Liberal versus conservative

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    So it's OK for the anti-women Republicans to take their money?
     
  2. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    sure if they hate women. but if you're the face of womens rights in the political world and its your gender, even if sorta transgender, you cant sell out your pseudo-moral stance. its fucking hypocritical even for a politician.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    So why is America an ally of Saudi Arabia?. They are a brutal dictatorship, disdaining democracy with a horrible human rights record, they fund terrorists, and fight our agenda in the middle east?

    Because they are better than the alternative and we need them to invest and spend their money in the US rather than Russia and China. And so they do. And so we put up with them.
     
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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    because we are hypocrites, red. doesnt mean she has to be. but she is a clinton. this is about a female running for leader of the free world claiming to stand for all other females while clearly talking out the side of her ass. saying other people suck too is such a bad defense.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    What I'm saying is that she is no more hypocritical than any other politician, just because she is a woman. Saudi Arabia flies in the face of the professed beliefs of every fucking one of us but we don't want them going over to China or Russia because that would be worse. And no one turns down their money.
     
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    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    Why would it be worse?
     
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    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    You see the problem though don't you?

    You classify these things as "ok" because others do it.

    Everyone does it, you are right, but the more you pick a side because on might happen to do it "less" the more we will fail.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Saudi money going to our enemies instead of us? Chinese and Russian bases in the Persian Gulf? Saudi oil deprived from our allies? Is it not obvious? Can you not see the relative triviality of political hypocrisy versus a geopolitical transformation with extreme consequences?

    I don't classify it as "OK", I recognize it as "business as usual". And I perceive that in an election year, mountains are made of molehills if no mountains exist. It has only just begun.
     
  9. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    but some are mountains dismissed as business as usual because otherwise it means youre voting for a really shitty person.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Opinions are like assholes . . . everybody has one.
     

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