Election Thread 2016

**Drewbacca** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by icarusfall

I think university's are dumb, but tech schools and community college are ways to further yourself. If you wanna go to Amsterdam and smoke pot all day, fine - it's what you do with the time.

I used to think University's were dumb. I was basically all applied. But having met and understood more of academia and research as a whole I think there's a lot of tenured and research positions going on that are very beneficial to officially exploring ideas (Genome sequencing is one very recent field for example). There are only so many breakthrough ideas people can have but that's OK. I'm much more receptive to the idea of weird majors existing. They shouldn't be free though.

Like you said there are plenty of other viable means to be trained for good jobs and careers.

Originally Posted by Fe 26

You're hopeless.

You said there was no reason to assume it would work by top % when diffx specifically cited an example... which is why we were speaking about this in the first place.

**Yoshi** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Anthony

Money in politics is my number 1 issue by far

Just remember that Obama is the guy who broke the deal to only use public funding in 2008.

**YellerDog** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:39 PM

You're right, that worked out really poorly.

**Diff-chan** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Just remember that Obama is the guy who broke the deal to only use public funding in 2008.

This is a hate the game not the player thing.

2012 elections cost $1B. This year $2.5B. Public funding isn't going to get you there.

**Yoshi** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:49 PM

That argument doesn't work when the other guy had already agreed. The 2008 election would have cost almost nothing if Obama had any class at all, and it might have set a really good precedent that would have avoided the Super PAC decision all together.

**YellerDog** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:51 PM

Awww somebody got rope-a-dope'd.

**Yoshi** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:52 PM

Yeah, us.

**Diff-chan** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:53 PM

Citizens United was already halfway through the courts by 2008. Shit was inevitable with the Roberts Court.

**Diff-chan** · 27 Jan 2016, 05:55 PM

Obama broke no laws, CU vs FEC didn't apply to the 2008 race, CU was a 5-4 decision where the conservatives on the court approved, and Citizens United is not a liberal organization anyway. Yet Yoshi's response to too much money in politics is Thanks Obama. Fucking hilarious.