Suggested rewrite for your Religious Views declaration:

Religious Views: Bad person, worse Christian

(August 9, 2018 at 11:12 am)alpha male Wrote: So convince people to buy newspapers, and they'll stick around. 

Maybe you can bring back the horse-drawn carriage business while you're at it.

Cute. 

So how do you get your local news, Alpha?

(August 9, 2018 at 11:14 am)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:People get their news in other ways.

People like A/M can't handle long investigative reports.  When you have the attention span of a six year old a ten second sound bite is about all he can manage....just like his hero the Orange Fucktard.

Says the guy who spams the boards with shit from rawstory. 

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:16 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote:

(August 9, 2018 at 11:12 am)alpha male Wrote: So convince people to buy newspapers, and they'll stick around. 

Maybe you can bring back the horse-drawn carriage business while you're at it.

Cute. 

So how do you get your local news, Alpha?

Not from print newspapers. Until two weeks ago, my daughter had been a daily carrier for the local rag for two years, and I didn't even bother reading the leftovers for free.

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:14 am)Whateverist Wrote: Suggested rewrite for your Religious Views declaration:

Religious Views: Bad person, worse Christian

Aw, somebody's butt-hurt that his position was shown to be ridiculous.

(August 9, 2018 at 11:16 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote:

(August 9, 2018 at 11:12 am)alpha male Wrote: So convince people to buy newspapers, and they'll stick around. 

Maybe you can bring back the horse-drawn carriage business while you're at it.

Cute. 

So how do you get your local news, Alpha?

Conspiracy crap like Brietfart and Alex Jones.

(August 9, 2018 at 11:17 am)alpha male Wrote:

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:16 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Cute. 

So how do you get your local news, Alpha?

Not from print newspapers. Until two weeks ago, my daughter had been a daily carrier for the local rag for two years, and I didn't even bother reading the leftovers for free.

Ok, so where?

Or do you not really follow it?

(August 9, 2018 at 11:25 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Ok, so where?

Or do you not really follow it?

Word of mouth, social media, but I don't really follow it

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(August 9, 2018 at 11:16 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Cute. 

So how do you get your local news, Alpha?

Conspiracy crap like Brietfart and Alex Jones.

Local, Brian... local.

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Interesting quotes from Thomas Jefferson on newspapers:

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog...newspapers

(August 9, 2018 at 11:32 am)alpha male Wrote:

(August 9, 2018 at 11:25 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Ok, so where?

Or do you not really follow it?

Word of mouth, social media, but I don't really follow it

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:24 am)Brian37 Wrote: Conspiracy crap like Brietfart and Alex Jones.

Local, Brian... local.

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Interesting quotes from Thomas Jefferson on newspapers:

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog...newspapers

Word of mouth . . . social media . . . good luck with those sources. Lol

As a conservative, I assume you would agree with the need for a vigorous democratic process at the local and state levels to offset centralized power at the federal level. Devotion to federalism is supposed to be one of the pillars of your politics. I would think you would not be so cavalier about local news.

As for Jefferson's quotes, most of the papers of his time were simply partisan rags. Journalistic standards and practices have changed somewhat since then, and the better papers provide vastly better news coverage than was typical of 1800.

(August 9, 2018 at 11:44 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Word of mouth . . . social media . . . good luck with those sources. Lol

As a conservative, I assume you would agree with the need for a vigorous democratic process at the local and state levels to offset centralized power at the federal level. Devotion to federalism is supposed to be one of the pillars of your politics. I would think you would not be so cavalier about local news.

As a conservative I think that my actions as an individual have far greater impact on my well-being than the actions of government, so yeah, I'm pretty cavalier about it. The constitution was set up pretty well so that we can just go about our lives.

(August 9, 2018 at 11:48 am)alpha male Wrote:

(August 9, 2018 at 11:44 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Word of mouth . . . social media . . . good luck with those sources. Lol

As a conservative, I assume you would agree with the need for a vigorous democratic process at the local and state levels to offset centralized power at the federal level. Devotion to federalism is supposed to be one of the pillars of your politics. I would think you would not be so cavalier about local news.

As a conservative I think that my actions as an individual have far greater impact on my well-being than the actions of government, so yeah, I'm pretty cavalier about it. The constitution was set up pretty well so that we can just go about our lives.

The issue isn't about whether you can stick your head in the sand (I assume you do), but whether you should. The Constitution isn't a damn government auto-pilot setting. The framers envisioned an educated, engaged citizenry.

But to each his own, I suppose. I hope that word of mouth thing works out for you.

(August 9, 2018 at 10:50 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: And let's not even get started on our decades-long agriculture subsidies. It's not a coincidence that every damn thing in the supermarket contains sweetened corn syrup.

Don't you know, Crossless, it's only an unfair trade practice when the other side does it.

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(August 9, 2018 at 11:32 am)alpha male Wrote: Interesting quotes from Thomas Jefferson on newspapers:

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog...newspapers

Interesting first quote from someone who supports a pathological liar.