I think I've decided to vote for hillary

[shunyadragon]

Amazing! Somehow a person knows all the millions of losers and all the millions of gainers. What's more, she could determine that the good that gainers got outweighs the bad that the losers got. I am awestruck.

My wife is a winner, and many of my friends. I am not a great advocate of Obamacare, but the failure of many generations of politicians to 'Bell the Cat' and solve the problem. Truman proposed a workable healthcare plan
and it was rejected with paranoid fears, and every administration and congress since has failed to present a plan that would solve the problems. We have Obamacare in part because of this huge neglect and when Republicans were in charge they offered nothing to solve the problems. The Republicans refused to have any input when Obamacare was enacted and now refuse to propose a working reform. They just want to repeal it without offering an alternative. Not a great track record controled by interference by the insurance companies.

[Carrikature]

I don't think so...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0646cbeeb1b1c

But it was a tribute to her sense of humor.

That makes a lot more sense.

[Carrikature]

I just think that's the wrong word to use in the same context. Pacifism to me denotes doing nothing even if you're attacked. Interventionism to me denotes getting involved in foreign matters that don't concern us, or only concern a few against the many. They're like night and day.

That might be a lack of information on your part, then. Certainly there are absolute pacifists that will not act violently even in self-defense, but that is neither required nor the norm. It's possible to consider all violence morally wrong even while recognizing there are some instances where it's unavoidable. It's also possible, and I'd say more common, for pacifists to view violence as an absolute last resort that's only available as a means of defense.

[Sparko]

Yeah. There's been a lot of stories of people who say they will move up here if so-and-so wins. Like Alex Baldwin if GWB got in for a second term, etc. Seems they are as full of hot air as the politicians, as they haven't moved here......yet.

I say to them, who says we want your kind here? Stay in your own mess.

Half of all celebrities in hollywood are already Candadian. They would just be going home.

[seanD]

That might be a lack of information on your part, then. Certainly there are absolute pacifists that will not act violently even in self-defense, but that is neither required nor the norm. It's possible to consider all violence morally wrong even while recognizing there are some instances where it's unavoidable. It's also possible, and I'd say more common, for pacifists to view violence as an absolute last resort that's only available as a means of defense.

Technically speaking, yeah. But a lot of people view the word the way I do, which is why it's often used as a pejorative term. I know, because I've had it used against me in the past for my anti-interventionist views on foreign policy. I've heard it wrongly used against people like Ron Paul for his anti-interventionist views. It's easy to create a false dichotomy against anti-interventionists by those who are exceptionally fond of unnecessarily intervening in wars and conflicts all over the world.

[Carrikature]

Technically speaking, yeah. But a lot of people view the word the way I do, which is why it's often used as a pejorative term. I know, because I've had it used against me in the past for my anti-interventionist views on foreign policy. I've heard it wrongly used against people like Ron Paul for his anti-interventionist views. It's easy to create a false dichotomy against anti-interventionists by those who are exceptionally fond of unnecessarily intervening in wars and conflicts all over the world.

Because life isn't confusing enough, we use the same word in multiple ways.

[mossrose]

Half of all celebrities in hollywood are already Candadian. They would just be going home.

You can keep those ones, too.

Unless they are conservative.