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  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 10:48pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yesterday was only the beginning

    This assumes that the new entrant is automatically better.

    And that's easy to game by making the new entrant appear to run against the positions of the incumbent. But then he can vote the same way as his predecessor. And on it goes.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 10:47pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I've already made up my mind

    They did what now?

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/04/business/20090205-bailout-totals-graphic.html

    Powerful people clearly gaming the system for their benefit.

    Yeah, sorry, my sense of justice is that it is not being served.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 06:46pm

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    Oh, and while you are actually looking at the data, you might take a glance at how tax revenues are paid, and just who isn't paying what they are used to.

    That line matters too. Some groups are being quite deficient.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 06:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I've already made up my mind

    Oh, and while you are actually looking at the data, you might take a glance at how tax revenues are paid, and just who isn't paying what they are used to.

    That line matters too. Some groups are being quite deficient.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 06:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I've already made up my mind

    Oh, and while you are actually looking at the data, you might take a glance at how tax revenues are paid, and just who isn't paying what they are used to.

    That line matters too. Some groups are being quite deficient.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 06:43pm

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    I think it is because I have a sense of proportion and can do math.

    Go add up the cost of the bailouts.

    Then go add up how much social programs cost per year.

    It isn't hard

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 03:21pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I've already made up my mind

    It's so amazingly arrogant.

    Many people don't understand how much was given to them. They act like they did it all themselves.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 03:12pm

    Re: Re: None of them care.

    He's not really even a Libertarian.

    He's a "Tenther".

    Completely different things.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 03:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: GOP Racism

    It may not be racism, per se. But it is discrimination.

    I think Matt Taibbi summed it up pretty well. It's narcissism:


    LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Matt, before we get to the transformation, one of the central questions about the Tea Party, and one of the accusations that flies around, is that this is a racist group ? predominantly racist group, partially racist group, or more racist than your average collection on a subway car in New York City. You've been in and among them. What's the answer to the Tea Party racist question?

    MATT TAIBBI, Rolling Stone magazine: My answer is it's not so much about hating black people for these people, I think it's more about believing in this preposterous fantasy that white people are some kind of oppressed minority in the age of Obama. And I don't know whether that's racism, but it is just incredibly stupid. And that's really my answer. I think there's not that much overt racism, clearly race is a factor in almost all of their political views. But it's really more like a collective narcissistic ?

    O'DONNELL: They're working without a historical framework for anyone else's experience except their own and their own families. And that's what you're calling the kind of the narcissistic view of our politics.

    TAIBBI: They really believe in this sort of idea that they're this persecuted, oppressed people and they have no frame of reference about anybody else's experience and they also don't have any sense of how their rhetoric is received by the rest of the country. Just think of the whole idea of a tea party: if they're the Tea Partiers, people like you and me are redcoats, you know, we're literally not Americans, we're un-American. And they really believe that.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:58pm

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    That's still gamable.

    Just finance it publicly. Cheaper. Better.

    Pay the politicians more so that their interests are aligned with their jobs.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:55pm

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    And the higher you go up the income chain, the more likely you are to have profited from government assistance.

    Not just got a modicum of food, which is seemingly the most offensive. Rather it's rich assholes buying themselves legislation.

    Well, they've earned it. Worked hard.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:53pm

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    You should really go investigate the costs of things. Ignorance of how these programs work, their benefits and their costs is no excuse any more. Nor is understanding how taxes are paid.

    This notion that the poor are the problem is just amazingly asinine. I thought we'd learned that shit, but I guess not.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:49pm

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    It's words like this that really highlight the 'dogwhistle' theories.

    Note the scorn. Obviously, those who are on assistance aren't 'honest'.

    Roughly 50% of the people who are in the SNAP program are children. We should penalize them for not choosing better parents.

    We should ensure that they don't have a chance.

    Just, wow.

  • On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

    bjupton ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:45pm

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    It's always anecdotes with the people who think that public assistance is some great thing that people get on and just stay on from laziness.

    It doesn't hold up to scrutiny and statistics, but don't expect them to care. It's all 'fish stories'.

    "Oh, man, I saw this welfare queen and she was so lazy! Eating lobster too!"

    You are disgusting

  • On the post: Denial: MPAA Pretends That No Big Sites Have Joined SOPA/PIPA Protests

    bjupton ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 03:22pm

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    Well, RIAA.com is dedicated to piracy. They should be shut down.
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111221/03240317155/riaas-response-to-infringement-via-its-ip-address-is-to-note-someone-else-did-it.shtml

  • On the post: Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo

    bjupton ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 08:40am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: hey

    Heh, yeah, I didn't think that they'd send someone real important to harrass a tech blog.

    Makes me sad that you've aligned yourself with people who view you as disposable rather than with people who want to respect creative output.

  • On the post: First One Down: Rep. Lee Terry Removes His Name As A SOPA Co-Sponsor

    bjupton ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 08:32am

    What's the etiquette on this? If the prospective groom breaks off the engagement, the bride can keep the ring, right? Can he keep their 'campaign contributions'?

  • On the post: Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo

    bjupton ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 11:56pm

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    It provided at least a 'guffah' from me.

    My iPhone irritated me today by not recognising 'dicl' as 'dick'. For one, I know several people who use that as a diminutive of Richard. I could have been addressing them, and please capitalise the first letter of their name. For two, I swear quite often. I expect that my dear friend iPhone, with me at all hours, would know that.

  • On the post: Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo

    bjupton ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 11:25pm

    Re: I Don?t See It

    How dare you be in New Zealand.

    Lamar Smith: Making New Zealand Illegal Since 2012

  • On the post: Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo

    bjupton ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 11:23pm

    Re: Re: hey

    heh...and I was just guessing when I called him a 'stooge'.

    I had no idea I was in the presence of royalty. A member of creative america, everyone!

    Lord Nuge, what portion of the culture have they promised you for your 'work'?

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