Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
Background Pony #BEC2
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Violet Rose in The Rain 
@Background Pony #F147
It’s not a story about how some “garbage” ideology will fix everything. It’s a story about how a miser’s convictions were only overturned by supernatural forces that will never exist in our reality.
Were you even listening?
It’s not a story about how some “garbage” ideology will fix everything. It’s a story about how a miser’s convictions were only overturned by supernatural forces that will never exist in our reality.
Were you even listening?
Thanotos Omega 
@Violet Rose in The Rain
The story is supposed to teach the moral Scrooge learned, hoarding your wealth and ignoring your fellow man’s needs will only make your life hollow and taint your legacy in the eyes of those who survive you, seriously how can someone be that unable to grasp an aesop,
The story is supposed to teach the moral Scrooge learned, hoarding your wealth and ignoring your fellow man’s needs will only make your life hollow and taint your legacy in the eyes of those who survive you, seriously how can someone be that unable to grasp an aesop,
RadioDemon 
So many orphans~Alastor
@Violet Rose in The Rain
Its about how the love of money (greed) can overtake your life if you let it. To the detriment of Scrooge since he lost friends, love, and respect by his very greed. He didn’t learn until divine intervention forced him to. It wasn’t that it was wrong to be wealthy. What was wrong was that his love of money itself above anything and everything else that led to his present condition. It corrupted him.
Its about how the love of money (greed) can overtake your life if you let it. To the detriment of Scrooge since he lost friends, love, and respect by his very greed. He didn’t learn until divine intervention forced him to. It wasn’t that it was wrong to be wealthy. What was wrong was that his love of money itself above anything and everything else that led to his present condition. It corrupted him.
Zincy 
In Vino Veritas
Congress passes a law that can effectively kill off entire industries, disenfranchise marglinized groups, threaten the saftey of sex workers, and lead to porn bans.
Yet, they kill a bill meant to make ad companies more transparent in who pays their checks in an effort to make sure that hostile nationals can no longer influence elections in our country.
Priorities
Bought and Paid For.
Yet, they kill a bill meant to make ad companies more transparent in who pays their checks in an effort to make sure that hostile nationals can no longer influence elections in our country.
Priorities
Bought and Paid For.
Zincy
In Vino Veritas
The stock-market is set to have its worst year since 2008. The tariffs are eating into farming and steel, with the bailouts being halted due to “reasons”. 0 new coal mines or refinery plants have opened, in fact several are closing down. North Korea is still building nukes, and is threatening to pull out of talks. Trump wants to shut down the government unless Congress agrees to put us further into dept, and the GOP will bear the brunt of the blame. Regulatory roll-backs have led to a stream of recalls, and the Republican controlled congress passed a set of bills that are disastrously unpopular with the youth vote.
The tax law is unpopular, the ACA is still popular, and the preexisting coverage is extremely popular. Brett pissed off the evangelicals, and Trumps own appointed judges are leading the investigation into his New York finances.
His inner circle is collapsing, Ruby flat out admitted that Trump lied (but it’s ok because he wasn’t under oath), and over 60% of Americans believe that Trump is lying. The Russia investigation has shown systemic corruption throughout the upper chambers of our government, and a new domino falls each day. Hiring has slowed, growth has slowed, and if the stock-market goes bear it’ll drag the wages with it.
All in all, the end of 2018 has been a rather rocky ride. Especially for the GOP.
The tax law is unpopular, the ACA is still popular, and the preexisting coverage is extremely popular. Brett pissed off the evangelicals, and Trumps own appointed judges are leading the investigation into his New York finances.
His inner circle is collapsing, Ruby flat out admitted that Trump lied (but it’s ok because he wasn’t under oath), and over 60% of Americans believe that Trump is lying. The Russia investigation has shown systemic corruption throughout the upper chambers of our government, and a new domino falls each day. Hiring has slowed, growth has slowed, and if the stock-market goes bear it’ll drag the wages with it.
All in all, the end of 2018 has been a rather rocky ride. Especially for the GOP.
Dustcan 
Dogs
Fox News cries about censorship after Grand Wizard Tucker Carlson’s latest segment of His Kampf lost the network a new advertiser.
Basically:
Tucker: Immigrants are filthy and shouldn’t be here.
Advertiser: We don’t feel comfortable being associated with that toxicity.
Fox News: How dare you not give us money while we spread White Supremacy! This is a Left Wing conspiracy!
Basically:
Tucker: Immigrants are filthy and shouldn’t be here.
Advertiser: We don’t feel comfortable being associated with that toxicity.
Fox News: How dare you not give us money while we spread White Supremacy! This is a Left Wing conspiracy!
Derpy Whooves 
Looking For My Doctor
@Violet Rose in The Rain
You misunderstand. I’m still pissed at you for trying to tar and feather me. That’s not a “persecution complex” - that’s “I’m sick of your shit” and I’m not going to just sit here and let you come after me like that just because I’m a volunteer on the site.
You probably assumed I was a safe target for that kind of personal abuse, but I’m also a user on the site, and I’m getting pretty tired of people assuming they can just go after me as much as they want because I can’t talk back to them.
So, if you actually need help with the site, that’s different. Then I’ll support and serve you however I can. But if you’re just going to personally go after me for whatever your current fantasies are about what everyone around you is doing, then … well, I don’t have to put up with that. You’re basically in the same ballpark as Ainz, as far as that is concerned.
I just find it ironic that you’re convinced that I’m alt-right, and Ainz is convinced that I’m alt-left.
When what I really am is tired of extremists like yourself who continually throw shade or openly attack people who disagree with them.
You misunderstand. I’m still pissed at you for trying to tar and feather me. That’s not a “persecution complex” - that’s “I’m sick of your shit” and I’m not going to just sit here and let you come after me like that just because I’m a volunteer on the site.
You probably assumed I was a safe target for that kind of personal abuse, but I’m also a user on the site, and I’m getting pretty tired of people assuming they can just go after me as much as they want because I can’t talk back to them.
So, if you actually need help with the site, that’s different. Then I’ll support and serve you however I can. But if you’re just going to personally go after me for whatever your current fantasies are about what everyone around you is doing, then … well, I don’t have to put up with that. You’re basically in the same ballpark as Ainz, as far as that is concerned.
I just find it ironic that you’re convinced that I’m alt-right, and Ainz is convinced that I’m alt-left.
When what I really am is tired of extremists like yourself who continually throw shade or openly attack people who disagree with them.
Derpy Whooves
Looking For My Doctor
@Zincy
@Thanotos Omega
I really loved the Henry Winkler adaption, An American Christmas Carol, where Scrooge grew up in a factory family where he learned the trade of making furniture, and went into money lending very slowly, and in great conflict with the rest of his family, by promoting people buying furniture from his family’s business on credit.
So - in that story, he came from a factory family and made his family rich by selling furniture on credit, and making more money on the terms of the credit than on the furniture.
But after the “Christmas Night” with the ghosts, he goes out and, basically, brings gifts to his employee’s house and talks with the “Bob Cratchit” equivalent about his son’s affliction, and how they are going to need to work closer together in the years to come to make sure that the company is going to survive Scrooge’s death. Then Scrooge goes to an orphanage and “acquires” an orphan, returns to the burnt out remains of his family’s factory and talks to the child about how this was where he started out life, and it’s where the child will start out his life, too. And they sit for awhile and whittle in the burnt out building.
The child asks him what he’s whittling, and Henry Winkler says something like “A wand. Or maybe a lance.”, and he asks the child what he is whittling, and the child says; “A chair leg”.
Then the show ends with Scrooge showing up at his brother’s house and apologizing and having dinner with them.
It’s … a more modern telling of the story, but I liked it, because instead of the overnight transformation into someone shoveling coins out of his pockets, in this story Scrooge did things that actually changed the world.
He mended bridges, built new industry, and invested his savings into creating more prosperity for more people.
And he ensured his legacy by adopting a son, and choosing Bob as a new partner to make sure his family’s legacy had someone to carry it on.
And, he was legitimately bad at being a “good guy” the next day. He sucked at it. But he did it anyway because he understood that everyone hated how he had behaved, and he had earned that hatred.
But he still did the right thing from that day forward.
I liked it. In fact, I’m going to go rewatch it.
@Thanotos Omega
I really loved the Henry Winkler adaption, An American Christmas Carol, where Scrooge grew up in a factory family where he learned the trade of making furniture, and went into money lending very slowly, and in great conflict with the rest of his family, by promoting people buying furniture from his family’s business on credit.
So - in that story, he came from a factory family and made his family rich by selling furniture on credit, and making more money on the terms of the credit than on the furniture.
But after the “Christmas Night” with the ghosts, he goes out and, basically, brings gifts to his employee’s house and talks with the “Bob Cratchit” equivalent about his son’s affliction, and how they are going to need to work closer together in the years to come to make sure that the company is going to survive Scrooge’s death. Then Scrooge goes to an orphanage and “acquires” an orphan, returns to the burnt out remains of his family’s factory and talks to the child about how this was where he started out life, and it’s where the child will start out his life, too. And they sit for awhile and whittle in the burnt out building.
The child asks him what he’s whittling, and Henry Winkler says something like “A wand. Or maybe a lance.”, and he asks the child what he is whittling, and the child says; “A chair leg”.
Then the show ends with Scrooge showing up at his brother’s house and apologizing and having dinner with them.
It’s … a more modern telling of the story, but I liked it, because instead of the overnight transformation into someone shoveling coins out of his pockets, in this story Scrooge did things that actually changed the world.
He mended bridges, built new industry, and invested his savings into creating more prosperity for more people.
And he ensured his legacy by adopting a son, and choosing Bob as a new partner to make sure his family’s legacy had someone to carry it on.
And, he was legitimately bad at being a “good guy” the next day. He sucked at it. But he did it anyway because he understood that everyone hated how he had behaved, and he had earned that hatred.
But he still did the right thing from that day forward.
I liked it. In fact, I’m going to go rewatch it.
Violet Rose in The Rain
@Derpy Whooves
Please point out to me where I directly stated that you’re alt-right.
Edit: And before you bring up the post where I said, “Is this the hill you want to die on,” that was what I merely asked. Apologising for and being alt-right isn’t the same fucking thing.
Please point out to me where I directly stated that you’re alt-right.
Edit: And before you bring up the post where I said, “Is this the hill you want to die on,” that was what I merely asked. Apologising for and being alt-right isn’t the same fucking thing.
Commune 
You mean the video where he crashed into a crowd ? Yeah I’ll say he would be surrounded by people if he fucking tried to run a bunch of them over in a tight space
This is a whole new low for you, buddy. Defending a murderer
🚙
@Zincy
The video showed him surrounded by angry protesters. Where is the evidence that there was no one behind him and he reversed and shifted gears and sped into the crowd?
You mean the video where he crashed into a crowd ? Yeah I’ll say he would be surrounded by people if he fucking tried to run a bunch of them over in a tight space
This is a whole new low for you, buddy. Defending a murderer
ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ 
Zamasu
@Broken Adam
A number of ways. Including, but not limited to:
-Spending too much.
-Investing in the wrong things.
-Lawsuits, divorces, tax assessments, etc.
A number of ways. Including, but not limited to:
-Spending too much.
-Investing in the wrong things.
-Lawsuits, divorces, tax assessments, etc.
neutralgrey 
Ok. Who’s feeding you this crap? Fox News? InfoWars? Brietbart? Or one of the hundreds of YouTube talking heads?
@Zincy
The video showed him surrounded by angry protesters. Where is the evidence that there was no one behind him and he reversed and shifted gears and sped into the crowd?
Ok. Who’s feeding you this crap? Fox News? InfoWars? Brietbart? Or one of the hundreds of YouTube talking heads?
Kiryu-Chan
World's Okayest User
Trump Foundation dissolves amid allegations that it was used for personal and political benefit
WaPo article
Sounds like they admit it to me
WaPo article
Sounds like they admit it to me
Background Pony #1F81
@Ainz Ooal Gown
@Zincy
Ainz is just going to keep on ignoring everything.
Even when we have a shit tone of proof and footage about the guy running someone over.
@Zincy
Ainz is just going to keep on ignoring everything.
Even when we have a shit tone of proof and footage about the guy running someone over.
Background Pony #1F81
@Background Pony #F147
@Violet Rose in The Rain
I thought the whole point of his story was “Don’t be a dick and treat people better”?
@Violet Rose in The Rain
I thought the whole point of his story was “Don’t be a dick and treat people better”?
Zincy
In Vino Veritas
Some talking head on Fox was praising the judge who was ruling over Flynn saying that they “knew over reach when he saw it” and “wasn’t afraid of the swamp”.
Hours later, said judge absolutely tears into Flynn and calls him a traitor to the union.
Good job Fox, you played yourself.
Hours later, said judge absolutely tears into Flynn and calls him a traitor to the union.
Good job Fox, you played yourself.
Dustcan
Dogs
And after Grand Wizard Tucker Carlson’s latest anti-immigrant screed cost the network now 5 advertisers he’s tried to backtrack with a “Some of my best friends are immigrants” spiel to beg for them to return. Nobody buys it.
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