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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Still, free health care.

@ErsatzEmperor

"Free."

As I'm sure I've ranted about earlier, my own experience with free healthcare in the States has soured me on that whole concept. But that's why I'm not the PM, I suppose.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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I wonder what side of the political spectrum they fell on....

@Dynamo Frokane

Uberconservative*. There, now you all can quit bickering over it, lol.

*Uberconservative probably doesn't mean what you think it means. This was in New York, these were not rednecks, they were generally really awesome, smart, well-adjusted and successful people, like engineers and architects and actual doctors and the like. Not big on sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll, and somehow videogames (which were just finding their way into homes/mainstream) got roped into that. Of course this was the same timeframe as like the whole Mortal Kombat gore debacle really kicked off for the first time, maybe the landscape was primed for hysterics. Anywho -- pretty sure the hearts were in the right place, but heads were firmly up their own asses. I really liked that church though.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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I wouldn't worry too much about it- misinformed right wing moral guardians have been whining about video games since the early days.

@Crimson Paladin

Back in my hard-core churchin' days, I heard many condemnations of Pokemon as satanism. Some folk are dumb.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Unfortunately, radical Islamic terrorism rears its head again, this time in New York. Thus far we know the man is an immigrant refugee by the name of Sayfullo Saipov who used a rented truck to drive down a bike path and strike victims, but had his vehicle disabled by a bus driver who rammed him to stop the attack. He then exited the vehicle, apparently proclaiming, some say screaming, "Allahu Akbar" several times, and brandished weapons - which may or may not have been actual firearms, the reporting conflicts. The policemen then shot him several times and managed to take him into custody alive.

This all comes roughly at the same time as the last remnants of the Islamic State calls for terrorism on Halloween night. The attacks are said not to be coordinated, but more are potentially expected. I myself am hearing a shooting, possibly connected to terrorism, just occurred in Europe.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Interesting tidbit (or not interesting, shut up), my dad takes that bike route all the time, and was there this afternoon just minutes before the attack. Y'all might've had to deal with a very extremely upset mdk if the timing was just a bit different. Kinda surreal.

NaNoWriMo Discussion

I've done it a couple of times. You should try this. It does not matter if you're writing total crap. The sheer act of completing the challenge will improve your writing -- heck, getting close will improve your writing. It's something everybody ought to do.

.....also I have no idea what I'm writing, or how far I'll get, but I'm going for it again.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I have to be perfectly honest, @mdk, that once I heard the Podesta Group and Mercury were and are involved, alongside Tony Podesta stepping down, and the dates Manafort is being investigated for all coinciding, I could not help but crack a grin. It is truly amazing to know that this is all they have managed to dredge, more fascinatingly there is also evidence to suggest they intentionally made no mention to the Trump campaign that the investigation had more or less started as far back as 2014 on these same issues. To add a crown to this, let us not forget that today was supposed to be "The Day" for collusion evidence...

... and nothing, nothing at all. Instead we even came to learn they rejected opportunities to meet with Russian leaders over legal concerns from the start as with Papadopolous. It was apparently even rejected by Manafort and was the White House who provided the evidence at all for the investigation.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Well yeah, this has to be a let-down for the collusion narrative crowd. But still, I was wrong about Manafort and I'll own that. Mueller apparently running a pretty tight ship, which I never expected out of the investigation -- some of those indictments announced today were a year old and nobody knew about 'em. That's a leak-free probe.

Whenever the story is "Trump isn't guilty," they seem to find a way to plug the leaks.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

FBI used investigation to raid Manafort, presumably found nothing because nothing came of it.

@mdk

whoops.

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So you've accepted I didn't call you a racist? Brilliant, glad we could clear that up Pal.

@Dynamo Frokane

That is the strangest apology I've ever read.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

.....figures.

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Do you want me to start quoting you again?

@Dynamo Frokane

No.

129-130. I want you to either (a) recognize that the way you treat people in here is not very nice, not very fair, and change that behavior; or (b) at least stop pretending you're "strictly focused on the argument" and "very respectful." You're not. And I can put up with that, I just don't like the pretending part, given your attacks on me.

Or I guess (c), explain the reading of 129-130's exchange that doesn't constitute calling me racist. Hey, I've been wrong before. Not often, but it happens. What'd you really mean?