i think glenn beck is my new favorite pundit

man, the sad thing about this topic is that it's 28 pages and a lot of it has nothing to do with primaries and if we had a main site up ever in the past three years, you'd know this would be enough to push for a political subforum.

as it is if we made one now it would be pretty redundant. I like this thread because it's the only political thread on gw, but it's also become a catchall for any political trend.

Well........ we could make a Government & Politics subforum, create like 10 new topics, go through this topic and individually merge each of the 1092 posts into appropriate topics like "Dr. Ron Paul and YOU" "The U.S. Democratic Candidates 2008" "The U.S. Republic Candidates 2008" "Universal Health Care" "Primary/Caucus Results" etc etc

but i don't think anyone wants to do that.......

Well General would lose a lot of activity if we did politics in a different forum, and also I don't know if things will be so political after the election.

well my point was that if we had enough members around or a stream of constantly refreshing members, the older members could have actually held a political forum together, but since we have no such thing, creating a forum is worthless.

Well General would lose a lot of activity if we did politics in a different forum, and also I don't know if things will be so political after the election.

well i think there would be enough stuff going around for at least the next two years. usually the first year or two of a new presidents term is the most active (new policies-wise)

She reminds me of Miss Piggy for some reason...

She reminds me of Cesar Romero's version of the Joker.  It was great last night when they started booing her for that "Change you can Xerox" line.  Anyways Clinton should really shut her fucking mouth about plagiarism.  She plagiarized her husband with that crap about the hits the average American takes daily and the last line about how they're all going to be fine was ripped directly from Edwards in one of their debates.

i think a political forum would be fucking great.

not only that, but this is one of the topics i would feel totally compelled to come in and participate in. it might actually be popular with your random member, too, seing as a lot of it involves opinion and people love talking about their own opinion. obviously there would be a lot of stupid pricks coming in and saying stupid stuff but every so often someone would either learn, think about something they wouldn't have otherwise, and we'd get some pretty cool topics and debates out of it.

i suppose it's not utterly necessary, cos politics can go in the general forum, but a politics forum would probably mean more topics about political stuff, and the poltical topics on this place have always actually been pretty good. it might create another cool little niche community in this place. so if the idea was floated consider me a yes vote.

Yeah me too. I mean, there IS quite a lot happening. The US elections, Castro and the recent events in Australia (new govt., apology to the indigenous population, porn) all provide discussion. There's always somthin' going on so I think there'd be a bit to talk about.

yeah me and jeff talked about it on irc so hopefully one will get made. there's certainly enough political stories going on for a relevant forum. i think he was gonna talk to ds about it.

the thing about a politics forum is that it would mean less shit for the general forum. The ask/tell forum already takes away a good chunk of the general forum content; taking away political topics would mean the general forum would be nothing more than a dumping ground for dumb news topics.

also these ideas are never as good as they seem initially. A whole lot of people wanted to see a sports forum happen and then when it did there were only 2-3 people who cared enough about sports to actually use the forum and it was largely dead for the most part. I think the only way the admins would agree to a politics forum is if someone pays the $30 or whatever it costs to have a temp forum.

but i think unlike the sports forum, which usually caters to a specific audience, (i think) most people are pretty interested in politics. since most of the current events are related to politics and they are generally all-encompassing. not only is this topic reaching nearly 30 pages, many of the discussions within it are equally deserving of their own topics. as for the ask/tell forum, i thought it was a bad idea anyway. it's not nearly specific enough to warrant an entire new forum.

I agree but this also reinforces my first point in that it would mean a lot less activity for the general forum.

yeah but i think something this specific with so much interest should warrant a separate forum. (you could say the same for the movie forum and to less of an extent the literature forum.)

edit: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=69330

bullshit, most people are just popping an eye on the election season, because it when politics is the entertainment branch of industry, to quote zappa
although I'd like to promote political debates I guess

The failure of the sports forum (Which I feel awful/it's my fault) has expressed to me that gw really isn't SA, we're not going to be able to have the people for either kind of forum.

However i guess we could always try it!

What the fuck is wrong with John Mccain? When did he go from being a maverick centrist to being a conservative doushcebag? When talking about castro saying "I hope he has the chance to meet karl marx someday soon"

Like what the fuck KARL MARX, you mean the man who died penniless who was one of our greatest philosophers? He really is one of those douschebags who worships captialism HELLZ YES RONALD REAGAN WON THE COLD WAR

man, marx was a smart guy who came up with an idealist philosophy. if you want to blame anyone for the horrible excesses and atrocities of communism, blame lenin, stalin, and mao

What the fuck is wrong with John Mccain? When did he go from being a maverick centrist to being a conservative doushcebag? When talking about castro saying "I hope he has the chance to meet karl marx someday soon"

Like what the fuck KARL MARX, you mean the man who died penniless who was one of our greatest philosophers? He really is one of those douschebags who worships captialism HELLZ YES RONALD REAGAN WON THE COLD WAR

yes. he is now regularly pandering to the ultra-right and the religious right.

lol. I am fucking kidding. No, we don't have basic government classes in high school. Will that calm your irrational, knee-jerk rage?
Obama is all style and no substance. Throw the word "change" around, talk about vague "plans to save America", the guy still has no qualifications. I don't support Clinton, but that is my take on it. Feel free to unleash the Obama-supporting fire unto me.

last time I checked a basic government class was a requirement to graduate

also truth maybe it is possible John McCain has a sense of humor and hopes that a) Castro will die soon and b) when he gets to the afterlife Karl Marx will kick him in the teeth for doing a bad job? I dont know I did not hear that quote in context I am just throwing things out there.