Oh that's right.
The whole equating Christianity to Republicanism crap really got started in the Rove (i.e. Bush Jr) era, and it was purely as a way to shore up votes, which is what irritates me the most. As if they're really sincere about it. I'm sure some of them are, but so many just fake it and make all Christians look bad.
A lot of it has to do with the abortion issue, but um, how many lives have been taken in the war? If abortion was really a debated, maybe-going-to-be changed issue I could sort of see a point, but it's not (though they make a huge issue out of it in the healthcare debate just to stir shit up, like making dems promise no gov't funded abortions in exchange for whatever)- they only mention it to get people to vote for them.
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Post by dodgy on Jan 21, 2010 12:37:06 GMT -5
Bastards. Abortion saved me a few times...I mean, eh, it saved my friend...or something
Anyway we should tie Brianna to a chair and do an intervention. Who's with me?
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Post by Turcote on Jan 21, 2010 13:35:30 GMT -5
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Post by Scrumtrulescent on Jan 21, 2010 14:06:48 GMT -5
I can't even bring myself to look at that site. Living with it all during the election last year, plus attending FoxNews Baptist Church 12 times a week was way more than enough for me.
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Post by Turcote on Jan 21, 2010 14:36:13 GMT -5
Seriously, everything would just be so much better if we were in charge. Okay, well, I wouldn't actually want to be in charge, I just want to be able to magically change the issues that I feel strongly about, lol.
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Post by Emma on Jan 21, 2010 18:47:54 GMT -5
And speaking of Fox News:
Britain had a SHIT FIT over this. Omg. So untrue. We have our own problems yes, but what the actual fuck.
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Post by Emma on Jan 21, 2010 18:55:36 GMT -5
Oh my god that site D: I started off laughing and then...
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