The full title of this thread should be...Obama must go to Washington. 😛
If enough people down south are truly willing to start a civil war over Obama as President - because he's a black man bringing sensible strains of socialism into a massive capitalist machine that aim to benefit the majority - then the country doesn't deserve to exist.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Then you might wanna write this down:
I'm not using Adblock plus, you are...DOH! (I was refering to your initial joke, not mi....oh never mind...)
Actually, I think my point went over your head. What you thought was a joke wasn't a joke. What you posted as a joke in reply to what you thought was a joke is actually something the mods will warn you for (if anyone is ragey enough to report your post). I won't be reporting your post, FYI. I like your brand of humor. 😄
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Yes we knew those 2 things.
There is more than one of you posting at your computer?
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
...and plenty of other times it was probably said over previous elections, taxations, foreign policy decisions etc etc etc when it didn't actually occur..?
I am having a hard time recalling at any point in history the number of times I have heard, recently, that the US is sliding towards civil war. It could be a "population growth" thing, but I doubt it. It could be my exposure to information and everyone else's access to the information distribution resources that makes me think this.
Originally posted by dadudemon
That's what they were saying in the 1830s before the American Civil War. 🙁
Edit: Yes, I realize that happened in the 1850s. But still, I don't think there's any issue today that's quite as volatile and pervasive as the question of American slavery. And in either case, the conditions aren't conducive to a Civil War as they were in the 19th century. The sense of the states as individual entities has long since been replaced by the sense of them as administrative divisions with some notions of individuality that never get further than the level of "Everything's Bigger in Texas". We have partisanship of course, but it hasn't penetrated West Point as regionalism did in the decades before the Civil War. If West Point hadn't been polarized between North and South (thus allowing the Confederate General Staff to materialize more or less over night thanks to all of them being school buddies) then the Confederate Army would never have become a force to challenge the Union.
There's really no chance for any kind of significant schism in the US Armed Forces, so any kind of "Civil War" would amount to rednecks shooting up police stations and getting gunned down by the National Guard.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Actually, I think my point went over your head. What you thought was a joke wasn't a joke. What you posted as a joke in reply to what you thought was a joke is actually something the mods will warn you for (if anyone is ragey enough to report your post). I won't be reporting your post, FYI. I like your brand of humor. 😄There is more than one of you posting at your computer?
I am having a hard time recalling at any point in history the number of times I have heard, recently, that the US is sliding towards civil war. It could be a "population growth" thing, but I doubt it. It could be my exposure to information and everyone else's access to the information distribution resources that makes me think this.
If they were to report a act of blatantly playful heckling banter in rage they'd have to have waaay bigger problems than either of us would ever have had.. aluuuuuuuuuudicrous amount of boredom being the first. But since no one got all raged up on the report button when I was somewhat preemptively and libellously umbrella termed and ganged up on as a Lucas basher the other day, Im gonna guess that they have perspective.
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end?
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end?
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end? 😛
Thats cause of mass communication in the internets age, most likely. Yes. I agree: Things were a lot more compartmentalised and limited in that regard in the colonial era. Netflix had fewer vids to keep them amused also...
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
If they were to report a act of blatantly playful heckling banter in rage they'd have to have waaay bigger problems than either of us would ever have had.. aluuuuuuuuuudicrous amount of boredom being the first. But since no one got all raged up on the report button when I was somewhat preemptively and libellously umbrella termed and ganged up on as a Lucas basher the other day, Im gonna guess that they have perspective.
I would like to submit to the court that I never made fun of you for your opinions in that thread. You and I have talked about the OT vs. the PT and you are not the typical meme parrot with your opinions.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end?
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end?
Nope.are there more than one of you reading the posts at your end? 😛
icwutudidthar.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Thats cause of mass communication in the internets age, most likely. Yes. I agree: Things were a lot more compartmentalised and limited in that regard in the colonial era. Netflix had fewer vids to keep them amused also...
People seem to be pretty heated over GOP vs. Dems stuff these days. It feels like it is getting worse. This thread, for example...
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'll start worrying when seated Senators get caned in public by the nephews of their rivals over the Federal Debt Ceiling.Edit: Yes, I realize that happened in the 1850s. But still, I don't think there's any issue today that's quite as volatile and pervasive as the question of American slavery. And in either case, the conditions aren't conducive to a Civil War as they were in the 19th century. The sense of the states as individual entities has long since been replaced by the sense of them as administrative divisions with some notions of individuality that never get further than the level of "Everything's Bigger in Texas". We have partisanship of course, but it hasn't penetrated West Point as regionalism did in the decades before the Civil War. If West Point hadn't been polarized between North and South (thus allowing the Confederate General Staff to materialize more or less over night thanks to all of them being school buddies) then the Confederate Army would never have become a force to challenge the Union.
There's really no chance for any kind of significant schism in the US Armed Forces, so any kind of "Civil War" would amount to rednecks shooting up police stations and getting gunned down by the National Guard.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
The hell is 9Gag?
A watered down version of Reddit.
Well, so now Louisiana is requesting to secede from the US...typical "prelude to civil war" crap:
Wow, how far to the right have the morons gone when they portray a center-right kiss ass as some sort of Stalinist harbinger of the apocalypse? All I've been hearing since the election is calls for secession, people wanting massive job losses and economic sabotage, CEO's gleefully and illegally firing their workers in front of the cameras, and more and more tea party wingnuts coming to the defense of the Greece's Golden Dawn and inviting them to come over here (having those idiots here is a far better reason to stock up on ammo than an Obama reelection).
What if workers started to strike French-style against their Obama-blaming overlords and just stormed their offices upon notice of layoffs and held them hostage? The idea kind of appeals to me.
Originally posted by dadudemonLet them secede.
Well, so now Louisiana is requesting to secede from the US...typical "prelude to civil war" crap:
Declare war on them.
????
Profit.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Well, so now Louisiana is requesting to secede from the US...typical "prelude to civil war" crap:
Originally posted by Omega Vision
How does one private citizen drafting a petition and having it signed by 10,000 or so people translate in your mind to "Louisiana requesting to secede from the US"?
Originally posted by Omega Vision
How does one private citizen drafting a petition and having it signed by 10,000 or so people translate in your mind to "Louisiana requesting to secede from the US"?
Originally posted by Ascendancy
Indeed. How many signatures do those "End Women's Suffrage" always manage to pull in? Not really anything to worry about.
😆 😆
I think he was being sarcastic. Edit - Wait, I think you both were being sarcastic.
Damn you internet!
Edit -
Uhhh....I was wrong.
Georgia:
South Carolina:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/state-south-carolina-secede-union-and-form-its-own-government-sovereign-state/LFzSJVkP
Montana's is the most disturbing because it has 2252 signatures which means 9/10ths of the people there have signed the petition!!!!