Obama asks Congress for money for Israel

[Max™]

From my years of pondering RPG combat mechanics, including many games with lots of missile use like the Robotech RPG... the odds of shooting down a missile without some sort of directed energy weapon controlled by an advanced computer tracking mechanism are pretty low as is.

Shooting a fragmenting projectile at a missile coming in could work, but also cause collateral damage.

Shooting a direct missile at another missile is just absurdly difficult.


Just speaking of game mechanics, which aren't real life of course, but it gives you an opportunity to really ponder the difficulties involved in a different way, and inspires lots of discussions among geeks, many of whom are or were in the military and have real experience with these systems to various degrees.

[Chicomagiko]

This is good trolling material for fb. I will use this splendidly.

[Demosthenes11]

Cut taxes, increase military spending, give more to Israel, expand offshore oil drilling, continue two wars, keep guantanamo open...

renew the patriot act, continue torture, continue to give the finger to china, cater to republicans during healthcare "reform," continued support for DOMA...

[Elvis]

But hey, he's house trained and polite

[Rhinox]

Are you trolling or just an idiot?

actually he has been more Conservative then most conservatives especially John Mccain pre-Maverick denial.

Kept Gitmo open: Check
Renew Patriot act: Check
Pass GOP healthcare bill: Check
Replace Liberal justices with moderates: Check
Expand Gun rights: Check
Amped up a war and continued another one: check
Drag his feet on DADT and Defend DOMA: check
Okay Offshore Drilling: Check
Cut taxes for 95% of Americans: Check
Continue Extraordinary rendition and torture: Check
Continued expansion of Executive power: Big check
fully support National Prayer day: Check

What more can you ask from a centrist?

[Takedown3]

he's just playing you guys down the middle so he get's second termed so he can really throat ram u cons

[Plow]

Again, this was more towards long-range anti-missile defense system and if it was good for the U.S to be spending so much money on them and risk provoking other nations to stock up on their weapons. Reminds me of those cartoons where one guy pulls out a bigger weapon than the other and it keeps going back and forth.

The U.S. already won the cartoon dick waving contest.


And then just for good measure we kept going for like 15 more rounds.

[Kuya]

By international standards, Obama is a centrist, sometimes moving a bit to the left, other times to the right. The right-wing in America is just insane.

[Meian]

Oh that part you're quoting was just what the debate/discussion was on in class, it wasn't my direct opinion on this specific article.

[Max™]

Wait are you trying to tell me you can be a Democrat, or Republican, without being batshit, what the fuck can I buy some pot from you, Jesus rode dinosaurs, insane?

Bullshit, it's left OR right!

[Plow]

Wait are you trying to tell me you can be a Democrat, or Republican, without being batshit, what the fuck can I buy some pot from you, Jesus rode dinosaurs, insane?

Bullshit, it's left OR right!

Our left is most of the world's right.

Our far right is like... there just aren't even words.

[Max™]

Well, Leif did say Nazi's were to the left of his position... obviously he was trolling trolls within a troll, like a russian nesting doll of idiocy, but he still said it claiming he represented the Conservatives.

[Kuya]

I believe swampy also claimed that fascism was left-wing. He obviously made the statement with a different intent but, that statement could be taken to mean that american conservatives, or just him at least, are more to the right of fascism.

[Penthesilea]

More funny/timely, HBO's Funny or Die series just aired their playground politics today. The topic? Israel and the US being buddy buddy.

Wish I could find a clip of it online to post here.

[Max™]

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http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/blog/wp...l_spectrum.png

I learned while skimming through some of these charts that there are generally Fanatical and Idealist Anarchists, pretty obviously I'm one of those fucking hippie idealist types, appealing to the better nature of people and shit.

[Kuya]

That spectrum is stupid.

[Max™]

Eh, they're all fairly stupid, I just picked the one with the U.S. spectrum to show how laughable it is to claim U.S. political parties are so totally different, and the other had bright colors!

[Rhinox]

Max do you seriously believe in the false Left-Right Paradigm?


Especially here in the United states? really?

I find it amusing how so called 'Anarchists' ascribe to this ideal yet even amongst Anarchist there is a divide.

[Cadsuane]

Sers, anarchism isn't even an ideology in a rigorous sense; it's just a silly thing that comes in and out of fashion among fringe political pseudo-thinkers over the years. Conservative libertarians and marxist communists both lay claim to the moniker and resort to no true scottsman arguments to rectify any awkward similarities they might have to one another, and neither can seem to agree even amongst themselves what it's even supposed to entail or put forth a remotely plausible socio-economic model.

Also, that spectrum is stupid, as in way more stupid and awkward than usual.

[Max™]

... I was just saying the left-right shit is fake, and that all of the spectrums generally suck at actually representing positions well.

I didn't just pick up a circled A flag and start waving it last week because it sounded cool, btw, ever since I learned what politics was back during the Reagan years I wondered why people needed to be led. When I started getting a bit more interested in it, and tried to figure out how to answer the "who to vote for" questions, I find myself in a situation of voting for the lesser of two evils, trying to figure out which would suck least.

You think I'm the crazy one, but I'm not the one doing the same thing repeatedly, hoping for a different outcome.

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