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The most sick, outrageous thing of all (Original Post) rainy Jun 2017 OP
Nobody is OK with it on this side, on this side we have two choices Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #1
What do you buy ad time with, buttons? shenmue Jun 2017 #2
Not okay with it FiveGoodMen Jun 2017 #3
We are constantly in election mode, rainy Jun 2017 #4
It's disgusting..America's failure. mountain grammy Jun 2017 #5
False equivalence.. Permanut Jun 2017 #6
Did the wars change more peoples' lives than this one election? FiveGoodMen Jun 2017 #7
Perfect example of a false equivalence. One war with billions of peoples lives and the whole jmg257 Jun 2017 #8
I get what you are saying Permanut Jun 2017 #9

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Nobody is OK with it on this side, on this side we have two choices
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 06:30 PM
Jun 2017

nazi sympathizers who are actively committing treason and seeking to enslave human beings

or democrats winning...

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
3. Not okay with it
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 06:38 PM
Jun 2017

"Run government like a business"
"Privatize"
"Money is speech"

Those were all warnings of this disaster, but no one had the guts to argue with that crap if it meant leaving the cool kids table.

The whole history (my lifetime, anyway) of American political discourse has been people who didn't want to get labeled the wrong way and would make absolutely any compromise to avoid it.

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..."
"I'm not a Michael Moore fan, but..."
"I'm not a socialist, but..."

Always having to disclaim everything and everyone before daring to say anything at all (if there was anything left to say after the disclaimers).

We have one-dollar-one-vote government because too many of us were afraid to oppose it when we still had a chance to win.

rainy

(6,091 posts)
4. We are constantly in election mode,
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 07:07 PM
Jun 2017

our politicians are mostly fundraisers, the media constantly discuss politics. We a circus of bs and no substance.

Permanut

(5,608 posts)
6. False equivalence..
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 07:58 PM
Jun 2017

and oversimplification. Any conclusions about money spent must be based on the reasons for the expenditures. In this case, the $60 billion was not simply "spent on one single election".

Costs of World War 2, estimated:

1. U.S : $296 billion (roughly 4104 billion dollars today)
2. Germany : $272 billion

I guess we could say that $568 billion spent on "only one single war" shows how unevolved we are as humans.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
8. Perfect example of a false equivalence. One war with billions of peoples lives and the whole
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 04:15 PM
Jun 2017

world in the balance.

Or 1 election for 1 representative in 1 US of A state.

Hardly similar.

Permanut

(5,608 posts)
9. I get what you are saying
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 05:08 PM
Jun 2017

I didn't make my point well. If part of that $60 billion came out of my pocket, I would not be willing because of that to accept that I have failed as a human being. I took it too personally, and did not read the intent of the OP correctly.

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