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    If I had seen him staring down the riot cops in Ferguson, then I might think he actually cares. As it is, all he cares about is libertarian issues. He just thinks he might be able to sell them to black voters. Not the same thing at all.
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    Uh... no. Just... no. Seriously, @Namutree, if you think that's "caring about African American issues" and "good at showing it..." well, I don't know what to say. Edit: okay, I'll try. What he's doing here is this: one, he realizes that the GOP needs black voters. Two, his idea of how to get them is to sell them a couple of hoary libertarian talking points he thinks will resonate with them. And three, he's not even trying to sell them to black voters here: he's trying to sell the idea that he could sell them to black voters to his white voters. So, no. Even Karl Rove knows the GOP needs black and Hispanic votes to win. That's not enough. That's not even a start.
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    I believe Rand Paul has the power to change this if he becomes the republican nominee in 2016. LOL What's so funny about that? You weren't joking? I thought that was deadpan humor. Not joking. Okay. The GOP's long-term problem is that its electoral base consists of old and aging white men who actively shut down any attempt to address concerns relevant to any other demographic as "playing the race card" or "identity politics" or other such nonsense. Rand Paul panders to exactly that base. Therefore, I thought you must have been joking.
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    I believe Rand Paul has the power to change this if he becomes the republican nominee in 2016. LOL What's so funny about that? You weren't joking? I thought that was deadpan humor.
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    Doesn't have to be a war. Americans are, by and large, too old and too unfit to fight a proper civil war anyway. It's much more likely that any collapse of the US would be more like the collapse of the USSR, with any violence relatively local and relatively contained, and the disruption mainly economic and social.
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    I believe Rand Paul has the power to change this if he becomes the republican nominee in 2016. LOL If? What, are you expecting us to disappear? No. I'm just not ruling out the possibility.
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    Ow, my eyes.
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    Yep, I think that's the likeliest outcome. It'll be a pretty dramatic change though. The other possibility is that the GOP doesn't change, leaving the Democrats as the uncontested ruling party for a couple of cycles, until it splits down the middle into a liberal and conservative half. At that point, whatever sane voters the GOP has left will migrate to the con-dems leaving the rump GOP to wither away as an insignificant third party with a glorious past.
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    Keep thinking that. It's the fast track to irrelevance.
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    I don't get it. Are Hispanics and Blacks incapable of being conservative? Of course not. I believe the median black or Hispanic voter is actually more conservative than the median white voter, by most measures. If you don't understand what's stopping conservative blacks and Hispanics from voting Republican, my spelling it out for you is not likely to help. So I won't. Aaaah, they do not like white people. Is that it? It's kinda sad that such racism is still accepted in this day and age. Bill Clinton got more of almost as much of the black vote than as Barack Obama. Last I checked, he looks pretty pasty. Edit: Correction: Clinton got 82-84% of the black vote, Obama got 95%. Edit edit: point being, no, that's not the reason. A part of the reason, though, is that so many Republicans think it's the reason.
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    I don't get it. Are Hispanics and Blacks incapable of being conservative? Of course not. I believe the median black or Hispanic voter is actually more conservative than the median white voter, by most measures. If you don't understand what's stopping conservative blacks and Hispanics from voting Republican, my spelling it out for you is not likely to help. So I won't.
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    If the US survives another 10 years, things will get better. By then there will be enough blacks and Hispanics to make the Republicans a permanent minority. This will lead to a general realignment of the political field with the two major parties standing roughly where the Democrats and Republicans were 20-30 years ago. Whether the other major party will be named the Republican Party or something else depends on how it plays out. Until then, though, the US will continue to provide excellent political comedy for the rest of the world, punctuated by occasional hissy fits of Tomahawking various unfortunate third-world countries.
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    Yeah actual C&C, imagine that. Another reason why I thought it was a high point. Guilty confession: I played through ME2 and 3 a second time just to get that "good" ending. Although I only finished ME3 once.
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    I did not say it was beyond criticism. I do say that it was a peak of competence. That said, while I do like writing which does not obviously favor one outcome as the "good" one, I am not categorically against it either. Going after the "good" outcomes is a powerful motivator, which gets diluted if all of them are equally "good" (or "bad" for that matter). I would like to see both. And I think Tuchanka specifically was kind of asking for such a "good" ending.
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    @Humanoid I take issue with that. Tuchanka was definitely a peak of competence.
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    I was lucky enough to play the games almost completely "blind." I.e. I had not followed any of the hype about any of them. I was vaguely aware of some buzz about the series having a "bad ending" but that's about it.
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    I believe everyone on this thread is a paid shill. We have finally achieved peak propaganda.
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    You've got a bunch of options. Here are a couple. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/ http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook
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    As I said, much poorer taste.
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    Col. Sanders had much poorer taste in eyewear.
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    'K. Your glorious leader seems to disagree though. He's talking about Crimea as a Holy Land for Russia here, because that's where Prince Vladimir the Great got baptized. You know, Prince Vladimir. The Great. Of Kiev. Not going to attempt to dispute your interpretation of Russian origins of course. (Everyone knows you're just Finns who switched language and religion anyway.)
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    The story is infuriatingly nonsensical in ME2 as well (and even more so in ME3). Some of the characters are better in ME2 though, the gameplay is improved, the free-form part of the game has more "meat" to it, and the universe is (somewhat) less monotonous, although the parking-garage-or-mall esthetic still applies, and for some reason every alien race in the galaxy uses the exact same font for all their signage. All in all IMO the series gets better until the last fifteen minutes or so, at which point it proceeds to slip on a banana peel, fall into a cesspool full of pig manure, drown, die, and go to a Hell which consists entirely of an elevator playing elevator music at you for the rest of eternity.
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    Observation: any thread about ME devolves into a discussion about Miranda's ass. This exemplifies the problem with the game, and the people who play it.
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    Yeah, it's all a matter of where you draw the line. Most general histories of Russia do start at Kievan Rus', not Birka.
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    No accounting for tastes I suppose. I liked JE's campiness and KOTOR did read like Star Wars fanfic, but it read like pretty good Star Wars fanfic. ME1 OTOH never ceased to irritate me on the story front, from start to finish. I can't really think of anything I liked about its story. I thought both ME2 and 3 had more redeeming qualities story-wise.
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