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The Daily Show 7/30/08: STFU and Get to Work Senate

Crosswords (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Crosswords) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:16:01 -0700

^Who gets the big piece of chicken at the BBQ luncheon.
- Crosswords

Election '08 - Kitten vs. Newborn

blahpook (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/blahpook) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:14:15 -0700

Republican candidate needs a change of diapers! Pop quiz: Is it the newborn, or is it John McCain? Discuss.
- blahpook

The Daily Show 7/30/08: STFU and Get to Work Senate

littledragon_79 (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/littledragon_79) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:40 -0700

I'm guessing it's some sort of bragging rights. Like a, "I don't care about my job or constituents, so I've been here napping for the last 9 hours" sort of thing. That or he's older than the fucking Crypt Keeper and needs to get dinner at 4:00PM.
- littledragon_79

MINK (Member Profile)

quantumushroom (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:06:34 -0700

Dude, the "left" does NOT EXIST.

I wish that were the case.

you CANNOT group people into two halves.

You mean, like, the "haves" and "have-nots"?

Every time you say "the left" or "liberal" you sound like a fucking twat. Nobody knows what you mean by "left". Apparently to you it means "wrong", as in the opposite of "right". LOL.

Now now, no need to be profane or anti-fane. YOU may not know what a leftist is but a great many people do know what is meant by 'the left', leftist, socialist, etc. Obviously the term differs slightly from country to country. Both major parties in Britain are socialist; one is more conservative than the other.

The paradigm to replace "right" and "left" is "statist" versus "small-l" libertarian. It's not quite there yet, and in the meantime, "onservatism versus liberalism", or "right vs. left" will do.

I ask you this... where do you classify me? I like small government and nationalised healthcare. Yes you can have both. It doesn't

take much governmental apparatus to collect money and give it to hospitals.

You can have "both", but only for a very limited time, then it's over, and government balloons exponentially. Happens every single time it's been tried.

So am i "right" or "left"?

I don't believe gay marriage is the same as heterosexual marriage. I think abortion should be allowed, but restricted. I think

governments waste huge amounts of money. I think we need a government. I hate evil corporations. I agree with the principle of

property ownership. I love guns but I think they should be banned or at least restricted much more than they are in the USA. I served

in the RAF but I am a pacifist. But I would fight for my family. I opposed the war in Iraq for economic, constitutional and

humanitarian reasons. I hate the BBC, FOX, MOVEON, DISNEY, MTV, TYT, CONSERVAPEDIA, THE NATION, and i find DEMOCRACY

NOW intensely boring and annoying. I am agnostic about god.

SO fucking figure that out. Am I on the right? Or the left?

My interpretation? Generally speaking, I'd say you're left-leaning on most issues. You have an unexamined hostility towards capitalism and corporations, and while you're aware that government is wasteful and corrupt, you'd rather they wield the difference of power rather than 'the people'. You despise the major brands of media influence yet, like all artists, are frustrated because whether you support or oppose The Machine, you're still orbiting its imaginary center.

A pacifist is defined as "a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind." That being the case, you're employing a paradox by stating you'd wound or kill to defend your family. In other words, idealism ends when enemies present viable threats. What I find amusing is, if some wacko outside your window yelled, "I have a gun and I'm going to shoot you!" you wouldn't hesitate to grab your own gun, whether the wacko "proved" he actually had a gun or not. That's not paranoia, it's common sense. But when a wacko like Saddam announces he's got a gun, and he's proven in the past he'll use it indiscriminately, and all your neighbors also believe he will use the gun, the anti-war left would rather you just ignore the situation. WTF.

I think you have a young, unexamined yet comfortable worldview, and though you claim to chortle at "2 opposing sides" you tend to view things in black and white. Iraq good, USA bad. UN good, USA bad. War is always wrong. Torture is always wrong. Corporations are always evil. Those seeking "social justice" are always good and working for the best interest of all and NEVER for self-gain.

And as for your declaration that "inevitable genocide" is "unacceptable"... wow.

To leave Iraq before it's stabilized delivers it unto chaos. The left (statists) have made it clear they don't give a shit about any resulting genocide. Like spoiled children, they want what they want and that's that, don't care about anything else.

Based on your worldview, were I you I'd reach the exact same conclusions about the Iraq war that you have. The difference then, is that I'm taking into account all possible outcomes, not just the ones I'd like to see happen. Had we not taken out Saddam, he'd probably have died at a ripe old age and his thug sons would've taken over and Iraq would still be a backwards hellhole.

Think of it like this dude, although maybe you can twist words into comebacks, maybe you're not actually making a point, you're just "debating"... the way you have been trained to debate, i.e. with 2 sided arguments.

You and many others on the sift want 'wiggle room' for those times uncomfortable facts and logic make themselves known, and this wiggle room is usually provided by suggesting that "no labels apply" or that their unique views exist outside of categorization.
Liberalism is a starting point, not the finish line.

It's kinda like you live in a dictatorship and you have been brainwashed to think like that.

Once your eyes are opened and knowledge and experience received, you can't go back to being a leftist, because you won't be able to 'unsee' the inherent flaws in what amounts to an unworkable and unjust system even less fair than capitalism.

So you don't like "2-sided arguments"...all right then, have you ever gone beyond your own foregone conclusions and considered Iraq just might benefit in the long run, that the US has given them an opportunity to make their fledgling government work and given their people a real shot at self-determination? It's something the UN has never done for any country.

I'm not upset by opposing points of view, and once again, I never picked up a keyboard to change anyone's mind. We're all working thru the thing.
- quantumushroom

Any Trip Tips in Vancouver, ey? (Travel Talk Post)

Payback (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:05:56 -0700

Re: Victoria

Lucky, do you or your Life Companion have any interest in plants, gardening, or really neat fireworks displays? First two would be the Butchart Gardens, last would be the Butchart Gardens on Saturday nights in the summer.
http://www.butchartgardens.com

Just walking around the town is pretty cool, especially at night. Nice thing is we have a really low crime rate as there is no land link to the mainland, so you need to arrive by boat or plane. Our ferries are more like cruiseships ( albeit cheap ones with no staterooms ) You might want to hop over for the day while you're in "Van".

I would really need to know more about your interests to come up with other recommendations.

Oh, we even have an IMAX. oooo, scary stuff, kiddies!

The Royal BC Museum has a display set up of the last 150 years of history in BC which I hear is quite interesting. It should be a good show as King Tut's loot was the Big Thing a couple years ago. It's kind of a mix of the different museum types, one part of it that's alway impressed me are the lifesize diorama displays of the various epocs and areas of BC.

http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
- Payback

Steve Irwin gets bitten by a python on live TV (1991)

westy (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/westy) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:02:26 -0700

I bet one day he will get his cumupence
- westy

Gorgonheap goes diamond, still most hated creature in galaxy (Geek Talk Post)

Crosswords (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Crosswords) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:04 -0700

In honor of your hitting diamond, and many MST3K posts I say, HUZZAH!!
- Crosswords

Pornography Myths (Femme Talk Post)

spoco2 (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:59:33 -0700

Wow, you sure hit on a popular topic pinky... posted a day ago, and 98 replies.

My problem with your post?

You list a collection of EASILY shot down, ridiculous arguments as if they are things that those of us that are ok with porn believe in. Which makes it really easy to defend your position because you've preset the bar really low on your opponent's side.

I have stated my views on porn on this site a number of times, but they go something like this:

* Pornography, something made to sexually arouse someone is not in any way inherently wrong, how can you suggest that making someone turned on is a bad thing?

* There is a LOT of sleaze and sadness in the porn world. This is my fundamental issue with porn. In a perfect world, all the people involved in the production of porn would be enjoying themselves, would be treated with utmost respect and be unashamed of what they do. In the real world the majority of people involved in it do so because they need the money and couldn't be bothered/haven't had the opportunity to get a 'real' job that pays as well. This really affects my enjoyment of porn because I keep being snapped out of the fantasy when I think of how much the actress (and sometimes the man) is not enjoying herself. There ARE movies which show REAL couples enjoying themselves together in front of a camera with someone they really care for/love, and do so because it turns them on, and these are sensational (well, the idea is, the only one I watched was not great). But the sad truth is that most porn out there features people that would rather be doing something else.

* There is a disturbing trend towards humiliation in porn that I've seen these days. The treatment of women as mere objects to fuck, and to do so in the most savage way possible really, really disturbs me and makes me feel concerned for the general mindset of men at the moment towards women.

* But that doesn't mean that I rule out porn entirely, I enjoy porn, I enjoy adult entertainment, I enjoy it with my wife on occasion and it makes for a fun and erotic time. BUT you have to hunt down the porn that is pro women in the way things happen on screen (women are pleasured, treated well, with respect), shows respect and basically just leads to a great feeling of heightened eroticism. It can help to have a couple explore their fantasies and communicate things they'd like to try. But throw in a bit of humiliation or mistreatment and it can ruin it for everyone as we don't want to see that kind of crap.

Pornography in and of itself is not bad, there is plenty of bad pornography out there, but there's also plenty of good porn too. So I do condemn a lot of porn I've seen snippets of, and lament that there isn't a higher percentage of the type of porn that shows people treating each other with respect in a sexual way. If there was more of that I think the entire industry could be better for it, rather than heading down the track of 'the dirtier, the filthier the better', as that's a path to complete self destruction and they'll just find their position so hard to defend as almost no decent person can defend something which denigrates others so much.

So... there, you got another huge response from me... dang you!
- spoco2

Best f**king music video of 1974

doogle (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:57:45 -0700

DUPE!
*discard
- doogle

A plea for amnesty (Humanitarian Talk Post)

NordlichReiter (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/NordlichReiter) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:50:24 -0700

You know that choggie will be back... and much stronger than before.

You people take the sift to serious. The sift is after all a clustering of binary digits in the vastness of cyberspace. It is a collection of XML, HTML, Data Tables, (C# Java or some other behind language) Transact SQL... I digress.

Any way Choggie(his name makes me think of haggish) will always push the limits of the rules, that is what many of us do, and some of us will break those rules.

Ad Hominem here Beware:
Just because some of you (I wrote it) got offended or hurt by him shows that you care to much for what may be going on in this social experiment.
- NordlichReiter

What in the world is this kid drawing?

jdbates (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/jdbates) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:49:50 -0700

cool!
- jdbates

Any Trip Tips in Vancouver, ey? (Travel Talk Post)

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:46:42 -0700

Okay, you've got my attention. I'm listening, dc. What do you recommend in Victoria?
- lucky760

A plea for amnesty (Humanitarian Talk Post)

spoco2 (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:45 -0700

I for one have found his views on many things repugnant, his personal attacks on people out of line, and his abuse of sift power just plain childish.

I, for one, think that two weeks was lenient, so the least that can be done is to at least let it run its course.
- spoco2

Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!

Payback (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:01 -0700

Why the hell was this not posted by poolcleaner? FOR SHAME!

Then again, it's not like I've posted 100,000 Portal videos...
- Payback

The Fifth Estate - Conspiracy Theories (CBC)

shuac (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/shuac) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:39:07 -0700

See, for me, the biggest obstacle to most of these conspiracies is that they seem to go exactly according to plan. When does that ever happen? I just don't think people are that smart.

To quote Bill Maher, "You know how I know that George Bush WASN'T behind 9-11? ...Because it worked."
- shuac

Mr. Bungle - My Ass Is On Fire (Live)

Payback (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:37:29 -0700

He don't need no water; let the motherfucker burn. Burn motherfucker, burn.
- Payback

NSA spying on World of Warcraft and Second Life users

NordlichReiter (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/NordlichReiter) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:36:56 -0700

Some people are complete idiots. You can bet your ass that some of the communities in these games will rat the bad guys out.

Anonymous (Dave) does this kind of thing all the time.
- NordlichReiter

The Drumlake Experiment - 1970s Drug School

gorillaman (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/gorillaman) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:36:38 -0700

Oh no, I've been rumbled.
- gorillaman

Operation Baja Blast - "Borrowing" Soda from Taco Bell

gorillaman (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/gorillaman) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:35:36 -0700

Why the fuck didn't I think of this?
- gorillaman

Still President Bush - His Not Yet Legacy: Language

cheesemoo (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:31:53 -0700

Not once?
- cheesemoo