Well the thing is, the capitalist hellhole advocates don't necessarily also advocate a theocratic hellhole. On the other hand, most of the theocrats also advocate a capitalist hellhole, limited only where laissez-faire capitalism interferes with their theocratic dictates (e.g. availability of birth control, abortion, porn, alcohol, etc.). So the theocrats, by and large, are really pushing for the worst of both worlds.

Capitalists could give a fuck God you do or do not believe in. They also don't care where you come from or what color you are. The only color is green and the only truth is self-interest.

We're not becoming a "Capitalist Hellhole." We have too much regulation and Obama is proving that his ways won't save the economy. The sad thing is that I'll probably end up voting for a Christian wack job as long as he/she knows two shits about economics which is two shits more than Obama knows.

You're an idiot cena, shhh.

Too much regulation, Cena? It really escaped your notice how Bush's FEC not enforcing much of any regulation led to AIG, Bank of America, and just about every non-CRA regulated mortgage broker throwing all previous caution to the wind. Right now, the corporations practically write their own regulations. It's why the Koch brothers can keep Formaldehyde (which they produce by the ton) from being banned and why natural gas fracking (which causes groundwater to be flammable) hasn't been outlawed.

You really are a willing partisan dupe.

Steamy, I'm not saying those would be good regulations to enforce, however when the economy is in the shitter it is time to lighten up not tighten up.

They should relax the regulation against beating idiots to death.

Inching toward the latter? We passed that goalpost in 1970 when wages stopped keeping pace with the cost of living.

HE'S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!

5 for evil.

He's running for the GOP nomination and I wouldn't expect much different from any other republican wonk, so its pretty par for the course rhetoric which makes it the definition of banal, not evil.

When evil becomes banal to you, have you yourself become evil?

According to Hannah Arendt, yes.

think you forgot to log in to your non-troll account

I'm not Baleen, and for a long time I've been defending gay marriage.

Yeah he's not me. Thank god.

Baleen isn't smart enough to be me.

The shit telling the asshole it smells.

Blind hypocrisy is kind of the running theme of Christians and the right in general.

He's a true believer, and look how far he's gone as one. If his faith were to falter, if he were to spend even a moment pondering the implications, it would demolish his world, ruin his family, friends, he'd have to crawl into a bottle or kill himself or kill his family or something.

It's like a Wile E. Coyote/cliff situation where survival depends on never, ever looking down at what you're supposedly standing on.

well, that and there's the whole idea that "naturally better" is putting two of the most ambiguous words in argumentative history together and not giving it a second thought

these types of statements buckle like a belt as soon as you ask the people behind them to define "natural" (read: like them) or "better" (read: more like them)

also when i was in 11th grade we met him at his office in DC (i live in pennsylvania) and he was 40 minutes late for the photo op and stayed for about 2 minutes, during which he excitedly ranted at a group of confused 16 year olds about islamofascists. fuck this guy, on the real.