Conversation Between Aurafire and Anti
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  1. Anti
    March 4th, 2009 4:03 PM
    Anti
    I just wanted to be sure you were 100% kidding since he's clearly not a socialist (and since Rush is pretty damn bipartisan and mine was like 5% serious I was wondering the same...)

    Silly noob lern 2 pollitikz

    Oh, and not the entire media. There is FOX News, just like how if Obama was Republican there would be MSNBC
  2. Aurafire
    March 4th, 2009 3:55 PM
    Aurafire
    Lol, I was kidding mostly. He's not a socialist...He merely wants to shift the country towards more socialistic policies, like universal health care/increased government welfare support/the bank issue...And he's probably going to get most of those things accomplished seeing as he has the entire media behind him. No one's saying that it's not the governments job to intervene when times get tough, but I don't believe it's the government's job to control aspects of people's lives that can be handled without government aid. All it does is waste money. Also, quite frankly, I don't see how he's going to pay for everything he says he's going to pay for without raising taxes. Sure, people making under 250,000 won't see their taxes rise, and even if he raises taxes on the rich, it's not going to be enough. The top 1% of the income bracket pays something like 60-70% of all federal taxes right now. Besides hurting small businesses, his increase in government programs are going to cost billions and billions of dollars...And we've already spend 800 billion in the stimulus package. AND we're already over a trillion in debt. But he still says we're going to cut the deficit in half?

    I'm not necessarily against the man. All I'm saying is....If he pulls off everything he says he's going to pull off, he will be a freaking miracle worker.
  3. Anti
    March 4th, 2009 3:16 PM
    Anti
    but you do know that Obama isn't turning us socialist right? I mean in all fairness he really isn't at all and the criticism is completely bogus. I personally have problems with his "bipartisan" stimulus where the majority just ran over the Republicans, but socialism...unless you're saying Obama is turning us into the USSR? That I just don't understand. Russia was socialist. Poland was socialist. North Korea IS socialist. The United States...not socialist.

    EDIT: And yeah I know nationalizing banks seems really socialist and everything, but it's not like we're the next Soviet Union so why people are flipping out is beyond me. Wasteful spending is the problem with the stimulus, not socialist stuff. And hey, "socialism" (as in a few temporary socialist policies) worked for Sweden, and I haven't seen a Stalin or Lenin pop up there.

    btw my problem with conservatism and the Republicans actually isn't economics but social conservatism (like gay marriage and whatnot). Just so you know and I don't appear completely biased since I'm actually not =p

    Socialism is that criticism that just doesn't make sense...especially the guy who called Obama a social AND Hitler in the same sentence during the election @[email protected]
  4. Aurafire
    March 4th, 2009 2:59 PM
    Aurafire
    Socialism weak

    smash'd
  5. Anti
    March 4th, 2009 2:38 PM
    Anti
    bipartisanship weak

    destroyed
  6. Aurafire
    March 4th, 2009 1:55 PM
    Aurafire
    It's funny you mention him because he may or may not be a member of "Team Conservative" that I recently constructed.

    You've been warned >:D
  7. Anti
    March 4th, 2009 1:38 PM
    Anti
    lern 2 Limbaugh

    Sorry lol
  8. Aurafire
    March 4th, 2009 1:23 PM
    Aurafire
    No rush, I was just wondering because I had a few minutes before I was gonna go for a run. No problem at all =P
  9. Anti
    March 4th, 2009 1:20 PM
    Anti
    [stall]

    I didn't get all the sleep I wanted to tonight so I'd much rather do it over the weekend...will you be on then? I'll do it then or maybe tomorrow if I feel better.

    [/stall]
  10. Aurafire
    March 4th, 2009 1:18 PM
    Aurafire
    Shall we get this battle of ours over with? =P
  11. Aurafire
    March 3rd, 2009 6:47 PM
    Aurafire
    Well...success is a debatable thing. Success in his eyes will be radically different than success in a conservative's eyes. Which is why I'd rather not have him get reelected after this, but that's just me. I don't necessarily want him to fail...But you know what I mean. (I think =/...)

    Well, I'll be on whenever, since I spend entirely too much time here. So tomorrow or Thursday should work just fine. Ughhhhh...Don't even remind me about tests. I have like three midterms in two days next week X(
  12. Anti
    March 3rd, 2009 6:40 PM
    Anti
    Man why would anybody want Obama to fail ?_? Surely you'd think America >>> petty political divisions but I guess not =/ (@article linked). I would read into Steele more but I'm tired of politics. I prefer sticky threads =)

    But the real reason I wanted to VM you was our tournament match. I can do it whenever now that a stressful test I've been worrying about if finally out of my way. I can't do it now but anytime tomorrow or (preferably) Thursday works.
  13. Aurafire
    February 24th, 2009 8:32 PM
    Aurafire
    Anti, you clearly need to hang out at PC more >:

    <3 Spongebob btw. =]
  14. Aurafire
    February 16th, 2009 9:31 AM
    Aurafire
    Once Scizor got BP and Mence got Outrage, it was pretty much "K metagame just got screwed".

    Not to mention there's so many trick-scarfers out there...It gets really annoying. No variation!!! DX
  15. Anti
    February 16th, 2009 8:37 AM
    Anti
    Which is exactly why I hate Plat so much =(