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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? 1. What chances? 2. It would 100% guarantee her win. 3. lol 4. Get off the forums 5. Drink more. 6. Same.
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? He remains a long shot, though he appears to be holding his ground in New Hampshire Benefit No
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Dec 13, 2015 02:51
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? 1. They're holding right at 0% so long as Clinton's breathing just like they've been since the media gave up the pretense Biden might run. 2. Republicans having to deal with a third party candidate are what won Bill Clinton's elections both times, so what do you think that means this time? 3. What does this word salad mean? Rephrase. 4. Because you keep roleplaying chicken little. 5. I advise baking some bread 6. If he does that, Chicago will explode
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Dec 13, 2015 02:54
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Grouchio posted:4. Why is studying for statistics finals so goddamn hard?
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Dec 13, 2015 02:58
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? 1. This is a foreign policy election, and Bernie finds foreign policy too "boring" to learn. 2. Trump is making this election a referendum on whether the islam of the arab world is compatible with American values. 3. Depends what C-level slot she appoints Rahm to. 4. Stats is, like, the loving easiest of mathematics. Its all about averages inbetween 5. You should find a local candidate you like and start paying to attend their dinners. Alternatively, you could attend Jeb! dinners with six courses and foi gras for only $35/ticket 6. Buy me plat and we can negotiate a period of non-posting in the USPol thread over PM's
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Dec 13, 2015 02:58
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LookingGodIntheEye posted:To make this claim you must first provide an adequate rejection of the null hypothesis. Also in summation: If the white working class is only getting angrier, wouldn't that imply that the US in the long run is getting less and less liberal, bringing the country closer to dictatorship? Grouchio fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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Dec 13, 2015 03:01
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? 1. Sorry, but he never had chances. Maybe if Clinton gets nuked from orbit and the GOP nominates Trump. Even then though. 2. Would certainly benefit in terms of securing the presidency, but has the potential to murder Dems down ticket is it brings more shitheads than usual out of the woodwork. 3. No. 4. Alcohol helps. 5. See 4. 6. Too kawaii to comply.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:07
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I mean I think you were trying to say "media conglomerates are bad, and somehow new" but American media has been heavily consolidated ever since the 1920s - and before the 1920s they might as well have been because only a few rich people owned and controlled all media you'd ever encounter in your area (due to the capital costs of pre-consumer-telecommunications media). And even though they were nominally independent, most media outlets tightly toed one of a few political movements' party lines explicitly.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:09
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Grouchio posted:Ummm...."Go gently caress yourself finals?" The white population of America is getting poorer, while the poor non-white population has a government safety net which prevents them from seeming to continue to get poorer.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:10
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? I'm still gonna vote for him in the primary if I can, mind, but his odds don't look good
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Dec 13, 2015 03:12
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fishmech posted:I mean I think you were trying to say "media conglomerates are bad, and somehow new" but American media has been heavily consolidated ever since the 1920s - and before the 1920s they might as well have been because only a few rich people owned and controlled all media you'd ever encounter in your area (due to the capital costs of pre-consumer-telecommunications media). And even though they were nominally independent, most media outlets tightly toed one of a few political movements' party lines explicitly. Yes, Yellow Journalism, Hearst newspapers, and the Spanish-American War were all A Thing even back in the late 1800s. Consider Cuba in the late 1800s to be Iraq-lite in terms of manufactured controversy to suit preexisting territorial ambitions in the Caribbean. "Remember the Maine!" and all that. Speaking of the late 1800s, I sincerely wish we had the likes of muckrakers and Upton Sinclair again in this day and age. 
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Dec 13, 2015 03:13
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JT Jag posted:The bottom started to fall out for Bernmentum after he didn't make any gains in the first debate, and Hillary really cemented her position in the Benghazi Committee Hearing This is a foreign policy election, and Bernie Sanders would rather go to bed than discuss foreign policy. You can feel that Bern filter through his campaign.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:17
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Grouchio posted:1. Are Bernie's chances holding up? To win, he'd require momentum from early wins in NH and IA and Clinton's basically got Iowa in the bag.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:18
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My Imaginary GF posted:The white population of America is getting poorer, while the poor non-white population has a government safety net which prevents them from seeming to continue to get poorer. You are truly the master of the non sequitur
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Dec 13, 2015 03:19
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Yes, Yellow Journalism, Hearst newspapers, and the Spanish-American War were all A Thing even back in the late 1800s. We won the Spanish-American war, and could win more wars like it if only we were not afraid to learn from history and repeat its policy successes. stinkles1112 posted:You are truly the master of the non sequitur I do not know what those words mean.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:19
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Yes, Yellow Journalism, Hearst newspapers, and the Spanish-American War were all A Thing even back in the late 1800s.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:19
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Important fact to consider that Trump's 40% poll numbers come only from the 39% registered Republicans. His voting base is also mostly the most radical (and therefore loudest) people. The Republicans have had an issue in the past when they would exaggerate their own views to gain the support of radical conservative voters and win the primary, but then get crushed in the general election because they made themselves look like a crazy rear end in a top hat to the rest of the nation. Trump is no different, if anything he's an exaggeration of that issue. He might be completely trouncing in the primaries, but I don't think his voting base is gonna extend much beyond those radical republicans. Believe it or not most Americans are moderate and Trump either freaks them the hell out or is a sideshow act. Bottom line: Clinton is probably gonna be president (*sigh* good enough i guess) and Trump is going to lose the general election, and the GOP is going to go down in flames with him because he's taken the schism in the party that started with the Tea Party movement and made it grow three sizes.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:23
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Grouchio posted:My impression was that the current attitude of media conglomerates consisted of stifling creativity and expression all across the board (looking at youtube strikes, flanderdization of once-great channels and shows, excessive monetization of video game industries through lovely DLC/price packs, etc) - and that it is threatening to send the left back into the dark ages. Can you explain the things mentioned in your parenthetical and how they contribute to the conclusion you reach?
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Dec 13, 2015 03:27
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The Warszawa posted:Can you explain the things mentioned in your parenthetical and how they contribute to the conclusion you reach? Political fundraisers are like DLC's for your citizenship: There's a steam sale on them at the end of every quarter.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:28
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Grouchio posted:My impression was that the current attitude of media conglomerates consisted of stifling creativity and expression all across the board (looking at youtube strikes, flanderdization of once-great channels and shows, excessive monetization of video game industries through lovely DLC/price packs, etc) - and that it is threatening to send the left back into the dark ages. Yeah this is all completely bullshit, to be frank. You clearly don't remember the older days of video games where they'd instead chop your game up into "expansion packs" or simply rerelease the same games multiple times in a row with semi-major changes, at full price, rather than having DLC to use. Oh and incidentally, the average price you'd pay for a brand new game then wis equivalent to $100 or more in today's money. And media conglomerates definitely aren't stifling "creativity and expression". You know when they did? Pre 1970s TV. Or the movie industry between roughly the early 1930s and the late 1960s (thanks hays code). Plus there's whole dang internet. And what are you even going on with for the "once great channels and shows"? I hardly know of any of them that are going more Christian and less controversial.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:28
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The Warszawa posted:Can you explain the things mentioned in your parenthetical and how they contribute to the conclusion you reach? I think he's saying that corporate reliance on safe, profitable entertainment media is damaging to free speech and creativity. Why he thinks this is a recent phenomenon when film studios were becoming brutally powerful monopolies like the day after the medium was discovered I have no idea. Independent media, from films to games, have literally never prospered as much as they do now. Minecraft was made by a greasy nerd in his basement and has made like a trillion dollars or something Augus fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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Dec 13, 2015 03:31
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Grouchio posted:My impression was that the current attitude of media conglomerates consisted of stifling creativity and expression all across the board (looking at youtube strikes, flanderdization of once-great channels and shows, excessive monetization of video game industries through lovely DLC/price packs, etc) - and that it is threatening to send the left back into the dark ages. I'm not sure I follow, can you explain in detail how dlc is helping send the left back into the dark ages?
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Dec 13, 2015 03:37
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At least with expansion packs you more or less had complete products versus Bethesda DLC horse armor horse poo poo. v v
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Dec 13, 2015 03:38
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If you wanted to support independent media, you should've watched Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:39
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computer parts posted:If you wanted to support independent media, you should've watched Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending. Guh, that involves going out to a movie theaters... and $12. Why can't my blog posts be just as good as currency?
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Dec 13, 2015 03:49
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:At least with expansion packs you more or less had complete products versus Bethesda DLC horse armor horse poo poo. v Good ones, sure. A lot of them didn't run at all without the main game, cost nearly as much as buying a whole new game, and barely added anything.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:49
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:At least with expansion packs you more or less had complete products versus Bethesda DLC horse armor horse poo poo. v A $35 expansion pack in 1995 would cost about $54 now, and I doubt many people would pay that much for something like Brood War (or maybe people would, going by the Starcraft 2 release plan).
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Dec 13, 2015 03:51
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DeusExMachinima posted:Oh my god, what if you could pay like $2 a day to keep someone probated? Literally no one would be able to post ever and you know what on second thought let's roll.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:53
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Grouchio posted:My impression was that the current attitude of media conglomerates consisted of stifling creativity and expression all across the board (looking at youtube strikes, flanderdization of once-great channels and shows, excessive monetization of video game industries through lovely DLC/price packs, etc) - and that it is threatening to send the left back into the dark ages. RIP TLC and the History Channel. Just wait until Oculus-esque VR and accessories really take off. It'll be like the future in Futurama where the apocalypse happens because everyone is shut up in their rooms forever with their virtual waifus. 
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Also, the reason why the History Channel turned out the way it did is that you can only do stories about WW2 so many times and no one gives a poo poo about Random 1500s Central Asian Country so pretty quick you run out of content. But that's okay, because all it says is that 24 hour cable channels are a terrible idea.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:56
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Chokes McGee posted:Literally no one would be able to post ever and you know what on second thought let's roll. The only political cause truly worth donating to
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Dec 13, 2015 03:57
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computer parts posted:Also, the reason why the History Channel turned out the way it did is that you can only do stories about WW2 so many times and no one gives a poo poo about Random 1500s Central Asian Country so pretty quick you run out of content. A documentary on cheese and beer got me and my friends to go to a store and buy Limburger. For that it should burn.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:57
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Hollismason posted:That sounds really interesting , please make a thread or something. Seriously. I'm interesting. It's like playing eve online without the spaceships.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:00
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computer parts posted:Also, the reason why the History Channel turned out the way it did is that you can only do stories about WW2 so many times and no one gives a poo poo about Random 1500s Central Asian Country so pretty quick you run out of content. Don't forget that 90% of the Hitler Channel era content was reruns from when A&E was primarily WW2 bullshit, so it wasn't even new. Your Dunkle Sans posted:RIP TLC and the History Channel. Let's be honest. TLC's content when it was a publicly owned educational channel in the 80s was boring, and their stuff after privatization and before going "gently caress it, all reality all the time" was always like cut rate versions of PBS and other educational sources.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:09
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computer parts posted:Also, the reason why the History Channel turned out the way it did is that you can only do stories about WW2 so many times and no one gives a poo poo about Random 1500s Central Asian Country so pretty quick you run out of content. Modern Marvels was absolutely the poo poo as a kid growing up though.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:13
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Modern Marvels was absolutely the poo poo as a kid growing up though. These are still apparently going on. Which kind of illustrates my point about running out of ideas.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:15
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DemeaninDemon posted:The logical option is to send deep dishes to people until they do what you want or die of heart disease. Send them to the Middle East, I know I'm in no condition to do anything as strenous at killing people after eating that poo poo.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:21
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fishmech posted:Don't forget that 90% of the Hitler Channel era content was reruns from when A&E was primarily WW2 bullshit, so it wasn't even new. Robot wars kicked loving rear end.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:23
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DeusExMachinima posted:Oh my god, what if you could pay like $2 a day to keep someone probated? Lowtax, the CASH MONEY HOES will roll in! A Benjamin to ban someone.
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computer parts posted:These are still apparently going on. Which kind of illustrates my point about running out of ideas. Don't care.  I'll defend Modern Marvels until the day I die.
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