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   Francois Tremblay · November 9, 2012 - 4:38 pm ·

   The imperialist candidate won over the other imperialist candidate.

   Guess what the winner did after he won? He bombed Yemen.

   http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/07/obama-bombs-yemen-hours-after-winning-reelection/

   Imperialism wins again! Hooray for imperialism!

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      bugbrennan · November 9, 2012 - 6:36 pm ·

      Yes. Do you have any thoughts about the Women’s Vote, specifically with regard to the Legitimate Rape and God’s Gift Rape defeats?

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         Francois Tremblay · November 10, 2012 - 3:09 am ·

         My thoughts on that is that, obviously, it’s a good thing that the individual men who propagate such lies are marginalized politically, but it doesn’t eradicate the ideology that fuels those lies. It also doesn’t erase the fact that patriarchal arguments are still driving public policy. Even women who have the best of intentions still use arguments (such as self-ownership) which buy into the patriarchal worldview.

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         bugbrennan · November 10, 2012 - 3:40 am ·

         http://bugbrennan.com/2012/11/02/the-definition-of-insanity/

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   Francois Tremblay · November 10, 2012 - 3:44 am ·

   If your point to me is about defensive voting, then let me reassure you that I fully understand defensive voting and fully support anyone who does it. If that’s why you vote, then all the power to you.

   And I don’t understand why any woman or working class person would vote Republican. Then again, I’ve voted one time in federal elections and I voted Liberal Party (which is moderate right-wing, in Canada), so I’m not really one to talk…But in my defense, I was young and still not aware of anything like class consciousness or feminism.

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      bugbrennan · November 10, 2012 - 3:48 am ·

      Lots of unsatisfying “choices” http://pretendbian.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/stacie-marie-a-k-a-barry-laughton/

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         Francois Tremblay · November 10, 2012 - 3:54 am ·

         I may be biased, seeing as I see those musically challenged morons every Christmas season, but the Salvation Army part pisses me off the most. They are a pretty evil organization, there’s no doubt about it in my mind…

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         bugbrennan · November 10, 2012 - 3:55 am ·

         Yeah, that pissed me off too. Although the tire slashing thing is a red flag…

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         Francois Tremblay · November 10, 2012 - 3:57 am ·

         Yea, I think anyone who slashes people’s tires is probably not very emotionally stable. Even if you hate someone, geeze… That’s hardly a sane way of dealing with that. But I don’t know the context, so…

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         bugbrennan · November 10, 2012 - 3:58 am ·

         Male violence. I’d be curious to know what else he’d been charged with.

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         Francois Tremblay · November 10, 2012 - 4:02 am ·

         You think ey’s the raging type? That’s probably true. Who knows…

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         bugbrennan · November 10, 2012 - 4:08 am ·

         I wouldn’t have voted for him!