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Who else is excited for BETO??
Oh, no one?
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i am only curious. he doesn’t look serious. i am waiting for a sensible centrist to come to the foreground. yes, it’s hard to excite primary voters with rationality. but no fucking way do i want the gubmint to destroy the economy, pick market favorites, add more cops, and protect incumbents MORE than they already do.
command economies inevitably tank.
there’s a sensible balance between free enterprise and regulation, and nobody is offering it right now.
e.g., fixing obamacare, maybe along swiss lines.
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The fact that Bernie's running and these centrists who pay lip service to the left think they have it in the bag, holy shit. What lane do Beto, Warren or Kamala think they occupy? Kamala is out here pretending she smoked weed and was listening to 2pac when she was younger when she was actually locking up young black men for the same thing is something, how dumb does she think black people are?
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i don’t know. i don’t make the laws, much less in california. but was she guilty of prosecutorial misconduct? or was she doing her job?
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I mean, I'd reincarnate Lenin to get you Yanks into shape but the crystal magik hasn't been working recently. Bernie is the right choice to me this go around, especially against Trump.
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i guess you’re too young to have seen first hand the consequences of leninism but the history books are there. it was a fucking disaster. stalinism was not an accident but a logical consequence. lenin is not funny.
as for bernie, of course he looks attractive if you can believe his promises. i don’t. they’re fictions. macroeconomics always wins. it’s like gravity.
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Trump will eviscerate all the candidates announced so far besides Bernie. It's hard for Trump to tear apart an opponent who's principled and doesn't fall for his bait. Warren ran away and did an ancestry test to prove that she was 0.00000132143% Native or something. GOD, SHE TOOK THE BAIT. What is it about Trump that these people don't understand? Typical vapid political moves don't work with him, he's immune.
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yes this is a good point. i used to love warren, but she has shown to be a smarmy idiot.
i’d like to see a trump bernie debate just for shits and giggles. maybe snl can do one if they haven’t yet.
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This year will be horrible. I don't even wanna read the Brexit thread here.
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yeah... we are all going to be affected by brexit, but some people more directly than others.
do you think scotland will attemp a second uk splinter and rejoin europe after brexit? what about the possibility of irish reunification? im not up to date on those issues.