Posts made by Devken

@strangeloop:

Source: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/883438847421538306

Do you actually have a report from something other than a fucking rando Twitter-account?

@raphjd:

Turkey is a "religion of peace" nation.    You know, those loving people you want to come to the west.

Fuck that noise… keep your baseless accusations to yourself. I am an atheist at best, an agnost at worst, because I've seen and heard, first-hand, what religious intolerance can do, and yes, that means Islam.

So I'll be waiting for your apology.

@raphjd:

Why don't we ever see peaceful protests by the left?

Yeah, like those goddamn pride marches, they always end up in violent clashes…

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wait for it...

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in Russia and Turkey.

@pppucci:

"When you're Vice-President, you can do anything–Grab'em by the nuts!"

… and bolts.

@strangeloop:

You guys are sick.

When suddenly a wild Strangeloop appears!

Aaaah, but the thing is, he is going to call it quits six months before the end of his term. Reading through the article, that term lasts 5 years, which distorts the image of his career a bit and the timeline in which everything is taking place.

He didn't get appointed when Trump took office, he was appointed under Obama.

Which means that Obama appointed a Republican to the position, and the Senate then approved. Bipartisan, the way it should be. We'll see who Trump appoints, hopefully it's going to be a Democrat, and hopefully the Senate will approve, it would be a good show of faith, reaching across party-lines.

Merkel is a skilled politician, but I disagree with a lot of her policies. She's socially very conservative, and under her rule Germany has seen an increase in some rather draconian rules.

Remember that she voted "no" when it came to the marriage issue, the only reason Germany now has marriage equality, is because Merkel wanted to score some political points, not with the public, but against her opponents.

@mhorndisk:

Seriously? It's called JULIUS CESAR. Ever heard of it?

Yes, I've heard of it, have you? They depicted Tony Blair and Obama in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)#Contemporary_political_references

Contemporary political references

Modern adaptions of the play have often made contemporary political references,[44] with Caesar depicted as resembling a variety of political leaders, including Huey Long, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair.[45] Professor A. J. Hartley, the Robinson Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, states that this is fairly "common trope" of Julius Caesar performances: "Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the rule has been to create a recognisable political world within the production. And often people in the title role itself look like or feel like somebody either in recent or current politics."[45] A 2012 production of Julius Caesar by the Guthrie Theatre and The Acting Company "presented Caesar in the guise of a black actor who was meant to suggest President Obama."[44] This production was not particularly controversial.[44] In 2017, however, a modern adaptation of the play at New York's Shakespeare in the Park (performed by The Public Theater) depicted Caesar with the likeness of President Donald Trump and thereby aroused ferocious controversy, drawing criticism by right-wing media such as The Daily Caller and Breitbart and prompting corporate sponsors Bank of America and Delta Airlines to pull their financial support.[44][46][47][48] The Public Theater stated that the message of the play is not pro-assassination and that the point is that "those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save." Shakespeare scholars Stephen Greenblatt[49] and Peter Holland agreed with this statement.[45] Pallotta stated that "I have never read anyone suggesting that 'Julius Caesar' is a play that recommends assassination. Look what happens: Caesar is assassinated to stop him becoming a dictator. Result: civil war, massive slaughter, creation of an emperor, execution of many who sympathized with the conspiracy. Doesn't look much like a successful result for the conspirators to me."[45] The play was interrupted several times by right-wing protesters, who accused the play of "violence against the right", and actors and members of theatres with Shakespeare in the name has been harassed and received death threats, including the wife of the play's director Oskar Eustis.[50][51][52][53] The protests were praised by American Family Association director Sandy Rios who compared the play with the execution of Christians by damnatio ad bestias.[54]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/28/tillerson-blows-up-at-white-house-aide-240075

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded.

The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment.

Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to “have any role in staffing” and “expressed frustration that anybody would know better” than he about who should work in his department — particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation.

Tensions are getting higher and higher in the White House. Tillerson wants qualified careerists to be appointed, but many want political people instead. This has led to a lot of areas to be understaffed. This reminds of the Mattis situation.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/from_auschwitz_louisiana_congr.html

Just in time for Independence Day, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Port Barre, has a video message for America. But instead of visiting constituent cookouts, shooting off fireworks and waving the United States flag, Higgins delivers a stark dispatch from the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp at Oswiecim, Poland.

"A great sense of dread comes over you in this place," Higgins says, leading the viewer on a five-minute, nine-second tour of the site, with a dirge-like solo violin playing in the background. "Man's inhumanity to man can be quite shocking."

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has  officially condemned this deplorable stunt in a statement.

And yes, this is one of the 435 Representatives, not some random state jack off. I wouldn't have made this thread if he were some nobody.

'Death by a thousand cuts': LGBT rights fading under Trump, advocates say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/30/lgbt-rights-under-trump

@mhorndisk:

I'm replying to YOU. Because you can't answer why it's ok for Hillary to delete 30K emails after an investigation is launched against her. Answer the question. I don't want to hear your excuses about the democrat Comey who didn't recommend an indictment. I want you to tell me WHY you think it's ok for her to delete those emails after a subpoena. Go ahead… How is that not an obstruction of justice? I want an answer.

@mhorndisk:

I honestly don't care if you believe what I do. I will not sit here and listen to proven lies.

Who are you even replying to? You're like a one-trick pony bleating about trump and hillary… even in a thread that has jack-shit to do with Hillary and Trump.

The rules need to be enforced. Look at the list of topics, the majority of them are made by the same person, hardly any of the posts contain anything to discuss. The person who started the thread is also the person making three replies in one hour, and that's called shitposting everywhere else on the net.

It's foul language, ad hominems, and literally contentless posts.

@raphjd:

I do agree that 7 replies to yourself is OTT.

Aaah, so 7 is the magic number, everything below 7 is a-okay.

… I mean, it's not as if Trump ever carried a grudge way past the first 100 days of a president's term.

Oh wait... how long did that Birther shit last? And what ever came of those investigations and reports?

How in the name of fuck is this a topic worth making? The moment you start to compare your opponents to an organisation like ISIS is the moment you're a fucking troll. If this is acceptable, go lie in the bed you've made and accept all the nasty shit people are going to say about Conservatives, being self-loathing homophobes and being goddamn racists who actively go out to kill black people.

Nothing in this topic has any content to discuss. It's a meaningless inflammatory statement. The only thing it does is add fuel to the fire. This is in no shape, way, or form helping this forum be about actual debate.

Fuck this topic and you should feel bad for making it.

@raphjd:

and they loathe SJWs.

SJWs, BLM, feminists, etc, etc are the reason I refuse to call myself a liberal.

You should feel right at home at spacebattles then.

uuuuhm… not exposing your butt and ass to the sun will probably help.

I think they can bleach your asshole, but you need to get that done by a professional, because you should never use bleach on your body, let alone use bleach on your asshole. I think they use a mix of peroxide for bleaching assholes, but I'm not sure.

So... yeah... that.

@raphjd:

I don't need to use mod info.   He says it here all the time.   He constantly claims that I am biased against liberals, yet he's not been punished for breaking the very rules he loves to complain about.    He wants a biased ultra leftist mod, like him, to replace me so his enemies get banned.

He's proven, yet again, that he's an extreme hypocrite.

Ok, I can't for the life of me figure out how to send you a private message, so you have my permission to delete this after reading.

This forum needs some goddamn rules, and those rules need to be enforced. Go take a look at Spacebattles.com they have a very active forum, and they have an equal mix of political views, some would say the lean a bit more to the conservative side of things, others would say they're leaning a bit more to the left. Which is pretty much an indication that t's near-neutral.

You won't see people screaming and yelling, you won't see people hurling childish insults, like moonbats, trumptards, libtards, because they have some very strict rules against that. Those rules apply to everybody, left, right AND centre. The moderators will delete, move, or warn people for breaking those rules.

Not only that, but if you make a claim, you'd better back that claim up with proof. If you go and state "Person X is a pedophile", you'd better deliver court documents that prove that person X is a kiddy-fiddler, lest you get warned or banned. Same goes for arguments, you cannot debate in bad faith, you cannot make overt personal attacks.

The system is way more transparent, but on top of that, more productive and fair.

You really to take a look there, maybe even participate in their political forums. I can tell you one thing, the standard for debate and discussion is way higher there… and they loathe SJWs.