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Shbobdb posted:Amergin is a national treasure and his posts make this thread worth reading. I don't watch any news TV and I need to see rebuttals to standard rightwing arguments. Plus, the "go team!" action of it is fun to watch. Fact. Amergin may be a copy-paste troll-bot, but he's Olympic-tier compared to the average right-wing twitterer/poster. Unzip and Attack posted:Because you don't actually believe the things you're pretending to believe in order to make the post, If authenticity was a requirement of posting here, we'd be left with debating whether Bernie Sanders should be Benevolent Dictator for Life or just a Two-Term President. Yes, it's a slight exaggeration, but my point is that you're not going to find an authentic intelligent conservative who would last more than a few days posting here, even if he played by the rules enough to avoid a ban. Amergin's the best opposition we're going to get without setting up a kickstarter to hire a pet conservative to debate us. Unzip and Attack posted:which means you rarely if ever even try to defend your bullshit assertions with evidence or reasoning Again, he's better about the evidence/reasoning than 98% of the conservatives I've seen in the wild, and the other 2% do this professionally. I spent parts of last week trying out Twitter and the average conservative there just steps right into the hits. It's just night-and-day (or at least predawn) compared to Amergin. Yeah, I wish Amergin was a lot better than he is, but he's the only guy we've got keeping this from becoming a  Sir Tonk posted:This is the best picture. 3000 years from now, when alien xenoanthropologists are picking through the post-global-warming wreckage trying to understand American politics, I hope they see this. It will offer little insight but I hope they'll be able to appreciate its wonders too.
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So, what's everyone's opinions on Al Sharpton? Not whether he's a good MSNBC host or anything, but whether he's hurting the Civil Rights movement? Honestly, I don't know much about his history pre-MSNBC, but during his time there I haven't seen him do anything really offensive when it comes to race matters. I ask this cause I know quite a few liberal Black friends who think he's a race baiter.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Let's be honest: unless you are in the military, fully automatic weapons are toys.
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Mr Interweb posted:So, what's everyone's opinions on Al Sharpton? Not whether he's a good MSNBC host or anything, but whether he's hurting the Civil Rights movement? I like Al Sharpton for the same reason I like Obama: He drives white racists completely batshit crazy.
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Mr Interweb posted:So, what's everyone's opinions on Al Sharpton? Not whether he's a good MSNBC host or anything, but whether he's hurting the Civil Rights movement? Al Sharpton hosted SNL once and was hilarious. He has also overreacted to certain situations, and done some Dumb poo poo. He has an MSNBC show that I watched once. This is the extent of my knowledge of Al Sharpton.
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Mr Interweb posted:So, what's everyone's opinions on Al Sharpton? Not whether he's a good MSNBC host or anything, but whether he's hurting the Civil Rights movement? I like Al Sharpton. The only people that think Al Sharpton is a race baiter are the people that listen to or read right wing news. I assume your friends are upper middle class and were probably born into semi wealth? Or, god this makes me sick, they are some sort of libertarian.
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Mr Interweb posted:So, what's everyone's opinions on Al Sharpton? Not whether he's a good MSNBC host or anything, but whether he's hurting the Civil Rights movement? Most people who complain about Al Sharpton being bad for black people probably don't like black people all that much anyway. It's just concern trolling.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Many states still don't have necrophilia and bestiality laws. Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and North Carolina still don't have necrophilia laws. Pages back but Florida does have bestiality laws. It took Florida 4 (yes, 4) times to pass them in the 2011 session but hey, they do have them. It did serve to show how bad the state GOP was at the time.
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Badger of Basra posted:Most people who complain about Al Sharpton being bad for black people probably don't like black people all that much anyway. It's just concern trolling. He said his friends were black. Which is why he is asking, I suppose.
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Spatula City posted:Al Sharpton hosted SNL once and was hilarious. He has also overreacted to certain situations, and done some Dumb poo poo. Al Sharpton also had a couple of great cameos in the first season of Boston Legal. Boston Legal was a pretty D&D show in its own right, some of the best of Bush-era comedy.
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GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:If only he'd poo poo up a thread I didn't read very often, that'd be great. This thread has been so busy re-creating infotainment since the experimental chat thread, it doesn't know what to do with itself. Amergin, liquor, smack-talk and the occasional anecdote are what made this thread fun. Post chat-thread it's basically all Amergin. The other derails are still here but a lot less fun. Edit: Re: Al Sharpton, I've worked with the man and I've voted for him in every primary I could have. Even for positions he wasn't running for, he makes a great write-in candidate. Getting to vote for him is a pleasure because he basically gets everything right. Even his dumb stuff is mostly media-smear and neglects proper context. In terms of people who, you know, have an actual media-presence, he's fan-loving-tastic, he's golden, he's perfect. Quibbling about him is a mixture of systemic racism and an area where hard-left factionalism bleeds into normal political discussion because he drives the discussion that far left. Shbobdb fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Shbobdb posted:This thread has been so busy re-creating infotainment since the experimental chat thread, it doesn't know what to do with itself. Amergin, liquor, smack-talk and the occasional anecdote are what made this thread fun. Post chat-thread it's basically all Amergin. The other derails are still here but a lot less fun. I think the experimental thread was intended to clean this thread up. I don't think it worked.
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Pohl posted:I think the experimental thread was intended to clean this thread up. I don't think it worked. I agree. All it did was invent next generation topics to derail the thread while making it less fun to read. If I wanted that kind of progress, I'd have gone into finance.
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Shbobdb posted:I agree. All it did was invent next generation topics to derail the thread while making it less fun to read. If I wanted that kind of progress, I'd have gone into finance. I'm actually amazed that Joe can continually pop in here and just drop awesome stuff like the thread isn't a 3 alarm fire with dead corpses surrounding it. I have no idea where he finds his patience, the man needs to start a loving religion.
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As someone who prides himself on selling products compatible with next generation products, Joe is also a loving national treasure. Basically, Joe is my Jon Stewart and Amergin is my Steven Colbert (but rhetorically more useful). They are what make this thread. On an unrelated note, I just finished drinking a Mikkeller Big Worst that I won at an auction from a paragon of the community who died unexpectedly of a stroke. It was a good way to honor a good man's life. As a nightcap, I'm going to have a drink that recreates the best drink at a fantastic bar at a place where I used to live. Equal parts godiva chocolate vodka with bacardi torched cherry. Let them sit with a chopped habenero pepper until it is hot enough for you (you want it hot, otherwise it is pleasant but not really anything worth recreating). Shake it, pour it, done. Feel the burn, love the burn. And it is a sweet treat dessert with low hangover potential. Keep it professional here people.
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Pohl posted:I like Al Sharpton. He might be better now but he has a history of being a self promoting blowhard. Whenever I hear his name this is the first thing that comes to mind
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This thread is best with pyu doing his thing and the occasional funny derail like the nuke map or horse sex. Amergin chat and chat about amergin chat is stupid, it's like Arkane in the climate thread.
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The only negative things about Al Sharpton I see is 1) he ratted out drug dealers to the fbi, 2) he advocated for a couple rape victims who turned out to be lying and 3) her contributes to respectability politics of black people. 3 is the only one that carries weight and isn't even his fault.
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d) He's even more of a water carrier for Obama than Ezra Klein.
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Obama is the best president we've ever had
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greatn posted:The only negative things about Al Sharpton I see is 1) he ratted out drug dealers to the fbi, 2) he advocated for a couple rape victims who turned out to be lying and 3) her contributes to respectability politics of black people. Well, there is Freddy's Fashion Mart. He's pretty responsible for that. He does seem to have turned his life around, though.
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I hate to see Joementum get all the lauding and magnifying here. There's tons of great, fuckng magnificent posters here, who are a teeny inspiration for my sorry-rear end life every day, including but certainly not limited to fried chicken, willa, xylowj, evilweasel, my imaginary gf, reindeerf, biggerboat, Comes Now Bort and many, many others. A loving caress to all of you. And to my favorite trolls, including SilentD and Amergin, who I think may be the same guy. Life here in sunny Dogpatch, USA would be a little less tolerable without all of you. But for at least a shred of substance, here's a tiny question. Regarding ex-convicts and voting, is there a table or article that lists which states deny voting rights and for how long?
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http://projectvote.org/images/publications/Felon%20Voting/POLICY-PAPER-FELON-RESTORATION-MARCH-2014.pdf is more or less what you're looking for, I think.
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We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well
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spoon daddy posted:He might be better now but he has a history of being a self promoting blowhard.[/url] Isn't that just like every politician and activist though? Tooting one's own horn is like half of politics/PR.
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The worker walkout of Market Basket worked
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Fried Chicken posted:We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well Fried Chicken. You need to stop launching me on these emotional rollercoasters.
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greatn posted:The only negative things about Al Sharpton I see is 1) he ratted out drug dealers to the fbi, 2) he advocated for a couple rape victims who turned out to be lying and 3) her contributes to respectability politics of black people. Pretty tough to discuss things people dislike about Sharpton without factoring in Crown Heights. With that said, I thought he had a pretty stellar eulogy at the Brown funeral.
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Fried Chicken posted:We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well Wasn't "your silence will be interpreted as guilt" one of the parts of the Cardassian Miranda Rights in Star Trek? They were the space fascists if you didn't know. Though that might be just another device to make O'Brien suffer.
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Fried Chicken posted:We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well quote:The state Supreme Court in a 4-3 ruling said Tom needed to explicitly assert his right to remain silent — before he was read his Miranda rights — for the silence to be inadmissible in court. This is hilarious. Not in a haha way, but in like a further example that the world has completely and collectively lost its marbles way.
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Aug 28, 2014 14:53
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To a lot of white people, Al Sharpton is the scary kind of black man, the opposite of Harold Ford. Especially New Yorkers, who remember a younger, much angrier Sharpton.
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ReidRansom posted:This is hilarious. Not in a haha way, but in like a further example that the world has completely and collectively lost its marbles way. LOL, so you need to invoke your rights that you are being informed of in Miranda, before they read you the Miranda. That dosen't even logically follow...
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Oh and Q2 GDP has been revised. It is now 4.2% rather than the original 4%
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ReidRansom posted:This is hilarious. Not in a haha way, but in like a further example that the world has completely and collectively lost its marbles way. What a bizarre ruling. This sounds like nothing a court should be able to come up with in TYOOL 2014.
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Fried Chicken posted:We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well It says they might consider an appeal to SCOTUS, I'm not so sure that will work out with the current makeup of SCOTUS.
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Amused to Death posted:It says they might consider an appeal to SCOTUS, I'm not so sure that will work out with the current makeup of SCOTUS. I think Thomas would sympathize with the defendant in this case.
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Fried Chicken posted:We all know that anything you say to the police can and will be used against you in a court of law, but now what you don't say can and will be used as well I really, REALLY hope this decision gets overturned on the appeal.
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This gives me the heebie jeebies. Like how many steps removed from just straight up worshipping weapons and technology are some folks now?
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"Drones would be a sort of a microcosm of who God is," Young preaches in the third lecture, before briefly explaining each attribute. THE MACHINE SPIRIT GUIDES ME
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