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- pablo280
wake up sheeple
- nb6
Why shouldn't ex-convicts be allowed to vote? I mean, besides the obvious answer, "Because they're criminals!" That's not a strong enough argument for me.
I honestly can not think of one solid rational argument why they would be banned from voting. It's not like they'll be able to vote their way to a pardon. Do you think they're all going to get together to vote to close all the prisons and defund the police so they can get back to murderin' and stealin'? If that's what you think, are you living in a cartoon?
It seems to be that allowing ex-cons to vote would help them engage in free society, in what they may feel is a meaningful and productive manner.
Maybe I'm wrong.
- Do you think that losing the right to vote is a deterrent for potential criminals? That seems like a ridiculous notion, too.nb
- "Alright, man, let's jack this dude's garage, he's got a bunch of bikes in there."
"I don't know, bro, we might lose our right to vote next election."nb - "Did you even register to vote bro? Ever been selected for jury duty? Just get the fuckin' bikes man."imbecile
- i think its a challenge to keep people from going back statistically speaking. i'd prob focus on that as an issue. take it from there.yurimon
- it has always seemed strange to meautoflavour
- http://felonvoting.p…imbecile
- Felons would never vote for a free society. They would always vote for more welfare.Hayoth
- @Hayoth: that's no reason to deny them the right to vote, though.nb
- It's very simple. Most felons are not white. We jail non-whites en masse for petty crimes. Then large portions of non-white populations can't vote.Pupsipu
- All ex-cons? Definitely No. 'Do the time, Serve the time' etc.
There're probably liberties that can be kept back from the total shits though.
Fuck those guys.detritus - Idiot.
'do the crime..' obv.detritus - I do time and serve time every fucking day.detritus
- +100000 nb. and we have yet to see any good reason. i wrote a paper on this in grad schoolsarahfailin
- pablo280
wake up sheeple
- PonyBoy0
@3:40 reality sets in
- DRUMPF2K16utopian
- lenny zakim bridge going over charlestownterry_cloth
- goes ryut pahssed the gahden... yah, terry?PonyBoy
- lol, that it does ked, that it does. not sure what ryut is sposed to sound like thoughterry_cloth
- (right)monospaced
- thanks captain obviousterry_cloth
- lol... you asked what it was supposed to mean... ? :)PonyBoy
- i asked what that spelling is supposed to be pronounced asterry_cloth
- ry-ut righ-yut—just like a new englandah would add that extra syllable to the word 'yah'. "Ayuh... beenda maine!" (not just a Maine thing as you well know) :)PonyBoy
- rye oot?terry_cloth
- how do you get 'oot' out of 'yut'?PonyBoy
- ok, i get what your talking about, doesn't work in that sentence though. if anything, rightova would be one wordterry_cloth
- i'm posting while distracted, never mind meterry_cloth
- Can't really argue phonetics when they're incorrectly pronounced to begin with. :) (I grew up there, Terry... Just be silly)PonyBoy
- *beingPonyBoy
- your a mainer? nice, yea the accent gets crazier the farther north you goterry_cloth
- new hampshah... was saying I was from NE :) (go pats!)PonyBoy
- nice, sununu is the manterry_cloth
- monospaced1
Just read that Bernie had a 30,000+ turnout in Seattle, but it seems like the media isn't mentioning it. Not that it matters though, right?
- it's almost as if corporate media has an interest in silencing Sanders' message or something...imbecile
- Where did you read it?
Was it in the media?
...nb - @nb, in an email from someone who was at the rally in Seattlemonospaced
- Google search shows many outlets picked it up yesterday.monospaced
- There is alot of other stuff they missed as well. things not in the media somehow but very important and damning. strange. wonder how that slipped.yurimon
- STFU Donny.monospaced
- monospaced2
- monos research posted. finally.yurimon
- Let's see your rebuttal. LOLmonospaced
- i laughed near non-stop through this. it's fall down funnykona
- nb1
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
I mean, uh, Person Who Avoids Thoughts That Are Deep
- Ramanisky21
Haha
- nb3
- What a fuckwit. This is 12 year old stuff.BusterBoy
- What a POS!utopian
- So presidential.monospaced
- the 'people' love it though.Ianbolton
- Melania sounds like a busted airline from some former Soviet enclave. Or a range of diarrhoea pills. 'Melania: it binds you up!'face_melter
- 2016, the year americans realize their politics was a joke, seriously, peeps my age have seen, Bush(reagan), clinton, bush, obama, now once again clinton...georgesIII
- We knew it in 2000.monospaced
- You knew it in 2008 ESPECIALLYdrake-von-drake
- ORAZAL0
- He could build it from this tubby bitch's empty Chinese takeaway cartons.face_melter
- How Fattie, How???Ramanisky2
- bliznutty0
Two guys talking politics. One guy says, "You know the difference between capitalism and socialism?". Other guy says "No, I don't". First one says, "You know under capitalism that man exploits man?". They both agree. So then the he adds, "But under socialism it's vice versa"
- There was a good comment on here a while ago pointing out that both are just made up terms that don't describe reality very well.yuekit
- Ha the difference is huge. One all exploitation happens willingly. The other through force. One protects individual rights, one doesn't.deathboy
- of course the willingness to be exploited is a bit of a oxymorondeathboy
- bliznutty0
Why is it so easy for people to disrespect liberty and elect evil governments then stand behind them without any consequential action? We need a serious fix everyone
never forget that we as a people are, or rather should be, fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on this planet
- first video is good. second one is a big step down. totally lost me on the property part.sarahfailin
- property is that which is yours that nobody should be allowed to take without your mutual voluntary consent. like your pursebliznutty
- fadein111
"A WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. BREAK THE SILENCE."
Good read (should be required reading):
http://johnpilger.com/articles/a…
- monospaced0
"But to compare the two parties at this time in our history is to indulge in false equivalency. For rationalizing the GOP’s pathology by responding with a partisan tit-for-tat is not adequate to the circumstances. The sins you perceive in Democrats are the usual ones — misguided policies, ill chosen means for dubious ends, and the normal complement of rhetorical dishonesty and political squalor. However mistaken you may find Clinton and Sanders on the issues, their debate is addressed to the world as it exists and therefore open to a sensible critique. The squalor to which the GOP has sunk, an alternate reality rooted in anger and mendacity, transcends mere differences in policy, threatening the country with profound, perhaps irreparable, damage."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ri…
Interesting read.
- monospaced0
"Denial of evolution and general scientific knowledge. I know you can’t believe this, but a Pew Research poll showed that over 50 percent of Republican voters don’t accept the theory of evolution. When the core of the party thinks that The Flintstones was a documentary — and none of its presidential candidates dare say otherwise — the broader implications for policies rooted in scientific inquiry are disturbing. Hence people like Trump who profit by suggesting that vaccination engenders autism."
- mg332
Rumors of a sex scandal involving disgusting, unsightly, human hog Ted Cruz is starting to pick up steam on the web. It was in the National Inquirer's issue today, and, before you dismiss them as tabloid trash and full of lies, remember that they broke sex scandals about Jessie Jackson, Gary Hart, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, and others over the years.
- Lyin' Ted and the entire GOP Circus Clown Car continues to go round and round...utopian
- Vying for control. You know deep down, the capitalist pigs, the clintons are the same. Look at the shit bill saysdrake-von-drake
- utopian0
The Transformation of American Democracy to Oligarchy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ak…- Ha! It already is an Oligarchy. BO is just playing in their worlddrake-von-drake