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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:15 pm

Triassica wrote:Because the polices of the elected Republican Party is nothing but hostile nonsense..

You seem to have learned exactly nothing from the loss of The Flutterlands. Perhaps three days off will help, though I'm not holding my breath.

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Postby Bienenhalde » Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:27 pm

Triassica wrote:I don't get how calling a political party evil for wanting to make it easier to cause extinctions for the sake of profit is "generalizing" and "hyperbole"...


Because it is false and it is not the platform of the Republican party? I mean, maybe certain Republicans would support such an extreme and controversial position, but many would oppose it as well.

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Postby Shofercia » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:13 pm

Triassica wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/climate/endangered-species-act-trump-administration.html

Bringing it here and I'll say it again, voting Republican this midterm is becoming increasingly a crime against nature.


Looks like I'm going to be a criminal. I'm voting for at least one Republican.


Thermodolia wrote:
Triassica wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/climate/endangered-species-act-trump-administration.html

Bringing it here and I'll say it again, voting Republican this midterm is becoming increasingly a crime against nature.

I want to vote republican more than ever now. Mainly because the salt is going to be awesome


When I was in Texas, they had a drink named Liberal Tears. It was quite salty.


Conserative Morality wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:I want to vote republican more than ever now. Mainly because the salt is going to be awesome

Democracy was a mistake.


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Thermodolia wrote:Yes. Join me a new age of Military Rule with Direct Rule from Washington!!


No thanks. I'd rather not turn Soldier Field into a makeshift prison/torture chamber like the Condors did.


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Postby Shrillland » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:16 pm

Shofercia wrote:
Triassica wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/climate/endangered-species-act-trump-administration.html

Bringing it here and I'll say it again, voting Republican this midterm is becoming increasingly a crime against nature.


Looks like I'm going to be a criminal. I'm voting for at least one Republican.


Thermodolia wrote:I want to vote republican more than ever now. Mainly because the salt is going to be awesome


When I was in Texas, they had a drink named Liberal Tears. It was quite salty.


Conserative Morality wrote:Democracy was a mistake.


How dare do the people disagree with CM?!


Shrillland wrote:
No thanks. I'd rather not turn Soldier Field into a makeshift prison/torture chamber like the Condors did.


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It's what I have. Better them than the Rams. Remember their last game in St. Louis had an audience of 19, and that includes the twelve birds that flew into the stadium.
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Postby Shofercia » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:20 pm

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Northern Davincia wrote:Got room for a triumvirate?


Freezic Vast wrote:I'd be up for it if we form the Triumverate of America.


<_<

It can't be a triumvirate with four people


I see your dictatorship's off to a great start :P


Triassica wrote:
Freezic Vast wrote:Maybe because you don't understand what evil actually is.

Greed isn't evil?


NSG posters are evil. I'll prove it. In order to create an NSG poster, you need time and money. So:

NSG poster = Time * Money
But Time = Money since with time you can make money, ergo:

NSG poster = Money Squared
But money is the root of all evil, ergo Money Squared = Evil

Thus, NSG poster = Evil

Mathematically proven :D


Shrillland wrote:It's what I have. Better them than the Rams. Remember their last game in St. Louis had an audience of 19, and that includes the twelve birds that flew into the stadium.


But now they're in LA, so they're going to have attendance, and they'll start winning... eventually. Now California just needs to steal St. Louis' Hockey and Baseball teams :P
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Postby Big Jim P » Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:03 am

Shofercia wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:


<_<

It can't be a triumvirate with four people


I see your dictatorship's off to a great start :P


Triassica wrote:Greed isn't evil?


NSG posters are evil. I'll prove it. In order to create an NSG poster, you need time and money. So:

NSG poster = Time * Money
But Time = Money since with time you can make money, ergo:

NSG poster = Money Squared
But money is the root of all evil, ergo Money Squared = Evil

Thus, NSG poster = Evil

Mathematically proven :D


Shrillland wrote:It's what I have. Better them than the Rams. Remember their last game in St. Louis had an audience of 19, and that includes the twelve birds that flew into the stadium.


But now they're in LA, so they're going to have attendance, and they'll start winning... eventually. Now California just needs to steal St. Louis' Hockey and Baseball teams :P


Pish. I can prove I'm perfect. 8)
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Postby Northern Davincia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:26 am

Shofercia wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:


<_<

It can't be a triumvirate with four people


I see your dictatorship's off to a great start :P

Let the junta begin!
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:20 am

Shrillland wrote:
Freezic Vast wrote:Trump coming to Wilkes-Barre to stump for Barletta, sources say
Let's see what difference this could make for the PA Senate seat.

At a 15 point trailing, it might give him a bump, but little else.

Barletta will be lucky to get more than two sentences of support before the whole thing turns into another standard Trump rally.


Thermodolia wrote:
Triassica wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/climate/endangered-species-act-trump-administration.html

Bringing it here and I'll say it again, voting Republican this midterm is becoming increasingly a crime against nature.

I want to vote republican more than ever now. Mainly because the salt is going to be awesome

Wanting endangered species to go extinct because "the salt!" is properly fucked up.


Shofercia wrote:
Triassica wrote:Greed isn't evil?


NSG posters are evil. I'll prove it. In order to create an NSG poster, you need time and money. So:

NSG poster = Time * Money
But Time = Money since with time you can make money, ergo:

NSG poster = Money Squared
But money is the root of all evil, ergo Money Squared = Evil

Thus, NSG poster = Evil

Mathematically proven :D

This all falls apart with the premise that Time = Money. If Time = Money wrt NSG, then I would be posting from a golden throne perched atop the entire DeBeers diamond stockpile, typing on a keys made of the ivory of resurrected woolly mammoths.

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Postby Corrian » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:02 pm

So I've gotten my primary ballot, and there are 29 freaking US Senate candidates. I went through them today and yesterday and narrowed it down to like 4 options.
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:03 pm

Corrian wrote:So I've gotten my primary ballot, and there are 29 freaking US Senate candidates. I went through them today and yesterday and narrowed it down to like 4 options.


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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:03 pm

Corrian wrote:So I've gotten my primary ballot, and there are 29 freaking US Senate candidates. I went through them today and yesterday and narrowed it down to like 4 options.

29? What state are you in?

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Postby Corrian » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:03 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Corrian wrote:So I've gotten my primary ballot, and there are 29 freaking US Senate candidates. I went through them today and yesterday and narrowed it down to like 4 options.

29? What state are you in?

Washington. My state has no party affiliation so everyone and their mother runs.
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:04 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Shofercia wrote:
NSG posters are evil. I'll prove it. In order to create an NSG poster, you need time and money. So:

NSG poster = Time * Money
But Time = Money since with time you can make money, ergo:

NSG poster = Money Squared
But money is the root of all evil, ergo Money Squared = Evil

Thus, NSG poster = Evil

Mathematically proven :D

This all falls apart with the premise that Time = Money. If Time = Money wrt NSG, then I would be posting from a golden throne perched atop the entire DeBeers diamond stockpile, typing on a keys made of the ivory of resurrected woolly mammoths.


Time = Money when you work, so just think of all the money you've wasted by being on NSG instead of working overtime :P
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Postby The South Falls » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:05 pm

Shofercia wrote:
Ifreann wrote:This all falls apart with the premise that Time = Money. If Time = Money wrt NSG, then I would be posting from a golden throne perched atop the entire DeBeers diamond stockpile, typing on a keys made of the ivory of resurrected woolly mammoths.


Time = Money when you work, so just think of all the money you've wasted by being on NSG instead of working overtime :P

Billions of dollars. We should make a fund for that.
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:06 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Corrian wrote:So I've gotten my primary ballot, and there are 29 freaking US Senate candidates. I went through them today and yesterday and narrowed it down to like 4 options.

29? What state are you in?


Only 29? Try 159: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... l_election

In hindsight, I should've campaigned. I would've made it into the top half!
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:09 pm

The South Falls wrote:
Shofercia wrote:
Time = Money when you work, so just think of all the money you've wasted by being on NSG instead of working overtime :P

Billions of dollars. We should make a fund for that.


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Postby Corrian » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:09 pm

I also narrowed it down to a few options for everything else, too.

A few of the Republicans up here honestly doesn't sound too bad, but I still prefer the Democrats or independents. We've got a few decent moderate Republicans running.

One didn't even sound like a Republican with the things he proposed (Besides making English the official US language)
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Postby The South Falls » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:11 pm

Shofercia wrote:
San Lumen wrote:29? What state are you in?


Only 29? Try 159: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... l_election

In hindsight, I should've campaigned. I would've made it into the top half!

I can see you campaigning in the oversize field. And debates. Yeesh. They'd have to go so low there'd be a sperm's table.
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:15 pm

The South Falls wrote:
Shofercia wrote:
Only 29? Try 159: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... l_election

In hindsight, I should've campaigned. I would've made it into the top half!

I can see you campaigning in the oversize field. And debates. Yeesh. They'd have to go so low there'd be a sperm's table.


We usually just take the top 6 or so for the debates. But I'd be certain to get at least 1,000 write in votes, which would've been enough for top half :P
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Postby Freezic Vast » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:17 pm

Shofercia wrote:
The South Falls wrote:Billions of dollars. We should make a fund for that.


The Nation-States' Gold bullion?

Use the money to help NS get a better server so it doesn't break down like it did today.
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Postby Petrasylvania » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:01 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Shrillland wrote:At a 15 point trailing, it might give him a bump, but little else.

Barletta will be lucky to get more than two sentences of support before the whole thing turns into another standard Trump rally.

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Postby Cannot think of a name » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:37 pm

Petrasylvania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Barletta will be lucky to get more than two sentences of support before the whole thing turns into another standard Trump rally.

Something something Electoral College victory something something Cwooked Hiwawee something something.

If the speech is after Fox & Friends we'll have a preview of what he'll ramble about.
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:03 pm

Freezic Vast wrote:
Shofercia wrote:
The Nation-States' Gold bullion?

Use the money to help NS get a better server so it doesn't break down like it did today.


Zing!

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They were and/or are called Old Baldy by an NSGer :P
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Postby Freezic Vast » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:08 pm

Shofercia wrote:
Freezic Vast wrote:Use the money to help NS get a better server so it doesn't break down like it did today.


Zing!

Trivia: What does Max Barry have in common with Confederate General Richard Stoddert Ewell?

They were and/or are called Old Baldy by an NSGer :P

Dun dun, ting.
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Postby Shofercia » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:18 pm

Freezic Vast wrote:
Shofercia wrote:
Zing!

Trivia: What does Max Barry have in common with Confederate General Richard Stoddert Ewell?

They were and/or are called Old Baldy by an NSGer :P

Dun dun, ting.


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