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joeburz posted:is he going to run again with his stroke problems? Him? Nah. His staff, friends, and everyone on #TeamKirk? Hell yeah they are, they're gonna run one helluva race for him. One good enough that he might even show just how much a duck is worth in the land of pork.
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Talmonis posted:Are you trying to say that African-American culture and neighborhoods aren't different than white neighborhoods? Because I don't agree. I would not fit into a black neighborhood without serious time and investment. Agreed. I don't have enough time in the day to both work and attend the various block parties, pick up basketball games, and break dance competitions
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This is out there, but do any of you think that the latinization of the US and the stresses of global warming create a possibility for accession by Central American or Caribbean nations? Also, if someone wants to make a, "51st State and Beyond," thread, I'd read it. I have an irrational desire for more stars on the flag.
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Accretionist posted:This is out there, but do any of you think that the latinization of the US and the stresses of global warming create a possibility for accession by Central American or Caribbean nations? No. It creates the possibility of assimilating millions of Latinos as white, so that those already here can differentiate themselves from those poor, downtrodden, tired and hungry refugees fleeing the impacts of climate change.
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Fried Chicken posted:Then I suppose my background in it is insufficient, my exposure to it has been the post 9/11 "the wars are stupid, labor is needed to balance the power of capital, global warming is real and serious, public programs are important and need to be sensibly designed, racism is still a thing that needs to be fought, we need serious Justice reform, invest in infrastructure" type Add in support for universal health care and anti-intervention and this describes most of my beliefs. Is that called something? I can never figure out what each of the different classifications of liberal/conservative/socialist/labor even means anymore.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Add in support for universal health care and anti-intervention and this describes most of my beliefs. Is that called something? I can never figure out what each of the different classifications of liberal/conservative/socialist/labor even means anymore. Very liberal / leftist / social democrat
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Add in support for universal health care and anti-intervention and this describes most of my beliefs. Is that called something? I can never figure out what each of the different classifications of liberal/conservative/socialist/labor even means anymore.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Add in support for universal health care and anti-intervention and this describes most of my beliefs. Is that called something? I can never figure out what each of the different classifications of liberal/conservative/socialist/labor even means anymore. He's a Democrat, you're a left-Democrat.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Agreed. I don't have enough time in the day to both work and attend the various block parties, pick up basketball games, and break dance competitions I assume you don't attend HOA meetings, church fundraisers, etc. in your area? No need to be racist man, it's stressful meeting and relating to new people who you don't have a lot in common with. And everyone has block parties. That's not a race thing man. Block parties are awesome because potlucks are awesome.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Add in support for universal health care and anti-intervention and this describes most of my beliefs. Is that called something? I can never figure out what each of the different classifications of liberal/conservative/socialist/labor even means anymore. - labor is needed to balance the power of capital - global warming is real and serious - public programs are important and need to be sensibly designed - racism is still a thing that needs to be fought - we need serious Justice reform - invest in infrastructure - support for universal healthcare - anti-intervention Congratulations, you're a leftist.
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Just ignore all your neighbors.
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MacheteZombie posted:Just ignore all your neighbors. This is the reason that America is a reactionary shithole, and the 24 hour news cycle caused it.
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Talmonis posted:This is the reason that America is a reactionary shithole, and the 24 hour news cycle caused it. Must balance the community deficit.
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Anyway, the DoJ just handed down their indictment of Senator Menendez and he's scheduled a press conference for 7pm. He's previously said he won't resign.
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D1Sergo posted:He's a Democrat, you're a left-Democrat. I was counting UHC as the public programs for whatever it matters JT Jag posted:- the wars are stupid I also support trolling and sarcasm as our primary means of national discourse, so I think that makes me LFM3W4EVAR DoJ has formally charged Senator Menendez (D-NJ) with corruption. Let the conspiracy theories fly Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Fried Chicken posted:I was counting UHC as the public programs for whatever it matters We got universal healthcare thanks to the leadership of individuals such as Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi. I think Menendez may be taking some time to hike the applachian trail in the near future.
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Fried Chicken posted:I was counting UHC as the public programs for whatever it matters Check twitter. The conspiracy theories already are, especially since the DOJ has also decided not to do anything about Lois Lerner.
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duz posted:Not linking to the full post in the March thread since it's locked and won't let me, but re: this On one hand that reply is terrible. On the other hand Uber should be burned to the loving ground along with AirBnB and the rest of the parasite sharing industry. The proper response from the guy would've just been to remind the lady that uber is a goddan parasite and acts largely unregulated, much like Paypal, and will happily gently caress you (and their own
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Joementum posted:Anyway, the DoJ just handed down their indictment of Senator Menendez and he's scheduled a press conference for 7pm. Note that if Menendez resigns or even goes on leave, Lynch's nomination is dead. Heck, it's already dubious because his being indicted is a conflict of interest when it comes to confirming the person who will prosecute him.
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One less Democrat in the Senate... Not that it'll matter much anyways :/
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site posted:One less Democrat in the Senate... Not that it'll matter much anyways :/ Loretta Lynch was due to be confirmed in a 50-50 vote with Biden deciding. This now means Lynch will not be confirmed 49-50.
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Joementum posted:Ex-Congressman, current-deadbeat dad, future Illinois Senate candidate Joe Walsh will be broadcasting his talk radio show from Memories Pizza in Walkerton, IN. And I thought ambulance chasing lawyers were bad.
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If this is an April Fool's prank there will be a lot of blowback, if it is real, holy poo poo that's a hell of a win by labor organizers McDonald's to Raise Hourly Pay for 90,000 Workers quote:McDonald’s Corp. plans to raise pay by more than 10% and add benefits like paid vacation for workers at U.S. restaurants it operates, an effort to rejuvenate the struggling fast-food giant that offers fresh evidence of rising wage pressure in the American labor market.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Loretta Lynch was due to be confirmed in a 50-50 vote with Biden deciding. This now means Lynch will not be confirmed 49-50.
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I wonder if the planned strike did anything to push them. http://time.com/3765797/fast-food-workers-professors-home-care-strike/
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Fried Chicken posted:If this is an April Fool's prank there will be a lot of blowback, if it is real, holy poo poo that's a hell of a win by labor organizers
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/todd-gardenhire_n_6986582.html?cps=gravity_2425_-1375174207172446721quote:On Tuesday night, a Tennessee Senate committee voted to deny some 280,000 state residents access to health care, rejecting a plan to expand Medicaid that would have cost the state nothing.
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Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions.
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haveblue posted:Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions. As climate change starts to hit home.
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Fried Chicken posted:History shows that "White" is really malleable. Wouldn't take a lot for Hispanics to follow the path of the Irish, Italians, Polish, Greeks, Roma, or Turks and become white What makes it so sad is that this is still a massive improvement over how they're treated Europe. JT Jag posted:- the wars are stupid fade5 fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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haveblue posted:Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions. About time. The blurb mentions agriculture, but nothing about fracking. I'm digging into the actual executive order now to see if they will have to cut back as well. http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf
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CommieGIR posted:As climate change starts to hit home. I don't think California is the center of climate change opposition. Maybe ask all those eastern states who got tons of snow and cold who are asking "if global warming why cold?" EDIT: California's been dealing with 80 degree days in January when it's usually in the 60s. And while we got something like 70% of the normal precipitation in a year in parts of the north, none of it fell as snow, so snowpack is at record lows, something like 5% of normal when it should be the deepest it gets all year. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Well they're telling golf courses to cut back at least, still short of their forced closure and guillotining of users but eh.
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So that wage increase is for corporately run McDonald's only right? I didn't realize there were so many of them. I thought nearly all the locations were franchises.JT Jag posted:Congratulations, you're a leftist. That's what I figured. You all just have some crazy labels that I've never heard before, like paleo-conservative, so I was curious.
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JT Jag posted:What chance at the presidency do they have now? Small share of the youth and women vote, almost no share of the minority vote, aging voterbase. Their current strategy is doomed to oblivion. Considering the nationwide vote suppression stuff they started in the last election and are going to have ramped up for 2016? Pretty decent. Even Virginia's shithead governor was going to sign on to the program that does the "if your name shows up elsewhere you get stricken from voter rolls" thing. Apply that program in the states held by the GOP and it'd be very possible for a Republican to win in 2016 through suppression. ComradeCosmobot posted:Loretta Lynch was due to be confirmed in a 50-50 vote with Biden deciding. This now means Lynch will not be confirmed 49-50. That means that we get to keep Eric holder so the GOP gets to deal with a guy they hate more than Lynch, all because they're petty assholes. Holder has stated he's fine with remaining as long as the nomination process takes and I imagine as soon as he realize the GOP weren't going to rush to be rid of him that he's going to be stuck there until 2017.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think California is the center of climate change opposition. Maybe ask all those eastern states who got tons of snow and cold who are asking "if global warming why cold?" I mean't like the US home, not California in general.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Well they're telling golf courses to cut back at least, still short of their forced closure and guillotining of users but eh. What do you have against golf?
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A Winner is Jew posted:What do you have against golf? besides being an environmental disaster and the playground of the bourgeois?
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Relentlessboredomm posted:So that wage increase is for corporately run McDonald's only right? I didn't realize there were so many of them. I thought nearly all the locations were franchises. At the end of the day, I heard this only affects about 10% of McDonalds employees. http://consumerist.com/2015/04/01/mcdonalds-to-raise-workers-wages-but-only-at-10-of-u-s-restaurants/
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Is the $15 / hour rate that the protesters are asking for from a particular source or is it just a simple number they seized upon that would give living wages in most areas of the country?
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