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Supreme Court ruling on money and free speech

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RUE
Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:38 PM

BTW - it seems to me if we can sift through thousands of people to come up with one winner on American Idol, we can sift through thousands of candidates to come up with the top twenty or so who will actually run on competing platforms.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:40 PM

There are some things that are just universal, and one of them is knowing that both parties, the federal government, the media, AND corporations are all in it together to screw people over as much as possible. That's what happens when you establish an electoral college aimed at electing the "best-educated" (read: most rich).

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:43 PM

"BTW - it seems to me if we can sift through thousands of people to come up with one winner on American Idol, we can sift through thousands of candidates to come up with the top twenty or so who will actually run on competing platforms."

Holy God... dammit, I need to stand up now.

I keep falling out my chair from shock.


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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:43 PM

The dystopian visions of the future are coming to pass.

"Thank you for your cooperation."


The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:46 PM

"The dystopian visions of the future are coming to pass."

Only if we let them.


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RUE
Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:48 PM

The electoral college - yeah, that's gotta go, but it would need a constitutional ammendment.

"That salt of the earth farmer, that everyone wrote off as an uneducated redneck... that gutsy ghetto boy who folks wrote off as nothing more than a criminal... provided that they give a damn about our people... THEY should be in charge. Because, in the political spectrum of long odds, THEY know more about being an American than these people do. THEY give a damn. They want to change things for the better."

What happens to them ?

Here for example are the average beginnings of Mitch McConnell "McConnell was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Julia (née Shockley) and Addison Mitchell McConnell" and John Cornyn "Cornyn was born in Houston to Atholene Gale (née Danley) and John Cornyn II", both supporters of this decision.

How do they go from average person to corporate lackey ?

I think if you don't figure out what the corrupting influence is and remove it, you will get the same result.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
"The dystopian visions of the future are coming to pass."

Only if we let them.




"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
"Yeah. Major bummer."


The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:56 PM

"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
"Yeah. Major bummer."


Guess the Terminator came back in time before Independent BrownCoats.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:02 PM

"Strength through Unity. Unity through Faith."

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:06 PM

"Strength through Unity. Unity through Faith."

and what took THAT down, was a singular person... bent on freeing the people.

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