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Hermetic posted:I can confirm that there's nothing they should be doing except pursuing justice in this case of supreme importance. yeah, I can see that. Party of small government and all.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This will go well Yesssss I love right wing protests. They're just so pathetic, especially ones that involve multiple locations so churches across multiple states can't boost numbers by busing people in ala Kim Davis
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beatlegs posted:Well the Senate is officially investigating Facebook over biased trending, which is one of the most important pressing issues of our time. Facebook as a whole should be investegated. They are up there with apple as one of the most evil companies.
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quote:http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/technology/facebook-news-senate/  Look out everyone, Trend-Gate is coming!! This is it! The real scandal that will finally bring down Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 22:53 on May 11, 2016 |
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May 11, 2016 22:44
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well the house is run by the GOP now a days so they can afford to do poo poo like that.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What the gently caress do they think a private company could possibly have done to warrant a Senate investigation To be fair, "The Twitter People" should be in court for war crimes/crimes against humanity because Trump. Also I hope the facebook thing leads to an amazing reversal of fortune deal sort like the IRS Scandal, any one remember that one?
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Popular Thug Drink posted:it really isn't though. ditch your smartphone, delete your social media accounts, and after you detox realize that you can still live perfectly well without all that crap. internet addiction is a plague on society He says on an internet forum he paid ten dollars to access.
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May 11, 2016 22:57
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Screaming Idiot posted:He says on an internet forum he paid ten dollars to access. Way past that, buddy.
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May 11, 2016 22:59
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Holy cow, it's probably not important in the big picture, but apparently Ed Henry is suspended from Fox News for having an affair. I don't know why but I've disliked that guy from the first day I've seen him. I'm trying and failing to find sympathy for his smug loving face. Guess he's the only reporter that doesn't get to ask Hillary about Bill this election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rts-of-affairs/
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May 11, 2016 23:22
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Kro-Bar posted:To be honest I can't really think of anything else they could be doing instead. Maybe debating and passing funding to combat Zika?
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Spun Dog posted:Holy cow, it's probably not important in the big picture, but apparently Ed Henry is suspended from Fox News for having an affair. I don't know why but I've disliked that guy from the first day I've seen him. I'm trying and failing to find sympathy for his smug loving face. Bill O'Reilly kept his job after sexually harrassing an employee, so i figure they were looking for a reason to can Henry. FOX has no moral/ethical code, except for convenience.
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Discendo Vox posted:OK. Hi. I am an actual legitimate instructor at an actual legitimate university, and this is an actual legitimate problem, the tantrums of the right wing aside. if your problem is with the consumerization of education your problem is with capitalism, not the left
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smoke sumthin bitch posted:Facebook as a whole should be investegated. They are up there with apple as one of the most evil companies. Can you elaborate on this?
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Facebook is being investigated by the Senate ? Facebook should just respond that they are a private company and and can trend or not trend whatever the hell they please or be as biased or not as they feel like, basically gently caress off. Pretty rich coming from the party of small government and keeping out of the way of private industry. Of course that's only when it's convenient for them but still it's a little galling to see how quickly they throw their supposed principles under the bus just so they can throw an expensive temper tantrum at the taxpayer's expense.
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I hope there's a trial so that we can hear multiple people call conservative outlets trash in tortured legalese "We prefer to use outlets that have proper vetting and reliable sources" and other fun phrases
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May 11, 2016 23:56
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I hope there's a trial so that we can hear multiple people call conservative outlets trash in tortured legalese I hope they don't and just say what they mean. "We'd tend to favor sources of information that use actual facts with links to who said what and with easy to find qualifications rather than simply calling someone a doctor only to investigate and find out they don't even have a degree- or worse, are speaking out of their own field of expertise. I'd much rather consult a nurse over a chiropractor if I'm having breathing issues, personally." Just lay all the cards on the table about what it is that they're getting slammed for here.
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Gov Pat McRory posted:“I think there’s a time where the Republicans and the Democrats in this Congress need to revisit the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and revisit all this issue,” PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP
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Hermetic posted:I can confirm that there's nothing they should be doing except pursuing justice in this case of supreme importance. 
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Intel&Sebastian posted:PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP WHAT THE gently caress why would he think that's a smart or not insane thing to say
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Intel&Sebastian posted:PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP He will get exact zero flak about this from his supporters.
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Re-segregation is gonna be a winner, I tell ya
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And now that we've sunk ourselves trying to segregate trans, let's just crack open the 51 year-old chestnut of racial segregation! Clearly we win against the federal government if the DOJ head has to abide by separate but equal investigations, right?!
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Epic High Five posted:WHAT THE gently caress why would he think that's a smart or not insane thing to say I just can't believe he hasn't let go of that "Charlotte made us do it!" line. That whole line of thinking is pure Right Wing Media: It's factually false, it sounds false in summary, it doesn't pass the smell test, he talks about it like it's a magic spell that makes everything he's done OK, no ones taking the bait...but BY GOD he's going to wave it in front of every camera he can like a "HI MOM!" sign for Freep, like it's some rogue chunk of an alternate reality that he's promising to install in ours once he defeats the evil federal government.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP stfu goddammit seeing pay mccrory crash and burn is the silver lining on this mushroom cloud im hoping he goes 0-2 in court and a blowout in the general i dont understand why everybodys listing nc as leans hillary but drat i hope so and i hope mayor mcmoldymilk gets thrown out on his rear end
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:stfu goddammit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLcR8CdoDLg
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Intel&Sebastian posted:PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP Pat, the green blob rushing towards you? It's the ground. It going to hurt.
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Listening to our local knuckleheads on AM radio during drive in this morning. 3 ads for testosterone replacement therapy 2 ads for reverse mortgages 1 ad for a roofing company who's single distinguishing trait was they "screen employees for legal residency." 2 ads for estate planning companies These people cannot die off fast enough.
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Pixelboy posted:Listening to our local knuckleheads on AM radio during drive in this morning. We're going to have a drastically different America in 20 years
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RareAcumen posted:I hope they don't and just say what they mean. "We'd tend to favor sources of information that use actual facts with links to who said what and with easy to find qualifications rather than simply calling someone a doctor only to investigate and find out they don't even have a degree- or worse, are speaking out of their own field of expertise. I'd much rather consult a nurse over a chiropractor if I'm having breathing issues, personally." Facts are biased. Conservativism can't look good if you look at it through the liberal lenses of truth or logic.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:
Got a link for that? I'm searching but can't find anything.
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Mercury_Storm posted:PULL UP PAT PULL UPPPPPPPPPPP https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/pat-mccrory-congress-should-revisit-the-1964-civil-rights-act-to-allow-segregated-bathrooms/
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Mercury_Storm posted:
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I'm only just now realizing how wonderful his stance is after this. I didn't want this! Charlotte made me! I have no interest in bathroom laws! But...yknow since we're here anyway maybe we could get rid of the civil rights act? Just a thought.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:less than a decade ago thune wrote a letter to the FCC bashing fairness doctrine yeah but this time it's ~*~different~*~
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Radish posted:What was the in universe explanation for how these supermen weren't murdered for being absolute shits to literally everyone? Did they have magical force field technology, the heroes were all martial arts masters like Daredevil, or the masses were too stupid to figure out how to wield primitive weapons or even understand they were being screwed? They hid. They set up their little summer camp, then Galt went out and recruited them one at a time. As they left they torched all of their own poo poo and disappeared. After they were out of sight for a while they got jobs as short order cooks, and train conductors. They were perfect at all of these jobs. Train lady tries to hire one for her cafeteria and gets blown off. Once they had everything set they hid in their little valley playing with model trains until the civil unrest died down and then they returned to assume their rightful place. One thing that never gets mentions is that going Galt isn't just leaving to do your own thing. He systematically tore the whole thing down. There was a fan theory that the events in the Atlas Shrugged world were so terrible that the people banned all individuality to prevent it from happening again, leading up to Anthem.
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Christ, seems like the spiked punch bowl really gotten passed around wide today in conservaland. 
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Radish posted:What was the in universe explanation for how these supermen weren't murdered for being absolute shits to literally everyone? Did they have magical force field technology, the heroes were all martial arts masters like Daredevil, or the masses were too stupid to figure out how to wield primitive weapons or even understand they were being screwed? It's pretty much this: Geostomp posted:I would assume that their innate superiority allowed them to easily thwart all attempts from their lessers. That or the lessers managed to realize that these people where so superior that they were instantly cowed once they realized their arrogance for expecting the ubermensch to lift a finger for them just because they paid for their services. In very very brief: Ayn Rand believed that her philosophy could be derived from a set of self-evident first principles, and therefore it's the only philosophy that is both logically justified and objectively true, and anyone with a rational mind that accurately perceives reality will agree with it. Thus, the extent to which you're a good farmer (or accountant, or composer, or artist, or railroad tycoon) is the extent to which you agree with Ayn Rand, maybe not fully, maybe not even consciously. But when you do hear something Randian, you agree with it. So when one of the highly competent supermen protagonists acts like an arrogant selfish rear end in a top hat, anyone with any amount of competence at all will respect and admire them, if you have a sliver of ability it's the same thing that makes you have a sliver of respect and support for the train executive who threatens to leave you to die for expecting basic train service. Anyone who hates and resents the superman is also totally incompetent and ineffectual and can only quiver and wail about it. If I remember right there is one competent guy on the train and when she throws her fit he's like "I'll handle the rescue if you want Miss Taggart, I know you've got way more important ubermensch things to do than your job". Incidentally this is also why anyone Galt talks to immediately joins up: he stalks these various executives until he determines that they're among the elect supermen, because you just have to offer the gnosis to a superman and he'll immediately see the light and join up with the You're probably about to ask a follow-up question: if the only competent people agree with Ayn Rand and the heroes that capitalism is best, then why do socialists control the world of Atlas Shrugged and how are they a threat at all? Ayn Rand's answer is actually, funny enough, a Catholic one: they're not a threat, evil has no actual power, evil is only the absence of the good and its only power lies in deceiving good into using its own power against itself: Ayn Rand calls this "the sanction of the victim" in the book. So the socialists have all the guns and tanks, but only because Rearden makes the steel for them. The socialists control America but only because Dagny runs the trains for them. The villains know this, but the heroes don't. There are tons of examples in the book, like a rehash of Fountainheads stdh.txt courtroom scene where Rearden does a bunch of sovcit "I don't consent to this trial, I don't recognize the legitimacy of your courts" and instead of jailing him for contempt, the judges get flustered because he's not cooperating and so they let him off on his (anti-trust? I don't remember) violations with a slap on the wrist. See they know they can't jail him when they need him to make more steel. Thus the theme of the book: if the supermen who hold up the world shrug it off and hide in their valley, then all the normal people die in an orgy of anarchy, chaos, and destruction, so be nice to the rich. And if you, dear teenage reader, agree then that's proof you're a superman and anyone who doesn't agree with us reveals their own inner untermensch. And yes it does let all the tension out of the climax like a wet fart when you have villains that try as hard as they can not to kill the heroes because the villains can't live without them.
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Pixelboy posted:Listening to our local knuckleheads on AM radio during drive in this morning. What, no ads for gold as best investment against the apocalypse? "You give me your U.S. $ that is accepted as legitimate currency in every country in the world and I'll give you this lump of metal, or a certificate for a lump of metal if you're dumb enough to accept it."
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All of the characters have the depth of a cardboard cutout and character development is a bad thing that happens to other authors. There's also an unbelievably lovely monologue in the book. I do not use that word as hyperbole, I truly do not understand how someone can write such a terrible monologue. Depending on the size of print and the book it can range from like 40-60 pages of one character just spewing out rhetorical bullshit completely uninterrupted. Completely. Nobody else says anything, ever, there are no other actions taking place; completely uninterrupted. Not even a 'he said'. It's paragraph after paragraph, page after page of one of these captains of industry vomiting words at the reader. And that's just the criticism you can level at the monologue from a technical writing perspective! If you ever want to torture your brain cells until they beg for the sweet release of death you can try to understand the content of that stream of verbal diarrhea. "X is correct, and since X is correct then Y is correct. This makes anyone that agrees with me obviously the superior person. Now let me use a different word to say that X is correct again to prove that Y is also correct." Repeat that exact same loving thing for like four or five PAGES. Eventually things will meander around having a point or purpose, only to veer off into another four or five pages of "And now that Y is correct, Z is also correct so worship me." I've read some really terrible and terribly written poo poo in my life and powered through it, but I was defeated by that monolith.
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