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| rainbowunicorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
im not talking about the primaries. |
There's also the 3rd party and 4th party...? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
There's also the 3rd party and 4th party...? |
oh yeah! totally forgot about them. they're always popping up to win the presidential election! :stongue: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
or neither...
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Haha, has anyone here ever said you're not Brazilian? Because I can't see that happen and it would be totally crazy! :p
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
speaking of, I met rubens at d-edge in sao paulo, true story. he's cool , he bought me a beer.
edit: btw marcus i still have to get back to you on the japanese stuff, sorry i haven't had time. |
Nice, I've yet to meet another Brazilian TA! Oh, and it's fine, don't fret over it :)
I'm finishing my PhD these days, so I'll be insanely busy for the next couple of weeks anyway. |
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| rainbowunicorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
Well obviously being black helped. He got a huge portion of the black vote.
He was also charismatic, an excellent speaker and a lot of people found him handsome (for a politician :p).
Also, every time any contender starts hammering the good old "CHANGE" word into our heads it's always a safe strategy to sway undecideds. |
I remember when the Obama hype was everywhere and I was just skeptical, when people were just either jumping on the bandwagon or seeing him as a black person, instead of evaluating his qualifications as a presidential candidate. And when I asked them what qualifications or skills he had to run the country, they always gave me this in-denial response of "don't you want a nonwhite person to be president, it's time for change, for social justice, whites have been president for too long" etc. But none of that justifies running a country or signifies the abilities to run a country.
It is or has become a popularity contest. |
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| rainbowunicorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
oh yeah! totally forgot about them. they're always popping up to win the presidential election! :stongue: |
You said:
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
what a load a crap. Obama was elected because he wasn't a republican. |
:crazy:
And they have actually.
You're not troubling anyone, Unicorn Troubler. Just reinforcing the irony of your | quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
load of crap. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
You said: |
I am sorry you seem to need things explained to you that are rather obvious to everyone else.
clearly what I was actually saying was that anybody on the democratic ticket would have beaten the GOP for the presidency in 2008. anyone with half a clue (apparently not you) knew this at the time.
while Obama's colour certainly provided an advantage in some areas, it's a far cry from your "mass majority" previously asserted. |
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| rainbowunicorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
I am sorry you seem to need things explained to you that are rather obvious to everyone else.
clearly what I was actually saying was that anybody on the democratic ticket would have beaten the GOP for the presidency in 2008. anyone with half a clue (apparently not you) knew this at the time.
while Obama's colour certainly provided an advantage in some areas, it's a far cry from your "mass majority" previously asserted. |
Thank you for clarifying your assertion limiting to the Democratic ticket only, because your initial comment of "what a load a crap. Obama was elected because he wasn't a republican." clearly was talking about the Democratic ticket only. It's so obvious that your response to my "3rd party, 4th party" was:
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
oh yeah! totally forgot about them. they're always popping up to win the presidential election! :stongue: |
inferring you were talking about parties and not this eating of your words or of your load a crap. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
Thank you for clarifying your assertion limiting to the Democratic ticket only, because your initial comment of "what a load a crap. Obama was elected because he wasn't a republican." clearly was talking about the Democratic ticket only. |
it only needed clarifying because you're an imbecile. anyone else knew exactly what I was saying.
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
It's so obvious that your response to my "3rd party, 4th party" was:
inferring you were talking about parties and not this eating of your words or of your load a crap. |
the reader infers, the writer implies. stop trying to use big words you don't understand. |
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| rainbowunicorn |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
it only needed clarifying because you're an imbecile. anyone else knew exactly what I was saying. |
Your ignorance of thinking about only the Democratic party and Republican party in US should be obvious to everyone else?! I'm starting to see that. You ARE an imbecile.
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
the reader infers, the writer implies. stop trying to use big words you don't understand. |
No ? Am I not the reader? What part of me explaining what was inferred is implying something else? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
Your ignorance of thinking about only the Democratic party and Republican party in US should be obvious to everyone else?! I'm starting to see that. You ARE an imbecile. |
like many western liberal democracies, the US is dominated by two parties. doesn't mean other parties don't exist, but anyone with a clue would have understood what I was saying.
| quote: | Originally posted by rainbowunicorn
No ? Am I not the reader? |
well you are the reader, obviously. but you were talking about me "inferring" (either that or you really need to work on your prose). either way, you write like .
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It's so obvious that your response to my "3rd party, 4th party" was [quote from pkc]...inferring you were talking about parties and not this eating of your words or of your load a crap. |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Haha, has anyone here ever said you're not Brazilian? Because I can't see that happen and it would be totally crazy! :p
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Yeah I get for it from my mothers family all the time because I was the only one born here. I get the "ce fala estranho/diferente" all the time too. |
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| Swamper |
I have no problem with people sharing political views / links as long as it isn't slanted too much to the left or right.
My problem is with people who read a few headlines and all of a sudden think they have a grasp of the situation and how to fix it. The whole middle east/ISIS/Syria/Russia/Israel/Iran/etc. nonsense takes more than dropping a few bombs to fix... and we didn't just arrive here yesterday.
I do a fair share of reading and even I admit it is a confusing cluster of conflicting info. Too much for anyone to absorb unless it is your job and/or you lock yourself up at home doing it 24/7. |
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