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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:44 am

I don't know about you, but I've gone from finding American idiots branding right-leaning centrist liberal politics as RADICAL-FAR-LEFT-EXTREMISM! ludicrous and ignorable, to just plain annoying - and particularly the dubious chant that Europe is some hotbed of SOCIALISM! My unlimited broadband cost me $23 USD a month and my mobile phone (with more call minutes and data than I ever use) $14 pm not because of SOCIALISM! but because of regulated free market competition. You should try it sometime.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:48 am

Evil marxism lurks behind the dreaded word "regulated"...

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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Seabass » Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:50 am

48% of the US population thinks Biden is Stalin. A nation cannot survive this much stupidity.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:55 am

Corporate America and its media arm have worked long and hard to make the "reds under the bed" reflex a fixture in your cultural landscape...
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by rainbow » Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:10 am

Seabass wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:50 am
48% of the US population thinks Biden is Stalin. A nation cannot survive this much stupidity.
Of course. At worst a Trotskyite.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:07 am

Quite amazing actually that the Repugs are the red party. The phrase "Reds under the beds" must cause real mental confusion for Repugs supporters.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Tero » Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:39 pm

We had fraud! 2018 election! But it was...Republicans.
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And yet a congressional election in North Carolina is being rerun because of fraud.
Was rerun. The Republican election fraud scheme occurred in 2018.

Reply: Yes, an honest to god example of election fraud (not voter fraud) that left behind clear pieces of evidence and ended with criminal indictments for the fraudsters involved. A great example, thanks.

That election was originally tilted by a few hundred illegal votes, which left behind detectable evidence of a crime that was readily discovered by those overseeing the process.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by laklak » Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:32 pm

pErvinalia wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:11 am
Europe is socialist!
That's why they have to eat snails instead of a thick, juicy, American steak.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Hermit » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:07 pm

laklak wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:32 pm
pErvinalia wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:11 am
Europe is socialist!
That's why they have to eat snails instead of a thick, juicy, American steak.
Snails are delicious. You don't eat them because they are too fast for you to catch.

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Re: US Election 2020

Post by laklak » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:18 pm

In Africa we have snail catchers. Those puny Eurosnails aren't worth the effort.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:25 pm

Phwaar. Look at the shell on that!
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by laklak » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:29 pm

I've had snail stew in Nigeria. Bit rubbery, but not terrible.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:32 pm

What wine would you have with that?
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by laklak » Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:41 pm

I had a Star lager, if memory serves.
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Re: US Election 2020

Post by Tero » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:53 pm

Moving on from snails
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