3 posts tagged “politics”

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A 17 year old girl was murdered for having a presumably romantic relationship with a young man from another religion. She is a Kurd, he was allegedly a Sunni.

This sort of thing happens here once in a while. For example, Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay.

The difference? Shepard was killed by two drunk rednecks who sought to "rob a gay guy."

The girl? She was killed by a mob of over a thousand people, including local police officers.

Our country isn't always great. I am appalled by recent attempts to legislate bigotry and homophobia. I'm disgusted by the anger directed at illegal immigrants, which is bigotry disguised as something else.

The ideals of western civilization stand as the greatest political achievement in history - the victory of reason, logic and liberty over dogma, religion, fear and unfettered emotions.

You won't get arrested for kissing a girl in public. You won't be tortured and then executed for having sex with the person you love.

It's not just "a different culture." It's disgusting. It should not be tolerated by anybody.

In this video, he says that somebody has to have faith in order to run the country.

He says this as a response to a Christian in the audience who tells Mitt that he doesn't "know Jesus," because Mitt is a Mormon.

Mitt Romney's response to intolerance is more intolerance.

When is the rampant distrust and demonization of atheism going to end in this country?

Yeah. Probably never.

Well, I can't wait until Wednesday, and all of this election crap will be over.

I don't care what Republicrats say to each other, I'm voting Libertarian. Across the goddamn board.

You say it's throwing my vote away?

It's not. I'm not voting for somebody I don't like in order to keep somebody else I don't like from taking office. Do you think I should abandon my core principles just because the people who do represent my opinions will never win? That's insulting and stupid. If that's the case, then why bother voting at all? Why bother even pretending that you have a mind of your own?

I'm not voting for a Democrat just because I'm pro-choice and they are, too. Will Democrats ever actually try to legalize full civil union rights for homosexual couples? Will they ever actually try to pass a constitutional amendment protecting a woman's right to abortion? Of course not. Those are wedge issues. By pretending that a massive tide of anti-this or anti-that voters are poised to take those freedoms away, they create a need and an enemy - perfect ways to keep the votes rolling in and the campaign donations growing.

Take this crap about John Kerry, for instance.

He wasn't insulting the troops, dipshits. Do you really think he would commit complete career suicide? Do you think that he, speaking in favor of a Democrat running for an important office in an important election cycle, would actually say something so patently false and infuriating?

Of course he wouldn't.

He said that if you don't get an education, you could be "stuck in Iraq." This comment took place directly after a series of Bush bashings (saying that Bush is in a "state of denial and a state of deception"). The constant mantra from Democrats is that Bush is now "stuck in Iraq."

So, what's more likely? That Kerry, who already lost major points among veterans in the years following his own military service, and more recently got hammered by the Swift Boat smear campaign, would completely switch gears in the middle of a speech and start throwing insults at the very group of people that he himself once belonged to?

Or is it more likely that he was still insulting Bush for being "stuck in Iraq," citing the oft-repeated meme that Bush is stupid?

It doesn't make any goddamn sense for Kerry to be mocking the troops.

If a Democrat even suggests an ounce of ill will toward American soldiers, the conservatives make all kinds of noise about how much the evil liberals hate America.

It goes the same way with Republicans, too. For instance, any time a conservative even mentions race, he's labeled by the liberals as a racist.

So put down your outrage, force your knee to stop jerking, and think things through a little.

Kerry was making fun of Bush.