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comfychair commented on the diary post We Are Better Than This by Rusty1776.
Of course, but my point was that she (they) also put political gamesmanship above morality.
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comfychair commented on the diary post We Are Better Than This by Rusty1776.
‘Primary challenge is off the table’ is the new ‘impeachment is off the table’. I’m sure this new one will work out much better than the old one did. Right?
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comfychair commented on the diary post Missling’s Beef Part Deux by missling.
I fully acknowledge I am a nobody with no ‘cred’, but honestly, if this is such a problem just shut down open access for anyone and everyone to post diary entries. It seems to me looking at this battle from the outside that it’s the site regulars and big shots who can’t tolerate slightly differing [...]
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comfychair commented on the diary post We Need to Overthrow “Corporate Rights” by latigo1026.
If corporations have the same rights as real people, why are they allowed to buy and sell each other?
When a corporation buys out a competitor and then breaks it up and sells off the assets, isn’t that murder?
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comfychair commented on the diary post Good News, Pups! by missling.
Forging alliances with scary people with scary ideas and scary plans is, well, scary. Possibly even more scary than making the decision to finally get out there and do something. Is the fear justified? I honestly don’t know. And that’s what makes it scary: you won’t know until after they’ve turned on you and robbed [...]
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comfychair commented on the diary post I Know I’m Not Alone Here; Please Don’t Tell Me I’m the Only One Watching This in Disbelief by msofia.
How could you read this post and all the comments on it and then conclude that all of us are still ‘in a brainwashed trance’? Or did you just skip the read->comprehend part to jump straight into the link spamming?
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comfychair commented on the blog post Confirmed: Our Government Has Criminalized Beauty Products
Through guilt by association, having plants of any kind will get you put on a watchlist somewhere. Got annoying bastard little fungus gnats in your houseplants? Always dealt with them until now with H2O2? Too bad, just live with them. Better yet, it’s probably just safest to throw out the plants altogether.
Something similar but probably unrelated – if I go to Lowe’s and buy either light bulbs or potting soil, the cashier ALWAYS asks for my phone number. When asked why, they always say “just in case you need to return anything.” Which is of course complete BS, that’s what the damn receipt is for. But if I buy anything else other than dirt or light bulbs, they NEVER ask for a phone number.
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comfychair commented on the diary post I Know I’m Not Alone Here; Please Don’t Tell Me I’m the Only One Watching This in Disbelief by msofia.
I’m just about convinced that if you were to fix the campaign financing/legalized bribery thing, 90% of all the other problems would be fixed too. Problem is both parties are hooked on the easy money. Traditional activism – marches, rallies, petitions – will not be able to fix it. Working on the little problems around [...]
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comfychair commented on the diary post It’s Always Been Here, Right In Front Of Us by Rusty1776.
No, thank YOU. Thank you for trying to inspire, rather than just complain. An anonymous voice from Cairo: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201129165618696838.html Now when I started reading, I thought “Oh, poor thing, so naive. You just don’t know who this guy is…” but by the end, I had to completely drop that idea. That writer probably knows him [...]
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comfychair commented on the diary post It’s Always Been Here, Right In Front Of Us by Rusty1776.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -JFK
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comfychair commented on the diary post It’s Always Been Here, Right In Front Of Us by Rusty1776.
If the crowd is big enough, what’s the Army going to do? Shooting the protesters only works if everyone runs away and hides. Don’t run away, and you take away their only tool. That’s the lesson to learn from Egypt. Don’t run away.
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comfychair commented on the diary post It’s Always Been Here, Right In Front Of Us by Rusty1776.
Wait, are you saying online petitions and a 2 hour protest march at a specified time and place aren’t going to fix this mess??! /s
Haven’t finished reading all the comments yet, but all I can say for the diary post is: HOT DAMN.
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comfychair commented on the blog post House Looks Like They’ll Pass Patriot Act Extension Today
Ah, but you’re forgetting that we live in Up-Is-Down World now. For quite a while now, actually.
(of course it was /s but you know it’s bad when we read something like that and have to ask) ;)
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comfychair commented on the blog post House Looks Like They’ll Pass Patriot Act Extension Today
Like jury duty. Also like jury duty, they should be sequestered for the duration of their term, kept under guard at all times just in case somebody tries to slip them a $30,000 ‘donation’.
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comfychair commented on the blog post House Looks Like They’ll Pass Patriot Act Extension Today
Why do you hate America? :(
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comfychair commented on the blog post House Looks Like They’ll Pass Patriot Act Extension Today
Freedom is too dangerous, better to have stability and the economic prosperity for all that inevitably comes along with it.
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comfychair commented on the diary post State Budget Cuts: Starting at the Top by Dean Baker.
Well if that’s not enough motivation to do something, we’re already finished. I’m in the same situation. Unemployed since ’06, disabled. No health care (my state has a 3 year waiting period before the disabled are eligible for Medicaid thanks, Mississippi!). With only a reasonable amount of medical help, I’d be able to go back [...]
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comfychair commented on the diary post State Budget Cuts: Starting at the Top by Dean Baker.
Ahem.
http://www.thenation.com/article/158282/how-build-progressive-tea-party
Gotta start somewhere, I guess, but I think there’s a better target. We need a few hundred thousand people to go to DC and just DO. NOT. LEAVE. What are they going to do? Arrest everyone? Tear gas & water cannons? Cluster bombs? What the hell are we waiting for?
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comfychair commented on the blog post Hillary’s Tortured Democracy and the Suleiman “Assassination Attempt”
There are forces at work in any society, particularly one that is facing these kind of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own agenda [...]
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comfychair commented on the blog post Breaking: Mubarak Resigns as Head of National Democratic Party – Egyptian State TV [Updated]
Sounds familiar? How about a leader who ignores the constitution when he wants to do something he shouldn’t, and then tries to use the constitution as an invincible shield when he doesn’t want to do something he should?
Yeah, that’s vaguely familiar, I just can’t pin down exactly where from… /s
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