FEDIT POLITICS Thread

i didn't thanks
the school is straight cash yay

 

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. More loony nonsense.
Name one thing the GOP controlled White House, GOP controlled Senate and GOP controlled House did for the American people. WTF did the Democrats have the ability to do about anything?

Umm OK guys you're locked out of the process ENTIRELY but what did you do for America while WE the MAJORITY were pillaging and looting?

You actually serious with that drivel?

 

It sure was a rebuke by the spineless also-sold-out Democrats. OTOH AOC's poorly reasoned Green Deal was stillborn from the outset.

Are we still allowed to agree once in a while?

Ya fuq's still think I'm a Dem lover just because I recognize the corrupt theft of the GOP?
Fuckin bilateral thinkers.. everything not the 'most' evil bad isn't good

Queue @rube on that thought

 

guess who lit up? LOLZ

 

Yeah it goes back quite a number of years.
Haven't learned the details yet
I was hoping that I didn't need endless merchant statements or something to prove actual damages

 

i'll just say a couple of things about PR since i have been all over the island and count a couple of vg PR friends among my buddies
while its true the people are genuine, outside of old San Juan and some tourist resorts its at best an avg American city and at worst a simmering shithole
the entire center of the island is a super poor and dangerous barrio and if Bacardi didn't base out of there idk
reminded me a LOT of CR and the huge potential but failing socialist ideals
it would be a cool place to live under the right circumstances because of its proximity to Colombia and other fun locals
Medellin is as close to an international city in the region as any place outside of Panama city
beaches were cool but like castles if you've seen one...sorry if that sounds bourgeois
food was pretty much the CA, SA beans and rice iirc
now the women...

 

Lol, how long have you been here? It does not matter how harmonious you are. How well supported your posts are. Any left leaning thoughts will not be taken seriously in this thread. If you have read any posts by TB or huh? you will know that their political views are immovable because they are founded in religious beliefs. Attempting to get them to recognize that the modern day Republican Party (a party that runs on Christian values) is corrupt is not going to happen. They will deny, deflect, and distract.

Anyways. How about those tax returns?

 

I missed the part where Puerto Rico has anything to do with gold, gold standards, private gold ownership or gold bullion credit cards. LOL

OTOH I have extended family in PR and they are wonderful but I fully agree with @LAdiablo that one is well advised to stay on the beaten path
Visiting from 'the States' we were treated awesome.. sort of expected from family
The food was great, wonderful even, even if not so spicy like I prefer

But the comment was about gold...

 

I largely agree. My last trip to PR saw some interesting 3rd world events
As if the veneer of being a 1st world location is very thin and only applied where you're most likely to see it
Look closely and the barrios are tucked out of sight mostly.. until you go too far down that road then they're everywhere
Driving around with locals scared certain family members though I found it entertaining.. so long as I was with locals

The "beaches and castles" comment was freaking hilarious
Because of the bourgeois tone... even if it's true. And it is.
Of course that makes me bourgeois too doesn't it? LOL Too bad.
I've been privileged enough to have seen a bunch of castles.. and enjoyed them all. I'd still visit more of them in a heartbeat.
Still have pics from the PR castle/fort Castillo San Cristóbal. Pretty cool place
Beaches are cool too though after seeing a black sand or green sand beaches most PR beaches I saw were rather ordinary

From my entirely bourgeois perspective that is.. LOL

 

My point was about choosing your battles and not wildly blaming anything you don't like on The Right. Or The Left for that matter.
Political views and religious views are different.
I understand that many issues blur these lines so I take caution to try to make specific points.
My last vent intended to illustrate "United Corporations of America" and not merely castigate those who feel compelled to buhlieve in one ancient fable or another.
If you wish to address religious issues affecting politics then say so explicitly. I have. But not on this post because the corruption caused by corporate $$$ is far more evil than ancient fable spouters.

I'm not even saying that I think differently on those topics but that lumping everything together to throw stones has no upside.
No one learns. No one benefits.

If you cared, and I'm hard pressed to locate supporting arguments that you do, then I'd suggest specifically addressing each issue.
As I've aged I'm more and more bothered by the lack of ethics in DC, thus my typical rants.. which prompted @huh? last Q. Note how I answered him without slamming his choice of ancient fables as it was not germane to my point about corporate $$$ ruining our democracy.
Perhaps a more constructive exercise would be to illustrate exactly how non-Conservative the beliefs of modern GOP lovers. Most appear Christians in name only, while extolling a great many more vile traits never heard of in church. Tolerance of your fellow man has turned into hatred of all with darker skin. Immigration policies which permitted our own forefathers to arrive freely in America are GOP twisted so far that 'get here without papers and you're sent away for 10 years' Say what? Talk about speaking out both sides of ones mouth. Let them in, assign a Tax ID and then close the door at night. Trump routinely supports violence against all minorities because he refuses to call out those perpetuating these heinous acts. Trump calls for a wall are supported but his demonizing immigrants, when his wife is one, is about as far from religious values as it gets.

The GOP, and today's modern GOP lovers, hardly extol any worthy virtues even loosely related to Organized Religion.

Therefore lumping everything together as The Right does nothing but incite more harsh replies.. and zero middle ground.

 

its not that i hate castles or anything its just such a huge and typically unnecessary way to show how small your dick must be
at least in the family castles further inland
now the fortress type castles like San Juan and Edinburgh i find incredibly fascinating
lookout posts pointed toward raging seas w cannons ready fuck yes
and the different ways they were able to feed the balls to the artillery are pretty cool indeed

 

POTY candidate...funny as fkuck

 

Pikeys...

 

Yeah my take is that you're referring to the difference between true castles meant to withstand siege and capable of active defense vs. fortified manor homes of the uber rich and famous. If so then I agree.
I once stayed at the Adair Manor a truly impressive manor home with it's own acreage of vegetable gardens and a private golf course. Still just a damned fancy big house where they NEVER swept the spiders out of the entry hall (yuck cried Blue Eyes) vs. staying at Kilkea Castle, a tiny 29 room stone castle 2 hours out of Dublin, nestled in a swale among trees with ramparts and 11 foot thick walls where it's first line of defense was being hard to locate. The locals told stories of the neighboring village getting ransacked because they couldn't locate the castle.
I also visited monstrous Carcassonne castle in southern France which protected their king once upon a time and was so large that the entire village lived inside and an opposing army tried to lay siege and gave up after a year and sacked some other place.
Defensive castles with channels for the boiling oil to spill out gargoyle mouths onto the front gate, arrow slots everywhere and stacks of cannon balls elevated for easy access for reloading were cool. Steep circular stairways that prevented (right handed) attackers from attacking while defenders could swing freely. Secret passages. Of course history shares many tales of castles being turned into prisons when their owners sided with the wrong team such as Chateux de Foix which was cool for its location with amazing views up and down the valley and it's three stone towers, round, square and triangular one of which the owner died in for backing the wrong side.

Defensive castles = way cool whereas manor homes = tiny stubs