It has been over the course of my lifetime that talking about American politics has become both a national and a global passtime. I dare say, the fact that it has become so is a sad sad social commentary. Anyone who has ever won an election in your life, raise your hand.

(Future self raises hand.)

Define 'Election' please.

Oh right, *that's* why I don't open political threads on these boards.

(Past self points at TrPrado and snickers with derision.)

Wait, are you implying that people outside the political classes should not discuss the political process or its results and decisions? That's more or less oligarchy, since elections would become meaningless.

I don't plan to win an election, but I don't see why that should make my views irrelevant.

*raises hand*

It is so hard to follow this discussion. Can everyone else please mute the trolls? Or at least stop responding to them?

I hear the if you feed a troll they will eat you tome and divert you from your try course. And bring you back to hell with them! Don't forget, the US has a duty under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to support the development of Iranian civilian nuclear power.

This fact seems to be ignored, but without the treaty there is no legal justification for bombing Iran. It becomes an act of terrorism. The troll is a supporter of terrorism. This troll might even be a terrorist!

"I hear the if you feed a troll they will eat you tome and divert you from your try course."

You're right that this discussion is becoming hard to follow - but you are not helping with sentences like that.

"But without the treaty there is no legal justification for bombing Iran."

Don't you believe that America has the right to bomb any country it likes, because God has decreed that America is the greatest nation on earth? I believe this is what Atheos would think.

Jamie, your lack of gratitude for saving your ass from Hitler, rebuilding all of western europe, and keeping you from being absorbed by the Warsaw Pact is duly noted. Next time, do it your damned selves. "God save the Queen." We did. You bloody ingrate.

Oh, there we go, the USA has the right to bomb Iran in 2015 because it was attacked by Japan in 1941.

Sure.

So Atheos, do you disagree that the GOP controlled Senate gave away their right to approve the Iran nuclear deal "treaty" with the constitutionally required two-thirds majority?

When did that get passed, Kuta? Did we control the Senate when it passed? It was stupid to pass, regardless.

Jamiet99uk.... I didn't say America had any kind of entitlement. What I said is that you're an ingrate. And you are.

It passed in May 2015. This was the entire package that the GOP wanted. They got it.

It may have been stupid to pass, but 99 (!!!) Senators wanted it.

A the is, you blithering twat. I say we take toy out and castrate you before burning you at the stake for the crime of Slavery.

Oh... What? That was long ago? Your ancestors?

Then shut the fuck up about the Bros owing us anything for WW II, assclown.

Yes, the US did a good and noble thing 75 years ago.

I'm not saying we are bad now, but if you need to go back 75 years to find something good to say about or country, you are a dumb fuck in the extreme for a whole shitload of reasons.

Atheos....not "A the is"...

@ Atheos: I am not ungrateful at all. I am very grateful to the Soviet Union for defeating the Nazis.

@"I hear the if you feed a troll they will eat you tome and divert you from your try course."

Excellent point...
Let me write this without typos;

'I hear that if you feed a troll they will eat your time and divert you from your true course.'

Is no one going to mention that the person who started this conversation literally has no name?

He has a name. It's __________. He hasn't played any games, though.

Can we call him 10U? As in 10 underscores?

Why not call him line, or Bob?

So Iran has gone libertarian?

The question isn't who's going to let me build nuclear weapons, it's who's going to stop me...