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stoutfish posted:can we talk about how bernie sanders has the nomination locked up or no He has a good shot at New Hampshire and maybe even Iowa, which is really cool IMO.
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Can we put more time and energy into deciding which of the candidates is more "beta"? I think that will be a cool and useful thing to do.
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Nessus posted:Can we put more time and energy into deciding which of the candidates is more "beta"? I think that will be a cool and useful thing to do. I think Jeb! has that one all sewn up.
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RZApublican posted:I think Jeb! has that one all tied up. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are trying their best
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Nessus posted:Can we put more time and energy into deciding which of the candidates is more "beta"? I think that will be a cool and useful thing to do. Theres two steps to policy..having good ideas, and them getting them implemented. Figure out the rest of why personality and temperament might be important in a president.
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Aug 26, 2015 07:20
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Beep boop make the numbers add up on paper and everything will be great - the millennial generation
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Tautologicus posted:For now. He's barely laid into the Democrats so far and he has another year to do it. The people who don't vote in the Republican primary are not going to vote Donald Trump into the Oval Office. It's certainly possible the Republican base is dumb enough to think otherwise though, and if they do believe that, the wailing and gnashing of teeth when they are disabused of that bit of stupidity will leave a smile on my face that will be broad enough that the top of my head will be in risk of falling off. Trump will never be President, we don't live in a country that broken.
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Tautologicus posted:Theres two steps to policy..having good ideas, and them getting them implemented. Figure out the rest of why personality and temperament might be important in a president. Fearless Dominance and the U.S. Presidency: Implications of Psychopathic Personality Traits for Successful and Unsuccessful Political Leadership (the pdf is here) Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey Warning: to the best of my knowledge, this seems like old-school psychology without any cognitive neuroscience / fMRI support yet, so it's not yet fixed knowledge. ...so, tell me. This was a cool post: Dahn posted:More than 50% of the delegates are handed out proportionally, only the states after Mar 15 can be winner take all. It was nice to see some numbers. I have some questions: - Are the 'winner take all' states obligatory winner take all, or can they still choose to do proportionate assignment of the delegates? - Can more states do that Colorado trick of cancelling the caucus altogether? Basically, what are the ways in which the Republican establishment can fudge the nomination process despite Trump polling at, let's say, 35%? Because a lot of people say they can do that, but I'd love to have an idea how.
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Tautologicus posted:GOP voters are not like some dumber version of regular voters sorry to say. No, they've just accelerated Trump towards an absolute majority in primary polling based on his ability to deliver sick burns alone. They are older and whiter. Tautologicus posted:I say this as someone who has addressed numerous "i believe it even if its wrong" posts in this very thread. Posts like "Trump will win?" He's ruined any relationship he had with demographic groups holding fairly significant sway over the general election when taken together. Tautologicus posted:Democrats don't have a monopoly, or even a strong showing, in the truth market. It's all partisanship. So I disagree, it's all who comes off best (and Palin came off like a dumb broad while Ryan sank his ship in the debate against Biden, and why are you mentioning these people anyway, they have nothing to do with Trump's appeal.) And "best" as it's come to pass in the GOP primary is who can fling the smelliest poo poo at the farthest wall. Politically, they're departing from dialogue on policy and just going gung-ho on white, suburban identity talk. No plan to wrangle ISIS or re-negotiate with Iran, no plan to replace the PPACA after they repeal it, just screamed objections at everything all the way down with no attempt at even creating an alternative. That is something that sunk Rmoney in 2012 and the party has only gotten worse since. Tautologicus posted:But personally I am looking to see some fire from Sanders, that's what the general election really needs, taking the entrenched and complacent system to task from both sides. Well maybe after being taken to task from both sides there will be some truth, in the middle, as it were.
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Aug 26, 2015 08:07
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Carson is the ultimate beta candidate come on
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Man the only guy who agrees with me that "a leader must be strong otherwise they're just an administrator" needed to see scientific studies first in order to go along with it. This fuckin thread im not waiting for a fuckin MRI to see something thats obvious
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Aug 26, 2015 08:23
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Someone with a radical agenda must have a radical personality. To me thats also obvious..sorry Sanders. Radical meaning anything incredibly outside the normal way of doing things, whether or not its incredibly obvious to its believers
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Aug 26, 2015 08:31
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echronorian posted:Carson is the ultimate beta candidate come on Not while Jeb exists. He's practically wriggling like a puppy in his desperation to get the base to like him. All those contortions over anchor babies, it's embarrassing, or it would be if the man had any self-worth.
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Tautologicus posted:Someone with a radical agenda must have a radical personality. To me thats also obvious..sorry Sanders. Radical meaning anything incredibly outside the normal way of doing things, whether or not its incredibly obvious to its believers Finally, someone's speaking REAL TRUTH in this thread! We need PEOPLE to stop!! Being AFRAID of saying what everyone is thinking with their HEARTS AND SOULS!!!
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Peztopiary posted:Not while Jeb exists. He's practically wriggling like a puppy in his desperation to get the base to like him. All those contortions over anchor babies, it's embarrassing, or it would be if the man had any self-worth. At least his fuckups are spoken loudly. Carson just talks like he's got some deep-seated soul guilt poo poo that saps all conviction from his words.
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Rexicon1 posted:Finally, someone's speaking REAL TRUTH in this thread! We need PEOPLE to stop!! Being AFRAID of saying what everyone is thinking with their HEARTS AND SOULS!!!
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Rexicon1 posted:Finally, someone's speaking REAL TRUTH in this thread! We need PEOPLE to stop!! Being AFRAID of saying what everyone is thinking with their HEARTS AND SOULS!!! Well said, young millenial Nessus posted:If you were a real alpha you would have posted that while impregnating his mother! Only the Trumpfather can lead us away from the crippling fear of our own powerlessness! Kinda overdoing it don't you think? the worst thing is fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Tautologicus posted:Man the only guy who agrees with me that "a leader must be strong otherwise they're just an administrator" needed to see scientific studies first in order to go along with it. This fuckin thread im not waiting for a fuckin MRI to see something thats obvious Younger women still have it relatively easy. I mean, a lot of people are calling Clinton shady. Myself, I'm thinking, it's possible that her prior life experiences have soured her on projecting herself aggressively. So, she's stuck in that old thought loop where if she's open and aggressive, she's a bitch, and if she's not, she's shady and dishonest. e: this is not to say that her fundamentals are all good, I'm just saying that unconscious perception stuff can exacerbate bad fundamentals much more for some people than for others. Nothing too enlightening. meristem fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Tautologicus posted:Kinda overdoing it don't you think?  too much for you to handle?
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Yea i mean i could find a way to respond but whats the point, like hacking through a jungle of snark with a machete meristem posted:But I don't agree with you... in full. I think that this is one thing that's really loving with non-rich-white-men people. I'm not even a particularly 'strong' person, but even so, as a woman, I've been called bossy, demanding, opinionated, aggressive, entitled and, yes, bitch, so many times in my life that I've lost count years ago. I never once used the word aggression, i think conviction and force of will matters more than that. Its what margaret thatcher had for example, if we want to get into successful female leaders. She had her own version. I dont buy into this whole "women are expected to be a certain way" thing, its more that less women are interested in having a set of principles to stick to and fight for, dunno what they do instead but it's not that. Cause any strong woman will smash the stereotypes real quick. There have been strong female leaders throughout history, even in some of the most "patriarchal" of times. When people see a glimmer of political strength they make way for it. If people don't listen it means they don't have it. the worst thing is fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Tautologicus posted:Yea i mean i could find a way to respond but whats the point, like hacking through a jungle of snark with a machete Just say three nice things about them and then say they're a disaster. 47% of the time, it works every time.
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hey guys exclamation marx made a hillary gangtag get in on ground floor of hillary crew
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Mitt Romney posted:Not sure what you're saying about reality- Cain and Perry both approached 30% and then crashed. neither perry nor cain ran in 2008 
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FAUXTON posted:Just say three nice things about them and then say they're a disaster. 47% of the time, it works every time. Oh you think im a trump/repub shill, ok. Guess youre not my audience
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NotWearingPants posted:D&D posters are the worst people I've ever encountered on the internet. Yet here you are in D&D-lite. Also, you are sheltered as hell if you're actually serious. I mean, neo-reactionary forums are a thing, never mind the Singularity adherents.
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NotWearingPants posted:D&D posters are the worst people I've ever encountered on the internet. they are pretty bad but yeah there is worse bring back lf
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Tautologicus posted:Oh you think im a trump/repub shill, ok. Guess youre not my audience  And so the trumptrain, gold and yooge, limped into mainstreamville where it was suddenly fashionable to slight the beast as oh-so-passé.
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Aliquid posted:neither perry nor cain ran in 2008 I didn't say they ran in 2008. Many candidates without party support, in 2008 and 2012, reached 20-30% and then flamed out, just like Trump will.
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Mitt Romney posted:I didn't say they ran in 2008. Many candidates without party support, in 2008 and 2012, reached 20-30% and then flamed out, just like Trump will. Make way for Jeb! FAUXTON posted:
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Mitt Romney posted:I didn't say they ran in 2008. Many candidates without party support, in 2008 and 2012, reached 20-30% and then flamed out, just like Trump will. Were they in a field this large? Self-funded on a national campaign scale? Poaching hires from other campaigns? Getting 75% of the airtime?
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trump wont win but heres hoping he runs 3rd party and ruins whats left of the gop's chances
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FAUXTON posted:
Losing Roger Stone and other key staff and replacing them with Perry campaign leftovers isn't exactly a net positive for Trump.
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Mitt Romney posted:Losing Roger Stone and other key staff and replacing them with Perry campaign leftovers isn't exactly a net positive for Trump. his entire gimmick is firing people, over the course of the campaign he will hire and fire every republican strategist and it will be revealed this was actually the new season of the apprentice
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Mitt Romney posted:Losing Roger Stone and other key staff and replacing them with Perry campaign leftovers isn't exactly a net positive for Trump. He didn't lose Stone, he spurned him as unworthy of building the Trump Tower, presumably because Stone tried to rein him in. A staffer who doesn't share your vision is a traitor in waiting.
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i think it is foolish to make strong predictions at this point, for even the very wise do not know all ends -gandalf
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TEAYCHES posted:i think it is foolish to make strong predictions at this point, for even the very wise do not know all ends -gandalf Trump is the balrog, GOP is gandalf saying you shall not pass
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