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RE: What's your alignment?
March 13, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Paul Ryan. What a schmuck.
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RE: What's your alignment?
March 13, 2013 at 2:44 pm
I'm largely apolitical these days. I still vote, though - I rarely get involved in anything resembling activism these days. Why? For much the same reason that you see movements like Occupy. Outrage. Thing is, outrage raises my blood pressure and causes bad things to happen, and as an individual peon voice in this country doesn't mean a goddamn thing, I find I happier and healthier as an observer.
As for my core beliefs, I value individual liberty and empathy and compassion for my fellow man, in balance. Government should first and foremost be concerned with the welfare and liberty of individual common persons. My personal viewpoint borrows from civil libertarians, a bit from socialism and elsewhere.
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March 13, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Oh yes. I really wish he'd disappear into obscurity because it's getting to where looking at my own name makes me reflexively ill.
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RE: What's your alignment?
March 13, 2013 at 2:50 pm
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Schmuck or shmuck in American English is a pejorative meaning an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person, or one who is stupid or foolish. The word entered English from Yiddish, where it has similar pejorative meanings, but its original meaning in Yiddish is penis.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: What's your alignment?
March 13, 2013 at 2:52 pm
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I am a socialist who supports the second amendment of the United States Constitution, while being opposed a abortion post-first-trimester abortion, a bitter hated of the death penalty, alongside the ideas that religion and business should have no influence within the realm of politics.
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RE: What's your alignment?
March 13, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Hey, you're not alone, the guy is one of my current state's congressman. We blighted the rest of the nation with this abomination of shitty ideas. another reason I fucking hate Wisconsin.
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