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Joe | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:12 |
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Level: 8 CS Original | CTers will speand endless amounts talking about how almost public officals work for the NWO. But whenever a election come along; "it is our last chance to take are country back". So witch way is it? Voting good or bad. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:14 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | I'd like to know how many CTs vote. | |||||
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Joe | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:21 |
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Level: 8 CS Original | Scary thought. Way to find out. Count Ron Paul bumber stickers. | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:24 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | If they're not in Texas, they ain't voting for Ron Paul | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:26 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | I would've been a fool to have voted for Paul in '08. A vote for Paul was a vote for Palin. | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:29 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | >> "it is our last chance to take are country back". So witch way is it? Voting good or bad. People have been saying that since the 1860s, seriously. | |||||
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Joe | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:36 |
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Level: 8 CS Original | Do you think they will still be saying it in 2060? | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:38 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | What's going to stop them? | |||||
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Sil the Shill | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:39 |
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Level: 9 CS Original | VOTE OR DIE MUTHAFUCKA VOTE OR DIE | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:45 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | Joe, if you want to know what votes matter more, they're local elections. On average just 18% of eligible voters partake in local elections, and within the next 20 years that's likely to half. Meaning your vote counts heavily. The least important election is for president, for two reasons 1) the president doesn't have as nearly as much power as people think he does 2) the electoral college does make many votes useless. Find out who's running for sheriff, for school board, etc. and vote for who you think will do the best job, because it will make a difference, especially if you voice your opinion to others. Local elections have far more effect on your life and your family's than who's president. >> Do you think they will still be saying it in 2060? I wouldn't be surprised if they were saying it in Athens. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:48 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | Good post, Edward. | |||||
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Muertos | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 17:53 |
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Yes. And the teabaggers and Creationists try very hard to win local elections, figuring that nobody cares and it's easier to get into office when no one is paying attention. This is where you end up with crazy shit like school boards voting that intelligent design has to be taught in schools and banning Shel Silverstein and crap like that. | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:05 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | The Giving Tree of DEATH Outside of my county, in the next one over -- St. Clair County, Illinois, there was some rather strange voting several years ago. And it included: + Banning locker use -- to prevent hiding drugs, as if my anus won't also work. This area has no history of violence either, while St. Louis and East St. Louis clearly do, there's about 1 murder every 10 years in O'Fallon where this stuff primarily took place. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:14 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | I'm confused. If conservatives (I imagine that's what you have in Missouri) want less laws, why are they banning all of that? | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:22 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | They want less laws and less government only with certain things, they want absolute control with everything else. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:24 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | It's funny (as in really fucked up) how that works. | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:28 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | This great hypocrisy is fairly well laid out in the book "What's the matter with Kansas?" I suggest to anyone interested in Midwestern idiocy to check it out. Essentially the far right used promises of getting rid of the gays and abortion to convince regular people life will improve if they surrender their previous populist positions to big business. Of course they've never delivered on getting rid of those fudge packers or baby killers, despite 30 years of promises. In fact the Midwest contains the #1 abortion providers in the US, notably the city of Wichita in Kansas, where despite large protests in the early 90s and bombings, and the election of far right, religious crazies, the abortions still are churned out. In fact it's fairly common, especially in Kansas and Nebraska, that the more right a county is, the more poor they are. | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 18:32 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | "This great hypocrisy is fairly well laid out in the book "What's the matter with Kansas?" Agreed. Excellent book on understanding backlash politics. Also: | |||||
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Genogza | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:13 |
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Life's Too Short Level: 1 CS Original | >>Joe, if you want to know what votes matter more, they're local elections. On average just 18% of eligible voters partake in local elections, and within the next 20 years that's likely to half. Meaning your vote counts heavily. The least important election is for president, for two reasons 1) the president doesn't have as nearly as much power as people think he does 2) the electoral college does make many votes useless. Find out who's running for sheriff, for school board, etc. and vote for who you think will do the best job, because it will make a difference, especially if you voice your opinion to others. Local elections have far more effect on your life and your family's than who's president. >> Do you think they will still be saying it in 2060? I wouldn't be surprised if they were saying it in Athens.<< That's probably the best insight on voting I've read in years. Sad most people I talk to don't see this. | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:22 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | But what's sexier? Voting for your local sheriff or UNCOVERING SECRET PLOTS TO CONTROL THE WORLD? | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:26 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | Is the sheriff also a porn star? | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:26 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | Depends on whether Salma Hayek is running for sheriff. Many CTers don't care about local elections because they forget that government can be a good thing. | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:28 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | It's easier to have crazy ideas about people you can't easily get in contact with. I can go talk to the mayor almost any time, or see him in public. I can't do the same with the president, so it's eaier to think of him as a part of some super secret cabal instead of just a regular person. I guarentee most CTs couldn't tell you the mayor's name, or even if the mayor is male or female. They like to think of themselves as more in the know than regular people, but more often than not, they actually know less about the real world than regular people. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:31 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | My mom thinks the pharmaceutical industry is in bed with government, which means all doctors and politicians are evil. My dad thinks she's crazy. He also agrees with Rush, O'Reilly, and Beck. So glad to be going back home on Monday. | |||||
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Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 21:35 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | If it wasn't for the pharmaceutical industry she would probably already be dead. | |||||
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Genogza | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 22:18 |
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Life's Too Short Level: 1 CS Original | >>I guarentee most CTs couldn't tell you the mayor's name, or even if the mayor is male or female. They like to think of themselves as more in the know than regular people, but more often than not, they actually know less about the real world than regular people.<< This is actually an interesting point, and I also think there's a little more to it as well. It's as if most conspiracy theorists see that the world around them isn't perfect, or the way they want it to be, thus they have to blame somebody. And who do people turn to when things aren't so hot? The people on top. And instead of realizing everybody's fucked up, they invent reasons to blame the others for the shortcomings of society. | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 22:19 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | Matt, you are correct. | |||||
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Alton | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 22:34 |
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Level: 1 CS Original | This is the part I don't understand about CTs. They claim the world is ran by the rich elites, and that politicians are puppets for them, yet come election time, they vote for one of the "puppets". | |||||
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sorry | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 22:36 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | Ron Paul isn't a puppet, according to them. That's why he stands against 434 puppets on many votes. | |||||
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Edward L Winston | Posted: Jul 01, 2010 - 22:40 |
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | Yet they can't kill an old bastard like Ron Paul. Granted, even though he's like a million years old, when he dies he will be martyred and claimed to be killed by THEM. | |||||
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