World is Falling Apart Thread (Locked forever)

[marurun]

That man is very entertaining, but he's also wrong. Persuasive ranting does not a solid argument make.

[Exhuminator]

I'd say the outcome of the election validates the words he said.

[darsparx]

Yeah but his point is very valid about being automatically labeled if you don't agree with dems nowadays. At least that's the way it seems at this point. I don't have a problem with poltical correctness until it gets to the point that if you don't agree you're automatically labled. Then you have the case on "The View"(watched it out of sheer boredom at doctor's office last friday) that you can't even say the word "grab" in the context of grabbing anything after making sure everyone is safe on the way out of a burning house. It feels like at this point we're limiting ourselves to what we can say and do based on circumstances since saying otherwise perfectly normal phrases are now becoming uncomfortable and offensive to people. I understand why it's all of a sudden uncomfortable to say the word "grab" but at the same time it's annoying with them that they've made such a connection in a unrelated situation...

[prfsnl_gmr]

I'd say the outcome of the election validates the words he said.

"The sky is blue because of dragon magic."

"Uh...I'm not so sure about that."

"But, look! The sky really is blue. The sky's color validates my reasoning."

.....

I'm not saying that the man in the video is incorrect, but his "rant" is not based on evidence. (It is basically the epitome of "truthiness".)

[MrPopo]

I'm not saying that the man in the video is incorrect, but his "rant" is not based on evidence.

People don't tend to rant when they have evidence.

[Exhuminator]

"The sky is blue because of dragon magic."

"Uh...I'm not so sure about that."

"But, look! The sky really is blue. The sky's color validates my reasoning."

A bit of a false equivalence to my stance, but we cool yo.

[prfsnl_gmr]

A bit of a false equivalence to my stance, but we cool yo.

Yep. We old-fashioned gamers gotta stick together. They don't make 'em like us any more.

[J T]

One of my concerns now is that since the republicans now control the presidency, the house, the senate, and soon the supreme court, that they will use this power to change the rules of the democratic process; that they will make it so that corporate interests, using groups like Citizens United, can more easily funnel in money to buy politicians to do their bidding; that they will create stiffer voting requirement laws so that the poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised are less able to vote, leaving them without a voice in the political arena, and thus stacking the deck so that corporate shill republicans will never have to lose again. This will mean bye bye consumer protections. Bye bye environmental protections. Bye bye wall street regulations. Bye bye healthcare. Bye bye civil rights. Bye bye social services. Bye bye national parks. Bye bye labor unions. Bye bye.

Hello oligarchy. I thought that was you.

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about this.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about this.

It's what they did in NC; so, I would not be surprised to see something like that happen at the national level.

[MrPopo]

Hey now, corporations aren't opposed to civil rights; it doesn't affect their bottom line one way or the other.