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ComradeCosmobot posted:Best you could do is something about what he would intend to do if the "disparate impact" rules are overturned by SCOTUS in Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Dept of Housing this session. This is the kind of in depth policy question I would love to hear him answer. Also, I'd put $100 that he won't give anything more than a soundbyte to it DOOP posted:Ask him if he's actually his twin brother loving with people this is the fun one My Imaginary GF posted:Ask him, as the VP of some academic club, if he would agree with Biden's assessment that ain't it a bitch? this is the question you need to ask. "Do you agree with Vice President Biden's recent assessment about the role and duties of the Vice President, and does that impact your future ambitions?" If you think you can get a real answer from him, as number 1, or about what policies beyond immigration reform he would suggest the Democratic Party enact to deliver to hispanic voters rather than take them for granted. Otherwise go for troll and use number 3
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I want a point by point explanation of the reasons he's a better politician than his brother.
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McAlister posted:Can you elaborate on this? Specifically, can you reconcile this hypothesis with the well documented phenomena of women staying with abusive individuals not simply in the face of verbal abuse but even into physical abuse to the point where the leading cause of violent death for women is at the hands of an abusive partner? I think people returning to abusive situations is a real problem. Because of the delightful way society runs women face unique problems relating to leaving abusive relationships because of sexism. My hypothesis doesn't challenge that at all. My hypothesis is that the same sort of culture fostered in male peewee sports of don't be a pussy, get back in there and wreck it for the other guy bleeds over into other competitive male dominated arenas like the examples of trading card games or videogames. Because of this sort of conditioning of how to react and conduct yourself in a competitive setting young males are more likely to leap back into abusive frays that young women wouldn't. I am not saying young women are smarter to avoid those situations, or are raised in a better way because there are far too many examples of society conditioning them to accept horrible things as their given lot. I just am of the impression that in competitive games of both the physical and electronic sorts society conditions boys to act in an abusive manner and to expect that response.
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Those environments are also more hostile to women in general. The difference is that they give everyone generic poo poo, but want women to either accept explicit sexual propositions or leave with the message that they are not welcome.
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ufarn posted:So many questions.  His off-season Romney form is pretty spectacular.
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Mark Pryor not so great at answering questions. Joementum fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Paul Ryan's office staff appears to spend their days pulling law references.
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I'm not sure what I'd ask my Julian Castro. I just remember when the Pre-K4SA thing was going on he was actually out promoting it and getting the word out about it himself. I was driving home one day and I saw him on the corner of the highway intersection near where I live with a couple of staffers, so I pulled off the road and met with him, shook his had and all that, asked questions about the program, how it'd be funded and implemented, all that. So of all the amazing things he's done here in San Antonio, I'd say the best was him actually going out and meeting with people, I don't think that happens enough with politicians. And I'm pretty sure those "town hall meetings" that were all the rage a while back don't count.
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Joementum posted:Paul Ryan's office staff appears to spend their days pulling law references. Hi, I'm Paul Ryan. You might remember me from public humiliation events such as the 2012 Vice Presidential debate. Do you owe years worth of back taxes due to an over-encroaching government? Are your wages being garnished because of Obama's IRS thugs? Call the law offices of Doofus, Putz, and Dickwad today for a free consultation.
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Joementum posted:Paul Ryan's office staff appears to spend their days pulling law references. Personal emails = tax records, good to know.
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Hodgepodge posted:Those environments are also more hostile to women in general. The difference is that they give everyone generic poo poo, but want women to either accept explicit sexual propositions or leave with the message that they are not welcome. Exactly. Ergo, you cannot conclude anything about men and women's comparative willingness to jump back into the fray vs generic poo poo when they aren't both being served the same generic poo poo. Attempting to do so is confirmation bias. Rivalries in pee wee girls soccer get every bit as fierce with parents getting every bit as stupid as rivalries in pee wee boys baseball. There are many classic novels (most of Jane Austin's work for example) about female rivalries where two women scheme against each other - each completely aware that the other doesn't like them and is scheming back - without shirking in the least from the barbs and slights thrown their way. Have you ever met a woman who loved cooking who could be bullied out of a bake-off by insulting her food? No. You haven't. Because insulting her skill or herself personally is incitement, not discouragement. You make her want to compete even more so she can make you eat your words. Individual insults and group slurs are completely different animals with completely different psychological effects. Men and women respond in the same basic ways to each type of verbal attack. One response to group slurs, for example, is to attempt to deny membership in ones own group and seek honorary membership in the other group. Such people will often then begin vigorously insulting their own group in the hope of gaining acceptance. Individual insults can't have that effect because they just insult you, no one else. It takes group slurs to get a gay man to start gay bashing or a black man to start talking about how black culture is inferior. Or a tomboy to start insisting that girls suck and she's not like those other girls.
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Quote of the day, "I have a shot at winning this race. Thom Tillis does not." ~ Sean Haugh, Libertarian candidate for Senate, North Carolina.
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "I have a shot at winning this race. Thom Tillis does not." ~ Sean Haugh, Libertarian candidate for Senate, North Carolina. I think the only guy who can give Thom Tillis a run for his money in the Empty Suit runoff is Mayor Mccheese (Pat McCrory).
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"I'm Jon and I'm turning out for the legalization of marijuana."
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I thought this was a good article to read: One paragraph that explains why the American economy isn't working for the middle class Especially: quote:CEOs have increased the proportion of cash flow allocated to stock buybacks to more than 30 percent, almost double where it was in 2002, data from Barclays show. During the same period, the portion used for capital spending has fallen to about 40 percent from more than 50 percent. The reluctance to raise capital investment has left companies with the oldest plants and equipment in almost 60 years. The average age of fixed assets reached 22 years in 2013, the highest level since 1956, according to annual data compiled by the Commerce Department. Matty Y explains why it sucks in his blurb.
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Large companies are just not investing in anything post 2008, and it's really dumb because long-term it will bite them in the rear end. Keep in mind that there is a giant conflict of interest in giant stock buybacks like that, because those same CEOs approving the deals are themselves profiting due to either being paid in company stock or having large stock options.
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I'm not sure how interests can "conflict" when directors and officers are explicitly supposed to work in the best interests of the shareholders.
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Well, where are those bought-back stock dividends going to?
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comes along bort posted:Don't talk poo poo about Dr. Rafalca or Tuggjob will mean mug you to death. Do you like Huey Luis and the News?
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:I'm not sure how interests can "conflict" when directors and officers are explicitly supposed to work in the best interests of the shareholders. Depends on the metric you assign towards being in the best interest of the shareholders. In this case, maximizes share price sounds great, and if you are a financial trader, is. But most stockholders own for multi decade periods, and thus would be hurt by it if it comes at the expense of long term health. Goals aren't the only things that need to match, how you measure them must as well. But trying to make a legal case of it is near impossible
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FlamingLiberal posted:Large companies are just not investing in anything post 2008, and it's really dumb because long-term it will bite them in the rear end. Even more so because when interest rates are lower than inflation you are getting free money.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Funny story: some competitive shooting used to be open (men and women shot together). Then women started outshooting the men and all of a sudden it was decided that shooting should be segregated. So now these particular competitions have a men and women's division. This was at very high levels, too. This is the same reason things like chess tournaments are segregated, right? Noncompetitive competitions are unsurprisingly not interesting, so it makes perfect sense to split off groups if one is significantly better.
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Professional baseball, Soccer, golf and tennis should all be desegregated. Any of the non-contact sports.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This is the same reason things like chess tournaments are segregated, right? Noncompetitive competitions are unsurprisingly not interesting, so it makes perfect sense to split off groups if one is significantly better. edit: I mean, not counting situations where women historically haven't had access to the best instructors and stuff. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This is the same reason things like chess tournaments are segregated, right? Noncompetitive competitions are unsurprisingly not interesting, so it makes perfect sense to split off groups if one is significantly better. You are very optimistic about human nature if you think that is why it was done
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Talmonis posted:Professional baseball, Soccer, golf and tennis should all be desegregated. Any of the non-contact sports. How is soccer not a contact sport?
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Talmonis posted:Professional baseball, Soccer, golf and tennis should all be desegregated. Any of the non-contact sports. Plenty of contact in soccer and most of it is even legal.
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silvergoose posted:How is soccer not a contact sport? See:  last match in the latest world cup. 
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silvergoose posted:How is soccer not a contact sport? There's no checking or tackling (slide tackles aren't the same), so size and brute force are less of an issue. Some Women's Soccer teams should and could beat men's teams.
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Talmonis posted:There's no checking or tackling (slide tackles aren't the same), so size and brute force are less of an issue. Some Women's Soccer teams should and could beat men's teams. Uh, have you ever seen a match in the MLS?
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Samurai Sanders posted:Why would women be inherently better or worse at chess (or shooting)? Well with regard to chess it's because in 1851 women had more time to practice since they were barred from things like working, owning property, voting, walking unescorted, etc etc etc. When you sit around playing chess all day while entertaining visitors you get good at it. Like anything else, practice matters. These days on average male chess players tend to significantly outperform female chess players. But then women are significantly underrepresented in the upper echelons of competitive chess. When they split the competition chess became a male thing instead of an upper class thing, so women stopped playing and those that did played against a smaller and thus weaker pool of opponents. Fast forward to the 1980s when reintegration started and Judit Polgar becoming grandmaster and they are just now starting to get back up there because you are only as hard as you train and they have only been training at that level recently. I studied a lot about chess in grade school
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Talmonis posted:There's no checking or tackling (slide tackles aren't the same), so size and brute force are less of an issue. Some Women's Soccer teams should and could beat men's teams. Yeah, sure. Just like baseball doesn't involve speed or strength.
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Talmonis posted:There's no checking or tackling (slide tackles aren't the same), so size and brute force are less of an issue. Some Women's Soccer teams should and could beat men's teams.
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Talmonis posted:There's no checking or tackling (slide tackles aren't the same), so size and brute force are less of an issue. Some Women's Soccer teams should and could beat men's teams.  No checking in soccer!
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Stultus Maximus posted:Yeah, sure. Just like baseball doesn't involve speed or strength. Are you saying that women are incapable of competing on a professional level? I don't agree with you if that's the case. I don't think the level of contact in soccer should preclude women from competing.
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Unrelated to anything but how did the word "check" come to mean slamming your body into someone? When I check my students' papers for errors I sometimes want to slam my body into them, but I have to remember that it's a completely different meaning...or is it?
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Wrap it up libtards http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/220008-poll-most-americans-see-obama-as-a-failure quote:Most Americans see President Obama as a failure, according to new poll
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Samurai Sanders posted:Why would women be inherently better or worse at chess (or shooting)? Who said it was inherent? For whatever cultural reasons, women are better at shooting competitions (apparently, I'm just going off the post I was responding to). Unless there's something biological going on, I would venture to guess it's probably very similar to the reasons that men are better at chess. Fried Chicken posted:You are very optimistic about human nature if you think that is why it was done How do you figure that's optimism? Again, I don't know the backstory here, but the poster seems to be implying that women were broadly doing better than men in mixed competitions, so they split the two off and made a men's competition a separate thing so they could win something and not feel bad about themselves for losing. This is pretty much the history of segregated chess tournaments, they started off as all mixed, but women weren't doing as well so they carved out a division so they could compete among themselves.
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Amused to Death posted:Wrap it up libtards
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JT Jag posted:Size and contact is a big thing in soccer. Players still straddle for position using their bodies when the ball is in the air. Not all tackling is slide tackling, in fact the majority of tackling is just muscling the other person off the ball while the two players stay on their feet. People underestimate the amount of contact in soccer. This is very true. Anyone who tells you soccer is a non-contact sport has never played. Mass is hugely important for maintaining control.
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