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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1753938395548516624 Glad to see Biden won a state he has a snowball's chance in hell of carrying in the general.
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DeeplyConcerned posted:Sure there's no mechanism right now but that doesn't mean we couldn't make one. If every count of forcing someone to work on election day was punishable by five years in prison and a $500,000 fine i'll bet you'd see it happen a lot less. So are all the poll workers and media companies exempt or is election day coverage about to get a whole lot more awkward?
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Feb 5, 2024 04:43
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Can't wait for a presidential debate between two elderly men actively sundowning on stage and wondering why someone keeps burning toast.PeterWeller posted:Batman may break some of my bones, but he's not gonna shoot me like some loving cop would. Arkham Batman then M. Bison's some poor mook from fifty stories up, jumps into reverse cowgirl, and crushes the dude's testicles. But at least he's not dead. Professor Beetus posted:There are obviously parallels to real world issues and there are attempts to address it but it's also very clearly a comic book universe in which there are just really bad people that need to be stopped by superheroes. It's an absurd reading of the comics to hold Bruce Wayne/Batman to the same moral calculus as if the comic book universe he resides in is exactly the same as our own. It's silly. Superman watches as Doomsday rips open a bus full of nuns adopting orphaned puppies. Supes: maybe he just wasn't hugged enough as a child
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Feb 9, 2024 00:03
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:OTOH the current press/media are completely useless I hope they all lose their jobs Vote for Trump and let your wildest dreams come true.
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Feb 9, 2024 00:34
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AlternateNu posted:People should read/watch The Dark Knight Returns comics/animated movies. That kind of weird, out-of-place, liberal pontificating is all over it. You get soundbites from talking heads about Batman breaking a dude's leg or Gordon killing a 17 year old kid in a convenient store when the gangs are using Robocop level weaponry against them. It's kind of funny. I always remember the Justice League cartoon where Batman gets upset at Superman wanting to lobotmize Doomsday. Because no, you're supposed to arrest him. Find a prison that can hold him. Watch as he gets deemed not mentally competent to stand trial. What exactly is your counter-argument, Bruce?
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Feb 9, 2024 00:42
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Is it too early to call Biden-Trump the Sundown Showdown? Someone check if we can trademark that phrase tia.
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Feb 9, 2024 03:55
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Sephyr posted:I'm extrapolating from Brazilian politics here, which I have had a closer look into from my time as a journo. People also forget that the biggest advantage that Biden had in 2020 was that COVID kept him off a physical campaign trail. He was able to stay at home while his handlers were able to pick and choose his spots and minimize the biggest weakness to the campaign, which was the candidate himself. Biden won't have that advantage this time around and is four years older, not to mention that the presidency ages a person in dog years. I get that people don't want to be arzying for an entire year, but this head in the sand attitude people have adopted isn't doing any favors. The polling has been consistently in Trump's favor. The actual economy is divorced from the "stonk go up econ be good" metric that gets reported on and people aren't going to believe that things are going well when they can barely afford food and can't afford rent. The trials aren't going to matter given that Trump has eternally lived under "heads I win tails you lose" rules; if anything they'll end up helping him as they progress and now that the GOP base has decided that Jan 6th was a good thing he'll start openly campaigning on what should have been his biggest detriment.
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Feb 10, 2024 02:54
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mawarannahr posted:and only one man is hypersexualized in the category of Pools, Hot Tubs, & Beaches. please don't doxx me
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Feb 13, 2024 06:23
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:If the last dozen pages are of any indication, the strongest 2028 Dem candidate would be Taylor Swift. Strongest in 2024 as well.
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Feb 17, 2024 00:38
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zoux posted:I think that if COVID had killed children at the same rate as it did old people, instead of not at all, we would've seen a massively different response here and world wide. The fact that most of the deaths were elderly - many elderly and invisible - people cared less. Fully a quarter of the Texas nursing home population died of COVID, that's an unimaginable holocaust if not for the fact that we put people in those places so we don't have to think about them while they are dying. Sandy Hook and elementary school children led to absolutely nothing being done on the guns front other than a really good/infuriating Onion article being written. The country has already proven that the lives of children are not worth more than any others rights, real or percieved. I think that it would have taken a major celebrity dying to get people to take COVID seriously. I remember that Tom Hanks got COVID early on and had Hanks or a person of his stature passed away it would have raised a lot of eyebrows and potentially gotten people who weren't inclinded to take COVID seriously to do so. But it's also possible that the anti-intellectual side had it's roots too far into the right for any deaths, in either stature or amount, to bring them to reason.
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Feb 22, 2024 00:31
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IT BURNS posted:USCE 2024: Soon, Illegal to Jerk Off in Alabama If every sperm is sacred, every male orgasm should lead to the death penalty for thousands of deaths, even if there was a successful fertilization.
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Feb 22, 2024 03:36
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Charlz Guybon posted:Somehow that undersells the charges, he was trafficking Weapons-Grade Plutonium! As opposed to what, food-grade plutonium?
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Feb 22, 2024 07:14
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Many of the reports say the incidents happened when Biden wasn't around, so probably not that. Considering a cop's first instinct upon seeing a barking dog is to empty the clip into it, if anything we should be commending these SS agents upon their restraint in not giving into their base instincts.
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Feb 23, 2024 20:06
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Tiny Timbs posted:The cops drew guns on him while on fire lmao skin was becoming black, making him an active threat to the officers
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Feb 26, 2024 00:39
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:No. That is called aiding a fugitive in absconding from justice and is generally pretty frowned upon since it is a crime. Generally requires the lawyer to flee themselves, as seen in the case of Goodman, Saul.
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Feb 26, 2024 19:51
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Ah so surely they’ll drop their prices during slow hours right People: we literally can't afford fast food anymore. help me, my family is dying Wendy's: five bucks a nug during rush hour
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Feb 27, 2024 23:54
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Considering a big part of Mitch's legacy is that he let Trump off the hook with the Jan 6th impeachment, I've always wondered what it would look like had Mitch actually put his foot down and decided to have a firm backbone for once. For reference, the 7 Republicans who voted for impeachment: Burr Cassidy Collins Murkowski Romney Sasse Toomey There were 57 total votes for impeachment vs 43 no, 67 needed, so counting Mitch he'd need to find nine more. Since Mitch's primary concern was keeping the Senate (and thus his wild wet dreams of being Senate Majority Leader) intact, let's assume he let's anyone running in 2022 off the hook. That would include: Boozman Crapo Grassley Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Rubio Thune Tim Scott Young That's 14 of the 42 off-limits. There were four retiring Senators who's seats would be open in '22: Blunt Inhofe Portman Shelby And then there's the crazies who weren't going to listen to reason no matter what: Blackburn Cruz Hawley Tubs So 18 of the 42 are either off-limits or no-go's. That would have left 24 Senators, a number of whom either had just won an election or were four years away and/or in very safe seats, as possible candidates to switch: Barrasso Braun Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hyde-Smith Lummis Marshall Risch Rounds Sullivan Tillis Wicker Now some of those above could probably be moved into the crazies column, but a number of those who voted no could probably have been moved to vote yes had Mitch made it clear which way his personal winds were blowing. You think Lindsay Graham wouldn't jump ship off Team Trump if it looked like it was going down? People like Tom Cotton and Joni Ernst who's presidential ambitions were all but silenced as long as Trump demanded the throne? Mitch only needed nine of the above group plus any additional retiring Senators, forgive me for being ignorant but I think if he had drawn an actual line in the sand and been willing to deal with any actual consequences he would have been able to pull it off. It might have cost the GOP the Senate in 2022, which occured anyway hindsight being 20/20, but it would potentially have left them in a better position for '24, or at least it can't be worse then where it is now with Trump making it clear any and all fundraising money is going directly to him. I imagine Mitch is retiring due to age, due to health, and due to the idea that if Trump does win and the GOP reclaim the Senate then either he has to go back to kissing the ring or Trump has him neutered and Mitch has to slither away in shame. Better to go out on your feet while you still can.
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Feb 28, 2024 23:13
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PhazonLink posted:I hope she has the thickest AL accent ever. rolls up to the microphone after the SOTU, spends the whole time complaining that Saban retiring cost them their 'cruits and if anyone deserves an AQ to the new playoff it's the most glorious Crimson Tide, Pawwwwwwwwwwwwwwlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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Mar 1, 2024 01:37
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Biden is having the port built but only to bring more firearms to the genocide. Surprise motherfuckers.
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Mar 8, 2024 02:19
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Xand_Man posted:gently caress Xitter but that headline is too good to be hidden Government Is Not Covering Up Aliens, Aliens Say
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Mar 8, 2024 22:23
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Main Paineframe posted:The analysis concludes that as racial discrimination fades away and the populace loses their religious community ties, non-whites will naturally drift toward the GOP. The argument makes sense in theory, but "as racial discrimination fades away" is carrying a lot of water in a bucket filled with holes. For example, Muslim voters were considered a reliable conservative voting bloc due to their beliefs, and then something something happened and that changed. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/republicans-muslim-vote-george-w-bush-donald-trump/419481/ So, yes, if you somehow could eliminate the racial aspect you'd have far more minority conservative voters, but that would require a party heavily fueled by racial animosity to change their m.o. entirely.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:15
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Bird in a Blender posted:People are awful at realizing the impact government has in their lives. They’re also terrible judges of what the government spends money on. It’s one of the few reasons the Republican Party even survives. They exist for the kinds of people who hold up “Keep the government out of Medicare” signs. When things "work as intended", people don't notice. They only notice when something that's supposed to work doesn't.
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Mar 12, 2024 00:28
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The tl;dr summary seems to be: I'm not going to pretend to know a drat thing about this, but I wonder if any competitive advantage could be explained by height/size. With the average male being taller than the average female, could even going through some kind of puberty as a male before transitioning give enough size to have an advantage after the fact? Height is a benefit in the majority of sports so it would make sense if the taller athlete was in general the more successful they would be.
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Mar 16, 2024 01:20
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Raenir Salazar posted:To acquire the Number One House you must first defeat and acquire the Number Two House. There can only be one Master (the house) and one Apprentice (the garage).
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Mar 19, 2024 04:32
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Allow me to be the first to make the "juice the Apple" joke.
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Mar 21, 2024 18:49
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Jesus III posted:Most of those European countries have incredibly generous health, mental health, rape and incest exceptions. Trying to make SEC country go extinct?
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Mar 21, 2024 20:49
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Main Paineframe posted:Yes, but most of the MTG-like crazies are already on record saying they don't want to oust Johnson. MTG: I shot him in the leg as a warning shot that I'll really shoot him next time! Anyway, Johnson is a ghoul but he's shown that he'll compromise, hence why the Freedom Caucus nutjobs are mad at him. The Dems probably don't gain anything by going along with MTG's cry for attention, even if they did boot Johnson who knows what they'll get from whoever emerges from that clusterfuck, if anyone does emerge. I could very much see a scenario where the GOP can't decide on a Speaker and thus nothing gets done until the election, which helps Trump. Now, the guy who resigned before this guy said Johnson had to watch out for the resignations coming after him, so lol, lmao even, if enough GOP reps do resign and the House does flip. I wouldn't want to be the one who caused the tipping point unless I wasn't just 100% done with politics but moving far, far away, though.
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Mar 22, 2024 23:08
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Bodyholes posted:Dems win statewide races in NC routinely. There is a percentage of libertarian/business oriented conservatives that will vote for moderate dem governors and council of state offices to protect their economic interests. If things got too "jesusland" it would hurt their investments. However they will never vote to give dems federal power through the presidency or the senate. The first time Tillis got elected, the Dems had a blank slate guy running who had a decent shot. Then a couple of months before the election his affairs came to light and he got trounced. Someone correctly said that all he had to do to win was do nothing and he couldn't do that right. Dems, almost universally, are a waste.
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endless debate on whether the comedy twitter account has the correct political opinions on matters debate eclipses the "is wario a libertarian" debate before being closed by a mod
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Mar 26, 2024 02:25
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Silly Burrito posted:Keeping people in a frightened state causes stupid things like this. Commissioner Sankey, I get that you want more P5 teams in the NCAA Tournament, but this is taking it a step too far.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:38
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DynamicSloth posted:That's impressive, so is the pilot going from the lights going out to figuring they have to make the call to close the bridge in 31 seconds, especially if they had no reason to think everything wasn't normal just beforehand. From what it seems, from the initial mayday call everything went as well as it could have. There's the obvious exception of the workers on the bridge but given the timeframe I don't think there's any way they could have been saved, even if they had also been able to receive the mayday call and immediately leave.
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Killer robot posted:There's some prior examples of using air to move commercial ships, but in harbor a tug is generally more practical than a blow. More cost-efficient as well.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:It’s technically allowed as it is directly USCE related so I’ll explain. So when Israel trips and falls and accidentally destroys the port, the US response is?
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Byzantine posted:Iirc, the tipping point where Millennials/GenZ outnumbered Boomers finally happened in 2022. So it might be part of how the on-the-ground election victories are still happening even though the olds are answering all the polls with piglike squeals. The issue is that even as Boomers are aging out, young white males are increasingly voting right https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-really-need-to-win-back-young-white-male-voters-from-the-gop That's not to mention that POC, particuarly men, are also increasingly voting Republican https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/03/people-of-color-voting-republican-2024/ What it boils down to is that those who have had econonmic, social, and political power don't like the idea that they could be forced to share any of it. Tell a young white male that they're not better than a LGBTQ POC, or if anything they're not as good, and they're going to vote with the party that says they've always been better. We can't begin to discuss equality because the second the scales start to tip the majority panics and tried to pound the minority into submission. If/when Trump wins he might as well grant amnesty to Andrew Tate and make Tate part of his cabinet; Tate will have done as much to earn Trump the Presidency as anyone else.
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Piell posted:They are other flavors of bigot too, but yeah. A large majority of Trump supporters primarily care about hating their enemies, which is anyone who is not exactly like them Exactly. One of the things about these small, isolated communities is their inate distrust of anyone who isn't one of them. Race, creed, beliefs, orientation, etc..., if it isn't in ideological lockstep it's inherently distrusted. Which party better reflects what this base currently looks like and is going to look like going forward? Two guesses and the first doesn't count. The ironic part is that Trump is someone who should fail that test with flying colors. Yet because he acts as an avatar of grievance he becomes someone they can live vicariously through; he's as nakedly ignorant, vulgar, and bigoted as they are. Add in that the Republican base has been conditoned to treat their leaders like a god and Trump becomes what they've wanted since Reagan. If Ronnie had been able to run a third time, both electorally and mentally, it would have been him again. Bush Sr. didn't have the charisma, Bush Jr. didn't have the wherewithal, McCain was too high class and missed his window though they did like his running mate, and Romney was too smooth and polished plus they'd never get past the whole Mormon bit. Trump welcomes the worship and give them explicit permission to give into their base instincts, which overrides everything else.
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Cimber posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again. Dobbs is the legal version of the dog chasing cars who actually catches one. They don't know what to do with it. They want it both ways. They want a full abortion ban, no exceptions, because keeping women subservient to men is part of their fundamental beliefs. However, they also want to run on abortion because it proved to be a vote-driver since Roe was enabled. It's easier to run on "vote for us and we'll do X" then "vote for us and we'll keep X the way it is".
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Nucleic Acids posted:I still think it was wrong for the Los Angeles Police Department to put so much time and effort into framing a clearly guilty man. I can't believe the real killer finally got around to taking care of OJ as well.
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FlamingLiberal posted:lol yes I’m sure Hamas does a lot of US recruiting dear hamas for 100k/full remote/6 week pto/benefits i will do (lazy) admin work for you please check out my linkedin at
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Star Man posted:Clarence Thomas will live long enough for a Republican majority to return to the Senate before he resigns or dies. And if he doesn't, his wife will Weekend at Bernie's him until so.
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Main Paineframe posted:He thinks that pretty much every remotely elite university is involved in this national crypto conspiracy of his, which he believes is run by organized crime. He feels that most suicides and murders at NYU were either staged or caused by the government. At what point does he cap it off with "The Aristocrats!"?
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