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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 16:30:26
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Also also not really, but okay.
That's not how she sees it.

It's everyone else's fault but her own. Obviously, because she is The Anointed One™
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By Nausi 2017-06-01 16:44:02
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That happens when "the future of planet Earth" is exploited for political gain.
The U.S. is the only country where climate change has been made a political issue. I'm glad you think this is what winning looks like.

It is the biggest political con of our time.

What's the point of spending all that money if it doesn't change things beyond the margin of error?
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By Garuda.Chanti 2017-06-01 16:44:31
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
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Saevel, that was for KN who actually knows something about taxation and economics.
..you do know that, unless appropriately named tax (like Federal Gas Tax or most "sin" taxes), it comes out the General Fund. Which, all income tax supports.

There is no specified tax for this, so it's paid 100% by the General Fund.
What is payed for? The climate accord isn't something that is funded, its an agreement by the member countries to reduce emissions.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2017-06-01 16:48:17
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Ex-DNC aide hits back hard at Clinton, says her campaign ignored data on Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
WaPo.

And pretty hard hitting not to mention full of juicy tweets, none from our tweeter in chief.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:02:54
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Garuda.Chanti said: »
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Saevel, that was for KN who actually knows something about taxation and economics.
..you do know that, unless appropriately named tax (like Federal Gas Tax or most "sin" taxes), it comes out the General Fund. Which, all income tax supports.

There is no specified tax for this, so it's paid 100% by the General Fund.
What is payed for? The climate accord isn't something that is funded, its an agreement by the member countries to reduce emissions.
Well, we certainly aren't putting in towards the stated $100 billion per year goal, of which Obama already gave out a little over $1 billion last year.

Or are you thinking that these other 148 countries are going to pay anywhere close to the lion's share of the funding goals that Obama pledged the US will do? Hell, China hasn't even paid their pledged amount of $3 billion they owe from last year. You honestly think they are going to pay that, and this year's, and next?

Yeah, like NATO, this "treaty" was made with America paying for the world in mind.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:03:08
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Sylph.Cherche said: »
Also also not really, but okay.
That's not how she sees it.

It's everyone else's fault but her own. Obviously, because she is The Anointed One™
If you want to dig through all 571 of my posts (on this character) and pick out exactly where I said her campaign was run impeccably well, feel free.

Doesn't mean she wasn't the better option.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:04:01
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I completely expect the reality deniers to dismiss my source anyway, since it does come from a climate blog. But at least it outlines what was agreed to financially.

Something they think comes out of thin air.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:04:57
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Doesn't mean she wasn't the better option.
Except she wasn't. I would have thought that you would have figured that out by now....
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:06:17
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Dunno, a majority of the people who voted certainly thought she was.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:07:09
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Dunno, a majority of the people who voted certainly thought she was.
Good thing they were playing by the Electoral College, where the president is picked by the states, not by a state.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:09:59
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Wasn't aware only a single state was blue.

Weird.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2017-06-01 17:13:21
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Cerberus.Pleebo said: »
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That happens when "the future of planet Earth" is exploited for political gain.
The U.S. is the only country where climate change has been made a political issue. I'm glad you think this is what winning looks like.

I'm glad you think I care about what other countries do. I prefer to live in a country where I'm not taxed into oblivion for minimal, ambiguous gains at the expense of the economy.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:15:30
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Wasn't aware only a single state was blue.

Weird.
Do you really want to talk about how the vast majority of the country is painted Red?

Should I get out the electoral results map again?

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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:17:15
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Still looks like more than one state, but okay.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2017-06-01 17:19:55
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Dunno, a majority of the people who voted certainly thought she was.

/facepalm

We've only been over this fifty times, but I'll say it again....

If we reran the election where the popular vote was the goal of the election, the totals would have been entirely different. It is 100% irrelevant to make comments about popular votes in a competition where it's not the core metric the candidates are shooting for.

Btw, the Panthers had 121 more yards in Super Bowl 50, so they really won, not the Broncos who had more points.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:21:17
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It does matter when people are, somehow, flabbergasted at the civil unrest.

And then proceed to inaccurately point out how civil their side was both times Obama won.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:22:18
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Or are somehow confused at the concept that Trump, to many many people, is/was not the best candidate available by any stretch of the imagination.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:23:29
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Were there riots on the streets during the weeks after Obama was elected (well, other than Occupy Wall Street, but we can debate that being an Obama-made disaster if you would like) because he was elected?

Hell, there wasn't any busted windows, destroyed cars, or burned down buildings due to Obama being elected. Can't say that about Trump though.....
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2017-06-01 17:24:28
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Or are somehow confused at the concept that Trump, to many many people, is/was not the best candidate available by any stretch of the imagination.
Nobody is saying that (well, other than Nausi, but he wants the world to burn).

Trump was slightly better than Clinton. The election proved that.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:30:34
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Probably because they were too busy making signs implying very strongly he should be lynched.
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Were there riots on the streets during the weeks after Obama was elected (well, other than Occupy Wall Street, but we can debate that being an Obama-made disaster if you would like) because he was elected?

Hell, there wasn't any busted windows, destroyed cars, or burned down buildings due to Obama being elected. Can't say that about Trump though.....
If you want to ignore the large spike in racial violence immediately after the 2008 election results, specifically towards Muslim and Black minorities, sure.
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By Nausi 2017-06-01 17:31:59
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Sylph.Cherche said: »
Wasn't aware only a single state was blue.

Weird.

Good ol Massachusetts, where every night I peer out my windows and pray my sjw liberal neighbors don't stumble across my twitter account.
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 17:33:52
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
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Or are somehow confused at the concept that Trump, to many many people, is/was not the best candidate available by any stretch of the imagination.
Nobody is saying that (well, other than Nausi, but he wants the world to burn).

Trump was slightly better than Clinton. The election proved that.
Over half the people who voters disagree.

Unless you honestly believe winning an election means you were the right person for the job.

Because, y'know, Hitler won an election. And even Holocaust stuff asside, he did a pretty terrible job.
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By Cerberus.Pleebo 2017-06-01 17:41:16
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I'm glad you think I care about what other countries do. I prefer to live in a country where I'm not taxed into oblivion for minimal, ambiguous gains at the expense of the economy.
There's nothing minimal about a 2 degree increase, which is what the agreement is trying to avoid. There's nothing ambiguous about cutting emissions, the core of the *** problem, by 20% below previous records.

We're now the country with its fingers in its ears going "la la la can't hear you". Not acknowledging that climate change is an issue and not wanting to actually DO anything about it are functionally the same so it doesn't really matter what people "believe" anymore. And we just sent a message to the world that the U.S. can't be trusted enough to get its ***together to help tackle a global problem.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2017-06-01 17:41:34
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The best person for the job of President is probably someone in the middle of nowhere that nobody has ever heard of and who has no intention of ever getting into politics.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2017-06-01 17:54:09
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I'm glad you think I care about what other countries do. I prefer to live in a country where I'm not taxed into oblivion for minimal, ambiguous gains at the expense of the economy.
There's nothing minimal about a 2 degree increase, which is what the agreement is trying to avoid. There's nothing ambiguous about cutting emissions, the core of the *** problem, by 20% below previous records.

We're now the country with its fingers in its ears going "la la la can't hear you". Not acknowledging that climate change is an issue and not wanting to actually DO anything about it are functionally the same so it doesn't really matter what people "believe" anymore. And we just sent a message to the world that the U.S. can't be trusted enough to get its ***together to help tackle a global problem.

Here's where you're missing the point on this. There's no guarantee that my taxpayer money would actually fix anything. The climate accords can't guarantee to fix a single thing you say is a problem. When your feel-good, non-binding measures start hitting me in my wallet, then screw that noise.
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By Cerberus.Pleebo 2017-06-01 18:41:05
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That's an infantile way to look at this. You don't mind massive defense spending, the scale of which dwarfs anything associated with this agreement. Does it guarantee the safety of you or the people you know?
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By Sylph.Cherche 2017-06-01 18:44:41
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Sure didn't stop 9/11 or prevent soldiers from being sent to die in a war over a lie.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2017-06-01 18:44:50
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Cerberus.Pleebo said: »
That's an infantile way to look at this. You don't mind massive defense spending, the scale of which dwarfs anything associated with this agreement. Does it guarantee the safety of you or the people you know?

I'm an opponent of bloat and waste in any form when it comes to government spending. However, that being said....

*Looks at the number of recent, foreign attacks on U.S. soil*

I can't say that I'm wholly unsatisfied.
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Cerberus.Pleebo said: »
That's an infantile way to look at this. You don't mind massive defense spending, the scale of which dwarfs anything associated with this agreement. Does it guarantee the safety of you or the people you know?
I know you believe this stuff, but the rest of us believe that it's a con job and we will all be better off in the wake of its absence.
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